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Sh'Vfil! L. Hilty l) .. B.O.C.19't9 119(4) 134 u. A. Whittaku f!l 1J. C. Om¡ 23S Bull. R.O.C. 1999 119(4) 14-15 J:muary 1994, H ato Ceural, Apure; aoel pair well-studíed RYlill, T . P. & Lenlino. R., M . 19%. An arlditional reo.:urd of Ihe Pale- fuul~ S",,,1I0'''. 100t S k m W 0 1" 'l'umererno, ID northcastern Bolíva r, 6 March 199R Nuliochelidon fl(/"I)ipes fmm Velll'l"'.,}". B"II. Bril. Oro. el. 115: 28-29. (Hilty, D. Ascanio :md Olhers). Schlifcr, E. & Phel¡». W. H. 1954 I.as aves J d PHQue Nacio",,1 "Henry Pill;e, " (Rancho G r~mJ ~) ~' sus funcióm:s <:colo¡:::icn. Flol. S(K. Vette.O:. Cimc. N«t. 16(113): 1-1 71. Acknowled eements Zimm ~r, K. J . & Hi!ty, S. L. 1'N7. Hirds o f JUllgIAvt:n Camp: a prdiminary surv~}' ofa n~W "te in Amuz<ma., Vcnewela. Pp. 1I1'>5-8S.'; in Rcmsen, J V. (e<l.), Studiu in T thaok Pele,' Alden, Peler Boc~man, Mary Luu Gml<.\win, :i\-1iJ¡lIcl1.cnt;no R , Rober\ S. Ncolropic/l1 nruillrolugy IWllori,,!; Tcd f'","er. Oroitho\. Monogr. No. 411 ., AOU, Ridgely, Chriitopher Parri, h , Jan Pierson, D~" e Stejsk"l and Kevin Zimmer fOl' Wa. hingtoll, D. C. pcrmission to "ile unpu1)lished records. 1 Ih"ok Ramón Avckdo 11., and l\1iguel Lenti"u R. ror permissiun 10 u~ e Ih" Colecciíon Ornilhúlogica Phelps in Caracas, Francisco B;sb~l Addres!. Steven L . Hi lly, 63 16 Wcsr 102nd Str.... t, Shuwnee Mi~sion, KA 66112- 17 1R, fur pcrmis~i on \0 us~ the Colección PROF'AUNA in MAracay, und D"vid Wil1a.-d U.S.A. cTllai l SLHilÍ)'@aol.cum (ChicaJ¡o Field :\!I UReu m), K. Parh (Carnegie) and 1'. Angel (Smithsonian) for ~e nding comput"ri~ed print-uuts of V"l1c:.melan sprdmen. in the ir ",an. O . ASC BO;O \Vas" vallle,; Rr i l; ~h OrnitholoS;S1S' Club 1999 co-workcr ;n the ficld. [ e:lp"c;alty thnnk n. S. I"t idgdy ro r his can:!ul rev,e", and :,t, r.nmmenls on Ihe m8nu~T i p1. Pt:t"r Roesman. MiJZue l I.eolinn, Chri, Parrish ami I{evin Zimmer ,,1110 re,,,] tl,,, m anuscripl. Ikvcrly llihy provideJ mt,,;h support lo me ond Ou T ramily. cspco;ially ouring m y maoy aboren<= aficlO. Important ornithological record s from the Rio Rcf"'...., nr... Ji: Avde<lo, H. R & Peré~, e T, A 1<,1<,14 Dcscn pcuJn Je ~UUsp"c l e.nu"V1ls y o:nm"ntarios Juruá, western Amazonia, including twelve 80bre doe cspeciu de a,·e. de Venezu.,} ll. Bol. Soco VfII~Z . Ct~nc Nal 44(148) 229-257. additions to the BraziJian avifauna Boesman, P. 19<,18. Sume ocw infol"mation on t.h~ .!i~uibutiun of Venezlle1an bi rd~. Colinga 9: 17-39. fE! Boesman, P. & CU I '~O O, J. 1995 . Grey-hc~ded Wllfhle¡' BOIilfuter"" J! rimáps in dangcr of by Andrew Whittaker David C. Oren extinclÍonl Cuti",,, 3: 3.<;-J,). Recen",d 1 OcIOO~' 1998 Collar, N. l. Gonuga. L. P. , K rab ~, N., ¡VladrO;IO Nino, A., Naranjo, L . G., P"rkcr\ T. A. & Wel{e, D. C. 1992. 