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Neotropical Notebook contains Grey-headed Dove Leptotila Thomas M. Donegan, Paul G. three sections. The first consists plumbeiceps W. Salaman, Andres M. of short papers documenting In , known only from the Cuervo, Juan Carlos Luna records. Photos and descriptions río Cauca and Dagua valleys, and Alex Cortés are published where appropriate. mostly at 1000–1800 m, c/o Colombian EBA Project, 33 The second section summarises although recorded once in the Blenheim. Road, Caversham, records published elsewhere, Central Andes to 2400 m2. In dry Reading, RG4 7RT, UK. E-mail: following the format established mature secondary , below [email protected]. in previous issues of Cotinga. The Cerro Munchique (2400 m), TMD third lists unpublished and and JCL observed an individual undocumented records. Please on the El Tambo road, presenting First mainland record of indicate, with submissions, in a local elevation extension. Worm-eating Warbler which section you wish your Helmitheros vermivorum for records to appear. New records for the reserve Colombia The following species, which did Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros SHORT NOTES not appear on the reserve’s vermivorum breeds in the east checklist1, were also observed in USA and Canada and winters Tambito: Greater Scythebill south to Panama and the Greater Recent records from Tambito Campylorhamphus pucheranii, Antilles1 with smaller numbers in Nature Reserve and Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas, the Lesser Antilles, south to Munchique National Park, Sepia-brown Wren Cinnycerthia Barbados, and unconfirmed south-west Colombia peruana, Red-hooded Tanager records on Trinidad & Tobago (E. During research for the Piranga rubriceps, Golden- Massiah pers. comm.). There is Colombian EBA Project, we spent crowned Tanager one specimen from South a total of four days (24–27 July and Black- America, taken at Henri Pittier 2000) investigating sites at capped Hemispingus National Park, Venezuela3 and Tambito Nature Reserve and the Hemispingus atropileus. A total of sight records on Colombia’s southern border of Munchique 319 species has now been Caribbean islands, Islas San National Park (c. 02°30'N 77°00'W; recorded in the reserve. Andrés and Providencia2. There 2200–2800 m), on both slopes of are no previous Colombian the Western Cordillera, dpto. Acknowledgements mainland records4. Cauca, Colombia. Observations The Colombian EBA Project was On 12 April 2001, we identified complement data collected at supported by many organisations, a H. vermivorum c. 0.5 km north­ 1500–2200 m, in 1997 and 1998, credited at http:// west of Cañaveral in Tayrona with some additions to Donegan www.proaxis.com/~salaman/ National Park, dpto. Magdalena, & Dávalos1 noted below. eba2000.html. Many thanks to Colombia (c. 74°00'W 11°20'N, Luis Alfonso Ortega, at 20 m). It was observed at c. 3–5 m Brown-bellied Swallow Corporación Autónoma Regional for c. 10 minutes, foraging in the Notiochelidon murina del Cauca (CRC), for organising understorey of old second growth, Previously known from the permits at short notice, and to the among a flock containing three Western Cordillera only from National Parks office in Popayán, Golden-fronted Greenlet extreme northern dpto. for providing us with accommoda­ Hylophilus aurantiifrons and a Antioquia2, c. 530 km north of tion and permission. Tropical Parula Parula pitiayumi. Munchique. A pair was observed It made occasional tsip calls. TMD near the Inderena Cabin References had previously observed H. (2200 m), on 6 July 1997, by 1. Donegan, T. M. & Dávalos, L. vermivorum four months TMD, and a flock of 100+ at Cerro M. (1999) Ornithological previously in Guatemala. Munchique (c. 3000 m), on 24 July observations from Reserva Atlapetes and Arremon aside, 2000 by all authors. N. murina Natural Tambito, Cauca, the principal confusion species in may have colonised the area south-west Colombia. Colombia is Three-striped Warbler recently, as surveys by Hilty and Cotinga 12: 48–55. Basileuterus tristriatus, which has others in the 1980s did not locate 2. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. similar coloration, crown stripe the species. (1986) A guide to the of and supercilia. But, B. tristriatus Colombia. Princeton, NJ: is overall less warm brown with Princeton University Press. whiter and narrower head

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markings, a yellowish forecrown guía de la aves de Venezuela. and less pointed bill, and is a Ring-billed Larus delawarensis Caracas: Ed. Armitano. more active and vocal species. and Lesser Black-backed Gulls 3. Rodner, C., Lentino, M. & Furthermore, it is a non- L. fuscus in Venezuela Restall, R. (2000) Checklist of migratory subtropical species, On 9 February 1983, at El Hatillo, the birds of northern South unlikely to be found in coastal at the east end of Lago de Uñare, America. Robertsbridge: Pica regions, and is replaced in Anzoategui, Venezuela, S. J. M. Press. mountains of this region by the Gantlett and I found an adult distinctive, bright yellow, Santa Ring-billed Gull Larus Richard J. Fairbank Marta Warbler B. basilicus2. delawarensis. Also present were 19 Crown Road, Shoreham-by- With records in Panama, two large, dark-mantled gulls Sea, West Sussex, UK. nearby Caribbean islands and considered to be Lesser Black- Venezuela, the presence of H. backed L. fuscus. Photographs vermivorum in northern Colombia were taken and, on our return to The occurrence of the Short­ is unsurprising. However, with no the UK, the advice of the late P. J. billed Honeycreeper previous mainland records, it is Grant was sought regarding the Cyanerpes nitidus in Suriname clear that the species is either a identification of the dark-mantled Short-billed Honeycreeper vagrant to the region or winters individuals. Grant (in litt.) had ‘no Cyanerpes nitidus is not known in only tiny numbers. hesitation in identifying one of from Suriname2, though it occurs the birds as Lesser Black-backed in south Venezuela, south-east Acknowledgements Gull, either graellsii or interme- Colombia, , , west Chris Sharpe, Miguel Lentino, dius, and no reason at all why it Amazonian Brazil3, and has Paul Salaman and Edward isn’t graellsii.’ The photographs recently been discovered in Massiah provided information on of the other individual were of Guyana1. Strangely, it is well the species’ status in South insufficient quality to make a known among Surinamese cage- America and the Lesser Antilles. certain identification, but it was lovers. Here, I present thought most likely to be graellsii. evidence for the occurrence of the References Two Ring-billed and two Lesser species in Suriname. 1. Dunn, J. & Garrett, K. (1997) Black-backed Gulls were observed Mr Spong (pers. comm.) caught Warblers. Boston: Houghton between Boca de Uchire and El it many times during the 1970s Mifflin. Hatillo, on 3–4 April 1993, by B. & and 1980s along the Afobaka 2. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. P. James, T. J. Toohig and T. J. Road, north of the large lake and (1986) A guide to the birds of Wilson, suggesting that both near Moengo in north-east Colombia. Princeton, NJ: species are not infrequent visitors Surinam. Mr Robert (pers. comm.) Princeton University Press. to the area. Indeed both species caught the species in the same 3. Lentino R., M., Bisbal, F. J., were listed, on the basis of sight period several times near the Ospinoy, A. A. & Rivero, R. A. records and photographs but no Brownsberg Nature Park. Pieter (1984) Nuevos registros y specimens, for Venezuela by Teunissen and Jan Hein Ribot extensiones de distribución several recent authors1–3, and M. (pers. comm.) saw Short-billed para especies de aves en Lentino and C. Rodner (in litt. Honeycreeper in 1986 in the Venezuela. Bol. Soc. Venez. February 2001) consider both to collections of Messrs. Robert and Cienc. Nat. 39 (142): 111–119. be regular winter migrants in Hensen. The latter bought his 4. Salaman, P. G. W, Cuadros, T., small numbers. However the birds from Amerindians of Jaramillo, J. G. & Weber, W. subspecific identity of those L. Kwamalasumutu in the south of (2001) Checklist to the birds fuscus reaching Venezuela the country. In June 2000 I saw of Colombia. Medellin: remains to be confirmed, although an adult male, several immature Sociedad de Ornitología our observations suggest that at males and a female in a pet shop Antioqueña. least some are graellsii. in Paramaribo. These had been bought from the same source the Thomas M. Donegan References previous month. On 5 December Christ’s College, Cambridge 1. Parker, T. A., Stotz, D. F. & 2000 I observed an adult male in University, CB2 3BU, UK. E-mail: Fitzpatrick, J. W. (1996) Brownsberg Nature Park, feeding [email protected]. Ecological and distributional on ripe fruits in company of three databases. In: Stotz, D. F, other species of honeycreeper, Blanca C. Huertas H. Fitzpatrick, J. W, Parker, T. from a distance of 6 m. It was Universidad Distrital de A. & Moskovits, D. K. clearly paler blue than Purple Colombia, Bogota. E-mail: Neotropical birds: ecology Honeycreeper Cyanerpes [email protected]. and conservation. Chicago: caeruleus, and had a very short University of Chicago Press. bill and pink legs. Michel Clement 2. Phelps, W. H. & Meyer de closely observed a pair of Short­ Schauensee, R. (1994) Una billed Honeycreeper, in October 1996, near Crique Rouge, north­

78 Cotinga 17 Neotropical Notebook east of St. Laurent, French monitoring study of Slender-billed Guiana, just 10 km from the Finch Xenospingus concolor in the Surinam border. Yauca valley (15°28'S 74°26'W), Short-billed Honeycreeper may dpto. Arequipa, Peru, we observed be widespread within interior and trapped three Parrot-billed Surinam, but it is a canopy Seedeaters, 110 km south of the species, often found with the species’ previous known much commoner Purple southernmost limit and the first Honeycreeper, with which it is departmental record. The first easily confused at a distance. capture was at Fundo Chevalier, a commercial olive plantation in Acknowledgement Distrito de Bella Union, on 4 Mark Robbins reviewed the August 2000. The second was in manuscript. olive trees and riparian thickets Figure 1. Nest of Ash-throated at Yauca, on 14 October 2000, References G n ateater Conopophaga peruviana where we collected two females, 1. Braun, M. J., Finch, D. W., Tiputini, Ecuador, August 1999 (Niels one of which was preserved as a Robbins, M. B. & Schmidt, B. Poul Dreyer) specimen and deposited in Museo K. (2000) A field checklist of c. 50–75 m from the nest de Historia Natural, Universidad the birds of Guyana. Wash­ approximately 10 minutes later. Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, ington DC: Smithsonian The female was not seen. Other Lima (MUSM 21950). Its weight Institution (Publ. 41, ground-dwellers in the area were was 14.5 g, without moult, fat low, Biological Diversity of the Ochre-striped Antpitta Grallaria and it had a brood patch. The Guianas Program). dignissima and Rusty-belted avifauna of the northern valleys 2. Haverschmidt, F. & Mees, G. Tapaculo Liosceles thoracicus. of dpto. Arequipa is poorly known F. (1994) Birds of Suriname. and more species recorded south Paramaribo: VACO. Nest description only to dpto. Ica may be found 3. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. The nest was located along a with future field work in this (1989) The birds of South creek within closed terra firme area. America, 1. Oxford: Oxford forest, with no palms in the area, University Press. only young saplings with a dbh of Acknowledgements up to 30 cm. The nearest large The year 2000 Monitoring Otte Ottema tree was c. 30 m distant. The Program of Slender-billed Finch Bird Department, Stinasu ground was damp following rain, in Peru was sponsored by Lincoln Foundation for Nature Conserva­ but there was no permanent Park Zoo Neotropic Fund. We tion in Suriname, Cornells water within a radius of 50 m of thank the mayor of Yauca, Flavio Jongbauwstraat 14, P.O. Box the nest, which was situated Aranguren, for his hospitality, as 12252, Paramaribo, Suriname. 35 cm above ground in a tree well as our field assistants Karen E-mail: [email protected]. sapling, with a dbh of 5-10 cm, Eckhardt, Juan Diego Dupuy, and was not concealed by leaves. Enith Terán and Adriana Alvarez Vegetation in the vicinity was del Villar. John P. O'Neill refereed A nest of the Ash-throated dense on one side and more open the manuscript. Gnateater Conopophaga on the other. The nest was within peruviana in Amazonian a small fork and consisted of a References Ecuador rather shallow open cup neatly 1. Bond J. (1951) Notes on In mid-morning on 16 August assembled from large dead Peruvian Fringillidae. Proc. 1999, c. 9 km upstream of Tiputini leaves with tiny twigs in its Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia Biodiversity Station, in Amazo­ centre. Two chicks, not yet ready 97: 17–39. nian Ecuador, I found a nest of to fledge, were present (Fig. 1). 2. Meyer de Schauensee R. Ash-throated Gnateater (1970) A guide to the birds of Conopophaga peruviana. No Niels Poul Dreyer South America. Philadelphia: breeding data were previously La Petite Maison, Chez Gruz 305, Academy of Natural Sciences available for the species (Bret Neuvecelle, Evian 74500, France. of Philadelphia. Whitney in litt.), which occurs 3. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. patchily in the Amazonian (1989) The birds of South lowlands of Ecuador, Peru, Southern range extension for America, 1. Austin: Univer­ and . Upon my discovery of the Parrot-billed Seedeater sity of Texas Press. the nest, the male gnateater flew Sporophila peruviana rapidly into dense undergrowth Parrot-billed Seedeater Ernesto Málaga-Arenas near the nest, alarm calling. It Sporophila peruviana inhabits Sebastián Barranca 408, Urb. La reappeared on some dead coastal south-west Ecuador south Perla, Cercado, Arequipa, Peru. E- branches in a tree-fall clearing to Nazca, dpto. Ica1–3. During a mail: [email protected].

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Oscar González extensive, unstudied Polylepis Taczanowski’s Tinamou was Dpto. Ornitología, Museo de racemosa (at 3500– discovered in 1999. The landscape Historia Natural, Universidad 4000 m) of Bolivia’s Cordillera near Wakella has been substan­ Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Real (northern Bolivian Andes). tially altered by varying degrees Mailing address: Gómez del Other sites probably exist for the of human use, from intensive Carpio 135, Barrio Médico, Lima species within the newly agriculture to casual exploitation. 34, Perú. E-mail: expanded Apolobamba Integrated The number of old farming [email protected]. Management Area and Madidi terraces on the slopes proves that National Park. Ash-breasted Tit- this is not a new phenomenon in Tyrant is a priority species in the the area. The surrounding slopes Discovery of a new site for Bolivian Important Bird Areas have little natural vegetation, and Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant (IBA) programme and the the tree-line appears to be Anairetes alpinus in Bolivia discovery demonstrates the entirely determined by human The Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant urgency for additional field activity. Smaller streams have Anairetes alpinus, an endangered research at these threatened remnants of humid forest on their high-Andean Polylepis-forest patches of Polylepis forest. banks, creating a gallery forest of specialist, was rediscovered in secondary humid montane forest, Bolivia, by Sjoerd Mayer, in the Christopher Vogel with dense undergrowth of Choquetanga valley (16°19'S Center for Biodiversity and Chusquea. Immediately outside 67°57'W), in 1996, following a Conservation, American Museum these, rank grasses, bracken period of over 60 years without of Natural History, New York, ferns, Rhus, Puya, thorny woody records. CV, during avian field USA. E-mail: [email protected]. shrubs and melastomes of a more work with the Center for semi-humid affinity are found. Biodiversity and Conservation of A. Bennett Hennessey Abandoned farms occur in more the American Museum of Natural Bolivian IBA Co-ordinator, level areas that have regenerated History and Colección Boliviana Armonía / BirdLife International, into semi-humid scrub, with the de Fauna, discovered a new Bolivia. E-mail: occasional apple, cherry or locality