Master Cotinga

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Contents
News & Reviews Features
2 Club News 13 New distributional information for some Colombian birds,with a
compiled by Trevor Warren new species for South AmericaCarl Downing
4 Neotropical Bird Club 16 A new population of Cinnamon-breasted Tody-tyrant
Conservation Awards Hemitriccuscinnamomeipectusin EcuadorAna Ágreda,Jonas Nilsson,Luis
Tonato and Hernando Román
6 Neotropical News
20 Range extension for,and description of the juvenile of,Bicoloured
compiled by Thomas Stuart
Antvireo Dysithamnus occidentalis punctitectusinEcuadorAna Ágreda,
8 Advertising Information Jonas Nilsson,Luis Tonato and Hernando Román
9 Taxonomic Round-up 22 La avifauna de la isla de La Plata,Parque Nacional Machalilla,
compiled by Guy M.Kirwan Ecuador,con notas sobre nuevos registrosDiego Francisco Cisneros-
Heredia
108 Neotropical Notebook
compiled by Juan Mazar 28 Composition of mixed-species flocks of migrant and resident birds in
Barnett,Guy M.Kirwan Cuba Paul B.Hamel and Arturo Kirkconnell
and Jeremy Minns 35 Breeding period of Araripe Manakin Antilophia bokermanniinferred
from vocalisation activityWeber Girão and Antonio Souto
123 Reviews
• Handbook of the birds 38 Field identification and new site records of Chapada Flycatcher
of the world:volume 9 Suiriri islerorumLeonardo Esteves Lopes
• Birds of Belize 42 Fishing by two Furnariidae:Pacific Hornero Furnarius [leucopus]
cinnamomeusand Surf Cinclodes Cinclodes taczanowskiiJavier Barrio
• Annotated checklist of
and Juan Valqui
the birds of Chile
45 Avifauna of the Serra das Lontras–Javi montane complex,
Bahia,BrazilLuís Fábio Silveira,Pedro Ferreira Develey,José Fernando Pacheco
Editorial Guidelines and and Bret M.Whitney
listof NBC Country
55 Petrels,skuas and other migrant seabirds in a coastal bay in Santa
Representatives are on the
Catarina state,southern BrazilVítor de Queiroz Piacentini,Leonardo
inside back cover.
Liberali Wedekin and Fábio Gonçalves Daura-Jorge
60 A new locality and records of Cherry-throated Tanager Nemosia
rourei in Espírito Santo,south-east Brazil,with fresh natural history
data for the speciesAna Cristina Venturini,Pedro Rogerio de Paz and Guy M.
Kirwan
72 New records of Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceusin the rio
das Pedras,Chapada dos Veadeiros,BrazilCarlos A.Bianchi,Sérgio Brant,
Reuber A.Brandão and Bernardo F.Brito
77 Grey-breasted Conure Pyrrhura griseipectus,an overlooked
endangered speciesFábio Olmos,Weber A.G.Silva and Ciro Albano
85 The birds of Parati,south-east BrazilP.W.P.Browne
99 Primer reporte de colonias del Martín Peruano Progne murphyien
PerúKatya Balta Abadie,José Pérez Z.y Mariano Valverde
102 First sound recordings,new behavioural and distributional records,
and a review of the status of Scimitar-winged Piha Lipaugus
uropygialisRosalind Bryce,A.Bennett Hennessey,Ross MacLeod,Karl Evans,Steven
R.Ewing,SebastianK.Herzog,Aidan Maccormick and M.Isabel Gomez
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Club News
Questionnaire results Forrest, Marc Guyt, Alan J. Knue, Tony Marr,
The Club thanks all those who completed the Rodney Martins, Matt Moser, Neil Osborne,
questionnaire and apologises for any technical Martyn Overton, Dr Clive Peat, Peter H.
difficulties members had downloading it from the Rathbone, Stewart Smith, Johan H. van Balen,
website. A full report of the survey’s results is Mrs Mona Webster,Mick J.Whitehouse,Norman
available on the website or on request by e-mail. Williams and Jeannie B Wright.
Some 162 completed questionnaires were
received.The highest percentage of responses was Period of Membership
from North America (38%), followed by the UK The period of membership is for one calendar year
(28%), the EU (18%) and the Neotropics (17%). from 1 January.Members will receive both copies
Average time birding in the field (in days) was as of Cotinga published in that year regardless of
follows: 0–6 (25%), 6–20 (33%), 21–50 (23%) and when they join. Your membership status can be
51+ (19%). There was an even split between obtained from the address label,with the number
Spanish speakers (with considerably fewer after the membership type being the year of
Portuguese speakers) and non-Spanish speakers, membership, i.e. 04 for 2004. Unless stated all
but the majority did not favour more articles in memberships are single year, but multiple years
either of the principal Latin America languages. are designated by Xyr, i.e. 2yr for two-year
Most copies of Cotinga arrive in good condition membership. GA appears on the label if you are
and 87% of respondents thought it represented registered for Gift Aid.
