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Beidaihe^ China: East Asian Hotspot Paul I
Beidaihe^ China: East Asian hotspot Paul I. Holt, Graham P. Catley and David Tipling China has come a long way since 1958 when 'Sparrows [probably meaning any passerine], rats, bugs and flies' were proscribed as pests and a war declared on them. The extermination of a reputed 800,000 birds over three days in Beijing alone was apparently then followed by a plague of insects (Boswall 1986). After years of isolation and intellectual stagnation during the Cultural Revolution, China opened its doors to organised foreign tour groups in the late 1970s and to individual travellers from 1979 onwards. Whilst these initial 'pion eering' travellers included only a handful of birdwatchers, news of the country's ornithological riches soon spread and others were quick to follow. With a national avifauna in excess of 1,200 species, the People's Republic offers vast scope for study. Many of the species are endemic or nearly so, a majority are poorly known and a few possess an almost mythical draw for European birders. Sadly, all too many of the endemic forms are either rare or endangered. Initially, most of the recent visits by birders were via Hong Kong, and concentrated on China's mountainous southern and western regions. Inevitably, however, attention has shifted towards the coastal migration sites. Migration at one such, Beidaihe in Hebei Province, in Northeast China, had been studied and documented by a Danish scientist during the Second World War (Hemmingsen 1951; Hemmingsen & Guildal 1968). It became the focus of renewed interest after a 1985 Cambridge University expedition (Williams et al. -
BIRDS of HALIMUN-SALAK NATIONAL PARK, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA: Saitou, N
Treubia 43: 31–46, December 2016 Treubia 43: 47–70, December 2016 BIRDS OF HALIMUN-SALAK NATIONAL PARK, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA: Saitou, N. & M. Nei 1987. The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 4: 406-425. ENDEMISM, CONSERVATION AND THREATENED STATUS Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds.). Mammal Species of the Dewi M. Prawiradilaga World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. pp. 312- Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) 529. Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46 Cibinong 16911, Indonesia e-mail: [email protected] Suyanto, A. 2001. Kelelawar di Indonesia. Bogor: Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia. 126 pp. Temminck, C.J. 1827 (1824)-1841. Monographies de Mammalogie, ou description de quelques genres de Received: 8 August 2016; Accepted: 5 December 2016 mammiferes, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l’Europe. C.C. Vander Hoek, Leiden, 392 pp. ABSTRACT Thompson, J.D., T.J. Gibson & F. Plewniak 1997. The Clustal X Windows Interface: Flexible Strategies for Multiple Sequence Alignment Aided by the Quality Analysis Tools. Nucleic Acids Research, 24: Bird surveys and long-term bird monitoring in Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park were 4876-4882. conducted between 1998 and 2009 to obtain comprehensive data on the bird species in the area. Compilation of bird data from this study and other studies have recorded a total of 271 species, which is about 53.4% of van Strien, N.J. 1986. Abbreviated checklist of the mammals of the Australian Archipelago. -
XIV. Appendices
Appendix 1, Page 1 XIV. Appendices Appendix 1. Vertebrate Species of Alaska1 * Threatened/Endangered Fishes Scientific Name Common Name Eptatretus deani black hagfish Lampetra tridentata Pacific lamprey Lampetra camtschatica Arctic lamprey Lampetra alaskense Alaskan brook lamprey Lampetra ayresii river lamprey Lampetra richardsoni western brook lamprey Hydrolagus colliei spotted ratfish Prionace glauca blue shark Apristurus brunneus brown cat shark Lamna ditropis salmon shark Carcharodon carcharias white shark Cetorhinus maximus basking shark Hexanchus griseus bluntnose sixgill shark Somniosus pacificus Pacific sleeper shark Squalus acanthias spiny dogfish Raja binoculata big skate Raja rhina longnose skate Bathyraja parmifera Alaska skate Bathyraja aleutica Aleutian skate Bathyraja interrupta sandpaper skate Bathyraja lindbergi Commander skate Bathyraja abyssicola deepsea skate Bathyraja maculata whiteblotched skate Bathyraja minispinosa whitebrow skate Bathyraja trachura roughtail skate Bathyraja taranetzi mud skate Bathyraja violacea Okhotsk skate Acipenser medirostris green sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus white sturgeon Polyacanthonotus challengeri longnose tapirfish Synaphobranchus affinis slope cutthroat eel Histiobranchus bathybius deepwater cutthroat eel Avocettina infans blackline snipe eel Nemichthys scolopaceus slender snipe eel Alosa sapidissima American shad Clupea pallasii Pacific herring 1 This appendix lists the vertebrate species of Alaska, but it does not include subspecies, even though some of those are featured in the CWCS. -
OSME List V3.4 Passerines-2
