BirdingASIA 43
BirdingASIA 43
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Silver-eared Mesia Leiothrix argentauris, Arunachal Pradesh, India, March 2020 by Pranjal Saika.
3 Announcement on the future of the Journal of Asian Ornithology (JAO)
5 Conservation Fund
12 Review
14 WEBINAR UPDATE Mist-net use threatens wild birds in the East Asian- Australasian Flyway
16 OPTICS UPDATE The Oriental Bird Club binocular scheme Letters to the Editors
21 CONSERVATION UPDATE Rediscovery of Kangean Shama Copsychus nigricauda
UTAMI LESTARI BUDIAWATI, KUKUH HADI WIYONO & JOCHEN KLAUS MENNER
27 CONSERVATION UPDATE Protecting a flyway: community-led conservation and enforcement to safeguard the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea in Vietnam’s Red River Delta. TRAN, N.A. & NGUYEN, T.
36 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD Rufous-breasted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis camarinensis
MARTIN KENNEWELL
41 NOTEBOOK Pelagic bird displacement and survival in inland rivers during severe tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean
SAYAM U. CHOWDHURY
49 BIRDING HOTSPOT Taiwan’s south-western coastal saltpans: more than meets the eye
SCOTT PURSNER
56 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD The first observations of Snoring Rail Aramidopsis plateni at the nest
ASHLEY BANWELL
61 NEW RECORDS The ‘Sunda’ Western Hooded Pitta Pitta sordida mulleri in Singapore
YONG CHEE KEITA SIN, RAGHAV NARAYANSWAMY, JEFF KUAN YEW TAN, MOVIN N. & YEN YI TAN
66 NEW RECORDS Black-legged Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla, Lesser Noddies Anous tenuirostris and Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis at Sonadia Island, Bangladesh
GARY ALLPORT & JAN-ERIK NILSÉN
72 NOTEBOOK First record of Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus from Borneo
JOHN S. ASCHER, MOHAMMAD IRHAM, ANDREW W. HOLLE & FRANK E. RHEINDT
75 NEW RECORDS First record of Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens from Pakistan and the Indian Subcontinent. MUHAMMAD ALI RAJPUT & GURPARTAP SINGH
77 From the field