View metadata,citationandsimilarpapersatcore.ac.uk KUKJLA 6 No. I (1992): 8 - 34 1992 First Sighting of Pied Bush-chat in Sumatra 41 NEW AND INTERESTING RECORDS OF BIRDS IN WALLACEA FIRST SIGHTING OF PIED BUSH-CHAT IN SUMATRA by by K. David Bishop Yus Rusila Noor (Final draft received 5 November 1991) (final draft received 5 May 1992) Introduction On 1 April 1991 at approximately 16.00, a single adult male Pied Bush-chat Saxicola caprata was observed near the PHPA guard post at Simpang Malaka, Berbak Game During ten years (1981-1990) of birdwatching throughout the islands of Wallacea, I have Reserve, Jambi Province, Sumatra (104°0<l'E, 10Z4'N). The bird was seen well, perching on accumulated a number of records which supplement and compliment information the top of a bush and moving around locally in open vegetation dominated by Gleichenia sp presented in White & Bruce's (1986) annotated checklist of the birds of this region and in and Pandanus helicopus, about 25 m from the Simpang Malaka river. It was studied in subsequent publications. With the impending publication of a handguide to the birds of bright sunlight at a range of 10m for about 30 minutes, using 8 x 30 binoculars. The the region (Bishop & Coates in prep), it was considered important to document these species is well known to the author from Java (Rusila 1990) and Sumba (Zieren et al. observations prior to their inclusion in such a publication. 1990), and was readily identified by its black plumage (upperparts, underparts, head, tail, bill and legs) with a white patch on the wings and tail coverts. Unless otherwise stated, all records under individual species accounts represent new island, archipelago and/or regional records. White & Bruce (1986) in some instances failed to The range of the Pied Bush-chat extends from the Middle East to S.W. China, south define the location within a given island group where a species had been recorded. For through the Philippines and Sulawesi to Java, and east to New Guinea, inhabiting open example, Talaud is not an island but a group of three islands: Karakelong, Kabruang and country. There is no previous record from Sumatra, nor is it recorded from the Malay Salebabu, in addition to a number of small islets. Similarly, the Banggai Islands are Peninsula and Borneo, except for a single record in Brunei in December (Vowles 1985); composed of Peleng, Banggai and Labobo islands in addition to small islets. Some records [two specimens, a male and female, are labelled "Borneo" without details (Smythies 1957)]. are therefore included here in order to define more exactly species' distributions within Most populations are resident, although those in the north of the Indian sub-continent are such island groups. Other records extend the known dates of migrants in Wallacea, or described as partial migrants or subject to local movement (Ali & Ripley 1973). It is present breeding records. Unless otherwise stated, all records are the author's. Additional suspected that the present record represents a vagrant from Java; further records should be records are cited by observer's initials (see acknowledgements). sought from Sumatra. A colleague has reported a single male Pied Bush-chat at the same site on 3 February 1992, presumably the same bird. The paper is presented in three parts. Part I presents seabird records, other than those from Gunung Api; the breeding colony of this island has been described by de Korte (1984, 1991), and an update will appear in a later paper (Bishop, in prep.). Part II covers R~ferences miscellaneous observations from the larger islands, while Part III provides preliminary lists of birds of small islands for which no ornithological data exist. Ali, S. & S. Dillon Ripley. 1973. Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan, together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Vol.9:31-35. Oxford Figure 1 shows the main island groups of Wallacea; the co-ordinates will assist in the Univ. Press. identification of localities that are too small to depict at small scale. Cd-ordinates of Rusila, Y. 1990. Laporan Kursus Pencincinan Burung air di Indramayu/Cirebon. named localities are derived from Anon (1982) or, failing that, by reference to the series PHPA/ A WB - Indonesia, Bog or. ONC 1:1,000,000 topographic maps. Smythies, B.E. 1957. An annotated checklist of the birds of Borneo. Sarawak Mus. J. 7:523-8 18. Nomenclature follows the KUKILA checklist. For the sake of brevity, the frequently cited Vowles, R.S. & G.A. 1985. Some notes on the birds of Borneo. Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. 105 (2): White & Bruce (1986) is abbreviated to 'W & B 1986' in the species accounts. Dates of 71-73. records are given either under the individual species accounts, or under the introduction to Zieren, M, Yus Rusila Noor, Baltzer, M & Najamuddin Saleh. 