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Detailed Species Accounts from the Threatened Birds Of Threatened Birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book Editors N. J. COLLAR (Editor-in-chief), A. V. ANDREEV, S. CHAN, M. J. CROSBY, S. SUBRAMANYA and J. A. TOBIAS Maps by RUDYANTO and M. J. CROSBY Principal compilers and data contributors ■ BANGLADESH P. Thompson ■ BHUTAN R. Pradhan; C. Inskipp, T. Inskipp ■ CAMBODIA Sun Hean; C. M. Poole ■ CHINA ■ MAINLAND CHINA Zheng Guangmei; Ding Changqing, Gao Wei, Gao Yuren, Li Fulai, Liu Naifa, Ma Zhijun, the late Tan Yaokuang, Wang Qishan, Xu Weishu, Yang Lan, Yu Zhiwei, Zhang Zhengwang. ■ HONG KONG Hong Kong Bird Watching Society (BirdLife Affiliate); H. F. Cheung; F. N. Y. Lock, C. K. W. Ma, Y. T. Yu. ■ TAIWAN Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan (BirdLife Partner); L. Liu Severinghaus; Chang Chin-lung, Chiang Ming-liang, Fang Woei-horng, Ho Yi-hsian, Hwang Kwang-yin, Lin Wei-yuan, Lin Wen-horn, Lo Hung-ren, Sha Chian-chung, Yau Cheng-teh. ■ INDIA Bombay Natural History Society (BirdLife Partner Designate) and Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History; L. Vijayan and V. S. Vijayan; S. Balachandran, R. Bhargava, P. C. Bhattacharjee, S. Bhupathy, A. Chaudhury, P. Gole, S. A. Hussain, R. Kaul, U. Lachungpa, R. Naroji, S. Pandey, A. Pittie, V. Prakash, A. Rahmani, P. Saikia, R. Sankaran, P. Singh, R. Sugathan, Zafar-ul Islam ■ INDONESIA BirdLife International Indonesia Country Programme; Ria Saryanthi; D. Agista, S. van Balen, Y. Cahyadin, R. F. A. Grimmett, F. R. Lambert, M. Poulsen, Rudyanto, I. Setiawan, C. Trainor ■ JAPAN Wild Bird Society of Japan (BirdLife Partner); Y. Fujimaki; Y. Kanai, H. Morioka, K. Ono, H. Uchida, M. Ueta, N. Yanagisawa ■ KOREA ■ NORTH KOREA Pak U-il; Chong Jong-ryol, Rim Chu- yon. ■ SOUTH KOREA Lee Woo-shin; Han Sang-hoon, Kim Jin-han, Lee Ki-sup, Park Jin- young ■ LAOS K. Khounboline; W. J. Duckworth ■ MALAYSIA Malaysian Nature Society (BirdLife Partner); K. Kumar; G. Noramly, M. J. Kohler ■ MONGOLIA D. Batdelger; A. Bräunlich, N. Tseveenmyadag ■ MYANMAR Khin Ma Ma Thwin ■ NEPAL Bird Conservation Nepal (BirdLife Affiliate); H. S. Baral; C. Inskipp, T. P. Inskipp ■ PAKISTAN Ornithological Society of Pakistan (BirdLife Affiliate) ■ PHILIPPINES Haribon Foundation for Conservation of Natural Resources (BirdLife Partner); N. A. D. Mallari, B. R. Tabaranza, Jr. ■ RUSSIA Russian Bird Conservation Union (BirdLife Partner Designate); A. V. Andreev; A. G. Degtyarev, V. G. Degtyarev, V. A. Dugintsov, N. N. Gerasimov, Yu. N. Gerasimov, N. I. Germogenov, O. A. Goroshko, A. V. Kondrat’ev, Yu. V. Labutin, N. M. Litvinenko, Yu. N. Nazarov, V. A. Nechaev, V. I. Perfil’ev, R. V. Ryabtsev, Yu. V. Shibaev, S. G. Surmach, E. E. Tkachenko, O. P. Val’chuk, B. A. Voronov. ■ SINGAPORE The Nature Society (Singapore) (BirdLife Partner); Lim Kim Seng ■ SRI LANKA Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (BirdLife Affiliate); S. Kotagama; S. Aryaprema, S. Corea, J. P. G. Jones, U. Fernando, R. Perera, M. Siriwardhane, K. Weerakoon ■ THAILAND Bird Conservation Society of Thailand (BirdLife Partner); U. Treesucon; R. Jugmongkol, V. Kongthong, P. Poonswad, P. D. Round, S. Supparatvikorn ■ VIETNAM BirdLife International Vietnam Country Programme; Nguyen Cu; J. C. Eames, A. W. Tordoff, Le Trong Trai, Nguyen Duc Tu. With contributions from: S. H. M. Butchart, D. S. Butler (maps), P. Davidson, J. C. Lowen, G. C. L. Dutson, N. B. Peet, T. Vetta (maps), J. M. Villasper (maps), M. G. Wilson Recommended citation BirdLife International (2001) Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International. © 2001 BirdLife International Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, CB3 0NA, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1223 277318 Fax: +44 1223 277200 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.birdlife.net BirdLife International is a UK-registered charity All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. ISBN 0 946888 42 6 (Part A) ISBN 0 946888 43 4 (Part B) ISBN 0 946888 44 2 (Set) British Library-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library First published 2001 by BirdLife International Designed and produced by the NatureBureau, 36 Kingfisher Court, Hambridge Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5SJ, United Kingdom Available from the Natural History Book Service Ltd, 2–3 Wills Road, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5XN, UK. Tel: +44 1803 865913 Fax: +44 1803 865280 Email [email protected] Internet: www.nhbs.com/services/birdlife.html The presentation of material in this book and the geographical designations employed do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of BirdLife International concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Threatened birds of Asia MASKED FINFOOT Heliopais personata Critical — Endangered — Vulnerable A1c; A2c; C1 This elusive species has a very small, declining population as a result of loss and degradation of wetlands and lowland forest, which qualifies it as Vulnerable. DISTRIBUTION The Masked Finfoot occurs patchily from north-east India and Bangladesh through continental South-East Asia to Vietnam. In the non-breeding season it occurs southwards to Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, Indonesia. ■ INDIA The species is a very rare breeding visitor (or possibly resident) in north-eastern states, mainly Assam. There is one unconfirmed report from the Dum Duma river, inside Dum Duma Reserve Forest, c.1988 (Choudhury 1997e), although this is later given as a confirmed record (Choudhury 2000c). Records are from: ■ Arunachal Pradesh Noa Dihing river, March 1877 (Godwin-Austen 1878a, Hume and Davison 1878, specimen in BMNH; also Ali and Ripley 1948); ■ Assam Dighaltarang (Digaltarong), near Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, June–July 1904 (Baker 1904b, BMNH egg data); Dibrugarh, one, November 1946–January 1947 (Ali and Ripley 1948); near Nazirating, on the Dibru river, one, August–September 1992 (Choudhury 1996e, 1997e); Tingrai river, two, undated (Abdulali 1968–1996); Upper Dihing (East Block) Reserve Forest, near Dhekiajan, one, 1990–1991 (Choudhury 1996e, 1997e); Moran, one, December 1910 (Abdulali 1968–1996, specimen in BNHS); Nameri National Park, one in the Bogijuli area, January 1998 (Choudhury 2000c); North Cachar Hills district, listed without details (Baker 1894–1901); Chutla bhil (Chatla haor; Kuttal; see Remarks 1), Cachar, a pair, probably breeding, June 1901 (Primrose 1902, male and female in YPM), and elsewhere in the district at Monierkhal, one, around February 1902 (Inglis 1869–1902); ■ Manipur unspecified localities in the north-east (not mapped) (based on a “careful description” to Hume 1888). ■ BANGLADESH Although Rashid (1967) listed the species for northern, eastern and coastal portions of the country, this was probably hypothetical (see Remarks 2 under Manipur Bush- quail Perdicula manipurensis). It is described as a “resident or winter visitor” in Bangladesh (Harvey 1990) but confirmed records are few and confined to the Sundarbans region: Sundarbans, apparently resident in small numbers (Khan 1982, FAO 1984), at Tiger Point, one, January 1984 (Thompson et al. 1993), at Katka Khal, Kochikhali Tiger Reserve, two, March 1984, four, May 1986, one, February 1987 (Thompson et al. 1993), up to three regularly in this and surrounding areas, 1996–1999 (P. M. Thompson in litt. 1999), annual in 1981– 1999 (S. M. A. Rashid in litt. 1999). ■ MYANMAR The species was evidently quite widely distributed and even locally common in the country at the outset of the twentieth century (Smythies 1986), but there have been very few recent sightings. There is one report of c.80 birds at Kyatthin Wildlife Sanctuary (Kye Inn), Sagaing state, in June–July of an unspecified year, probably during the 1990s (U Than Maung per Khin Ma Ma Thwin in litt. 1997). While such a number of individuals is suspiciously high, the habitat is possibly suitable for the species (see under White-winged Duck Cairina scutulata) and this allows for some optimism that a population may breed in the area. There is another unconfirmed record from Nawin marshes (North Nawin), where 1278 Heliopais personata the species was probably flushed more than once, undated (Stanford and Ticehurst 1931). Records are as follows: Indawgyi lake, opposite Shwegu, Bhamo district, locally reported but “not very common”, 1920–1930 (Smith 1942); Thamandauk, c.7 km up Kaukkwe chaung, Bhamo district, May 1923 (Smith 1942); near Seiktha, Katha district, one bird, March 1927 (Smith 1942); c.19 km north of Tagaung on a jheel near the Irrawaddy (=Ayeyarwaddy) at Innet-Natsingon, May 1927 (Smith 1942); Shan hills (and Shan States), where undated records come from unspecified localities (Wickham 1929–1930); Ru chaung, Arakan, one male, March 1910 (Hopwood 1912b), presumably that mentioned from an unspecified locality in north Arakan state, in 1909 (Hopwood 1921), and stored as “Arakan Yoma” in BNHS (Abdulali 1968–1996); Ngalauk (country unspecified), here assumed to be Ngahlauk, June 1911 (female in AMNH); Karenni (Kayah state), one specimen, undated (Oates 1882, Smith et al. 1943– 1944, Smythies 1986); Toungoo (Tonghoo), one, 1903 (Hopwood 1921); Inma swamp, July 1873 (Hume 1875a, Oates 1882), also recorded from an unspecified locality in Pye (=Prome) district, August 1921 (BMNH egg data); Zigon Forest Division, presumably near Zigon (although
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