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These recent reports generally refer to new or Chiriqui, during fieldwork between 1987 and 1991, second country records, rediscoveries, notable representing a disjunct population from that of Mexico range extensions, and new localities for threat to north-western Costa Rica (Olson 1993). Red- ened or poorly known species. These have been throated Caracara Daptrius americanus has been collated from a variety of published and unpub rediscovered in western Panama, with several seen and lished sources, and therefore some records will be heard on 26 August 1993 around the indian village of unconfirmed. We urge that, if they have not al Teribe (Toucan 19[9]: 5). ready done so, contributors provide full details to the relevant national organisations. COLOMBIA Recent expeditions and increasing interest in this coun BELIZE try has produced a wealth of new information, including There are five new records for the country as follows: a 12 new country records. A Cambridge–RHBNC expedi light phase Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus tion to Serranía de Naquén, Amazonas, in July–August seen by the fisheries pier, Belize City, 1 May 1992; 1992 found 4 new country records as follows: Rusty several Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor Tinamou Crypturellus brevirostris observed at an ant- seen at Cox Lagoon in November 1986, up to 20 at swarm at Caño Ima, 12 August; Brown-banded Crooked Tree in March 1988, and again on 3 May 1992; Puffbird Notharchus tricolor observed in riverside a Chuck-will’s Widow Caprimulgus carolinensis col trees between Mahimachi and Caño Colorado [no date]; lected at San Ignacio, Cayo District, 13 October 1991; and a male Guianan Gnatcatcher Polioptila guianensis Spectacled Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia observed at close range in a mixed flock at Caño Rico, 2 variegaticeps recently recorded on an expedition to the August (Amazon 1992). highest point in Belize (16°30'N 89°W) at 1,160 m (with Pearman (1993) reported 5 new country records out further details); and a male Slate-coloured as follows: a Point-tailed Palmcreeper Berlepschia Seedeater Sporophila schistacea trapped and banded rikeri was located in a palm grove, 10 km north of between Blue Creek and San Antonio, Toledo District, Leticia, Amazonas, 28 February 1987, and subsequently 28 January 1989, with subsequent records from Chan at the same locality in August and September 1989 Chich Lodge, Orange Walk District, and along the Sibun when breeding was confirmed; a Citron-bellied Attila River, Monkey Bay Sanctuary (Miller & Miller 1992). Attila citriniventris photographed at P.N. Amacayacú, Nesting records of Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris Amazonas, 24 September 1990 was the first documented olivacea were from Caracol, in the Chiquibul uplands, record, but recently 9 old museum specimens have been 1989–1992 inclusive, with sight records along the Macal uncovered (F. G. Stiles verbally), and the species was River (Miller & Miller 1992) — the species was previously found to be fairly common around Mitú, Vaupés in known in Belize from just one record, believed to be August 1993 (DW, MP); a Wilson’s Warbler Wilsonia accidental. pusilla seen at 1,250 m on Cerro Tacarcuna, northern Chocó, 9 October 1990 was the first South American CUBA record, previously known as far south as central Panama, The first nesting record of Kentish Plover Charadrius but generally wintering in large numbers in the Chiriqui alexandrinus this century was made on 9 April 1993 by region of western Panama; a Palm Warbler Dendroica O. H. Garrido and a group of British Birdwatchers at palmarum observed near Turbo, north Antioquia, 13 Cayo Sabinal, in the north of Prov. Camagüey (Garrido October 1990 also represents the first record for South 1993). America, as does a Green-naped Tanager Tangara fucosa seen at c.1,220 m near the ridge of Cerro PANAMA Tacarcuna, northern Chocó, 8 October 1990. Three new country records come from the region of Two new country (sight) records come from the Laguna de Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro as follows: a White eastern slope of the East Andes on the Río Guarnés, near tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus observed 20 km Orito, Dept. Putomayo in late August 1993 (Salaman & east of Isla Escudo de Veraguas, 29 March 1990; 3 Gandy 1993) as follows: several Fiery-throated Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii col Fruiteaters Pipreola chlorolepidota on at least five lected at La Gruta, Isla Colón in February 1988, with 5 occasions, and at least 2 Grey-tailed Piha Lipaugus on Isla Cristobal in February 1989, the species previ subalaris. Stotz (1990) uncovered two previously un ously known only as far south as La Selva and Guápiles, published specimens of Striated Antbird Drymophila Costa Rica; more surprisingly Stub-tailed Spadebill devillei at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chi Platyrinchus cacrominus was found to be common on all cago; a male collected, 7 October 1967 at Guascayaco, six of the larger islands in the mouth of Laguna de Dept. Putomayo, and a female collected (probably) from
26 COTINGA 1 Neotropical Notebook San Antonio Guamuez, Dept. Putomayo, 30 October Orange-throated Tanager Wetmorethraupis 1969, these representing the first and only Colombian sterrhopteron (threatened), of which 4 were collected, records. were recorded at 1,000 m between 24 July and 3 August Notable range extensions from the Serranía de 1990 in mature forest at Shaime, 43 km south-east of Naquén, Amazonas, in July–August 1992 include: one or Zamora in the upper Río Nangaritza, Prov. Zamora– two sight records ofWhite H aw k Leucopternis albicollis, Chinchipe (Marin et al. 1992). Crescent-faced Antpitta previously only recorded north of Puerto Inirida, but Grallaricula lineifrons has been rediscovered in south known from Amazonian Brazil; up to 10 White-tipped ern Ecuador at Hacienda La Libertad, Prov. Cañar in Swift Aeronautes montivagus, all previous Colombian August 1992 by RSR, the species being previously known records coming from the Andes; Grey-bellied Antbird only from the type-locality at Oyacadu, north-east Ecua Myrmeciza pelzelni found to be common at Caño Ima, dor, and a 1972 record from P.N. Puracé, Dept. Cauca, previously known in Colombia from the west bank of the Colombia. Río Guiania, opposite the mouth of the Río Casiquiare; Other important range extensions from Krabbe a male Yapacana Antbird Myrmeciza disjuncta at (1992) include: 2 ViridianMetaltailwilliamsi Metallura Caño Ima, 14 August 1992 was only the fourth record at 3,350 m on the Páramo El Angel, Prov. Carchi, 14 ever of the species, previously known in Colombia from November 1990, representing the first record from the a female netted near Puerto Inirida; and a White- Western Andes; a Streak-capped Treehunter throated Kingbird Tyrannus albogularis observed on Thripadectes virgaticeps and an Orange-crested Fly 4 July is previously known in Colombia only from sight catcher Myiophobus phoenicomitra collected 9 km west records at Leticia (Amazon 1992). of Piñas, Prov. El Oro, 14 and 15 April 1991 respectively, Other notable records come from Patio (on the Río extends the known distribution of both species 400 km Ñambi), Dept. Nariño where a pair of the threatened southward; 5 male Andean Tapaculo Scytalopus Yellow-green Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus magellanicus collected at the Páramo El Angel, Prov. flavovirens were seen on various dates in mid-July 1993 Carchi, on 16 and 18 November 1990, are the first at the same fruiting tree (Salaman & Gandy 1993), this records from the Western Andes, as were the two Sul species being previously known from one Ecuadorean phur-bellied Tyrannulet Mecocerculus minor seen at and two Colombian localities; and the poorly known 2,500 m on a ridgetop, 19–22 November 1990, on the White-bellied Dacnis Dacnis albiventris, was found to Pacific slope in Prov. Carchi; and 3 female Large be common in the vicinity of Mitú, Dept. Vaupés, where headed Flatbill Ramphotrigon megacephala collected flocks of up to 6 individuals were seen daily between 23– 10 km south-east of Archidona, Prov. Napo in October 29 August 1993 (DW, MP and BF). 1988, are the first Ecuadorean specimens, and the sec ond record of the species in Ecuador (Marin et al. 1992). ECUADOR A record of the very localized, poorly known (threat Five new country records are as follows: up to 3 roding ened) Masked Mountain-Tanager Buthraupis Imperial Snipe Gallinago imperialis observed in P.N. wetmorei a t Papallacta Pass on 4 December 1992 by J. C. Podocarpus, Prov. Loja by MP et al. from 7–10 December Mattheus, comes from an area well visited by foreign 1990, subsequently by GK and TM, and by EH on many birders. occasions; the species was also discovered on the north ern slope of Volcán Pichincha at Loma Yanayacu, Prov. PERU Pichincha on 17 and 19 D ecem ber 1990, and subse The first documented records of Yellow Tyrannulet quently there in January and March 1991 (Krabbe Capsiemis flaveola in Peru (involving 3 specimens) were 1992); single Pale-rumped Swifts Chaetura egregia recently published as follows: an adult female from Isla observed in flocks of 5–7 Grey-rumped Swift C. Pasto, c.80 km north-east of Iquitos, Dept. Loreto, 22 cinereiventris at Tayuntza, Prov. Morona-Santiago in July 1984; a juvenile male from Tono, Dept. Cuzco, 29 July and August 1987, with 1 specimen taken (Marin et November 1985; and a juvenile male from Pakitza, al. 1992); Nariño Tapaculo Scytalopus vicinior ap Manu National Park, Dept. Madre de Dios, 11 October pears to have been long overlooked in Ecuador, but tape- 1989 (Servat 1993). recordings from between 1,650–1,775 m on the Pacific slope in Prov. Carchi in August 1988, and subsequent BOLIVIA tape-recordings and specimens from the north-west Six new country records come from chaco scrub at slope of Volcán Pichincha, from 2,350 m on the Pacific Estancia Perforación, Prov. de Cordillera, Dept. Santa slope in Prov. Carchi and 1,800 m in the Cordillera de Cruz during 1990 as follows: a group of 6 Black-hooded Toisan, Prov. Imbabura (Krabbe 1992), indicate that the Parakeet Nandayus nanday in June, and flocks of 5 species may be locally common; a male Buff-throated and 7 in September; 3 Rufous-legged Owl Strix ruficeps Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus rufigulare was collected at on 17 and 18 June and again 3 in September; a pair of Pachicutza, 1,000 m, Valle de Nangaritza, Prov. Zamora– Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper Drymornis bridgesii Chinchipe on 27 July 1989, extending the known distri observed in June and September, and a male collected; bution 400 km north from Dept. San Martín, Peru (Marin Chaco Earthcreeper Upercerthia certhioides found to et al. 1992), this species subsequently being recorded on be fairly common in June and September, the nearest two occasions on the southern slope of Cordillera de previous records being 300 km to the south in western Guacamayos and the northern flank of the Pan de Paraguay; Little Thornbird Phacellodomus sibilatrix Azucar, both in Prov. Napo, on 2 September 1990 and 2- found to be a common resident; and groups of 2–8 3 November 1990 respectively (Krabbe 1992), another Stripe-capped Sparrow Aimophila strigiceps recorded 300 km northwards range extension; and groups of 3–6 frequently in June and September (Kratter et al. 1993).
27 COTINGA 1 Neotropical Notebook Three new country records from P.N. Noel Kempff ARGENTINA Mercado, Dept. Santa Cruz are as follows: 3 Black- A total of 14 new records for the country are as follows: girdled Barbet Capito dayi collected on Serranía de (Prov. Misiones) Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea Huanchaco, August 1990, confirming the species’ pres and Brown-breasted Pygmy-tyrant Hemitriccus ence in Bolivia, being previously known from a tape obsoletus were recently recorded from the north by M. recording also from PNNKM; 4 Rufous-necked Castelino (CS); Long-tailed Potoo Nyctibius aethereus Puffbird Malacoptila rufa collected on Serranía de was tape-recorded at Parque Provincial Urugua-í in Huanchaco, August 1990; Cinereous Antshrike September 1986 and September 1989 (Straneck & John Thamnomanes caesius found to be fairly common at the son 1990); a single Blue-bellied Parrot Triclaria base of Serranía de Huanchaco, a 350 km eastward malachitacea accompanying a flock of Reddish-bellied range extension; and Tooth-billed Wren Odontorchilus Parakeet Pyrrhura frontalis was observed at P.N. Iguazu, cinereus found to be not uncommon in the canopy at April 1984 (Rumboll 1990), and subsequently a single PNNKM, August 1990, after being first discovered there bird was observed at Arroyo Urugua-í, November 1986 in 1989 (these being the first records outside Brazil) (Canevari et al. 1991); 2 Sharpbill Oxyruncus cristata (Kratter et al. 1992). were located in P.N. Iguazu, 19 July 1987 (Finch 1991), Several interesting recent records from Depts. and subsequently by other observers, where the major Chuquisaca and Tarija are as follows: Red-faced Guan ity of records come from the Bernabe Mendez trail; and Penelope dabbenei found to be very common (groups of a Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum was observed at 10 and 25 individuals) in mossy forest from Cerro the international hotel in P.N. Iguazu, 20 July 1989 Campanarios to Cerro Campamientito, Dept. (Finch 1991); Chuquisaca, March 1992; and on the southern slopes of (the north-west) a Pearled Treerunner Cerro Campamentito a roost of up to 440 Alder Ama Margarornis squamiger was observed in a mixed spe zon Amazona tucumana (previously considered threat cies flock at P.N. Baritu, Prov. Salta, and a Golden- ened) was encountered (the species was also found to be crowned Flycatcher Myiodynastes chrysocephalus locally fairly common in central Dept. Tarija); and Bo was also observed there (B. Lopez Lanus in press); a pair livian Warbling-Finch Poospiza boliviana found to be of Rufous-webbed Tyrant Polioxolmis rufipennis ob fairly common in September/October 1992 in and around served at Lagunillas, Prov. Jujuy, October 1986 (Rumboll Tariquia Reserve, southern Dept. Tarija, only 20 km 1990), and subsequently at the same locality by FL; 2 from the Argentine border (Mayer 1992a,b), from where White-tipped Swift Aeronautes montivagus photo the species remains unrecorded. graphed at P.N. Calilegua, Prov. Jujuy by FM; Grey- An ornithological survey of Beni Biological Sta bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa carbonaria recently tion, Dept. Beni in August/September 1992 revealed a recorded at Santa Ana, Prov. Jujuy by FM, this species number of interesting observations including four records previously regarded a Bolivian endemic; and a popula (one individual mist-netted) of the little known and tion of Citron-headed Yellow-Finch Sicalis threatened Unicoloured Thrush Turdus haplochrous, luteocephala, also previously regarded a Bolivian en and a total of 58 species previously unrecorded from the demic, was located near La Quiaca, Prov. Jujuy, 2 April reserve (White et al. 1993). Notable range extensions at 1989 (Pearman 1989), and subsequently there by nu BBS included an adult Pearl Kite Gampsonyx merous other observers; swainsonii 3 km north of El Porvenir, 24 August, previ (the south) a Jackass Penguin Spheniscus ously known in Bolivia from the non-Amazonian low demerus was photographed in the Magellanic Penguin lands of Depts. Santa Cruz and Tarija; an adult Crested S. magellanicus colony at Punta Tombo, Prov. Chubut, Eagle Morphnus guianensis on 17 September, previ 27 December 1986 (Rumboll 1990); and video footage ously known in Bolivia only from Dept. Santa Cruz; a and photographs were taken of 2 Westland Petrel remarkable record of a flock of 15 Military Macaw Ara Procellaria westlandica in the Beagle Channel, east of militaris, 17 September, an Andean foothill bird previ Ushuais in December 1991 (Whitney & Stejskal in ously known from Depts. Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and press), representing the second record for South America Tarija; and a mist-netted Stripe-chested Antwren and the first in Argentine waters (see also under Chile). Myrmotherula longicauda, 16 September, is another Other notable observations include: a pair of Andean foothill species. Thrush-like Wren Campylorhynchus turdinus at P.N. Pilcomayo, Prov. Formosa, 27 November 1988 (Finch CHILE 1991), the second Argentine record; a juvenile King The record of 4 Westland Petrel Procellaria Penguin Aptenodytes patagonica located at Balneario westlandica observed at sea between Isla Chiloe and Reta, southern Prov. Buenos Aires, January 1991 Puerto Aisen. 8 December 1991 (PH, GR), represents (Fiameni 1992), a remarkable accidental record but the second record for Chile and only the third for South surprisingly the second for the province; and 3 adult America, but perhaps more interestingly, these birds male White-bellied Seedeater Sporophila leucoptera were part of a group of c.150 Procellaria petrels, of trapped and released at Alpachiri, southern Prov. which only 4 came close enough to allow identification, Tucumán, 9 November 1987 (Loughead 1991), the first and it now seems probable, taking into account the record from north-east Argentina. recent record in the Beagle Channel (see under Argen tina) that the species occurs with some regularity off the BRAZIL southern cone. Two records of Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea, a winter-plumaged male, 27 December 1984 at Parque
28 COTINGA 1 Neotropical Notebook Laranjeiras, Manaus, Amazonas, and another winter- Nuestras Aves 27: 28. plumaged male near this locality, 19 December 1987 Finch, D. W. (1991) Novedades ornitologicas Argentinas. (Stotz et al. 1992) are the first records for Brazil. Other Nuestras Aves (24): 25. new records for Amazonian Brazil were made by Stotz Garrido, O. H. (1993) El frailecio blanco Charadrius et al. (1992) as follows: at least 3 records of Hudsonian alexandrinus (Aves: Charadriidae) anidando en Cuba — Godwit Limosa haemastica, between September and redescubrimiento. El Pitirre 6: 3–4. December 1990, at Ilha da Marchantaria, along the Rio Krabbe, N. (1992) Notes on distribution and natural Branco north of Boa Vista, and between Manaus and history of some poorly known Ecuadorian birds. Bull. Manacapuru; a calling Alder Flycatcher Empidonax Brit. Orn. Club 112: 169–174. alnorum in Manaus on 15 December was apparently Kratter, A. W., Carreno, M. D., Chesser, R. T., O’Neill, only the second Brazilian record; a spring-plumaged J. P. and Sillet, T. S. (1992) Further notes on bird male Blackburnian Warbler Dendroica fusca, 19 March distribution in northeastern Depto. Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1983 at the BDFF reserve (Fazenda Esteio) was the with two species new to Bolivia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club third Brazilian record, the fourth being an adult female 112: 143–150. collected at Chapada do Araripe, Ceara, 21 March 1989 Kratter, K. W., Sillet, T. S., Chesser, R. T., O’Neill, J. P., (Teixeira et al. 1993); and a first year male and a female Parker, T. A. and Castillo, A. (1993) Avifauna of a chaco American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla were observed locality in Bolivia. Wilson Bull. 105: 114–141. near Manaus, 20 April 1983 and November 1991 respec Loughead, S. (1991) Nueva localidad para la corbalita tively. ala blanca Sporophila leucoptera (Vieillot). Nuestras Other interesting records from north-east Brazil Aves 24: 25. include: some vagrant Plumbeous Ibis Harpiprion Marin, M., Carrion, J. M. and Sibley, F. C. (1992) New caerulescens observed at a dam near Iguatú, southern distributional records for Ecuadorian birds. Ornitológica Ceara, 31 October 1989, with the nearest previous Neotropical 3: 27–34. records coming from Mato Grosso State; 3 records of Mayer, S. (1992a) Birds observed during a walk from Yellow-billed Pintail Arcas georgica in Ceara involved Naravaez (Tarija) to Charcas (Chuquisaca), Bolivia, in 7 birds from Massapê in April 1979, Jaguaribe in March March 1992. Unpublished report. 1983 and Aracati in May 1983, this species previously Mayer, S. (1992b) Birds observed in and near the re known as far north at São Paulo State, with a single serve of Tariquia, Depto. Tarija, Bolivia, in September/ record from the Rio Uraricoera, Roraima State in the October 1992. Unpublished report. 1960s; and a young Wood Pewee Contopus virens Miller, B. W. and Miller, C. M. (1992) Distributional collected at Chapada do Araripe southern Ceara, 24 notes and new species records for birds in Belize. Occas. March 1989, previously recorded only from west Amazo Pap. Belize Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 6–25. nian Brazil (Teixeira et al. 1993). Another noteworthy Olson, S. L. (1993) Contributions to avian biogeography range extension is Oustalet’s Tyrannulet from the archipelago and lowlands of Bocas del Toro, Phylloscartes oustaleti at Boa Nova, Bahia, 1 August Panama. Auk 110: 100–108. 1993, representing a considerable northward extension Pearman, M. (1989) Observaciones de Sicalis from Espirito Santo State (JT, RW and MC). luteocephala, una nueva especie para la Argentina. Nuestras Aves 20: 5. VENEZUELA Pearman, M. (1993) Some range extensions and five The second and third records of Sem icollared Hawk species new to Colombia, with notes on some scarce or Accipiter collaris for Venezuela are as follows: a single little known species. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 113: 66–75. at 1,600 m along the Río Chiquito Valley, P.N. El Tama, Rumboll, M. A. E. (1990) Tres aves nuevas para la Táchira on 12 September 1990 (MP); and a single along Argentina. Nuestras Aves 22: 28. the San Isidro Tunnel road, Merida on 14 January 1993 Salaman, P. and Gandy, D. (1993) Preliminary report of (GG). Colombia 1993: Thunder Lake Expedition. Unpublished report. The Neotropical Notebook was compiled by Mark Servat, G. P. (1993) First records of Yellow Tyrannulet Pearman (Capsiempis flaveola) in Peru. Wilson Bull. 105: 534. Records were collated from the published and unpub Stotz, D. F. (1990) First specimens of Drymophila devillei lished references cited below, and from observations from Colombia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 110: 37. and contributions by the following: Miguel Castelino Stotz, D. F., Bierregaard, R. O., Cohn-Haft, M., (MC), Mike Catsis (MC), Graeme Green (GG), Peter Petermann, P., Smith, J., Whittaker, A. and Wilson, S. Hayman (PH), Frank Lambert (FL), Flavio Moschione V. (1992) The status of North American migrants in (FM), Mark Pearman (MP), Robert S. Ridgely (RSR), central Amazonian Brazil. Condor 94: 608–621. Graham Riley (GR), Carlos Saibene (CS), Joe Tobias Teixeira, D. M., Otoch, R., Lingi, G., Raposo, M. A. and (JT), Rob Williams (RW), David Willis (DW). de Almeida, A. C. C. (1993) Notes on some birds of northeastern Brazil (5). Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 113: 48–52. Amazon (1992) Amazon 1992 — Final report: a Cam- White, A., Brace, R., Duffield, G., Hesse, A., Payne, A. bridge–RHBNC expedition to Colombia. Unpublished and Spick, S. (1993) Nottingham University Bolivia report. project 1992: an ornithological survey of the Beni Bio Canevari, M., Canevari, P., Carrizo, G. R., Harris, G., logical Station. Unpublished report. Mata, J. R. and Straneck, R. J. (1991) Nueva guia de las Whitney, B. M. and Stejskal, D. J. (in press) Procellaria aves Argentinas. Buenos Aires: Fundacion acindor. westlandica in the Beagle Channel. El Hornero. Fiameni, M. A. (1992) Pingüino Rey en Buenos Aires.
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Records constitute published material, mostly from the locality. Amazingly the bird was joined by another on period 1993–1994, including papers from a variety of the latter date (Norton 1993) and the records represent poorly known journals, together with personal the sixth for the Caribbean, the seventh for the communications submitted to the editors. Subject Neotropics and only the ninth for the Americas. A female matters include new country records, rediscoveries, Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis observed at range extensions of over 250 km, and significant new Greenland, St. Andrew on 24 April 1993 is one of a small localities for rare or threatened species. Some records number of records this century in the Lesser Antillas may, on occasion, require further confirmation while (Norton 1993). their authenticity is vetted, as far as possible, by the editors. SAINT VINCENT A sighting of a single White-crowned Pigeon Columba leucocephala in March 1993, was possibly CARIBBEAN the first island record (Norton 1993).
