Market surveys

• Chng, S.C.L., Eaton, J.A., Krishnasamy, K., Shepherd, C.R. & Nijman, V. (2015) In the Market for Extinction: An inventory of Jakarta’s bird markets. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

• Chng, S. C., & Eaton, J. A. (2016). In the market for extinction: Eastern and Central Java. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

• Chng, S. C., & Eaton, J. A. (2016). Snapshot of an on-going trade: an inventory of birds for sale in Chatuchak weekend market, Bangkok, Thailand. Birding Asia, 25, 24-29.

• Chng, S. C., Shepherd, C. R., & Eaton, J. A. (2018). In the market for extinction: birds for sale at selected outlets in Sumatra. TRAFFIC Bulletin, 30(1), 15-22.

• Eaton, J. A., Leupen, B. T. C., & Krishnasamy, K. (2017). Songsters of Singapore: An overview of the bird species in Singapore pet shops. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

• Eaton, J. A., Nguyen, M. D. T., Willemsen, M., Lee, J., & Chng, S. C. L. (2017). Caged in the city: An inventory of birds for sale in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

• Harris, J. B. C., Green, J. M., Prawiradilaga, D. M., Giam, X., Hikmatullah, D., Putra, C. A., & Wilcove, D. S. (2015). Using market data and expert opinion to identify overexploited species in the wild bird trade. Biological Conservation, 187, 51-60.

• Harris, J. B. C., Tingley, M. W., Hua, F., Yong, D. L., Adeney, J. M., Lee, T. M., ... & Wilcove, D. S. (2016). Measuring the impact of the pet trade on Indonesian birds. Conservation Biology, 31(2), 394-405.

• Leupen, B. T. C., Gomez, L., Shepherd, C. R., Nekaris, K. A. I., Imron, M. A. and Nijman, V. (2020). Thirty years of trade data suggests population declines in a once common songbird in Indonesia. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 66, 98.

• Nash, S. (1993); Sold for a Song. The Trade in Southeast Asian Non-CITES Birds. TRAFFIC International.

• Rentschlar, K. A., Miller, A. E., Lauck, K. S., Rodiansyah, M., Bobby, Muflihati, & Kartikawati. (2018). A silent morning: The songbird trade in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Tropical Conservation Science, 11, 1940082917753909.

• Shepherd, C. R., Sukumaran, J., & Wich, S. A. (2004). Open Season: An analysis of the pet trade in Medan, Sumatra 1997-2001. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

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Online trade

• Bruslund, S., Leupen, B., Indraswari, K. & Shepherd, C. R. (2021). Online trade records of Grey-backed Myna Acridotheres tricolor may indicate poaching practices in Baluran National Park, East Java, Indonesia. BirdingASIA, 35: 102-105.

• Krishnasamy, K., & Stoner, S. (2016). A Rapid Assessment on the Use of Facebook to Trade Wildlife in Peninsular Malaysia. TRAFFIC, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

• Phassaraudomsak, M., and Krishnasamy, K. (2018). Trading Faces: A rapid assessment on the use of Facebook to trade wildlife in Thailand. TRAFFIC, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

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Consumer

• Burivalova, Z., Lee, T. M., Hua, F., Lee, J. S., Prawiradilaga, D. M., & Wilcove, D. S. (2017). Understanding consumer preferences and demography in order to reduce the domestic trade in wild-caught birds. Biological Conservation, 209, 423-431.

• Marshall, H., Collar, N. J., Lees, A. C., Moss, A., Yuda, P., & Marsden, S. J. (2020). Spatio-temporal dynamics of consumer demand driving the Asian Songbird Crisis. Biological Conservation, 241, 108237.

• Jepson, P., & Ladle, R. J. (2011). Assessing market-based conservation governance approaches: a socio-economic profile of Indonesian markets for wild birds. Oryx, 45(4), 482-491.

• Jepson, P., & Ladle, R. J. (2005). Bird-keeping in Indonesia: conservation impacts and the potential for substitution-based conservation responses. Oryx, 39(4), 442-448.

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Species

• Bergin, D., Chng, S. C., Eaton, J. A., & Shepherd, C. R. (2017). The final straw? An overview of Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus trade in Indonesia. Bird Conservation International, 28(1), 126-132.

• Bruslund, S., Leupen, B., Indraswari, K. & Shepherd, C. R. (2021). Online trade records of Grey-backed Myna Acridotheres tricolor may indicate poaching practices in Baluran National Park, East Java, Indonesia. BirdingASIA, 35: 102-105.

• Chiok, W. X., Miller, A. E., Pang, S. E., Eaton, J. A., Rao, M. A. D. H. U., & Rheindt, F. E. (2019). Regional and local extirpation of a formerly common Sundaic passerine, the Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus. Forktail, 35, 3-11.

• Chiok, W.X., Ng, E.Y.X., Tang, Q., Lee, J.G.H., & Rheindt, E.F. (2020).A distance sampling survey of the Critically Endangered Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus in Singapore. Bird Conservation International, 1-13.