1"hr~alf.>l fJ birJJ o) Ihe A.mp1ca~: Ihe ICBP/TUCN Red DOI" Bool< . Third editin>l (»lu t 2). Tntcrnllliol"ia l CO\l llcil fu r Um l Pr""eTVal;on, The Río Juruá is one of the largest white-water t ributaries of the Cambridge. U.K. Collar, N. J. &. \Ved';:f, D. C. 1995. The dis.trihutiun Il nd cnn""r\"Dtion status or I.he Amazon. Its drainage is mostly within Bro;;,ilia n terriwry, but Ihe b(t ~ in De-.uded T ",;huri J>olyslicl/ll pUloralis. Rlrd COIII . /I/fUl/cw/. S, 367- 390. al80 i.n eludes u pon ion of sotl theastern Peru . Tllt:re are only t \Yo Hihy, S. l.. &. RroWI) , W. L. 19S6. 11 guide /(¡ t.h ~ birds 01 Colombia. Princeton Univ. important work.s on rhe avifauna of the JUI·uá. N its Gyld e ns tolpe'~ Pres.,<, Pr;ncemn , N~<Y Jc rser. (1945) major treatise deals witn thc bird specimens in thc Stockholm hler, M. L. & h ler, P. R. 1987. 1"he tanogN1: ItOluraJ hiSWt )" Jú¡,w"tum u.,,1 id ~ "tifir.tlI;()>I . Smi1hsouiHn l ...titlllion Pl'es~ , Wuhingtnn D.C. museurn cullected by rhe Olalla brothcrs in 1936 (Olalla 1938) un rhe Lenlin", le, :\1 . 1 <,1711. J::nensioues de di~tribu ciúII ele o~ho' ~spe cie" de aves de Vco ~? u r. 1 A . lower and middle sections of the river in Amazonas sta te, nr:lzil. Memoria dt la SQ"¡~dlEd d~ CimtiUl NlEturales, La Sallc, No. 109(38): 113-118. Novaes' two repons (1957, 1(58) are nn hi s own expedition to the Lenlino R , M. 19S8. No/i()cheli d()njfavip~. a ,wallow oew to Vcnczuc.la. Rull. Bri/. Om. upper Juruá in Acre from Junc tu September 1956. Here we report the el. 108: 70-71. untino R., M., Disbal, A., F. J .. Ospino A. & nivcro, R. A. 1984. N uevos l'~xis tru~ y results uf new 1"eSearch on previously unexplored p01"tions of the river cxl~n~inne R de di~t. i b\ I ció n para especie, <.le nve~ en Ve ne?uels. Rol. Soco Ven ~;t. basin (see Oren & Albuquerque (1990)), located between Ihe rc\atively Cime. N <II. 39(142): 111-(19. well-studieu areas of central Brazilian J\mar.unia (e.g. Cohn-T-Taft r t ajo Mcyer de SdllluCII$(c. R. & Phdps, Jr. W. H. 1918. 11 gllide Lo ¡lIe birJJ 01 V"".. zuelu. 1997, S IOIr. & Bie rregaard 1989 and \-\'ill is 1977) and Peruvian Pr;nceton Un;v. P rCS8, PrinL..,ton, New }e ,." ey. Phdps, W . 11. & Phd""" Jr. W. H. 1950. Lisl" de- 1,,$ a .... ~ ,le Ven.,...", ela "nn su Amazonia (e.g. l'arker el al. 1994 and T erborgh el al. 1990). diS1ribución , par! l . Pa ~.,.., r ifor m cs. [Jol. Sot:o V""U". Cienc. Nal. 12(75): 1-427. H crc we prcsent an annolatcd ¡¡st oC rhe most important Phelps, W. H. & Phd r~. Jr. \1{. H. 1958. Lisl" Je las IIY O: ~ do: Ven""uc1a con ~ u ornitnological records fmm three field expediríons undel"taken in the distriu\leiÓI"i . T omu 2, parle 1, No-PIl!lOcriformes. DoI. S/X. V"""" . crem:. Nut. Juruá