good value.A small majority wanted more colour
photos (60%) and pages (72%), with 56% being Club Constitution
prepared to pay a higher subscription for such an Any member wishing to obtain a copy of the
increase. Responses concerning the content of constitution should send an A5-sized stamped
Cotingawere very encouraging,revealing that the addressed envelope to the Secretary.
present content is about right.The regular items
were thought to be useful, although Club News Promoting the Club
and Conservation Awards were items perhaps A membership flyer is available and the Club is
best placed on the website.As for article types,the seeking members to distribute it.Anyone able to
number dealing with specific species (75%), help the Club recruit new members should contact
biology (69%) and ecology (72%) was thought the Secretary.
about right, with 15–22% wanting more of each
type. However, only 59% thought the number of NBC checklists
site and regional articles was currently The Club’s Venezuela checklist was published in
appropriate,and 32% wanted more.The majority 2003.Following the style of the Trinidad & Tobago
of members that responded wanted more identifi- checklist,all species in Hilty (2003) are listed in a
cation papers (78%) and country specials (72%), 56-page, 15-column format, and it aims to
with a smaller percentage wanting more site encourage visiting birdwatchers to keep
guides (63%). structured notes that can be easily photocopied
In conclusion Cotingaseems to have found the and sent to the relevant recording authority.The
right balance of articles,perhaps with some fine- list is the second in a series of lists for Neotropical
tuning needed in certain areas.There is,however, countries that the Club plans to produce in the
a clear demand for more of everything, even if next few years.The list sells for UK£5 or US$8 per
there is a cost implication. Council will now copy,plus postage (UK:£1;Europe UK£1.50;Rest
examine these proposals to see how best these of World UK£2/US$3) and can be obtained from
demands can be satisfied without diluting the the Sales Officer at the Club address. The
quality of the present format. Trinidad & Tobago list is still available,UK£4 or
US$6,with postage rates as above.
Donations
We would like to acknowledge the following Trip reports
members who have made separate donations The Club has an archive of trip reports generously
since the publication of Cotinga 23: Anthony B. provided by members and it is our intention to
Crease, Stephen Eccles, Miss E. Forbes, P. J. make many of these downloadable free from the
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Club’s website,www.neotropicalbirdclub.org.NBC E-mail group
was given the rights to the highly regarded trip All Club members wishing to be included on an
reports produced by the late Bruce Forrester.The NBC e-mail group should contact the Secretary.
following titles are available directly from the Information useful to Club members will
Club.Members wishing to purchase these or any distributed via this service,such as when Cotinga
of the reports listed on the Club website should has been published, conservation news and new
write to one of the usual addresses. Please note discoveries.
that postage is additional.
Adverts on the NBC website
Birding Venezuela 1995 UK£11/US$16.50 Visitors to the Club website may notice there are
Postage A a number of discreet adverts.This is a source of
Birding Costa Rica 1996 UK£11/US$16.50 funds for the Club, as every time the links are
Postage A followed the Club receives a payment from Google.
Birding Bolivia 1997 UK£13/US$21
Postage B Advance notice of the 2006 AGM
Birding Ecuador 1998–99 UK£20/US$30 The Club AGM will be held on Sunday 28 May
Postage B 2006 at Cley Village Hall, Cley, Norfolk, UK.
Birding Peru 2000 UK£15/US$22.50 Details of the meeting will be included with
Postage B Cotinga25 and will also be made available via the
Birding Dominican Republic & UK£5/US$7.50 Club’s website.
Puerto Rico 1999 Postage A
Birding Eastern Brazil UK£10/US$15 Chris Balchin
(update to Birding Brazil) Postage B At the Club’s AGM in May 2005, Chris Balchin
retired from NBC Council and as Club Secretary,
Postage rates a position he had held since the Club’s inception in
UK Rate A—£1,Rate B—£2 1994.
Europe Rate A—£2.50,Rate B—£4 The role of Secretary is vital to the efficient
RoW Rate A—US$5,Rate B—US$8 running of the Club and Council would like to
(or sterling equivalent) place on record their grateful thanks to Chris for
all his hard work over the years. There is little
Corporate Members doubt that without his dedicated input,the Club
NBC wishes to thank the following Corporate would not be the respected organisation that it is
Members for 2005: Asa Wright Nature Centre, today and we believe that all members will want
Birdquest, Blue Waters Inn, Canopy Tower, to join us in thanking Chris.
Limosa,Lynx Edicions,Manu Expeditions,Serra Although Chris has relinquished his duties
dos Tucanos, Sunbird, Subbuteo, Swarovski, and retired from Council,he will still have a role
Travelling Naturalist and Wildwings. in the Club as he and his partner,Jan Rowland,
are to continue administering the membership
E-mail addresses database.
