CONTENTS

Status and identification of the Christmas Island Frigatebird Fregata andrewsi in South Asia
David J. James, Paul Pop, Dipu Karuthedathu, Moditha Kodikara Arachchi, Lahiru Walpita & Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Between skies and shrinking spaces: Understanding distribution and threats to raptors in Ladakh
Ajaz Hussain, Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar, Anchal Bhasin, Tribhuwan Singh, Asif Hussain & Pankaj Raina

Correspondence

The Changeable Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus, from Chohal Dam, Punjab, India
Gurpartap Singh & Paramnoor Singh Antaal

A colour-aberrant Black winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Himanshu Gupta, Rahul Gupta, Pratik Thakur & Ratnesh Gupta

A Long-billed Plover Thinornis placidus from Buhchangphai, Mizoram
Christopher J.Z. Lawlor, Hmar Lalthanzara, Thanliana Hauhnar, Carter Lalchhuanmawia & Patrick Zolawma Lawlor

A presumed Whinchat Saxicola rubetra x Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus hybrid from Goa, India
Kuldip Topo, Sagar Naik, Shubham Rane & Jalmesh Karapurkar

Status of Indian Nuthatch Sitta castanea, Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch S. cinnamoventris, and Velvet-fronted Nuthatch S. frontalis in Himachal Pradesh, India
C. Abhinav & Ankit Vikrant

A Blue Whistling-Thrush Myophonus caeruleus from New Delhi, India
Bhamini Pande & Lalita Pande

An Indian Skimmer Rynchops albicollis at the Harike Bird Sanctuary, Punjab, India
Ritvik Singh

A Brown Boobook Ninox scutulata from Nangal, Punjab, India
Gurpartap Singh & Paramnoor Singh Antaal

Two new breeding colonies of the White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis in Bangladesh
Allama Shibli Sadik, Samir Saha, M. Jahangir Kabir, Rima Akter, Shohag Kumar Ray, A. B. M. Sarowar Alam & Ashis Kumar Datta

A Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis in Col. Sher Jung National Park, Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh, India
C. Abhinav

In Memoriam

Sunjoy Monga (7 March 1962–28 May 2025)
Yuhina Monga & Aasheesh Pittie