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Newsletter for Ornithologists NEWSLETTER FOR ORNITHOLOGISTS Vol. 1 No. 6 November-December 2004 READY-RECKONER Internet Resources Bird conservation organisations India Birds: http://www.indiabirds.com/ Birds of Kerala: http://birdskerala.com/ BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: Honorary Secretary, Hornbill BirdLife International: http://www.birdlife.net/ House, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, Mumbai 400023, Maharashtra. Indian Jungles: http://www.indianjungles.com/ Website: www.bnhs.org. Email: [email protected]. Publish: Birds of Kolkata: http://www.kolkatabirds.com/ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society; Hornbill. Contact Sanctuary Asia: http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/ above for: INDIAN BIRD CONSERVATION NETWORK: Publish: Red Data Book: http://www.rdb.or.id/index.html/ Mistnet. ENVIS CENTRE: Publish: Buceros. The Northern India Bird Network: http://www.delhibird.com/ SALIM ALI CENTRE FOR ORNITHOLOGY AND NATURAL Zoological Nomenclature Resource: http://www.zoonomen.net/ HISTORY: Director, Anaikatty P.O., Coimbatore 641108, India. N.C.L. Centre for Biodiversity Informatics: http://www.ncbi.org.in/ Website: www.saconindia.org. Email: [email protected] biota/fauna/ BIRDWATCHERS’ SOCIETY OF ANDHRA PRADESH: Honorary John Penhallurick’s Bird Data Project: http://worldbirdinfo.net/ Secretary, P.O. Box 45, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, India. Saving Asia’s threatened birds: Website: www.bsaponline.org. Email: [email protected]. Publish: http://www.birdlife.net/action/science/species/asia_strategy/ Mayura; Pitta. pdfs.html/ MADRAS NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY: Honorary Secretary, No. 8, Janaki Optics: http://www.betterviewdesired.com/ Avenue, Abhirampuram, Chennai 600018, India. Website: Library www.blackbuck.org. Email: [email protected]. Publish: th Blackbuck. Ali, Salim, 2002. The book of Indian birds. 13 revised edition. Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. INSTITUTE OF BIRD STUDIES & NATURAL HISTORY: Director, Ali, Salim & S. Dillon Ripley, 2001. Handbook of the birds of India and Rishi Valley, Chittoor District, India 517352. Email: Pakistan, together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri [email protected]. Conduct: Home Study Course in Ornithology. Lanka. 10 vols. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ORIENTAL BIRD CLUB: P.O. Box 324, Bedford, MK42 0WG, U.K. Grimmett, Richard, Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp, 1998. Birds of the Website: www.orientalbirdclub.org. Publish: Forktail; OBC Bulletin. Indian subcontinent. London: Christopher Helm. WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA: Post Bag # 18, Chandrabani, Harrison, John, 1999. A field guide to the birds of Sri Lanka. Oxford: Dehradun 248001, India. Website: www.wii.gov.in. Oxford University Press. WILDLIFE TRUST OF INDIA: Wildlife Trust of India, C-644, New Inskipp, Carol & Tim Inskipp, 1985. A guide to the birds of Nepal. Friends Colony, New Delhi 110065, India. Email: London: Croom Helm. www.wildlifetrustof-india.org. Inskipp, Carol, Tim Inskipp & Richard Grimmett, 1999. Birds of WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE-INDIA: 172-B, Lodi Estate, New Bhutan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Delhi 110003, India. Website: www.wwfindia.org. Kazmierczak, Krys, 2000. A field guide to the birds of India, Sri Lanka, Web-based email groups Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. New Delhi: To join, send email to: Om Book Service. BANGALORE: [email protected] Roberts, T. J. 1991-92. The birds of Pakistan. 2 vols. Karachi: Oxford BOMBAY: [email protected] University Press. DELHI: [email protected] Robson, Craig, 2000. A field guide to the birds of South-East Asia. KERALA: [email protected] London: New Holland. NORTHEAST INDIA: [email protected] ORIENTAL BIRD CLUB: orientalbirding- English and scientific bird names used in Newsletter for [email protected] Ornithologists follow Manakadan, R. & A. Pittie. 2003. Standardised NAT-HISTORY INDIA: [email protected] common and scientific names of the birds of the Indian Subcontinent. WEST BENGAL: [email protected] Newsletter for Birdwatchers 42 (3): i-viii, 1-36. Recommended abbreviation for citation: New. Ornis Newsletter for Ornithologists Vol. 1. No. 6. November-December 2004. Date of publication: 31 December 2004. CONTENTS Editorial. 81 Birds, forests and conservation: Critical issues in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. G. Shahabuddin, A. Verma & R. Kumar. 82 Additional site records of Green Avadavat Amandava Formosa (Latham, 1790) from Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, India. S.P. Mehra & S. Sharma. 84 Puttanahalli Tank, Bangalore (India), and surrounds. S. Subramanya & O.C. Naveein. 85 Grey Heron Ardea cinerea breeding in Kerala, India. Rajeevan P. C., Suraj & C. Sashikumar. 