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The June 2012 issue of BirdingAsia is now being printed and is scheduled to be mailed out to members during week commencing 9 July.

If you are not currently an Oriental Bird Club member just go to the website www.orientalbirdclub.org, click on 'subscribe to OBC' on the home page and follow the on-screen instructions. It is quick and easy! OBC memebrship comprises excellent value for money - two issues of BirdingASIA and one of Forktail for just HK$190 (£15)! Forktail 28, the 2012 issue, is in the last stages of preparation for publication in August.

Contents for the upcoming volume of BirdingAsia are as follows:

3 Chairman’s letter
4 BirdingASIA briefings
7 OBC in Action Conservation Fund & Bertram Smythies Fund
10 Reviews
14 Letters to the Editors
17 PIONEER OF ASIAN ORNITHOLOGY Allan Octavian Hume N. J. COLLAR & R. P. PRYS-JONES
44 DISCOVERY An apparently new species of Rallina crake from Great Nicobar Island, India S. RAJESHKUMAR, C. RAGUNATHAN & P. C. RASMUSSEN
47 REDISCOVERY Rediscovery of the Timor Bush Warbler Locustella (Bradypterus)timorensis on Alor and Timor, Wallacea, Indonesia PHILIPPE VERBELEN & COLIN R. TRAINOR
49 BIRDS & PEOPLE Jatayu: the vulture restaurants of Nepal ROBERT DECANDIDO, TULSI SUBEDI & DEBORAH ALLEN
57 FIELD STUDY Discovery of a Lesser Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus breeding colony in Bangladesh SAYAM U. CHOWDHURY & MD. SHARIF HOSSAIN SOURAV
60 FIELD STUDY Meat-eating chats: more observations on Blue Whistling Thrushes Myophonus caeruleus in Peninsular Malaysia KHOO SIEW YOONG
65 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD Brown-backed Flowerpecker Dicaeum everetti in Panti Forest Reserve, Malaysia LAU JIA SHENG, DANNY LAU & CON FOLEY
68 BIRD TO WATCH Significant recent sightings of Large Green Pigeon Treron capellei MUHAMMAD IQBAL, JAMES EATON, JIHAD S. UDIN, WISHNU PRABOWO & AHMAD ANDIKA
71 SPECIAL REPORT A review of the occurrence and role of blue facial skin in South-East Asian birds DING LI YONG & CON FOLEY
78 PROJECT REPORT Ringing and recent ornithological exploration in Bangladesh ENAM UL HAQUE, NICK DYMOND, PHILIP ROUND & PAUL THOMPSON
80 PHOTOSPOT Fire-tailed Myzornis Myzornis pyrrhoura
81 BIRDING HOTSPOT Birding the tip of the Malay peninsula: bird diversity and birding sites in Johor KIM SENG LIM, DING LI YONG, WEI WAH LUM & KIM CHUAH LIM
95 COUINTRY FIRST: INDONESIA Record of a ‘Nicobar’ Collared Kingfisher Todiramphus chloris occipitalis in Aceh, Indonesia BAS VAN BALEN & ALDY ALOY FITHRICO
98 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD Rare bird in the city: Ashy Thrush Zoothera cinerea in La Mesa Ecopark, Metro Manila, Luzon, Philippines—first breeding record ADRI CONSTANTINO & TRINKET CANLAS
101 PROJECT REPORT Conservation of Christmas Island Frigatebird Fregata andrewsi in West Java, Indonesia—mid-term report FRANSISCA NONI
104 WHERE TO SEE An accessible site for Vietnam’s Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush Garrulax konkakinhensis SIMON P. MAHOOD, DAVID P. EDWARDS, FELICITY A. ANSELL & RICHARD CRAIK
106 ASIAN ENIGMA Field observations of an unidentified frogmouth Batrachostomus on Siberut, Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia PHILIPPE VERBELEN & BRAM DEMEULEMEESTER
109 NOTEBOOK First breeding record of White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus in the Indomalayan Realm JONATHAN C. EAMES & RICHARD C. CRAIK
111 NOTEBOOK Feeding regularity and waste disposal by a pair of nesting Redcrowned Barbets Megalaima rafflesii Y. C. WEE, Y. M. CHAN & M. CHAN
115 NOTEBOOK Interspecific aggression among some terrestrial birds at Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, Punjab, India MOHD. SHAHNAWAZ KHAN
117 COUNTRY FIRST Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla: a new species for India J. K. TIWARI
119 COUNTRY FIRST Two Pale Thrushes Turdus pallidus in Hanoi: a first record for Vietnam SIMON P. MAHOOD & SÉBASTIEN DELONGLÉE
121 COUNTRY FIRST Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus: first record for Mongolia TSOLMONJAV PUREVSUREN & AXEL BRÄUNLICH
123 From the field

