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Forest Wagtail in India Taxonomic Updates Greater Flamingos in Kerala VOL. 14 NO. 2 Forest Wagtail in India Taxonomic updates | Vol. 14 No. 2 14 | Vol. Greater Flamingos in Kerala BIRDS Indian CONTENTS 33 True winter distribution of the Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus in India Indian BIRDS R. Kannan, V. Santharam, Amrit Kannan & Vikas Madhav Nagarajan www.indianbirds.in VOL. 14 NO. 2 37 Taxonomic updates to the checklist of birds of India and the DATE OF PUBLIcaTION: 28 MARCH 2018 South Asian region—2018 ISSN 0973-1407 Praveen J., Rajah Jayapal & Aasheesh Pittie Status of Greater Flamingos Phoenicopterus roseus in Kerala DITOR Aasheesh Pittie 43 E : C. P. Arjun & R. Roshnath [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORS: V. Santharam, Praveen J. 45 Confirmation records of Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos nanus from Bangladesh EDITORIAL BOARD A. M. Saleh Reza, Nazmul Kamal Rony, & Selina Parween Maan Barua, Anwaruddin Choudhury Bill Harvey, Farah Ishtiaq, Rajah Jayapal, Girish Jathar Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis at Corbett Tiger Ragupathy Kannan, Madhusudan Katti 46 Reserve: A westward range extension into the western Himalayas and a R. Suresh Kumar, Taej Mundkur, Rishad Naoroji first record for Uttarakhand and northern India Prasad Ganpule, Suhel Quader Harkirat Singh Sangha, C. Sashikumar Manoj Sharma & Nayan V. Khanolkar Manoj Sharma, S. Subramanya, K. S. Gopi Sundar 50 Two spring 2017 records of Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris from Gujarat, with notes on its identification LAYOUT & COVER DESIGN: ShreeDesigns Trupti Shah, Dhyey Shah, Jagdish Desai & Batuk Bhil OffICE: P. Rambabu 52 Correspondence NEW ORNIS FOUNDATION Purple Sunbird Cinnyris asiaticus congregating to feed on syrup of pearl millet Pennisetum glaucum flour and water, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan Registration No. 314/2004 Spot-billed Pelican Pelecanus philippensis from Gaidahawa Lake, FOUNDER TRUSTEES Rupandehi District, Nepal Zafar Futehally (1920–2013) Aasheesh Pittie, V. Santharam Colour aberration in Black-headed Cuckoo-Shrike Lalage melanoptera TRUSTEES Possible nesting of Pacific Swift in the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu in 1981 Aasheesh Pittie, V. Santharam, Rishad Naoroji, Taej Mundkur, S. Subramanya, Whiskered Yuhina Yuhina flavicollis from Jammu and Kashmir, India Suhel Quader, Praveen J. The first breeding record of Common RedshankTringa totanus for Nepal AIMS & OBJECTIVES • To publish a newsletter that will provide a platform to Malabar Whistling Thrush Myophonus horsfieldii feeding on a rat snake birdwatchers for publishing notes and observations Ptyas mucosa primarily on birds of South Asia. A colour aberrant Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis in Guwahati, Assam • To promote awareness of birdwatching amongst the general public. A Falcated Duck Mareca falcata x Gadwall M. strepera hybrid at • To establish and maintain links/liaison with other Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India associations or organized bodies in India or abroad Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl Bubo nipalensis feeding on Indian Flying Fox whose objectives are in keeping with the objectives of the Trust (i.e. to support amateur birdwatchers with Pteropus giganteus cash / kind for projects in ornithology). Roosting behaviour of Black Kites Milvus migrans on high-tension electrical cables Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri hang-roosting The Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus on Great Nicobar Island, India Volume 13 onwards Indian BIRDS is only available as PDFs on Red-naped Shaheen Falco peregrinus babylonicus from Belgaum, www.indianbirds.in. Karnataka Both, individual papers, and entire issues 64 Letters to the Editor can be downloaded free of cost. 64A Snapshot sightings FRONT COVER: Misty Jungle, 2015. Oil on canvas 4 x 3 feet. Address for correspondence: ARTIST: Ahsan Qureshi New Ornis Foundation, 2nd Flr, BBR Forum, Rd. No. 2, BACK COVER: Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, India. PHOTOGRAPHER: Sujan Chatterjee KANNAN ET. AL.: Forest Wagtail 33 True winter distribution of the Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus in India R. Kannan, V. Santharam, Amrit Kannan & Vikas Madhav Nagarajan Kannan, R., Santharam, V., Kannan, A., & Nagarajan, V. M. 2018. True winter distribution of the Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus in India. Indian BIRDS 14 (2): 33–36. R. Kannan, Department of Biology, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, Arkansas 72913, USA. E-mail: [email protected] [RK] [Corresponding author] V. Santharam, Institute of Bird Studies and Natural History, Rishi Valley 517352, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India. E-mail: [email protected] [VS] Amrit Kannan, 3305 Kinross Drive, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72908, USA. E-mail: [email protected] [AK] Vikas Madhav Nagarajan, No. 3 (upstairs), 1st Cross Street, Indiranagar, Adyar, Chennai 600020, Tamil Nadu, India. E-mail: [email protected] [VMN] Manuscript received on 12 October 2017. The Forest Wagtail Dendronanthus