for the species, c. 10 km [email protected]. domestic rose in its midst. These north-west of the Choquetanga areas are almost impenetrable, site, in Cotapata National Park the tallest trees being 4–5 m tall and Integrated Management Area Additional records of and 10–15 cm dbh. Above (16°15'S 68°01'W). Prior to this Taczanowski’s Tinamou c. 3200 m, disturbed patches of record, Choquetanga was the only Nothoprocta taczanowskii in tall secondary / selectively logged known Bolivian site, with three Bolivia primary forest occur, with dense sites known in Peru. Two pairs Taczanowski’s Tinamou undergrowth of Chusquea and the were found on 4 October 1999 and Nothoprocta taczanowskii was occasional Podocarpus or other on two subsequent visits during recorded for the first time in tree with a dbh of greater than the following days in the same Bolivia, on 21 October 1999, in 1 m. Polylepis forest, at 3800 m, Area Natural de Manejo Nothoprocta taczanowskii was within the integrated use zone. Integrado Nacional Apolobamba, found at the base of Nevado Small patches of Polylepis and dpto. La Paz, Bolivia3. The species Sanchure and on the Serranía Gynoxys remain on the almost was previously considered a Uyacaya. It was observed on three inaccessibly steep slopes of three Peruvian endemic and formerly occasions in early successional small valleys; livestock grazing listed as Vulnerable1. pastures or in hedgerows between has largely denuded the rest of Taczanowski’s Tinamou was found fields, and identified by the the area. Two of the three areas during subsequent survey work at combination of very dark each harboured a pair of Ash­ an additional locality within the upperparts, (the mantle feathers breasted Tit-Tyrant, with one pair same protected area in 2000. and scapulars having distinctive apparently resident in each forest On 8-25 November 2000, pale buffy edgings) and long, patch. Pair members remained in ornithological surveys were slightly decurved bill. Overall each others view and quickly undertaken in the Quelhuacota impression was of a large, dark rejoined if separated for more River valley, near the village of tinamou, with a long bill. These than a few minutes. They were Wakella, provincia Saavedra, characters, combined with the never noted to leave their dpto. La Paz, at c. 2700 m. The habitat, quickly eliminate possible territories and no interactions area lies at the base of the north confusion with any other were witnessed. Both sites, like face of Serranía Uyacaya and sympatric tinamous, or N. most Polylepis forests in South south face of the Nevado kalinowskii. America, are highly disturbed Sanchure (15°07'S 68°53'W), and The species was initially through forest burning combined is significantly more xeric and located on 19 November, on the with grazing. disturbed than the locality in east bank of the Qhelhuacota It is possible that other provincia Franz Tamayo (14°77'S River, when one was observed populations exist in the more 69°00'W at c. 3420 m)3, where crossing a livestock trail in scrub.

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Columbia University, New York, in collaboration with the Colección Boliviana de la Fauna, La Paz, Bolivia.

References 1. Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & Stattersfield, A. J. (1994) Birds to watch 2: the world list of threatened birds. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International (Conservation Series 4). 2. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. R, Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) Threatened birds of the Americas: the ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: International Council for Bird Preservation. 3. Vogel, C. J., Herrera, M. & Olivera A., M. A. (2001) First record of Taczanowski’s Map depicting recent records of Taczanowski’s Tinamou Nothoprocta taczanowskii Tinamou Nothoprocta in Bolivia taczanowskii for Bolivia. Orn. Neotrop. 12: 181–182. When the individual became requirements in Bolivia are aware of the observer, it quickly governed by the extent of scrub, Christopher J. Vogel dashed into the dense under­ be it a natural tree-line ecotone, Center for Biodiversity and growth. One was seen in the same or anthropogenic parkland. Conservation, American Museum location next day. Three more Taczanowski’s Tinamou is of Natural History, Central Park were seen on 23rd, on the probably an uncommon or locally West at 79th Street, New York, NY, opposite bank of the Quelhuacota fairly common species in 10024, USA. River and c. 1 km downstream of cultivated areas of the remote the earlier sightings. Two were highlands of western La Paz. I seen together at a distance of 6 m, suspect the species may benefit A new record of Sandwich before they scrambled out of view from farms, regenerating scrub Tern Sterna (s.) sandvicensis, in into a row of peach trees and and hedgerows in the area. stone fence posts between potato Effects upon its population from On 2 January 1998, in Mar del patches. They flushed as I drew agriculture, as well as direct Plata port, Buenos Aires province, near, gliding a short distance exploitation as a game bird, are I observed a single Sandwich Tern downhill. A third individual was worth investigating. While N. Sterna (s.) sandvicensis, in non­ found a few minutes later. taczanowskii may benefit from breeding plumage, on a rock for No juveniles were noted at early successional growth created several minutes before it was Wakella, the observations being by intensive