Morten Strange - A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia: Second Edition

Selected Bibliography

The following is a list of works used in the preparation of this book. Additional information was extracted and compiled from articles in Kukila published by the Indonesian Ornithologists' Union and in Birding Asia and the Forktail , published by the Oriental Bird Club.

Andrew, P. (1992), The Birds of Indonesia: A Checklist (Peter's Sequence), Indonesian Ornithological Society, Jakarta.

Beehler, B. M., Pratt, T. K. & Zimmerman, D. A. (1986), Birds of New Guinea, Princeton University Press, New Jersey.

Clements, J. F. (2007), The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World 6th Edition, Cornell University Press, New York.

Coates, B. J., Bishop, K. D. & Gardner, D. (1997), A Guide to the Birds of Wal-lacea, Dove Publications, Queensland.

Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & Statters-field, A. J. (1994), Birds to Watch 2; The World List of Threatened Birds, BirdLife International, Cambridge.

del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (eds.) (1992-2009), Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 1-14, Lynx Editions, Barcelona.

Flegg, J. & Madge, S. (1995), Photographic Field GuideBirds of Australia, New Holland, London.

Gosler, C. (1991), The Photographic Guide to Birds of the World, Reed International Books Limited, London.

Howard, R. & Moore, A. (1991), A Complete Checklist of Birds of the World, Academic Press Limited, England.

Inskipp, T., Lindsey, N. & Duckworth, W. (1996), An annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region, Oriental Bird Club, England.

Jepson, P. & Ounsted, R. (eds.) (1997), Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd, Singapore.

King, B., Woodcock, M. W. & Dickinson, E. C. (1975), A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia, Collins, London.

Kinnaird, M. (1995), North Sulawesi: A Natural History Guide, Wallacea Development Institute, Jakarta.

Lekagul, B. & Round, P. D. (1991), A Guide to the Birds of Thailand, Sah Kharn Bhaet Co., Bangkok.

Lim, K. S. & Gardner, D. (1997), Birds: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Birds of Singapore, Sun Tree Publishing, Singapore.

MacKinnon, J. & Phillipps, K. (1993), A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali, Oxford University Press, London.

Marle, J. G. van & Voous, K. H. (1988), The Birds of Sumatra: An annotated check-list, British Ornithologists' Union, London.

Mason, V. & Javis, F. (1989), Birds of Bali, Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd, Singapore.

Myers, S. (2009), A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, New Holland, London.

Oosterzee, P. van (1997), Where Worlds Collide; The Wallace Line, Cornell University Press, New York.

Periplus Editions (1998), Indonesia Travel Atlas, Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd, Singapore.

Phillipps, Q. & Phillipps, K. (2009), Phillipps' Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Beaufoy Books, Oxford.

Poonswad, P. & Kemp, A.C. (eds.) (1993), Manual to the Conservation of Asian Hornbills, Hornbill Project, Thailand.

Robson, C. (2008), A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia, Second edition, New Holland, London.

Sibley, C. G. & Monroe, B. L. (1990), Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World, Yale University Press, New Haven & London.

Smythies, B. E. (1981), The Birds of Borneo, The Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.

Stone, D. (1994), Tanah Air: Indonesia's Biodiversity, Archipelago Press, Singapore.

Strange, M. (1998), Birds of South-east Asia, New Holland, London.

Strange, M. (1998), Tropical Birds of Southeast Asia, Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd, Singapore.

Strange, M. (2000), A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Borneo, Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., Singapore.

Strange, M. & Jeyarajasingam, A. (1993), Birds: A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, Sun Tree Publishing, Singapore.

Trainor, C. R., Coates, B. J. & Bishop, K. D. (2007), The Birds of Timor-Leste, BirdLife International, Cambridge.

Wheatley, N. (1996), Where to Watch Birds in Asia, Christopher Helm, London.

White, C. M. N. & Bruce, M. D. (1986), The Birds of Wallacea: An annotated check-list, British Ornithologists' Union, London.

Whitmore, T. C. (1981), Wallace's Line and Plate Tectonics, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Most of these titles include more extensive lists of relevant books and papers. Unpublished trip reports produced by traveling birdwatchers are often another valuable source of current and first-hand information, of which some are circulated as private publications and many more are available online at various birdwatching websites.

The following four societies continuously publish news on Indonesian birds and will be able to provide specialized information:

Oriental Bird Club
http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/

Indonesian Ornithologists' Union
http://kukila2004.wordpress.com/

Burung Indonesia (BirdLife International, Indonesia)
http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/national/indonesia

Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program
http://www.wcsip.org/

Although it is not a society, http://burung-nusantara.org (an independent website) is an excellent resource for information about birds and birding groups in Indonesia.

Since new titles on Indonesian avifauna appear almost every year, it is recommended to check for the latest issues with:

Nature's Niche Pte. Ltd.
www.naturesniche.com

The author can be contacted at:
Morten@dracopublishing.com
or:
msnbc@singnet.com.sg

How to Use This Checklist

This complete checklist is adapted from Clements (2007) as edited on the Burung Nusantara website ) for further details.

The first column numbers the birds 1-1,605.

Species in bold are featured in the illustrated section; there are 915 of those.

(E) is short for Endemic and is used for a species found in no other country in the world but Indonesia; there are 380 of those.

Threat is short for Threatened Status and follows the conventional categories as described in details in How to Use This Book. There are 340 threatened or near-threatened species.

The next seven columns indicate in which subregion the species has been recorded.

COMPLETE CHECKLIST