JAMAICA A Spotted Rail Pardirallus maculatus observed CENTRAL AMERICA by NM and SS at the Upper Black River Morass on 19 January 1994 was the third record for the island; the MEXICO first record in 1977 also came from this locality A juvenile-plumaged Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa indicating that a small population may be present. lapponica was photographed at Ensenada, Baja California on 12 September 1992 (Radamaker & Ludden BAHAMA ISLANDS 1993), representing the first conclusive record for Three notable records, all firsts for the Bahamas, are Mexico, the species being previously known from an as follows: a male Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrina 1882/1883 specimen of questionable identity. was present at Graeme Hall Swamp from February through to 9 March 1993 (Norton 1993); a Virginia’s BELIZE Warbler Vermivora virginiae was observed at Dover New country records include Crested Owl Lophostrix Sound Observation Hill, Grand Bahama on 8 March c rista ta and Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula 1993 (Smith et al. 1994), being only the second record schisticolor, both found at the Columbia River Forest for the West Indies; and a Wilson’s Phalarope Reserve, Toledo District in April 1993, along with an Steganopus tricolor was located at Lake Rosa, Great observation of Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus Inagua on 4 April (Norton 1993). erythropthalmus on 8 April 1993 (Parker et al. 1993), previously listed as hypothetical in Belize. ANTIGUA Another important find was that of a fairly large A White Stork Ciconia ciconia was photographed at population of the rare Keel-billed Motmot Electron Cook’s Dump, outside St. John’s on 14 August 1993 carinatum in the Columbia River Forest Reserve, Toledo (Gricks 1994a), representing the first record for the District in April 1993 with at least 20 individuals located Americas. The bird, seen by several observers, appears (Parker et al. 1993). to be a genuine vagrant and had no leg rings or wing tags, and was not present on the next day. A Ruff GUATEMALA Philomachus pugnax on 23–24 September 1993 at Up to 12 Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus Jolly Harbour (Gricks 1994b) was also the first record were observed, over three days, between 26–29 March for the Antigua–Bermuda group. 1992 from the Puerto Barrios to Livingston boat service, c. 22 km off the Guatemalan coast (Byrom 1993). This BARBADOS record, backed up with photographic evidence, is the Norton (1993) reported the first record of Pacific first from the Caribbean coast of Guatemala. Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva in the West Indies, which involved a bird photographed at Golden Grove HONDURAS Swamp on 24 April 1993. Frost (1993) published the The isolated population of Yellow-crowned Parrot second record of Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola Amazona ochrocephala in the Sula Valley has been observed at Graeme Hall Swamp, St. Philip on 28 rediscovered having not been seen since 1962; a flock of November 1992, present til at least 19 April 1993; and 75 were located by SL and AM on 16 and 17 February the second record of Little Egret Egretta garzetta, 1994 in the Punta Sal area. present from 1–27 April 1993, was made at the same
26 COTINGA 2 Neotropical Notebook SOUTH AMERICA Hemispingus Hemispingus melanotis was found to be fairly common at Utuana with groups of 3–8 COLOMBIA observed in September 1989, but could not be located New country records are as follows: Chimborazo thereafter during searches in 1991, when a considerable Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo, previously portion of the cloud forest and bamboo had been burned known only from Ecuador as far north Imbabura (Best et al. 1993). Photographic and tape-recorded Province has been located at El Tambo (3,550 m) on the evidence of a pair of Three-striped Flycatcher Pacific slope in Nariño by CD and AP, with at least two Conopias trivirgata at Pacuya, Napo Province pairs observed, including a pair netted and (Cygnus Tour group) was made in both 1992 and 1993. photographed on 12 July 1991 and a female at 3,600 m; The Crescent-faced Antpitta Grallaricula and a Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor, lineifrons, recently rediscovered (see Cotinga 1: 27, accidentally omitted from Cotinga 1, was observed in should read August 1991 not August 1992) in the riverside trees between Mahimachi and Cano Colorado, province of Cañar, has been found at two additional Serrania de Naquen, Amazonas in July/August 1992 localities (Robins et al. 1994) as follows: from 14–24 (Amazon 1992). March 1992, it was found fairly commonly between 3,225 and 3,400 m in humid temperate forest along the GUYANA western slope of Cerro Mongus, extreme eastern Carchi Three recently discovered new country records were province, and three birds were located between 28 published in Parker et al. (1993b) as a result of fieldwork March – 1 April 1992 at 3100 m in the Cordillera de undertaken along Maipaima Creek, in the western Cordoncillo, Loja Province, with birds again singing at Kanuku Mountains, south-west Guyana, in February this locality in September and November 1992, 1993 as follows: 2 White-winged Potoo Nyctinius indicating that the species is widely distributed between leucopterus were heard on numerous occasions, and 3,000 and 3,400 m along the eastern Ecuadorian Andes. tape-recorded, in early February, the song being very Two interesting range extensions, also made by Best et similar to that of the recently discovered Manaus al. (1993), were the second record of Rufous-crowned population; and tape-recorded evidence of Barred Tody-tyrant Poecilotriccus ruficeps on the Andean Forest-Falcon M icrastur ruficollis and Tawny- west slope at Utuana, Loja Province, extending the bellied Screech-Owl Otus watsonii provided first known range on that slope by c.250 km southward, while country records, although both species are common in this and a 1968 specimen from Loja may prove to adjacent countries. represent the nominate race from the east Andean slope; and records of several Dusky Bush-Tanager ECUADOR Chlorospingus semifuscus from Buenaventura, El A total of seven new country records have recently come Oro Province in February and March 1991, extend the to light. Ellen & Steijn (1994) reported four American known distribution southward by c.300 km, although Avocet Recurvirostra americana located on a these records are likely to be seasonal as the species marshy coastal lake 12 km south of Atacames, has gone unrecorded by the numerous observers who Esmeraldas province on 10 January 1991, and a single have visited this well known site. was photographed by G. Speight and M. Coverdale at the Salinas saltpans, Guayas province on 26 August PERU 1992, providing the first records for mainland South A vagrant adult Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa America. Three new records come from a recent tridactyla photographed at Pucusana, 60 km southeast expedition to the central portion of the Cordillera del of Lima, Department of Lima in (no date given) 1987 Condor, province of Zamora–Chinchipe in September (Haase 1993) represents the first South American 1990 (Krabbe & Sornoza 1994): firstly, two Buff-browed record. Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata, were collected at 1,700 m, the species previously known from PARAGUAY the southern end of this cordillera in Peru; four specimens The recent conservation initiative of the Cambridge of the extremely localised Cinnamon-breasted Tody- University expedition Project Canopy ’92 (Brooks et al. tyrant Hemitriccus cinnamomeipectus, previously 1993) provides us with substancial new information on known from only from three localities either side of the the status of many birds in this underwatched country. Marañón River, northern Peru, were also collected at With the comparatively well studied Atlantic Forest this site; and the recently described Bar-winged Wood- areas in nearby Misiones, Argentina and Paraná, Brazil, wren Henicorhina leucoptera was found to be fairly recent field work in the forest remnants of the common at La Punta, 1,700 m and recorded up to Paraguayan Atlantic Forest from July - September 1992 Chinapinza at 1,900 m, extending the known close to the Argentine and Brazilian borders has, not distribution by 100 km northward. From Utuana, surprisingly, revealed a number of species previously southern Loja Province come records of a pair of Black- unrecorded within Paraguay or known from sparsely crested Tit-tyrant Anairetes nigrocristatus on 14 documented records (Brooks et al. 1993) as follows: four September 1989, and again a pair and two single males sightings of up to 3 Plumbeous Pigeon Columba in the same are on 6 February 1991 (Best et al. 1993), p lumbea on four dates in September 1992 at Lagunita; the species was previously known only from Piura two aural records of Black-banded Owl Ciccaba Department, Peru (close to the Ecuadorian border) huhula were made at Estancia Itabo, Department of south to Ancash Department; and Black-eared Canindeyú in August; Sooty Swift Cypseloides
27 COTINGA 2 Neotropical Notebook fumigatus was recorded at Estancia San Antonio, thousand birds and that the first breeding data has been Department of Alto Paraná, and Estancia Itabo, obtained. Additionally, a sight record of this species near Estancia La Golondrina II, and Reserva Natural de Toconao, Antofagasta province on 25 February 1988 Bosque Mbaracayú, Department of Canindeyú; Grey- (Sallaberry et al. 1992) also represents a considerable rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris was found range extension southward. to be relatively common at Estancia La Golondrina, Six new country records are as follows: a Band-tailed Department of Caazapa, Estancia Itabo, and Reserva Earthcreeper Eremobius phoenicurus collected c.4 Natural del Bosque Mbaracayú; a sighting of a Rufous- km south-east of O’Higgins (= 34 km by road southwest throated Sapphire Hylocharis sapphirina at San of Monte Aymond), Magallanes Province on 28 Antonio on 26 July and two at Itabo on 7 August; November 1988 (Vuilleumier et al. 1993), previously observations of the threatened Red-spectacled known only from Argentine Patagonia; a single Amazon Amazona petrei, a single at Itabo, likely to Slender-billed Miner Geositta tenuirostris be a wandering individual, on 15 August 1992; a single observed in a bog near Chucuyo, PN Lauca, Tarapaca White-browed Foliage-gleaner P h ilydor province in February 1990 (Sallaberry et al. 1992); a amaurotis was recorded at Estancia La Golondrina I Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea located at on 8 July, and up to three daily over a period of four Temuco bus station by AJ, present from 19–20 February days in late July at Estancia San Antonio; single Mouse- 1992; a Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus coloured Tapaculo Scytalopus speluncae records present from 20–31 December 1992 at Laguna de Batuco, on four dates in mid July at Estancia La Golondrina I; Santiago province (Aguirre & Egli 1993); a first summer and a single Sooty Grassquit Tiaris fuliginosa male American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla netted at Lagunita on 12 September provided a observed in the Azapa Valley, Arica, Tarapaca Province considerable range extension from central Brazil. The by AJ on 8 May 1986, and a female/immature located at fourth Paraguayan record of the near-threatened the nearby Lluta Valley in February 1989 (Sallaberry Canebrake Groundcreeper Clibanornis et al. 1992); and 3 Giant Conebill Oreomanes fraseri dendrocolaptoides comes from Estancia La Golondina located at Zapahuira (3500 m), Tarapaca Province in I with a bird netted and photographed on 11 July 1992. December 1991 (Sallaberry et al. 1992) in a Polylepis Other noteworthy records in Paraguay come from a grove, and again at the same locality on 1 December study of austral migrants in Paraguay (Hayes et al. 1994) 1992 (Howell & Webb unpubl. 1992). as follows: two Bar-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes A record of a Brown Noddy Anous stolidus at Punta fuscus and three Short-billed Pipit Anthus Concon, Prov. Valparaiso on 4 January 1992 is the first fu rcatu s observed at San Juan de Neembucu, for the Chilean mainland (Gonzalez et al. 1993) while Department of Ñeembucu on 6 June 1991 were second the species is known to breed as close as San Felix and records for Paraguay; five male Marsh Seedeater San Ambrosio (to Chile), some 600 km offshore. Sporophila palustris near Carayao, Department of Three second records for the country included reports Caaguazu on 13 July 1977, two males at Estancia Nu of 3 White-faced Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna Pora, Department of Misiones on 24 March 1989, a viduata near Cerro La Cruz, Calama on 11 March 1989, single male at Estancia La Fortuna, Department of two of which were captured on 16 May, and another Canindeyú on 17 October 1990, and a male southwest reported from Valdivia (Sallaberry et al. 1992); a pair of of San Juan Bautista, Department of Misiones on 2 Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma were March 1991 provide only the second documented records observed at Tranque San Rafael, Santiago province on in Paraguay of this threatened species; observations of 5 April 1992 (Aguirre et al. 1992); and a Sparkling several male Chestnut Seedeater Sporophila Violetear Colibri coruscans observed at Putre, cinnamomea at Estancia Nu Pora, Department of Tarapaca province in November 1988, followed by Misiones on 24 March 1989 and at Estancia La Fortuna, another in vicinity of Socoroma, Tarapaca province in Department of Canindeyú on 2 October 1990 provide January 1981 (Sallaberry et al. 1992) and a spate of the only records in Paraguay since this near-threatened records since, at the former locality, by a number of species was collected in 1930; two Lesser Canastero observers. Asthenes pyrrholeuca, to the north of Filadelfia, Other interesting records include: a Green Heron Department of Boqueron, on 17 June 1990 represent Butorides striatus observed at Punta Teatinos at the the third record for the country; and a male White extreme northern end of La Serena Beach on 5 January winged Black-tyrant Knipolegus aterrimus 1989 (Sallaberry et al. 1992) representing the third observed west of Fortin Teniente Agripino Enciso, Chilean record; a Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja Department of Nueva Asunción also provided the third observed at Estero de Tongoy, Coquimbo province, in Paraguayan record. September 1989 was the first Chilean record for many years (Sallaberry et al. 1992); a Puna Plover CHILE Charadrius alticola located at Embalse El Yeso, A new and substancial population of the poorly known Santiago province (3000 m) in December 1989 and ‘threatened’ Tamarugo Conebill Conirostrum (Sallaberry et al. 1992) was c.500 km south of its known tamarugensis was discovered at Pampa del Tamarugal range; a Band-tailed Gull Larus belcheri, previously National Reserve, Tarapaca province in October 1993 known in Chile as far south as Coquimbo, was located (CE in prep.). The good news is that the population at 400 km to the south at Las Cruces, Valparaiso found, albeit restricted to two localities of planted province in July 1988 ( Sallaberry et al. 1992); Chimney Tamarugos Prosopis tamarugo, consists of several Swift Chaetura pelagica, previously thought to be a
28 COTINGA 2 Neotropical Notebook rare summer visitor has been observed in groups of 16– following eleven new records for the islands. Several 22 on a regular basis in the months of December and Royal Penguins Eudyptes (chrysolophus) schlegeli January since 1987 in the Calama Valley (Demetrio were found in a Rockhopper Penguin colony on West 1993); Cliff Swallow Hirundo pyrrhonota , Falkland (no dates given), representing a huge range previously known from a handful of records, has also extension from Macquarie Island, and a Snares been observed in numbers on a regular basis since 1990 Crested Penguin Eudyptes robustus from New at the same locality between December and March Zealand was also present, and photographed, in a (Demetrio 1993b); and a Sand Martin / Bank Swallow Rockhopper colony on West Falkland, and later Riparia riparia, collected 2 km south of San Juan on photographed at the Settlement rookery on New Island the Brunswick Peninsula (c. 65 km south of Punta on 10 December 1988. A Georgian Diving-petrel Arenas), in the extreme south of Magallanes Province, Pelecanoides georgicus was present at Stanley on 12 November 1989 (Vuilleumier et al. 1993), swimming pool from 26 March until 31 March 1990, represents a remarkable vagrant record considering the when found dead, although the species may have been species was not previously recorded south of Valdivia, previously overlooked in and around the islands. An in Chile (but see recent records from the Falklands / unconfirmed record of a juvenile Lake Duck Oxyura Malvinas). vittata was reported near Stanley Airport on 7 March 1994. A dark-morph Long-winged Harrier Circus ARGENTINA buffoni observed near Stanley on 25 February 1989 A Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus and an Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis on Sea in breeding plumage was present at Punta Rasa, Buenos Lion Island from 21-22 February 1993 represent first Aires province from 1–8 January 1993 (AJ in prep.) and records for the islands. Four other firsts were an appears to represent the first confirmed record of the American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica at species in Argentina. Sea Lion Island from 4–13 January 1994; a Greater Further details on three species previously reported Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca at the Frying Pan, new to Argentina in Cotinga 1 are as follows: the record Mount Pleasant between 11 November and 5 December of White-tipped Swift Aeronautes montivagus 1989, an adult winter-plumaged Sandwich Tern referred to a sighting of 12 individuals at P.N. Calilegua, Sterna sandvicensis at B ertha’s Beach on 28 Jujuy on 26 June 1991 (Moschione 1993); the first and November and 27 December 1989 and three records of second records of Brown-breasted Pygmy-Tyrant Sand Martin / Bank Swallow Riparia riparia, two Hemitriccus obsoletus were both made at P.N. Iguazu, at Stanley on 13 October 1988 and one over Beaver Misiones on 4 May 1991 and later, tape-recorded, on 21 Pond, Pebble Island on 18 December 1988. July 1991 (Saibene and Castelino 1993); and the Grey- A vagrant Tufted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes parulus was bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa carbonaria record recorded on Beaver Island on 16 May 1993 representing referred to two individuals at 3440 m, Arroyo San Sana yet another first. (not Santa Ana as previously stated), 3 km east of La Seabird records provide a number of other interesting Quiaca, Jujuy on 6 June 1988 (Moschione and San sightings as follows: an Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica Cristobal 1993). antarctica picked up between Brookfield and Port The wintering range of the rare Magellanic Plover Louis on 15 September 1990 was the fifth record for the Pluvianellus sodalis has been extended northward islands; a Great-winged Petrel Pterodrom a by c. 400 km from the Valdes Peninsula, Rio Negro to macroptera between 110 and 150 km east south-east southern Buenos Aires province; where five separate of Cape Pembroke on 5 February 1990 provides the third records, involving three singles, a group of 3 and a group record; a single Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus of 7, were made in the austral winters of 1983, 1988 within Falklands waters on 5 February 1990 was the and 1991 at Mar Chiquita, Salitral de la Vidriera, 23 third record; a Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis km west of Bahia Blanca, Salinas Chicas, 20 km north 110-150 km east south-east of Cape Pembroke on 24 east of Medaños, and near Villalonga (Narosky et al. February 1990, and another 185 km east south-east of 1993). Cape Pembroke on 3 March 1990 were the second and Other interesting records, of vagrant birds, made by AJ third records; a White-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta at Punta Rasa, southern Buenos Aires province, include: grallaria on 24 February 110-150 km east south-east an Andean Flamingo Phoenicoparrus andinus of Cape Pembroke was the third record; and a Magellan from 16–26 December 1991 (photographed); single Diving-petrel Pelecanoides magellani caught and Black Terns Chlidonias nigra on 26 December 1991, photographed aboard M.V. Stena Seaspread in the and 31 December 1992; a Short-tailed (Chestnut- Falkland Sound in June 1990 was the fourth record for bellied) Nighthawk Lurocalis nattereri from 11– the islands. 12 November 1992; an Ashy-tailed Swift Chaetura Sporadically recorded vagrant non passerines from andrei was also reported on 11 November by S.Hilty recent years include a Snowy Egret Egretta thula and M.Rumboll; an Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus at Bertha’s pond on 21 May 1989, one at Kidney Cove tyrannus on 6 November 1992; and a male Blue-black in February 1993 and another, or the same, at Stanley Grassquit Volatína jacarina on 7 January 1992. on 12 may 1993, representing the fourth and fifth records for the islands; a Roseate Spoonbill Ajaja FALKLAND ISLANDS / ISLAS MALVINAS ajaja at Monty Dean’s Bridge from 29 May to 1 June A large number of vagrant records have recently been 1989, found dead in late August, was the fifth record; a published (Gregory 1994, Henry 1994) including the Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis at Fox
29 COTINGA 2 Neotropical Notebook Point in February 1989 was the fourth record; a observer. The latter two species were to be expected in Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango on Cape Amazonian Brazil as both have been recorded in Pembroke in autumn 1988 was the third or fourth neighbouring Colombia, Peru, and the former from record; a Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes at Cape Bolivia also. Pembroke from 31 October – 1 November 1993 may Three Formicariidae sightings represent second records represent only the fifth island record; and a Tawny- for Brazil as follows: 5 Rio Suno Antwren throated Dotterel Eudromias ruficollis on Stanley Myrmotherula sunensis were observed at Placido do Common on 15 September 1989 represents the third Castro, Acre on 16 July 1992 (first collected in 1902 along island record. the middle Rio Jurua); at least 3 Spot-tailed Antwren Recent vagrant passerine records include: a male Herpsilochmus sticturus were observed near Porto Rufous-backed Negrito Lessonia rufa aboard the Grande, Amapa, on 11 August 1992 (Forrester 1993), Falklands Right at c.30 nautical miles west south-west previously recorded from Obidos, Para; and at least 1 of Cape Meredith on 11 October 1988, and another on Todd’s Antwren H. stictocephalus was recorded at New Island in late November 1990, representing the the same locality on the same date (Forrester 1993), second and third records for the islands; two White- first collected from Rio Paru de Oeste, Para in June crested Elaenias Elaenia albiceps present on Sea 1960. Lion Island on 16 February 1993 was the second record; Other range extensions from north to south are as an adult Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana follows: two new state records for Amapa were a at Gipsy Cove on 2-3 April 1989 was the fourth record; Sparkling Violetear Colibri coruscans, near Porto and a Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Grande on 7 August 1992; a Sooty-headed Tyrannulet along Cape Pembroke on 8 December 1989, and two at Phyllomyias griseiceps was observed near Porto Stanley airport on 14–15 November 1990 provided the Grande on 7 August 1992 (Forrester 1993); 3 Cinnamon second and third records for the islands. Manakin Neopipo cinnamomea records include a single at Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre on 12 July 1992, 1 at URUGUAY Placido do Castro, Acre on 16 July and 1 at Boa Vista, An important wintering population of the threatened Roraima on 19 July 1992 all believed to represent new Pam pa’s M eadowlark Sturnella militaris , state records (Forrester 1993). Other new state records involving c.100 individuals, was located by EA at 90 km for Acre were: 4 Striped Manakin Machaeropterus west of Tacuarembó on the road to Salto, Department regulus at Cruzeiro do Sul on 11 July 1992; at least 4 of Tacuarembó on 19 July 1993, and represents the first Yellow-crested Tanager Tachyphonus rufiventer Uruguayan record since 1958. at the same locality on 12–13 July 1992; a pair of Bluish- slate Antshrike Thamnomanes schistogynus at BRAZIL Placido do Acre on 16 July 1992, a pair of Sclater’s Two important rediscoveries were made in 1992. The Antwren Myrmotherula sclateri at the same locality first was a pair of Chestnut-headed Nunlet Nonnula on 15 and 17 July 1992, 5 Yellow-browed Antbird amaurocephala observed, by A. Whittaker, foraging Hypocnemis hypoxantha at Cruzeiro do Sul on 12 July for around five minutes along the northern bank of the 1992; 2 Johanne’s Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus Unini River, inside the northern limits of Jau National johannis at Placido do Castro on 16 July 1992, and 2 Park, Amazonas State (date unknown: report to follow). Plain Tyrannulet Inezia inornata at the same The species had not been recorded since it was collected locality on 15–16 July 1992. In Minas Gerais RS observed in 1921 near Manacapuru, c. 200 km to the south-west up to 6 Southern Pochard Netta erythropthalma of Manaus. Hoary-throated Spinetail Poecilurus at Lagoas Pampulha, Belo Horizonte between 24 August kollari has been rediscovered with a pair observed at and 7 September 1993, representing what appears to Conceicao do Mau, Roraima on 22 July 1992 (Forrester be a new state record and range extension of c.400 km 1993, Forrester in prep.), the species last being recorded west of Rio de Janeiro where this highly localised species in 1956, but also been recently in Guyana (report to is still present in numbers; and the same observer follow). photographed a group of up to 10 Unicoloured Five new country records have been reported as follows: Blackbird Agelaius cyanopus at the same locality a Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus on 28 August 1993, a similar range extension west of was recorded by AW (pers. comm to BF) at Cruzeiro do Rio de Janeiro, and known from c. 490 km to the Sul, Acre, in 1992 (no date given); three Pale-eyed northeast. From São Paulo State, a single Wilson’s Pygmy-Tyrant Atalotriccus pilaris were observed Plover Charadrius wilsonia at Ilha Comprida beach, on 21 July 1992 in north Roraima (Forrester 1993), the in December 1993 (Ridgely unpublished 1993) was the species also recently located just over the border but in first state record, and the first south of Bahia. Finally, Guyana; a single (?) Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum Myiodynastes luteiventris was observed by AW at latirostre has been observed at Turvo State Forest Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre in 1992; and the first record of Reserve and Nonoai State Forest Reserve, Rio Grande the scarce Casqued Oropendola Psarocolius oseryi do Sul in August 1993 (Clements unpublished 1993). (number unknown) was made in 1992 (no date given) at Eirunepe, Rio Jurua, Amazonas by AW; and Black- VENEZUELA and-white Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa After the recent report of two Grey-headed Warblers (numbers and sexes unknown) was recorded at Cruzeiro Basileuterus griseiceps at Cerro Negro (Cotinga 1: do Sul, Acre, in 1992 (no date given) by the same 10), this threatened and little known species has again
30 COTINGA 2 Neotropical Notebook been observed at the same locality by PB with up to 3 Gregory, P. (1994) Notes on new and scarce birds in individuals on 2 and 4 February 1994, along with a the Falkland Islands 1988–1990. Bull. Brit. Orn. Venezuelan Flowerpiercer Diglossa venezuelensis, Club 114: 12–20. another threatened species. Single individuals of both Gricks, N.P. (1994a) Vagrant White Stork Ciconia species were also located at a new site, by BC, JF, GS ciconia (Aves: Ciconiidae) found in Antigua: A First and BW, in a finger of semi-degraded forest in an area Record for the West Indies. El Pitirre 7(1): 2. dominated by coffee plantations along a tributary of the Gricks, N.P. (1994b) First Record of the Ruff Rio Caripe, at 12 km east of Teresen (= 17 km east of (Philomachus pugnax) for Antigua-Barbuda. El Caripe) on two consecutive days, 19 and 20 December Pitirre 7(2): 3. 1993. Haase, B.J.M. (1993) Sight record of Black-legged Kittiwake in Peru. American Birds 47: 382–383. Neotropical Notebook: Hayes, F.E., Scharf, P.A. & Ridgely, R.S. (1994) Austral compiled by Mark Pearman bird migrants in Paraguay. Condor 96: 83–97. Henry, A. ed. (1994) Recent bird records from the Acknowledgements: islands. The Warrah 5: 12. In compiling this Neotropical Notebook thanks are due Howell, S.N.G. & Webb, S. Birds seen in Chile, 8 to the following individuals and observers for submitting November–11 December 1992. Unpublished report. and passing on records: Esteban Abadie (AE), Peter Krabbe, N. & Sornoza M., F. (1994) Avifaunistic results Boesman (PB), Brian Cox (BC), Carl Downing (CD), of a subtropical camp in the Cordillera del Condor, Cristian Estades (CF), John Flynn (JF), Bruce Forrester southeastern Ecuador. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 114: 55– (BF), Alvaro Jaramillo (AJ), Adrian Long, Niall Machin 61. (NM), Tony Payne (AP), Rick Simpson (RS), Graham Moschione, F.N. (1993) Presencia del Vencejo Spinks (GS), Simon Sulley (SS), Bob Watts (BS) and Montañés Aeronautes montivagus en la Argentina. David Wege. El Hornero 13(4): 307–308. Moschione, F.N. & San Cristobal, J. (1993) Registro References: de Payador Negro Diglossa carbonaria para la Aguirre, J., Garcia, M.D., Egli, G., Phillips, R. y otros Argentina. El Hornero 13(4): 307. socios de UNORCH (1992) Segundo reporte de Pato Narosky, T,. Di Giacomo, A.G. & Barbarskas, M. (1993) Castaña (Netta erythrophthalma). Bol. UNORCH Presencia invernal de Pluvianellus sodalis en la 13: 8. provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. El Hornero Aguirre, J. & Egli, M. (1993) Primer registro de 13(4): 309–310. (Tyrannus melancholicus) para Chile. Bol. UNORCH Norton, R.L. (1993) West Indies Region. American 15: 6–7. Birds 47(3): 457. Amazon (1992) Amazon 1992 — Final Report: a Parker, T.A. III, Foster, R.B., Emmons, L.H., Freed, P, Cambridge–RHBNC expedition to Colombia. Forsyth, A.B., Hoffman, B. & Gill, B.D. (1993b) A Unpublished report. Biological Assessment of the Kanuku Mountain Best, B.J., Clarke, C.T., Checker, M., Broom, A.L., Region of Southwestern Guyana. Conservation Thewlis, R.M., Duckworth, W. & McNab, A. (1993) International (RAP Working Papers 5). Distributional records, natural history notes, and Parker, T.A. III, Holst, B.K., Emmons, L.H. & Meyer, conservation of some poorly known birds from J.R. (1993a) A Biological Assessment of the Columbia southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Bull. River Forest Reserve, Toledo District, Belize. Brit. Orn. Club 113: 234–255. Conservation International (RAP Working Papers 3). Byrom, R. (1993) An Unusual Concentration and First Radamaker, K. & Ludden, C. (1993) A record of Bar Photographic Record of the Pomarine Jaeger tailed Godwit for Mexico. The Euphonia 2: 58–65. (Stercorarius pomarinus) on the Caribbean Coast Ridgely, R.S. São Paulo 5–16 December 1993. of Guatemala. El Pitirre 6(1): 2. Unpublished report. Clements, J.F. Report on a Birding Trip to Brazil, Robbins, M.B., Krabbe, N., Rosenberg, G.H., Ridgely, August 9 – September 16,1993. Unpublished report. R.S. & Sornoza Molina, F. (1994) Notes on the Demetrio, L. (1993) Aclaraciones sobre la presencia natural history of the Crescent-faced Antpitta. de Vencejo de Chimenea (Chaetura pelagica) en el Wilson Bull. 106: 169–173. valle de Calama. Bol. UNORCH 15: 16–17. Sallaberry, M., Aguirre, J. & Yanez, J. (1992) Adiciones Demetrio, L. (1993b) Algunos comentarios sobre la a la lista de aves de Chile: descripción de especies presencia de Golondrinas en Calama. Bol. UNORCH nuevas para el país y otros datos ornitológicas. 15: 17. Museo Nac. de Hist. Nat. (Noticiario Mensual) 321: Ellen, R. ter & Steijn, L. (1994) American Avocets in 3–10. Ecuador in January 1991 and August 1992. Dutch Smith, W.P., Smith, S.A., Ryan, P.G. & Cassidy, R. Birding 16: 59–60. (1994) First Report of Virginia’s Warbler from the Forrester, B.C. (1993) Birding Brazil: a check-list and Bahama Islands, with Comments on Other Records site guide. published privately. from the West Indies and Eastern North America. Frost, M. (1993) Observations of the Wood Sandpiper El Pitirre 7(2): 2. and Little Egret in Barbados. El Pitirre 6(1): 3. Vuilleumier, F., Capparella, A.P. & Lazo, I. (1993) Two Gonzalez, C., Rothmann, J. & Gonzalez, V. (1993) notable bird records from Chilean Patagonia. Bull. Registro litoral de Gaviotin de San Felix (Anous Brit. Orn. Club 113: 85–87. stolidus). Bol. UNORCH 15: 12–13.
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Records constitute published material, mostly 8–14 March 1994; and a Ruff Philomachus from the period 1993–1994 (unless otherwise pugnax (second island record) at Potworks Dam stated) and personal communications submit on 19 February 1994 and at McKinnon’s salt lake ted to the editor. Subject matter includes new on 14 and 19 March 1994. The White Stork country records, rediscoveries, range extensions Ciconia ciconia (see Cotinga 2: 26, 1994) first of over 250 km and significant new localities or reported near St John’s in August 1993 was re records of threatened and near-threatened spe located on 31 March 19947 and was still present cies. Some records may, on occasion, require fur on 8 July 1994 with a sighting at Potworks Dam ther confirmation while their authenticity is (CG). vetted, as far as possible, by the editors. ST. LUCIA An Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba photo CARIBBEAN graphed at the Moule a Chique headland on 19 August 19922 represents the third record for the BAHAMA ISLANDS Americas, after a specimen collected on Barba A Virginia Rail Rallus limicola reported by an dos in 1955 and a record at Desecheo Island, off experienced observer near Lucayan National Puerto Rico in July 1987. One or possibly two Park, Grand Bahama on 4 November 1994 (see14) Collared Plover Charadrius collaris at Arch apparently represents only the second record for Pond on 27 June 1993 and Green Pond on 25 the West Indies. Up to 5 Shiny Cowbird July 1993 (see14) represents only the fourth is Molothrus bonariensis were observed regularly, land record. between 13–30 July 1994, near Staniard Creek, North Andros Island1 (also Neotropical News). BARBADOS The spread continues and these records are ap A first-winter Black-headed Gull Larus parently the first for Bahamas. A sub-adult ridibundus at Congo Road on 5 December 1993 Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus re (see14) appears to represent the first record for corded at New Plymouth Harbour, Green Turtle the island. Cay, Abaco Islands on 19 February 1994 (see14) apparently represents the first record for Baha TRINIDAD mas. The reported Hooded Warbler Wilsonia f french6 (also RF) presented numerous recent citrina (Cotinga 2: 26, 1994) is apparently not records of interest including four new records unusual on the Bahamas (SL), the species more for Trinidad and nine for Tobago as follows: a likely an occasional winter visitor and does not Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus picked up represent the first record for the islands contra dead at Manzanilla Beach, near Nariva Swamp Norton13. on 12 December 1991 was the first record for Trinidad; an adult Northern Gannet Sula JAMAICA bassana observed less than 100 m off Speyside, Two more sightings of a Spotted Rail Tobago on 29 November 1991 was the first record Pardirallus maculatus at the Upper Black River for the island; 12 Masked Booby Sula Morass in 199410 apparently refer to the same dactylatra were observed at St. Giles Islands individual reported as the third country record on 20 January 1993, with 4 being photographed reported in Cotinga 2: 26, 1994 although fur there in March 1993 representing the first ther details are not available. records for Tobago; an adult Jabiru Jabiru mycteria at Caroni on 12 May 1990 was the first ANTIGUA Trinidad record; a pair of Ring-necked Duck Gricks7 reported a winter plumage Wilson’s Aythya collaris and a female and 2 immature Phalarope Steganopus tricolor (first island Masked Duck Oxyura dominica at Buccoo record) at McKinnon’s salt pond, present from Marsh on 18–19 January 1992 and 13 February
60 COTINGA 3 Neotropical Notebook 1994 respectively both represent a first record Selva is the only other record in the last 30 years. and a first record this century for Tobago; a fe At Tapanti also comes the report of Lattice male Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax tailed Trogon Trogon clathratus at 1550 m, uncinatus photographed at Speyside on 13–14 extending the altitudinal range for the species August 1992 was the first record for Tobago; a by 450 m. Two very localised hummingbirds, Savanna Hawk Heterospizias meridionalis re Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae ported at the Lowlands Estate, Tobago in Au and Snowcap Microchera albocoronata, gener gust 1990 was the first for the island; an imma ally regarded as altitudinal migrants, have been ture male American Kestrel Falco sparverius found year-round at Rancho Naturalista, near observed at Grafton Estate and near Crown Turrialba (MR) Point Airport on 9/10 February 1991 is the first record for Tobago; a Double-striped Thick- BELIZE knee Burhinus bistriatus at Orange Grove on Groups of 7 and 12 White-naped Swift 14 August 1991 was the second record for Trini Streptoprocne semicollaris were observed along dad; a Pomarine Skua Stercorarius pomarinus the upper Rio Raspaculo (520 m) during April seen at Buccoo Reef on 19 January 1992 was a and May 1993 by the JSSEUR expedition, rep first for Tobago; a Lesser Black-backed Gull resenting the first records for the country12. The L. fuscus at Turtle Beech on 19 January 1992 species was previously believed to be endemic was only the second record for Tobago; the first to Mexico although there are unconfirmed re record of Burrowing Owl Speotyto cunicularia ports from Honduras. An immature Rufescent for Trinidad relates to a single and later a pair Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma lineatum on 14 April (photographed) in April–July 1992 at Point Lisas 1994, observed by a group from Manomet Bird Industrial Estate which, after excavating a bur Observatory at Chan Chich Creek12, appears to row, later abandoned it due to industrial activ be the first record for Belize. ity; a group of Oilbirds Steatornis caripensis observed at Hillsborough Dam, Tobago in Sep tember 1988 is the first record for Tobago and SOUTH AMERICA the first instance of the species undertaking a sea crossing of up to 30 km, from Trinidad, where FRENCH GUIANA the species is a well known breeder; three A male American Wigeon Anas americana, records of Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon present from 3 to 10 January 1994 at a man pyrrhonota at Kilgwyn Lake on 6 December made lake near Kourou was the first record for 1990, Buccoo Beach on 7 February 1991 and Port the country and the most southerly record of the of Spain sewage ponds on 15 January 1992 rep species9. resent the first records for Trinidad; a Black- throated Blue Warbler Dendroica caerulescens COLOMBIA at Aripo Heights on 22 March 1992 was the sec A new locality for the recently rediscovered ond record for Trinidad; a male Bay-breasted Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta has Warbler D. castanea photographed at Aripo on been found at Alto de Los Galápagos, Chocó/Valle 6 April 1993 was the seventh record for Trini department border (JF) with records of six dad; a male Canada Warbler Wilsonia males, three females/juveniles between 1800– canadensis photographed at Asa Wright Nature 2100 m in March 1994. Tanager-Finch Centre, Trinidad on 18 December 1993 was the Oreothraupis arremonops was also recorded first record for Trinidad; a Scarlet Tanager there, representing a new locality for this sel Piranga olivácea on Little Tobago in March 1992 dom seen and poorly known species. was the third record for the island. ECUADOR A recently published report of the Amaluza CENTRAL AMERICA Project16 concerning threatened avifaunal sur veys in southern Ecuador in 1990 and 1991 pro COSTA RICA vide a number of interesting records as follows: In November 1992 an Orange-breasted Fal an Andean Tinamou Nothoprocta pentlandii con Falco deiroleucus was found 3 km from the near Chachaco (c. 1600 m), south of Cariamanga, entrance to Tapanti Biological Reserve, perched Loja province is believed to be the first record of on a dead tree on a heavily wooded steep hill the species in Ecuador for over 50 years; Moun side (MR). An unconfirmed sighting near La tain Caracara Phalcoboenus megalopterus was
