BirdingASIA 16

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Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper: news from the field in 2011 BRIAN SYKES

Jinfo Shan Nature Reserve—a hidden Chinese treasure WENCHI JIN & YAN CHEN

PELAGIC BIRDWATCHING
South-East Asia’s final frontier? COLIN POOLE, NICK BRICKLE & DAVID BAKEWELL

LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Jerdon’s Baza Aviceda jerdoni in South-East Asia— a review of its occurrence, status and movements ALFRED CHIA

COUNTRY FIRSTS
First national and nesting records of Brown Wood Owl Strix leptogrammica for Singapore KIM CHUAH LIM, ROBERT TEO, JUSTIN TAN & SIEW TECK YEO

First record of Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus for Bangladesh PAUL THOMPSON

First records of five species for the Maldives R. CHARLES ANDERSON, SAMEE RASHEED, ALI RILWAN & ANKE HOFMEISTER

Zebra Dove Geopelia striata: a first record for Vietnam SIMON P. MAHOOD, FLORIAN KLINGEL & RICHARD CRAIK

PROJECT REPORT
Trapped and traded—an insight into the field realities of the live bird trade in Uttar Pradesh, India ROHIT SINGH, LAURA SLADE & ORUS ILYAS

REDISCOVERY
Rediscovery of Carunculated Fruit Dove Ptilinopus granulifrons on Obi, North Moluccas HANOM BASHARI

TAXONOMIC UPDATE
Species-level and other interesting changes suggested for Asian birds, 2010 T. P. INSKIPP, N. J. COLLAR, S. P. MAHOOD & J. D. PILGRIM

BIRDING HOTSPOT
Manas National Park: Assam’s birding hotspot ANWARUDDIN CHOUDHURY

FIELD STUDY
Observations on the hunting and feeding behaviour of breeding Long-tailed Shrikes Lanius schach KHOO SIEW YOONG

SPECIAL REPORT
A leucistic Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis in Hebei Province and a review of albinistic and leucistic species in China DONGMING LI, JUYONG LI & YUEFENG WU

FIELD STUDY
Glossy Swiftlet Collocalia esculenta stealing nesting material from Baya Weaver Ploceus philippinus nests in Perak, Malaysia AMAR-SINGH HSS

FIELD STUDY
Indian Courser Cursorius coromandelicus breeding at Sultanpur, Haryana, India ANAND ARYA

LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Possible records of the newly described Bryan’s Shearwater Puffinus bryani in Japan OTANI CHIKARA

CONSERVATION WATCH
Red Knot Calidris canutus: subspecies and migration in the East Asian-Australasian flyway—where do all the Red Knot go? CHRIS HASSELL, IAN SOUTHEY, ADRIAN BOYLE & HONG-YAN YANG

TAXONOMIC REVIEW
How distinctive is the Kisar (Grey) Friarbird Philemon kisserensis compared with the Little Friarbird P. citreogularis? COLIN TRAINOR & BEN KING

PHOTOSPOT
Firethroat Luscinia pectardens

PHOTO ESSAY
Feeding ecology of Giant Ibis Thaumatibis gigantea, Stung Treng province, Cambodia JONATHAN C. EAMES

CONSERVATION PROJECT
Pallas’s Fish Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphusin Bangladesh MD. SHARIF HOSSAIN SOURAV, BASHIR AHMED & PAUL THOMPSON

FIRST RECORD: ANDAMAN ISLANDS
First records of European Roller Coracias garrulus from the Andaman Islands, India P. RAJAN & P. PRAMOD

LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Record of Jerdon’s Babbler Chrysomma altirostre from Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh, India GOBIND SAGAR BHARDWAJ & DHANANJAI MOHAN

CONSERVATION UPDATE
Mixed news for Asian Gyps vultures and a new consortium—‘SAVE’—is born COMPILED BY CHRIS BOWDEN

NOTEBOOK
New information on the diet of the Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rosacea IMAM TAUFIQURRAHMAN & HARY SUSANTO

NOTEBOOK
Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis using stones as anvils to open snails in southern Vietnam JONATHAN C. EAMES, SIMON P. MAHOOD & RICHARD C. CRAIK

NOTEBOOK
Swimming Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps JONATHAN C. EAMES

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