BirdingASIA 40

Heart-spotted Woodpecker Hemicircus canente, Thattekad, Ernakulam District, Kerala, India, 12 October 2023, by Antony Grossy.

CONTENTS

3 BirdingASIA briefings

4 Conservation Fund

12 Reviews

16 REDISCOVERY
The first Sumatran records of Chestnut-necklaced Partridge Tropicoperdix charltonii atjenensis since 1939
TEDI WAHYUDI, RACHMI & MAHDIYYAH ARDHINA

18 NOTEBOOK
‘Meratus Flowerpecker’: yet another undescribed species from the Meratus Mountains, South Kalimantan, and further notes on other undescribed taxa
JAMES A. EATON, KHALEB YORDAN & ROBERT O. HUTCHINSON

27 IDENTIFICATION
Citizen science and dodgei records: revisiting the identification and distribution of Bornean Swiftlet
JAMES A. EATON & ALEX J. BERRYMAN

40 NOTEBOOK
Significant records of the Critically Endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola in the Kyon Ka Pyin–Tap Seik Community Conservation Area, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar
THET ZAW NAING, LAY WIN & SEIN MYINT

45 NOTEBOOK
Nesting records of White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis in Shan State, Myanmar
LAY WIN, THIRI DAE WE AUNG, THET ZAW NAING, SAW MOSES, THIRISANDAR ZAW, HNIN PWINT PHYU & KAY THWE MYINT

48 LITTLE-KNOWN ASIAN BIRD
Kangean Tit-babbler Mixornis prillwitzi

51 CONSERVATION UPDATE
Is the Sumatran Mesia Leiothrix laurinae rolling to extinction?
NIGEL J. COLLAR

59 REDISCOVERY
Lost and found: Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher Ficedula buruensis siebersi in Kai Besar’s remaining hill forests
FRANK E. RHEINDT

62 PHOTOSPOT
Sumatran Carpococcyx viridis and Bornean C. radiceus Ground-cuckoos

63 From the field