The Ornithological Society of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (OSME) The OSME Region List of Bird Taxa: Part C, Passerines. Version 3.4 Mar 2017 For taxa that have unproven and probably unlikely presence, see the Hypothetical List. Red font indicates either added information since the previous version or that further documentation is sought. Not all synonyms have been examined. Serial numbers (SN) are merely an administrative conveninence and may change. Please do not cite them as row numbers in any formal correspondence or papers. Key: Compass cardinals (eg N = north, SE = southeast) are used. Rows shaded thus and with yellow text denote summaries of problem taxon groups in which some closely-related taxa may be of indeterminate status or are being studied. Rows shaded thus and with white text contain additional explanatory information on problem taxon groups as and when necessary. A broad dark orange line, as below, indicates the last taxon in a new or suggested species split, or where sspp are best considered separately. The Passerine Reference List (including References for Hypothetical passerines [see Part E] and explanations of Abbreviated References) follows at Part D. Notes↓ & Status abbreviations→ BM=Breeding Migrant, SB/SV=Summer Breeder/Visitor, PM=Passage Migrant, WV=Winter Visitor, RB=Resident Breeder 1. PT=Parent Taxon (used because many records will antedate splits, especially from recent research) – we use the concept of PT with a degree of latitude, roughly equivalent to the formal term sensu lato , ‘in the broad sense’. 2. The term 'report' or ‘reported’ indicates the occurrence is unconfirmed. -
The Birds of the Wenyu
The Birds of the Wenyu Beijing’s Mother River Steve Bale 史進 1 Contents Introduction Page 3 The Status, The Seasons, The Months Page 9 The Birds Page 10 Finding Birds on the Wenyu Page 172 The List of the ‘New’ Birds for the Wenyu Page 178 Special Thanks Page 186 Free to Share… Page 187 References Page 188 2 Introduction In the meeting of the Zoological Society of London on the 22nd November 1842, John Gould (1804-81) presented what was described in the Society’s proceedings as a “new species of Parrot” 1. The impressively marked bird had been collected on the Marquesas Islands – a remote spot of the Pacific Ocean that would become part of French Polynesia. The members of the Society present at that meeting would have undoubtedly been impressed by yet another of the rare, exotic gems that Gould had a habit of pulling out of his seemingly bottomless hat. Next up in this Victorian frontiers-of-ornithology ‘show and tell’ was Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-53). The birds he spoke about2 were quite a bit closer to home, although many were every bit as exotic as Gould’s Polynesian parrot. Strickland, instead of sourcing his specimens from the far corners of the Earth, had simply popped across London to Hyde Park Corner with his note book. There, causing quite a stir, was an exhibition of "Ten Thousand Chinese Things", displayed in a purpose-built “summer house” whose design was, according to The Illustrated London News3, “usual in the gardens of the wealthy, in the southern provinces of China”. -
2014 Annual Report
Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2014 Nigel Hudson and the Rarities Committee Chairman’s introduction 5th & 6th ‘Eastern Black Redstart’ This is the 57th annual report of the British Phoenicurus ochruros Birds Rarities Committee, covering the year phoenicuroides/rufiventris/xerophilus 2014. It was, overall, a below-average year for 6th & 7th Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler rarities, but a quick check through the report Phylloscopus orientalis soon reveals some eye-catching records. The 7th Pacific Diver Gavia pacifica, ‘Northern headline event is the inclusion, from 2012, of Harrier’ Circus cyaneus hudsonius, the Portland Pale-legged Leaf Phylloscopus Audouin’s Gull Larus audouinii and tenellipes/Sakhalin Leaf Warbler P. bore- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea aloides. This is an extraordinary record, of a 7th & 8th American Coot Fulica species pair from the Russian Far East that americana was not seriously considered likely to occur 8th Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata in Britain. The separation of these two closely 9th Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris related species is possible only by using and Siberian Thrush Geokichla sibirica vocalisations, although the record’s accep- 10th Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus tance here as an ‘either/or’ will be reviewed if genei progress is made in field identification. Also 10th (& 11th) Hermit Thrush Catharus making its first appearance in this report guttatus after a green light from BOURC is ‘Thayer’s A Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche Gull’ Larus glaucoides thayeri, a long overdue melanophris in sea area Portland just sneaked vagrant from the Canadian High Arctic that into British waters, and highlighted some is already on the national lists of Denmark, small discrepancies regarding the limits of Ireland, Norway and Spain. -
Red List of Bangladesh 2015