61 COTINGA 3 Neotropical Notebook found to be fairly common on the Cordillera de winged Teal Anas discors at Laguna Alalay Sybanilla near Amaluza in 1990, apparently rep (2250 m), Cochabamba department on 6 Decem resenting the first Ecuadorean records with ber 19913 is another new record for Bolivia. A more recent records from the Cordillera de number of interesting records representing Quichiragua, close to the Peruvian border; a northward range extensions and new depart Marañón Spinetail Synallaxis gujanensis was mental records come from the Vallegrande- mist-netted in lush roadside vegetation at 1100 Masicuri road, Santa Cruz department11 as fol m near Palanda on 4 August 1991 representing lows: several pairs of the near-threatened Red the first Ecuadorean record, with more recent faced Guan Penelope dabbenei were located in sightings from the Zumba region, Zamora- January and February 1993 at 2350–2500 m); Chinchipe (ANSP expedition); and an Ovenbird the near-threatened Alder Amazon Amazona Seiurus auricapillus netted at Río Bombuscaro, tucumana was found to be common on various PN. Podocarpus on 27 November 1991 was the visits November 1991–February 1993 at 2200– second record for Ecuador. 2500 m. A second-winter Laughing Gull Larus The poorly known Rufous-sided Pygmy-Ty atricilla photographed at Lago de Colta (c.3250 rant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus has been m), near Santiago de Quito, Prov. Chimborazo found in numbers along the Riberalta- on 20 November 1991 represents a new altitude Guayamirim road, Santa Cruz department in record for the species and the southernmost far April 1994 where it was the commonest bird inland occurrence in South America8. species present in roadside cerrado and natural Other noteworthy records for Ecuador (RC, grassland (SM). A pair of Straw-backed SJ and JPV) include a Green Heron Butorides Tanagers Tangara argyrofenges were discov virescens at Sua, Esmeraldas province on 10 ered 25 km north-west of Entrerios on the March 1994, the first record for western Ecua Tarija-Villa Montes road, Tarija department on dor; a first-year Grey-hooded Gull Larus 10 November 1994 (SM) representing at least a cirrocephalus at Atacames, Esmeraldas on 11 300 km southward range extension. March 1994, the most northern record of the species; and a male Cerulean Warbler BRAZIL Dendroica cerúlea at Mindo, Pichincha on 15 Among a spate of unexpected finds at the south March 1994, apparently also the first record for ern Bahian hotspot of Boa Nova come recent western Ecuador. sightings of the threatened Fork-tailed Tody- Tyrant Hemitriccus furcatus; a pair 12 km east PERU of Boa Nova on 16 March 1992 (FL) and again a A recent expedition to the Cordillera de Colán, single on 17 December 1993 (CB) representing Amazonas department5 (also Neotropical News) a huge northward range extension of over 1000 in July 1994 produced a number of interesting km; and an Oustalet’s Tyrannulet records as follows: the recently described (1975) Phylloscartes oustaleti on 17 March 1992 (FL), Royal Sunangel Heliangelus regalis, previ a northward range extension of c.500 km. ously known from only two localities (in Cajamarca and San Martín departments) was ARGENTINA found to be common, primarily in elfin scrub, In September 1994, J. Mazar and J. Herrera above San Cristobal; a White-faced Nunbird (A.P.N. wardens) collected the first specimens Hapaloptila castanea at 2600 m on a ridgetop of Sooty Grassquit Tiaris fuliginosa (a male above Comboca on 30 July is a new locality for and female) close to the falls in P.N. Iguazú, this scarce species; and Barred Antthrush Misiones (fide EA), representing the first record Chamaeza mollissima was recorded with regu of the species in Argentina. This is a remark larity above Comboca, representing the first able record with the nearest known populations known locality south of the Marañón River in in the Atlantic Forest of coastal São Paulo and northern Peru. far to the north in central Minas Gerais. The wintering range of the poorly known and BOLIVIA recently described (1974) Hooded Grebe A Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata tape-re Podiceps gallardoi has been discovered on the corded at Flor d’Oro, PN Noel Kempff Mercado, Atlantic coast of Santa Cruz province with 462 Santa Cruz department, while displaying two grebes located in the Coyle Estuary, north of Río hours after dusk on 6 April 1993 (SM) is the Gallegos in the austral winter of 1994. More first record for Bolivia. An adult male Blue detailed surveys of coastline are likely to reveal
62 COTINGA 3 Neotropical Notebook the rest of the estimated 3,000-5,000 population References (see Neotropical News). 1. Baltz, M. E. (1994) Shiny Cowbirds (Molothrus bonariensis) on North Andros Island, Baha FALKLAND ISLANDS / ISLAS MALVINAS mas. El Pitirre 7(3): 4. A Tawny-headed Swallow Stelgidopteryx 2. Burke, W. (1994) Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis fucata was reported at 52°42'S, 61°30'W on 9 melba) photographed on St. Lucia, Lesser November 1993, some 1200 km south of its Antilles — third record for the Western Hemi known range15 and represents the first record sphere. El Pitirre 7(3): 3. for the island group. A number of other impor 3. de By, R. & Mayer, S. (1992) Birding in Bo tant records, all referring to 1992, have recently livia: November 1991 – January 1992. Unpub come to light in Curtis4 as follows: 2 adult Shy lished report. (Available on e-mail when re Albatross Diomedia cauta cauta with trawlers quested from
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The records featured below have not been vet CENTRAL AMERICA ted, they have been collected from a variety of published and unpublished sources. They gen MEXICO erally represent records of vagrants, Masked Booby Sula dactylatra, P ela g ic significant range extensions, rediscoveries, or C orm orant Phalacrocorax pelagicus and new localities for threatened or poorly known Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus were all new species. If submitting records for inclusion in records for Isla Guadalupe, Baja California future Neotropical Notebooks please include during a visit on 9 April 1994 (Pyle et al. 1994). details of species, locality, date, significance A Parasitic Jaeger / Arctic Skua Stercorarius of the record and observers. Full Details parasiticus at Pamul, Quintana Roo on 28 July should also be submitted to the relevant na 1993 was the fourth Yucatán record and tional organisations. unseasonal (Duncan 1994). A flock of six Lapland Longspurs Calcarius lapponicus near Las Barranca, 25 km south of CARIBBEAN Veracruz city, Veracruz on 25 and 26 Febru BARBADOS ary 1985 was the fourth and most southerly ever record for Mexico (Howell and Webb A Little Egret Egretta garzetta was near Sam Lord’s Castle on 8 July 1994 (Norton 1994), 1994). this record and the Guadeloupe one docu mented below are the eighth and ninth for the COSTA RICA Neotropics and part of a continuing increase A single Band-rumped Storm-Petrel in records in the New World. Oceanodroma castro was positively identified from about twenty individuals believed to have DOMINICA been this species seen about 250 km off the Two Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea coast en route to Cocos Island on 16 March 1995. A Nashville Warbler Vermivora recorded in spring 1994 were the second Is ruficapilla was at Rancho Naturalista on 20 land record and the third for the eastern Caribbean. Also recorded in spring 1994 were; and 21 November 1994. A pair of M elodious Blackbirds a White Ibis Eudocimus albus, the first for Dives dives there on 9 January almost a century, the first country breeding 1995 probably represent the southern-most extent of their range on the Caribbean slope record of Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii and (All JV). the first island record of Summer Tanager Piranga rubra. (All PE in litt.) SOUTH AMERICA GUADELOUPE A Little Egret Egretta garzetta in breeding ARGENTINA plumage was at Dugomier on 30 July 1994 A Cape Gannet Sula capensis at Banco (Norton 1994). A Wilson’s Plover Charadrius Reparo, Patagonia on 7 November 1992 was wilsonia at Grande Salinas, Pointe-de-Cha- the first for Argentina, this was followed by a teaux on 31 July 1994 was the first record for second sighting of possibly the same bird at the Island (Norton 1994). An Alpine Swift los Alamos (c. 10 km SW of Banco Reparo) on Tachymarptis melba at Grand Anse’s beach on 12 November (Bergkamp 1995). Three single 18 April 1987 was the first record for Westland Petrels Procellaria westlandica were Guadeloupe and the fourth for the western seen east of the mouth of the Beagle Channel hemisphere (Feldman and Pavis 1995). on 3 December 1994, being the second to
65 COTINGA 4 Neotropical Notebook fourth Argentine records (Howell and Webb A trip to Acre province in November and 1995). December 1994 produced several good records, most notably four new species for Brazil: BOLIVIA Black-capped Tinamou Crypturellus atro- A nesting pair of Blackish Nightjars capillus, Scarlet-hooded Barbet Eubucco Caprimulgus nigrescens was found on 18 tucinkae, White-lined Antbird Percnostola September 1994 on the Serriania de lophotes and Black-faced Cotinga Conio- Huanchaca, Noel Kempff N.P. about 25 km ptilon mcilhennyi on the upper Rio Tejo and east of Los Fierros, Santa Cruz, this is the first Rio Juruá in the Extractive Reserve of the Bolivian record outside Beni (JP-H). upper Rio Juruá near Taumaturgo. All but the Unicoloured Thrush Turdus haplochrous has Tinamou were previously thought to be south been found at Estación Biológica del Beni. This east Peruvian endemics. Other interesting represents a new sight for a species previously records included: The third Brazilian B lue known from only four localities (two in Beni headed Macaw Ara couloni, the fourth and two in Santa Cruz), and a range exten Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus, sion of about 150 km north-west (White et al. the first Acre record and second inland 1995). Two sightings of a Flame-crowned Amazonian record of Laughing Gull Larus M anakin Heterocercus lineatus near Los atricilla, the second Brazilian Sulphur-bellied Fierros, Noel Kempff N.P., Santa Cruz on the Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris on 21 26 and 30 August 1994 are only the second November, the second Alder Flycatcher record for Bolivia and represent a southerly Empidonax alnorum on 20 November, the sec range extension (JP-H). ond Casqued Oropendola Psarocolius oseryi with a breeding colony found and the fourth BRAZIL Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea with several A Crested Eagle Morphnus guianensis at birds seen. (All AW and DO). A second visit to Barrolândia, near Porto Seguro on 30 Janu the area in May 1995 provided two more Bra ary 1995, represents a new site record and is zilian firsts: Elusive Antpitta Grallaria unusual in the east of Brazil (DS, JW, RM). A eludens and Rufous-headed Woodpecker Buff-fronted Owl Aegolius harrissi was seen Celeus spectabilis. (AW). in daytime at Boa Nova on 21 October 1994 A trip to Jaú National Park in July 1993 (DS, JW, RM). The first inland Amazonian found several species never before recorded record of Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus was west of the Rio Negro (a range extension of of a pair at Machantaria Island, near Manaus, about 250 km). The most notable being the Amazonas, from the 3-19 November 1994, as recently rediscovered White-winged Potoo was a Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica also in Nyctibius leucopterus, also Cherrie’s Antwren November (SW). The island also had 114 Myrmotherula cherriei was also a considerable Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica on the southward range extension. Others such 25 October (SW). Great Xenops Megaxenops range extensions were Slaty Antshrike parnaguae was seen in Caatinga at Morro de Thamnophilus punctatus, Spot-backed Chappeau on 9 October 1994, although a docu A n tw ren Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus, mented site this is the first record in recent Glossy-backed Becard Pachyramphus years (DS, JW, RM). Two records of Glossy- surinamus (All AW). Similar range extensions backed Becard Pachyramphus surinamus were also recorded at the same locality for from Amazonas represent considerable west Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor and ward range extensions for the species Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus (Whittaker 1995). The first was of a pair nest schistaceus (AC). A Dwarf Cuckoo Coccyzus building at Alvarãres, near Tefé (3°20'S pumilus recorded on Maracá Island, northern 64°53'W) on 28 September 1989, the second Roraima on 23 December 1987 was the first was in Jaú N.P. in July 1993. A Black-bel Brazilian record (A. Whittaker in press). A fe lied Seedeater Sporophila melanogaster was male Fiery-tailed Awlbill Avocettula foraging with Double-collared Seedeaters S. recurvirostris 80 km north of Manaus on the 5 caerulescens in Ernas N.P., Goias on 17 Octo November 1993 significantly extends the spe ber 1993, representing a considerable range cies range (AW and VE). The second record of extension (DB). M erlin Falco columbarius was an immature
66 COTINGA 4 Neotropical Notebook female recorded on the Rio Negro north of southernmost Chilean record. A fourth Chil Manaus on 21 October 1990 (AW, RR, GT), a ean record of Sparkling Violetear Colibri third was seen in Jaú N.P. in late Autumn 1994 coruscans was of one singing at Putre, (FP and AC). Parinacota from 2–6 December 1992. Two P e Two significant range extensions were ruvian Sheartails Thaumastura cora were in found in a survey of Parque Estadual Guarajá- the Azapa Valley, Arica on the 30 November Mirim, Rondônia in April 1995, a and 1 December 1992, this is the second record Purple-breasted Cotinga Cotinga cotinga for Chile and some 21 years after the first in representing a range extension of some 1050 the same area. Two Band-tailed km south-west from the mouth of the Río Earthcreepers Eremobius phoenicurus, 10 km Madeira and a male Black-necked Red- south-east of Kimiri Aike on the road to Punta Cotinga Phoenicircus nigricollis (AW). Delgada, Magallanes on the 24 November 1994 are the second Chilean record, the first CHILE being a bird collected a few kilometres away A Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata 130 in November 1988. A Giant Conebill nautical miles SSE of Cape Horn (55°45'S Oreomanes fraseri 14 km south-west of Putre 65°30'W) was the second record since 1848. at 3300 m on 1 December 1992 was the sec The first, of several individuals on 18 and 19 ond Chilean record. (All Howell and Webb September 1964, may have involved misiden 1995). tified Stejner’s Petrels P. longirostris or White-necked Petrels P. externa (Meltofte and ECUADOR Horneman 1995). A Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias on the Two Northern Giant-Petrels Macronectes Río Napo near Yuturí village on 29 December halli were about 5 nautical miles south of Cape 1994 was the third record for the mainland Horn on 18 December 1994. Two records of and the first in the Oriente (RW). A White Westland Petrel Procellaria westlandica, a sin H awk Leucopternis albicollis at Cajanuma, gle on 2 December 1993 and a pair on 8 Podocarpus N.P., Loja was unusually high at November 1994 were both c. 15 km west of 2500 m (PT, DJ, PS, JR). A second- winter Valparaiso, Valparaiso province, these constitute Laughing Gull Larus atricilla at Coca, Napo the third and fourth Chilean records of the on 30 December 1994 was unusual east of the species. Three Great Shearwaters Puffinus Andes (RW). The first Ecuador record of Blue- gravis were 2–5 km south of Cape Horn on 18 tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer was at December 1994. Manx Shearwaters P. Yuturí Lodge, Río Yuturí, Napo on 27–29 puffinus were recorded on three occasions: 150 December 1994 (RW). Two Hoary Pufflegs at the eastern entrance to the Straits of Haplophaedia lugens were on the Guacamayos Magellan on 28 November 1992, 2 there on ridge above Archidona on 25 August 1994 pro the 24 November 1994 and a single 5 km east viding a southward range extension (NG). of Cape Horn on the 18 December 1994, these records are the third to fifth for the country GALAPAGOS ISLANDS but it seems likely that the species is a regu A White-faced Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma lar visitor in small numbers in the austral marina recorded 7 km north of Isabella Island summer. Two Little Blue Herons Egretta on 7 August 1994 is the first record within the caerulea were an adult at San Pedro de Archipelago though the species has twice been Atacama, El Loa on 22 November 1993 and recorded at sea near Galápagos (Merlen, an immature at La Ligua, Petorca on 29 No 1995). A pair of Masked Ducks Oxyura vember 1993, these records are some 370 km dominica were seen with a chick on El Junco and 1450 km south of other Chilean vagrant Lake, San Cristobal on 15 December 1994 records for this species. The desiccated re constituting the first record for the Islands mains of a Black Crake Laterallus jamaicensis (JWe). were found at La Ligua, Petorca on 29 Octo ber 1994, being the first Chilean record for 25 FALKLAND ISLANDS / MALVINAS years. A single Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa, A Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis probably a female was at La Ligua, Petorca was on Pebble Island from 20 to 31 December on 29 November 1993, was the third and 1994, the seventh record for the Islands. A
67 COTINGA 4 Neotropical Notebook Snowy Egret Egretta thula at Port Stanley on extension in Paraguay and the first outside 22 April 1993 was the fifth, a Maguiri Stork the Mato Grosso (AM). Ciconia maguari on Dundar on 1 March was the second. A Chimango Caracara Milvago VENEZUELA chimango at Port Stephens on 31 December A single Black-chested Tyrant Taenotriccus 1991 was the fifth record. Two Pectoral Sand andrei was seen well at Caño Colorado on 13 pipers Calidris melanotus on Pebble Island on March 1995, this species is very rare and 31 December 1994 were the fourth record. The virtually unknown in life (GK, NB, CGB, JH). th ird White-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis A specimen of Pale-footed Swallow Notio- malouinus was on Bertha’s Beach on 28 April chelidon flavipes collected in 1951 and 1991. A Grey Gull Larus modestus in Port previously erroneously identified as a Blue- Stanley for three weeks in June 1991 was the and-white Swallow N. cyanoleuca has been second. The Falkland Desire provided a rest found in a museum collection. This now con ing spot for the islands first R uddy stitutes the first Venezuelan record and a Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti on January northward range extension of about 150 km. 12 1993. A Bar-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes Pale-footed Swallows have since been seen in fuscus on Carcass Island on 21 September 1991 Mérida City, Mérida and a specimen taken at was a new species for the Islands, a male Aus the Páramo de Tamá, Táchira, both in 1985 tral Negrito Lessonia rufa there on the same (Ryan and Lentino 1995). day was the fourth record. A White-crested Elaenia Elaenia albiceps on Sedge Island on Neotropical Notebook: 27 December 1994 was the fourth record. The compiled by Rob Williams sixth and seventh records of Fork-tailed Fly catchers Tyrannus savana were on Sea Lion Acknowledgements: Island on 9 January 1993 and on Saunders The following submitted or passed on records Island in December 1994, respectively. (All AH for this Neotropical Notebook: Chris Balchin in litt.) (CB), Niel Bostock (NB), Chris Bradshaw (CGB), David Bishop (DB), Andre Carvalhaes PARAGUAY (AC), Mike Catsis (MC), Rob Clay (RC), Paul Black Hawk-Eagle Spizeatus tyrannus has Coopmans (PC), Victor Emanuel (VE), Estela been found at Mbaracayú, although there are Z. Esquivel (EE), P. Evans (PE), Nick Gardner three prior reported records of the species for (NG), Alan Henry (AH), John Hornbuckle (JH), Paraguay the species was treated as hypo David Johnson (DJ), Guy Kirwan (GK), Alberto thetical by Hayes (1995). This is the first Madroño N. (AM), Rod McCann (RM), David confirmed record and was closely followed by Oren (DO), Fernando Pacheco (FP), James a pair seen displaying at the same site (AM, Pearce-Higgins (JP-H), Mark Pearman, Rob DP, RD and RC). Ornate Hawk-Eagle S. ert S. Ridgely (RR), John Rogers (JR), Guy ornatus has also been found at Mbaracayú, Tudor (GT), Dave Sargeant (DS), Parvin Sul extending the known range in Paraguay to the tana (PS), Paul Thompson (PT), Jay west (AM, EE). American Pygmy Kingfisher Vandergaast (JV), John Wall (JW), Jan Chlororceryle aenea has also been found at this Wendeby (JWe), David Wege, Andrew site in late 1994 and early 1995 (EE and RC). Whittaker (AW), Rob S.R. Willams (RW), Sum The second country record of C ollared mer Wilson (SW). Crescentchest Melanopareia torquata was found just east of Mbaracayú on 9 February References: 1995 and also extends its known distribution 1. Feldman, P. and Pavis, C. (1995) Alpine to the south (AM). Curl-crested Jay Swift (Tachymarptis melba) observed in Cyanocorax cristatellus has also been found in Guadaloupe, Lesser Antilles: a fourth the reserve at Mbaracayú significantly extend record for the western Hemisphere. El ing its range to the south (EE and AM). A Mato Pitirre 8(2): 2. Grosso Antbird Cercomacra melanaria 2. Howell, S.G. and Webb, S. (1994) Lapland trapped on 28 July 1990 a few km south of Longspurs in Veracruz. Euphonia 3(1): 17– Cerro Léon, P.N. Defensores del Chaco, Alto 18. Chaco (20°20'S 60°25'W) is a westward range 3. Howell, S.G. and Webb, S. (1995) Notewor
68 COTINGA 4 Reviews thy bird observations from Chile. Bull. 7. Ryan, T.P. and Lentino, M.R. (1995) An ad B.O.C. 115(1): 57–66. ditional record of Pale-footed Swallow 4. Meltofte, H. and Horneman, C. (1995) Mot Notiochelidon flavipes from Venezuela. Bull. tled Petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) off B.O.C. 115: 28–29. Tierra del Fuego. Bull. B.O.C. 115(1): 71– 8. White, A.G., Brace, R.C. and Payne, A.J. 72. (1995) Additional records of and notes on 5. Merlen, G. (1994) Visitors from the west. Unicoloured Thrush Turdus haplochrous, a Noticias de Galapagos 54: 13–14. little known Bolivian endemic. Bull. B.O.C. 6. Pyle, P, Hanni, K. and Smith, D. (1994) 115: 29–33. Bird notes from Isla Guadalupe, including 9. Whittaker, A. (1995) Range extensions and three new island records. Euphonia 3(1): nesting of the Glossy-backed Becard 1–4. Pachyramphus surinamus in central Ama zonian Brazil. Bull. B.O.C. 115(1): 45–48.
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The records featured below have island records); a Northern ST THOMAS, US VIRGIN not been vetted, and have been Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe ISLANDS collected from a variety of (10–11 December 1994, second A Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris published and unpublished record for the island and fifth for diomedea south of the island on 21 sources. They generally represent the West Indies); Swainson’s July 1995 is the first record for the records of vagrants, significant Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii Caribbean proper, previously range extensions, rediscoveries, or (21 January 1995, second record); having been recorded only in the new localities for threatened or and a wintering Cape May adjacent Atlantic (SL). poorly known species. If submitting Warbler Dendroica tigrina (third records for inclusion in future record)16. CENTRAL AMERICA Neotropical Notebooks, please Corrections The Collared include details of species, locality, Plover Charadrius collaris MEXICO date, significance of the record and sightings, previously reported An adult light-phase Collared observers. Full details should also under St Lucia, on 27 June and 25 Forest-Falcon Micrastur be submitted to the relevant July 1993, were from Barbados. semitorquatus in the Sierra de national organisations. The first record of Black-headed Pichachos, Nuevo León state, on 22 Gull Larus ridibundus was a bird January 1995 was the first state CARIBBEAN collected in November 1911 having record21. been ringed in Rossitten, Germany, BAHAMAS in July 1911. PANAMA The country’s first Sharp-tailed An Arctic Tern Sterna Sparrow Ammodramus cauda- BERMUDA paradisaea was seen on a pelagic cutus was videoed on 13 October A Long-eared Owl Asio otus on 3 boat trip, c. 32 km SSE of Piñas on 199416. November 1994 was the first record 27 May 19958. Two Blue-headed for 25 years; the second island Sapphires Hylocharis grayi, the BARBADOS record of Whip-poor-will third country record, were at the Two Little Egret Egretta garzetta Caprimulgus vociferus was on 16 Tropic Star Lodge, Piñas Bay, on 26 nests were found with one fledging October 1994; and the first Say’s and 29 May 1995s. three young in February 1995: this Phoebe Sayornis saya was is the first record of breeding in the videoed on 17 September 199416. SOUTH AMERICA Neotropics and probably the New World16. An unconfirmed report of a BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS ARGENTINA Little Gull Larus minutus at Pier A Northern Oriole Icterus Seven new country records. Several 3, San Juan Harbour, on 29 galbula at JostVanDyke on 27 Wedge-tailed Hillstars January 1995 would be the first for January 1995 was the third for the Oreotrochilus adela were observed the West Indies16. A Whiskered islands16. and seven mist-netted between 23 Tern Chlidonias hybridus at and 26 January 1991 at Yavi, Jujuy Congo Road on 16–23 April 1994 JAMAICA province1. The first Pearled probably represents the second The first Black Skimmer Treerunner Margarornis occurrence in the West Indies16. A Rhynchops niger on Jamaica was squamiger was found in the House Crow Corvus splendens at Parrotte Ponds, from 10–17 Serranía de las Pavas, on the arrived in Barbados, providing the September 199522. eastern edge of PN Baritú on 13 first West Indies and confirmed November 1992 (BLL,5). The first Neotropical record (see Chile)16. PUERTO RICO Rufous-tailed Antthrush Other records from Barbados A Common Greenshank Tringa Chamaez a ruficauda has been include: two Eurasian Wigeon nebularia at San Jacinto found in the collection of the Anas penelope (a male, 4–17 mangroves, near Guanica, on the Museo Argentino de Ciencias December 1994, and a female 25 22 July 1993 was the first record Naturales in Buenos Aires: it was January into February 1995, for the West Indies16 collected a t Tobuna, Misiones representing the third and fourth province, on 16 August 195915. Two
76 COTINGA 5 Neotropical Notebook other new species for Argentina A first-winter Diademed Lesser Swallow-tailed Swifts come from PN Baritú, Salta Sandpiper-Plover Phegornis Panyptila watertonii at Dois province: a Tawny-rumped mitchellii on Cerro Tunari, Irmãos, Pernambuco, on 17 Tyrannulet Phyllomyias Cochabamba department, on 18 November 1993 are the first state uropygialis on 22 August 1993; August 1995 appears to be the first record and only the second for and a Slate-throated Redstart record for the department (JE, JC, north-eastern Brazil18. The second Myioborus miniatus on 17 August BF, RS). to fourth records of Lettered 19935. The first three records of Several new records for Beni Aracari Pteroglossus inscriptus Cinnamon Tanager Schisto- department from the Beni for north-eastern Brazil and the chlamys ruficapillus for Argentina Biological Station are: a pair of first three records for Alagoas were have all been found in the extreme Burrowing Owls Speotyto recorded at Passo do Canaragibe, north of Misiones province as cunicularia at El Porvenir from 30 December 1990, Muricí follows: the first was a single at late July to early September 1995; Biological Reserve, 4 January 1991 the old Iguazú Falls airport on 26 two Plain-crested Elaenias and Rio Largo, 24 October 1994: October 1994 (DF), as was the Elaenia cristata trapped on 7 and the species was previously known second at the same locality on 5 24 September 1995; four White- in north-eastern Brazil from a November 1994 (MC), while the bellied Tyrannulets Serpophaga specimen taken in Pernambuco in third was of two birds at Colonia munda trapped on 18, 19, 21 (two 190318. Almirante Brown on 13 September birds) September 1995; and a A taped Spot-backed 1995 (EA). single Ashy-headed Greenlet Antshrike Hypoedaleus guttatus Another first for the country, Hylophilus pectoralis trapped on at the Muricí Biological Reserve, Flavescent Warbler Basil 17 September (though the species Alagoas, on 28 November 1993 euterus flaveolus was found along has been previously heard in the represents a new state record and with an interesting number of north of the province but has not a northward range extension of provincial records during a survey been documented) (RB). c. 600 km. Three new sites for of PN Río Pilcomayo, Formosa Slender-footed Tyrannulet province: a single was collected in BRAZIL Zimmerius gracilipes in north gallery forest on 27 March 19939. A King Penguin Aptenodytes eastern Brazil are the Muricí Three species were new for the patagonicus was found on the Biological Reserve, Alagoas, 21 province: Crimson-crested beach at Saquarema (22°56'S October 1990, Pedra Talhada Woodpecker Campephilus 42°30'W), Rio de Janeiro, 5 Biological Reserve, Alagoas, 22 melanoleucus; Fuscous Fly January 1995, and was taken in October 1990 and Serra de catcher Cnemotriccus fuscatus; good condition to the Zoological Baturité, Ceará, 16 September and Sepia-capped Flycatcher Gardens of Rio de Janeiro the 1991 and 19 November 1993: the Leptopogon amaurocephalus9. The following day: the record is the first species was previously known in survey also found the second for Brazil and one of only a handful the region from one specimen from province record of Blue-crowned for the Atlantic coast17. Ceará18. A Highland Elaenia Trogon Trogon curucui . The first record of Northern Elaenia obscura recorded at Morro A review of the status of Giant Petrel Macronectes halli do Pai Inácio, near Lençóis, Bahia, Helmeted Woodpecker was of a bird found freshly dead on is a northward range extension of Dryocopus galeatus has found 51 a beach at Ilha Comprida, São c. 450 km18. records (many unpublished) which Paulo state, on 27 September A new population of the appear to demonstrate that the 199413. threatened Fringe-backed Fire- species is spreading into new areas A Rufous-thighed Hawk eye Pyriglena atra near Crasto, and habitats3. Accipiter erythronemius on 18 Sergipe, is a northward range- A Grey-necked Wood-rail September 1991 at Barra Nova, extension of some 175 km: the Aramides cajanea in Reserva Ceará, was a northward range population was discovered by Provincial Chancaní on 14 January extension, there previously being a Marcelo C. Souza in 1994 and at 1994 was the first for Córdoba single record from Bahia18. Two least six birds were seen along a province2. new records of White-tailed road bisecting the forest in Hawk Buteo albicaudatus, one November 199418. An old record of BOLIVIA from Natal airstrip, Rio Grande do White-necked Hawk Leuco- The first country record of Giant Norte, on 17 November 1993, and pternis lacernulata from João Snipe Gallinago undulata was of one at Tianguá, Ceará, on 18 Pessoa, Paraíba (31 October 1949), a bird taped while displaying at September 1991, are part of a is now recognised as a significant night on 6 April 1993 in Flor d’Oro, continuing range expansion of this range extension northwards of this PN Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa species in north-eastern Brazil due threatened Atlantic Forest Cruz14. to deforestation18. Two or three endemic, which has only otherwise
77 COTINGA 5 Neotropical Notebook been recorded as far north as FALKLAND ISLANDS recorded during the survey had Alagoas18. The second record of Lake Duck only been found to occur in the The first confirmed reports of Oxyura vittata was on Pebble country since 1992: Black Hawk- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Island on 4–5 December 1995. The Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus at Dendrocygna autumnalis from Rio two largest-ever flocks of RNBM (which produced the first Grande do Sul are of two flocks Hudsonian Godwit Limosa Paraguayan records in 1994: per A. totalling 236 birds seen and haemastica for the Falkland Madroño Nieto) in September and photographed in May 199110. Islands were of 15 on Pebble Island at the Reserva Privada (RP) Itabo Correction The Crested on 23 October 1995 and 30 at Fox (Dpto. Canindeyú) in August and Eagle Morphnus guianensis at Point on 31 October 1995. The first October; Black-banded Owl Barrolândia, 30 January 1995, was records of Wilson’s Phalarope Ciccaba huhula at RP Itabo in seen by DB, NB, JH and GK. Steganopus tricolor were one on October; the threatened Red- Sea Lion Island on 16 November spectacled Amazon Amazona CHILE 1995 and three on Pebble Island on pretrei at the same site in August; A pair of Andean Geese 20 November 1995. A single Rufous-throated Sapphire Chloephaga melanoptera on Lago White-bellied Seedsnipe Hylocharis sapphirina at PN Diunca, c.30 km N of Coyhaique, A ttagis malouinus on Sea Lion Caaguazú (Dpto. Caazapá) in July Aisen department, on 30 Septem Island on 1 December 1995 was the and RP Sombrero (Dpto. Cordillera) ber 1995 were south of their fifth record for the islands (records in August; the near-threatened normal range; and two male from AH). White-browed Foliage-gleaner Spectacled Tyrants Hymenops Anabacerthia amaurotis at PN perspicillata at the same locality PARAGUAY Caaguazú and PN San Rafael in on the same day were also south of Between July and December 1995, July; Masked Tityra Tityra their normal range (JB and JMH). ornithological surveys as part of semifasciata at PN Cerro Corá An unconfirmed report of two Project YACUTINGA ’95 produced (Dpto. Amambay), during October birds resembling House Crows much new information on the (there are no published records of Cornus splendens at Punta Arenas distribution and status of birds this species in Paraguay, but it was in the austral summer of 1993/ rarely recorded in Paraguay. The reported from RNBM in August 1994 would represent the first major conservation results, 1995: per A. Madroño Nieto); record for South America (see including observations on Sooty Grassquit Tiaris Barbados)20. threatened birds, are presented fuliginosa at Estancia Núñez elsewhere in Cotinga 5. Brief (Dpto. Caaguazú) in August and ECUADOR details are given here on new and RNBM in September; and Yellow- A Pacific Golden Plover noteworthy country records, their bellied Seedeater Sporophila Pluvialis fulva at the Ecuasal importance based on information nigricollis at the Bahia de lagoons, Santa Elena peninsula, on published in Hayes11. Asunción (Dpto. Central), in 26 April 1991 was possibly the first Five species new to the country December (RC, EZE; there are no confirmed record for South America were recorded: Dusky-legged published records of this species in (DL). The species regularly winters Guan Penelope obscura at Parque Paraguay but it was seen in the in California; there are records Nacional (PN) San Rafael (Dpto. Chaco in November: per MR and from Mexico, and Hayman et al.12 Itapúa) in July; Russet-crowned KZ). report sightings from Chile and the Crake Laterallus viridis, the Other notable records included Galápagos Islands, although these near-threatened Ocellated Crake Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis have not been independently Micropygia schomburgkii and at RP La Golondrina (Dpto. Pres. verified or published. A new Spot-tailed Nightjar Hayes) in November and PN locality for the rare Imperial Caprimulgus maculicaudus, all at Ypacarai (Dpto. Central) in Snipe Gallinago imperialis was the Reserva Natural del Bosque December (RC, EZE, KZ) (five Cerro Mongus, Carchi province, Mbaracayú (RNBM), Dpto. previous Paraguayan records); where at least one male displayed Canindeyú in September; and Tiny Hawk Accipiter super- on 5–6 July 1995: this is a Hellmayr’s Pipit Anthus ciliosus at RNBM in September northward range extension of c. 120 hellmayri at Refugio de Vida (three or four previous records; km and is the third known locality Silvestre Yabebyry (Dpto. Misiones) none since 1934); the near- in Ecuador (LP). A Great Blue in October. The threatened White threatened Harpy Eagle Harpia Heron Ardea herodias was at La winged Nightjar Caprimulgus harpyja at RP Itabo in August (five Selva, Napo province, on 2 January candicans was also recorded at previous published records); Grey 1990, pre-dating the only other RNBM, representing the first breasted Crake Laterallus exilis eastern lowland record by four confirmed record for the country. on Isla Yacyretá in November (two years (RW). An additional eight species previous records); Pheasant
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Cuckoo Dromococcyx Estancia Núñez and RNBM (four URUGUAY phasianellus at RP Sombrero in previous records); Bertoni’s The following are all new records August, PN Ybycui in August and Antbird Drymophila rubricollis for the country: White-winged November, RVS Yabebyry in at PN Caaguazú and PN San Black-Tyrant Knipolegus October and on Isla Yacyretá in Rafael, both in July, and RP Itabo aterrimus mist-netted at Estancia November (only four previous in August (two previous records); El Rosario, Río Negro, in June confirmed records, though also Large-tailed Antshrike 1992 and at Estancia Mafalda, Río recently recorded at RNBM: per A. Mackenziaena leachii at PN Negro, in December 1992; a Madroño Nieto); Tawny-browed Caaguazú and PN San Rafael in Planalto Tyrannulet Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana at July (three previous records; none Phyllomyias fasciatus netted at RP Itabo in October (three previous since 1936); Speckle-breasted the latter site in December 1992; records); Mottled Owl Ciccaba Antpitta Hylopezus nattereri at and a number of Chestnut virgata at Estancia Núñez in PN Caaguazú and PN San Rafael, Seedeaters Sporophila August-September and RP Itabo in both in July, and Estancia Núñez cinnamomea netted at Estancia El October (only four previous in August-September (one previous Rosario in 1991 and 1992 published records, but heard record in Paraguay; none since (Uruguayan ornithologists fide M. frequently at RNBM: per A. 1903; the Núñez records represent Vignale, Oriente Forestal). Madroño Nieto); Rusty-barred the westernmost locality for the A series of visits to “Termas del Owl Strix hylophila at PN species); Collared Crescent- Río Dayman”, Salto department, Caaguazú in July (three previous chest Melanopareia torquata at between 1987 and 1990 produced a certain records); Ocellated RNBM in September (one previous series of new departmental records: Poorwill Nyctiphrynus ocellatus published record for Paraguay, but Great Black Hawk Buteogallus at Estancia Núñez in August- also recorded once previously at urubitinga (three sightings); a September, RNBM in September, RNBM: per A. Madroño Nieto); Spix’s Spinetail Synallaxis spixi; Estancia Jiménez (Dpto. Lesser Elaenia Elaenia Indigo Grosbeak Cyanoloxia Canindeyú) in September–October chiriquensis at RNBM in glaucocaerulea (several, also the and RP Itabo in October (only four September (one previous certain first records for the north of previous records, but also recorded record); the threatened Rufous Uruguay); Red-rumped earlier at RNBM: per A. Madroño sided Pygmy-tyrant Warbling-Finch Poospiza Nieto); the near-threatened Euscarthmus rufimarginatus at lateralis (numerous); and Sickle-winged Nightjar RP Sombrero (one or two previous Greenfinch Carduelis chloris (a Eleothreptus anomalus at RP records; none since 1944); single, also the first for the north Sombrero in August (five previous Correndera Pipit Anthus of the country). The same site also records); Black Jacobin correndera at RVS Yabebyry in produced the third and fourth Melanotrochilus fuscus at PN October (one or two previous country records of Green-winged Caaguazú in July (only two records); Diademed Tanager Saltator Saltator similis (24 May previous records); Green-and- Stephanophorus diadematus at 1987 and 16 June 1989) these rufous Kingfisher Chloroceryle PN Caaguazú and PN San Rafael, representing the first austral inda at PN San Rafael in July (the both in July (three previous winter records, the previous two southernmost known locality for records); the threatened Black- records being in October and the species), RP Sombrero in masked Finch Coryphaspiza November6. August, RNBM and Estancia melanotis at RNBM (one or two Jiménez both in September (only previous records; none since 1930); VENEZUELA five previous records); Pygmy and Red-rumped Warbling- A small isolated population of Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea at Finch Poospiza lateralis at PN American Dipper Cinclus Estancia Jiménez in September Caaguazú in July (two previous mexicanus was discovered in the (only two previous published records; none since 1911). mountains near San Esteban, records, plus others recently at Carabobo State. This is not only RNBM: per A. Madroño Nieto, RC); SOUTH ATLANTIC the first record for Venezuela and the near-threatened Canebrake A Mottled Petrel Pterodroma South America but is an amazing Groundcreeper Clibanornis inexpectata was seen SSE of the range extension of 1600 km7. dendrocolaptoides at PN Falkland Islands on 28 December Caaguazú in July (two previous 19944, and 16 Cattle Egrets records); Black-billed Scythebill Bubulcus ibis landed on a ship 465 Campylorhampus falcularius at PN km from the Falkland Islands and San Rafael (two previous records); 785 km from South Georgia on the Rufous-capped Antshrike 29 May 199319. Thamnophilus ruficapillus at
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Observers 4. Curtís, W. F. (1995) Mottled 13. Martuscelli, P, Olmos, F. & Esteban Abadie (EA), Dave Beadle Petrel Pterodroma inexpect- Silva, R. S. E. (1995) First (DB), Neil Bostock, (NB), John ata near the Falkland Islands. record of the Northern Giant Bowler (JB), Robin Brace (RB), Sea Swallow 44: 63–64. Petrel Macronectes halli for Miguel Castelino (MC), John Clark 5. Di Giacomo, A. G., Di Giacomo, Brazilian Waters. Bull. Brit. (JC), Rob Clay (RC), John Eyre A. S., López Lanús, B. M. & Orn. Club 115: 187–188. (JE), Estela Esquivel (EZE), Davis Caradonna, A. (1995) Nuevos 14. Mayer, S. (1995) First record of Finch (DF), Brian Foster (BF), registros de aves en el Giant Snipe Gallinago Alan Henry (AH), Jon Hornbuckle noroeste argentino. Hornero undulata for Bolivia. Bull. (JH), J. M. Hunter (JMH), Guy 14: 67–68. Brit. Orn. Club 115: 188–189. Kirwan (GK), Durwyn Liley (DL), 6. Di Giacomo, A. S. (1995) Nuevos 15. Navas, J. R. & Bo, N. A. (1995) Bernabé López Lanús (BLL), Steve registros de aves uruguayas. Presencia de Chamaez a Lister (SL), Lars Petersson (LP), Hornero 14: 71–72. ruficauda en la Argentina. Mark Robbins (MR), Ralph 7. Dungel, J. & Sebela, M. (1995) Hornero 14: 77. Simpson (RS), Richard Webb (RW), American Dipper Cinclus 16. Norton, R. L. (1995) West Indies Kristof Zykowski (KZ). mexicanus in Venezuela. Bull. Region. Audubon Field Notes Brit. Orn. Club 115: 191–192. 49: 105–106, 203–204. Acknowledgements 8. Engleman, D. (1995) The 17. Pacheco, J. E, Ramos, V. & Esteban Abadie, John Bowler, Field editor’s report. Toucan Fedullo, L. P. (1995) O Robin Brace, Rob Clay, Alan Henry, 21(7): 8–9. Pinguim-rei (Aptenodytes Guy Kirwan, Durwyn Liley, Steve 9. Fortabat, S. H., Gil, G. & patagonicus) pela primera vez Lister, James Lowen, José Marion, G. (1995) Sobre las assinalado no Brasil. Actuali Fernando Pacheco, Mark Pearman, aves del Parque Nacional Río dades Ornitológicas 64: 4. Lars Petersson, Richard Webb and Pilcomayo con la adicíon de 18. Pacheco, J. F. & Whitney, B. M. David Wege all forwarded, Basileuterus flaveolus a la (1995) Range extensions for submitted or drew attention to avifauna argentina. Hornero some birds in northeastern records. Guy Kirwan and Durwyn 14: 69–71. Brazil. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club Liley proofread the manuscript. 10. Guadagnin, D. L., Dotto, J. C. & 115: 157–163. Burger, M. I. (1995) 19. Orgeira, J. L. (1995) Presencia References Ocorrência da Marreca de Garcita Bueyera Bubulcus 1. Alvarez, M. A. & Plendinger, P. Cabocla Dendrocygna ibis en el Oceano Atlántico G. (1995) Primer registro de autumnalis no noroeste do Rio Sur, Otoño de 1993. Hornero distribución del Picaflor Grande do Sul, Brasil. 14: 53–54. Andino Castaño Oreotrochilus Hornero 14: 74–75. 20. Ryall, C. (1995) Additional adela para Argentina. 11. Hayes, F. E. (1995) Status, records ofrange extension in Hornero 14: 75. distribution and biogeogra the House Crow Cornus 2. Biancucci, L. (1995) Una nueva phy of the birds of Paraguay. splendens. Bull. Brit. Orn. especie para la avifauna Colorado Springs, Colorado: Club 115: 185–187. cordobesa y nuevas localidades American Birding Association 21. Sada, A. M. (1995) Another para otras seis. Hornero 14: (Monogr. Field Ornithol. 1). northerly forest-falcon. 76. 12. Hayman, R, Marchant, J. & Birding 27: 346. 3. Chebez, J. C. (1995) Nuevos Prater, T. (1986) Shorebirds: 22. Smith, D. & Keller, C. (1995) datos sobre Dryocopus galea- an identification guide to the Bird notes. Gosse Bird Club tus (Piciformes: Picidae) en la waders of the world. London: Broadsheet 65: 20. Argentina. Hornero 14: 54–57. Christopher Helm.