Paul Leader OBC Representative

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Dear all

It is absolutely value-for- money birding pulications, articles all relevant to us. Besides, funds are allocated to saving birds of rarity like the Spoon-billed sandpipers of Asia.

S L Tai

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The latest issue of Forktail is now in the post to HK and will be distibuted to OBC members as soon as it arrives in HK.

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Content of FORKTAIL 28 are as follows:

P. C. RASMUSSEN, D. N. S. ALLEN, N. J. COLLAR, B. DEMEULEMEESTER, R. O. HUTCHINSON, P. G. C. JAKOSALEM,R. S. KENNEDY, F. R. LAMBERT & L. M. PAGUNTALAN Vocal divergence and new species in the Philippine Hawk Owl Ninox philippensis complex

M. MONIRUL H. KHAN & NASIM AZIZ Bird species diversity in five protected areas of Bangladesh MARY ROSE C. POSA & DAVID ALEXANDER MARQUES Peat swamp forest birds of the Tuanan research station, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, with notes on habitat specialists

MUHAMMAD NAEEM AWAN, HASSAN ALI & DAVID C. LEE An annotated checklist of birds and conservation issues in Salkhala Game Reserve, an isolated Important Bird Area in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

SIMON P. MAHOOD & JONATHAN C. EAMES A review of the status of Collared Laughingthrush Garrulax yersini and Grey-crowned Crocias Crocias langbianis

TILL TÖPFER Seasonal changes in plumage coloration of Orange Bullfinches Pyrrhula aurantiaca

D. KHAMCHA & G. A. GALE The use of tree-fall gaps by a forest interior avian frugivore in a tropical evergreen
forest

SAYAM U. CHOWDHURY, ALEXANDER C. LEES & PAUL M. THOMPSON Status and distribution of the endangered Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri in Bangladesh

ZHIXIN ZHOU, YUE SUN, LU DONG, CANWEI XIA, HUW LLOYD & YANYUN ZHANG Breeding biology of Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus in a high-elevation area

DZUNG-YUN YANG, CHUNGYU CHIANG & YU-CHENG HSU Sex bias in a wintering population of Dunlin Calidris alpina in central Taiwan

JEREMY P. BIRD, BERRY MULLIGAN, ROURS VANN, PHILIP D. ROUND & JAMES J. GILROY Habitat associations of the Manchurian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus tangorum wintering on the Tonle Sap floodplain
and an evaluation of its conservation status

COLIN R. TRAINOR, PHILIPPE VERBELEN & RON E. JOHNSTONE The avifauna of Alor and Pantar, Lesser Sundas,Indonesia

H. L. WRIGHT, N. J. COLLAR, I. R. LAKE, BOU VORSAK & P. M. DOLMAN Foraging ecology of sympatric White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni and Giant Ibis Thaumatibis gigantea
in northern Cambodia

LE MANH HUNG, MARK B. ROBBINS, NATHAN H. RICE & ERICK A. GARCÍA-TREJO Survey of the avifauna at Muong Nhe Nature Reserve, Dien Bien province, Vietnam

T. E. MARTIN, D. J. KELLY, N. T. KEOGH, D. HERIYADI, H. A. SINGER & G. A. BLACKBURN The avifauna of Lambusango Forest Reserve, Buton Island, south-east Sulawesi, with additional sightings from southern Buton

PHILIP D. ROUND, JOHN M. HOBDAY, RUNGSRIT KANJANAVANIT & JAMES S. STEWARD A nesting pair of Gecinulus woodpeckers in a likely zone of intergradation between Pale-headed Woodpecker G. grantia
and Bamboo Woodpecker G. viridis