Red List of Bangladesh Volume 1: Summary Chief National Technical Expert Mohammad Ali Reza Khan Technical Coordinator Mohammad Shahad Mahabub Chowdhury IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature Bangladesh Country Office 2015 i The designation of geographical entitles in this book and the presentation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature concerning the legal status of any country, territory, administration, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The biodiversity database and views expressed in this publication are not necessarily reflect those of IUCN, Bangladesh Forest Department and The World Bank. This publication has been made possible because of the funding received from The World Bank through Bangladesh Forest Department to implement the subproject entitled ‘Updating Species Red List of Bangladesh’ under the ‘Strengthening Regional Cooperation for Wildlife Protection (SRCWP)’ Project. Published by: IUCN Bangladesh Country Office Copyright: © 2015 Bangladesh Forest Department and IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Reproduction of this publication for educational or other non-commercial purposes is authorized without prior written permission from the copyright holders, provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of this publication for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without prior written permission of the copyright holders. Citation: Of this volume IUCN Bangladesh. 2015. Red List of Bangladesh Volume 1: Summary. IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. xvi+122. ISBN: 978-984-34-0733-7 Publication Assistant: Sheikh Asaduzzaman Design and Printed by: Progressive Printers Pvt. -
Eastern China
The magnificent Reeves's Pheasant was one of the many specialties seen on this tour (Brendan Ryan). EASTERN CHINA 3 – 27 MAY 2017 LEADER: HANNU JÄNNES Birdquest’s Eastern China tour, an epic 25 day journey across much of eastern China, focusses on an array of rare Chinese endemics and migrants, and this year’s tour once again proved a great success. The focus of the first part of the tour is to achieve good views of rarities like Spoon-billed Sandpiper, the critically endangered Blue-crowned (Courtois’s) Laughingthrush, the superb Cabot’s Tragopan and Elliot’s Pheasant and the ultra-rare Chinese Crested Tern. This was successfully achieved alongside a plethora of other much sought after species including White-faced Plover, Great Knot, stunning Saunders’s Gulls, Reed Parrotbill, eastern migrants, including Pechora Pipit, Japanese Robin, Japanese Paradise, Yellow-rumped, Narcissus and Mugimaki Flycatchers, and forest species like Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher, White-necklaced Partridge, Silver Pheasant, Buffy and Moustached Laughingthrushes, Short-tailed Parrotbill, Fork-tailed Sunbird and the delightful Pied Falconet. Quite a haul! 1 BirdQuest Tour Report: Eastern China 2017 www.birdquest-tours.com Crested Ibis at Dongzhai Nature Reserve (Brendan Ryan). The second part of the tour, the ‘Northeast Extension’, visited a series of sites for various other Chinese specialities. Beginning in Wuhan, we bagged the amazing Reeves’s Pheasant and Crested Ibis, as well as stunners that included Fairy Pitta and Chestnut-winged Cuckoo. We then moved on to Jiaocheng for the fabulous Brown Eared Pheasants before flying on to Beijing, where the mountains of the nearby Hebei province yielded the endemic Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch, Chinese Nuthatch, Green-backed and Zappey’s Flycatchers and the rare Grey-sided Thrush. -
On Historical Records of Turdus Pallidus and Turdus Obscurus (Aves: Turdidae) from the Czech Republic
Sylvia 46 / 2010 On historical records of Turdus pallidus and Turdus obscurus (aves: turdidae) from the czech republic O historických nálezech drozdů turdus pallidus a turdus obscurus (Aves: Turdidae) v České republice Jiří Mlíkovský Department of Zoology, National Museum, Václavské náměstí 68, CZ115 79 Praha 1; email: [email protected] Mlíkovský J. 2010: On historical records of Turdus pallidus and Turdus obscurus (Aves: Turdidae) from the Czech Republic. Sylvia 46: 149–156. Five 19thcentury records of Turdus pallidus and Turdus obscurus from the Czech Republic were reported in literature. My revision of the published data, archival documents and museum specimens showed that only two specimens reported by Palliardi (1852), i.e. those collected by Wenzel Koch at Ehmet in westernmost Bohemia, probably during 1845–1851, can be accepted as probable records of Turdus obscurus. All other records (Amerling 1852, Pražák 1893) are invalid for various reasons. V literatuře je citováno pět historických nálezů drozdů Turdus pallidus a Turdus obscurus z České republiky, všechny z 19. století. Revize publikovaných údajů, archivních dokumentů a muzejních exemplářů ukázala, že za pravděpodobný historický doklad druhu Turdus obscurus z České Republiky lze považovat pouze dva jedince zaznamenané Palliardim (1852), tedy jedince ulove- né Wenzelem Kochem u vsi Ehmet v západních Čechách, pravděpodobně v letech 1845–1851. Ani jeden se však nezachoval a jejich určení nelze ověřit. Oba drozdi zmínění Amerlingem (1852) jako Turdus pallidus jsou dodnes uloženi ve sbírkách Národního muzea v Praze. Jeden je Turdus obscurus neznámého geografického původu, zatímco druhý je hypochromatický Turdus philo melos. Pražák (1893) si svůj údajný nález T. -
