Indian Birds Vol. 5 No. 2 ISSN 0973-1407 Editor Emeritus Zafar Futehally Editor Contents Aasheesh Pittie Email: [email protected] Management of Greater Short-toed Larks Associate Editor V. Santharam Calandrella brachydactyla in Indian aerodromes S. S. Mahesh 2 Editorial Board Maan Barua Observations on the globally threatened Pied Tit Anwaruddin Choudhury Parus nuchalis at Jessore Sanctuary, Gujarat Bill Harvey Pranav Trivedi 7 Farah Ishtiaq Rajah Jayapal The raptors and the agamid Madhusudan Katti Ashwin Baindur 11 R. Suresh Kumar Taej Mundkur Two new birds for Gujarat Rishad Naoroji Uffe Gjøl Sørensen & Jugal K. Tiwari 14 Suhel Quader Harkirat Singh Sangha Short News C. Sashikumar A substitute name for Parus nipalensis Hodgson, 1837 S. Subramanya Edward C. Dickinson 16 K. Gopi Sundar Record of the Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus from Uppalapadu, Contributing Editors Andhra Pradesh, India Praveen J. Nanjan Sheeba & Lalitha Vijayan 17 Ragupathy Kannan Lavkumar Khachar Breeding of Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus at Contributing Photographer Vedanthangal Waterbird Sanctuary, southern India Clement Francis C. Venkatraman 18 Layout & Design The Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes in Chennai: a review of sight records K. Jayaram V. Santharam 19 Office Record of Slaty-breasted Rail Rallus striatus breeding in Dehradun, India P. Rambabu Pankaj Kumar & R. Suresh Kumar 21 Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus in the diet of the African Catfish NEW ORNIS FOUNDATION Clarias gariepinus in Keoladeo Ghana National Park, India Registration No. 314/2004 K. R. Anoop, K. S. Gopi Sundar, Bholu Abrar Khan & Sohan Lal 22 URL: www.indianbirds.in The first breeding record of the Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica poonensis Trustees in Rajasthan, India Zafar Futehally Harkirat Singh Sangha, Gobind Sagar Bhardwaj & Devender Mistry 24 Aasheesh Pittie V. Santharam, PhD. Sighting of Blue-throated Flycatcher Cyronis rubeculoides in Gujarat Rishad Naoroji Prasad Ganpule 26 Taej Mundkur, PhD. S. Subramanya, PhD. Northern House Martin Delichon urbica in Arunachal Pradesh: Suhel Quader, PhD. a new species for north-eastern India Harkirat Singh Sangha, Rishad Naoroji & Kiran Srivastava 27 Aims & Objectives • To publish a newsletter that will provide a First records of ‘white-headed’ Black Bulbul platform to birdwatchers for publishing notes and Hypsipetes leucocephalus from India observations primarily on birds of South Asia. Umesh Srinivasan, Shashank Dalvi & Khuyuchu Yobin 28 • To promote awareness of birdwatching amongst the In the news 31 general public. • To establish and maintain links/liaison with other associations or organized bodies in India or abroad Date of publication: 20th July 2009 whose objectives are in keeping with the objectives of the Trust (i.e. to support amateur birdwatchers Front cover: Male Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps Greater Rann of Kutch, Gujarat , 22nd with cash / kind for projects in ornithology). March 2008, with Maulik Suthar & Jugal Tiwari. Photographer: Niraj Vijaykumar Mistry Indian Birds Vol. 5 No. 2 (Publ. 20th July 2009) 33 Ornithological literature from South Asia1 and Tibet—2007 Aasheesh Pittie Pittie, A. 2009. Ornithological literature from South Asia and Tibet—2007. Indian Birds 5 (2): XX–XX. Aasheesh Pittie, P. O. Box 2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, Andhra Pradesh, India. Email: [email protected] Anonymous. 2006-2007. 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