Secretary
[email protected]
Treasurer
[email protected]
Chair
[email protected]
Membership
[email protected]
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Neotropical Bird Club
Conservation Awards
niños y habitantes locales en la conservación de la
New Awards • Nuevos Premios •
vida silvestre de esta ciénaga,y están en procura
Novos Prêmios
de incrementar el número de participantes a por lo
menos 60.Además,planean introducir a los niños
Council is pleased to announce two new en el estudio de las aves (alimentación,reproduc-
Conservation Awards.We are also finalising details ción y comportamiento) y en la conservación de
to co-sponsor two further projects with the ‘Small hábitat.El proyecto tiene un enfoque particular en
Grants Scheme’ of the Royal Society for the tres especies endémicas y amenazadas de extinción
Protection of Birds.We look forward to further co- que existen en la zona: la Gallinuela de Santo
sponsored projects with the RSPB and Tomás Cyanolimnas cerverai, Ferminia Ferminia
collaboration with other conservation bodies cerverai y el Cabrerito de la Ciénaga Torreornis
around the world. inexpectata.
El Concejo se complace en anunciar dos nuevos Distribution,behaviour and habitat use of
Premios de Conservación. Además, estamos Masked Antpitta Hylopezus auricularis
finalizando los detalles para un auspicio conjunto Council has awarded Oswaldo Maillard Z.U$750 to
de dos proyectos adicionales mediante el esquema study the Vulnerable Masked Antpitta Hylopezus
de pequeñas donaciones de la Sociedad Real para la auricularisin Amazonian Bolivia.The project will
Protección de las Aves (RSPB). Esperamos investigate the behavioural ecology and seasonal
continuar co-auspiciando proyectos con la RSPB y habitat preferences of the species,about which very
en colaboración con otras entidades de conser- little is known.Together with searches of potential
vación en el mundo. new sites,this will help map the species’ range in
Bolivia. Potential threats to the species and its
Environmental education at Zapata Swamp, habitat will also be identified during the project.
Cuba Oswaldo is a recent biology graduate who is
In 2003,the Club sponsored the successful ‘Club los currently working as head of the ornithology
Tres Endémicos’ project in Cuba.This year,Orestes section at Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History
Martínez García has been awarded US$1,000 in Museum, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and is
order to expand his education project in the Zapata coordinator of wetland bird surveys in dpto.Santa
Swamp. Orestes and two local teachers will Cruz.
continue to involve children and locals in the
conservation of wildlife in the swamp, and are Distribución,comportamiento y uso de hábitat
seeking to increase the number of participants to at del Tororoi Enmascarado Hylopezus auricularis
least 60.They will also introduce local children to El Concejo ha premiado a Oswaldo Maillard Z.con
bird study (feeding, reproduction and behaviour) U$750 para el estudio del Tororoi Enmascarado
and habitat conservation. The project has a Hylopezus auricularisen la Amazonía boliviana.El
particular focus on the three endemic and proyecto investigará la ecología del compor-
Endangered species found in the region: Zapata tamiento y las preferencias de hábitat de la especie,
Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai,Zapata Wren Ferminia sobre lo cual se conoce muy poco.Adicionalmente,
cerverai and Cuban Sparrow Torreornis buscará nuevos sitios para generar un mapa del
inexpectata. rango de la especie en Bolivia, e identificará
amenazas potenciales para la especie y sus hábitat.
Educación ambiental en la Ciénaga de Zapata, Oswaldo es un biólogo recién graduado que trabaja
Cuba en la actualidad como líder de la sección de
En 2003 el NBC auspició el exitoso proyecto ‘Club ornitología del Museo de Historia Natural Noel
de los Tres Endémicos’ en Cuba.Este año,Orestes Kempff Mercado,en Santa Cruz de la Sierra,y es
Martínez García ha recibido un premio de además el coordinador de los inventarios de aves de
US$1.000 para desarrollar su proyecto de humedales en el dpto.Santa Cruz.
educación en la Ciénaga de Zapata.Orestes y dos
profesores locales continuarán involucrando a
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mentación de esta importante estrategia requerirá
Updates • Novedades • Atualidades
del acceso a fuentes de financiamiento,gran parte
del cual deberá,inevitablemente,buscarse fuera del
Distribution and identification of sites for study Ecuador.
and conservation of Horned Guan Oreophasis
derbianus in Guatemala Educational material for Río Blanco reserve,
Ana José Cóbar Carranza has surveyed sites in San Colombia
Marcos,Guatemala,and expects to have completed Teachers in the Río Blanco area have tested the
her field work by the time this issue of Cotinga is draft educational materials and have met to discuss
published.She has also contributed to a presenta- their comments and suggestions prior to finalisa-
tion at the II International Oreophasis derbianus tion of the work-book. This process should be
Symposium held in April,at Reserva Los Tarrales, completed and the book published and distributed
on the slopes of Volcán Atitlán,Guatemala. to schools by the time this issue of Cotinga is
published.
