INVISIBLE RAIL (HABWPHTLA WALLACII).
Indonesia. Frequents Swampy thickets, sago swamps. Reportedly common in the 1970’s and specimens were collected in the 1980’s. No recent records and exact stains needs to be urgently determined.

JAPANESE MARSH WARBLER (MEGALUMSPYERT).
Japan, China. Reed beds amidst marshy grasslands. Species survives in good numbers but much of this habitat altered by drainage and developmental work Requires close monitoring.

GREY-HEADED FISHING EAGLE (ICTHYOPHAGA ICHTHYMN).
India, Philippines, Greater Sundas and probably in Burtmant. Freshwate r swamps and lakes, forested river valleys and occasionally the seacoast. Not uncommon, but number falling. Nesting sites disturbed and persecuted in some areas. Exact status needs to be determined.

JAPANESE NIGHT HERON
small numbers breed in Central and SoutheJapan, Taiwan. Known to winter in the Philippines. Excessive destruction of its forest habitat in wintering grounds Threatens the survival of this heron. Recent AWI surveys reported this species in just one site in Indonesia. Survival status extremely critical.

JAVAN COUCAL (CENTROPUS NIGROMFUS).
Java, Indonesia. Scrub, Nypa palm, mangrove forest. Much of this habitat has been drastically altered and the bird reportedly occurs only in one site on the south coast of Java. Close monitoring urgent.

JAVAN WHITE-EYE (ZOSTEROPS FLARES).
Java, Romer. Mangrove and coastal forest, reportedly common in Kalimantan. Not much is known about its biology and which needs to be studied.

JAVANESE WATTLED LAPWING (VANELTUS MCROPTERUS).
Java. No reliable reports since 1940. Presumed extinct though it is also believed by some that the species might still survive in some of Java’s inland marshes. In this part of SE Asia, most bird species that inhabit wet cultivated areas have suffered considerably over the past few decades, mostly due to excessive hooting and trapping.

JERDON’S BABBLER (MOUPINIAOITIROSTRIS).
Pakistan, India, Burma. Wet grasslands on the plains of and the Indus, Brahmaputra rivers. Much of the habitat in Pakistan and Burma significantly altered. Burmese population presumably extinct. Strongholds are the floodplain areas of the Bramaputra in NE India though even here an increasing amount of the habitat is coming under the plough. This rich ecosystem that is home also to various other endangered species of birds and mammals requires close monitoring.

RIVER TERRAPIN (BANIGUR BASKS).
Sumatra, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, India. Enormous decline in population over the past few years. Over-exploitation of adults and egg-collection. Urgent protection measures required if the species is to be saved from near certain extinction over the greater part of its range in southern and SE Asia. No data on captive breeding.

SIAMESE CROCODILE (CROCODYLUS SLAMENSIS).
Southeast Asia, east of Vietnam. Critically endangered. Much persecuted. Has almost vanished over its once wide range. Priority protection and monitoring is required of the viable populations that still survive in the wild in parts of Vietnam, and perhaps Kampuchea. Additionally, captive rearing (for hides in Thailand) has resulted in hybridization with the Estuarine Crocodile and contaminated the pure Siamese species.

SPOTTED POND TURTLE(GEOCLEMYSHAMILMNII).
Southern Asia. Has a wide range but numbers very low. The IUCN Red List considers it as "Indetconninate ‘. During the Asian Wetlands Inventory surveys, the species was repotted from only one site in Pakistan