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Recent Ornithological Literature on South Asia and Tibet Aasheesh Pittie 8-2-545 Road No 42 Indian Birds Vol. 1 No. 2 (March-April 2005) title, ‘status’. Herein the authors give the species – with details of distribution, of especially with cheaper alternatives of data for each species from Kerala. Alas, in published breeding localities, etc. It is superior quality and content easily available almost all the cases, this is restricted to a surprising and an eye-opener that “there is in the market. The publishers should realise few lines. This reviewer would have revelled no ringing data at all on our shorebirds” (p. that specialist books should necessarily in flocks of data for each taxon. Arrival and 1). contain a lot more about the subject than departure dates, census figures from the To popularise wader watching, we require general works, especially so if the quality of various wetlands where such an exercise a publication that lots of birdwatchers can the latter is excellent and the content wide- was carried out, e.g. Kole and Vembanad, buy (even if only in Kerala), study and use ranging. breeding areas of the resident waders, etc., in the field. The ‘Shorebirds of Kerala’ costs – Aasheesh Pittie are some of the points that come to mind. A Rs700/-, which is a bit heavy on the pocket map should have been produced for each for the content that one gets in return, Recent ornithological literature on South Asia and Tibet Aasheesh Pittie 8-2-545 Road No. 7, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, India. Email: [email protected] Birding Asia pages; 30 colour plates; 240 colour SUBEDI, Poorneshwor. 2004. Status and URL: http://www.orientalbirdclub.org. photographs; 36 maps; numerous figures, distribution of Cheer Pheasant in Email: [email protected] tables and sonograms. ISBN 0-7136-5834- Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve, Nepal. 1: 8. ALLEN, Des. 2004. Reviews: Saving Asia’s 7. Hardback £48.00. 1: 90-91. threatened birds: a guide for government JAMES, David J. 2004. Identification of Bird Conservation International and civil society. BirdLife International, Christmas Island, Great and Lesser SUNDAR, K. S. Gopi. 2004. Group size and Cambridge, 2003. 256 pages; many maps Frigatebirds. 1: 22-38. (With 30 col. habitat use by Black-necked Storks and colour photographs. ISBN 0-946888- photos, two tables and one text-fig.). Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus in an 47-7. Paperback, £19.00. 1: 92-93. KAUL, Rahul, Hilaluddin, and J. S. Jandrotia. agriculture-dominated landscape in Uttar CHAN, Simba. 2004. Yellow-breasted Bunting 2004. Hunting of large mammals and Pradesh, India. 14 (4): 323-334. (With one Emeriza aureola. 1: 16-17. (With three col. pheasants in the Western Himalayas. 1: map and one text-fig.). photos.). 9-10. COLLAR, N. J. 2004. A new sequence of bird LOSEBY, Tim. 2004. Photospot. [Pied Thrush Buceros families for OBC? 1: 13-14. (With one Zoothera wardii]. 1: 54. (With two col. URL: http://www.bnhs.org. table.). photos.). Email: [email protected] —. 2004. Four odd “thrushes”. 1: 18-21. PFISTER, Otto. 2004. Ladakh - a high-altitude ANON. 2004. Report of the international (With three col. photos and two pll. (col. melting-pot. 1: 39-48. (With one map and South Asian Vulture Recovery Plan by; Dave Showler and Richard nine col. photos.). Workshop 12-14 February 2004. 9 (1): 1- Johnson).). PRASAD, Anand. 2004. Reviews: Birds of 48. (With a foreword by Asad R. —. 2004. Robert Swinhoe. 1: 49-53. (With Western Ghats, Kokan and Malabar Rahmani.). one map, one col. photo, one b&w. portr., (including birds of Goa). By Satish PITTIE, Aasheesh. 2004. A dictionary of and one pl. (col. by; J. G. Keuleman.). Pande, Saleel Tambe, Clement Francis M. scientific bird names originating from the GIRI, Jeet Bahadur, G. C. Som, and Jeet & Niranjan Sant. Bombay Natural History Indian region. 9 (2): 1-30. Bahadur Khadka. 2004. Population and Society and Oxford University Press, breeding success of White-rumped Mumbai and New Delhi, 2003. 392 pages. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Vulture and Slender-billed Vulture in Royal ISBN 019566878-2. Hardback, 995 rupees. URL: http://www.iczn.org/bzn.htm. Bardia National Park and Khairapur, Nepal. 1: 88-89. Email: [email protected] 1: 9. (With two tables.). —. 2004. Reviews: Birds of Goa. A reference DICKINSON, Edward C., Murray Bruce, Steven GYAWALI, Nabin. 2004. Population status and book. By Lainer, H. The Goa Foundation, Gregory, Alan P. Peterson, and Aasheesh habitat preferences of Lesser Adjutant in 2004. 244 pages; 20 line drawings; 2 Pittie. 2004. The dating of names proposed Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal. 1: 8- maps. ISBN 81-85569-60-6, hardback, 500 in the first Supplement to Thomas 9. rupees, or ISBN 81-85569-61-4, paperback, Jerdon’s Catalogue of the birds of the HARVEY, Bill. 2004. Reviews: Helm field 300 rupees. 1: 90. peninsula of India. 61 (4): 214-224. guides: birds of northern India. By ROBSON, Craig. 2004. From the field: India. Richard Grimmett and Tim Inskipp. 1: 79-80. Current Science Christopher Helm, London, 2003. 304 —. 2004. From the field: Myanmar. 