Distribución e identificación de sitios para
estudio y conservación del Pavón Oreophasis Material educativo para la reserva Río Blanco,
derbianusen Guatemala Colombia
Ana José Cóbar Carranza ha inventariado sitios en Profesores en el área de Río Blanco han probado
San Marcos, Guatemala, y espera finalizar su material educativo preliminar y se han reunido
trabajo de campo para cuando se publique este para discutir y aportar sugerencias previas a la
número de Cotinga.Ana ha contribuido además en finalización de un libro de trabajo. Este proceso
una presentación para el II Simposio Internacional deberá completarse,y el libro deberá publicarse y
sobre Oreophasis derbianusque se desarrollará en distribuirse en escuelas locales para cuando este
abril en la Reserva Los Tarrales, en las estriba- número de Cotingaesté publicado.
ciones del volcán Atitlán,Guatemala.
Serranía de las Quinchas
Great Green Macaw In Cotinga23 we described the purchase of forest in
The Club sponsored a workshop held in Ecuador in the Serranía de las Quinchas by ProAves, the
2003 which succeeded in producing a ‘National in Colombian conservation NGO.The legal formalities
situ Conservation Strategy for the Great Green required by the sale have now been finalised,and
Macaw Ara ambigua guayaquilensis’.The strategy the new nature reserve staffed by a full-time guard
comprises six policies concerning research,sites for and researchers. ProAves has developed an
conservation, reforestation, promotion of education programme involving local schools and a
sustainable alternative livelihoods for local wide range of research projects have been initiated.
communities and landowners, protective A short paper for Cotingaon the importance of the
legislation, and environmental education and new reserve and its facilities is in an advanced
publicity. On the legislative front, a ministerial state of preparation.
agreement has been signed through which the
conservation strategy has been made law. Serranía de las Quinchas
Implementation of this important strategy will En Cotinga23 reportamos la compra de bosques en
require access to considerable financial resources, la Serranía de las Quinchas por parte de ProAves,
much of which will inevitably need to be found organización de conservación de Colombia. Las
outside Ecuador. formalidades legales requeridas para esta compra
han finalizado, y se ha establecido el personal de
Guacamayo Verde Mayor esta nueva reserva natural con un guardia a tiempo
El NBC financió un taller desarrollado en Ecuador completo y con investigadores.ProAves ha desarrol-
en 2003, el cual fue exitoso en producir la lado un programa educativo con escuelas locales,y
Estrategia Nacional de Conservación in-situ del un variedad de proyectos de investigación han
Guacamayo Verde Mayor Ara ambigua iniciado. Una nota para Cotinga sobre la
guayaquilensis. Esta estrategia comprende seis importancia de esta nueva reserva y sus instala-
políticas sobre investigación, sitios para conser- ciones está en un estado avanzado de elaboración.
vación, reforestación, promoción de alternativas
sustentables de vida para las comunidades locales y
dueños de las tierras,legislación para la protección,
y educación ambiental y publicidad. En el campo
legislativo, se ha firmado un Acuerdo Ministerial
mediante el cual la estrategia de conservación se
convierte en un instrumento legal. La imple-
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Neotropical News
PAN-AMERICAN Quail symposium proceedings S.,Dantzker,M.S.,Charif,R.A.,
published online Barksdale,T.R.,Remsen,J.V.,
Distribution maps for Western The proceedings of a symposium Simon,S.D.& Zollner,D.(2005)
Hemisphere birds and mammals held on the conservation of quail Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Published in 2003 on separate in the Neotropics during the VI (Campephilus principalis)
persists in continental North
CDs,these digital distribution Neotropical Ornithological
America.Sciencexpress report
maps for birds and mammals in Congress in Monterrey,Mexico,in
10.1126/science.1114103.
the Western Hemisphere should 1999,have been published online.
