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New Bird Records for Nusa Tenggara Islands: Sumbawa, Moyo, Sumba, Flores, Pulau Besar and Timor
Get PDFWe present a total of 59 new island records comprising more than 100 independent site records of 52 species for selected Nusa Tenggara islands: Sumbawa (21) and its satellite Moyo (18); Sumba (4); Flores (3) and its satellite islands including Pulau Besar (12); and Timor (3). Records were gathered between 1994 and 2001 during surveys by BirdLife international Indonesia Programme, Dames and Moore Pry Ltd (especially within the Batu Hijau Project Area), and an extended bird watching visit. Records of particular note include those of the globally vulnerable Flores Green Pigeon Treron Jloris and two near-threatened species: Beach Thick-knee Esacus neglectus and Great-billed Heron Ardea sumatrana. A Superb Fruit-dove Ptilinopus superbus on Sumba represents the first record for Nusa Tenggara. Significant records of Palearctic migrants are accumulating for the region. We document the first two Nusa Tenggara records of the migrant Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta and numerous records of Chinese Sparrowhawk Accipiter soloensis and Japanese Sparrowhawk A. gularis
Birds of Gunung Leuser National Park, Northern Sumatra – Part 2
Get PDFGunung Leuser National Park (GLNP) in northern Sumatra has over 85% of Sumatra5 resident breeding bird species and important populations of globally threatened mammals such as Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii and Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. Information is here presented on a number of important bird records from GLNP from March 1995 to December 2000. These records include: 23 new species for the park, seven globally threatened species, and several species for which there are few previous records for Sumatra. An appendix lists the 413 species recorded in GLNP comprising records from previous publications (van Marle &: Voous 1988; Holmes 1996; Wind 1996a) and the new records included here
A Mist-netting Study of Birds in Lunang Freshwater Swamp Forest, West Sumatra – Part 2
No full textThe diversity and guild composition of birds in Lunang freshwater swamp forest, 250 km south of Padang, West Sumatra, was investigated in April-June 2001 using mist nets over 15 days (l 368 net-h) and 20-species list censuses (120 h). A total of 154 individuals belonging to 40 species were captured. Alcedo meninting was the most frequently captured species, followed by Trichastoma rostratum , Macronous gularis, Anthreptes singalensis, and Arachnothera longirostra. Of the nine foraging guilds represented among captured birds, foliagegleaning insectivores were overwhelmingly dominant in terms of both species and individuals. Of 14 families, Timaliidae and Nectariniidae contributed the most to the total number of captured individuals. Including the 70 species recorded only during censuses, 110 species were observed in Lunang swamp forest. Six species were encountered only in mist-nets, indicating the usefulness of this technique in obtaining comprehensive species inventories, especially when experience of calls is limited. Total capture rates were higher than those reported in Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak, but inter-regional comparisons are constrained by differences in sampling effort, design and habitats
