Contents

Vol. 7 No. 3
Date of publication: 21 October 2011

Special Issue: Pelagic birds

Observing oceanic birds in Sri Lanka
Rex I De Silva

Some Observations from Lakshadweep and the Laccadive Sea off Kerala
Mike Prince

Significant pelagic bird sightings from off-shore waters of the Malabar coast, southern India
Praveen J., Dipu Karuthedathu, Muhamed Jafer Palot, Mike Prince & Sathyan Meppayur

A note on pelagic bird sightings off the Mulki coast of southern India
M. Shivashankar, S. Subramanya, D. Karuthedathu, & A. Shivaprakash

Sighting of Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus in Little Rann Of Kachchh, Gujarat
Prasad Ganpule

Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis and other pelagic birds from the Thrissur coast, Kerala
Vivek Chandran A., Praveen J., P. P. Sreenivasan, P. O. Nameer & Dilip K. G.

White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus from Kerala, South India
Muhamed Jafer Palot

Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus at Kannur coast, south-western India
C. Sashikumar, C. K. Vishnudas, S. Raju, P. A. Vinayan & V. A. Shebin

Bridled- Sterna anaethetus and Sooty- Sterna fuscata Terns from Thrissur coast, Kerala
P. O. Nameer & P. P. Sreenivasan

A bibliography of pelagic ornithology from South Asia: 1847—2011
Aasheesh Pittie

Sighting of the Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata near Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Humayun Taher, Umesh Mani, K. B. Rao & Nilay Raha

Ring recoveries of Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis along the Maharashtra coast, India
Raju Kasambe & Vaibhav Deshmukh

Marine Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme in India
Raju Kasambe

Pelagic birding off India’s western coast: a first person account
S. Subramanya

Photo gallery