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Notes on Indian Rarities-2: Waterfowl, Diving Waterbirds, and Gulls And Indian BIRDS | Vol. 9 Nos. 5&6 Vol. 9Nos.5&6 Vol. Chinese Thrush Saker Falcon Indian rarities–2 Contents 113 Notes on Indian rarities–2: Waterfowl, diving waterbirds, and gulls and terns Indian BIRDS Praveen J., Rajah Jayapal & Aasheesh Pittie www.indianbirds.in Vol. 9 Nos. 5&6 137 Seabird observations off the western coast of India Date of Publication: 2 December 2014 Anuj Gandhe ISSN 0973-1407 139 Sighting of Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe from the Nubra Valley, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, and a review of Editor: Aasheesh Pittie previous records from the Indian Subcontinent [email protected] Siddharth Damle & Tim Inskipp Associate Editors: V. Santharam, Praveen J. 142 Sighting of Black Tern Chlidonias niger in Gujarat, India, with notes on identification of marsh terns occurring in western India Editorial Board Nirav Bhatt, Prasad Ganpule & Gulamahmad Vora Maan Barua, Anwaruddin Choudhury Bill Harvey, Farah Ishtiaq, Rajah Jayapal 146 The first breeding record of the Saker FalconFalco cherrug Madhusudan Katti, R. Suresh Kumar milvipes for the Indian Subcontinent in Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir Taej Mundkur, Rishad Naoroji, Suhel Quader Harkirat Singh Sangha, Sandeep S. Dhumal & Samir Ovalekar Harkirat Singh Sangha, C. Sashikumar Manoj Sharma, S. Subramanya, K. S. Gopi Sundar 148 A Record of Lesser- Anser erythropus and Greater- White-fronted Geese A. albifrons from Gujarat, India Contributing Editors Shreeram M. V. & Arpit Deomurari Ragupathy Kannan, Lavkumar Khachar 149 European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria at Pong Lake, Contributing Photographers Himachal Pradesh, India Clement Francis, Ramki Sreenivasan C. Abhinav & Devinder Singh Dhadwal Editorial Assistant: Sharada Annamaraju 152 Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla in Gujarat: Layout & Cover Design: K. Jayaram Status and distribution, with notes on its identification Office: P. Rambabu Prasad Ganpule 154 Recent sighting of Amur Falcons Falco amurensis New Ornis Foundation near Soheldev Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh Registration No. 314/2004 Rajat Bhargava, Nikhil Shinde, Asad R. Rahmani & Rupak De Founder Trustees 155 First record of the Chinese Thrush Turdus mupinensis Zafar Futehally (1920–2013) from the Indian Subcontinent Aasheesh Pittie, V. Santharam R. Rajagopal & Tim Inskipp Trustees 158 Status of Red Avadavat Amandava amandava in Goa, India Aasheesh Pittie, V. Santharam, Rishad Naoroji, Pronoy Baidya, Vaibhav Chindarkar, Harshada Gauns, Hanuman Gawas, Taej Mundkur, S. Subramanya, Sandesh Gawas, Vibha Dicholkar, Conrad Pinto, Eveny Luis & Renuka Gawas Suhel Quader, Praveen J. 160 Records of Indian Blue Robin Larvivora brunnea Aims & Objectives from Gujarat, India • To publish a newsletter that will provide a platform to Ashok Mashru birdwatchers for publishing notes and observations primarily on birds of South Asia. 162 First report of Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna from the Vidarbha region, Maharashtra, India • To promote awareness of birdwatching amongst the J. S. Wadatkar & G. A. Wagh general public. 163 Sighting of Greylag Goose Anser anser • To establish and maintain links/liaison with other in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India associations or organized bodies in India or abroad Siddhesh S. Surve, Mrugank Prabhu, Parveen Shaikh & Sujit S. Narwade whose objectives are in keeping with the objectives of the Trust (i.e. to support amateur birdwatchers with 164 The Buff-bellied Pipit Anthus rubescens japonicus at Tal Chhapar, cash / kind for projects in ornithology). 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Artist: Meena Subramaniam. Praveen et al. : Indian rarities–2 113 notes on Indian rarities–2: Waterfowl, diving waterbirds, and gulls and terns Praveen J., Rajah Jayapal & Aasheesh Pittie Praveen J., Jayapal, R., & Pittie, A., 2014. Notes on Indian rarities—2: Waterfowl, diving waterbirds, and gulls and terns. Indian BIRDS 9 (5&6): 113–136. Praveen J., B303, Shriram Spurthi, ITPL Main Road, Brookefields, Bengaluru 560037, Karnataka, India. Email: [email protected]. [Corresponding author.] Rajah Jayapal, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Anaikatty (Post), Coimbatore 641108, Tamil Nadu, India. Email: [email protected]. Aasheesh Pittie, 2nd Floor, BBR Forum, Road No. 