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The records featured below have BERMUDA the second record (Birding World not been vetted, and have been A Black-necked Grebe Podiceps 9 (2): 76). A Philadelphia Vireo collected from a variety of nigricollis at Spittal Pond from Vireo philadelphicus was an published and unpublished 10 August-20 September 1995 exceptional island record on 6 sources. They generally represent was the first record (Birding February 199520. Autumn 1995 records of vagrants, significant World 9 (2): 76). The first winter records included the first Brown range extensions, rediscoveries or record of Horned Grebe P. Thrasher Toxostoma rufum for new localities for threatened or auritus concerned one at Castle 12 years was recorded on 7 poorly known species. If submitting Harbour on 1 February 1995, October, the fifth Red-breasted records for inclusion in future whilst the third island record of Nuthatch Sitta canadensis on 24 Neotropical Notebooks, please Tundra Swan Cygnus c. November, the fourth Purple include details of species, locality, columbianus was an immature at Finch Carpodacus purpureus on date, significance of the record and Spittal Pond on 27 November–1 12 November and the second observers. Full details should also December 1994 and the sixth Lark Sparrow Chondestes be submitted to the relevant Surf Scoter Melanitta grammacus on 18 October national organisations. perspicillata was off Bermuda on (Birding World 9 (2): 76). 12 January 1995. An American CARIBBEAN Avocet Recurvirostra americana CUBA from 29 October 1995 was the Over 150 American Avocets BAHAMAS seventh record and a Hudsonian Recurvirostra americana on the A pair of white-morph Red-footed Godwit Limosa haemastica the coast near Jíbaro, Sancti Spíritus Boobies Sula sula with a single sixth record since 1970 (Birding province, between 9-19 June chick were photographed on a World 9 (2): 76). The first island 1995 was the largest number ever small cay off San Salvador on 28 record of Pacific Golden Plover reported from the country3. April 1995, the first confirmed Pluvialis fulva at the Naval Air Duque12 reported two rarities for breeding record for the Bahamas Station on 25 January 1995 was Cuba: a subadult Chipping this century, although the carefully compared with nearby Sparrow Spizella passerina species was recorded in the American Golden Plovers P. collected at Quintana Arriba, north same area in 1986 and there is a dominica20 and remained until of Meseta de Anafe, on 25 possible report from Atwood’s April (Birding World 9 (2): 76). November 1991, and an Cay21. Two records of Eastern The first winter records for unusually early Great Crested Phoebes Sayornis phoebe on Bermuda of Iceland Gull Larus Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus Grand Bahama, one at Rand glaucoides and Solitary Vireo taken north of Havana on 20 Nature Center on 25 November Vireo solitarius involved a second September 1995. 1995 and another at West End winter at Bermuda on 2 February Pool the following day, are the 1995 and a single at the same DOMINICA first published records from the locality from 18 December 1994– The first Eurasian Collared West Indies since one on February 1995 respectively20. The Dove Streptopelia decaocto for Eleuthera, Bahamas in second Brown Noddy Anous the Lesser Antilles was reported February 1986 (American Birds stolidus since 1970 was recorded from Roseau in 1987, where 12 40: 529) and only the second and on 11 October and the first were present on 26 May 199520. third records since 197216. The House Wren Troglodytes aedon spread of the Shiny Cowbird for 10 years on 8 November. A DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Molothrus bonariensis in the Marsh Wren Cistothorus Three West Indian Whistling- Bahamas continues, the species palustris at Pembroke Marsh in Ducks Dendrocygna arborea at being recorded daily close to January 1996 was the first island Laguna del Salodillo on 22 April settlements on North Andros record, whilst an Ash-throated 1996 appears to be the first Island from 27–31 July 199521 Flycatcher Myiarchus published record for the country (see Cotinga 3: 60). cinerascens on 30 January was since 198615. A pale morph
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Swainson’s Hawk Buteo 19 November 1995 was a rare subruficollis (single juveniles at swainsonii just south of record and possibly the first for El Bosque on 5 and 21 Septem Montecristi on 22 April 1996 the Caribbean coast (AD, LE, BF). ber), Black Tern Chlidonias appears to be the first record for A Buff-breasted Sandpiper niger, Orange-chinned the West Indies (CGB, GMK, Tryngites subruficollis at Tarcoles Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis RSRW). on 10 August 1995 was perhaps (four at Atasta on 26 June), injured (PE). Rufous-browed Common Nighthawk MONTSERRAT Tyrannulet Phylloscartes Chordeiles minor, “Brewster’s Eurasian Collared Dove superciliaris is now known to be Warbler” Vermivora pinus × V. Streptopelia decaocto is now common in the upper Río Tuis chrysoptera (at El Bosque on 27 established at Victoria where it has valley with a single also being August), Cerulean Warbler bred since 1990; this and those recorded at Rancho Naturalista, Dendroica cerulea (recorded on reported from Dominica (see above) providing confirmation of this five days at El Bosque with the are the first records from the species’s presence in the first on 7 September), Townsend’s Lesser Antilles20. Talamanca mountains (per Warbler D. townsendi (recorded JvdG). A female Prothonotary on two dates at El Bosque with the PUERTO RICO Warbler Protonotaria citrea at first on 20 September), Connecti An adult male Audubon’s Oriole Palo Verde National Park on 8 cut Warbler Oporornis agilis Icterus graduacauda at Jobos June 1995 (JvdG) and a Black- (recorded at El Bosque on 26 Beach, near Ramey, on 12 June throated Green Warbler August), Swainson’s Warbler 19955 was the first record for the Dendroica virens in the upper Río Limnothlypis swainsonii (recorded Caribbean. Given the species’s Tuis valley on 20 July 1995 (PE) on four dates at El Bosque with the lack of vagrancy potential, this were both unusually late; both first on 5 September), a single record suggests an escaped cage birds presumably oversummered. Yellow-backed Oriole Icterus bird but a range extension or chrysater at Atasta on 27 June and wandering individual cannot be MEXICO a Lark Sparrow Chondestes discounted. A female Northern Contreras-Baldas et al.10 list five grammacus at El Bosque on 24 (Bullock’s) Oriole I. galbula new species for Nuevo León state, September. Additionally the first bullockii was at Vieques on 22 all in the Univ. Autonoma de Nuevo breeding record of Cattle Egret December 199420. León (UANL) collection: a Short Bubulcus ibis was obtained and a eared Owl Asio flammeus, an very recently fledged Barn adult female and adult male Swallow Hirundo rustica at Los CENTRAL AMERICA Yellow Warbler Dendroica Idoles on 11 July suggested local petechia, an adult male Black- breeding, the nearest known BELIZE throated Blue Warbler D. breeding sites being in western In February 1996 up to seven caerulescens (the first record for Veracruz (all records per MG). Common Ground-Doves continental Mexico), an adult male Columbina passerina were present Prothonotary Warbler PANAMA in the Placencia area, on the Protonotaria citrea and an At least 15, including three male country’s east coast, representing immature female Northern Scintillant Hummingbirds a considerable range extension, Waterthrush Seiurus Selasphorus scintilla above Cerro perhaps assisted by forest noveboracensis. Additionally a Colorado on 18 December 1995 were clearance (RDME, SM). male Burrowing Owl Speotyto unusual as the species was only cunicularia in the same collection previously known in this area from a COSTA RICA was the first record from single record on Cerro Flores. A pair Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon Aguascalientes state. of Flame-throated Warblers aethereus is not known to breed in A series of first records from Parula gutturalis at Cerro Colarado Costa Rica; however ten engaged Tabasco state in 1993 are as on 18 December 1995 appears to be in courtship flights on Isla Santa follows: American Avocet the first record from eastern Catalina on 21 November 1993 Recurvirostra americana, Red Chirique (all records DES). suggests that it may do so11. Knot Calidris canutus (recorded A Ruddy Crake Laterallus on four dates at El Bosque, with SOUTH AMERICA ruber at Laguna de Lagarto Lodge three on 14 September), Upland on 12 November 1995 was about Sandpiper Bartramia ARGENTINA the third country record (JE, DK). longicauda (one, probably a There is just one previous record of A pair of American Avocets juvenile, on 20 September at El American Swallow-tailed Kite Recurvirostra americana at the Bosque), Buff-breasted Elanoides forficatus in Córdoba mouth of the Parismina River on Sandpiper Tryngites province; thus three south of Villa
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General Belgrano, Calamuchita provided), frequent sightings of elsewhere on the Solimões near on 15 January 1994 and one at Band-tailed Pigeons Columba Tabatinga on the Colombian Casa Grande, Punilla on 7 March fasciata in forest west of Narvaez border. Both Yellow Tyrannulet 1994 were significant27. Since on 21 and 23 November 1995, Capsiempis flaveola and River November 1985 there have been three Rufous-bellied Saltators Tyrannulet Serpophaga several observations of Grey Saltator rufiventris in the Erquis hypoleuca were confirmed to occur, necked Wood-Rail Aramides valley near Tarija between 2300– the former a westwards range cajanea at four localities in 2500 m, on 14 December 1994 extension of 600 km. The latter Córdoba province, and the species and two in the Río La Huerta was only previously known in has also been tape-recorded at valley, near Camacho on 18 Brazil from a single record in one site, providing the first December 1994, while Roraima and the lower Rio province records27. A total of Plumbeous Sierra-Finch Madeira, south of the Amazon. Two 8988 Horned Coots Fulica Phrygilus unicolor was found to records of Little Ground-Tyrant cornuta were counted on lagoons be common on the Cuesta de Muscisaxicola fluviatilis, on 1 and in the Vilama and Pululos area, Sama, between Tarija and 15 July 1993, were significant. The Jujuy province, in October 1995, Iscayachi, in December 1994 and species is only known in Brazil with 180 nests also located7. The upriver of La Palca on 1 December from recent sight records in world population was previously 1995 (all records SJT, LT). Rondônia and single records at estimated at c. 5000 birds9. A RB reports at least 16 Maruins, Rondônia, in June 1908 single Surfbird Aphriza virgata Military Macaws Ara militaris and on the upper Rio Madeira in was on Rio Grande beach, Tierra south of Buena Vista and November 1829. Dull-capped del Fuego on 17 and 22 February immediately north of the current Attila Attila bolivianus was 1995; this species is usually boundary of Amboró National common at EEM, the first records restricted to the Pacific coast of Park, Santa Cruz, on 5 April 1996, north of the Amazon in Brazil, South America in winter19, but is with at least 60 in the same area and White-shouldered Antbird annual at this site (M. P. on 8 April 1996, the second or third Myrmeciza melanoceps was found Pearman pers. comm.). Bolivian and Noel Kempff Mercado in the westernmost sector of the National Park record of Rufous reserve, an eastwards range BOLIVIA tailed Attila Attila phoenicurus at extension of 500 km. The White- Recent records from Tarija Flor de Oro on 11 April 1996, and a bellied Spinetail Synallaxis department in the extreme south of total of about ten of the threatened propinqua was discovered to be the country include the first Black-and-tawn y Seedeater fairly common in EEM, whilst departmental records of Snowy Sporophila nigrorufa at Flor de Orange-fronted Plushcrown Egret Egretta thula (five on the Oro on 11 April 1996 with several, Metopothryx aurantiacus was Rio Tarija just north of Tarija town including two males, still there on uncommon there; only two on 14 December 1994 and five on 13 April 1996. specimens and one sight record the Rio Salinas between Entre exist for Amazonian Brazil. A single Ríos and La Cueva on the same BRAZIL Blue-and-white Swallow date), Andean Goose Pacheco22 documents the first Notiochelidon cyanoleuca at EEM Chloephaga melanoptera (nine occurrence of several new species on 25 August 1994 and four at between Pasajes and Laguna in the Mamirauá Reserve (EEM) Macapá, Amapá, on 10 January Grande on 5 December 1995), near the junction of the Rio 1994 are only the second and White-collared Swift Japurá and Rio Solimões, western third documented records in Streptoprocne zonari s (at least Amazonas during fieldwork Amazonian Brazil. Orange- 50 over Tarija airport on 14 between January 1993 and fronted Yellow-Finch Sicalis December 1994) and Olive-sided September 1994. Brown- columbiana was regular at EEM, Flycatcher Contopus borealis throated Parakeet Aratinga a westward range extension of (one by the Río Emborozu on 3 pertinax was noted on the 400 km. December 1995 — apparently the northern border of the reserve on Whittaker30 documents the southernmost record in South several occasions, which along with first Dwarf Cuckoo Coccyzus America, just 10 km from the a record from Igarapé Belém1 pumilus for Brazil; a single on Argentinian border). Confirma provide the first reports from the Maracá island, Roraima, on 23 tion of species first recorded by rio Solimões basin. Olive-spotted December 1987. The same Mayer18 in Tarija involved an Hummingbird Leucippus observer discovered three new immature Fasciated Tiger- chlorocercus was found to be species for Brazil during a survey Heron Tigrisoma fasciatum at common; elsewhere in Brazil it is of the upper Rio Juruá, near Boca the southern edge of Reserva known only from Ilha de Tejo, Acre, in December 1995: Nacional Tariquia (date not Marchantaria, near Manaus, and Rufous-fronted Antthrush
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Formicarius rufifrons, Round do Navio and Porto Grande Shearwater Calonectris tailed Manakin Pipra Todd’s Antwren Herpsilochmus diomedea in Rio de Janeiro state; chloromeros and Yellow-green stictocephalus was found to be two found dead at Praia do Sul Vireo Vireo flavoviridis (AW). very common in canopy flocks, it Biological Reserve, Ilha Grande, Jaú National Park continues to being both observed and tape- on 3 June 1994. A dead Sickle provide interesting records: recorded (the third Brazilian winged Nightjar Eleothreptus Tawny-tufted Toucanet record). At the same locality both anomalus was found at Fazenda Selenidera spectabilis, Glossy-backed Becard Santa Rita, Paraná, only the Lanceolated Monklet Pachyramphus surinamus and fourth Brazilian record in the last Micromonacha lanceolata, Olive-green Tyrannulet 30 years4. Yellow-throated Antwren Phylloscartes virescens repre Myrmotherula ambigua and sented considerable range CHILE Chestnut-crested Antbird extensions from the nearest During visits to Chañaral Island, Rhegmatorhina cristata have all populations in French Guiana and Atacama, in 1988–90 a colony of been recorded recently, represent around Manaus, Ash-throated Red-billed Tropicbirds ing substantial range extensions Crake Porzana albicollis was Phaethon aethereus was located, from the upper Rio Negro (SB, heard in the surrounding the first breeding record for Chile ACa, MCH, MH). At the same grassland and Smoky-fronted and the southernmost ever. The locality AW recorded Zimmer’s Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum birds arrived in October and Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus fumifrons was the first state departed in late March or early minimus, previously known in record. The same observers April; it is possible that the colony Brazil only from south of the recorded three pairs of Great became established as a result of Amazon and east of the Rio Xenops Megaxenops parnaguae displacement from more northerly Madeira. Pelzeln’s Tody-Tyrant in disturbed caatinga near Lagoa breeding areas during the 1982–3 Hemitriccus inornatus was Grande, Pernambuco, a new El Niño29. discovered at a new site on the locality for the species. upper Rio Negro, near São Gabriel Straube & Bornschein28 report COLOMBIA de Cachoeira, and a singing male on a number of significant new The following observations were White-naped Seedeater records from north-western Paraná submitted by EK. A Great Blue Dolospingus fringilloides, 150 km and adjacent areas. The following Heron Ardea herodias was at a north of Manaus, on the Rio Apuau species were new records for White-necked Heron A. cocoi on 23 August 1995 was a range Paraná: Lesser Yellow-headed colony along the Río Cauca at extension of c. 850 km from the Vulture Cathartes burrovianus, Laguna de Sonso on 10 August upper Rio Negro (AW). Greater Thornbird 1994 (there are only three Three Golden Parakeets Phacellodomus ruber and Rusty- previous summer records), whilst Guaruba guarouba in terra firme fronted Tody-Flycatcher a Blue-winged Teal Anas forest at Alta Floresta on 14 June Todirostrum latirostre. New discors at the same locality on 1991 were the first record from species for southern Brazil were as the same date may have Mato Grosso state17. Collar8 reports follows: Long-billed Starthroat oversummered. An American the possible occurrence of Blue Heliomaster longirostris, Blue- Golden Plover Pluvialis cheeked Amazon Amazona crowned Motmot Momotus dominica also at Laguna de dufresniana in Brazil, based on momota, Slaty Antshrike Sonso on 10 August 1994 may the comments of hunters to the Thamnophilus punctatus, White also have oversummered; late Jean-Luc Dujardin; they thighed Swallow Neochelidon previous records are from claimed to have shot the species tibialis and Yellow-billed September to December13. Four across the Oyapock in Amapá. Cardinal Paroaria capitata. adult Collared Plovers During a 12-day trip to Amapá Additionally new species for Mato Charadrius collaris with a single TG and AW recorded an adult Grosso do Sul were also reported: downy young at the same site Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja in Ash-coloured Cuckoo Coccyzus represented perhaps the first gallery forest and cerrado north of cinereus, White-tailed breeding record for Colombia, Porto Grande (previous records Goldenthroat Polytomus whilst 25 Semi-palmated from Amapá are all historical), a guainumbi, Little Woodpecker Sandpipers Calidris pusilla, single Campo Flicker Colaptes Veniliornis passerinus and also at Laguna de Sonso, may campestris 20 km north of Rufous Casiornis Casiornis have oversummered and were Macapá was the first record from rufa. only the third inland record13. north of the Amazon, while in Pacheco & Maciel23 report the Two Orange-chinned Para terra firme forest between Serra second record of Cory’s keets Brotogeris jugularis at
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Club Farallones on the outskirts Albatross Diomedea epomophora Penguin Aptenodytes forsteri of Cali on 6 August 1994 were the (six records), Atlantic Petrel (eighth record), Adelie Penguin first record from the Cauca Pterodroma incerta (nine records Pygoscelis adeliae (fifth to eighth Valley. A well-watched Marble involving 13 individuals), White- records), Magellanic Penguin faced Bristle-Tyrant headed Petrel P. lessonii (four Spheniscus magellanicus (fourth Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus at records), Great-winged Petrel to seventh records), Shy Alba Belo Horizonte on 15–16 August P. macroptera (singles in April tross Diomedea cauta salvini 1994 is apparently the first 1977, February 1980 and March (second record), Sooty Albatross record east of the Colombian 1985), Little Shearwater Phoebetria fusca (second to fifth Andes. Two adult Red-capped Puffinus assimilis (singles in records), Broad-billed Prion Cardinals Paroaria gularis at March 1985 and February 1986), Pachyptila vittata (second and Club Farallones on 6 August 1994 Yellow-billed Teal Anas third records), White-bellied and an immature at Laguna de flavirostris (small breeding Storm-Petrel Fregatta grallaria Sonso on 10 August 1994 were the population established in the (probable in May 1975, no first records from the Cauca Valley Cumberland Bay area and six confirmed records), Great Egret but were possibly the result of records from Bird Island), Casmerodius albus (fifth record), escaped or released cage birds. Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura Snowy Egret Egretta thula A group of 25 White-tipped (six records, including one (third record), Cattle Egret Swift Aeronautes montivagus photographed, since 1991, Bubulcus ibis (191 birds recorded with White-collared Swifts although perhaps only three since first record in 1977), Chiloe Streptoprocne zonaris at 3200 m individuals involved), Peregrine Wigeon Anas sibilatrix (sixth in the Ucumarí Reserve, west Falcon Falco peregrinus (singles record), Purple Gallinule central Andes, in July 1995 in April 1986 and August 1991), Porphyrula martinica (second appears to be a range extension Allen’s Gallinule Porphyrula record), White-rumped (CD, JH, DSe). alleni (corpse found in December Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis 1984), Baird’s Sandpiper (8th–17th records), Pectoral ECUADOR Calidris bairdii (one photo Sandpiper C. melanotos (third to A Rufous Potoo Nyctibius graphed in October–November sixth records) and Arctic Tern bracteatus was roosting approxi 1994), Wilson’s Phalarope Sterna paradisaea (third inshore mately two hours south-east of Phalaropus tricolor (one record). Coca on 14 December 1994, photographed in October 1983), A moribund Black-necked whilst the second male Cerulean South Polar Skua Catharacta Swan Cygnus melancoryphus Warbler Dendroica cerulea in west maccormicki (16 records of 19 found at Rothera Base, Adelaide Ecuador was recorded at the same birds), Long-tailed Skua Island, inside the Antarctic Circle locality as the first, Mindo, on 10 Stercorarius longicaudus (adult on 8 January 1996 was the December 1994 (both records SFI). photographed in January 1984), southernmost record ever (Birding Dolphin Gull Larus scoresbii World 9 (6): 214). GUYANA (one in April 1985 and one, then Five White-winged Potoos three in February-March 1986), VENEZUELA Nyctibius leucopterus were found Brown-hooded Gull L. Three breeding-plumaged in the Iwokrama Rainforest maculipennis (single in May Dunlin Calidris alpina were at a Reserve in late July, providing 1987), Eared Dove Zenaida tidal lagoon at Chichiriviche on further confirmation of the auriculata (single in April 1992 25 April 1995 (NA); there are no species’s presence in Guyana was ship-assisted), Dark-faced published records from the (DJA). The only previous record Ground-Tyrant Muscisaxicola country. Kirwan14 documents two was of two in the Kanuku maclovianus (single photographed recent sight and tape-recorded Mountains in February 199324. in September 1994), Chilean occurrences of Amazonian Swallow Tachycineta leucopyga Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium hardyi SOUTH ATLANTIC (two in April 1982 were previ from Bolivar; a third record was Prince & Croxall26 report on 20 ously identified as European of one heard in the Imataca species new to South Georgia since House Martin Delichon urbicum) Forest Reserve, east of El Palmar, the publication of the current and Long-tailed Meadowlark on 17 July 1995 (AC, NC, DS et checklist25: Royal Penguin Sturnella loyca (single in April al.). Bar-winged Cinclodes Eudyptes schlegeli (singles in 1987). Cinclodes fuscus was recorded for February 1984 and December In addition the same authors the first time at the Páramo de 1992; the former was captured report a number of other Tamá, on the Colombian- and photographed), Royal significant records: Emperor Venezuelan border at 3100 m on
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19 February 1992, with a second Robert Williams (RSRW). 8. Collar, N. J. (1995) On the bird caught at the same altitude Acknowledgements possible occurrence of in May 19946. Phil Bysh, F.M. Gauntlett, Steve Amazona dufresniana in Barrowclough et al.2 report on Keen, Rab Shand, Richard Stone, Brazil (Psittaciformes: their observations on the Cerro Pat Warwick and Alan Wilkinson Psittacidae). Ararajuba 3: 70. Tamacuarí area, Amazonas, in all forwarded records. Mark 9. Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & March 1988 and January and Pearman and Rob Williams Stattersfield, A. J. (1994) March 1989, an area previously checked the manuscript. Birds to watch 2: the unsampled by ornithologists. The world list of threatened birds. principal ornithological highlights References Cambridge, U.K.: BirdLife were as follows: Little 1. Aguirre, A. C. & Aldrighi, A. D. International (BirdLife Chachalaca Ortalis motmot was (1983) Catálogo das aves do Conservation Series 4). heard calling daily (unknown from Museu da Fauna. Primeira 10. Contreras-Baldas, A. J., García- the nearby Duida or Neblina parte. Rio de Janeiro: CNPq. Salas, J. A. & González-Rojas, tepuis), Dusky Spinetail 2. Barrowclough, G. F., Escalante- J. I. (1995) Additional records Synallaxis macconnelli was Pliego, P., Aveledo-Hostos, R. of owls and wood warblers common (one specimen from & Pérez-Chinchilla, L. A. from México. Wilson Bull. Neblina, unrecorded from Duida), (1995) An annotated list of 107 (4): 765. two Plain Antvireos the birds of the Cerro 11. Duffy, D. C. & Hoch, L. (1995) Dysithamnus mentalis were Tamacuarí region, Serranía Probable breeding of Red collected (recorded at Neblina but de Tapirapecó, Federal billed Tropicbird in Costa Rica. not at Duida), Guianan Cock-of- Territory of Amazonas, Colonial Waterbirds 18 (2): the-r ock Rupicola rupicola was Venezuela. Bull. Brit. Orn. 214–215. commonly encountered (unrecorded Club 115 (4): 211–219. 12. Duque, W. S. (1996) Nuevo from Duida), Pale-eyed Thrush 3. Blanco, R, Acosta, M., Mujica, record del Gorrión de Cabeza Platycichla leucops was common L. & Dennis, D. (1996) Nuevo Carmelita (Spizella (unrecorded from Duida), registro de Avoceta passerina) y nuevo reporte de Speckled Tanager Tangara Recurvirostra americana fecha para el Bobito de Cresta guttata was common (unrecorded (Aves: Charadriiformes) en (Myiarchus crinitus) para from Duida) and Blue-naped Cuba. El Pitirre 9 (2): 3. Cuba. El Pitirre 9 (2): 2–3. Chlorophonia Chlorophonia 4. Bornschein, M. R., Reinert, B. 13. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. cyanea was also common L. & Bóçon, R. (1996) A new (1986) A guide to the birds of (unrecorded from Neblina). record of the Sickle-winged Colombia. Princeton: Nightjar Eleothreptus Princeton University Press. Neotropical Notebook: anomalus for southern Brazil. 14. Kirwan, G. M. (1996) Records of compiled by Guy Kirwan Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 116 (2): Amazonian Pygmy-Owl 125–126. Glaucidium hardyi from Observers 5. Bunkley-Williams, L. & south-east Venezuela. Cotinga Nick Addey (NA), David Agro (DJA), Williams, E. H., Jr. (1996) 5: 71–72. Chris Bradshaw (CGB), Sergio Observations of an Audubon’s 15. Kirwan, G. M, Williams, R. S. R. Borges (SB), Robin Brace (RB), [Black-headed] Oriole Icterus & Bradshaw, C. G. (1996) West André Carvalhães (ACa), Allen graduacauda in Puerto Rico, Indian Whistling Duck in the Chartier (AC), Nancy Challier (NC), the first record for the Dominican Republic. Threat Mario Cohn-Haft (MCH), Andrea Caribbean. El Pitirre 9 (2): 2. ened Waterfowl Specialist Group Daft (AD), Carl Downing (CD), 6. Caichi, R. (1995) Primer News 9: 10–11. Robert Edgar (RDME), Lisa Erb registro de Cinclodes fuscus 16. Lee, D. S., Faanes, C. & Haney, (LE), Paul Erb (PE), Byron (Aves: Furnariidae) para el C. (1996) Wintering Eastern Friend (BF), Jay van der Gaast Páramo del Tamá, frontera Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe), (JvdG), Mark Grantham (MG), Colombo–Venezolana. Empidonax flycatchers and Tom Gullick (TG), Samuel Ornitologia Neotropical 6: aseasonal records of Hansson (SH), Magali Henerique 121–123. kingbirds in the Bahama (MH), Jerry Hickman (JH), Ed 7. Caziani, S. M. & Derlindati, E. Islands. El Pitirre 9 (2): 4–6. Kwater (EK), Guy Kirwan (GMK), (1996) Fulica cornuta en la 17. Lo, V. K. (1995) Extensão da Sarah McKenzie (SM), Dave Laguna de Pululos y otras distribuição de Guaruba Sargeant (DES), Dave Sewell cercanas, puna arida del guarouba para o norte do (DSe), Dave Stejksal (DS), noroeste de Argentina. Threat Estado de Mato Grosso, Stephanie Tyler (SJT), L. Tyler ened Waterfowl Specialist Group Amazonia Meridional (LT), Andrew Whittaker (AW), News 9: 34–39. (Psittaciformes: Psittacidae).