Available at:
prove to be an invaluable resource Edited by Jack C.Eitniear,John T. www.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf
for ornithologists and birdwatch- Baccus,Sheldon L.Dingle and /1114103v1.pdf,published online
ers (as well as mammalogists).The John P.Carroll,they may be 28 April 2005
project to produce the maps was a downloaded free at • Big Woods Conservation
joint venture between the Center www.cstbinc.org/neotropicalQuail. Partnership website:
for Applied Biodiversity Science at html. http://www.ivorybill.org/
Conservation International, [accessed 11/5/05]
NatureServe,The Nature NNOORRTTHH AAMMEERRIICCAA
Conservancy,The Field Museum CCAARRIIBBBBEEAANN
(Chicago),Wildspace (Ontario) and USA
the World Wildlife Fund.You can ST LUCIA
now also download compressed Ivory-billed Woodpecker in
files of the maps for any genus of Arkansas’ ‘Big Woods’ New hotel threatens White-
bird or mammal in the Americas Outside the Neotropical region, breasted Thrasher
free from the NatureServe website but concerning a species at least A hotel and residential
(www.natureserve.org/getData/ma formerly known from Cuba,comes development has been proposed on
mmalMaps.jsp).However,unless the exciting news of the a 215-ha site with an estimated
you have a broadband internet rediscovery of Ivory-billed 138 breeding pairs of White-
connection,it is worth noting that Woodpecker Campephilus breasted Thrasher Ramphocinclus
the file sizes are still quite large. principalisin the USA.Following brachyurus(22% of the world
To read any of the maps you need a sighting by Gene Sparling while population of this Endangered
to have installed either ArcView kayaking in Arkansas in 2004, species).Overall,the dry forests of
3.X (available for purchase at ornithologists have confirmed the eastern St Lucia hold c.80% of the
distributors listed on species’ continued survival,having species’ population,so any spin-off
www.esri.com) or ArcExplorer obtained video footage developments would further
software,which can be downloaded documenting the record.Surveys impact the thrasher.The UK-
free of charge from reveal little about population or based developers,Design
ww.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/i breeding,but the observations to Construction Group,hoped to
ndex.html or from the date are consistent with a very begin forest clearance in early
NatureServe site. sparse population.The ‘Big Woods’ 2005 for this European Investment
• Ridgely,R.S.,Allnutt,T.F., area of eastern Arkansas covers Bank-funded project which is
Brooks,T.,McNicol,D.K., 220,000 ha of which 40% is forest linked to the 2007 cricket world
Mehlman,D.W.,Young,B.E.& approaching maturity (a requisite cup.They were waiting for,but
Zook,J.R.(2003) Digital distri- of the species).Since the apparently expecting,a favourable
bution maps of the birds of the
rediscovery,the US Fish & Wildlife decision from the St Lucia
Western Hemisphere.Version 1.0.
Service and Nature Conservancy Development Control Authority on
Arlington,VA:NatureServe.
have continued their 20-year whether they could proceed.St
• Patterson,B.D.,Ceballos,G.,
policy of buying land and Lucia needs to develop its tourist
Sechrest,W.,Tognelli,M.F.,
replanting in the area in order to industry,especially after 2005
Brooks,T.,Luna,L.,Ortega,P.,
protect the species and its habitat. when small Caribbean banana
Salazar,I.& Young,B.E.(2003)
Digital distribution maps of the • Fitzpatrick,J.W.,Lammertink, producers lose the favourable
mammals of the Western M.,Luneau,M.D.,Gallagher,T. status an illegal European Union
Hemisphere.Version 1.0. W.,Harrison,B.R.,Sparling,G. trade policy affords them.The
Arlington,VA:NatureServe. M.,Rosenberg,K.V.,Rohrbaugh, development would provide jobs
R.W.,Swarthout,E.C.H., and improve marina facilities,but
Wrege,P.H.,Barker Swarthout, fishermen and sea-moss farmers
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would be forced to move,and rights and environmental activist the Serra do Urubu Important
dredging and mangrove clearance Dorothy Stang on 12 February,and Bird Area (IBA) in Pernambuco
would have a negative impact on conservationist Dionisio Ribeiro state.BirdLife Brasil is working
fish stocks,so the decision is not Filho on 22 February.Dorothy with community leaders,
simply a bipolar conservation Stang taught sustainable farming government agencies and other
versus development argument. methods to poor settlers stakeholders to promote the
• World Birdwatch 27 (1):6 (March unfamiliar with Amazon soils and sustainable use of surrounding
2005) helped to establish a federal land,and to prevent the spread of
peasant farming reserve in the fire onto these government-
SOUTHS OAUMTEHRI CAAMERICA state of Pará,and to protect it recognised reserves.The American
from illegal loggers and ranchers Bird Conservancy-funded surveys
BOLIVIA encroaching the area.In 2004, of the IBA discovered 21 endemic
although aware of the risk to her birds,including four species
Blue-throated Macaw found west life,she gave evidence before a previously known only from
of the río Mamoré congressional committee of inquiry Murici:Alagoas Foliage-gleaner
Bolivian ornithologist Mauricio into deforestation,naming logging Philydor novaesi,Alagoas Antwren
Herrera,coordinator of the companies that were invading Myrmotherula snowi(both
Asociación Armonía/Loro Parque state areas.Sister Stang bravely Critically Endangered),Alagoas
Foundation Blue-throated Macaw continued her work in the face of Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ceciliae
Ara glaucogularisconservation death threats that continued until and Orange-bellied Antwren
program,has found the species her murder in February. Terenura sicki(both Endangered).
west of the río Mamoré—a 100 km Dionisio Ribeiro Filho The reserves protect other rare
extension of the known range in dedicated the last 15 years of his flora and fauna,including a
dpto.Beni.This comes as a result life to protecting the 26,000-ha bromeliad new to science.Similar
of work with landowners,ranch Tinguá Biological Reserve from work is being pursued in the Serra
hands,families and communities poachers,cagebird collectors and das Lontras in Bahia state (see
in the region,whose economy is edible palm heart Euterpe edulis elsewhere in this issue).
