Survival Among the Birds of Eastern and Southeastern Asia

Abstract

A bird banding scheme known as the Migratory Animal Pathology Survey was active in Eastern and Southeastern Asia during the years 1963-1971. Birds were ringed extensively in South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah, Singapore, Java, Bali, and India, with some work being done in a few other localities. From these studies 1, 165, 290 birds of 1, 216 species were banded. There were 32, 717 recovery records among 552 species and 62 families. The survival records for each species are listed and a short discussion of survival rates by family is given.