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No full textHandbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 9: Cotingas to Wagtails. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Christie, D. (eds). Lynx Edicions Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Christie, D. (eds) . Lynx Edicion
Birds of Gunung Leuser National Park, Northern Sumatra - Part 1
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 1
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
