THIRD RECORD of BLACK-CAPPED KINGFISHER Halcyon Pileata for MONGOLIA

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THIRD RECORD OF BLACK-CAPPED KINGFISHER Halcyon pileata FOR MONGOLIA

1 2, 1Department of Environment, Oyu Tolgoi LLC, Chinggis Avenue 15, Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar 14240, Mongolia 2The Biodiversity Consultancy, 3E King’s Parade, Cambridge, CB2 1SJ, United Kingdom 3School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Vic 3216, Australia corresponding authors: [email protected] хураангуй. д го г огд г дг г г г дгд Ulmus pumila г 201 о 0д 1 одг г Halcyon pileata г, г г г огод оод дго г гог г д г г , г оо г д г го дг г д од о д ггд д г г г д г о түлхүүр үг: огд, оо оодо, abstract. 0 201, , Halcyon pileata key words: , , Тоодог 201, 2016

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Figure 2. Habitat where Black-capped Kingfsher Figure 3. Black-capped Kingfsher Halcyon pileata, was recorded in Khanbogd massif. Photo courtesy by South Gobi province, Mongolia, 30 May 2015. Photo Tsolmonjav Purevsuren. courtesy by Tsolmonjav Purevsuren. Black-capped Kingfsher is a monotypic species which is resident in south and south-east Asia, but Acknowledgement is a summer migrant in eastern China and Korea. It We would like to thank Oyu Tolgoi LLC for its breeds as far north as the far south-east of the Chi- valuable contribution to the biodiversity research nese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, and and conservation in the Southern Gobi region. there have been occasional records in April-June from far eastern Russia and Japan (Brazil 2009). In the north, it is inhabits deciduous forest near References freshwater between May and October (Woodall Brazil, M. (2009) Birds of East Asia. Princeton Univer- and Kirwan, 2013). sity Press, Princeton and Oxford. According to the Mongolian Red List of Birds, Gombobaatar, S. and Monks, E. M. (compilers), Seidler, this species has been recorded only once before R., Sumiya, D., Tseveenmyadag, N., Bayarkhuu, S., Baillie, J. E. M., Boldbaatar, Sh., Uuganba- in Mongolia. S. Gombobaatar and B. Munkhzaya yar, Ch. (editors) (2011). Regional Red List Se- found a dead bird in dry steppe with Caragana ries Vol.7. Birds. Zoological Society of London, spp. bushes in rocky hills with cliffs at Baga Gazar National University of Mongolia and Mongolian Chuluu in Delgertsogt soum of Dundgobi prov- Ornithological Society. ince on 15 June 2002 (Gombobaatar et al, 2011). Mongolian Bird Taxonomy and Rarity Committee The second (and frst live) bird was recorded by (compilers: S. Gombobaatar, Sh. Boldbaatar, S. the French bird watcher Sébastien Provost by a Bayarkhuu, N. Tseveenmyadag and D. Usukhjar- small river with Siberian Elm trees near the Ongi gal). 2013. Records of newly found and vagrant monastery in Dundgobi province on 30 May 2011 species for Mongolian avifauna in 2007-2012. (Gombobaatar et al, 2013). Interestingly, the 2011 Монгол орны шувуу/Ornis Mongolica 2: 35-46. and 2015 records were both on 30 May. Purevsuren, Ts. 2013. A Photographic book to the birds of Khanbogd. Ulaanbaatar. Purevsuren, Ts. Dashnyam, B., Dorjderem, S., Bataa, D., Amarsaikhan, S. 2013. Rare birds of Oyu Tolgoi project area. Монгол орны шувуу/Ornis Mongolica 2: 47-56. Woodall, P. F. & Kirwan, G. M. (2013). Black-capped Kingfsher (Halcyon pileata). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D. A. & de Jua- na, E. (eds.) (2013). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. www. hbw.com/species/black-capped-kingfsher-halcyon-pileata.