Southeast Asian forests are being lost at an alarming rate. This unprecedented deforestation is resulting in avifauna losses. Despite this, Southeast Asian avifauna remains poorly studied. A few studies measured the food-supply and correlated it with the Southeast Asian forest bird ecology. These correlative studies (qualitative as well as quantitative) show that food-supply can affect the bird diversity, abundance/density, breeding ecology, body condition, ranging behaviour and/or flocking behaviour. However, there has been no experimental study conducted to determine the effects of food-supply on the forest bird ecology. In this geographic area, exciting research avenues remain available to study the avian feeding ecology and to explore a relationship between food-supply and forest bird ecology. Descriptive, correlative as well as experimental data on these aspects are required to enhance the knowledge of avian ecology as well as for avian conservation purposes.

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