• Chng, S. C. L., Lee, J. G. H., & Shepherd, C. R. (2016). The conservation status, legal protection and assessment of the trade in Straw-headed Bulbuls Pycnonotus zeylanicus in Singapore. Traffic Bull, 28(2), 49-52.

• Chng, S. C. L.,  Eaton, J. A., & Miller, A. E. (2017). Greater Green Leafbirds: The trade in Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia. TRAFFIC Bulletin, 29(1).

• Chng, S.C.L., Saaban, S., Wechit, A. and Krishnasamy, K. (2021). Smuggled For Its SongThe Trade in Malaysia’s Oriental Magpie-robins. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

• Garg, K. M., Chattopadhyay, B., Koane, B., Sam, K., & Rheindt, F. E. (2020). Last Glacial Maximum led to community-wide population expansion in a montane songbird radiation in highland Papua New Guinea. BMC evolutionary biology, 20(1), 1-10.

• Gwee, C. Y., Eaton, J. A., Garg, K. M., Alström, P., Van Balen, S., Hutchinson, R. O., M. Prawiradilaga, D.M., Le, M.H., & Rheindt, F. E. (2019). Cryptic diversity in Cyornis (Aves: Muscicapidae) jungle-flycatchers flagged by simple bioacoustic approaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 186(3), 725-741.

• Gwee, C.Y., Garg, K.M., Chattopadhyay, B., Sadanandan, K.R., Prawiradilaga, D.M., Irestedt, M., Lei, F., Bloch, L.M., Lee, J.G.H., Irham, M., Haryoko, T., Soh, M.C.G., Peh, K.S.H., Rowe, K.M.C., Ferasyi, T.R., Wu, S., Wogan, G.O.U., Bowie, R.C.K., & Rheindt, F.E. (2020). Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a ‘great speciator’, reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity. eLife 9: e62765.

• Heinrich, S., Leupen, B. T. C., Bruslund, S., Owen, A. & Shepherd, C. R. (2021). A case for better international protection of the Sumatran Laughingthrush (Garrulax bicolor). Global Ecology and Conservation, 25.

• Lee, J. G., & Shepherd, C. R. (2016). Observations of Blue-faced honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis) in trade in Javan bird markets. Journal of Indonesian Natural History, 4(1), 40-40.

• Leupen, B. T., Krishnasamy, K., Shepherd, C. R., Chng, S. C., Bergin, D., Eaton, J. A., Yukin, D.A., Koh, S.P.H., Miller, A., Nekaris, K.A-I, Nijman, V., Saaban, S.& Imron, M. A. (2018). Trade in White-rumped Shamas Kittacincla malabarica demands strong national and international responses. Forktail, 34, 1-8.

• Leupen, B. T., & Shepherd, C. R. (2018). Observations of trade in Spotted Crocias Laniellus albonotatus in Java, Indonesia. Journal of Indonesian Natural History, 6(2), 41-42.

• Leupen, B. T. C. & Shepherd, C. R. (2018). The Critically Endangered Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus lacks full legal protection in Indonesia – the main source of its problems. BirdingASIA 30, pp 12-15.

• Lim, B. T., Sadanandan, K. R., Dingle, C., Leung, Y. Y., Prawiradilaga, D. M., Irham, M., ... & Rheindt, F. E. (2019). Molecular evidence suggests radical revision of species limits in the great speciator white-eye genus Zosterops. Journal of Ornithology, 160(1), 1-16.

• Ng, D. Y., Švejcarová, T., Sadanandan, K. R., Ferasyi, T. R., Lee, J. G., Prawiradilaga, D. M.,Ouhel, T., Ng, E.Y.X., & Rheindt, F. E. (2021). Genomic and morphological data help uncover extinction‐in‐progress of an unsustainably traded hill myna radiation. Ibis, 163(1), 38-51.

• Ng, E. Y., Garg, K. M., Low, G. W., Chattopadhyay, B., Oh, R. R., Lee, J. G., & Rheindt, F. E. (2017). Conservation genomics identifies impact of trade in a threatened songbird. Biological conservation, 214, 101-108.

• Nijman, V., Ardiansyah, A., Hendrik, R., Langgeng, A., Manson, S., Hedger, K., Imron, M. A. & Nekaris, K. A. I. (2021). Trade in a small-range songbird, the Javan crocias, gives insight into the Asian Songbird Crisis. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity.

• Nijman, V., Ardiansyah, A., Hendrik, R., Imron, M. A., & Nekaris, K. A. I. (2020). The trade in Rufous-fronted Laughingthrush Garrulaxrufifrons in Java, Indonesia. Forktail, 36, 74-78.

• Nijman, V., Langgeng, A., Birot, H., Imron, M. A., & Nekaris, K. A. I. (2018). Wildlife trade, captive breeding and the imminent extinction of a songbird. Global Ecology and Conservation, 15, e00425.

• Rheindt, F.E., Baveja P, Ferasyi, T.R., Nurza, A., Rosa, T.S., Haminuddin, Ramadhan, R., Gwee, C.Y. The extinction-in-progress in the wild of the Barusan Shama Copsychus (malabaricus) melanurus. 2019. Forktail 35:28-35.

