RANGE EXTENSION OF GOLDEN-CRESTED MYNA AMPELICEPS CORONATUS AND ITS FIRST RECORD IN TRIPURA, INDIA

摘要

The Golden-crested Myna Ampeliceps coronatus is poorly known in India. Rare and uncommon in India, it is distributed in Manipur and Assam (Grimmett et al. 2010). Elsewhere it occurs from Central and South Myanmar east to South China (SW Yunnan), Laosand Vietnam, south to southern Thailand and Cambodia (Craig and Feare 2009) and is listed as Least Concern by IUCN (2016). The bird is described as "uncommon" and "little known or documented" (Srinivasan 2015). It was not listed by Choudhury (2010) in his checklist of birds of Tripura. Information about the Golden-crested Myna was not found in the Working Plan of Kanchanpur Forest Division.