1: 80-81. URL: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/. pages; 119 colour plates. ISBN 0-7136- —. 2004. From the field: Nepal. 1: 81. Email: [email protected] 5167-9. Paperback, £19.99. 1: 88. —. 2004. From the field: Sri Lanka. 1: 83. ARUN, P. R., and P. A. Azeez. 2004. Vulture —. 2004. Reviews: Pipits and wagtails of SHOWLER, Dave, Alexander Lees, Rajendra population decline, Diclofenac and avian Europe, Asia and North America. By Per N. Nale, and Bilal Habib. 2004. Indian gout. 87 (5) (10 September): 565-568. (With Alström and Krister Mild; illustrated by Bustard Wildlife Sanctuary, Nanaj, one map, one text-fig. and one photo.). Per Alström and Bill Zetterström. Maharashtra, India. 1: 58-62. (With one Christopher Helm, London, 2003. 496 map and three col. photos.). Indian Birds Vol. 1 No. 2 (March-April 2005) 43 Forktail tables.). articles/publications/journals/applied/. URL: http://www.orientalbirdclub.org. SANGHA, Harkirat Singh, and Rishad Naoroji. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2004. Nesting of Great Rosefinch GREEN, Rhys E., Ian Newton, Susanne Shultz, BARAL, Hem Sagar, Tika Giri, Badri Carpodacus rubicilla at Loma, Ladakh, Andrew A. Cunningham, Martin Gilbert, Choudhary, and G. C. Som. 2004. India. 20: 140. Deborah J. Pain, and Vibhu Prakash. 2004. Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus SIVAKUMAR, S., and Vibhu Prakash. 2004. Diclofenac poisoning as a cause of melanopogon: first record for Nepal. 20: Sexual dimorphism in Black Baza. 20: 139. vulture population declines across the 93. SIVAKUMAR, S., Hillaljyoti Singha, and Vibhu Indian subcontinent. 41: 793-800. (With BESTEN, Jan Willem den. 2004. Migration of Prakash. 2004. Notes on the population three text-figs., and one table.). Steppe Eagles Aquila nipalensis and density and feeding ecology of the other raptors along the Himalayas past Collared Falconet Microhierax Journal of Ornithology Dharamsala, India, in autumn 2001 and caerulescens in Buxa Tiger Reserve, GEBAUER, Axel, Jurgen Jacob, Martin Kaiser, spring 2002. 20: 9-13. (With two maps, West Bengal, India. 20: 97-98. (With one and Siegfried Eck. 2004. Chemistry of the four text-figs., and one table.). table.). uropygial gland secretion of Hume’s BIRAND, Aysegul, and Samraat Pawar. 2004. SUNDAR, K. S. Gopi. 2004. Observations on ground jay Pseudopodoces humilis and An ornithological survey in north-east breeding Indian Skimmers Rynchops its taxonomic implications. 145 (4): 352- India. 20: 15-24. (One map and two tables.). albicollis in the National Chambal 355. (Published online: 4 August 2004.). CHHANGANI, Anil Kumar. 2004. Frequency Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India. 20: 89- of avian road-kills in Kumbhalgarh 90. (With one table.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India. 20: —. 2004. Abundance and seasonality of Society 110-111. (With one text-fig. and one Indian Pond Herons Ardeola grayii with URL: http://www.bnhs.org. table.). red legs in Uttar Pradesh, India. 20: 131- Email: [email protected] CHOUDHARY, Badri. 2004. Asian Glossy 132. (With one col. photo and one table.). BARUAH, Mrigen, Gagen Chettri, and Starling Aplonis panayensis: first record TEBB, Graham, Steve Arlow, and Dinesh Giri. Prasanta Bordoloi. 2004. Sighting of for Nepal. 20: 146. 2004. First record of Red-throated Diver White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis Hume JAYARATHNA, K. D. Thandula. 2004. Gavia stellata for Nepal. 20: 107-109. in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. 101 (2) (30 Observations on a nest of Sri Lanka TEBB, Graham, Aaron Ofner, and Suchit November): 311. Frogmouth Batrachostomus moniliger. Basnet. 2004. First documented record of BESTEN, Jan Willem den. 2004. Eurasian 20: 129-130. (With two col. photos.). Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps Linnet (Carduelis cannabina), Chaffinch KATZNER, Todd E., Chien Hsun Lai, James D. from Nepal. 20: 99-100. (Fringilla coelebs), Brambling (Fringilla Gardiner, J. Marc Foggin, David Pearson, montifringilla) in Kangra, Himachal and Andrew Smith T. 2004. Adjacent Hornbill Pradesh. 101 (2) (30 November): 325-326. nesting by Lammergeier Gypaetus URL: http://www.bnhs.org. (With three tables.). barbatus and Himalayan Griffon Gyps Email: [email protected] CHOUDHARY, Sunil K., Sushant Dey, himalayensis on the Tibetan Plateau, BHAVE, Neelima. 2004. David and Goliath. Subhasis Dey, and Arun Mitra. 2004. China. 20: 94-96. (With one map.). 2004 (July-September): 14. Sighting of the Greater Adjutant-Stork KHAN, M. Monirul H. 2004. Fire-breasted DANIEL, J. C. 2004. Point Calimere, an Leptoptilos dubius in Vikramshila Flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus: the endangered Ramsar wader refuge. 2004 Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary, Bihar, India. first record for Bangladesh. 20: 120. (July-September): 26-29. (With seven col. 101 (2) (30 November): 313-314. KOTAGAMA, Sarath W., and Eben Goodale. photos.). HIMMATSINHJI, M. K. 2004. On the behaviour 2004. The composition and spatial JATHAR, Girish. 2004. Looks can be and habitat preference of Stoliczka’s organisation of mixed-species flocks in a deceptive! 2004 (July-September): 36.
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