BirdingASIA 38
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Apo Myna Goodfellowia miranda, Mt Kitanglad, Mindanao, Philippines, January 2013, by Robert Hutchinson.
BirdingASIA 38
CONTENTS
3 BirdingASIA briefings
4 Chair’s letter
5 Conservation Fund
11 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
A review of the status and photographic documentation of Long-billed Grasshopper-warbler Locustella major, and birding the Naltar Valley, Pakistan
JAMES A. EATON
23 ID SERIES
Identification of Siberian Charadrius [mongolus] mongolus and Tibetan C. [m.] atrifrons Sand Plovers
DAVID N. BAKEWELL
37 TAXONOMIC UPDATE
Taxonomic changes proposed for Asian birds in 2021
NIGEL J. COLLAR, ALEX J. BERRYMAN & PAUL F. DONALD
51 NOTEBOOK
A further probable nesting record of Lord Derby’s Parakeet Psittacula derbiana from Anjaw district, Arunachal Pradesh, India
GOPINATHAN MAHESWARAN, AMITAVA MAJUMDER, IMRAN ALAM & ANINDYA NASKAR
55 PHOTOSPOT
Sillem’s Mountain Finch/Sillem’s Rosefinch Carpodacus sillemi
58 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Notes on the plumages, vocalisations, ecology and conservation of the Vulnerable Bacan Myzomela Myzomela batjanensis
ALEX J. BERRYMAN
65 FIELD STUDY
Field observations of the globally Vulnerable Pale-capped Pigeon Columba punicea on Yao Noi Island, Thailand, April–August 2021
INGKAYUT SA-AR, PHATTHARADECH THANANPHITCHAYAKON, ANURAK KEBSAB & WICH’YANAN LIMPARUNGPATTHANAKIJ
71 NOTEBOOK
Seabirds on Kakabia Island, Indonesia, May 2022
ANTHONY J. GASTON
76 CONSERVATION UPDATE
The status and distribution of the globally threatened Chestnut-capped Thrush Geokichla interpres in the Thai-Malay Peninsula
INGKAYUT SA-AR, RONGRONG ANGKAEW, SWEE SENG KHOO, CAROLINE HO,NARATORN PINITSATHIRA, RONNAPHON ENGCHUAN, PHILIP D. ROUND & DING LI YONG
83 CONSERVATION UPDATE
Records of the Endangered Storm’s Stork Ciconia stormi in East Kutai, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, and notes on its conservation in Borneo
BRIAN MARTIN, IWAN KARO, SUIMAH DARMANSYAH, AGATA STANIEWICZ, ROBERT STUEBING & DING LI YONG
86 NEW RECORDS
First observations of Mount Mutis (or Timor) Parrotfinch (undescribed Erythrura sp.) from Timor-Leste
MITCHELL ROSE, JAFET POTENZO LOPES & COLIN R. TRAINOR
91 FIRST RECORDS
The first documented record of Indian Golden Oriole Oriolus kundoo for Thailand and mainland South-East Asia
RAVIV COHEN
93 From the field
103 OBITUARY
Sontaya Manawatthana (1981–2021)
INGKAYUT SA-AR, DING LI YONG & PHILIP D. ROUND