based on cattle ranching. cutters.Tinguá,just north of Rio • World Birdwatch 27 (1):11 (March
Anecdotal evidence from the new de Janeiro,is part of the Tijuca- 2005)
site suggests that the macaw Tinguá-Órgãos Biosphere
population could be spreading Reserve and harbours Atlantic COLOMBIA
again after capture for the illegal Forest species including,at least
bird trade affected the species in formerly,White-necked Hawk Good news for Humboldt Oak
the 1980s and 1990s.Further new Leucopternis lacernulataand forest birds
sites have been found in the north Blue-chested Parakeet Pyrrhura A ProAves study funded by the
of the known range,but surveying cruentata (both Vulnerable). American Bird Conservancy’s
is logistically difficult in that area. Again,Dionisio Ribeiro Filho William Belton Small Grants
• World Birdwatch 27 (1):11 (March worked on bravely despite the Program brings encouraging news
2005) death threats he and colleagues concerning four endemic species
received.Police believe that that are at least seasonally
BRAZIL opponents of these environmen- dependent on the (endemic)
talists’ inspiring work were Humboldt Oak forests of Colombia.
Study of Araripe Manakin responsible for both murders. Between 66% and 85% of the
A team supported by the BP • Rocha,J.(2005) Obituary:Sister habitat in the ranges of the four
Conservation Programme has Dorothy Stang.Guardian species has been converted to
discovered a nest of the Araripe Unlimited(21 February 2005). agriculture.The ProAves study
Manakin Antilophia bokermanni Available at: located Mountain Grackle
(Critically Endangered)—a species www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/ Macroagelaius subalaris (Critically
0,12462,1419087,00.html
described only eight years ago.The [accessed 11/5/05] Endangered),Black Inca Coeligena
team has also found ten new prunellei(Endangered),Rusty-
• UNEP-WCMC (1991/2003) Tijuca-
springs in the area,each with Tingua-Orgãos Biosphere faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca
associated manakin populations, Reserve.Available at:www.unep- amazonina (Endangered) and
and has increased the number of wcmc.org/sites/pa/0569q.htm Gorgeted Wood-quail
known sites for the species to 26. [accessed 11/5/05] Odontophorus strophium
(Critically Endangered) at 20–29
• World Birdwatch 27 (1):9 (March
of the 151 sample sites each.These
2005) Serra do Urubu IBA to be
results exceeded conservationists’
preserved
expectations and have led each of
Murdered environmentalists A 390-ha plot adjacent to the 630-
the species to be reclassified as
The conservation movement can ha Frei Caneca Private Nature
Vulnerable.
only be shocked and saddened to Reserve has been purchased by
learn of the murders of human SAVE Brasil,thereby protecting
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Cotinga 24 Neotropical News
• Study of rare birds in Colombian rainforest,the country’s last purchased 1,680 ha adjacent to La
oak forests encouraging (26 April pristine Chocó Forest.The area Ceiba Private Reserve,bringing
2005) Surfbirds News.Available holds 340 bird species,including the total area protected to 6,980
at:http://www.surfbirds.com/ Chocó endemics and Endangered ha.The former landowner also
sbirdsnews/archives/2005/04/ species.A project of Neblina donated 300 ha to 23 local
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Foundation has established a lodge to use their land sustainably,
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in the nearby Reserva de Tigrillos protecting the forest in order to
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First Ecuadorian Ornithological Playa de Oro.The project has they depend and as a source of
Meeting strong local support,and is seen as forest products.Some local people
The First Ecuadorian
the only way to resist a logging will be employed directly as park
Ornithological Meeting was held in
company that has been active in guards,whilst the provincial and
Quito,in March 2005,marking a
surrounding areas and which is municipal authorities are seeking
great step towards the creation of
seeking to buy the land.The to develop the area’s tourist
a National Ornithological Network
project organisers are seeking potential.It is hoped that
and the development of a National
donations to refurbish suitable log emigration from this marginal
Strategy for the Conservation of
cabins in the area,and offer land will be stemmed because
Birds.The 140 delegates took part
significant contributors a three- without local people’s interest in
in plenary talks,follow-up
night/four-day package with the forest resources,it becomes
workshops and oral and poster
accommodation and a bird guide vulnerable to large-scale timber
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Fair focused conservation attention Endangered birds like Grey-
Ecotourists sought at Playa de on the Tumbesian dry forests of cheeked Parakeet Brotogeris
Oro south-west Ecuador and north- pyrrhopterusand Blackish-headed
Playa de Oro is a small community west Peru.A broad consortium of Spinetail Synallaxis tithys.
