Scopus vol 32 published

Dear all,

This is an update on Scopus, the scientific peer-reviewed journal of ornithology in eastern Africa published by the Bird Committee of the East Africa Natural History Society (Nature Kenya).

Volume 32 has now been published as a PDF only. See the Table of Contents at the bottom of this email. The Nature Kenya website has recently been updated (www.naturekenya.org). You can now pay for Scopus by credit card (online), Mpesa, or by stopping by the Nature Kenya office located at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi.

David Pearson and I will take over from Graeme Backhurst as co-editors of Scopus from the next issue. Submissions can be sent to either, or preferably, both of us. David Pearson djpearson@dsl.pipex.com

Darcy Ogada darcyogada@yahoo.com

We are making a solid effort at producing the next issue sooner, but we need your continued submissions to do this.

Back issues of Scopus will be available online and I am happy to report progress on this initiative. Though not yet completed, some issues are already available at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64405

Issues of Kenya Birds (another Nature Kenya publication that is no longer being produced) will also be available at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64392

Sincerely,

Darcy Ogada

Co-Editor, Scopus

Scopus 32, June 2013

Contents

Elizabeth Yohannes, Gerhard Nikolaus and David J. Pearson. Stable

isotopes of soil collected from feet of two species of migratory

Acrocephalus give clues to stopover sites .................................................................................................... 1

Tim M. Blackburn and Jeremy P. Bird. The distribution of gull Larus species

on the Red Sea coast of Sudan ...................................................................................................................... 10

Chacha Werema, Jay P. McEntee, Elia Mulungu and Maneno Mbilinyi.

Preliminary observations on the avifauna of Ikokoto Forest, Udzungwa

Mountains, Tanzania ............................................................................................................................................................... 19

Donald A. Turner. East Africa’s diminishing bird habitats and bird species

..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27

Sarah Helen Kaweesa, Robert Jan Jonkvorst, Raymond Katebaka,

Rchard Ssemmanda, Derek Pomeroy and Joost Brouwer. Is the

Hamerkop Scopus umbretta a neo-colonist or an opportunist nester? ........... 35

Short communications

Donald A. Turner and Robert Glen. Comments concerning the races of

the Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani in Tanzania, in particular the

position of Guttera pucherani granti (Elliot) ............................................................................................ 39

Neil E. Baker. Recent unprecedented numbers of Red-necked Phalaropes

Phalaropus lobatus in Tanzania, and some older undocumented records... 41

Neil E. Baker, Matthew Aeberhard, John C. Carlson and Adam S.

Kennedy. The first four records of Slender-billed Gull Larus genei for

Tanzania........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 42

Donald A. Turner. The revision of Britton (1980) and the need to keep pace

with all on-going ornithological research and publications ......................................... 44

Colin Jackson. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus: first record

for Kenya .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46

Donald A. Turner, Brian W. Finch and Nigel D. Hunter. Remarks

concerning the East African coastal form of the Tropical Boubou Laniarius

aethiopicus sublacteus (Cassin 1851), and its supposed black morph ................ 47

Donald A. Turner. Remarks concerning two sympatric seedeaters Poliospiza

spp. in northwestern Kenya .......................................................................................................................................... 49

Julio J. de Castro and Mabel de Castro. Verreaux’s Eagle Owl Bubo

lacteus attacked by Thick-billed Ravens Corvus crassirostris ....................................... 51

Addisu Asefa and Anouska A. Kinahan. Observations on two nests

of the Black-headed Siskin Serinus nigriceps in the Bale Mountains

National Park, Ethiopia ....................................................................................................................................................... 52

Matthew Aeberhard. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos: first record

for Tanzania ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 54

News.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 56