An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region [SEP] publisher
An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region
An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region is a 1996 softback book published by the Oriental Bird Club, and authored by Tim Inskipp, Nigel Lindsey and Will Duckworth.
It contains a list of all 2,586 species recorded in the Oriental Bird Club's areas of operation up to the date of publication. This area approximates to that covered by the Oriental zoogeographical region, with the exception that for countries such as China and Pakistan which straddle the Oriental / Palaearctic
1992 the group published a book on locally extinct birds, a field guide in 1997, and a pocket checklist in 2007. In 2009 "The Avifauna of Singapore", was published. The raw data from this book formed a major part of the data in the Annotated Checklist of Birds of Singapore.
In 2004 the group participated in BirdLife International’s Important Bird Areas project for Asia, contributing a piece on Singapore. By then the society had become an affiliate of BirdLife.
Currently, the Bird Group continues to