in north-west Ecuador that owns
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Cotinga 24
Taxonomic Round-up
A new parakeet from the Sun group of 11 Sporophilaspecies Relationships of the Red-bellied
Parakeet group that share similar male plumage Grackle
Luís Fábio Silveira and colleagues patterns.Using mtDNA sequences, Red-bellied Grackle Hypopyrrhus
have described a new parakeet, the study indicated that: pyrohypogasteris a Colombian
the Sulfur-breasted Parakeet Oryzoboruslies within a well- endemic that is currently
Aratinga pintoi,from the region of supported clade containing all of classified as Endangered.Much
Monte Alegre,on the north bank of the Sporophila,thus suggesting genetic work has recently been
the Amazon in Pará,Brazil,where that the two genera should be conducted on the New World
it appears to be not uncommon. merged;that the ‘capuchinos’ are a blackbirds,with the aim of
Like the recently described monophyletic group,and this clade producing an accurate phylogeny
Pionopsitta aurantiocephala,also comprises two sub-clades,one for the group.Until now,no DNA
from Pará (see Cotinga20:15), including two species from data were available for this
specimens of the new species had northern South America and the grackle,but the authors of a study
been first collected many years other eight species distributed published in Condorhave now
ago,but had lain overlooked as an south of the Amazon.It appears demonstrated through mtDNA
already recognised species,in this that the southern capuchinos sequencing that the monotypic
case Sun Parakeet A.solstitialis, radiated rapidly,within the last genus Hypopyrrhusis most closely
or had been considered to half-million years.Should related to Oriole Blackbird
represent a hybrid.The new Oryzoborusand Sporophilabe Gymnomystax mexicanusand
species differs from Sun Parakeet merged then the latter name Velvet-fronted Grackle
in having the mantle and wing- would have priority. Lampropsar tanagrinus,and
coverts green,theunderparts pale • Lijtmaer,D.A.,Sharpe,N.M.M., although these three species form
yellow,with pale orange restricted Tubaro,P.L.& Lougheed S.C. a well-supported clade,it is
to the belly and flanks,and the (2004) Molecular phylogenetics unclear which is sister to
feathers on the underparts have a and diversification of the genus Hypopyrrhus.
dark rachis.The authors also Sporophila(Aves: • Cadena,C.D.,Cuervo,A.M.&
review systematics of the solsti- Passeriformes).Mol.Phyl.& Lanyon,S.M.(2004)
tialisgroup and reaffirm the need Evol.33:562–579. Phylogenetic relationships of the
to recognise the other taxa, Red-bellied Grackle (Icteridae:
jandayaand auricapillus,at Whither lies the Broad-billed Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster)
specific level under any currently Sapayoa? inferred from mitochondrial
operating species concept,as well True to its name,Sapayoa DNA sequence data.Condor106:
as discussing the range of solsti- aenigmahas long defied biologists’ 664–670.
tialisin Brazil and Suriname. attempts to classify it.Although
• Silveira,L.F.,Lima,F.C.T.& Sibley & Ahlquist (1990) had Saffron Toucanet is a Pteroglossus
Höfling,E.(2005) A new species suggested that the Sapayoawas Saffron Toucanet Baillonius
of Aratingaparakeet perhaps closely related to Old bailloniis the sole member of its
(Psittaciformes:Psittacidae) World broadbills,this monotypic genus,and Bailloniushas long
from Brazil,with taxonomic genus has traditionally been been recognised as being
remarks on the Aratinga solsti- considered to lie somewhere somewhat close to the genus
tialiscomplex.Auk122: within the New World flycatchers. Pteroglossuson the basis of
292–305. Recent base sequencing of two behaviour,morphology and,more
nuclear genes reveals that it is,as recently,molecular work.Fresh
Oryzoborusand Sporophila speculated,most closely related to phylogenetic analysis,using
represent a monophyletic the only two Old World suboscine cytochrome-bgene fragments,
grouping families,either the pittas or the strongly supports the idea that
Evolutionary affinities within and broadbills. Bailloniusis indeed part of
among many groups of nine- • Fjeldså,J.,Zuccon,D.,Irestedt, Pteroglossusand that it is most
primaried oscines have been the M.,Johansson,U.S.& Ericson, closely related to Lettered Aracari
subject of several recent publica- P.G.P.(2003) Sapayoa aenigma: P.inscriptus,suggesting that
tions.A new study has focused on a New World representative of Saffron Toucanet is better named
clarifying the relationship between ‘Old World sub-oscines’.Proc. Pteroglossus bailloniand that
the genus Sporophilaand the Roy.Soc.Lond.B Suppl.270: Bailloniusis best considered a
closely related Oryzoborus,as well 238–241. synonym of Pteroglossus.
as examining the phylogenetic • Kimura,R.K.,Pereira,S.L.,
affinities of the ‘capuchinos’,a Grau,E.T.,Höfling,E.&
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Cotinga 24 Taxonomic Round-up
Wajntal,A.(2004) Genetic between M.tuberculiferand Myrmeciza antbirds,the ‘profes-
distances and phylogenetic Swainson’s Flycatcher M. sional’ ant-following antbirds and
analysis suggest that Baillonius swainsonias a priority for future allied species.The study also
Cassin,1867 is a Pteroglossus research. supported previous findings that
Illiger,1811 (Piciformes: • Joseph,L.& Wilke,T.(2004) When suggested polyphyly of
Ramphastidae).Orn.Neotrop. DNA throws a spanner in the Myrmotherula antwrens and
15:527–537. works:testing for monophyly in Myrmeciza antbirds.
the Dusky-capped Flycatcher, • Irestedt,M.,Fjeldså,J.,Nylander,J.