indicus breeds in eastern Wagtail (243 encounters), obtained over 39 years (1979–2017), Asia and winters in evergreen, and deciduous forests in parts from the Chennai (formerly, Madras) area. We found that the of South- and Southeast Asia (Ali & Ripley 1987). In the Indian species occurred in all the months from August through May Subcontinent, it is widely reported to winter in south-western in this area (Fig. 2), and not just during its passage migration— India, and pass through the rest of peninsular India on migration typically September–October for south-bound, and March–April (see Table 1 below). Here we report, based on our records plus for north-bound migrants (Santharam 1980; Kannan 1985, an analysis of eBird (eBird 2017) data, and museum specimen 1987). We cannot attribute much relevance to the peaks in records, that the species winters in all of the southern part of the number of sightings in October and March (Fig. 2) because the peninsula wherever there is suitable habitat, and not just the these data were collected opportunistically during birding trips. south-western portion of the peninsula—Kerala, and the Western We did not standardise the time we spent in the field, i.e., there Ghats. We define ‘winter’ as the period between southward- and may have been more sightings in some months simply because northward-bound migrations—November through February— we spent more time birding in those months. Of significance is when the species is relatively sedentary (after Remsen 2001). the striking temporal pattern of occurrence during August–May. Principal locations in the article are shown in Fig. 1. Relative frequencies of occurrence are covered later in this paper. Most of our records have not yet been uploaded into eBird We also used citizen science data available in the public (www.eBird.org). We compiled all our sight records of the Forest domain on www.eBird.org (eBird 2017) to generate seasonal bar charts and distribution maps. We generated composite eBird bar charts for the Forest Wagtail from the Chennai and Bengaluru (formerly, Bangalore) areas (covered as ‘counties’ in eBird), which are on the eastern coast, and in the center of the peninsula, respectively, and compared them with an eBird bar chart from Kerala state, which is part of the south-western winter range of the species (Fig. 3). We did not include a bar chart for the state of Tamil Nadu because the western part of 70 70 60 60 50 43 50 40 36 35 40 32 30 28 30 24 No. of sightings 23 20 18 20 10 10 1 3 0 Aug Sep Oct DecNov FebJan Mar Apr May 0 NovOctSepAug FebJanDec MayAprMar Fig. 1. Distribution of specimens of Forest Wagtails obtained from peninsular India. The number of specimens from each locality is indicated next to the red dots. The locality of two Month specimens from BNHS was labelled generically as ‘Kerala’ and hence, is omitted from this map. Fig. 2. Forest Wagtail sightings in the Chennai area (1979–2017). The numbers indicate number The map was generated using latitude–longitude coordinates via www.copypastemap.com of encounters with the species, not individual numbers of birds 34 Indian BIRDS VOL. 14 NO. 2 (PUBL. 28 MARCH 2018) in Chennai than in Kerala, which may indicate that suitable habitat in the eastern peninsula is patchy (and well-visited by Forest Wagtails and birders) compared to a more homogeneous spread in the moist southwestern areas. Our more recent records indicate that Forest Wagtails were observed in GNP in all of the five months from September 2016 to January 2017 (n = 27 trips). We generated a distribution map of all winter sightings (November–February) of the species in the peninsula from eBird (Fig. 5). This clearly shows that the species is not restricted to Fig. 3. Seasonal bar charts for the Forest Wagtail in two districts (counties) in east (top panel) and west (bottom panel) of peninsular India, including a bar chart for the state of Kerala the southwestern regions in winter, but is found elsewhere in the overall. The higher green bars show the periods when a species is least likely to be missed, southern half of the peninsula wherever optimal habitat exists. while the narrower green bars show when species is present (or sometimes present), but We downloaded eBird data for a closer look at the frequency infrequently detected (eBird 2017). The first four rows from the top are based on a total of 1 5735, 14052, 10887, and 5391 submitted checklists. Composite image generated and compiled of Forest Wagtail observations (percent of complete eBird from eBird (www.ebird.org) and created August 13, 2017. checklists that reported the species) in all the aforementioned areas, which is the basis of the bar charts discussed above. The frequency of encounters in Chennai and Bengaluru was that state encompasses the Western Ghats, which is part of the noticeably higher than in Kerala state overall and in the top species’ reported winter range. Chennai and Bengaluru are in the two counties in Kerala (Thrissur and Kannur; Fig. 6). Also, the currently accepted passage migration range of the species. The combined frequency in GNP and IIT was also much higher than temporal patterns of occurrence of the species in Chennai, and in the top five Kerala hotspots combined (Fig.
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