TABLE 3 



Physical condition and migratory status of land birds arriving on R/V Akademik Korolev, 25-29 October 1988, South China Sea. 1 



Physical 

 Condition" 



Mobility Classes 2 



Taxon [Number] 



Known Known Known 



Known Over-water Colonizer Straggler 

 Migrant Migrant 5 of Islands to Islands Comments 



Good 



Good 



Japanese sparrow-hawk + 



(Accipiter gularis) [2] 



Shikra (A. badius) [2] + 



Common migrant 



Western population is highly migratory; 

 eastern population migratory in Malaysia 



Good Crested goshawk 



{A. trivirgatus) [2] 



Good Peregrine falcon 



{Falco peregrinus) [3] 



Non-migrant throughout range 



Winters in Greater Sunda Islands and Celebes; 

 very few records as straggler 



Strongly migratory, scatters across Malaysia in 

 winter 



Good Fork-tailed swift 



(Apus pacificus) [4] 



Good Barn swallow 



(Hirundo rustica) [29] 



Fatigued Ashy minivet (Pericrocotus 



divaricatus) [1] 



Fatigued Lanceolated warbler 



{Locustella lanceolata) [1 ] 



A few migratory stragglers recorded as far east 

 as Marshall Islands 



Winters throughout region and tropics 

 worldwide 



Winters on larger islands of Indonesia, but not 

 on islands separated by large bodies of water 



Winters in Greater Sunda Islands 



Good Great reed warbler (Ac ro- 



cephalus arundinaceus) [ 1 ] 



Good Brown shrike 



[Lanius cristatus) [6] 



Common migrant in Indonesia 



Common migrant to Greater Sunda Islands; 

 recorded in Palau 



! Data are included only for that portion of the cruise track (stations 8-19) where the ship was far (>100 km) from land. 



"Symbols in these columns: + = yes.- = no. Assignment to mobility class (i.e., regular migrant over land and over large bodies of water 

 >500 km. colonizer of distant land masses and islands as a breeding bird, straggler either on migration or as a resident) is at best tentative 

 for some species, but was derived from information in Brown & Amadon (1968), Clements (1978), King & Dickinson (1975), Medway & 

 Wells (1976), and Pratt et al. (1987). 



'Physical condition was reported "Good" if bird flew well and was adept at avoiding capture by hand, "Fatigued" if readily captured by 

 hand, and "Emaciated" if sternum was sharply protruding upon capture. 



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