• Sadanandan, K. R., Low, G. W., Sridharan, S., Gwee, C. Y., Ng, E. Y., Yuda, P., Prawiradilaga, D.M., Lee, J.G.H, Tritto, A., & Rheindt, F. E. (2020). The conservation value of admixed phenotypes in a critically endangered species complex. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-16.

• Shepherd, C. R. (2013). Protection urgently needed for the endemic Sumatran Laughingthrush. TRAFFIC Bulletin, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp; 53-54. 

• Shepherd, C. R. (2007). Trade in the Black-and-white Laughingthrush Garrulax bicolor and White-crested Laughingthrush G. leucolophus in Indonesia. Birding Asia, 8, 49-52.

• Shepherd, C. R., Shepherd, L. A., & Foley, K. E. (2013). Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus: legal protection and enforcement action in Malaysia. BirdingASIA, 19, 92-94.

• Shepherd, C. R., Eaton, J. A., & Chng, S. C. (2015). Pittas for a pittance: observations on the little known illegal trade in Pittidae in west Indonesia. Birding Asia, 24, 18-20.Shepherd, C.R. et al. 

• Shepherd, C. R., Nijman, V., Krishnasamy, K., Eaton, J. A., & Chng, S. C. (2015). Illegal trade pushing the Critically Endangered Black-winged Myna Acridotheres melanopterus towards imminent extinction. Bird conservation international.

• Shepherd, C. R., & Gomez, L. (2018). Trade and conservation efforts involving the Sumatran Laughingthrush Garrulax bicolor in Indonesia. Journal of Indonesian Natural History, 6(2), 24-29.

• Shepherd, C. R., Leupen, B. T., Siriwat, P., & Nijman, V. (2020). International wildlife trade, avian influenza, organised crime and the effectiveness of CITES: The Chinese hwamei as a case study. Global Ecology and Conservation, 23, e01185.

• Wu, M. Y., & Rheindt, F.E. (2022). A distinct new subspecies of the white-rumped shama Copsychus malabaricus at imminent risk of extinction. Journal of Ornithology, 1-11.

• Yue, A. Y., Ng, E. Y., Eaton, J. A., & Rheindt, F. E. (2020). Species limits in the Elegant Pitta (Pitta elegans) complex from Wallacea based on bioacoustic and morphometric analysis. Avian Research, 11(1), 1-12.

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Other

• Baveja, P., Garg, K. M., Chattopadhyay, B., Sadanandan, K. R., Prawiradilaga, D. M., Yuda, P., Lee, J.G.H.,& Rheindt, F. E. (2020). Using historical genome‐wide DNA to unravel the confused taxonomy in a songbird lineage that is extinct in the wild. Evolutionary Applications.

• Cros, E., Ng, E. Y., Oh, R. R., Tang, Q., Benedick, S., Edwards, D. P., Tomassi, S., Irestedt, M., Ericson, P.G.P, & Rheindt, F. E. (2020). Fine‐scale barriers to connectivity across a fragmented South‐East Asian landscape in six songbird species. Evolutionary applications, 13(5), 1026-1036.

• Eaton, J. A., Shepherd, C. R.,  Rheindt, F. E., Harris, B. C., Ballen, S. B. , Wilcove, D. S.,  & Collar, N. J. (2015). Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia. Forktail 31 (1-2).

• Gwee, C. Y., Lee, Q. L., Mahood, S. P., Le Manh, H., Tizard, R., Eiamampai, K., Round, F.D., & Rheindt, F. E. (2021). The interplay of colour and bioacoustic traits in the differentiation of a Southeast Asian songbird complex. Molecular Ecology, 30(1), 297-309.

• Indraswari, K., Friedman, R. S., Noske, R., Shepherd, C. R., Biggs, D., Susilawati, C., & Wilson, C. (2020). It's in the news: Characterising Indonesia's wild bird trade network from media-reported seizure incidents. Biological Conservation, 243, 108431.

• Lee, J.G.H., Chng, S.C.L., & Eaton, J.A. (eds). (2016). Conservation strategy for Southeast Asian songbirds in trade. Recommendations from the first Asian Songbird Trade Crisis Summit 2015 held in Jurong Bird Park, Singapore, 27–29 September 2015.

• Ng, E. Y., Yue, A. Y., Eaton, J. A., Gwee, C. Y., van Balen, B., & Rheindt, F. E. (2020).Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic robin lineage in the Greater Sunda Islands. Treubia, 47(1), 39-52.

• Shepherd, C. R., & Cassey, P. (2017). Songbird trade crisis in Southeast Asia leads to the formation of IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. Journal of Indonesian Natural History, 5(1 & 2), 3-5.

• Shukhova, S., Chng, S.C.L., Lee, J.G.H. & Jeggo, D. (2021). The IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group. A brief report on its first four years: 2017-2020. The IUCN SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group (ASTSG), Singapore.

• Symes, W. S., Edwards, D. P., Miettinen, J., Rheindt, F. E., & Carrasco, L. R. (2018). Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated. Nature communications, 9(1), 1-9.
   

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