subsistence disturbed by fishermen and could made approximately one month agriculture in the area, the effects not be relocated. It had a mostly later than the dates for juveniles of tail-forest clearance upon white body, pale grey wings and recorded in provincia Franz Hooded Tinamou Nothocercus back (with darker primaries), Tamayo (21 October 1999)3. The nigrocapillus, which often while the forehead and most of present records, in addition to the inhabits adjacent forest in these the crown were white, with a five seen near Tojoloque, in 1999, localities, are also worthy of black crest. The bill (more slender appear to indicate that the total study. than Sterna eurygnatha) was number of known specimens (17) black with a conspicuous and is more indicative of the difficulty Acknowledgements diagnostic yellow tip. in procuring specimens than the My work was supported by the In the Northern Hemisphere real abundance of N. Center for Biodiversity and winter this species occurs on taczanowskii2. Likewise, the Conservation at the American coasts from Florida, USA, south to individual recorded in the more Museum of Natural History, New Uruguay1,5. It is considered an humid, higher area near Tojoloque York, and Center for Environmen­ occasional, non-breeding visitor to indicates that the species’ habitat tal Research and Conservation at Buenos Aires province, where it

81 Cotinga 17 Neotropical Notebook has been observed at Costa Bonita 7. Narosky, T. & Di Giacomo, A. Geese Branta bernicla horta were (March 1985), Mar del Plata (1993) Las aves de la at St. George’s Dairy on 31 (February 1977), and Punta Rasa provincia de Buenos Aires. October, with two remaining into (December 1986, 1991, January, Distribución y estatus. November and one until late November–December 1992)6,7,9. Buenos Aires: Eds. Vázquez February 2001. There have only Other authors cite few additional Mazzini & Literature of been three previous records since observations of the species in Latin America. the first was recorded in the mid- Argentina: doubtfully mentioned 8. Narosky, T. & Yzurieta, D. 1960s14,15. A Masked Booby Sula for Argentine coasts by Canevari (1987) Guía para la dactylatra was off Gurnet Rock on et al.2, it is also considered a rare identificación de las aves de 21 March 2001, but more spring/summer visitor3,8, and de la Argentina y Uruguay. Buenos importantly a record 33 young Peña4 mentions it for Chubut and Aires: Ed. Vázquez Mazzini. Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma Santa Cruz province coasts 9. Narosky, T. & Fiameni, M. A. cahow were present in their (without quoting specific (1987) Aves de Costa Bonita. nesting burrows during the same observations). Burger & Gochfeld1 Nuestras Aves 12: 16–17. period16. The third island record of mention that mixed pairs of S. Ash-throated Flycatcher sandvicensis / S. eurygnatha occur Christian Savigny Myiarchus cinerascens was in Patagonia, and consider S. Remolcador Guaraní 979 B present from 21 November until eurygnatha to be only (7600), Mar del Plata, Buenos 11 May 2001 at least14,16. A subspecifically distinct from S. Aires, Argentina. E-mail: Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo sandvicensis. The observation [email protected]. flavifrons was at Jenningsland, on reported here represents the first 6–12 October14, with another at province record for almost a the Bio Station on 1 December15. decade. PUBLISHED RECORDS Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria FROM THE LITERATURE virens is always scarce, but one Acknowledgements was at Fort Scaur on 1 Novem­ I thank Manuel Nores, Rogelio CARIBBEAN ber14. Interesting sparrow reports Ymbernón, Daniel Blanco and included a Clay-coloured Jorge Veiga for help with Bahamas Spizella pallida on 8 October, at references, advice and collabora­ A Little Egret Egretta alba was Hog Bay Park, White-crowned tion; and Alicia Vitorgan for the on Grand Bahama on 28 August Zonotrichia leucophrys in late revising the translation. 1999. There was a Veery October, at Port Royal Golf Catharus fuscescens on the same Course, a Fox Passerella iliaca on References island on 8 October 199938. 13 November, in Hog Bay Park, a 1. Burger, J & Gochfeld, M. Swamp Melospiza georgiana at (1996) Family Sternidae Barbados the Bio Station, on 1 December, (terns). In: del Hoyo, J., Two Grey Heron Ardea cinerea and single Vesper Sparrows Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (eds.) were present on the island in Pooecetes gramineus on 13 Handbook of the birds of the October 1999 and a Fork-tailed November, at Hog Bay Park and 2 world, 3. Barcelona: Lynx Flycatcher Tyrannus savanna December, on the Baselands14,15. Edicions. was there on 24 August 1999. 