PAUL J. LEADER & GEOFF J. CAREY Zappey’s Flycatcher Cyanoptila cumatilis, a forgotten Chinese breeding endemic

ALAIN HENNACHE, SIMON P. MAHOOD, JONATHAN C. EAMES & ETTORE RANDI Lophura hatinhensis is an invalid taxon

Short Notes
SIMON P. MAHOOD, DAVID P. EDWARDS & FELICITY A. EDWARDS
Bar-winged Wren Babbler Spelaeornis troglodytoides: a first record for Vietnam, with speculation for
17 further avifaunal additions ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 136
ZHU LEI, ZHANG JUN, QIU JING, WEI QIAN, DONG LEI & SUN YUE-HUA
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis and Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis: two new birds for Sichuan,
with a review of their distribution in China ............................................................................................................................................................................. 138
DELIP K. DAS
Western Hoolock Hoolock hoolock preying on chicks of Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus
in Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh .................................................................................................................................................................................. 142
F
RANK E. RHEINDT & JAMES A. EATON
Notes on the life-history and taxonomy of Muscicapa dauurica umbrosa, an overlooked Bornean canopy bird .............................. 144

YANG LIU & SERGEY PYZHJANOV
Apparent inter- and intraspecific brood-parasitism in a nest of Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula .................................................................... 147

DAVID J. KELLY & NICOLA M. MARPLES
Annual survival rate and mean life-span of Lemon-bellied White-eyes Zosterops chloris flavissimus on Kaledupa island,
Wakatobi, south-east Sulawesi, Indonesia ............................................................................................................................................................................... 148

CHANG-YONG CHOI & HYUN-YOUNG NAM
Migrating dragonflies: famine relief for resident Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus on islands ............................................................. 149

DONG-WON KIM, CHANG-WAN KANG, HWA-JUNG KIM, YOUNG-SOO KWON & JIN-YOUNG PARK
Breeding of the Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume in South Korea ....................................................................................... 151

NORIMASA SUGITA, TOSHITAKA N. SUZUKI, CRAIG A. BARNETT & KEISUKE UEDA
An intraspecific adult killing in female Japanese Great Tits Parus major minor .................................................................................................. 153

VLADIMIR DINETS
Nesting Fork-tailed Swifts Apus pacificus in north-eastern Vietnam ......................................................................................................................... 155

ADAM C. STEIN & GALINA NOSACHENKO
Notes on the 2009 autumn crane migration in Muraviovka zakaznik, Amur oblast, Russian Federation ............................................. 156

JAMES W. BURNHAM & ERIC M. WOOD
Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus at Napahai wetland, Yunnan, China ....................................................................................................... 158

TIM ROBINSON
First records of Javan Munia Lonchura leucogastroides in Peninsular Malaysia .................................................................................................. 159

GERARD E. RYAN
Brahminy Kites Haliastur indus fishing with Irrawaddy dolphins Orcaella brevirostris in the Mekong River ...................................... 161

MOHAMMAD IRHAM, E. MEIJAARD & S. (BAS) VAN BALEN
New information on the distribution of White-fronted Microhierax latifrons and Black-thighed Falconets
M. fringillarius in Kalimantan, Indonesia ................................................................................................................................................................................... 162

WEN-LOUNG LIN, SI-MIN LIN & HUI-YUN TSENG
Breeding ecology of the Northern Boobook Ninox japonica totogo in central Taiwan .................................................................................... 164

SIMON P. MAHOOD & JAMES A. EATON
The vocalisations of Red-collared Woodpecker Picus abieri ......................................................................................................................................... 167

JAMES A. FITZSIMONS, ERIK MEIJAARD, IWAN HUNOWU, DEWI PRAWIRADILAGA, JANELLE L. THOMAS & JOHNY S. TASIRIN
Diet of the Speckled Boobook Ninox punctulata in north Sulawesi, Indonesia .................................................................................................... 169
TOSHITAKA N. SUZUKI
Mobbing to death of a Japanese Long-eared Bat Plecotus sacrimontis by two species of tit ....................................................................... 171