87 Sighting of Thick-billed Warbler Phragmaticola aedon near Panchgani, Maharashtra, India. D. I. Adelson & R. Purandare. 87 Green Vine Snake Ahaetulla nasuta preying on Baya Weaver Ploceus philippinus. Thejaswi Shivanand & M. Mohan Kumar. 88 Introduction to natural history through birds. S. Karthikeyan. 89 Recoveries from Newsletter for Birdwatchers - 4. Zafar Futehally. 90 In Memorium: Shama Futehally (1952-2004). 91 Reviews. 92 Correspondence. 95 Cover: Red-headed Falcon Falco chicquera. (Photo: Nikhil Devasar). Type-setting & Layout: Anwar Hussain. Newsletter for Ornithologists Vol. 1 No. 6 (November-December 2004) 81 Editorial Personal and national IBAs NEWSLETTER For almost two decades I have been visiting Shamirpet, a small wetland near Hyderabad. FOR ORNITHOLOGISTS To many it may seem the same as thousands of similar wetlands across agrarian, peninsular India: a man-made bund thrown across a depression in the land, to collect rainwater, with Vol. 1 No. 6. November-December 2004. agriculture on the margins and below the artificial obstruction. Shamirpet’s gently ISSN 0972-9933 undulating countryside is strewn with extraordinary rock formations: weather-worn granite, URL: www.geocities.com/ashpittie/nlo.html in myriad shapes and sizes, piled haphazardly on top of each other, seemingly defying gravity. Low-lying areas, easily inundated through channels, are cultivated. Buffalos Editor Emeritus: Zafar Futehally # 2205 Oakwood Apartment, graze the uncultivated ‘waste’ areas, large swathes of which are flooded during Jakkasandra Layout, Koramangala, overenthusiastic monsoons, spawning spontaneous ephemeral plant and animal life. 3rd Block, 8th Main, Ignoring human perception of land-use or disuse, nature populates every available niche. Bangalore 560034, India. I have spent several hours here, watching birds, soaking in the sense of the place. Email: [email protected] It was here that I saw a Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus perched bolt upright on a rock in the middle of the water, its chest glistening white in the morning sun, eyeing the Editor: Aasheesh Pittie waterfowl as they swam all around. Once, a tentative Indian Courser Cursorius P.O. Box # 2, Banjara Hills, coromandelicus stepped gingerly across some fallow fields on the opposite shore, giving Hyderabad 500034, India. delightful views through the scope. Scores of Cliff Swallows Hirundo fluvicola dot the Email: [email protected] sky in frenzied pursuit of nutritious specks, or perched in the fashion of musical notes on telegraph wires, scattering at the least provocation. Graceful Small Pratincoles Glareola Associate Editor: Dr V. Santharam lactea perch on a large bare rock island in the water, flying hither and thither, flashing Institute of Bird Studies & Natural History, Rishi Valley 517352, Chittoor District, their milky-white belly as they twist and turn in mid-flight. On a chilly winter morning, the Andhra Pradesh, India. stillness of the water echoes the fluty whistle of a Greenshank Tringa nebularia or Email: [email protected] reflects a Eurasian Wigeon’s Anas penelope cry. On land, the handsome Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius stands silhouetted on boulders. As the sun rises higher in the Newsletter for Ornithologists firmament, lark-song permeates the air. At least six species use the ‘wasteland’ surrounding Publishes notes and observations on birds of the waters. Red-winged Bush-Lark Mirafra erythroptera and Jerdon’s Bush-Lark M. the Indian region. We welcome articles, affinis shoot up into the sky and pour forth their melodies from whirred, hovering wings, papers, annotated checklists, trip reports, parachuting down to a rock or into the grass stubble. Dapper Ashy-crowned Sparrow- notes on the behaviour and biology of one Lark Eremopterix grisea males court diminutive females with impressive roller coaster or more species, book reviews, audio- flights and drawn out, haunting whistles. Rufous-tailed Finch-Lark Ammomanes recording reviews, letters, announcements, notices, news from the birding world, etc. phoenicurus rise like sods of earth into the sky, uttering their characteristic calls, flying Also welcome is material for the cover (art, from one place to another. The song of the Eastern Skylark Alauda gulgula washes down transparencies, photographs) and line onto those who have the ears for it, in cascades of ‘un-premeditated’ melody. The rufous drawings for the text pages. Papers should be coloured peninsular endemic, Sykes’s Crested Lark Galerida deva, moves around in typewritten with double spacing, clearly exaltations of three or more, uttering its tremulous “trew-trew” call in flight, appearing handwritten, or form part of an email. suddenly from nowhere, alighting nearby and instantly engrossed in its search for food Please send all material to the Editor at the as though
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