ABOUT THE "BIRDS OF SARAWAK: A DIGITAL ANNOTATED CHECKLIST"
This online bird checklist is a webshare created through the collaboration between the Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (IBEC), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak  and Malaysia International Multimedia Centre for E-Community Development (MIMCED).

Checklists of birds of a particular region in Asia have been a popular past time for many bird watchers. However, information on the distribution or seasonal occurrence of birds in an area can change over time. Bird checklists often are outdated in only a few years after printing, but updates are irregular due to prohibitive costs. The Internet provides a cost effective platform for the compilation and dissemination of current information on bird distribution.

Here - for the first ever - we offer a rare and exotic bird checklist which indicate the seasonal occurrence of birds in various nature preserves, and other areas of special interest in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia.

Objective of Checklist

We hope that the checklist organized through this webshare program will serve several purposes.

1. Help bird enthusiasts decide where to visit in the state of Sarawak. We can almost guarantee that a visit to these unique areas can be an exotic and rewarding experience for both the amateur and expert birdwatcher.

2. Provide potential visitors with a guide to birds that might occur in a particular region of Sarawak during a particular season.
3. Prompt and encourage visitors to these areas to help improve the accuracy and completeness of the checklists. The information in this checklist is the latest that we have and is more current than the printed versions.

Sightings of birds and other wildlife are an important part of monitoring the quality of biodiversity and ecological balance in an area. We encourage visitors to share their observations of rare, peculiar, or occasional birds with us. We have included an address for visitors to send information on rare birds so that the checklist can be updated. To assist in establishing standards in observation and reporting, we also provide a Record Documentation Form to document supporting details of rare bird observations.

The publisher of this   webshare gratefully acknowledge the efforts and dedication  of
Dr. Richard Gregory-Smith, a dedicated Australian who has spent many years of his life traversing the length and breath of the entire state of Sarawak to compile this rare and invaluable checklist.

We would also like to thank the Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (IBEC) through Professor Dr. Ghazally Ismail who has given their fullest support in making this project a reality.

We encourage others to make their checklists available on this home page. If you have a checklist that your organization would like served here, or for further information, please contact (webmaster):

Bird of Sarawak Checklist
C/o Lim Kooi Fong
No 10B, 2nd Floor, Jalan SS 26/6
47301 Petaling Jaya
Selangor DE, Malaysia
Email: limster@pop.jaring.my

This resource should be cited as:
Gregory-Smith, Richard, "Birds of Sarawak: A Digital Annotated Checklist", http://www.arbec.com.my/bos (Version 1999), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: MIMCED 1999.