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Ararajuba 3: 93–94. at Mamirauá Reserve, 116 (2): 81–104. 18. Mayer, S. (1993) Birds ob western Brazilian Amazonia. 27. Straneck, R. J. & Casañas, H. served during a walk from Ararajuba 3: 83–87. (1995) El Chiricote Aramides Narvaez (Tarija) to Villa 23. Pacheco, J. F. & Maciel, N. C. cajanea una nueva especie, y Charcas (Chuquisaca), (1995) Segundo registro de nuevos registros del Gavilán Bolivia in March 1992. Calonectris diomedea no Tijereta Elanoides forficatus, Unpubl. report. Estado do Rio de Janeiro e um en la provincia de Córdoba, 19. Minton, C. D., Piersma, T„ sumário de suas aparições na República Argentina. Blanco, D. E., Baker, A. J., costa brasileira (Procellarii- Notulas Faunisticas 71: 1–3. Benegas, L. G., Goeji, P. formes: Procellariidae). 28. Straube, F. C. & Bornschein, M. de, Manriquez, R. E., Peck, M. Ararajuba 3: 82–83. R. (1995) New or noteworthy & Ramírez, M. S. (1996) Wader 24. Parker, T. A. III , Foster, R. B., records of birds from north numbers and the use of high Emmons, L. H., Freed, R, western Paraná and adjacent tide roosts at the Hemispheric Forsyth, A. B., Hoffman, B. & areas (Brazil). Bull. Brit. Orn. Reserve “Costa Atlántica de Gill, B. D. (1993) A biological Club 115 (4): 219–225. Tierra del Fuego”, Argentina - assessment of the Kanuku 29. Vilina, V. A., González, J. L., January and February 1995. Mountain region of south Gibbons, J. E., Capella, J. J. & Wader Study Group Bull. 79: western Guyana. Conserva Díaz, H. (1994) The southern 109–114. tion International (RAP most nesting place for the Red 20. Norton, R. L. (1995) West Working Papers 5). billed Tropicbird (Phaethon Indies Region. Audubon Field 25. Prince, P. A. & Croxall, J. P. aethereus): Chañaral Island, Notes 4 9 (3): 313–314. (1983) Birds of South Georgia: Chile. Colonial Waterbirds 17 21. Norton, R. L. (1995) West Indies new records and re-evaluation (1): 83–85. Region. Audubon Field Notes of status. Bull. Brit. Antarct. 30. Whittaker, A. (1995) First 49 (5): 985–986. Surv. 59: 15–27. report of Coccyzus pumilus 22. Pacheco, J. F. (1995) New 26. Prince, P. A. & Croxall, J. P. for Brazil (Cuculiformes: distributional records for (1996) The birds of South Cuculidae). Ararajuba 3: 81. some birds from várzea forest Georgia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club
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Neotropical Notebook on 31 December and a Yellow- produced the following observa The records featured below have throated Vireo V. flavifrons on tions of interest: a single Red not been vetted, and have been 14 February were only the second Knot Calidris canutus, three collated from a variety of winter records for the island29. White-rumped Sandpiper C. published sources. They generally fuscicollis and c. 21 Stilt represent records of vagrants, Cayman Islands Sandpiper C. himantopus (Gosse significant range extensions, An immature male Gadwall Bird Club Broadsheet 67: 32). rediscoveries or new localities for Anas strepera and a female Red threatened9,10 or poorly known breasted Merganser Mergus Puerto Rico species. The editors would serrator wintering on Grand Up to 18 Plain Pigeon Columba welcome reprints of published Cayman in January-February inornata were at Lago de Cidra work which contain records 1996 were first records29. on 9 December 1996 — the total suitable for inclusion in future population is estimated to be only Neotropical Notebooks. Full Dominican Republic about 70029. details should also be submitted Ottenwalder31 reports on the to the relevant national current conservation status of St Kitts Nevis organisations. West Indian Whistling-Duck Francis15 records the first records Dendrocygna arborea in the of Eurasian Collared Dove CARIBBEAN country, identifying populations Streptopelia decaocto on Nevis: Bahamas in six lowland areas, four coastal six at Montpelier Plantation Inn A Red-tailed Hawk Buteo and two inland ranges. Dod12 between 28 March–9 April 1995, jamaicensis at Wellfields on 20 reports the first country record of and four including a mating pair April 1996 was the second island Red-necked Phalarope in the same place on 29 March– record; an American Oyster Phalaropus lobatus at Calderas 11 April 1996. catcher Haematopus palliatus on 19 November 1995, and was at Brown’s Point on 22 April subsequently between 11 Tobago 1996 and American Avocet February–24 March 1996 when it Hayes et al.19 report on surveys of Recurvirostra americana was photographed. Smith41 the threatened White-tailed wintered for the first time in documents the presence of Olive- Sabrewing Campylopterus 1995-96, remaining at Wilson throated Parakeet Aratinga ensipennis in March and Pond to at least 8 March29. nana-like birds in xeric vegeta December 1995 which located 45 tion at lower altitudes in the birds along 39.2 km of trails, Bermuda Sierra de Bahoruco in late March primarily in the Main Ridge An American Avocet 1996; their origin is unknown and Forest Reserve with some Recurvirostra americana the author advises the collection evidence of seasonal movements; wintered for the first time in of a small series to establish their they suggest that the population 1995-96; a Ruby-throated identity. has made a remarkable recovery Hummingbird Archilochus since Hurricane Flora destroyed colubris on 3 December 1995, Guadeloupe much of the species’ habitat in surviving until March, was the Barré et al.5 consider Guadeloupe 1963. first ever winter report; and a to be the centre of the reported Bicknell’s Thrush Catharus Lesser Antillean range of CENTRAL AMERICA bicknelli at Port Royal from 31 Eurasian Collared Dove Guatemala December into February 1996 Streptopelia decaocto, originating The first breeding observations of was the first winter record. An from birds first released there in Grey-headed Kite Leptodon Ash-throated Flycatcher 1976. cayanensis in Central America Myiarchus tuberculifer at Outer are described by Thorstrom43, Lea Farm on 30 January was only Jamaica with three nesting attempts the second-ever record, whilst a A brief stop at Montego Bay made in Tikal National Park in Solitary Vireo Vireo solitarius wetlands on 26 April 1996 1991 and 1993. Only one nest and
75 COTINGA 7 Neotropical Notebook two clutches had previously been Gamboa Road on the late date of (from Misiones), one Black- described. 26 April 1996 (El Tucán 22(6): 3– fronted Piping-Guan Pipile 4). Stub-tailed Spadebill jacutinga (from Misiones), one El Salvador Platyrinchus cancrominus was Speckled Crake Coturnicops Komar & Rodriguez21 report the found to be numerous on Cayo notata, one Hudsonian Godwit first breeding Lesser Nancy, near Bocas, on 1–2 Limosa haemastica, two Red- Nighthawks Chordeiles September 1996 and also in capped Parrot Pionopsitta acutipennis in the country, a September a pair of Great pileata (from Chaco), two Black colony of between 8–15 pairs at C urassow Crax rubra was seen bodied Woodpecker Dryocopus the mouth of the Río Lempa, with two chicks on Pipeline Road schulzi (one from Chaco), one Depto. San Vicente on 4 June (El Tucán 22(9): 8–9). A Black- Helmeted Woodpecker D. 1994, with another nest at Arcos throated Blue Warbler galeatus (from Misiones), one del Espino, Depto. Usulután on Dendroica caerulescens at Cerro Shear-tailed Grey Tyrant 13 June 1994. These records also Campaña on 29 September 1996 Muscipipra vetula (from constitute the first documented was the 10th record in Panama Misiones), three Strange-tailed evidence that the species breeds (El Tucán 22(10): 10). Tyrant Alectrurus risora (all on beaches in association with from Corrientes), four Black- terns and plovers. SOUTH AMERICA masked Finch Coryphaspiza Argentina melanotis, three Chestnut Panama Saibene et al.38 report the Seedeater Sporophila ruficollis First records, recently published, occurrence of nine species new to and one Marsh Seedeater S. are as follows: Reddish Egret Argentina at Parque Nacional palustris (from Entre Ríos). Egretta rufescens at Aguadulce Iguazú: of these only Sun Nores & Salvador28 report the saltpans on 21 September–2 Parakeet Aratinga solstitialis occurrence of three species new November 1996 (El Tucán 22 (10): (an escape on 7 May 1992) and to San Juan province in February 9), White-cheeked Pintail Anas Swallow-tailed Hummingbird 1991: Puna Canastero Asthenes bahamensis at Costa del Este on Eupetomena macroura (on 22 sclateri, Suiriri Flycatcher 22 September 199613, Common July 1993) have not been Suiriri suiriri and Band-tailed Teal A. crecca at Rodman Spill mentioned previously in Cotinga. Sierra-Finch Phrygilus Ponds on 25 December 1996-1 In addition, five species are alaudinus. January 1997 (El Tucan 23(1): 4) recorded for the first time in Babarskas et al.3 report the and a Grey-headed Manakin Misiones province: Rufous occurrence of eight species Piprites griseiceps mist-netted on chested Dotterel Charadrius between 1990 and 1995 new to Cerro Guaba, Bocos del Toro. A modestas, Common Tern Sterna Neuquén province, with a further pair of Black-and-white hirundo, White-tailed nine species for which specific Becard Pachyramphus Goldenthroat Polytmus details were previously lacking: albogriseus at Fortuna on 6 July guainumbi, Barred Antshrike Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis, 1996 was a significant report, as Thamnophilus doliatus and Black-headed Duck was a Green-fronted Lancebill Purple Martin Progne subis. Heteronetta atricapilla, Harris’s Doryfera ludovicae at Cerra Ordano & Bosisio30 provide Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus, Bruja on 25 May 1996 (El Tucan new specimen records of six White-throated Hawk Buteo 22(8): 8–9). The rare White- threatened and nine near- albigula, White-backed Stilt crested Coquette Lophornis threatened species, as defined by Himantopus melanurus, adorabilis was seen at Chorogo Collar et al.9, all collected in Picazuro Pigeon Columba on the Burica Peninsula, a female Santa Fé province (unless picazuro, Spot-winged Pigeon on 4-5 May 1996, and a male otherwise stated) and based on Columba maculosa, Giant Peg-billed Finch Acanthidops the collection of the Museo Hummingbird Patagona gigas, bairdi, unrecorded in Panama Provincial de Ciencias Naturales Brown Cacholote since 1979, was mist-netted in “Florentino Ameghino”, Santa Fé, Pseudoseisura lophotes, Vermil Volcán N. P. on 11 March 1996 Argentina: three specimens of ion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus with a female Slaty Finch Greater Rhea Rhea americana, rubinas, Fork-tailed Fly Spodiornis rusticus netted at the one Solitary Tinamou Tinamus catcher Tyrannus savana, same site the previous day. Also solitarius (from Misiones White-tipped Plantcutter significant was the first province), two Crowned Eagle Phytotoma rutila, Southern Northern Parula Parula Harpyhaliaetus coronatus (one Martin Progne elegans, Chalk- americana away from the Atlantic from Santiago del Estero), one browed Mockingbird Mimus coast of central Panama, at Old Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja saturninus, Saffron Finch
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Sicalis flaveola, Cinnamon Puffbird Nystalus maculatus cinerea which was common in Warbling-Finch Poospiza ornata north of Presto at 2600 m on 11 grassland 20 July–6 August. and Bay-winged Cowbird March (previously recorded to Molothrus badius. 2000 m and one of the few Brazil Bornschein6 reports a Spot departmental records); a male Bornschein & Reinert7 report a winged Falconet Spiziapteryx Golden-olive Woodpecker previously unpublished specimen circumcincta in Parque Nacional Piculus rubiginosas at 3000 m record of Andean Flamingo Los Glaciares. Santa Cruz on 11 (previously recorded to 2300 m); Phoenicopterus andinus, a January 1991, 1000 km south of Cream-backed Woodpecker juvenile collected at Jaraguá do its documented range in Entre Campephilus leucopogon at 2450 Sul, north-east Santa Catarina in Ríos. Chiurla8 places on record m (previously unrecorded above 1952, and a photograph of three two new records of Magellanic l730 m); a Pearly-vented adults at Lagoa do Peixe, Rio Plover Pluvianellus socialis Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus Grande do Sul in autumn 1992, from Buenos Aires province: a margaritaceiventer collected at the third and fourth dated juvenile at Mar Chiquita on 17 2400 m (previously known to Brazilian records. Galetti et al.16 July 1994, and two adults in the c. 2000 m); three Rufous-bellied report six recent records of same place on 7 August 1994. Saltator Saltator rufiventris at Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja Lando & Haene23 document the Portillo on 10 April; Citron and four of Crested Eagle confirmed occurrence of White headed Yellow-Finch Sicalis Morphnus guianensis from the Woodpecker Melanerpes luteocephala was found to be Brazilian Atlantic forest. candidus in Buenos Aires common (recorded from 23 sites) Rodrigues et al.36 analyse province with records since 1981– and breeding; recently fledged previous records of reported 1995, and Haene18 the first record Common Diuca-Finches Diuca breeding by Wilson’s Plover of Bare-eyed Ground-Dove diuca collected on 1 and 7 April, Charadrius wilsonia in north Metriopelia morenoi in San Juan the first proven breeding records east Brazil, presenting new province in October 1995. On 18 in Bolivia and first departmental records from Maranhão in April 1992, a single Black records; and five singing September 1991 and May–June winged Ground-Dove M. Grassland Sparrow 1992 and conclude that the melanoptera was photographed in Ammodramus humeralis at 2500 species is a rare breeding bird in Parque Nacional Lihue Caleb La m, an upward altitudinal range the country with other records Pampa2. Delhey & Pérez11 report extension of 750 m. In addition from Bahia and Alagoas. Range an observation of Ochre-flanked the same authors note the first extensions have been reported for Tapaculo Eugralla paradoxa in record of White-backed Stilt four species of cotingas in April Rio Negro province, an adult at Himantopus melanurus from 1995 in the Parque Estadual Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi Potosí department. Guaraja–Mirim, Rondônia, the on 18 January 1993, although Helme20 records a Giant most notable being for Purple there are specimen records from Snipe Gallinago undulata breasted Cotinga Cotinga this area. flushed in flooded grassland in cotinga 1050 km south-west of the Pampas del Heath, La Paz, on its nearest known locality45. Bolivia 29 July 1995, only the second Krabbe et al.22 report significant record for Bolivia, and an Olive- Chile new records from Chuquisaca striped Flycatcher Mionectes A whole series of significant new Department in 1995: five olivaceus specimen obtained in observations have recently been Whistling Heron Syrigma the same area on 25 July 1995, published in Boletín Chileno de sibilatrix 15 km north of also a second record for the Ornitología. Tabilo et al.42 Sopachuy at 2500 m (previously country. The same author also document the occurrence of three recorded to 1700 m); six notes the following first records immature Rockhopper observations of Red-fronted for La Paz department, all from Penguin Eudyptes chrysocome at Macaw Ara rubrogenys on 13–19 Pampas del Heath in 1995: a pair Punta de Talca, IV Region in March; the first departmental of Plumbeous Ibis Theristicus January 1994, unusually far record of Cloud-forest Screech- caerulescens on 27–28 July, a pair north: a pair of Bay-winged Owl Otus hoyi (a specimen of Yellow-headed Caracara Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus at obtained on 9 April); a Blue- Milvago chimachima on 22 July, Pastos Largos in January 1995 capped Puffleg Eriocnemis Swallow-tailed Hummingbird unusually high at 3800 m; glaucopoides in Podocarpus forest Eupetomena macroura which was Striated Heron Butorides (previously unrecorded in this locally common on 23–29 July striatus regularly observed in habitat); a Spot-backed and Grey Monjita Xolmis Coquimbo bay, IV Region since
77 COTINGA 7 Neotropical Notebook spring 1987 (there are only two Chile, where the species is scarce, c. 400 m in REM-C (previously other Chilean records, near Arica in IV Region (a total of 297 birds) known only to c. 300 m); and one and Valparaiso); Moustached and VII Region (11 birds) of the few Ecuadorian records of Turca Pteroptochos megapodius, between May and August in 1990 Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus, previously known to 3000 m, was and 1994-95. There are now a female-plumaged bird at recorded at 3750 m at Cancha de three records of Little Penguin Chedraui on 22 July 1996. los Indios, III Region in January Eudyptula minor in Chile, all in Significant observations of the 1994; White-fronted Ground- III Region: 2–3 birds around Pan following species considered Tyrant Muscisaxicola albifrons in de Azúcar island in summer of threatened10 were also made: IV Region (in valle del Huasco 1990 and 1992 and one photo Grey-backed Hawk and valle del Elqui in January graphed at Isla Chañaral de Leucopternis occidentalis, 1994) and III Region (valle del río Aceituno in January 199544. Rufous-headed Chachalaca Huasco in October 1994); Yellow- Ortalis erythroptera, Ochre- bridled Finch Melanodera Ecuador bellied Dove Leptotila xanthogramma in III Region in Pople et al.33 report the following ochraceiventris, Great Green October 1994; and Black Siskin significant observations from Macaw Ara ambigua, Blackish Carduelis atrata in III Region in Guayas: up to six Snail Kite headed Spinetail Synallaxis summer 1994. Rostrhamus sociabilis at Reserva tithys, Henna-hooded Foliage- Large numbers of Wilson’s Ecológica Manglares–Churute gleaner Hylocryptus Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor (REM-C) (now only erratically erythrocephalus, Pacific Royal were recorded in 1995–96 in recorded as far south as Guayas); Flycatcher Onychorhynchus central Chile, with two records Red-throated Caracara occidentalis, Grey-breasted involving 1000 birds (at El Daptrius americanus recorded at Flycatcher Lathrotriccus Tranque San Rafael) and another most study sites (previously griseipectus and Saffron Siskin of 500 individuals (at Embalse known in west Ecuador from a Carduelis siemiradzkii. Los Molles)17, and further south few records in Esmeraldas); the Schulenberg & Awbrey39 report two were at playa del Pelluco, X second province record of on significant observations from Region on 11 October 1995, the American Kestrel Falco the Cordillera del Cóndor in second record for Llanquihue sparverius; Green-crowned July–August 1993 and 1994 (see province24. Other interesting Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula at also Peru below). At Achupallas records from X Region include: c. 350 m at REM-C (a downward interesting records included the breeding Speckled Teal Anas altitudinal range extension of near-threatened Orange- flavirostris at Pelluco, Puerto c. 150 m); the first lowland records banded Flycatcher Montt in September and October of Line-cheeked Spinetail Myiophobus lintoni, Andean 199525, and the third record of Cranioleuca antisiensis at REM-C Potoo Nyctibius maculosus and Sand Martin Riparia riparia in on 28–29 August 1996; Collared Golden-plumed Parakeet this region, at Cucao, Isla Grande Antshrike Sakesphorus bernardi Leptosittaca branickii, of which de Chiloé on 8 December 199526. in semi-deciduous woodland at this locality may harbour an A female or juvenile Southern REM-C (a westward range important population. Coangas Martin Progne modesta recorded extension from more arid zones); held an unidentified Pyrrhura at Antofagasta, Region II on 20 Russet Antshrike Thamnistes parakeet, considered most likely February 1996, the fifth record in anabatinus at REM-C (only one to be the threatened White Chile27. Seeger & Aguirre40 other non-Andean Ecuadorian necked Parakeet P. albipectus, present additional distributional locality); two Spotted Antbird the threatened Spot-winged information for White-winged Hylophylax naevioides at REM-C Parrotlet Touit stictoptera and Dove Zenaida asiatica in Chile: on 30 August 1996 (previously the recently described Subtropi the species has been regularly recorded by Prior34 at the same cal Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium observed and breeding proven at locality, the first reliable reports parkeri. The most significant Copiapo, III Region in 1992, and south of Pichincha province); one finding at Miazi was Orange- two pairs were seen 20 km south of the few recent records south of throated Tanager of Coquimbo, IV Region on 12 Pichincha of Bicoloured Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron, September 1995, indicating that Antbird Gymnopithys leucaspis known from only one other the species is rapidly expanding at REM-C; a White-throated locality in Ecuador. its range southwards. Thrush Turdus assimilis at Aguirre & Seeger1 present a REM-C on 24 August 1996 (the Falkland Islands number of recent observations of first modern record south of A number of significant recent Tawny-throated Dotterel Pichincha); Crimson-breasted records from the archipelago have Oreopholus ruficollis in central Finch Rhodospingus cruentus at been published in Warrah 9: 4–6.
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A Rockhopper Penguin up to 86 birds being reported. records of Red-winged Eudyptes chrysocome showing Other interesting shorebirds Tinamou Rhynchotus rufescens characteristics of the race were: three records of Whimbrel from the Alto Chaco geographical moseleyi, which breeds on Tristan Numenius phaeopus between 23 region (three males and five da Cunha, Gough, Amsterdam October–29 November 1995, 32 females collected by Olrog in and St Paul Islands, was at Sanderling Calidris alba in the western Dpto. Presidente Hayes Macbride Head in December 1995 Bertha’s Beach area in late in the austral winter of 1947); the (the first record of this race), and November 1995, two Baird’s first Hook-billed Kite an apparent hybrid Rockhopper Sandpiper C. bairdii on Sea Chondrohierax uncinatus in the × Macaroni Penguin E. Lion Island on 14 January 1996, Bajo Chaco geographical region (a chrysolophus was at New Island 1–3 Wilson’s Phalarope female collected c. 40 km east of on 7 December 1995. Single Phalaropus tricolor also on Sea Pozo Colorado, Dpto. Presidente Great Grebes Podiceps major Lion Island on 16–20 November Hayes on 23 November 1946); the were at Burnside on 10 Novem 1995 and 16 January 1996, with a second and third country records ber 1995 and in Chabot Creek, single on Pebble Island on 15 of Blue-crowned Motmot Johnson’s Harbour from 19 January 1996, and only the third Momotus inornata (male collected December 1995–8 January 1996 20th century record of White- near Bella Vista, Dpto. Amambay at least. A Great Egret Egretta bellied Seedsnipe Attagis on 12 November 1994, and two alba was at Felton stream, malouinus on Sea Lion Island on specimens from the Parque Stanley in December 1995 and 1 December 1995 (the others Nacional Defensores del Chaco, single Buff-necked Ibis being in 1981 and 1991). Three Dpto. Alto Paraguay on 26–27 Theristicus caudatus were at Fox Arctic Skua Stercorarius March 1995); the first docu Bay on 2–5 January 1996 and parasiticus were in the Bertha’s mented Rusty-backed Antwren around Stanley on 6–7 and 10 Beach area on 26 November 1995 Formicivora rufa from the April 1996. One, possibly two with another sighting there a Matogrosense region (an adult Chilean Flamingos week later. An Eared Dove male collected 5 km north of Phoenicopterus chilensis were Zenaida auriculata was on Bahía Negra, Dpto. Alto around the islands between 1–21 Fitzroy Road East on 12 March Paraguay on 16 September 1994); December 1995 and two 1996. Vagrant passerines the first Paraguayan record of Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba reported included a Fire-eyed Bran-coloured Flycatcher coscoroba were on Pebble Island Diucon Pyrope pyrope on Beaver Myiophobus fasciatus west of the from 29 November 1995–15 Island in the second half of Río Paraguay (a juvenile collected January 1996. Other wildfowl November 1995 and a male in Parque Nacional Defensores included a single Ashy-headed Rufous-backed Negrito del Chaco, Dpto. Alto Paraguay on Goose Chloephaga p o liocephala Lessonia rufa on Tea Island in 25 March 1995); an adult male at Douglas Station from 14 early November 1995. Russet-winged Spadebill September-end of October 1995, Platyrinchus leucoryphus an adult male Red Shoveler Paraguay collected at Parque Nacional Anas platalea on Pebble Island on Comparing their field research Caaguazú, Dpto. Caazapá on 6 15 January 1996 with an adult with Hayes (1995). and present October 1993; two male and a female and immature male on the ing data from a large unpublished female Strange-tailed Tyrant same island next day, and an collection of Paraguayan birds Alectrurus risora collected at adult male Lake Oxyura vittata made by C. C. Olrog which is Estancia San José, Dpto. or Ruddy Duck O. jamaicensis stored at the Swedish Museum of Presidente Hayes on 28 also on Pebble Island from late Natural History, Stockholm, September 1994; the first record November–9 December 1995. Ericson & Amarilla14 provide of White-naped Xenopsaris with perhaps the same bird there significant new distributional Xenopsaris albinucha from the on 16 Januar y 1996. Single data for 12 species. A female Bajo Chaco region (a male Cinereous Harrier Circus Black-banded Owl Ciccaba collected by Olrog at Estancia cinereus and White-winged huhula collected in Parque Hermosa, c. 40 km east of Pozo Coot Fulica leucoptera were also Nacional Caaguazú, Departmento Colorado, Dpto. Presidente Hayes reported from the same island Caazapá on 30 September 1993 on 22 November 1946); the first between 29 November–9 was the first confirmed country record of Golden-billed December 1995. Record numbers record, although Brooks et al. Saltator Saltator aurantiirostris of Hudsonian Godwit Limosa (1995, Orn. Neotrop. 6: 129–134) from the Matogrosense region (a haemastica were on the islands present aural records for the female collected at Estancia Doña between 20 October–9 November previous year. Other records are Julia, 5 km north of Bahia Negra, 1995. with six records involving as follows: the first documented Dpto. Alto Paraguay on 13
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September 1994); the first record Fruiteater Pipreola lubomirskii Merida state on 29 June 1995, an of Ultramarine Grosbeak were the first south of the exceptional instance of Cyanocompsa brissonii from the Marañón valley; one certain oversummering by a Nearctic Campos Cerrados region (one record of Red-billed passerine migrant previously collected near Bella Vista, Dpto. Tyrannulet Zimmerius almost unknown in South Amambay on 13 October 1994); cinereicapillus at 1800 m was the America. one of the few records of first from the north Peruvian Saffron-cowled Blackbird Andes (although predicted by Neotropical Notebook: compiled Agelaius flavus in Paraguay (four Ridgely & Tudor35) and an by Guy Kirwan and Jon males by Ruta General Bruguez, upward altitudinal range Hornbuckle. Dpto. Presidente Hayes on 3 extension of 600 m; and two March 1995); and the first record records of Black-chested References of Troupial Icterus icterus in the Mountain-tanager Buthraupis 1. Aguirre, J. & Seeger, H. (1996) Matogrosense region (an adult eximia were the first south of the Observaciones del Chorlo de male, of an apparent pair, Marañón valley. Campo, Oreopholus ruficollis collected 5 km north of Bahía Amongst significant records (Wagler, 1829), en Chile Negra, Dpto. Alto Paraguay on 17 reported from the Cordillera del central. Boletín Chileno de September 1994). Cóndor by Schulenberg & Ornitología 3: 41–42. Awbrey39, in July–August 1993 2. Babarskas, M. & Gil, G. (1996) Peru and 1994 (see Ecuador above), Registro de la Palomita Barnes et al.4 place on record are the first Peruvian records of Cordillerana en la Parque significant new distributional Barred Hawk Leucopternis Nacional Lihue Calel, La records from the Cordillera de princeps, White-chested Swift Pampa. Nuestras Aves 34: 43. Colán, Amazonas department in Cypseloides lemosi, the threatened 3. Babarskas, M., Viega, J. & northern Peru, in July and Coppery-chested Jacamar Filiberto, F. (1996) Nuevos August 1994. White-eyed Galbula pastazae, White- registros de aves para la Parakeet Aratinga streaked Antvireo provincia de Neuquén. leucophthalmus, previously Dysithamnus leucostictus and Nuestras Aves 34: 44–46. known to 500 m, was regularly Rufous-browed Tyrannulet 4. Barnes, R., Butchart, S. H. M., recorded up to 1950 m; five Phylloscartes superciliaris, all in Davies, C. W. N., Fernández, White-tipped Sicklebill the upper Comainas valley. The M. & Seddon, N. (1997) New Eutoxeres aquila were the first same locality also provided the distributional information on records south of the Marañón following second Peruvian eight bird species from valley; six records of Russet- records: Napo Sabrewing northern Peru. Bull. Brit. mantled Softtail Thripophaga Campylopterus villaviscensio, Orn. Club 117: 69–74. berlepschi were made at 1800– White-tailed Hillstar Urochroa 5. Barro, N., Feldmann, R, 1950 m, a downward altitudinal bougueri and Plain-backed Tayalay, G., Roc, R, Anselmo, range extension of 650 m; nine Antpitta Grallaria haplonota. A M. & Smith, P.W. (1996) Barred Antthrush Chamaeza population of Mouse-coloured Status of the Eurasian mollissima at 2300–2600 m Thistletail Schizoeaca Collared-Dove (Streptopelia appeared intermediate in griseomurina at 2150 m was decaocto) in the French plumage characteristics between significant, as were records of Antilles. El Pitirre 9 (3): 2–4. the nominate and yungae Cinnamon Screech-Owl Otus 6. Bornschein, M. R. (1996) subspecies, suggesting that the petersoni in ridge-top forest and Extralimital record of the Marañón valley does not form a Bar-winged Wood-Wren Spot-winged Falconet clear divide between the two Henicorhina leucoptera, which Spiziapteryx circumcinctus. subspecies as previously was locally common from 1500 m Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 116: considered; a Chestnut to elfin forest at the summit of 197–198. Antpitta Grallaria blakei was Cerro Machinaza. 7. Bornschein, M. R. & Reinert, found at 1700 m, a downward B. L. (1996) The Andean altitudinal range extension of 450 Venezuela Flamingo in Brazil. Wilson m; records of Rusty-tinged Rodriguez & Lentino37 document Bull. 108: 807–808. Antpitta G. przewalskii spanned the first record of Palm Warbler 8. Chiurla, E. H. (1996) Nuevos 1700–2650 m, when previously Dendroica palmarum in registros del Chorlito it was only known from as low as Venezuela and only the second in Ceniciento (Pluvianellus 2200 m (Ridgely & Tudor35); six mainland South America32: one sodalis) en la provincia de records of Black-chested photographed by Mucubaji Lake, Buenos Aires. Nuestras Aves 35: 35–36.
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9. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. R, (1997) U pdate on the status 30. Ordano, M. & Bosisio, A. Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, of the threatened White (1997) Historical records of A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. tailed Sabrewing threatened and near- A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) (Campylopterus ensipennis) threatened Argentinian birds Threatened birds of the on Tobago, West Indies. El from Museo Provincial de Americas: the ICBP/IUCN Pitirre 10 (1): 28. Ciencias Naturales Red Data Book. Cambridge, 20. Helme, N. A. (1996) New “Florentino Ameghino” of UK: International Council departmental records for Santa Fé, Argentina. Bull. for Bird Preservation. Dpto. La Paz, Bolivia, from Brit. Orn. Club 117: 77–79. 10. Collar, N. J„ Crosby, M. J. & the Pampas del Heath. Bull. 31. Ottenwalder, J. A. (1997) Stattersfield, A. J. (1994) Brit. Orn. Club 116: 175–177. Situación actual y Birds to watch 2: the world 21. Komar, O. & Rodríguez, W. conservación de la Yaguaza list of threatened birds. (1997) Nesting of Lesser Antillana (Dendrocygna Cambridge, UK: BirdLife Nighthawks on beaches in El arborea) en la República International (BirdLife Salvador. Wilson Bull. 109: Dominicana. El Pitirre 10 (1): Conservation Series 4). 167–168. 2–10. 11. Delhey, K. & Pérez, C. (1996) 22. Krabbe, N., Poulsen, B. O., 32. Paynter, R. A. (1995) Nearctic Nuevo registro del Churrín Frølander, A., Hinojosa B., M. passerine migrants in South Grande (Eugralla paradoxa) & Quiroga O., C. (1996) Birds America. Cambridge, Mass.: en Río Negro. Nuestras Aves of montane forest fragments Nuttall Ornithological Club. 34: 42. in Chuquisaca Department, 33. Pople, R. G., Burfield, I. J., 12. Dod, A. (1996) Primer reporte Bolivia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club Clay, R. P, Cope, D. R., para Phalaropus lobatus en 116: 230–243. Kennedy, C. P, López L., B., la República Dominicana. El 23. Lando, R. & Haene, E. (1996) Reyes, J., Warren, B. & Pitirre 9 (3): 6. Carpintero Blanco Yagual, E. (1997) Bird 13. Engleman, H. D. (1996) White (Melanerpes candidus) en la surveys and conservation cheeked Pintail Anas provincia de Buenos Aires. status of three sites in bahamensis, a species new to Nuestras Aves 35: 34–35. western Ecuador. Final report Panama. El Tucán 22 (9): 11. 24. von Meyer, A. (1996) of Project Ortalis ‘96. 14. Ericson, P. G. P. & Amarilla, L. Observación de Steganopus Cambridge, UK: CSB A. (1997) First observations tricolor en Puerto Montt, X Conservation Publications. and new distributional data region. Boletín Chileno de 34. Prior, P. N. (1996) One month for birds in Paraguay. Bull. Ornitología 3: 37–38. of observations at Cerro Brit. Orn. Club 117: 60–67. 25. von Meyer, A. (1996) Masvale. Unpublished report 15. Francis, J. (1996) The Eura Nidificación del Pato Jergón to Fundación Ecológica sian Collared-Dove on Nevis. Chico (Anas flavirostris) en Andrade. El Pitirre 9 (3): 4. una zona poblada de la X 35. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. 16. Galetti, M., Martuscelli, P, region. Boletín Chileno de (1994) The birds of South Pizo, M. A. & Simão, I. (1997) Ornitología 3: 38–39. America, 2. Oxford: Oxford Records of Harpy and 26. von Meyer, A. & Espinosa, L. University Press. Crested Eagles in the (1996) Golondrina 36. Rodrigues, A., Oren, D. & Brazilian Atlantic forest. Barranquera (Riparia Lopes, A. T. L. (1996) New Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 117: 27– riparia) en Cucao, Chiloé. data on breeding Wilson’s 31. Boletín Chileno de Plovers Charadrius wilsonia 17. García, M. D„ Cofre, H. & Ornitología 3: 40. in Brazil. Wader Study Group Vilina, Y. (1996) Inusual 27. Mussa C., J. & Tala G„ C. Bull. 81: 80–81. presencia del Pollito de Mar (1996) Observación de 37. Rodriguez, G. & Lentino, M. Tricolor (Steganopus tricolor) Golondrina Negra (Progne (1997) Range expansion and en la zona central de Chile. modesta) en la provincia de summering of Palm Warbler Boletín Chileno de Antofogasta. Boletín Chileno Dendroica palmarum in Ornitología 3: 36–37. de Ornitología 3: 39–40. Venezuela. Bull. Brit. Orn. 18. Haene, E. (1996) La Palomita 28. Nores, M. & Salvador, S. A. Club 117: 76–77. Ojo Desnudo (Metriopelia (1996) Nuevos registros de 38. Saibene, C. A., Castelino, M. desnudo) en la provincia de aves para San Juan. A., Rey, N. R., Herrera, J. & San Juan, Argentina. Nuestras Aves 34: 42–43. Calo, J. (1996) Inventario de Nuestras Aves 35: 35. 29. Norton, R. L. (1996) West las aves del Parque Nacional 19. Hayes, F. E., Garnett, T. O., Indies region. Audubon Field “Iguazú”, Misiones, Argen Bernard, M. V. & Samad, I. Notes 50: 337–338. tina. Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A.