2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, Telangana, India. Email: [email protected]. [Continued from Indian BIRDS 8 (5): 125.] n this part, we present annotated notes on 36 species, from the published; this list will include all the species that have been Ifollowing families: reliably recorded, in an apparently wild state, in the country. In • Anatidae (Swans, geese, and ducks) addition, species from naturalised populations, either established • Podicipedidae (Grebes) within the country or outside, from which individual birds • Gaviidae (Loons) sometimes straggle to the region would also be included in the • Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants) Checklist. For this part of the series, we have excluded some • Laridae (Gulls and terns) anatids that have become rare in recent years having undergone a grave population decline, but were widely reported in India during the nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This list Table 1. Abbreviations used in the text includes White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala, Baikal Teal Abbreviations Reference Anas formosa, Smew Mergellus albellus, Baer’s Pochard Aythya AWC Asian Waterbird Census (www.wetlands.org/awc) baeri, and Pink-headed Duck Rhodonessa caryophyllacea, BMNH Natural History Museum, London (www.nhm.ac.uk) the last now probably locally extinct. Although these taxa fall outside the scope of this series by virtue of existence of over BNHS Bombay Natural History Society (http://www.bnhs.org) ten confirmed records from the country, each of them deserves BSA2 Rasmussen & Anderton (2012) separate documentation to assess their current rarity status even FMNH Field Museum of Natural History (http://fieldmuseum.org) though most of them, being recognised as globally threatened, have already been covered in detail by Rahmani (2012). We Hbk Ali & Ripley (2001) also do not cover relatively rare and extremely localised species OBI Oriental Bird Images (www.orientalbirdimages.org) of terns that are often locally common in the region, namely ZSI Zoological Survey of India (http://zsi.gov.in) Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii (Vengurla and Andamans), White- cheeked Tern S. repressa (Vengurla and Goa), and Black-naped Tern S. sumatrana (Andamans). Methodology used in this paper is already described in Praveen et al. (2013); nonetheless, some basic criteria and Mute Swan Cygnus olor (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) key points in our methodology are summarised here as well. Specimens, and published photographs (in print or on the While BSA2 considered it a vagrant in the past, Hbk mentioned Internet), with well-established provenance followed by only a single sight report dated 11 November 1922, of an documented instances of birds in the hand, are given the highest individual from Kasurdi [=Kesurdi], Pune–Solapur Road (18°28’N, priority in terms of reliability of a record. In the absence of such 74°13’E), Maharashtra, India (Trevenen 1923; Prasad 2006). robust proof, detailed published notes are given preference over Original observations were sufficiently detailed for a clinching published / unpublished information that is found wanting in identification and the bird was thought to have been driven by details. For this project, we follow Dickinson & Remsen (2013) ‘severe storms in the north’, though the author did recognise the for taxonomy and species sequence. In this series, we intend possibility of the bird being an aviary/zoo escapee. The only other to provide concise accounts of rarities—species that do not record from Indian Territory was of two birds collected in 1897 at have more than ten independently confirmed records, from Chilas (35°25’N, 74°05’E), Gilgit, Kashmir (McMahon 1899); but India. These may sometimes include species not reported from these specimens could not be traced though apparently many India but listed in some checklists on the basis of reports from specimens listed by the author were examined at the Indian neighbouring countries. Wherever it is required to discuss the Museum. All wild specimens from the Indian Subcontinent in the status of a species in other parts of South Asia, we have done so. collections of the BNHS (Abdulali 1968), the ZSI (Gopinathan For species with more than three confirmed records, a table is Maheswaran, pers. comm., June 2014), and the BMNH (Robert provided, and for species with more than five confirmed records, Pr^y s-Jones, pers. comm., September 2014) were from Pakistan, a
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