River basin, in Ihe states of Amazonas ami Acre, Brazi!. The fi rst 19(90): 1-:117. Phdps, W. H. & Phelp~ . Jr. VIl. H. 1%3. L i~ 'M de I.. s av'" de Vo:no:zue1a oon Rll was [part of a largel' cntcrprise] to determine thc importance of Ihe distribución. Tomo 1, Parte 2, PHss~riforn}C8. Bol. Soco V entz. Cim ... Na!. J uruá as a bi.ogeographical barrier. Quantitativc data from other 24(104-105): 1- 479. vertebrate inventories undertaken dl1ring this expedition between July RidXdy, R. S. & Gwynne. l A. 1911<,l. A guid~ lu Ih ~ bird. ul Pan<mia, with Co~tll 1991 and June 1992 at 12 forest sites have uncovered many noteworthy Rica, Nicaragua, o>ul lluuduras, 2nd. ed. Prinecton Univ. Fres8, PrincetoIl, New Jersey. specie¡; reeurds of mammals, reptiles and amphibians from along the Ridgdy, R. & Tu.!ur, G. 19S9. Tht bird.• of So¡¡/h Ame.ÍG"a: 'l'he O.úne P".. e,;nes. U ni v. Juruá (Peres 1993, Patton et al. 1994, C. Peres, C. Gasean, J. Malcolm, of T ~x~s PrcS$, AU¡ I¡Il. J. Patton and M. N. F. da Silva, unpublis hed data). The st'.cond series Ridgdy. R. & "l"udn. , G. 1994. 1"he mrds 01 So,,,/¡ Amenc": The S"h,mü/II Pasu, il/~s. of expcditiom \Vas pan of a research pl"Og rH rn to study tlle managctn t: nt Ulliv. oí T U'1s Pren, AnSI;n. of forest resources by rubber tappers in Brazil's first Extractivist ~-------- .. - _._-- A. Whitt"k ~r &J n. C. Oren 236 Bu/l. B.O.e. 1999 119(4) A Whittaher (:j D . C. Oren 217 Rull. R.o.e. 1999119(4) R~ s~ r"~ in 1994 and 1995 (Cunha in press). The third cxpcdition was 74·W the il1itiation of a faunal inventory program in the Sena do Divisor National Pnrk in April and May 1996. ,We present twelve additions to the avifauna of Bl'IIzil: Black-capped Tmamou Crypturcl~us alrocupillus, Dlack-billed Cuckoo Co<x:yzus erythropthalmus, 0 l:lmney Swift Chael/lra pelagica, Sculet-headed Barbet Eubuc.co tucznhae, White-lined Antbird PuwosloJa lop/wtes, R~fou s -fronted Anuhrush Fomncanus TufifTom, Hound-tailed Manukin P¡pra chloromuos, Sulphur-bellied Flycatchcr M yiodynas!('s [lItcive1IlTÍs, BI3ck - .f~c~d Cotinga COllioptilrm mciht!lIl1yi, Yellow-green Vireo Viren flavyvJTldlS, Casqued Oropendola Psarocolius oseryi, fl nd Dlack-and­ "" hite Seedea!er .~Po,op~ila luctuosa. Records of C. eryth,opthalmus, P. /nphotes, C. mClhellnyJ, P. o.feryi, and S. lucluO$a :lrc l!Iupported by voucher specimens, and C. atTocapillus, Formicllrius nififrons, and M . luteifJtmt,is by tape recordings. The record!! of C. pe/agica and E. tucinhae wefe of reliable sight records. Additionally, specimen!l of Rlue:headed Macaw A.ro couloni, Emerllld Toucanet AulacorhY7lchus prasmu .~ , Manu Antbl1'd Cercomacra manu, and Scarlct Tana,w:er Piral/ga olivacea were collected for the n.rst time in Orazi1.