Environmental Assessment & Management Plan
Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized E1050 v3 rev m Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project Na & Management Plan Environmental Assessment March 2005 annexes List of Annexes List of Annexes Annex A: References ........................................................................................A1-6 Annex B: Contributors to the EAMP ....................................................................B1-2 Annex C: Project Key Technical Data ..................................................................C1-4 Annex D: Technical Drawings of Project Infrastructure ......................................D1-18 Annex E: Hydrological Data ............................................................................. E1-10 Annex F: Simulated Dam Operations ................................................................ F1-10 Annex G: Water Quality Modelling Assumptions and Results ................................G1-4 Annex H: Forest & Vegetation Types ..................................................................H1-4 Annex I: Mammal & Bird Species of the NNT Area .............................................I1-20 Annex J: Fish Species & Migration ..................................................................... J1-8 Annex K: Head Construction Contractor’s Environmental Requirements .............. K1-18 Annex L: Pest Management Plan ..................................................................... L1-18 Annex M: Public Consultation and Disclosure Events ......................................... -
A Sight Record of Eyebrowed Thrush (Turdus Obscurus) in British Columbia
A Sight Record of Eyebrowed Thrush (Turdus obscurus) in British Columbia. By Rick Toochin, Peter Hamel and Margo Hearne. Submitted: April 15, 2018. Introduction and Distribution The Eye-browed Thrush (Turdus obscurus) is a highly migratory, but secretive passerine that breeds in dark taiga in lowlands and montane forests in north-east Asia from the Kamchatka Peninsula, northern end of Sakhalin Island, on the Kuril Islands, Ussuriland, northern China, northern Mongolia, and west to central Siberia (Hamilton et al. 2007, Brazil 2009). Breeding in Japan is suspected but unproven (Brazil 1991). The Eye-browed Thrush is a common migrant throughout Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (Brazil 2009). This species winters in mature forests and evergreen forests from Taiwan, southeastern China, to Northeastern India, south through parts of Burma, into Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, into western parts of Indonesia, Sarawak, Philippines, and in the eastern Indian Ocean on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Clements 2000, Brazil 2009). In North America, the region that the Eye-browed Thrush occurs regularly is in Alaska where it is a rare spring and casual fall migrant in the Western and Central Aleutian Islands (West 2008). This species is also a casual vagrant migrant in the spring and fall at St. Paul Island, St. Matthew, and St. Lawrence Islands (West 2008). Elsewhere in the state the Eye-browed Thrush is an accidental spring migrant vagrant to Wales, Nunivak Island, and northern Alaska at Barrow (West 2008). The best places to find this species in the state are on Shemya Island or Adak Island or at Gambel in the fall (West 2008). -
Non-Passerine References
The Ornithological Society of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (OSME) The OSME Region List of Bird Taxa Part B: Non-passerine References. Version 7.1: July 2021 AAC = Betton, K. 2005. Asian Area Checklist. (Personally-assembled species table, by country, for Caucasus and Central Asian Republics in the OSME Region; Word document). Abbas, S, R Tabassum, MZ Khan, B Khan, S Hussain, G Khan and S Awan. 2014. Avian Diversity in Central Karakoram National Park, Gilgit-Baltistan. Intl. J. Agric. & Biol. 16: 377‒382. Abbasi, E, M Mozeni and A Khaleghizadeh. 2019. First record of Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus in Iran. Sandgrouse 41(2): 214-215 Abrahams, C and MJH Denny. 2018. A first test of unattended, acoustic recorders for monitoring Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus lekking activity. Bird Study 65(2): 197-207. Abdusalyamov, IA. 1988. [Red Data Book of the Tajik SSR ]. Donish. Dushanbe, Tadzhik SSR. [In Russian]. Adamian, MS and D Klem Jr. 1999. Handbook of the Birds of Armenia. American University of Armenia. Oakland. California. USA. Adamian, MS and KA Melikyan. 1991. [On finding White-tailed Lapwing in Armenia]. Biol. J.Armenia . 3 (44). Zoological Institute of the Academy of Science of the Armenian SSR. Yerevan. Armenia. [In Russian]. Adriaens, P and C Gibbins. 2016. Identification of the Larus canus complex. Dutch Birding 38(1): 1-64. Aghababyan, K. 2019. Recent counts of White-headed Ducks Oxyura leucocephala in Armash wetlands, Armenia. Sandgrouse 41(1): 5-6. Aghababyan, K, G Gevorgyan and M Boyajyan. 2021. New observations of See-see Partridge Ammoperdix griseogularis in Armenia.