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39. Schulenberg, T. S. & Awbrey, 41. Smith, P.W. (1996) An Kite. Wilson Bull. 109: 173– K. (eds.) (1997) The unknown parakeet on 177. Cordillera del Cóndor region Hispaniola. El Pitirre 9 (3): 44. Valverde S., V. & Oyarzo R., H. of Ecuador and Peru: a 5–6. (1996) Registros de biological assessment. 42. Tabilo, E., Jorge, R. & Eudyptula minor Washington, D.C.: Conserva Campusano, J. (1996) Nuevas (Spheniscidae) en la costa de tion International (RAP observaciones sobre la la región de Atacama, Chile. Working Papers 7). ornitofauna de las regiones Boletín Chileno de 40. Seeger, H. & Aguirre, J. (1996) de Atacama y Coquimbo. Ornitología 3: 42-43. Aumento del rango Boletín Chileno de 45. Whittaker, A. (1996) Range distribucional de la Paloma Ornitología 3: 34–36. extensions of some cotingas de Alas Blancas, Zenaida 43. Thorstrom, R. (1997) A from Rondônia, Brazil. Bull. asiatica (Linné 1758). Boletín description of nests and Brit. Orn. Club 116: 198–199. Chileno de Ornitología 3: 41. behavior of the Gray-headed
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Neotropical Notebook now perched almost motionless, either A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) contains three sections. The first on the ground or on a fallen log, Threatened birds of the is a series of short papers sometimes raising or lowering its Americas: the ICBP/ IUCN documenting records. Photos and crest, and sporadically dashing a Red Data Book. Cambridge, descriptions will be published short distance to grab an insect UK: International Council where appropriate. The second disturbed by the ants. In contrast for Bird Preservation. section summarises records to the accompanying and more Jon Hornbuckle published elsewhere, following active Gymnopithys leucaspis and 35 Grove Road, Sheffield S7 2GY, the format established in Phaenostictus mcleannani UK. previous issues of Cotinga, and antbirds, it was silent throughout. the third lists unpublished and It narrowly avoided a mist-net on undocumented records. Please one occasion. The ant swarm was The first dow itcher indicate, with submissions, in located on the following two days Limnodromus sp. in C hile which section you wish records to in the same general area but the From 18-22 November 1996, the appear. ground-cuckoo was not seen, author visited Tongoy (30°15'S although it could have been 71°30'W), c. 40 km south-west of Short Notes present as little time was spent Coquimbo and 1,330 km south of observing the swarm, it being in a the Chile–Peru border. I had an Tw o sightings of Banded less accessible locality. excellent view over the mudflats G round-Cuckoo N e o m o r p h u s The only other record of this near the mouth of the river r a d i o l o s u s in Ecuador endangered species1,2 in Ecuador Tongoy. Fifteen species of waders, since 1936 was by Niels Krabbe some gulls, Elegant Terns Sterna During a survey of the birds in of one bird 20 km west of Alto elegans and Black Skimmers Jatun Sacha Bilsa Reserve, in the Tambo on 13–15 February 1992: Rhynchops niger were feeding at Mache–Chindul hills of north this bird had apparently been the locality. west Ecuador (00°22'N 79°45'W), attracted by snapping noises, and On 19 November, a wader, I had prolonged close views of bill-snapped in close proximity to which immediately reminded me two Banded Ground-Cuckoo the observer while raising and of a dowitcher (I observed a Long Neomorphus radiolosus, on 6 and lowering its crest (N. Krabbe billed Dowitcher Limnodromus 15 September 1996. The first was pers. comm.). The only other scolopaceus in Germany three in a partly replanted, relatively recent, published reports are of months earlier), was located. It open area close to the reserve three in Colombia in 1988–892, but was watched over the following buildings. It was initially seen local hunters in Nariño in the days down to 100 m with the light walking / hopping along a cleared 1990s reported it as fairly common from behind, through a 27 × 60 area between sapling trees and at two localities, with its “extreme telescope, and compared with then heard bill-snapping and shyness” blamed for the paucity of other waders, including Willet observed hunting for food in the records1, a view not supported by Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, adjacent undergrowth, entirely Ecuadorian experience. Red Knot Calidris canutus, alone. The second, presumed to be Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus, a different bird, was in primary R e f e r e n c e s Hudsonian Limosa haemastica wet forest 3 km away, feeding 1. Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & and Marbled Godwits L. fedoa with antbirds in association with Stattersfield, A. J. (1994) (Pearman4 mentions only four an army-ant swarm. Both sites Birds to watch 2: the world records of the latter in Chile up were at approximately 500–600 list of threatened birds. until 1993). Three photos were m elevation. Cambridge. UK: Birdlife taken with a 135-mm lens I watched the second bird for International (Birdlife (sufficient to see the structure of nearly an hour in total at various Conservation Series 4). the bird). It remained in the area times of the day, as close as 6–7 2. Collar, N. J.. Gonzaga, L. R, until 15 January 1997 (W. m, in full view of it most of the Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, Morgan pers. comm.). The time. It spent long periods A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. following notes were made.
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appearance to sides of body 4. Pearman, M. (1995) The (looking greyish barred at longer essential guide to birding in distance); undertail-coverts with Chile. Belper. Derbyshire: dark spots. Worldwide Publications. Head: upper head brownish, 5. van Gils, J. & Wiersma. P. sides of head bright rufous; (1996) Short-billed darkish lores; slightly darkish Dowitcher. In del Hoyo, J., ear patch; supercilium clearly Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. marked, in front of and above eye (eds.) Handbook of the birds buff, becoming reddish just of the world, 3. Barcelona: behind eye; chin whitish, throat Lynx Edicions. reddish. Klemens Steiof Flight: seen flying from c. 300 m Seestraße 60, D-13347 Berlin, distance with 10× binoculars; no Germany. wingbar but white trailing edge to secondaries obvious; white oval Third record of Pygm y King patch on centre of back, similar to f i s h e r Chloroceryle aenea f o r Spotted Redshank Tringa A r g e n t i n a erythropus. Together with Guy Kirwan, we The bird was a first-winter, observed a single Pygmy which was indicated by the bright Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea in coloured plumage. Adult Parque Nacional Iguazú on 16 dowitchers moult into more or March 1997. The bird was closely less greyish non-breeding observed by RSRW and NW in plumage in August2. The bird was flight and perched at the confluence of a small side-stream D o w itc h e r Limnodromus sp. a t probably a Short-billed Dowitcher and the main river, c. 1 km above Tongoy, a first for Chile. ( K l e m e n s Steiof) L. griseus, presumably of the subspecies caurinus, which the falls. This constitutes the Structure: larger and thicker- winters along the Pacific coast third record for both the Parque headed than Red Knot, the body from California to Peru2,5, but it Nacional and the country (Juan more round-shaped, like a was not possible to be sure of the Mazar Barnett pers. comm.). Common Snipe Gallinago specific identification. Robert S. R. Williams and gallinago. William Morgan who is very Natasha White Bare parts: bill c. 1 + the length familiar with the waders occurring 6 Waldeck Road, Norwich, of the head, more or less straight, in the area had not seen a Norfolk NR4 7PG, UK. perhaps very slightly dowitcher at this site during the down-curved, blackish with a last 16 years. Fourth record of W estland lighter basal third; legs greenish This observation is the first P e t r e l Procellaria westlandica yellow. record of a dowitcher in Chile1,3,4. f o r C h i l e In winter it reaches as far south A Westland Petrel Procellaria Upperparts: upperwing with as the Pacific coast in Peru5, c. westlandica was observed at scaled appearance, feathers dark 1800–2000 km north-west of 40°05'S 74°05'W (west-south-west brown with light (huffish to Tongoy. of Valdivia) on 3 November 1996. whitish) fringes, more contrasting It was watched down to 10 m, than in any other wader present. R e f e r e n c e s 1. Araya, B. & Chester, S. (1993) when flushed by the ship. Size, Underparts: general colour of The birds of Chile. Santiago: shape and colour were similar to neck and breast bright rufous, La tour. White-chinned Petrel P. much warmer and more reddish 2. Hayman, R, Marchant, J. & aequinoctiali s but the black than Marbled Godwit; centre of Prater, T. (1986) Shorebirds. tip to the bill was clearly visible. belly to undertail-coverts whitish An identification guide to the This represents the fourth with a very slight reddish tinge waders of the world. London: Chilean and fifth South American obvious in the late afternoon sun; Croom Helm. record. breast sides with blackish dots, 3. Howell, S. N. G. (1996) A Simon Cook merging to bands at the sides of checklist of the birds of Chile. c/ o 10 The Slade, Daventry, the belly and flanks (at least to Colorado Springs: American Northants NN11 4HH, UK. the legs), giving scaled or barred Birding Association.
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Published records from leucogaster (small groups of 3–8 the literature birds on 16, 21 and 23 January 1997); Skua Catharacta sp. (one C a r i b b e a n on 19 January 1997 was thought B a h a m a s to be South Polar Skua C. On 14–18 November 1996, a first- maccormicki); Long-tailed Skua winter Black-headed Gull Stercorarius longicaudus (singles Larus ridibundus was photo on 21 and 23 January 1997); graphed at Governor’s Harbour, Pomarine Skua S. pomarinus (c. Eleuthera, the second record 30 between 15–23 January 1997); from the archipelago33. Royal Tern Sterna maxima (four on 19 January 1997); and Sooty
C u b a Tern S. fuscata (c. 4 on 21 Muñoz & Bowles23 document a January 1997). pair of Bananaquit Coereba flaveola at Macizo Montañoso Dom inican Republic Little Egret Egretta garzetta (Lyn W ells) Guamuhaya, Cuba on 1 March Rivas29 reports on a number of 1994. This is apparently the interesting country records: nine First record of Little Egret second record for Cuba, the first Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus Egretta garzetta for Guyana being one collected in March 1965 in May 1996; observations in A Little Egret Egretta garzetta in central Cuba. September and December 1996 of was observed on the Mahaiconey Garrido12 reports the first record Wilson’s Phalaropus tricolor and River, c. 15 km south of its mouth, of Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola Red-necked Phalaropes P. from a boat at c.10 m in good for the island, and Duque & lobatus; a juvenile Scissor- light on 19 January 1997. The Garrido10 the first record of tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus lores were greenish grey, not White-crowned Sparrow forficatus photographed between yellow and the feet were plain Zonotrichia leucophrys of the race Oviedo and Pedernales (no date); yellow not golden-yellow. The legs gambelli, captured in Havana and a Skua Stercorarius sp. near appeared distinctly heavier than province in November 1995. Montecristi on 6 January 1997. those of Snowy Egret Egretta There is one previous record of Rivas & López30 document the thula, the rear of the legs could Nashville Warbler Vermivora first records of Black Tern not be observed because of ruficapilla in Cuba (one collected Chlidonias niger in the Domini intervening foliage. Neck length in Havana on 9 October 1963); can Republic: one at Bahia de Calderas, near Bani with a flock could not be compared as the bird thus additional records of singles of Common Terns Sterna was hunched-up and did not in Havana province in late move. It was in non-breeding October 1986 and on 5 December hirundo from 31 August 1996 (the flock being last seen in early plumage. Several Snowy Egrets 1996, with another between November) with another at were in the area but direct Soplillar and Molina in Matanzas comparison was not possible. province in October 1995 are Laguna de Oviedo, near Barahona on 26 October 1996. Although some supporting significant9. Blanco & Pérez5 Latta17 reports on two other new features were not noted, the lore review Cuban records of Piping colour is believed to be diagnostic. Plover Charadrius melodus, and species for Hispaniola: a Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla This represents the first record list the fourth and fifth for photographed, also at Bahia de for Guyana, though it is not Havana province and the 22nd unexpected as the Barbados for Cuba in the last 30 years. Calderas, near Bani on 16 breeding colony now numbers at February 1997 and a Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina least 20 pairs and there is a D o m i n i c a recent record from Suriname Few data on pelagic birds exist mist-netted and photographed in the Sierra de Bahoruco National (Paul Buckley pers. comm.). from the central Lesser Antilles, thus observations by Keith & Park on 15 November 1996. Richard Ryan Ward16 in the deep water west of Latta et al.18 and Hess15 38 Brookside Avenue, Livingston, Dominica are of interest: confirm the presence of Olive- NJ 07039-4030, USA. Audubon’s Shearwater throated Parakeet Aratinga Puffinus lherminieri (one on 23 nana in the country, reporting on J a n u ary 1997); White-tailed new observations from Sierra da Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus Bahoruco National Park since at (singles on 22 and 23 January least July 1995 and a singles in 1997); Brown Booby Sula Santo Domingo city in July 1995
92 COTINGA 8 Neotropical Notebook and December 1996 to January Cerro Punta on 4 July 1997; an haliaetus in Argentina and 1997. The origin of these birds unusually early Orchard Oriole Uruguay resulting in 38 and 15 remains unknown. Icterus spurius in Panama City citations respectively. on 13 July 1997; further records A Cape Gannet Morus J a m a i c a of American Kestrel Falco capensis in the Beagle Channel, Bird Notes in the Gosse Bird sparverius suggesting that the Tierra del Fuego on 21 January Club Broadsheet 68 (March 1997) species is successfully colonising 1995 represents the second lists several notable records. A the country; Cattle Tyrant record in Argentina and South Double-crested Cormorant Machetornis rixosus was America27. Phalacrocorax auritus was confirmed to breed in Panama, De Lucca8 reports the first observed at “Coconuts” on 2-3 when a juvenile was noted successful nest of Harpy Eagle February 1997. At least three begging food from two adults at Harpia harpyja in the country Golden Swallow Tachycineta Ford Amador on 19 August 1997; between 1990 and 1992, where a euchrysea were at Hardwar Gap and 30 pairs of Great Blue single fledging remained for at on 8 June 1989, the first record Heron Ardea herodias were least 10 months in the area. since 1982. noted building nests south of Two Sooty Grassquits Tiaris Lake Bayano, the first breeding fuliginosa collected in Iguazú Central Am erica record in Panama (all Angehr3). National Park on 29 September H o n d u r a s and 18 October 1994 represent One and eight Jabiru Jabiru South Am erica the first country record21. mycteria at Laguna El Faro and A r g e n t i n a de la Peña23 gives details of the Laguna El Jicarito on 19 and 20 A Spot-winged Falconet nests of Grey Elaenia October 1994 were the first Spiziapteryx circumcinctus was Myiopagis caniceps at Rosario de records of this species on the on Isla Martín García, north la Frontera, Salta, on 10 Pacific coast20. eastern Buenos Aires on 24 April December 1991 (previously 199311. The species was previ unknown), Slaty Elaenia E. M e x i c o ously only known from the strepera in the same place on 13 Rodríguez-Estrella et al.31 report extreme south-west of the December 1991, Purple- the first nesting by European province. throated Euphonia Euphonia Starlings Sturnus vulgaris in Christie & Rubulis6 report the chlorotica at Romang, Santa Fé southern Baja California in May second specimen of Ochre- on 7 October 1995 and Carbon 1995, c. 800 km south of their flanked Tapaculo Eugralla ated Sierra-finch Phrygilus previous known range in the paradoxa from Argentina, near carbonarius at Peninsula Valdes state. Nahuel Huapi National Park on on 1 January 1987. In a second 10 August 1995, which represents paper, the same author24 reports P a n a m a the sixth published record. A few observations of the following Among recent sightings is the other unpublished records exist species, new for Santa Fé first published country record of from nearby. province: Green Ibis Plumbeous Pigeon Columba The first nesting report of Mesembrinibis cayennensis near plumbea; it was found to be Crowned Slaty-flycatcher Romang on 4 April 1992 and near common on the Serrania de Empidonomus Florencia on 29 November 1995; Jungurado from sea-level to 1000 aurantioatrocristatus for Río Collared Forest-Falcon m and with two specimens Negro was a nest found near Micrastur semitorquatus tape- collected in August 1997). Of the Chimpay on 20 January 199525. recorded at Las Claritas on 10 Darien highland endemics, only Reggio & de la Orden28 provide August 1990; a Pale-crested Pirre Warbler Basileuterus the first records of South Woodpecker Celeus lugubris ignotus was not found in the American Painted-snipe near Villa Guillermina on 28 Jungurado range. Along the Río Nycticryphes semicollaris for San November 1995; a Dinelli’s Sambu on 24 August 1997 several Juan, based on a pair found at Doradito Pseudocolopteryx White-winged Swallows 2,750 m in the Reserva Natural dinelliana seen and tape- Tachycineta albiventer were Estricta El Leoncito on 24 recorded south of Wildermuth on observed, a species only recently January 1995 and a previously 3 November 1992; a Boat-billed (1996) reported in Panama. Other unpublished observation by W. H. Flycatcher Megarhynchus interesting records include: a Partridge on the río Jáchal in pitangua on 2 November 1995; female Peg-billed Finch November 1963. two pairs of Chestnut-vented Acanthidops bairdii and up to ten Saggese et al.32 review Conebill Conirostrum speciosum Slaty Finches Haplospiza published and unpublished east of Villa Ocampo on 21 rustica at Los Quetzales near records of Osprey Pandion October 1992 and 4 October 1995;
93 COTINGA 8 Neotropical Notebook an Ornate Warbling-finch dominicus at Colonia Villa Nueva range); Red-fronted Macaw Ara Poospiza ornata near Grütly on 1 on 13 July 1993; Plumbeous rubrogenys (just one bird during May 1989. Other noteworthy Ibis Theristicus caerulescens at a survey of the Rio Caine, Potosí records for Santa Fé are: a pair of San Jaime and Paso Telégrafo on department, four at Novillero, Dusky-legged Guans Penelope 19 September 1993 and 10 Cochabamba and up to 116 birds obscura near Tacuarendí and October 1993; two Lesser at Hacienda Uyuni, Potosí in late another at Las Claritas on 27 Yellow-headed Vultures June and early July); Canary July 1995; two and one Yellow Cathartes burrovianus at Arroyo winged Parakeet Brotogeris breasted Crakes Poliolimnas Yacaré on 18 December 1991; an versicolurus (first records for La flaviventer at Saladero Cabal on Osprey at Puerto Campichuelo Paz department); Montane 20 October 1986 and west of Los on 5 March 1993; several Dusky- Screech-Owl Otus hoyi (records Amores on 8 November 1989; a legged Guans north of La from between 1100–1250 m at nesting Rufous Nightjar Barranca on 15 January 1993 and Río Azero, Chuquisaca depart Caprimulgus rufus east of Villa at Puerto Campichuelo on 8 ment); Buff-fronted Owl Ocampo on 1 November 1991; two February and 5 March 1993; Aegolius harrisii (records from Toco Toucans Ramphastos toco American Golden-Plovers two new localities suggest that north of Villa Guillermina on 28 Pluvialis dominicus at Lucas the species may be more November 1995; Grey-headed Norte and near Gualeguay on 13 widespread in deciduous forests Tyrannulets Serpophaga and 27 November 1991; several in Bolivia than previously griseiceps south of Wildermuth on Upland Sandpipers Bartramia suspected); Band-winged 23 February 1991 and 1 March longicauda at Sauce Sud on 27 Nightjar Caprimulgus 1992, and north of Calchaquí on 3 November 1991 and La Armonía longirostris (pair at 800 m is well May and 10 June 1992, and 15 and Moreira on 4 March 1993; below the usual altitudinal range July 1993; a pair of Blue-billed Snowy-crowned Terns Sterna of this species east of the Andes); Black-tyrants Knipolegus trudeaui at El Emplame on 17 Amethyst Woodstar Calliphlox cyanirostris close to Aguará September 1991 and Villaguay on amethystina (two males at 800 m Grande on 24 November 1983; a 12 October 1992; four Blue were 100 m above the usual pair of Rufous Casiornis headed Parakeets Aratinga altitudinal limit and apparently Casiornis rufa east of Los Amores acuticaudata at Villa Urquiza on the first report from an Andean on 3 October 1990; several Blue- 24 September 1992; several valley); Striped Woodpecker hooded Euphonias Euphonia White-eyed Parakeets A. Picoides lignarias (the first aureata at Cayastá on 13 May leucophthalmus at San Victor and records from La Paz department); 1988; a pair and a male Purple- Concordia on 18 December 1991 Green-barred Flicker Colaptes throated Euphonia E. and 4 November 1993; single melanochloros (the first reports chlorotica at Los Amores on 13 Southern Scrub-Flycatchers from La Paz department); June 1976 and 1 October 1989, Sublegatus modestus at Paso Bolivian Earthcreeper and a pair west of Calchaquí on Telégrafo on 10 October 1993; Upucerthia harterti (the first 14 April 1989; a male Lined several Sand Martins Riparia records for Potosí and La Paz Seedeater Sporophila lineola at riparia at Puerto Campichuelo on departments); Berlepsch’s Villa Ana on 9 February 1978 and 5 March 1993; and two Many- Canastero Asthenes berlepschi a pair at río Salado on 4 February coloured Chaco-Finches (pair at 2300 m were 300 m 1994; White-bellied Saltatricula multicolor at Alvear below their known altitudinal Seedeaters S. leucoptera were at on 16 October 1979. limit and other observations El Rabón on 25 September 1972, increase its known range to 200 near Tacuarendí on 15 November B o l i v i a km2); Buff-browed Foliage- 1986, at Reconquista on 16 May Herzog et al.14 report on the gleaner Syndactyla 1992, at Romang on 7 October results of avifaunal research in rufosuperciliata (regularly seen 1995 and east of La Florencia on Andean dry forest localities at 1000 m at Río Azero, 300 m 29 November 1995; two lone and throughout Bolivia, during May- below its known altitudinal a breeding pair of Ringed October 1995. New information range); Spot-billed Ground- Warbling-Finches Poospiza on the following species is Tyrant Muscisaxicola torquata at Esperanza on 4 June presented: Band-tailed Pigeon maculirostris (one bird 700 m 1972, 30 April 1989 and 10 Columba fasciata (records from below known altitudinal limits of November 1995, and another at 800 m and 1500 m are below the the species); Brown-crested Pozo Borrado on 27 January usual elevational range); Flycatcher Myiarchus 1988. For Entre Ríos province, Maroon-chested Ground Dove tyrannulus (one at 2300 m was noteworthy records include: three Claravis mondetoura (500 m 600 m above its previously known Least Grebes Tachybaptus below its usual elevational altitudinal limit); Lemon-
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browed Flycatcher Conopias highlands of Floreana on 28 Caprimulgus sericocaudatus was cinchoneti (single sight records March 1996. It also lists the recorded seven times, having from two localities in La Paz second record of Eastern previously been known from just department were the first records Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus for three country records. Green- from Bolivia); White-naped the islands, one observed by and-rufous Kingfisher Xenopsaris Xenopsaris Diego Andrade Torres and Paul Chloroceryle inda was regularly albinucha (one in Santa Cruz Coopmans with a birdwatching observed and an active nest department; the species is known group on Santa Fé on 9 June found, it was previously known from only a handful of sites in 1997. from only four records in Bolivia); White-lined Tanager Paraguay. Three sightings of Tachyphonus rufus (the first P a r a g u a y Pygmy Kingfisher C. aenea, record for La Paz department); Fieldwork in the Reserva Natural including a pair, are the first for Fawn-breasted Tanager de Bosque Mbaracayú, Paraguay, Oriental Paraguay and the third Pipraeidea melanonota (pair at from June 1994 to February 1996, for the country. Several pairs of 500 m were unusually low on the resulted in the following note Collared Crescentchest east Andean slope); Chestnut- worthy observations presented in Melanopareia torquata, previ vented Conebill Conirostrum Madroño & Esquivel19. Records of ously known from a single 1938 speciosum (recorded to 1500 m, Hook-billed Kite record in Paraguay, were found. 500 m above its usual altitudinal Chondrohierax uncinatus were Several records of Sharp-tailed range); Cinereous Conebill C. the first for the Department Tyrant Culicivora caudacuta are cinereum (recorded at 1300 m, (breeding suspected), and those of the first in Paraguay since 1932. unusually low on the east Andean Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizeatus Groups of up to ten Curl- slope); and Epaulet Oriole ornatus the first certain crested Jay Cyanocorax Icterus cayanensis (pair at 1500 Paraguay records since 1939 and cristatellus were the first in m, 500 m above its usual the first for the Department: Paraguay outside Concepción altitudinal range). indigenous Ache hunters reported Department. Three records of finding a nest. Several records of Bananaquit Coereba flaveola B r a z i l Black Hawk-Eagle Spizeatus were the first for the Depart Aleixo2 documents a record of tyrannus confirm the species’ ment. A Silver-beaked Tanager Large-headed Flatbill presence in Paraguay, it Ramphocelus carbo was the third Ramphotrigon megacephala from previously having been treated as for Oriental Paraguay Three the Xavante Indian Reserve of hypothetical13. Several records of singing male Temminck’s São Marcos, 120 km north-west of Sungrebe Heliornis fulica on the Seedeater Sporophila Barro do Garças, Mato Grosso Jejuími River confirm the species’ falcirostris were located in June state, central Brazil. This is a status in the reserve, where it 1995, having previously been range extension of 700 km south was listed without documentation known in Paraguay from a single east from the nearest known by Acevedo et al.1; there are only 1977 record. Marsh Seedeater locality at Alta Floresta, Mato two previous confirmed and five S. palustris, although erroneously Grosso, and is almost equidistant unconfirmed reports for reported for the Parque7,13, was from south-east Brazilian Paraguay. Red-legged Seriema recorded for the first time when populations. Cariama cristata has been three males were observed with a observed several times, although flock of transient Sporophila C h i l e not previously listed for central seedeaters. The same flock also Porteous26 reports the occurrence Paraguay13. Further records of contained two male Dark- of both the little-known Scaled Pigeon Columba throated Seedeater S. Markham’s Storm-Petrel speciosa confirm it to be an ruficollis, one male Rufous- Oceanodroma markhami and uncommon resident in the rumped Seedeater S. Hornby’s Storm-Petrel O. reserve. Five records of Pheas hypochroma, both new for the hornbyi off Arica in late October ant Cuckoo Dromococcyx Department, and up to three 1995. phasianellus are the first for the male Chestnut Seedeater S. Department. Records of cinnamomea, the second record E c u a d o r Ocellated Poorwill for the Department. Two Noticias de Galápagos 57 (1997) Nyctiphrynus ocellatus, including additional records of Sooty documents the first Galápagos an incubating bird on 27 Grassquit Tiaris fuliginosa record of Green Heron October 1994, supplement the follow the first Paraguayan Butorides virescens, observed and four previous records for record at the same locality. photographed by Hernán Vargas Paraguay and single Department at Pozo de Claudio Cruz in the record. Silky-tailed Nightjar
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P e r u Asunción: Centro de Datos en la Isla Martín García, Wilkinson & Smith34 describe the para la Conservación. Provincia de Buenos Aires, first nests, eggs and nestlings of 2. Alexio, A. (1997) Range Argentina. Nuestras Aves 36: Sooty Antbird Myrmeciza fortis extension of Large-headed 5. to be discovered, in Cocha Cashu Flatbill Ramphotrigon 12. Garrido, O. H. (1997) Sicalis Biological Station, Manu National megacephala with comments flaveola (Aves: Emberizidae) — Park in September 1991 and on its distribution. Bull. Brit. nueva especie para la October 1994. Orn. Club 117: 220–223. avifauna Cubana. El Pitirre 3. Angehr, G. (1997) The 10: 55. V e n e z u e l a Field editor’s report. El Tucán 13. Hayes, F. E. (1995) Status, Barrowclough et al.4 report new 23 (8): 4–5. distribution and biogeogra- records for the summit of Auyán- 4. Barrowclough, G. F., Lentino phy of the birds of Paraguay. tepui, Bolívar state from a month R., M. & Sweet, P. R. (1997) New York: American Birding long survey (1 February–1 March New records of birds from Association, Mon. Field Orn. 1994), They recorded 21 new Auyán-tepui, Estado Bolívar, 1. species for the summit avifauna Venezuela. Bull. Brit. Orn. 14. Herzog, S. K., Kessler, M., including two especially Club 117: 194–198. Maijer, S. & Hohnwald, S. noteworthy records. Tepui 5. Blanco R., P. & Pérez M., E. (1997) Distributional notes Tinamou Crypturellus ptaritepui (1997) Otros nuevos registros on birds of Andean dry observations and four specimens, del Frailecillo Silbador forests in Bolivia. Bull. Brit. represent a range extension of 50 Charadrius melodus en la Orn. Club 117: 223–235. km for this threatened species7. A Provincia de la Habana, 15. Hess, G. K. (1997) Olive- single Buff-fronted Owl Cuba. El Pitirre 10: 13. throated Parakeet (Aratinga Aegolius harrisii was collected, 6. Christie, M. I. & Rubulis, S. nana) in the Dominican Re the easternmost record of the (1997) Otro ejemplar de public. El Pitirre 10: 57. nominate northern race. Churrín Grande (Eugralla 16. Keith, A. R. & Ward, N. F. R. paradoxa) en la Provincia de (1997) Pelagic bird sightings O ther records received Río Negro, Argentina. off Dominica. El Pitirre 10: Nuestras Aves 36: 5. 60–61. South G eorgia 7. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P, 17. Latta, S. (1997) Two new A Barn Owl Tyto alba found in Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, species of birds from an old building at 54°18'S A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. Hispaniola: Wood Thrush and 36°30'W by postmaster Gordon A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) Black-legged Kittiwake. El Liddle on 8 August 1997 was the Threatened birds of the Pitirre 10: 59. first island record. Americas: the ICBP/IUCN 18. Latta, S. C., Rivas, F. M. & Red Data Book. Cambridge, López, N. (1997) Confirma Acknowledgem ents UK: International Council tion of the Olive-throated Thanks to those who submitted for Bird Preservation. Parakeet (Aratinga nana) in or commented on records: Simon 8. De Lucca, E. R. (1996) the Dominican Republic. El Cook, Jon Hornbuckle, Klemens Observaciones de un nido Pitirre 10: 56. Steiof and Natasha White. David exitoso de Harpía (Harpia 19. Madroño, A., N. & Esquivel, E. Wege drew attention to published harpyja) en Argentina. El Z. (1997) Noteworthy records material. Silvia Benitez and Hornero 14 (3): 70–72. and range extensions of some Tatiania Santander assisted with 9. Duque, W. S. (1997) Segundo birds from Reserva Natural Spanish material. record y algunos aspectos del Bosque Mbaracayú conductuales de la Bijirita de (Mbaracayú Forest nature Neotropical Notebook: compiled Nashville Vermivora Reserve), Department de by Juan Mazar Barnett, Guy ruficapilla (Aves: Canindeyú, Paraguay. Bull. M. Kirwan and Robert S. R. Emberizidae) en Cuba. El Brit. Orn. Club 117: 166–176. Williams. Pitirre 10: 62–63. 20. Marineros, L. (1996) Registros 10. Duque, W. S. & Garrido, O. H. de Jabiru mycteria en la R e f e r e n c e s (1997) Zonotrichia leucophrys costa Pacifica de Honduras. 1. Acevedo, C., Fox, J., Gauto, R., gambelli (Aves: El Hornero 14 (3): 68–69. Granizo, T., Keel, S., Pinazzo, Emberizidae); nuevo record 21. Mazar Barnett, J. & Herrera, J., Spinzi, L., Sosa, W. & Vera, para Cuba. El Pitirre 10: 63. J. (1996) Primer registro de V. (1990) Areas prioritarias 11. Ferrari, C. & Henschke, C. Tiaris fuliginosa (Wied, para la conservación en la (1997) El Halconcito Gris 1830) para la Argentina. El región oriental del Paraguay. (Spiziapteryx circumcinctus) Hornero 14 (3): 73–74.