1990. Wetlands of Sumba, each island where the date of visit is recorded. East Nus a Tenggara. An assessment of the importance to man, wildlife and brought toyouby conservation. PHPA/A WE-Indonesia, Bogor. provided by CORE KUKILA 40 S. van Balen K11KILA 6 No. 1 1992 New and Interesting Records of Birds in Wallacea 9 RECORD OF WHITE-WINGED WOOD DUCK IN ACEH PROVINCE, SUMATRA Figure 1. Map of the Wallacean Region by E S. van Balen "' § ~ ·~ --"' (Received 11 January 1992) ·~ 18 1(____ _ N l t ( /'- / 0 ~ -,, <::~ ) f / // ' t; I // :.:--~• '• ,E._, w In the framework of the Asian Wetland Bureau Sumatra Wetland Project, a short 0. o I ,...... ~ ornithological survey was conducted of the peat swamp forests north-west of Singkil in the \r' ... ~~\,. \ province of Aceh, Sumatra. ¥'~ / ' ' --- -- w •• • r<;.t.( '• ·. \ ' \ On 27 September 1991, at 07.10 hrs, while visiting the forest clearing immediately west of ~ ··- /// ...J .._..--V; "'.. '\ 4\"'I the village of Runding (97°51'E, 2°20'N, in Simpang Kiri district, Aceh Selatan), two / • .,~ >~-~~-·, "/~ • • o· o\\ White-winged Wood Duck Cairina scutulata flew up noisily from a small pool along the ' - < . ' • edge of this clearing and disappeared into the surrounding logged forest. Their honking ' 9 . ' . ~·"' uJ "hoa-OAAH" and thin, whistling "heeeeh" suggested a male and female. The heads were ' /]., ' . ' a, . ~ ~-- ~ 0 ~' ~ . ~· more or less entirely white, the bodies black, the wings black and white. ""' '·; ·f.!"\ 4J (]), l \. !5 ' II ~ ~ This observation is the first for Aceh (Van Marie & Voous 1988), the northernmost .t .. J "" i .3\. • \ province of Sumatra. The Singkil peat swamp forest is located not far from where D.A. ~.- ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~\ HolmeS (1990) saw White-winged Wood Duck in the province of North Sumatra, and <• • t--- ' • \ ~ continuous with the wetland area north of Barus where the same author obtained local ' ""t_"' _;' -. < \ \ information of the presence of the species. w :. N A nature reserve of 65,000 ha is proposed for the Singkil Barat peat swamp, which is one of .. the priority sites for the regional wetland conservation programme (Scott & Poole 1989). "' ~- ~"' ~ References 0 \ \ J ' • J ;~ ~w & Holmes, D.A. 1990. Note on the occurrence of the White-winged Wood Duck Cairina \ \ '. 'f w ~ 0 scutulata on the west coast of North Sumatra. Kukila 5: 69-72. '',, ~ ' ', • 'il)~-.<!>. ... Marie, J.G. van & K.H. Voous. 1988. The birds of Sumatra. An annotated check-list. Brit. ',, • l Orn. Union Check-list 10. Tring, U.K. ', . Scott, D.A. & C.M. Poole. 1989. A status overview of Asian wetlands. Asian Wetland ',, --- ! Bureau. '-, / ill ----.!:.!~.) ------ '~~ . ~ 2 Address ~.t..-~r'- +-E z .......................... ~ '" ~ • ........ /\o ................ , ...."' P.O. Box 47, Bogor 16001, West Java, Indonesia. z I! ~1 c ..... ,_') "':::E ...J "' I \ "' \ "' ( "f 0 (/) (/) " :. a, J 10 K. David Bishop KUKILA 6 No. 1 1992 The First Breeding Record of the Pacific Black Duck on J ava 39 Acknowlegements Madge, S. & H. Burn. 1988. WildfowL An identification guide to the ducks, geese and swans of the world. Croom Helm, London. The contributions of Harry Adamson (HA~. Paul Andrew, the late Tim Andrews (TA), Brian Coates (BC), Dana Gardner (DG), Derek Holmes (DH), Steve Hilty and Frank Marie, J.G. van & K.H. Voous. 1988. The birds of Sumatra. B.O.U. Checklist No. 10, Lambert (FL) are greatly appreciated. I am most grateful to William Rodenberg and his London. family for their generous hospitality during a two-month stay in NE Sulawesi, and for inviting me on their sojourn through the Banggai islands. I also wish to thank Victor White, C.M.N. & M. D. Bruce. 1986. The birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Emmanuel Nature Tours Inc. and the numerous clients who have participated in my tours Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). B.O.U. Checklist No. 7, London. to this region for their invaluable contributions; working with Society Expeditions Inc. enabled me to to visit remote localities which would otherwise be very difficult of access. Address: I am grateful to the following museums for access to their collections: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), British Museum (Natural History) Sub-Dept. of Ornithology, P.O. Box 47, Bogor 16001, West Java, Indonesia. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense and the Netherlands National Natural History Museum. The Frank Chapman fund generously enabled me to study specimens at the AMNH, and tht: Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology kindly provided additional funds for work in the field. I owe a considerable debt of gratitude to the librarians of the Australian National Museum and British Museum (Natural History), Sub-Dept. of Ornithology, for their generous assistance. Finally I am most grateful to the Government of Indonesia's Directorate-General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHPA) for permission to visit its national parks and nature reserves. Part I - Seabirds Species Accounts Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii 14 June 1990.