Wednesday, Nov 02, 2016 6:00 PM

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The 100 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia – Editor Yong Ding Li Speaks at Asia Bookroom

The eleven countries of Southeast Asia form one of the world’s greatest repositories of biodiversity. The region supports well over 2,100 bird species, a fifth of the global total. This diverse birdlife includes the impressive Philippine Eagle, the Standardwing Bird-of-paradise and many more. More than a third of Southeast Asia’s birdlife occurs only in the region, making it such a compelling part of the globe to visit for birdwatchers and naturalists. This profusely illustrated compendium features 100 must-visit birdwatching sites, and which ranges from well-known reserves like Danum Valley in Borneo to the remote Hponkan Razi sanctuary in Myanmar. Additionally, the book also provides a comprehensive overview of Southeast Asia’s diverse landscapes, conservation issues, and most of all, an illustrated synopsis of all the 65 bird families occurring there. The first such guide to cover the entirety of Southeast Asia and put together by a team of 28 experts, this book will be an important and authoritative companion for anyone heading anywhere from the jungles of Borneo, to the misty mountains of far-north Vietnam.

About the editors – Ding Li and Bing Wen

Having extensive travelled the region since the late 1990s, both the editors have accumulated a wealth of knowledge on Asia’s natural history. Ding Li recalls seeing the impeccable Oriental Magpie Robin when he was growing up in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur back in the 1990s. Ever since, he regularly ventures off to some far-flung corner of the continent to observe birds, most recently Vietnam’s Annamite Mountains. In 2014, Ding Li and his team described the Sulawesi Streaked Flycatcher for science after a two-year long expedition to Indonesia.

Ding Li is currently a PhD student at the Australian National University where he studies wildlife conservation. He has written a number of books and papers on the wildlife of Asia and Australia, and also advises the IUCN on the red list of birds.

Bing Wen started birdwatching seriously during his primary school days, and since then has personally observed more than 2,200 species of birds in Asia. While he works full time for Singapore’s national park service, he regularly venture off to some far-flung corner of the continent to observe birds, most recently Vietnam’s Hoang Lien Mountains. He has written a number of papers on bird conservation, and carried out his honours research project on the Christmas Island Boobook, one of Australia’s most threatened birds.

See here for full details.