BIRDINGASIA 34

Dalat Sunbird Aethopyga [saturata] johnsi, Deo Nui San pass, Lam Dong, Vietnam, 22nd February 2020, by Ngoc Sam Thuong Dang.

CONTENTS

3 Chairman’s letter

3 Editor’s welcome

4 BirdingASIA briefings

6 Conservation Fund

9 Letters to the Editors

11 Reviews

13 NEWSFLASH
Missing for 170 years—the rediscovery of Black-browed Babbler Malacocincla perspicillata on Borneo
PANJI GUSTI AKBAR, TEGUH WILLY NUGROHO, MUHAMMAD SURANTO, MUHAMMAD RIZKY FAUZAN, DODDY FERDIANSYAH, JOKO SAID TRISIYANTO & DING LI YONG

15 OBC IN ACTION
The 2020 ‘LegflagChallenge’ photography contest
VIVIAN FU, TINO MADUKU, DING LI YONG, SAYAM U. CHOWDHURY, DREW LYNESS & JOHN GREGORY

17 OBC-FUNDED: CONSERVATION Update
Big Month 2020: citizen science event helps fill gaps in Java and Bali’s bird distribution data
THOMAS M. SQUIRES, PRAMANA YUDA, PANJI G. AKBAR, NIGEL J. COLLAR, CHRISTIAN DEVENISH, ARFAH NASUTION, IMAM TAUFIQURRAHMAN, WASKITO K. WIBOWO, NURUL L. WINARNI, SWISS WINNASIS, AHMAD YANUAR & STUART J. MARSDEN

23 OBC-FUNDED: CONSERVATION Update
Pallas’s Fish-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus conservation project in Bangladesh
SAYAM U. CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMOD FOYSAL, NAZIM UDDIN PRINCE & Syed S. Inam

27 TAXONOMIC UPDATE
Taxonomic insights on Asian birds published in 2018
NIGEL J. COLLAR & PAUL F. DONALD

47 CONSERVATION ALERT
A note on illegal trade of the endemic Rinjani Scops-owl Otus jolandae in Indonesia
CHRIS R. SHEPHERD, LORETTA SHEPHERD, MAISER SYAPUTRA, VINCENT NIJMAN & BOYD T. C. LEUPEN

50 CONSERVATION REVIEW
Collar & Sykes 10 years on—how birders can help conservation in South-East Asia
MOVIN NYANASENGERAN, DING LI YONG & WEN XUAN CHIOK

68 NEW BREEDING RECORD
Saunders’s Gulls Saundersilarus saundersi nesting at Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve, Shanghai, China
DAVID S. MELVILLE, WEI WU, SENG YANG, WANJUAN KE, XUANHUI KE, GRAHAM WHITE, MICHAEL COPLESTON, JEFF KEW, MALCOLM AUSDEN, LEIGH LOCK & MARK DIXON

74 PHOTOSPOT
Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea

76 FIELD STUDY
Sympatric breeding of two endangered Sternula terns, Saunders’s S. saundersi and Little S. albifrons Terns, in the Rama’s Bridge of Sri Lanka
BHARANI GAYOMINI PANAGODA, SAMPATH S. SENEVIRATNE, SARATH KOTAGAMA & DILSIRI WELIKALA

84 BIRDING AREA
Bidoup Nui Ba National Park and the Dalat Plateau, Vietnam: an extraordinary South-East Asian hotspot of endemism
LE MANH HUNG, ELIZE Y. X. NG, SHAOYUAN WU, DO QUANG TUNG, BUI DUC TIEN, LE VAN SON, HAOYUN SUN & FRANK E. RHEINDT

110 NEW BREEDING RECORD
First breeding of Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus in China
XU LULU, LI YUN, ZHANG HAIBI, LIAO XIAOQING & YU XIAOPING

114 FIELD STUDY
Diet and foraging behaviour of Streaked Spiderhunter Arachnothera magna
AMAR-SINGH HSS

121 COUNTRY FIRSTS
First record of Buff-throated Warbler Phylloscopus subaffinis on the Korean Peninsula~
NIAL MOORES & JUNGMOON HA

123 COUNTRY FIRSTS Mainland Asia’s first record of Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
PHILIP D. ROUND, ISRAT JAHAN, PAUL THOMPSON & DAVID J. JAMES

127 COUNTRY FIRSTS
First confirmed records of Asian Openbill Anastomus oscitans in Indonesia
SYAHRAS FATHIN AMINUDDIN, CHAIRUNAS ADHA PUTRA, TEDI SETIADI, ZAINI RAKHMAN & YUSRON SAARONI

129 COUNTRY FIRSTS
First record of Chestnut Thrush Turdus rubrocanus for Mongolia
URTNASAN NARANTSATSRAL, PUREV-OCHIR GANKHUYAG & GUNGAA AMARKHUU

131 From the field

143 OBITUARY
Paul Andrew 1953–2020