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Indian BIRDS Polygyny and kleptoparasitism in the Indian Spotted Eagle Clanga hastata

www.indianbirds.in vol. 13 no. 6 141 in Belgaum, Karnataka, India
Niranjan R. Sant, V. D. Shelke & S. D. Shelke
date oF PuBlication: 15 decemBer 2017
ISSN 0973-1407 147 Pied Crow Corvus albus at Jodhpur, India: Where did it come from?
Pranjal J. Saikia & Vinod Puri Goswami
editor: Aasheesh Pittie
editor.indianbirds@gmail.com 150 Records of Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis tschutschensis
and M. t. taivana from India
associate editors: V. Santharam, Praveen J. Ashwin Viswanathan, Bhanu Sridharan, Mike Prince, Parag Kokane, &
editorial Board Amol Kokane
Maan Barua, Anwaruddin Choudhury
Bill Harvey, Farah Ishtiaq, Rajah Jayapal, Girish Jathar 154 Falcated Duck Mareca falcata: An addition to the avifauna
Ragupathy Kannan, Madhusudan Katti of Himachal Pradesh
R. Suresh Kumar, Taej Mundkur, Rishad Naoroji C. Abhinav & Devinder Singh Dhadwal
Prasad Ganpule, Suhel Quader
Harkirat Singh Sangha, C. Sashikumar 156 Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes in Pazhaverkadu (Pulicat) Lake,
Manoj Sharma, S. Subramanya, K. S. Gopi Sundar Tamil Nadu: An addition to the Indian avifauna
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram & Sundaravel Palanivelu
layout & cover design: K. Jayaram
oFFice: P. Rambabu 158 Records of Saker Falcon Falco cherrug from Gujarat, India
Devvratsinh Mori & Yogendra Shah

160 Little Owl Athene noctua at Se La Pass, Arunachal Pradesh, India
new ornis Foundation Wich’yanan Limparungpatthanakij, Jay Packer, Amy Packer & Firoz
Registration No. 314/2004 Hussain

Founder trustees 161 Rustic Bunting Schoeniclus rusticus from Bhutan
Zafar Futehally (1920–2013) Markus Lilje
Aasheesh Pittie, V. Santharam
162 European Greenfinch Chloris chloris in Ladakh:
trustees An addition to the avifauna of the Indian Subcontinent
Aasheesh Pittie, V. Santharam, Rishad Naoroji, Anil Kumar Bharadwaj
Taej Mundkur, S. Subramanya,
Suhel Quader, Praveen J.
163 Mottled Wood Owl Strix ocellata in West Bengal
Ayan Khanra, Sourav Ch. Dinda, Koustav Chakrabarty &
aims & oBjectives Sayan Das Mahapatra
• To publish a newsletter that will provide a platform to
birdwatchers for publishing notes and observations 165 Correspondence
primarily on birds of South Asia. The Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus re-using an old Grey
• To promote awareness of birdwatching amongst the Heron Ardea cinerea nest
general public. Purbasha Banerjee
• To establish and maintain links/liaison with other A Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus rescued from Godda
associations or organized bodies in India or abroad district of Jharkhand, India
whose objectives are in keeping with the objectives Sanjay Xaxa, S. K. Sajan, Ram Bharat,
of the Trust (i.e. to support amateur birdwatchers with M. K. Bakshi, D. S. Srivastava
cash / kind for projects in ornithology).
First photographic record of Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
from West Bengal, India
Sovan Gupta

Adaptations of the Indian Grey Hornbill Ocyceros birostris in an
Volume 13 onwards Indian BIRDS urban environment
is only available as PDFs on Ajay Gadikar
www.indianbirds.in. Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aenea and Hair-crested Drongo
Both, individual papers, and entire issues Dicrurus hottentottus from Jammu & Kashmir, India
Neeraj Sharma & Asha Sohil
can be downloaded free of cost.
168A Snapshot sightings

Front & Back cover: Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus chasing a Wire-tailed Swallow
Address for correspondence: Hirundo smithii
New Ornis Foundation, 2nd Flr, BBR Forum, Rd. No. 2,
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, India. PhotograPher: Sanjay Pandita