Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | August 2012 | 4(9): 2920–2923 JoTT NoTe 4(9): 2920–2923 Records of Jerdon’s Baza Aviceda jerdoni (Blyth, 1842) (Aves: Falconiformes: Accipitiridae) in Andhra Pradesh, India Sathyanarayana Srinivasan 1 , B. Ramakrishna 2 , C. Srinivasulu 3 & G. Ramakrishna 4 1 Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India 2,3 Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500007, India 4 Ofice of the Divisional Forest Oficer (Wildlife Management), Pocharam Wildlife Sanctuary, Medak, Andhra Pradesh 500005, India Email: 1 satya.srini@gmail.com, 2 raaam27@gmail.com, 3 hyd2masawa@gmail.com (corresponding author), 4 gubbala_rkrishnarao@yahoo.com OPEN ACCESS | FREE DOWNLOAD Date of publication (online): 26 August 2012 Date of publication (print): 26 August 2012 ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print) editor: V. Shantharam Manuscript details: Ms # o2922 Received 23 August 2011 Final received 11 May 2012 Finally accepted 30 July 2012 Citation: Srinivasan, S., B. Ramakrishna, C. Srinivasulu & G. Ramakrishna (2012). Records of Jerdon’s Baza Aviceda jerdoni (Blyth, 1842) (Aves: Falconiformes: Accipitiridae) in Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(9): 2920–2923. Copyright: © Sathyanarayana Srinivasan, B. Ramakrishna, C. Srinivasulu & G. Ramakrishna 2012. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this article in any medium for non-proit purposes, reproduction and distribution by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publication. Acknowledgements: We thank the following for having helped in identification and sharing their valuable comments: Aasheesh Pittie, Krys Kazmierczak, Rishad Naoroji, Humayun Taher, Clive Mann, Robert DeCandido, Alfred Chia, Dirk Van Gansberghe and Ralph Buij. Fellow birders from Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad have been a great help in more than one way and we thank them all. For the Eastern Ghats trip, we would like to thank Mr. Prabhu Podipireddy and Mr. Rudra Podipireddy of the Asian Wildlife Foundation for all their enthusiasm and support both on and off the ield in making the trip possible. As for Medak, we would like to thank Forest Department staff at Pocharam WLS, whose interest in birds made this trip possible. We greatly appreciate the encouragement and permissions to study fauna by Andhra Pradesh Forest Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, and we express our heartfelt gratitude to Shri Hitesh Malhotra, IFS, PCCF (Wildlife). CS acknowledges research grant received from DBT, New Delhi and facilities extended by Osmania University, Hyderabad. Jerdon’s Baza Aviceda jerdoni occurs in South and Southeast Asia in a rather discontinuous range. Five subspecies are recognized: (a) nominate Aviceda jerdoni jerdoni (Blyth, 1842) (Range: mainland Asia including the Himalayan foothills east from Darjeeling, 2920 Southeast Asia to Sumatra, SW Yunnan and Hainan, and rarely in Malaysia and Singapore), (b) A. j. ceylonensis (Legge, 1876) (Range: Sri Lanka and peninsular India), (c) A. j. magnirostris (Kaup, 1847) (Range: the Philippines), (d) A. j. borneensis (Brüggemann, 1876) (Range: Borneo), and (e) A. j. celebensis (Schlegel, 1873) (Range: Sulawesi, Bangai and Sula Islands) (Grimmett et al. 1998; Wells 1999; Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001; Wang & Lim 2003; Robson 2005). In India, two subspecies - jerdoni and ceylonensis are reported (Ali & Ripley 1987; Grimmett et al. 1998). The former taxon is known from tropical evergreen and moist deciduous evergreen forests of the Himalayas along Sikkim, eastward to Myanmar, while the latter occurs in the tropical and subtropical evergreen and moist deciduous forests of Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats and Sri Lanka. However, owing to lack of information on the subspeciic identity of Aviceda jerdoni in the northern Eastern Ghats, the boundaries of the northern and the southern subspecies, whether distinct or overlapping is debatable. Very few sighting records of the taxa A. j. ceylonensis in India are published and this species has been known from a few localities in Kerala (Vishnudas 2007) and Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka (Achar & Nayak 2000). Ripley et al. (1987), Grimmett et al. (1998) and Nair (2007) reported the presence of A. jerdoni in the northern Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. Naoroji (2006) maps this species’ distribution in the Western Ghats from south of Goa, parts of Eastern Ghats including Shevarayan and Javadi hills in Tamil Nadu, Seshachalam, Nallamala and Papikonda hills in Andhra Pradesh and Similipal hills in Orissa. In the northeast, the species occurs in eastern Nepal, Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and most of the northeastern states (Image 1). In recent years there have been additional sightings of Jerdon’s Baza in Andhra Pradesh (Image 1). Through this note we report the sightings of this taxon in tropical forested tracts further away from the Eastern Ghats and also corroborate our indings with its calls. Srinivasulu (2004) has reported the sighting of this species in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, Adilabad District. A single individual was sighted on the edge of open agricultural ields at Udhumpur Village (19 0 12’N &