An endemic species of nuthatch Myiarchus tuberculifer,and its A.A.& Ericson,P.G.P.(2004)
in the Bahamas South American subspecies,M.t. Phylogenetic relationships of
The conservation plight of the atriceps.Emu104:197–204. typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae)
endemic subspecies of the Brown- and test of incongruence based on
headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla …and Rosy Thrush-tanager? Bayes factors.Evol.Biol.23.
insularis,which is confined to Based on analyses of morphology Published online at www.biomed-
Grand Bahama and under and mensural data the authors of central.com/1471-2148/4/23.
increasing threat due to habitat a study pertaining to geographic
destruction and modification, variation in Rosy Thrush-tanager A new genus of booby and a new
invasive alien predators,and Rhodinocichla rosearecommend condor from the Peruvian
storm damage,has been that the 4–6 allopatric populations Pliocene
spotlighted in recent years.The of this species represent just one Cranial material pertaining to a
total population is,at most,a few biological species,but potentially new genus (Ramphastosula) of
thousand individuals.A recent five phylogenetic species:namely Sulidae has recently been
paper in the Bahamas Journal of schistacea(western Mexico),an described from the early Lower
Sciencerecommends that the local unnamed population in the Pliocene of the Pisco Formation on
population,the only West Indian Acapulco region of Mexico,eximia the central-southern coast of Peru.
nuthatch,be elevated to specific (south-west Costa Rica and The skulls differ in at least five
status based on its unusual western Panama),harterti(the features from other cranial
morphometrics and distinctive Venezuela/Colombia border region, material in the family.Similar
vocalisations.If this proposal and probably including beebei), deposits from the same area have
becomes widely accepted it should and nominate rosea(central-north also yielded a new fossil condor,
assist in promoting the conserva- Venezuela).Geographic variation named Perugyps diazi.
tion of this declining form. in this intriguing species forms • Stucchi,M.& Urbina,M.(2004)
• Hayes,W.K.,Barry,R.X., two separate leapfrog patterns. Ramphastosula(Aves,Sulidae):a
MacKenzie,Z.& Barry,P.(2004) The authors recommend that DNA new genus from the early
Grand Bahama’s Brown-headed sampling of all these taxa and the Pliocene of the Pisco Formation,
Nuthatch:a distinct and unnamed Mexican population be Peru.J.Vert.Paleontology24:
endangered species.Bahamas J. performed in the future. 974–978.
Sci.12:21–28. • Peterson,A.T.,Rice,N.H.& • Stucchi,M.& Emslie,S.D.(2005)
Navarro-Sigüenza,A.G.(2004) A new condor (Ciconiiformes,
How many species of Dusky- Geographic variation in the Rosy Vulturidae) from the late
capped Flycatcher…? Thrush-tanager (Rhodinocichla Miocene/early Pliocene Pisco
A recent mtDNA study of rosea) complex of Mesoamerica Formation,Peru.Condor107:
populations of Dusky-capped (Aves:Passeriformes).Biota 107–113.
Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer Neotropica4 (2).See:www.biota-
raises the possibility that,in fact, neotropica.org.br/v4n2/pt/toc A new Pleistocene furnariid
three species are involved:the first The Uruguayan Pleistocene has
represented by all those Relationships within the antbirds yielded a new species of fossil
populations between the southern A new mtDNA study has furnariid,named
USA and north-west South suggested some novel relationships Pseudoseisuropsis cuelloi.Very few
America,and perhaps including amongst the antbirds,most fossil furnariids are currently
northern M.t.atriceps;the second importantly and surprisingly that known,all of them from the
represented by southern the Terenuraantwrens,Wing- Pleistocene,and this the third to
populations of M.t.atriceps;and banded Antbird Myrmornis be described within the extinct
thirdly M.t.tuberculifer,which torquata,Spot-winged Antshrike genus Pseudoseisuropsis.Two
occurs across much of northern Pygiptila stellarisand Russet other extinct species have been
South America and in eastern Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus ascribed to the extant genera
coastal Brazil.In addition to the are sister to all other typical Cinclodesand Pseudoseisura.
need to better understand the antbirds,whilst the remaining • Claramunt,S.& Rinderknecht,A.
relationships between the two genera fall into two major clades. (2005) A new fossil furnariid
populations of M.t.atriceps,which The first includes antshrikes, from the Pleistocene of Uruguay,
may require the naming of a new antvireos and Herpsilochmus with remarks on nasal type,
taxon,the authors also spotlight antwrens,and the second cranial kinetics,and relation-
the apparent close association comprises most antwren genera, ships of the extinct genus
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