2. Canevari, M., Canevari, P, More exciting was the discovery of British Virgin Islands Carrizo, G., Harris, G., up to eight Common House- The first report of Black Kite Rodriguez Mata, J. & Martin Delichon urbicum at Milvus migrans in the Neotropics Straneck, R. (1995) Nueva Harrison Point, on 30 October–6 was in mid-October 199938. guía de las aves . November 1999, the first record Buenos Aires: Fundación for the Neotropics38. Elsewhere Cuba Acindar. Frost provides separate reports Martínez et al.35 report the first 3. Chebez, J. C. (1994) Los que se on the first Giant Cowbird records of Northern Potoo van. Buenos Aires: Albatros. Scaphidura oryzivora in the West Nyctibius jamaicensis from the 4. de la Peña, M. R. (1992) Guía Indies, in March 200018, and first Ciénaga de Zapata and Sierra de de aves argentinas, 2. Buenos Antillean Nighthawk Anafe in the late 1990s. The Aires: Literature of Latín Chordeiles gundlachii in the globally threatened Cuban Kite America. Lesser Antilles, in May 200019. Chondrohierax wilsonii has not 5. Harrison, P. (1983) Seabirds: been recorded since 1992, but an identification guide. Bermuda three individuals were videotaped London, UK: A. & C. Black. A Bridled Tern Sterna at a locality near Santiago de 6. Jaramillo, A. P. (2000) Punta anaethetus was at Castle Roads, Cuba, in January 200130. Rasa, South America’s first on 4 August 1999, the first record Rodríguez et al.40 report new vagrant trap? Cotinga 14: 33– since 197813. All other records sightings of Dunlin Calidris 38. refer to 2000, unless otherwise alpina and Red Knot C. canutus stated. Four immature Brent in Cuba, both in Holguin province,

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in May 1999. The second country CENTRAL AMERICA Honduras record of the salicicola race of Anderson3 clarifies the breeding Veery Catharus fuscescens was Costa Rica and distribution of Ocellated recently reported, along with a On 30 November 2000, Crested Poorwill ocellatus listing of all previous specimens Oropendola Psarocolius in the country. of the species taken in Cuba21. A decumanus was discovered in the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher south-west of the country and Mexico Tyrannus forficatus was observed during the following weeks, until Hamilton et al.26 describe the first on the Isle of Youth, in November at least April 2001, there was a record of Olive-backed Pipit 199841. Smith & Smith48 report total of five sightings of small Anthus hodgsoni in Mexico, in the the first Lesser Black-backed groups and singles within a few Vizcaino Desert, Baja California, Gull Larus fuscus records in kilometres of the Wilson Botanical on 18-19 October 1996. Cuba, in November 1998 and Garden, Las Cruces and Coto 1999, while Kirwan29 reports the Brus22,23. The third documented Panama first Rose-ringed Parakeet record of Lark Sparrow Significant records reported Psittacula krameri sightings in Chondestes grammacus in the recently (all from 2000) include a the West Indies (away from the country was one photographed in total of three nests of Orange­ Cayman Islands), presumably southern Guanacaste province, 1 breasted Falcon Falco escapes or deliberately introduced km west of Abangaritos Bridge, on deiroleucus in parts of Darién and birds, in Havana, in April 2000. 6 November 200022. On 3 October northern Coclé, in April (five Shaffer et al.45 and Sánchez & 2000, an Oilbird Steatornis previous country records); a Rodríguez43 place on record new caripensis was found roosting at Long-winged Harrier Circus observations from the Sabana- km 70 on Cerro de la Muerte22. buffoni also in Darién, on 1 Camagüey archipelago. Kirwan & Interesting migrants reported in January (second country record); Kirkconnell31 describe sightings of 2001 included a Cape May a Solitary Eagle Harpyhaliaetus two leucistic Crescent-eyed Warbler Dendroica tigrina at La solitarius at Cana, on 27 March Pewee Contopus caribaeus, an Colina Lodge, Monteverde, (fewer than 10 previous records); aberration apparently very rare Hermit Warblers D. occidentalis a Green-winged Teal Anas among tyrant flycatchers. at several sites, an immature [crecca] carolinensis at Las male Palm Warbler D. Macanas, Herrera, on 19 Dominica palmarum at Lake Cote on 6 December (second country record); At least one Bank Swallow February, two Prairie Warbler and a female Ring-necked Duck Riparia riparia was reported on 6 D. discolor at Hacienda Los Reyes, Aythya collaris and 250–300 November 1999; the species is La Guácima de Alajuela, from Lesser Scaup A. affinis at the rare in the Lesser Antilles38. January to mid-April, a Yellow­ same site, on 19-20 December breasted Chat Icteria virens at (the former the first province Grenada Playa Coyote, on the Nicoya record and the latter an Probably the first island record of Peninsula and a White-eyed extremely large concentration)4. Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle Vireo Vireo griseus singing at torquata was made on 31 May Cahuita, on 11 April23. A South SOUTH AMERICA 1998; the individual appeared to Polar Skua Catharacta be of the South American race47. maccormicki was reported off Bolivia Thorstrom et al.51 recently Mawamba Lodge, Tortuguero, on Alverson et al.1 report on the first discovered a total of 15 Hook­ 14–15 April 2001, nests of both confirmed Bolivian records of billed Kite Chondrohierax Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Ihering’s Antwren uncinatus mirus, principally in Scytalopus argentifrons and Myrmotherula iheringi at ‘Pingo the south-west of the island, also Scaled Antpitta Grallaria del Oro’, on the south bank of the locating two nests, and speculate guatemalensis were found in río Tahuamanu (between the that this endemic form may be Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Tahuamanu and Muyumanu) in more common than recently in April and June 2001 respec­ far-west Bolivia, in October 1999. considered. tively, about the fourth country (Subsequently JvdW observed a record of Nashville Warbler male near Riberalta, Beni Haiti Vermivora ruficapilla was at San province, in the north of the A Baltimore Oriole Icterus Isidro del General, on 18 May country, in October 2000.) Other galbula was at Montrouis, near 2001, a Pearl Kite Gampsonyx significant observations, during Port-au-Prince, on 11 November38. swainsonii was photographed at the same inventory, included the Orotoni, on 14 June 2001 and a second Bolivian record of Rufous- Puerto Rico pair of Scarlet Macaws Ara fronted Antthrush Formicarius Salguero-Faría & Roig-Bachs42 macao was at Balsa de Atenas, on rufifrons, along the Tahuamanu report on the occurrence of four 23 June 2001 (the two latter itself. Vogel et al.54 recently made previously unrecorded exotic records both being in-country the first record of Taczanowski’s psittacines in the island. range extensions)24. Tinamou Nothoprocta

