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Spizaetus 16 English.Indd SPIZAETUS NEOTROPICAL RAPTOR NETWORK NEWSLETTER ISSUE 16 DECEMBER 2013 VULTUR GRYPHUS IN COLOMBIA AND BOLIVIA NESTING OF RUPORNIS MAGNIROSTRIS IN BRAZIL CONSERVATION OF HARPYHALIAETUS CORONATUS IN ARGENTINA NEW SIGHTING OF MICRASTUR SEMITORQUATUS IN MEXICO SPIZAETUS NRN NEWSLETTER Issue 16 © December 2013 English Edition ISSN 2157-8958 Cover Photo: Andean Condor (Vultur grpyhus) in Colombia. © Juan S. Restrepo Translators/Editors: Helena Aguiar-Silva, Aldo Ortiz Reyes, Marta Curti Graphic Design: Marta Curti Spizaetus: Neotropical Raptor Network Newsletter © December 2013. www.neotropicalraptors.org This newsletter may be reproduced, downloaded, and distributed for non-profi t, non-commercial purposes. To republish any articles contained herein, please contact the corresponding authors directly. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE OF BREEDING BEHAVIOR OF A REINTRODUCED PAIR OF ANDEAN CONDORS (VULTUR GRYPHUS) IN THE CORDILLERA CENTRAL OF COLOMBIA Juan S. Restrepo Cardona & Alejandro Betancur López .....................................................2 CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF ROADSIDE HAWK (RUPORNIS MAGNIROSTRIS) NESTING IN AN URBAN AREA IN CAICI, RIO GRANDE, NORTHERN BRAZIL Emmanuel Sabino & Jânio Guedes ..................................................................10 EXPERIENCIES WITH AN ANDEAN CONDOR (VULTUR GRYPHUS) IN BOLÍVIA Diego R. Méndez..............................................................................................15 REPORT OF A NEW RECORD OF COLLARED FOREST FALCON (MICRASTUR SEMITORQUATUS) FOR MONTEMORELOS NUEVO LEÓN, MEXICO Aldo Ortíz Reyes......................................................................................19 CONSERVATION PROGRAM OF CROWNED SOLITARY EAGLE (HARPYHALIAETUS CORONATUS) IN THE PROVÍNCE OF LA PAMPA, ARGENTINA Maximiliano Adrián Galmes, José Hernán Sarasola, & Juan Manuel Grande..........................21 SUMMMARY OF THE I WORLDSIDE RAPTOR CONFEERNCE Miguel Saggese....................................................................................................26 OF INTEREST ..........................................................................................28 The NRN is a membership-based organization. Its goal is to aid the research and conservation of Neotropical raptors by promoting communication and collaboration among biologists, raptor enthusiasts, and other conservationists working in the Neotropics. To join please e-mail the NRN coordinator, Marta Curti, at [email protected], stating your interest in Neotropical raptor research and conservation. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE OF BREEDING BEHAVIOR OF A REINTRODUCED PAIR OF ANDEAN CONDORS (VULTUR GRYPHUS) IN THE CORDILLERA CENTRAL OF COLOMBIA By Juan S. Restrepo Cardona1 & Alejandro Betancur López2 1División de Historia Natural, Centro de Museos, Universidad de Caldas, Cra 23 # 58 – 65, A. A. 275, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia. 1,2Semillero de Investigación en Ornitología, Dpto. de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Caldas. 1E-mail: [email protected]; 2E-mail:[email protected] The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) is considered to be Near Threatened globally and, in Colombia, it is considered Endangered on a nationalT level (Rodriguez and Orozco 2002, Bird- Life International 2013). The Andean Condor is found along the Andes Mountain range from Venezuela to Argentina and Chile (Lambertu- cci 2010). In Colombia its population has been reduced in numbers and is restricted to a few mountainous locations (MAVDT 2006) in the eastern and central mountain ranges, including the Colombian Macizo, the Serrania de Perija and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Rodriguez and Orozco 2002, Salaman et al 2009). As their popu- lation numbers continue to be reduced in Colom- bia, the survival of this species may be seriously threatened in the immediate future (Negret 2001). Male Andean Condor in La Poa, Villamaría, In 1989, with the goal of unifying forces for the Caldas © Juan S. Restrepo, February 2013. conservation of Andean Condors in Colombia, PAGE - 2 ISSUE 16 • DECEMBER 2013 through an international cooperative agreement males and 4 females - were released in Los Neva- between El Instituto Nacional de Recursos Natu- dos Natural Park, by the Corporación Autónoma rales (INDERENA) and The Zoological Society Regional de Caldas (CORPOCALDAS) with the of San Diego, a program was started in order to support of the Ministry of the Environment and repopulate condors in some mountainous áaeas Fundación Renacer. Of these 14, 12 had been of the Colombian Andes (INDERENA 1990). donated by the San Diego Zoo (California) and Between 1989 and 2013, seventy one Andean two by the Cali Zoo (CORPOCALDAS 2013). Condors were released in the country (Fausto However, these birds weren’t suffi ciently studied, Saenz, Pers. Comm). In 2006, the 2006-2016 so certain aspects of the basic biology and ecol- Action Plan of the Andean Condor Colombia ogy of this nucleus population remain unknown. Program was developed. Through education and Additionally, little is known about Andean Con- participation of local communities, these efforts dor reproduction in the wild. Although a few ob- seek to promote a change in attitude toward the servations have been made in Chile, Ecuador and species. Argentina, the majority of these consist of ob- Between 1997 and 1999 14 juvenile condors - 10 servations or records of one or few nests (Lam- Pair of Andean Condors recorded in La Poa, Villamaría, Caldas © Juan S. Restrepo, February 2013. WWW.NEOTROPICALRAPTORS.ORG PAGE - 3 bertucci 2007). Andean Condors generally nest in and ecological information, it is very diffi cult to caves and crevices located on rocky escarpments identify its current status and its population ten- (Márquez et al. 2005, Lambertucci and Mastran- dencies. This in turn, makes it diffi cult to develop tuoni 2008, Heredia and Piedrabuena 2010), in effi cient conservation programs for the species. most cases in areas inaccessible to land predators In this study, we present some advances in the (Lambertucci 2007). knowledge of the reproductive behavior of a re- introduced pair of Andean Condors in the Cor- In Colombia we still have not identifi ed nest site dillera Central of Colombia. characteristics and information on their nesting behavior is practically non-existent. It is neces- Methods sary to intensify the research efforts for this spe- The The nest was located approximately 20 km cies in the country, as without basic biological from Los Nevados Natural Park, well outside of Location of the condor territory in Vereda Papayal, Caldas, Colombia. NNestest AArearea Observation Point PAGE - 4 ISSUE 16 • DECEMBER 2013 Nest Site where the chick was placed The nest site and the location where the chick was placed at Cargaperros, Villamaría, Caldas © Juan S. Restrepo, December 2013 the park’s buffer zone. It was situated approxi- each month. Observations were made between mately 288 m from the ground on a rocky es- 0800 h and 1800 h, using NIKON binoculars carpment on the southern face of Cargaperros (10 × 50mm) from an elevated observation point (04°56´N, 75°29´W), which is 2.347 m high, and - Alto de Buenos Aires - located about 300 m found in the Molinos Canyon - formed by the from the nest. Molinos and Campanario Rivers. The zone is a With the goal of describing some of the pair’s re- mosaic of open areas used for livestock grazing, productive behavior, we used a methodology de- associated with fragments of secondary forest scribed by Lambertucci and Mastrantuoni (2008), and pine (Pinus patula) plantations. The predomi- by which we were able to defi ne the nesting ter- nant native trees in the area are Decussocarpus rospi- ritory as being approximately 1 km2 around the gliosii), Juglans neotropica.), Smallanthus pyramidalis), nest. We recorded the amount of time each adult Cecropia telenitida and (Myrcianthes leucoxyla), among remained in the area, the number of hours each others. adult interacted with the chick, the number of Between March and July 2013, we carried out sys- times each adult chased off other raptors from tematic visits to the nest for two consecutive days the vicinity of the nest, and the number of incur- WWW.NEOTROPICALRAPTORS.ORG PAGE - 5 sions by raptors into the pair’s breeding area. According to the necropsy carried out by COR- POCALDAS, apart from the multiple injuries it Results suffered, the chick has suffered a previous injury- On 25 June we documented the presence of a 6-7 a fracture of the mid-radius - which had formed month old chick that had jumped from the nest an irregular bone callus. and remained walking in the area for a couple of days. In an improvised move by the Corporación Although the total number of observation hours Transformar, the chick was captured and brought was small (70 hr), it did allow us to document back to an area close to and below the nest. The and quantify some pair behavior while the young chick remained in the same location and an em- was in the nest, including how much of their total ployee of CORPOCALDAS kept an eye on it, time each adult stayed in the area (36% each), and until an unfortunate incident occured. On 20 the number of hours each adult interacted with July, the young once again made an attempt to the young: the male14.32 h (20.45%) and the fe- fl y. However, it wasn’t able to soar and crashed male 17.36 h (24.8%). into thick vegetation. In its repeated attempts to On 7 July 2013 we observed courtship behav- free itslef it suffered serious injuries and died. Andean Condor chick rescued after it had crashed into dense vegetation in Cargaperros,
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