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22. Muñoz, A. H. & Bowles, B. 26. Porteous, B. (1997) Some birds M. C. (1997) European (1997) Primera observación of the Humboldt Current. Starlings nesting in southern de Coereba flaveola Sea Swallow 46: 55–56. Baja California, Mexico. (Linneo) (Aves: Coerebidae) 27. Ramírez Llorens, P. (1996) Wilson Bull. 109: 532–534. para el Macizo Montañoso Sula capensis en el Canal 32. Saggese, M. D., Krapovickas, Guamuhaya, Cuba. El Beagle, Argentina. El S. F., Haene, E. H. & De Pitirre 10: 16. Hornero 14 (3): 67–68. Lucca, E. R. (1996) 23. de la Peña, M. R. (1996) 28. Reggio, P. & de la Orden, C. Presencia del Aguila Descripción de nidos nuevos (1997) Presencia del Pescadora (Pandion o poco conocidos de la Aguatero (Nycticryphes haliaetus) en Argentina y avifauna Argentina. El semicollaris) en la Provincia Uruguay. El Hornero 14 (3): Hornero 14 (3): 85–86. de San Juan, Argentina. 44–49. 24. de la Peña, M. R. (1996) Nuestras Aves 36: 6. 33. White, A. W. (1997) Black Nuevos registros o aves poco 29. Rivas, F. M. (1997) Resumen headed Gull (Larus conocidas para las de aves consideras como ridibundus) seen and provincias de Santa Fé y raras o accidentales para photographed at Governor’s Entre Ríos, Argentina. El La República Dominicana. El Harbour, Eleuthera, Baha Hornero 14 (3): 87–89. Pitirre 10: 58. mas. El Pitirre 10: 60. 25. Pérez, C. & Petracci, P. (1997) 30. Rivas, F. M. & López, N. (1997) 34. Wilkinson, F. A. & Smith, U. R. Nidificación del Tuquito Gris Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) (1997) The first nest records (Empidonomus en la Bahía de Calderas, of the Sooty Antbird aurantioatrocristatus) en la Bani, República Dominicana. (Myrmeciza fortis) with notes Provincia de Río Negro, El Pitirre 10: 58. on eggs and nestling develop Argentina. Nuestras Aves 31. Rodríguez-Estrella, R., ment. Wilson Bull. 109: 319– 36: 6. Bustamente, J. & Blázquez, 324.
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Neotropical Notebook contains near boats in the Gulf of Paria December 1985 (GW). The species three sections. The first consists west of Trinidad, and just south is now regular on Tobago, but this of short papers documenting of Crown Point, Tobago (FEH). appears to be the first breeding records. Photos and descriptions The latter is a first record for record. are published where appropriate. Tobago. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis The second section summarises Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon A female at Arena Reservoir, records published elsewhere, aethereus Trinidad on 14 January 1995 following the format established One at sea just off the north coast (DWF). The species is an in previous issues of Cotinga, and of Trinidad on 3 July 1994 (FEH). uncommon winter visitor to both the third lists unpublished and The species is rarely recorded islands. undocumented records. Please near Trinidad. indicate, with submissions, in which section you wish your Masked Booby Sula dactylatra records to appear. Individuals on the north side of St Giles Islands, Tobago on 29 SHORT NOTES September 1995 and 20 February 1996 (RPff, Mff, AC). This species, Rare bird records from which breeds in the West Indies Trinidad & Tobago in 1997 south to the Grenadines, has only Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus The proliferation of records recently begun to appear in the (Charles Gambill) during the last two decades has Tobago area. *21 led to a large amount of data, Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus often emanating from visitors to Up to three birds at Buccoo Trinidad & Tobago, who are marsh, Tobago on 15–17 January largely unfamiliar with the local 1993. 22 February 1993 and 21 avifauna. In order to rationalise January 1995 (DWF, GW, AW). the situation, a committee has These appear to be the first 20th been established to rigorously century records on Tobago of this assess all records submitted to it. secretive species. The results of the first selection of such records are given here. American Oystercatcher Those accepted have been Haematopus palliatus subjected to close scrutiny by a One or two birds on mudflats at panel of experienced ornitholo Waterloo between 7–21 October gists, following the usual 1995 and on 11 January 1996 international standards. It is the Little Egret Egretta garzetta (Lyn Wells) (GW et al., BO). Only one committee’s hope that publication previous record for Trinidad. Little Egret Egretta garzetta will encourage all serious field Double-striped Thick-knee workers to submit their records Birds at Buccoo marsh and Speyside, Tobago on 23 December Burhinus bistriatus (including any from the past) for Individuals were seen at Orange 1993, 7 November 1994 and 20– assessment. Grove, Trinidad on 14 August 21 January 1995 (FEH et al., 1991 (GW, ZW) and at Petite Results DWF). Records of this Old World Trou, Tobago on 16 August 1995 We present acceptable records for species have now become fairly (ER et al.). These constitute the 23 species, some supported by regular on both islands; it has second record for Trinidad and photographic evidence: these also recently been found nesting the first for Tobago. include three first records for on Barbados. Tobago. Records for nine other Spotted Redshank T ring a species were rejected. Black-bellied Whistling-duck Dendrocygna autumnalis erythropus One at Bon Accord Lagoon, Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis Adults with small ducklings at Tobago on 13 February 1983 (DF Individuals on 3 July 1994 flying Buccoo marsh, Tobago on 31
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et al.). The first (and only) record (FEH). The species, though Observers: A. Cooley, R. P. & M. for Tobago (see elsewhere in this presumably resident, has only ffrench, D. W. Finch, D. Fisher, F. issue). The species has also been rarely been recorded on Tobago. E. Hayes, B. Oddie, V. Quesnel, recorded occasionally on Rufous-shafted Woodstar E. Rooks, G. Seutin, G. A. & Z. Barbados, but is very rare in the Chaetocercus jourdanii White. New World. An immature or female at The Trinidad & Tobago Rare Hudsonian Godwit Limosa Blanchisseuse Road on 3 August Birds Committee currently haemastica 1995 (RPff et al.); although there consists of seven members, One at Caltoo Trace, Nariva on are a fair number of sight records including the present authors, 15 September 1991 and another from Trinidad (almost all in the Davis W. Finch, Ian Lambie, at Caroni Rice Project on 27 Northern Range), mostly during William L. Murphy, Victor September 1992 (GW, ZW). The January–June, the status of this Quesnel and Graham White. species is an uncommon passage tiny hummingbird on the island Records to be considered should migrant through Trinidad, remains obscure. be sent, preferably on prescribed usually in small groups or lone forms, to F. E. Hayes or Richard Bank Swallow Riparia riparia individuals. ffrench at the addresses below. One on 1 October 1994 at Trincity Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa sewage ponds (FEH et al.). This is Richard ffrench Individuals at Waterloo mudflats the earliest fall record of this Toftingal, Laurieston Road, on 7 and 19 October 1995 and 10 species on Trinidad, where it has Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle March 1996 (GW et al.). The only been rarely recorded Douglas, DG7 2BE, Scotland. species is a rare passage migrant previously. Floyd E. Hayes through Trinidad, most records Cliff Swallow Hirundo pyrrhonota Zoology Unit, Department of Life occurring in autumn. Three at Trincity sewage ponds Sciences, U.W.I., St Augustine, Pomarine Skua Stercorarius on 17 January 1995 (DWF et al.). Trinidad, West Indies. pomarinus There have only been three Up to two birds off Crown Point, previous records from Trinidad. PUBLISHED RECORDS Tobago on 15– 16 January 1996 Chestnut-sided Warbler FROM THE LITERATURE (BO). Very few birds of this Dendroica pensylvanica species have been identified off C arib b ean An immature at Simla, Trinidad Tobago, but this probably reflects on 13 January 1995 (DWF et al.) paucity of observers rather than Bahamas was the sixth record for Trinidad. the species’ genuine rarity. A Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus Summer Tanager Piranga rubra at West End, Grand Bahama on Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus A subadult male at Waterloo on 13– 16 February 1997 was the A probable juvenile of this 11 May 1994 (GW, ZW). The first West Indian record. Two species off Crown Point, Tobago species is an uncommon winter overwintering Kirtland’s on 16 January 1996, at approxi visitor to Trinidad, and this Warblers Dendroica kirtlandii mately the same time as one of spring record is considerably were found at Abaco on 15 and 17 the previous species (BO). The later than previous ones. December 199623. species appears slightly more common in waters off Trinidad & Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea Tobago than its congener. An adult male near Lagon Bouffe in south-east Trinidad on 28 Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus April 1983 (VQ et al.). Only the fuscus second record on Trinidad. It An adult and a young bird at seems to be a rare spring Waterloo mudflats on 26 migrant: all records for both December 1993 (GW, AW), and islands have occurred between another, probably subadult, at the March-May. Kirtland’s Warbler Dendroica kirtlandii same location on 11 January 1996 (David Beadle) (BO). There are only a few Rose-breasted Grosbeak records of this species from Pheucticus ludovicianus Trinidad & Tobago, but records A female at Chacachacare island Barbados are becoming more regular. on 22 April 1995 (GS). Only the Vagrants to the island included a third record for Trinidad of this female Hooded Merganser Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor species, which breeds in North Mergus cucullatus at Chancery One photographed at Buccoo America and winters south to Lane on 4 December 1996 (first marsh, Tobago on 9– 10 July 1994 Peru and the Guianas. record for the island), two White-
8 5 COTINGA 9 Neotropical Notebook winged Black Terns Chlidonias Clara in extreme north-west 18 September 1996 (third record), leucopterus in October 1996, a Sonora province on 7 June 1997. a Lesser Black-backed Gull Greenshank Tringa nebularia at Erickson & Wurster10 place on Larus fuscus between 6–20 Cole’s Pasture on 17 November record confirmed breeding of the September 1996 (third record) 1996 and a Collared Pratincole following species in the Sierra and a Band-tailed Gull Larus Glareola pratíncola at North San Pedro Mártir, northern Baja belcheri on 24 September 1996 Point (first for the Neotropics) California, all of which were (fourth record), all at Costa del from October 1996–January previously not known to breed in Este. The second Grey-hooded 199723. Mexico: Dusky Flycatcher Gull Larus cirrocephalus Empidonax oberholseri (July recorded in the country was Bermuda 1992 and 1993), Hermit Thrush observed at Costa del Este on 17 The first wintering Brown Catharus guttatus (July 1992), October 1997, with the same bird Creeper Certhia americana Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo and an Arctic Tern Sterna since 1970 was recorded in chlorurus (July 1993) and Fox paradisaea, still present the January–February 199723. Sparrow Passerella iliaca (July following day1,2. 1993) . In addition, the same authors provide evidence for the South America occurrence of Northern Saw- Argentina w het Owl Aegolius acadicus (May The first records of Buff-banded 1994), Townsend’s Solitaire Tyrannulet Mecocerculus Myadestes townsendi (July 1987) hellmayri from Tucumán and Hermit Warbler Dendroica province were reported by occidentalis (July 1993) in the Giannini13; at San Javier six were same area in summer. The latter trapped on 4 and 6 January 1995, species is not known to nest with several subsequent sightings elsewhere in Mexico. Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni until January 1996. (Charles Gambill) New data on distribution, presented by Figueron-Esquivel Bolivia et al.11, include the first records Brace & Hornbuckle7 report the Dominican Republic in Quintana Roo of: Mississippi following interesting records from The first record of Sw ainson’s Kite Ictinia mississippiensis Beni Biological Station (BBS), Hawk Buteo swainsoni in the (sight record, October 1992), dpto. Beni: Pearl Kite West Indies was a light morph White-necked Jacobin Gampsonyx swainsonii (first adult 3 km south of Monte Cristi Florisuga mellivora (specimen, department record in September on 22 April 19968. March 1993; sight record, May 1992), Tiny Hawk Accipiter 1993), Buff-throated Foliage- superciliosus (second to fourth Guadeloupe gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus department records in August The first record of Bare-eyed (specimens, April 1992 and 1994, August 1995 and July Thrush Turdus nudigenis was February 1993), Thick-billed 1996), Burrowing Owl Speotyto reported by Levesque17: an adult Seed-Finch Oryzoborus funereus cunicularis (resident pair in feeding young at ‘Petit Marquisat’ (specimens, August 1992, March 1995– 1996 was the first at the Capesterre Belle-Eau and June 1993), Fuertes’ Oriole department record), Little commune on 12 July 1997. Icterus (spurius) fuertesi (sight Nightjar Caprimulgus parvulus record, February 1993) and (first area records including a Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella Central America nest in August 1995), Striolated magna (sight record, June 1993). Honduras Additionally, they report three The first breeding records of summer records, including a nest, Royal Tern Sterna maxima of Swallow-tailed Kite come from Caya Gallina near Isla Elanoides forficatus, which Cochino Pequeño in 1994 and extends the Mexican breeding 199528. range significantly northwards. Mexico Panama Garrett & Molina12 report the El Niño produced some interest first record of Black-tailed Gull ing seabird sightings in the Larus crassirostris for the country. These included a Grey Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus country at El Golfo de Santa Gull Larus modestus between 4– (David Beadle)
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Puffbird Nystalus striolatus Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet Ramphotrigon fuscicauda (second department record in Touit purpurata (recorded on at (reported on several occasions August 1992), Pale-breasted least six occasions between since 1989, the first records in Spinetail Synallaxis albescens August 1991–September 1995, a Brazil); Large-headed Flatbill (new, apparently age-related significant southerly range- R. megacephala (relatively plumage variation), Plain extension); Brown-banded common at Alta Floresta but Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis Puffbird Notharchus ordii known from only two other (not uncommon in the area, the (uncommon at Alta Floresta: a localities in Amazonian Brazil); only site in lowland Bolivia little-known species largely Black-and-white Tody-Tyrant where the species is known to known from specimens from Poecilotriccus capitalis (a female occur), Stripe-chested northern Amazonian Brazil and in November 1989 represents Antwren Myrmotherula south-west Venezuela); Collared only the third locality in Brazil); longicauda (first department Puffbird Bucco capensis (three of Zimmer’s Tody-Tyrant record in September 1992), the four state records are from Hemitriccus minimus (recorded Sulphur-bellied Tyrant- this area); Cabanis’s Spinetail on several occasions and now also Manakin Neopelma Synallaxis cabanisi (the first known from both banks of the sulphureiventer (new information Brazilian record and an easterly lower Rio Tapajós, where apparently confirms that it is not range extension of 1200 km was recorded by B. M. Whitney); a bamboo specialist), White- made 25 km north of Alta Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant crested Tyrannulet Floresta in October 1989 and the Lophotriccus galeatus (recorded Serpophaga subcristata (four presumed same pair was seen several times since September mist-netted, two previous again in August 1991); Peruvian 1993: only one previous record in departmental records), White- Recurvebill Simoxenops Mato Grosso); Tooth-billed bellied Tyrannulet S. munda ucayalae (discovered at Alta Wren Odontorchilus cinereus (five mist-netted in August 1995, Floresta in 1989, the second (recorded on several occasions no previous departmental Brazilian locality); Crested since 1989, previously in records), Crested Doradito Foliage-gleaner Anabazenops southern Amazonian Brazil only Pseudocolopteryx sclateri (24 dorsalis (discovered in 1993, the known from between the Rios mist-netted at BBS, the second second Brazilian locality); Grey- Madeira and Xingú); and Bolivian locality), White-naped throated Leaftosser Sclerurus Guianan Gnatcatcher Xenopsaris Xenopsaris albigularis (one seen and tape- Polioptila guianensis (one in albinucha (singles in August recorded in August 1991 and October 1989 extends the species’ 1994, July 1995 at BBS and at heard in the same area in known range south). Trinidad in July 1996; scarce in October 1992 are the second and From the same volume, Bolivia), Ashy-headed Greenlet third records in Brazil); Manu Cardoso da Silva et al.9 report on Hylophilus pectoralis (first Antbird Cercomacra manu several interesting observations department record in August (locally common at Alta Floresta, from the study of an isolated area 1995), Long-tailed Reed-Finch the only known Brazilian locality of upland savanna in Amapá Donacospiza albifrons (several until its discovery near during October–November 1990 records from BBS provide a new Porangaba, Acre by Andrew including: the first state records Bolivian locality for this species Whittaker); Black-bellied of Swallow-tailed Kite which, in Bolivia, is only known Gnateater Conopophaga Elanoides forficatus, Yellow- from dpto. Beni), and Tawny- melanogaster (male in October crowned Parrot Amazona bellied Seedeater Sporophila 1989: the nearest previous known ochrocephala, Ferruginous hypoxantha (several males in localities are in Pará and Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium August 1996). Rondônia); Purple-throated brasilianum, Horned Sungem Cotinga Porphyrolaema Heliactin bilophus, Rufous-sided Brazil porphyrolaema (five records from Pygmy-Tyrant Euscarthmus Zimmer et al.33 report on the area are a significant easterly rufomarginatus, Smoky-fronted significant new records from the range extension; it has also been Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum Alta Floresta region of Mato by recorded recently near fumifrons, White-rumped Grosso. Amongst a host of Ariquemes, Rondônia by R. S. Monjita Xolmis velata, interesting observations on Ridgely); Cinnamon-crested Yellowish Pipit Anthus behaviour and other aspects of Spadebill Platyrinchus lutescens, White-bellied life-history for a number of little- saturatus (several records in the Seedeater Sporophila known Amazonian species, area are the first for the state leucoptera, Capped Seedeater records of the following species and possibly the southernmost S. bouvreuil, and Ashy-headed are of distributional interest: ever); Dusky-tailed Flatbill G reenlet Hylophilus pectoralis.
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i lugubris (new westernmost Tapajós); Guianan Gnatcatcher localities); Collared Puffbird Polioptila guianensis (new Bucco capensis (southerly range locality for the poorly known extension of c. 600 km); Rusty subspecies paraensis); Fulvous- breasted Nunlet Nonnula crested Tanager Tachyphonus rubecula (450 km south-easterly surinamus (significant southerly range extension); Spot-throated range extension); Yellow Woodcreeper Deconychura shouldered Grosbeak stictolaema (600-km southerly Parkerthraustes humeralis range extension); Brown- (unusually common at Cachoeira rumped Foliage-gleaner Nazaré); Slate-coloured Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant Euscarthmus Automolus melanopezus (450-km Seedeater Sporophila schistacea rufomarginatus (Jon Fjeldså) easterly range extension); (previously known only from one Rufous-tailed Xenops Xenops other site in southern Amazonian Additionally, the authors provide milleri (450-km south-easterly Brazil). the first specimen evidence for range extension); Grey-throated Six new species are reported the following species’ occurrence Leaftosser Sclerurus albigularis for Minas Gerais by Parrini & in Amapá: White-tailed Hawk (first record from Brazil); Tawny- Pacheco25: Little Blue Heron Buteo albicaudatus, Eared Dove throated Leaftosser S. Egretta caerulea at Lagoa do Zenaida auriculata, Long-tailed mexicanus (nearest records are Sossego, Mochambinho on 15 Ground Dove Uropelia 600 km to the east and 700 km to September 1996; Stripe-backed campestris, Fork-tailed Palm- the south-west); Black-capped Bittern Ixobrychus involucris at sw ift Tachornis squamata, Toco Antwren Herpsilochmus Januária on the Rio São Toucan Ramphastos toco, atricapillus (550-km north Francisco, 30 July 1992; two White-barred Piculet westerly range extension); Broad-tipped Hermits Picumnus cirratus, Rusty- Chestnut-shouldered Phaethornis gounellei in caatinga backed Antwren Formicivora Antwren Terenura humeralis in the Janaúba region on 10 July rufa, Lesser Elaenia Elaenia (previously known in Brazil only 1993; Rufous-backed Antvireo chiriquensis, Brown-crested as far east as the Rio Purus); Dysithamnus xanthopterus and Flycatcher Myiarchus Plain Tyrannulet Inezia Brown-breasted Bamboo- tyrannulus and White-banded inornata (several records; only tyrant Hemitriccus obsoletus Tanager Neothraupis fasciata. three previous records for since 1986 in the little-visited Stotz et al.29 report on the Amazonian Brazil); Sepia- portion of Itatiaia National Park results from two study sites along capped Flycatcher Leptopogon that lies within the province, and the middle Rio Jiparaná, amaurocephalus (250-km south specimens labelled as Ferrugi Rondônia in 1986 and 1988. One westerly range extension); nous Antbird Drymophila locality — Cachoeira Nazaré —has Rufous Casiornis Casiornis ferruginea from Serra de the highest species list (459) for a rufa (status uncertain in Matapau, Ouro Preto in April single site in Brazil. Amongst the Amazonia); Brown-crested 1926 and Parque Nacional do many important records, the Flycatcher Myiarchus Caraca in November 1974, have following are of particular tyrannulus (uncertain status in been reidentified as Bertoni’s interest: Nocturnal Curassow western Amazonia); Dusky- Antbird Drymophila rubricollis. Nothocrax urumutum (several chested Flycatcher Myiozetetes Three new records for Espírito tape-recorded: the south- luteiventris (previously known Santo are reported by Bauer et easternmost occurrence); from only two localities in aid: Spot-flanked Gallinule Blackish Rail Rallus nigricans southern Amazonian Brazil); Gallinula melanops at Usina (one record, a 700-km range Crested Becard Pachyramphus Paineras, Itapemirim on 27 extension eastward); Ash- validus (two specimens and October 1997; three Little coloured Cuckoo Coccyzus several sight records are the first Nightjars Caprimulgus parvulus cinereus (two records, the first records for western Amazonia); on the Rio Itabapoana near Praia reports from Amazonian Brazil); Crimson Fruitcrow das Neves, 30 October 1997 and Fiery-tailed Awlbill Avocettula Haematoderus militaris (1400- two Vermilion Flycatchers recurvirostris (one mist-netted km south-westerly range Pyrocephalus rubinus at the extends the species’ known range extension); Tooth-billed Wren same site in June 1997. 850 km south-west); Crimson Odontorchilus cinereus (other Maurício & Dias20 report on Topaz Topaza pella (significant southern Amazonian Brazil avifaunal work in southern Rio westward range extension); localities are at Alta Floresta and Grande do Sul, principally Brown Jacamar Brachygalba between the Rios Madeira and around Pelotas, which clarifies
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our knowledge of the cucullatus (clarification of its Barra do Superagui (three on 6 southernmost limits of several southernmost limits), Red- January 1994), Ilha das Pecas Atlantic Forest birds. Fieldwork ruffed Fruitcrow Pyroderus (two on 16 October 1992) and was conducted between October scutatus (c.250 km), Chestnut Pontal do Sul (one on 4 March 1993–July 1996 and resulted in headed Tanager Pyrrhocoma 1993). The 3rd–4th records of the following discoveries ruficeps (c. 100 km), Ruby- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria (southward range extensions in crowned Tanager Tachyphonus interpres in PR are one at Coroa parentheses): Short-tailed coronatus (c.250 km), Viola on 16 October 1992 and one on Hawk Buteo brachyurus (c. 200 ceous Euphonia Euphonia Pontal do Sul on 7-8 October km), Barred Forest-Falcon violacea (c. 180 km), and Green- 1995. The only records of Stilt Micrastur ruficollis (small range throated Euphonia E. chalybea Sandpiper Micropalama extension), Ruddy Quail-Dove (c.200 km). himantopus in PR were two on Geotrygon montana (c. 100 km), Bornschein et al.6 report on Pontal do Sul on 25 November Rusty-barred Owl Strix new or little-known species in 1993 and several in the same hylophila (several additional Paraná (PR) and Santa Catarina place between 3-6 November records from the south-eastern (SC) states. A list of all known 1995. Details of the only records hills), Semi-collared records in PR of Black-browed of the Buff-breasted Sandpi Nighthaw k Lurocalis Albatross Diomedea per Tryngites subruficollis in PR semitorquatus (100 km), Ashy melanophris is given and the are given: several at Pontal do tailed Swift Chaetura andrei authors report several individu Sul between September- (c.200 km), Red-breasted als found dead on the beaches of November 1993 and at Balneario Toucan Ramphastos dicolorus Pontal do Sul in 1985, and at Atami in September 1993. The (numerous and breeds in the Praia Deserta on 24 February 3rd–7th records of Upland south-eastern hills), White- 1991 and 30 August 1991. Skulls Sandpiper Bartramia browed Woodpecker Piculus of Yellow-nosed Albatross D. longicauda in PR were birds at aurulentus (three new localities), chlororhynchos were found at Pontal do Sul in September 1993 Lineated Woodpecker Pontal do Sul and Ilha de and October 1996, and at Dryocopus lineatus (two new Superagui on December 1987 and Balneario Atami in September- localities with breeding con June 1993 respectively, being two October 1993. The only records of firmed at one), Robust of only a handful of records in Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus Woodpecker Campephilus PR. A series of observations of in PR and SC are three at robustus (c.250 km; breeding Fulvous Whistling-Duck Balneario Atami on 25–27 confirmed), White-throated Dendrocygna bicolor are November 1993, four at Barra do Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes presented for PR and SC where Superagui on 29 December 1993, albicollis (residency confirmed; only scattered records exist. The and one at Porto Belo, SC on 6 previously considered a summer third PR and southernmost September 1988. Several records visitor to the state), Planalto record of Little Wood-Rail of Lesser Nighthawk Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptos Aramides mangle in Brazil is Chordeiles acutipennis are given platyrostris (many new records given for Ilha das Pecas, where a for eastern PR, from where there from the south-east), Rufous- bird was seen on 21 April 1992. A was only one previous record. capped Spinetail Synallaxis record of Giant Wood-Rail A. Details of habitat, a nest and a ruficapilla (c. 150 km), Rufous ypecaha with a previously specimen collected are given. The G nateater Conopophaga lineata mistaken locality is given for first record of Austral Negrito (c.200 km), Mouse-coloured Parque Nacional do Iguaçu on 10 Lessonia rufa in PR was a bird Tapaculo Scytalopus speluncae December 1988. Also what is collected at Pontal do Sul on 27 (c. 100 km east of previous known apparently the first record in March 1994. The third record of occurrence and recorded to Mato Grosso do Sul was a bird Correndera Pipit Anthus within 10 m of sea-level), seen by J. Nacinovic in the 1960s. correndera in PR was a pair seen Planalto Tyrannulet Several new records are given for at Pontal do Sul on 18-19 Phyllomyias fasciatus (c. 100 km), Yellow-breasted Crake September 1993. Rough-legged Tyrannulet P. Poliolimnas (Porzana) flaviventer The most recent issue — Vol. 5, burmeisteri (c.300 km ), Greenish in Pontal do Sul, Balneario no. 2 —of Ararajuba contains Tyrannulet P. virescens (c.300 Barranco, rio Taquara and rio interesting new breeding data on km), White-throated Spadebill Tibagi, Paraná, together with Brazilian birds. Marini et al.19 Platyrinchus mystaceus (c.200 data on habits and habitat. The provide additional nesting data km), Greenish Schiffornis 2nd–4th records of Black- for Large-billed Antwren Schiffornis virescens (c.200 km), bellied Plover Pluvialis Herpsilochmus longirostris, Hooded Berryeater Carpornis squatarola in PR are given for Helmeted Manakin Antilophia
8 9 COTINGA 9 Neotropical Notebook galeata and White-striped Campos Cerrados), Black- Venezuela Warbler Basileuterus leucophrys; collared Hawk Busarellus Zimmer & Hilty32 report on Naka22 describes the nest and nigricollis (Alto Paraná), Black recent observations from the eggs of Cactus Parakeet Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus little-explored (by ornithologists) Aratinga cactorum; and Leite et (Alto Paraná), Blackish Rail state of Amazonas, in southern al.16 provide significant new Pardirallus nigricans Venezuela. The following information, based on two nests, (Ñeembucú), Upland Sandpiper observations, all from the area on the life-history of Least Bartramia longicauda surrounding Junglaven, are Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus. (Ñeembucú), White-rumped especially interesting (the Furthermore, papers in Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis authors also report a number of Ornitología Neotropical describe (Ñeembucú), Pileated Parrot small northward range exten the presumed juvenile plumage Pionopsitta pileata (Campos sions): Zigzag Heron Zebrilus of Grey-bellied Spinetail Cerrados), Pheasant Cuckoo undulatus (recorded along small Synallaxis cinerascens5; the nest Dromococcyx phasianellus tributaries of the Ventuari and eggs of Chestnut-vented (Ñeembucú), Variable Screech- extending its known range Conebill Conirostrum Owl Otus atricapillus (Alto northwards in Amazonas: speciosum27; and the nest of Paraná), Striped Owl Asio additionally the species has Cream-bellied Gnatcatcher clamator (Ñeembucú), Grey recently been discovered in Polioptila lactea31. Potoo Nyctibius griseus gallery forest at El Baul, Cojedes Barnett3 reports the first (Ñeembucú), Grey-rumped state in the llanos, a major range Brazilian, and third South Swift Chaetura cinereiventris extension); Upland Sandpiper American occurrence, of Terek (Campos Cerrados), Green-and- Bartramia longicauda (recorded Sandpiper Xenus cinereus, at rufous Kingfisher Chloroceryle twice each in April 1990 and Porto Seguro, Bahia on 16 March inda (Alto Paraná), Mouse- March 1992: one previous state 1997. Previous records were in coloured Tyrannulet record); White-rumped Buenos Aires province, Argentina Phaeomyias murina (Ñeembucú), Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis in December 1987–January 1988 Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis (one on 10-14 October 1993: the and December 1990. Olmos24 flaveola (Campos Cerrados, first state record); Scarlet reports the third record of Cape Ñeembucú), White-crested shouldered Parrotlet Touit Gannet Morus capensis from Elaenia Elaenia albiceps huetii (only one previous record 27°04'S 46°49'W off the coast of (Ñeembucú), Tawny-crowned in Amazonas); Yellow-billed Brazil on 28 April 1996. Pygmy-Tyrant Euscarthmus Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus meloryphus (Campos Cerrados), (two reports, the 3rd–4th state Chile Large-headed Flatbill records); Long-tailed Potoo A dowitcher sp. (almost certainly Ramphotrigon megacephala Nyctibius aethereus (records in Short-billed Dowitcher (Campos Cerrados), Piratic March 1991 and May 1992 are Limnodromus griseus) at Estero Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius the first in Amazonas); Rufous Tongoy, IV Region on 22 January (Ñeembucú), Bank Swallow Nightjar Caprimulgus rufus 1997, was reported as the first Riparia riparia (Alto Paraná), (records in December 1992, sighting of this genus in the Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana January and October 1993 country30 but it had been (Ñeembucú), Plum beous provide the third locality in observed a few months earlier at Seedeater Sporophila plumbea Venezuela south of the Orinoco); the same locality (see Cotinga 8: (Central Paraguay), White- Brown-banded Puffbird 90–91). The first country record bellied Seedeater S. leucoptera Notharchus ordii (observations of Andean Tit-Spinetail (Ñeembucú) and Giant Cowbird on the first-described nest of this Leptasthenura andícola comes Scaphidura oryzivora little-known species are from Mamiña, I Region, on 13 (Ñeembucú). presented); Pale-bellied August 1996, at 2700 m21. Mourner Rhytipterna immunda Peru (apparently fairly common at the Paraguay González & Malaga15 report a 200 study site: the first record in Lowen et al.18 present first km southward range extension of Venezuela); White-throated records of 25 species for the Long-tailed Mockingbird Kingbird Tyrannus albogularis geographical regions of eastern Mimus longicaudatus to Majes, (a pair 60 km south of Puerto Paraguay, principally made Arequipa. The first nest of Ayacucho in February 1994 was during fieldwork in 1995 (regions Slender-billed Finch the first state record); Grey given in parentheses): Xenospingus concolor was cheeked Thrush Catharus Plumbeous Ibis Theristicus located at Ocucaje, Ica depart minimus (four winter records caerulescens (Central Paraguay, m ent14. suggest that Amazonas may be
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an important wintering area); Two Chatham Island Alba Mexico Black-whiskered Vireo Vireo trosses Diomedea eremita and A Black-throated Diver Gavia altiloquus (third locality in two Westland Petrels arctica at San Quintín on 21 Amazonas for this species); and Procellaria westlandica were off February 1997 was a first record Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus Vina del Mar, Santiago on 17 for Mexico (RH, DE, SNGH). (one in October 1993 was the first November and 15 Waved state record). Albatrosses Diomedea irrorata Acknowledgements (a first country record) c. 22 km Thanks are due to the following South Atlantic off Arica on 27 November. observers who submitted records: Liliana Dávalos, T. Donegan, South Georgia Colombia Gunnar Engblom (GE), Dick Reid26 presents descriptive TD and LD report a few range Erickson (DE), Steve Gantlett, details of the first Franklin’s extensions resulting from their Robb Hamilton (RH), Jon Gull Larus pipixcan at South work in Tambito Nature Reserve, Hornbuckle (JH), Steve Howell Georgia —at Freshwater Bay, Cauca in August–September (SNGH), Ottavio Janni (OJ), Guy Bird Island on 20 January 1997. 1997: two Swallow-tailed M. Kirwan (GMK), Todd Mark Nightjars Uropsalis segmentata (TM) and R. Mitchell. OTHER RECORDS were the first records from the RECEIVED Pacific slope of Cauca province. Neotropical Notebook: compiled Bolivia Other apparently new province by Juan Mazar Barnett, Guy R. Mitchell reports the first records involved Pale-eyed M. Kirwan and Joe Tobias. sighting of Tricoloured Heron Thrush Platycichla leucops and Egretta tricolor for Bolivia (north Black-tailed Flycatcher References of Trinidad in Beni department, Myiobius atricaudus . A Black 1. Angehr, G. (1997) The August 1996). From the same billed Treehunter Thripadectes Fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán region, Red-breasted melanorhynchus was well 23 (9): 5–6. Meadowlark Leistes militaris watched and tape-recorded along 2. Angehr, G. (1997) The was recorded, further south and the Pasto–Macoa road, Putumayo Fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán east of its known range and in a on 13 October 1997 (JH, GMK, 23 (10): 3. possible overlap zone with TM) —only the third record for 3. Barnett, J. M. (1997) First White-browed Meadowlark L. Colombia. report of Xenus cinereus superciliaris. J. Ohlson reports An adult Ring-billed Gull (Charadriiformes : some presumed new or interest Larus delawarensis was seen Scolopacidae) for Brazil. ing records for La Paz close inshore at Camarones, near Ararajuba 5: 236–237. department observed in Parque Ríohacha on 7 January 1998 4. Bauer, C., Pacheco, J. F. & Nacional Madidi, in November (GMK)— there are few Colombian Venturini, A. C. (1997) Tres and December 1996: Grey- records; a White-tailed Trogon novos registros de aves para bellied Hawk Accipiter Trogon viridis tape-recorded o Estado do Espírito Santo. poliogaster, Festive Coquette along the San Lorenzo ridge, Atualidades Ornitológicas Lophornis chalybea, Black- Santa M arta on 8 January 1998 80: 7. bellied Thorntail Popelairia was unusually high at 1700 m 5. Bornschein, M. R. & Reinert, langsdorffii, Gould’s (GE, GMK et al.), as was a B. L. (1997) Description of Jewelfront Polyplancta Broad-billed Sapayoa Sapayoa the young of the Grey-bellied aurescens, Thrush-like aenigma at c. 1800 m at La Spinetail (Synallaxis Antpitta Myrmothera Planada, Pasto on 14 October cinerascens). Orn. Neotrop campanisona, White-browed 1997 (GMK, TM et a l.). ical 8: 73–74. Purpletuft Iodopleura isabellae, 6. Bornschein, M. R., Reinert, B. Red-billed Pied Tanager Ecuador L. & Pichorim, M. (1997) Lamprospiza melanoleuca, Opal- A Plumbeous Rail Rallus Notas sobre algumas aves rumped Tanager Tangara velia sanguinolentus just north of Loja novas ou pouco conhecidas and Buff-rumped Warbler on 2 July 1995 extends the no sul do Brasil. Ararajuba 5: Phaeothlypis fulvicauda on the known range of this species north 53–59. upper Río Yariapo. from the Vilcabamba region and 7. Brace, R. C. & Hornbuckle, an adult Laughing Gull Larus J. (1998) Distributional Chile atricilla at Papallacta Pass (3500 records of and identification Some interesting seabird m) on 26 November 1997 is the notes on birds of the Beni sightings were made by S. J. M. highest known record (OJ). Biological Station, Beni, Gantlett on pelagic trips in 1997.