83 Cotinga 17 Neotropical Notebook taczanowskii in Bolivia (see pp. Petrel Procellaria westlandica off Canastero Asthenes wyatti azuay 80-81 for subsequent sightings). South America has recently been was rediscovered in 1992, when published: details of a previously seven adult males were taken on Brazil unnoticed specimen from Chile the Cerro Carboncillo, Loja The run of extraordinary and and a total of 45 sight reports province and Altiplano of Tarqui, exciting rediscoveries of ‘lost’ taxa involving at least 458 individuals, Azuay province; comments on from the Atlantic Forest region during the period 7 August to 29 plumage variation and continues; sonograms and a April, in 1980-1998, in Argentine of related taxa within the photograph, made in January and Chilean waters are pre­ Asthenes anthoides superspecies 1995 near Una, Bahia, of sented9. are presented in the same paper32. Stresemann’s Bristlefront Fuhrman20 describes the finding Merulaxis stresemanni have been Colombia and presents a photograph of the presented recently, though there Recent significant records include nest of Bicoloured Antvireo have been no subsequent records the first report of Greater Dysithamnus occidentalis. despite some effort8. Telino Júnior Schiffornis Schiffornis major in et al.49 report on new observations the country away from dpto. of Golden-tailed Parrotlet Amazonas, two trapped in La Capper et al.11 report on records of Touit surda in Pernambuco, the Paya National Park, dpto. 30 species, from observations in first state records for 42 years. Putumayo, in June 199812; three the second half of 1997, including The arrival of the House new records of Yellow-headed several for which those presented Sparrow Passer domesticus in Manakin Chloropipo flavicapilla are the first country records. the south-west Amazonian states in dpto. Antioquia, between of Rondônia and Acre, in April August 1996 and October 199839; Peru 1998 and August 1999, was and a record of Hooded Tanager The first observations for 31 years reported recently25. The first Nemosia pileata in dpto. of Sira Tanager Tangara Snowy Sheathbill Chionis alba Santander, in October 1999, at phillipsi were made on the Cerros in Pernambuco was recorded in 2980 m (an extraordinary del Sira, in the east-centre of the June 199350. Itatiaia Spinetail altitudinal range extension)17. country, in November 2000. It Schizoeaca moreirae has been There is a recent record of the appears to be the most numerous recorded in the state of São Paulo, globally threatened Red Siskin Tangara in its narrow elevational at Pedra da Mina, in the Serra da Carduelis cucullatus, from range (1350–1450 m)37. The first Mantiqueira44. Anciães et al.2 Cúcuta, on 16 February 200033. breeding data for White- present two new localities for the There were previously very few throated Antbird Gymnopithys easily overlooked Elegant breeding data available for salvini and novel nesting Mourner Laniisoma elegans for Apical Flycatcher Myiarchus information for Hairy-crested Minas Gerais state, and the apicalis; Rattan et al.28 provide a Antbird Rhegmatorhina globally threatened Rufous­ wealth of new nesting information melanosticta have recently been sided Pygmy-tyrant for the species, and Cadena et al.10 published, based on observations Euscarthmus rufomarginatus has present nesting data for the at Cocha Cashu Biological recently been discovered at following species from Tinigua Station, Madre de Dios, in Chapada do Catuni in the same National Park: Warbling November 1998 and September- state5. Azevedo Júnior et al.7 Antbird Hypocnemis cantator, October 199955. detail two new localities for the Black-spotted Bare-eye globally threatened Araripe Phlegopsis nigromaculata, Scale- Uruguay Manakin Antilophia bokermanni, backed Antbird Hylophylax The following species have and Mazar Barnett36 an poecilinota, Amazonian recently been reported for the extralimital record of Ocellated Streaked-Antwren first time in dpto. Salto: Lesser Crake Micropygia schomburgkii Myrmotherula multostriata and Nighthawk Chordeiles minor, in southern São Paulo. Striated Antthrush Chamaeza Black Jacobin Melanotrochilus Hinkelmann & Fiebig27 report on nobilis. fuscus, Lesser Canastero old specimen records of seven Asthenes pyrrholeuca, Chocolate- species that improve our Ecuador vented Tyrant Neoxolmis knowledge of bird distributions in News concerning the recently rufiventris and Bearded Paraná. rediscovered Pale-headed Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis53. Brush-Finch Atlapetes Vargas & Padilla52 describe Chile pallidiceps is encouraging: the records of Blackish Oyster­ Marín34 has recently analysed the original population has increased catcher Haematopus ater, in distribution, origin and spread of to 16 pairs and a second site, with September 1999 (photographed) Shiny Cowbird Molothrus an additional 15 pairs, has and June 2000. bonariensis in the country. A recently been discovered nearby6. review of the status of the The southern Ecuadorian globally endangered Westland population of the Streak-backed

