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The birds of Indonesia. Kukila checklist no. 1. Additions, corrections and notes
Get PDFThis is the first update of the Kukila Checklist of the birds of Indonesia. Further updates will be published when errors, omissions and new distributional records are reported. Contributors to this update are S. van Balen, K.D. Bishop, S. Frazier, D.A. Holmes, J. Hornbuckle and I.A.W. McAllen. Published papers on taxonomic or nomenclatural points will also be noted when affecting a name or species-limits of a species recorded in Indonesia. This supplement is organized under three headings: Distribution, Classification and Miscellaneous Notes. However, the most unfortunate omission in the Checklist is in the Acknowledgements, where Professor Somadikarta should have been acknowledged, both as an editor of Kukila and for taxonomic advice
Black-headed Gulls wintering in Sulawesi (and notes on their occurrence elsewhere in the Indo-Australia region)
Get PDFThe numbers and distribution are discussed of the Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus as a wintering visitor in Indonesia and adjacent areas. The first observations during the 1950's were confined to the island of Borneo. Since the beginning of the 1960’s, more birds were observed at different sites, especially in the north and east. Most birds were in first winter plumage
Notes on the observation of a Taliabu Masked Owl Tyto nigrobrunnea on Taliabu Island, Indonesia
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Faunistic notes from Kayan Mentarang, with new records for Kalimantan
Get PDFIn January February 1992, August September 1993 and March April 1996 the Kayan Mentarang proposed National Park (East Kalimantan) was visited by the author for bird inventories on request of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Indonesia Programme. Results of the first survey are given in van Balen (1992); a comprehensive checklist covering all three surveys is in preparation (van Balen in prep.). Tape recordings of a large number of birds have been deposited at the British Library of Wildlife Sounds (BLOWS) in London. This paper gives an account of notable observations made during the surveys
Max E. G. Bartels and the Javan Lapwing Vanellus macropterus
Get PDFThe Javan Lapwing Vanellus macropterus was (and just possibly still is) a bird species endemic to Java, although there is debatable nineteenth century evidence of its occurrence on Sumatra. It has not been seen since 1940, and indeed almost nothing has ever been published on the species (the scant details are assembled in BirdLife Internafional's Threatened birds of Asia, in prep.). However, the Swiss German plantation owner Max E. G. Bartels (1871 1936; see Stresemann 1937, Rozendaal 1981) kept extensive manuscript and typescript notes on Javan birds, which he clearly intended to publish at one stage. These are held at the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands. The notes contain an invaluable summary of Bartels's experience of the Javan Lapwing. This material has been selected, condensed and reworked into the entry on the species in Threatened birds of Asia, but because it is a unique record (and because there are items of information which do not concern conservation and were therefore not used in BirdLife's account), we felt it would be worthwhile reproducing the entries in its entirety in the interests of science and posterity. The translation, from German, is ours