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    ARTICLE An overlooked hotspot for birds in the Atlantic Forest Vagner Cavarzere¹; Ciro Albano²; Vinicius Rodrigues Tonetti³; José Fernando Pacheco⁴; Bret M. Whitney⁵ & Luís Fábio Silveira⁶ ¹ Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR). Santa Helena, PR, Brasil. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0510-4557. E-mail: [email protected] ² Brazil Birding Experts. Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] ³ Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Ecologia. Rio Claro, SP, Brasil. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2263-5608. E-mail: [email protected] ⁴ Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos (CBRO). Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-7662. E-mail: [email protected] ⁵ Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Estados Unidos. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-9370. E-mail: [email protected] ⁶ Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Museu de Zoologia (MZUSP). São Paulo, SP, Brasil. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2576-7657. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Montane and submontane forest patches in the state of Bahia, Brazil, are among the few large and preserved Atlantic Forests remnants. They are strongholds of an almost complete elevational gradient, which harbor both lowland and highland bird taxa. Despite being considered a biodiversity hotspot, few ornithologists have surveyed these forests, especially along elevational gradients. Here we compile bird records acquired from systematic surveys and random observations carried out since the 1980s in a 7,500 ha private protected area: Serra Bonita private reserve. We recorded 368 species, of which 143 are Atlantic Forest endemic taxa.
  • Aves: Thamnophilidae) Subspecies

    Aves: Thamnophilidae) Subspecies

    Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment ISSN: 0165-0521 (Print) 1744-5140 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/nnfe20 Variation among vocalizations of Taraba major (Aves: Thamnophilidae) subspecies Guilherme Sementili-Cardoso, Fernanda Gonçalves Rodrigues, Rafael Martos Martins, Raphael Whitacker Gerotti, Renata Marques Vianna & Reginaldo José Donatelli To cite this article: Guilherme Sementili-Cardoso, Fernanda Gonçalves Rodrigues, Rafael Martos Martins, Raphael Whitacker Gerotti, Renata Marques Vianna & Reginaldo José Donatelli (2018) Variation among vocalizations of Tarabamajor (Aves: Thamnophilidae) subspecies, Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 53:2, 120-131, DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2017.1414983 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2017.1414983 View supplementary material Published online: 26 Dec 2017. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 72 View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=nnfe20 STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2018, VOL. 53, NO. 2, 120–131 https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2017.1414983 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Variation among vocalizations of Taraba major (Aves: Thamnophilidae) subspecies Guilherme Sementili-Cardoso a,b, Fernanda Gonçalves Rodriguesa,b, Rafael Martos Martinsa,b, Raphael Whitacker Gerottia,b, Renata Marques Viannaa,b and Reginaldo José Donatelli a aLaboratório de Ornitologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Bauru, Brazil; bPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Botucatu, Brazil ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Geographical variation of bird vocalizations may be related to factors influencing sound produc- Received 26 September 2016 tion and sound propagation.
  • COTINGAS in AVICULTURE Part II

    COTINGAS in AVICULTURE Part II

    COTINGAS IN AVICULTURE Part II Josef Lindholm Senior Aviculturist The Dallas World Aquarium Female Spangled Cotinga (Cotinga cayana) Photo by Myles Lamont Part I, published in the Watchbird XXXIV Number 2, included a history of cotingas in aviculture, and an overview of their diets in captivity. Accounts of cotingas now present in American public or private collections follow, with four species discussed here. Screaming Piha Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. As of late 2007, ISIS lists a (Lipaugus vociferans) male and an unsexed bird at the National Aquarium, Of cotingas currently in aviculture, this species stands and single birds at the National Aviary, Toledo and out for its superficially “ordinary” appearance. From Madison. In 2007 The Dallas World Aquarium received pictures, it appears “gray and thrush-like”. In life, it is four birds from Suriname. more reminiscent of a New World Flycatcher (to which cotingas are, after all, closely related). So far as I know, nothing has been written about this species in captivity. I am therefore most grateful to Lori Its large dark eyes are an immediately attractive fea- Smith, Senior Aviculturist at the National Aquarium in ture. On the other hand, what is not at all ordinary is Baltimore for providing data about the pihas there. A sin- its very loud, three-note whistle (scarcely a “scream”), gle pair maintained in the Aquarium’s rain forest hatched performed in a lekking display, one of the typical “jungle one chick each year from 2000 through 2003, with a fifth noises” across its enormous South American range. It hatched in 2005.