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Venezuela Cuba adult Lesser Black-backed Gull Sharpe et al. present new range, Three second records for the Larus fuscus was on Saona Island, altitudinal and temporal data for country were reported in 2001: a from 28 October to late November 48 species. In addition, the Whip-poor-will Caprimulgus 2000 at least (EF, EG & PR; Fig. globally threatened Plain- vociferus observed at its daytime 1), and a Yellow-breasted Chat flanked Rail Rallus wetmorei roost at Cueva de Jabalí, Cayo Icteria virens was trapped and was discovered, in August 2000, at Coco, on 26 April and an adult photographed (Fig. 2) in Parque a new locality, Las Peonías male American Goldfinch del Este, on 14 October 2000 (JA, Lagoon, Maracaibo, Zulia, and the Carduelis tristis tape-recorded EF). first state record for many years and photographed at Turba, (World Birdwatch 23 (2): 5). Zapata, on 29 April (MD, KE), Ecuador with a Hermit Thrush Catharus During early January 2001 seven guttatus also on Cayo Coco in late breeding-plumage Esmeraldas OTHER RECORDS April (AK). A Gadwall Anas Woodstar Acestura berlepschi RECEIVED strepera on Cayo Coco, on 3 (four males, three females) were February 2000 is the fourth found, at 700 m, in Loma Alta Antigua country record (CM). BM reports Ecological Reserve, Guayas. They RH reports the following in 2001: eight Sand Martin Riparia were feeding on Psychotria alba 20 Ruddy Duck Oxyura riparia over Playa Guardalavaca, (Rubiaceae) flowers. Psychotria jamaicensis, 18 Ring-necked Holguin, on 1 April 2000, and flowers are very abundant in the Duck Aythya collaris (possibly single Warbling Vireos Vireo reserve during dry years (in the first record), a Peregrine gil vus on two dates at the same November–January). Surveys in Falcon Falco peregrinus, 30 site during the period 31 March to Machalilla National Park indicate Caribbean Coot Fulica caribaea 13 April 2000. that Psychotria shrubs are not and a second-winter American abundant within the park’s moist Herring Gull Larus argentatus Dominican Republic forest sites (DB). A Cliff smithsonianus (also a possible Two first records for Hispaniola Swallow Hirundo pyrrhonota first record) at Potsworks have been reported recently. An observed at 4000 m from the Reservoir on 19 March. Two slopes of Cotopaxi, on 18 Western Sandpiper Calidris September 2000 is one of the mauri were at Dark Wood Beach highest-ever altitudinal records and three at Runaway Bay, also (AvK et al.). on 19 March, and there was a winter-plumaged female Ruff Mexico Philomachus pugnax at the latter A male Prairie Warbler locality on the same date. Dendroica discolor was observed on 10 January and 1 February Argentina 2001, in the Soconusco region of The first country record of Chiapas (IS); there appear to be Broad-winged Hawk Buteo Figure 1. Lesser Black-backed few previous state records. platypterus involved a single, Gull Larus fuscus, Saona Island, observed by Steve Hilty and AW, Dominican Republic, November St. Kitts at Calilegua National Park, on 1 2000 (Eladio Fernández) Two Pied-billed Grebe November 2000. Podilymbus podiceps were at South Friar’s Bay Salt Pond on 23 Barbados February 2000 (a possible first An adult Kelp Gull Larus record) and a Greater Flamingo dominicanas vetula, the first for Phoenicopterus ruber was on the island, was photographed at Great Salt Pond on 21 March North Point, on 6 December 2000, 2001. Other possible first records while a 1st-winter Lesser Black- included an adult male Northern backed Gull Larus fuscus, the Shoveler Anas clypeata on South third island record, was also Friar’s Bay Salt Pond, on 20 photographed, at Six Men’s Bay, February 2000, and six Ring­ on 7 January 2001 (MF). necked Duck Aythya collaris at South Friar’s Bay Salt Pond, on 23 Colombia and 26 February 2000. Two female A pair of Zimmer’s Lesser Scaup A. affinis were at Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus Figure 2. Yellow-breasted Chat Great Salt Pond on 23 February necopinus, the first country Icteria virens, Parque del Este, 2000 and an Osprey Pandion record, was observed on Isla Dominican Republic, 14 October haliaetus was off the South Coast Mocagua, on 15 April 2001 (AW). 2000 (Eladio Fernández) Road on the same day, with

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(All records by RH.) Nascimento, I. de L. S. do 18. Frost, M. (2000) Giant (2000) Novos registros de Cowbird (Scaphidura Acknowledgements ocorrência de Antilophia oryzivora): a new bird for Thanks are due to the following bokermanni Coelho e Silva, Barbados and the West who forwarded or commented on 1999 na Chapada do Araripe, Indies. El Pitirre 13: 89. records: Jesús Almonte (JA), Ceará, Brasil. Ararajuba 8: 19. Frost, M. (2000) An observa­ Dusty Becker (DB), Gerben van 133–134. tion of Antillean Nighthawk den Berg, Jan-Joost Bouwman, 8. Baudet, G. (2001) Primeira (Chordeiles gundlachii) on Tony Clarke, Matt Denton (MD), observação do entufado- Barbados. El Pitirre 13: 90. Andrew Dobson, Kevin Easley baiano (Merulaxis 20. Fuhrman, J. (2001) A remark­ (KE), Eladio Fernández (EF), stresemanni) na natureza. able first. Birding 33: 250– Martin Frost (MF), Eduardo Tangara 1: 51–56. 251. Germán (EG), Roy Hargreaves 9. Brinkley, E. S., Howell, S. N. 21. Garrido, O. H. & Rodríguez, D. 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