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Bolivia. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 17. Levesque, A. (1997) bill Conirostrum speciosum 118: 36–47. Découverte du merle à (Temminck, 1824). Orn. 8. Bradshaw, C. G., Kirwan, G. M. lunettes Turdus nudigenis Neotropical 8: 71–72. & Williams, R. S. R. (1997) nicheur en Guadaloupe. 28. Seutin, G., Bermingham, E. & First record of Swainson’s Alauda 65: 378. Thorn, S. (1997) The Hawk Buteo swainsoni for 18. Lowen, J. C., Barnett, J. M., avifauna of the Cayos the West Indies. Bull. Brit. Pearman, M., Clay, R. & Cochinos, with new breeding Orn. Club 117: 315–316. López Lanús, B. (1997) New records for Honduras. Orn. 9. Cardoso da Silva, J. M. Oren, distributional information for Neotropical 8: 101–106. D. C., Roma, J. C. & 25 species in eastern 29. Stotz, D. F., Lanyon, S. L., Henriques, L. M. P. (1997) Paraguay. Ararajuba 5: 240– Schulenberg, T. S., Willard, Composition and distribution 243. D. E., Peterson, A. T. & patterns of the avifauna of 19. Marini, M. A., Pereira, M. F., Fitzpatrick, J. W. (1997) An an Amazonian upland Oliveira, G. M. & Melo, C. avifaunal survey of two savanna, Amapá, Brazil. Orn. (1997) Novos registros de tropical forest localities on Monographs 48: 743–761. ninhos e ovos de três the middle Rio Jiparaná, 10. Erickson, R. A. & Wurster, T. espécies de aves do Brasil Rondônia, Brazil. Orn. E. (1998) Confirmation of Central. Ararajuba 5: 244– Monographs 48: 763–781. nesting in Mexico for four 245. 30. Vuilleumier, F. (1997) A bird species from the Sierra 20. Maurício, G. N. & Dias, R. A. probable Short-billed San Pedro Mártir, Baja (1998) Range extensions and Dowitcher (Limnodromus California. Wilson Bull. 110: new records for forest birds griseus, Scolopacidae) at 118– 120. in southern Rio Grande do Tongoy, IV Region: first 11. Figueron-Esquivel, E. M., Sul, Brazil. Bull. Brit. Orn. record of the genus and spe Navarro S., A. G. & Pozo-de Club 118: 14–25. cies for Chile. Boletín la Tijera, C. (1998) New 21. von Meyer, A. (1997) Chileno de Ornitología 4: 21– distributional information on Observación de Tijeral 28. the birds of southern Andino (Leptasthenura 31. Willis, E. O. & Bosso, A. (1997) Quintana Roo, México. Bull. andicola) en Mamiña, región A nest of the Cream-bellied Brit. Orn. Club 118: 32–35. de Tarapaca. Boletín Chileno Gnatcatcher, Polioptila 12. Garrett, K. L. & Molina, K. C. de Ornitología 4: 40–41. lactea. Orn. Neotropical 8: (1998) First record of the 22. Naka, L. N. (1997) Nest and 75–76. Black-tailed Gull for Mexico. egg description of an 32. Zimmer, K. J. & Hilty, S. L. Western Birds 29: 49–54. endemism of the Brazilian (1997) Avifauna of a locality 13. Giannini, N. P. (1997) north-east: the Cactus in the upper Orinoco Mecocerculus hellmayri en Parakeet, Aratinga cactorum. drainage of Amazonas, San Javier, Tucumán. Yungas Ararajuba 5: 182– 185. Venezuela. Orn. Monographs 6: 31. 23. Norton, R. L. (1997) West 48: 865–885. 14. González M., O. (1997) First Indies Region. Field Notes 33. Zimmer, K. J., Parker, T. A., description of the nest of the 51: 809–810. Isler, M. L. & Isler, P. R. Slender-billed Finch. Bull. 24. Olmos, F. (1997) Seabirds (1997) Survey of a southern Brit. Orn. Club 117: 314–315. attending bottom long-line Amazonian avifauna: the 15. González, O. & Malaga, E. fishing off southeastern Alta Floresta region, Mato (1997) Distribución de aves Brazil. Ibis 139: 685–691. Grosso, Brazil. Orn. Mono en el valle de Majes, 25. Parrini, R. & Pacheco, J. F. graphs 48: 887–918. Arequipa, Peru. Orn. (1997) Seis novos registros Neotropical 8: 57-69. de aves para o Estado de 16. Leite, L. O., Naka, L. N., Minas Gerais. Atualidades de Vasconcelos, M. F. & Ornitológicas 80: 6. Coelho, M. M. (1997) 26. Reid, K. (1998) Franklin’s Gull Aspectos da nidificação do Larus pipixcan at South bacurauzinho, Chordeiles Georgia. Bull. Brit. Orn. pusillus (Caprimulgiformes: Club 118: 55–56. Caprimulgidae) nos estados 27. Ribon, R. & Simon, J. E. da Bahia e Minas Gerais. (1997) The nest and eggs of Ararajuba 5: 237–240. the Chestnut-vented Cone-
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Neotropical Notebook contains H. atrimaxillaris has a very Published records three sections. The first consists small range in the Golfo Dulce from the literature of short papers documenting lowlands of Costa Rica, but was records. Photos and descriptions co mmon within Corcovado Caribbean are published where appropriate. National Park. Most records were The second section summarises of small groups a nd family Cuba records published elsewhere, parties (3-6 birds), associating Among significant observations following the format established with small flo cks in the reported recently, a juvenile in previous issues of Cotinga, and understorey of dense lowland Giant Kingbird Tyrannus the third lists unpublished and forest. However, it was not cuben.s is observed at Monte de undocumented r ecords. Please restricted to this habitat type, Regino, Havana province, on 13 indicate, with submissions, in and small numbers were October 1996, with one heard at which section you wish your recorded in palms and beach El Copey, north-east of Caimi to, records to appear. front scrub adjacent to the park. Havana province on 10 Septem ber 1996, is one of the most 17 15 Short notes Reference important discoveries • Ruiz 1. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., reports on the second record of Recent sightings of threatened Krabbe, N., Madroi"10 Nieto, Tundra Swan Cygnus birds around Corcovado A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. co lumbianus in Cuba: one National Park, Costa Rica A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) collected at Nipe, municipality of During brief fi eldwork on the Osa Threatened birds of the Mayari, Holguin province, on 25 Peninsula, so uth-west Costa Rica, Americas: the ICBP I IUCN February 1990. The same author in May 1998, we recorded two Red Data Booh. Cambridge, also places on record the threatened species-Yell ow-bill ed UK: International Council occurrence of Black-capped Cotinga Carpodectes antoniae for Bird Preservation. Petrel Pterodroma hasitata at and Black-cheeked Ant-tanager Va lle de Yaguanabo, Alturas de Habia atrimaxillaris. A minimum David R. Capper Trinidad, Cienfuegos province, of seven m ale a nd five female C. BirdLife International, Wellbrooh from November 1976- J anuary 16 antoniae were seen in tall Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, 1990 at least • An Orange mangroves or adjacent lowland CB3 ONA, UK E-mail: crowned Warbler Vermivora. evergreen forest along a c.10 km [email protected]. u.h celata, collected on the stretch of the Rio Sierpe, north of Guanahacabibes Peninsula in Corcovado National Park. Robert p_ Clay westernmost Cuba, on 11 Notable sightings included a flock Guyra Paraguay: Conservaci6n de November 1989, was the first 8 of five males in canopy forest, Aves, Belgica 165, C. C. 714, island record . and a fe male carrying small twigs Asuncion, Paraguay. (presumably nesting material) in E-mail: [email protected] m..py tall forest on a s mall hill adj acent to extensive mangrove. One male James C_ Lowen and up to three fe males were Department of the Environment, present in this area, and our Transport and the Regions, c/o boatman co mmented that the site Health and Safety Executive, is well-known to local guides as a Rose Court, 2 Southwarh Bridge, regular haunt of the species. C. London, SEl 9HS, UK. E-mail: antoniae has been recorded in [email protected] small numbers from this area previously1 and its protection should be a conservation priority.
Bl ack-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata (Lyn Wells)
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Dominican Republic Tricoloured Heron Egretta cocoi at Buccoo Swamp, Tobago, Three species new to Hispaniola trico lor and Stilt Sandpiper on 24 March 1996 (second island have been documented recently. Calidris himantopu.s. In addition, record) ; two Little Egrets Rimmer & Mcfarland 15 detail the records of the fo llowing species Egretta. ga.rzetta. at Buccoo discovery of Swainson's co nsidered vagrants to the island Swamp, Tobago, on 26 March Warbler Limnothlypis were made: White-cheeked 1995 (sixth island record) ; a swainsonii at Palo de Agua, in Pintail Anas bahamensis, Blue Lesser Scaup Aythya. a.ffinis at the Sierra de Baoruco National winged Teal Anas disco rs, Lowlands, Tobago, on 20 Park (one bird trapped on 10 Merlin Falco columbarius, December 1995 (second island November 1997 and retrapped on American Oystercatcher record and first this century); a 7 March 1998, with a second bird Hae matopus palliatus, Greater male Wilson's Plover mist-netted on 9 March 1998) and Yellowlegs 7hnga melanoleuca Cha.radrius wilsonia. at Buccoo a Song Sparrow Melospiza and Common Snipe Gallinago Swamp, Tobago, on 27 April 1996 melodia above Vuelta de Quince gallin.ago. The recent co lonisation (first island record); and single on the Haitian border in the of the island by the Rock Dove Marbled God wits Limosa fedoa. western Sierra de Neiba, on 15 Colu.mba li via. was also con at Waterloo, Trinidad, on 10 November 1997. This appears to firmed. March 1996 and 19 October 1996 be the first record in the (few previous island records, all Caribbean south of the Bahamas in September-October). (where there are fi ve sight records). Continuing fi eld work in the Dominican Republic by Steven Latta and his colleagues resulted in the discovery of a Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fu scus at Las Salinas, 10 Bani, on 22 Novemb er 1997 • There are few previous Carib bean records of this species. Separately, Latta & Brown'l report on three new species for Little Egret Egre!!a garze!!a (Lyn Wells) the Dominican Republic, all in Tricoloured Heron Egretta !ricolor dry forest near Cabo Rojo, (D. Beadle) Pedernales province: a juvenile Central America female Chestnut-sided Warbler Den.droica. pensylvanica Panama seen and subsequently mist Trinidad and Tobago Further reports of Grey Gull netted on 14-15 October 1997; a From at least 12-14 March 1998, Larus moclestus were as follo ws: juvenil e male Bay-breasted an adult Pied Lapwing a non-breeding plumaged adult Warbler D. castanea mist-netted Hoploxypterus caya.nus was at at Costa de! Este from 4- 20 on 23 October 1997; and an adult Arena Dam, the first Trinidad September 1997, and again on 19 fe male Nashville Warbler record (Birding World 11: 258). October 1997; one at Panama vermivora ru.ficapilla trapped on The bird was videotaped (Phil Viejo from 13 March- 10 April 14 November 1997. In addition, a Gaywood in litt. 1998) . 1998; two near Tocumen Marsh juve nile Connecticut Warbler Hayes6 reports on a number of on 25 April 1998; four at Avenida Oporomis agilis was mist-netted recent vagrant records, all of Balboa on 3 May 1998 ; one at on 16 October 1997 and several which remain under considera Costa de! Este on 17 May 1998; unringed individuals were tion by the Trinidad and Tobago and up to 100 individuals at recorded until 21 October; and Rare Bird Committee: six Great Costa de! Este on 30- 31 May 11 two Golden-winged Warblers Shearwater Puffinus grcwis 1998 • vermivora chrysoptera were seen so uth of Crown Point, Tobago, on on 14 October 1997. 23 June 1996 (second record for South America Tob ago); a Red-footed Booby Anguilla Su.la sula. 35 km west-south-west Argentina 3 Iliff summarises observations of Crown Point, Tobago, on 17 Barnett & Navas report on the from a visit to the island in March 1996 (first record for first Pink-footed Shearwater winter 1995-1996. These include Trinidad in whose waters it was Puffinus crea.topus to be recorded the fi rst island records of recorded) ; a Cocoi Heron Ardea in the Atlantic Ocean: one
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collected at the Valdes Peninsula, Chubut, in May 1981 and now housed in the Buenos Aires zoological musuem.
Brazil The distributional limit of the Grey-headed Attila Attila phoenicurus in the Atlantic forests of south-east Brazil is extended slightly further north (from the previous northernmost locality, Itatiaia National Park) with reports in Fazenda Vale da Revolta near Teres6polis since 1991 and a single bird taped at Macae de Cima, Nova Friburgo, on 29 November 1996. Both localities lie in the Serra dos Black-fronted Piping-guan Pipile jacutinga Oon Fjeldsa) Orgiios in Rio de J aneiro state, wh ere extreme dates for the presence of the species were 25 of threatened and near nebulosus, Spotted 13 October and 2 March • threatened species made in this Bamboowren Psilorhamphus A report of Straight-billed 24,530 km 2 area. Twelve guttatus, Bare-throated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus threatened species were Bellbird Procnias nudicollis, picus in the mangrove swamps of recorded: Brazilian Merganser Shear-tailed Grey-tyrant Vit6ria, Espirito Santo, in 1987 Mergus octosetaceus (rare), Muscipipra uetula, Hangnest by Carlos Carvalho, extended its Black-fronted Piping-guan Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus range some 100 km southwards. Pipile jacutinga (rare), nidipendulum, Southern The species was also found in the Vinaceous Amazon Amazona Bristle-tyrant Phylloscartes same habitat at the mouth of the uinacea (considered common), eximius, Oustalet's Tyrannulet rio Itabapoana, on the border Blue-bellied Parrot Triclaria P oustaleti, Sharp-tailed between Espirito Santo and Rio malachitacea (common), White Tyrant Culiciuora caudacuta, de Janeiro, on 16, 17, 24 and 26 bearded Antshrike Bialas Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher June 1997, representing a further nigropectus (stable population at Polioptila lactea, Azure Jay range extension of 130 km south. one locality), Cinnamon-vented Cyanocorax caeruleus, Thick A bird taped on the Rio side of Piha Lipaugus lanioides billed Saltator Saltator the river on 25 June 1997 (common), Black-capped maxillosus, Blackish-blue represented the first report for Piprites Piprites pileatus (rare), Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta 12 the state • Sii.o Paulo Tyrannulet and Green-throated Euphonia Phylloscartes paulistus (rare), Euphonia chalybea. Ochre-breasted Pipit Anthus nattereri (rare), Black-legged Guyana Dacnis Dacnis nigripes (rare), Agro & Ridgely' recently located Black-backed Tanager a female specimen of Striped Tangara peruuiana (stable Manakin Machaeropterus populations at two localities) and regulus in the Academy of Temminck's Seedeater Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Sporophila falcirostris (rare). collection, which was taken at Nineteen near-threatened species Ourumee, formerly British are considered common in the Guiana, on 10 October 1890. Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetoceus study area: Solitary Tinamou There appear to be no subsequent Oon Fjeldsa) Tinamus solitarius, Blue records from the Guianas, and winged Macaw Ara maracana, the authors speculate that the Dos Anjos et al.2 describe the Long-trained Nightjar species must be local and rare in avifauna of the Tibagi river basin Macropsalis creagra, Saffron Guyana as observers familiar in Parana. Perhaps of most Toucanet Baillonius bailloni, with the species' calls have not significance are the observations Mottled Piculet Picumnus reported it.
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Uruguay Acknowledgements 9. Latta, S. C. & Brown, C. A pair of Ochre-faced Tody Thanks to the following who (1998) Unusual birds from tyrants Todirostrum forwarded or commented on the Dominican Republic, plumbeiceps were collected on 6 records: Tyron de Kort, Dick including three new species October 1997 at Paso Centurion, Meijer and J. F. Pacheco. of Neotropical migrants. El on the Yaguaron river (32°08'S Pitirre 11: 18. 53°43'W), on the edge of a Neotropical Notebook: 10. Latta, S. C. Rivas, F. & Brown, clearing in gallery woodland. The compiled by Juan Mazar C. (1998) A Lesser Black pair showed enlarged gonads and Barnett and Guy M. Kirwan. backed Gull (Larus it is conceivable that they bred in fuscus) in the Dominican the area. An Olivaceous References Republic. El Pitirre 11: 17. Woodcreeper Sittasomus 1. Agro, D. J . & Ridgely, R. S. 11. Montanez, D. & Kaufmann, R. griseicapillus, showing enlarged (1998) First record of the (1998) The Gray Gull: from testes, was collected on 7 October Striped Manakin myth to reality. El 1997 at the same locality. These Machaeropterus regulus in Tucan 24 (4): 1. were the first records of both Guyana. Bull. Brit. Orn. 12. Pacheco, J . F. & Bauer, C. species for Uruguay5, although Club ll8: 122-123. (1997) Novo limite sul na their presence at this locality is 2. Anjos dos, L., Schuchmann, distribuicao do arapacu unsurprising given the suitable K.-L. & Berndt, R. (1997) de-bico-branco habitat and the fact that both Avifaunal composition, Xiphorhynchus picus no leste species occur nearby in Rio species richness, and status do Brasil. Atualidades Grande do Sul, Brazil. in the Tibagi river basin, Ornitol6gicas 78: 13. Parana state, southern 13. Pacheco, J . F. & Parrini, R. Venezuela Brazil. Orn. Neotropical 8: (1997) 0 limite norte de Bonaccorsi• reports an observa 145-173. distribuicao do tingacu tion of Northern Shoveler Anas 3. Barnett, J.M. & Navas, J. R. castanho (Attila phoenicurus) clypeata in Venezuela: 10-20 (in press) Primer registro de na Mata Atlantica. birds together with a group of la Pardela Patas Rosas Atualidades Ornitol6gicas American Wigeon Anas Puffinus creatopus en las 75: 4. americana at Chichiriviche, costas Argentinas. El 14. Rimmer, C. C. & Mcfarland, K. Falcon, in the north of country, on Hornero. P. (1998) Two new avian 20-21February1993. Both 4. Bonaccorsi, G. (1998) Nouvelle records for Hispaniola: species are apparently rare in observation du Canard Swainson's Warbler and Song Venezuela. souchet Anas clypeata au Sparrow. El Pitirre 11: 15- Venezuela. Alauda 66: 69. 16. South Atlantic 5. Claramunt, S. J . (1998) 15. Ruiz, P.R. (1998) Segunda The third record of Erect Todirostrum plumbeiceps y captura para Cuba del Cisne crested Penguin Eudyptes Sittasomus griseicapillus. de la Tundra (Cygnus sclateri in the Falkland Islands Dos Passeriformes nuevos columbianus) (Aves: was a bird present in a para Uruguay (Aves). Com. Anatidae). El Pitirre 11: 14. Rockhopper Penguin E. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. 16. Ruiz, P. R. (1998) Nueva crestatus colony on Pebble Island Montevideo XII (189): 1-4. localidad para la distribucion in January 1997 and from 6. Hayes, F. E. (1998) Notewor de! Pterodroma hasitata November-late January at least. thy bird records for Trinidad (Kuhl) (Aves: Procellaridae) A photograph of this bird has &Tobago, 1995-1996. El en Cuba. El Pitirre 11: 14- been published recently (Birding Pitirre 11 : 5-6. 15. World 11: 258). 7. Iliff, M. (1998) Bird observa 17. Suarez, W. (1998) Nueva tions from a visit to Anguilla, localidad para la distribucion Other records received Lesser Antilles, 28 December del Pitirre Real Tyrannus 1995 to 4 January 1996. El cubensis (Aves: Tyrannidae) Netherlands Antilles Pitirre 11 (1): 1-4. en Cuba. El Pitirre 11: 11. The first Shiny Cowbird 8. Kirkconnell, A., Llanes, A. & Molothrus bonariensis for Aruba, Garrido, 0 . (1997) First a female, was recorded with a report of the Orange party of Carib Grackles crowned Warbler (Vermivora Quiscalus lugubris near Bubali celata celata) in Cuba. El sewage farm on 21August1997 Pitirre 10: 95. (TdK, DM).
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Neotropical Notebook contains Acknowledgements Costa Rica and has been three sections. The first consists The observations were made deposited in the Museo Nacional of short papers documenting during the Acciones de Formación, de Costa Rica, although a records. Photos and descriptions Apoyo Institucional y Desarrollo desiccated corpse was found, in are published where appropriate. Sostenible en Bahía Negra y 1986, on Cerro de la Muerte, in The second section summarises Parque Nacional del Río Negro the south of the country. Three records published elsewhere, project directed by Asociación other reports are based on following the format established Amigos de Doñana and Hombre y feathers or sight records. in previous issues of Cotinga. The Naturaleza: Paraguay. Our This species is distributed from third lists unpublished and deepest thanks go to Manuel western Guyana west through undocumented records. Please Español and Sonja Bielskis for Venezuela and Colombia, and indicate, with submissions, in their help. south to Ecuador and Peru, as which section you wish your well as on Trinidad. S. caripensis records to appear. R e fe r e n c e s probably occurs in east Panama1 1. Arribas, M. A. Jammes, L. & and in Costa Rica is considered Sagot, F. (1995) Lista de las Short notes “accidental”2. aves de Bolivia. Santa Cruz: The individual found in 1996 Asociación Armonía. was a female and weighed 255 g, First record of Pinnated 2. Brodkorb, P. (1938) Further B it t e r n Botaurus pinnatus in which is low compared to the addition to the avifauna of weight of 430 g reported by Stiles the Matogrosense region of Paraguay. Occ. Pap. Mus. P a r a g u a y & Skutch2. Its wing measured 280 Zool., Univ. Michigan 394: 1– mm, tarsus 22 mm, tail 190 mm, We observed a Pinnated Bittern 5. Botaurus pinnatus in the area of and the right ovary 13.2 × 6.8 3. Hayes, F. E. (1995) Status, mm. The bill colour was fleshy Puerto Bahía Negra (Alto distribution and biogeography Paraguay department, Paraguay) brown towards the tip and the of the birds of Paraguay. New feet were flesh coloured. It on 1 and 6 August 1997, on the York: American Birding west bank of the Paraguay River possessed a relatively significant Association. Monogr. Field amount of fat and a few (21°10'S 58°10'W), less than 1 km Orn. 1. south of the Bolivian border. unidentifiable seed fragments Another was seen at the west J. M. Tierno de Figueroa (probably palm) in its stomach. Dpto. Biología Animal y Ecología, margin of the Paraguay River R e fe r e n c e s (20°12'S 58°08'W), in adjacent Fac. Cienc. Univ. Granada 18071, 1. Ridgely, R. S. (1976) A guide to Brazil, on 7 August 1997. Granada, Spain. the birds of Panama. There are very few records of J. M. Padial Princeton: Princeton this species in Paraguay and no C / Ziries 4, 3°B. 18005, Granada, University Press. definite sightings from Alto Spain. 2. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. Paraguay department. The closest (1989) A guide to the birds of records to this region date from J. Castroviejo Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: 1937, 195 km west of Puerto de la Estación Biológica de Doñana. Cornell University Press. Victoria (22°03'S 59°41'W). It is Apdo. 1056, Sevilla, Spain. unclear whether this locality is in J. Edgardo Arevalo Boquerón or Alto Paraguay O ilb ir d Steatornis caripensis in Monteverde Conservation League, department2. The only other C o s t a R ic a apdo. post. 10581-100, San José, records in Paraguay are two from An Oilbird Steatornis caripensis Costa Rica. E-mail: the 1980s3. was found at Santa Elena, [email protected]. These 1997 records are the Monteverde, Puntarenas (84°49'N Julio Sánchez first in the Matogrosense region 10°19'W), on 2 July 1996. When Departamento de Historia Natural, of Paraguay and the northern discovered, on a road between Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, most in the country. The areas of grazing land, the bird apdo. post. 749-1000, San José, proximity of the observations to was almost dead: one wing was Costa Rica. Bolivia, a country where the missing and it was covered with species is unrecorded1, is fly larvae. We suspect it may have significant and suggest that the hit a barbed-wire fence. This is species should be looked for there. the first specimen record from
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An apparent influx of Chuck- feather at the same site, and Walsingham, on 23 July (the will’s-W idow Caprimulgus presumably time, as the sight latest ever record); a Curlew carolinensis along the New record. Together with David D. Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea at River Lagoon, Orange W alk Beadle and Rod McCann, we Mid-Ocean golf course, from 3 District, Belize observed and photographed a pair September for several days; a While assisting in a study of of Leucopternis polionota circling record count of 16 Whimbrel crocodiles at New River Lagoon, at close quarters between Numenius phaeopus at the Orange Walk District, Belize on Cambará do Sul and Fortaleza, airport, on 22 September; a the night of 9 September 1998, I RS, on 9 February 1997, providing probable Black Rail Laterallus found three Chuck-will’s-Widows additional confirmation of the jamaicensis at North Pond, on 8 Caprimulgus carolinensis, perched species’ presence in the state. October; a very early Black headed Gull Larus ridibundus at silently on tree branches along R e fe r e n c e s St. George’s, on 10 October; 13 the water’s edge. On 11 Septem 1. Belton, W. (1984) Birds of Rio Sabine’s Gull L. sabini 10 ber 1998, an unknown number of Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1. the same species was heard nautical miles north-east of the Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. island, on 27 October (the second calling before sunrise along Irish 178. Creek, which drains into the record); a Townsend’s Warbler 2. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., Dendroica townsendi at Fort south end of the lagoon. Krabbe, N., Madrono Nieto, According to Garcia et al.1, this Scaur, on 4 October; and a A., Naranjo, C. G., Parker, T. Lapland Longspur Calcarius species is accidental in Belize. A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) Martin Meadows (pers. comm.) lapponicus near Lover’s Lake, on Threatened birds of the 24 October. knows of only 2–3 records of the Americas: the ICBP/IUCN species in Belize since 1975. Red Data Book. Cambridge, C u b a However, he added that “no one is UK: International Council for Rodriguez et al.35 add three looking”. A recent avifaunal Bird Preservation. species to the avifauna of the survey by Vallely & Whitman2 at 3. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Sabana–Camagüey archipelago of nearby Hill Bank did not record Sargatal, J. (1994) Handbook cays off the northern coast of the species; however, their work of the birds of the world, 2. Cuba, during fieldwork on 24 was limited to January-April. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. January–14 February 1998: R e fe r e n c e s Guy M. Kirwan Snowy Plover Charadrius 1. Garcia, J., Matola, S. Mead 55 West End Street, Norwich NR2 alexandrinas, Piping Plover C. ows, M. & Wright, C. (1994) A 4DP, UK. melodus and Ring-billed Gull checklist of the birds of Belize. Larus delawarensis. Two new Robert S. R. Williams Belize City: World Wildlife observations of Black Vulture Fund. 6 Waldeck Road, Norwich NR4 Coragyps atratus have been made 2. Vallely, A. C. & Whitman, A. A. 7PG, UK. recently: one at La Guabina, (1997) The birds of Hill Bank, Pinar del Rio province, on 8 July northern Belize. Cotinga 8: Published records 199740, and nine between Havana 39–49. from the literature and Yaguajay, 15 km from the Marcus C. England Sancti Spiritus province border, in c/o Lamanai Field Research C a r ib b e a n Cienfuegos province, on 3 Center, P.O. Box 63, Orange Walk, February 199815. Belize. B e r m u d a Wingate43 reports the first record Dominican Republic Mantled Hawk Leucopternis of Varied Thrush Ixoreus Rimmer et al.34 report sightings of Bicknell’s Thrush Catharus p o lio n o ta in Rio Grande do naevius on the island, at Paget bicknelli in the Sierra de Neiba: at Sul, Brazil Marsh, on 9 October 1998. The Considered globally near- same author also provides details least eight birds in montane threatened2, Mantled Hawk on the most recent Cahow broadleaf forest at Vuelta de Leucopternis polionota is Pterodroma cahow nesting season: Quince, on 16–18 February 1997, distributed from Alagoas, Brazil 55 pairs fledged 29 young in 12 (of which four birds were south to east Paraguay and 1997–1998, a new record, despite banded) in the same area, on 14– Uruguay. Records from Misiones, the loss of three well grown chicks 15 November 1997, and seven Argentina, are unconfirmed3. late in the season44. Dobson13 birds in the Monte Bonito area, Belton1, in discussing this species’ provides a summary of other above Apolinario, on 18–20 status in Rio Grande do Sul, recent (1998) interesting bird February 1998. Brazil, mentions a specimen news from the island: a female record (presumably from the Surf Scoter Melanitta Puerto Rico 1800s), a sight record (east of perspicillata at North Pond, on 28 Pérez-Rivera31 reports the Porto Alegre in February 1978) October; a Swallow-tailed Kite appearance of another exotic on and the discovery of a primary Elanoides forficatus over the island: White Cockatoo
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Cacatua alba. Singles were Amazilia viridifrons was reported nine other species are reported by recorded at University of Puerto at Blue Creek in early 1982 by Anderson et a l.3 The new species Rico Botanical Gardens at Rio Hallchurch18 but the authors are as follows: White Pelican Piedras, on 16 November 1996, consider this record more likely to Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Mayagüez, Zoorico, on 8 October pertain to Azure-crowned (several reports from both coasts), 1997, and Bairoa Park de Caguas, Hummingbird A. cyanocephala. Harris’ Hawk Parabuteo on 27 March 1998. In addition, a Bald Eagle unicinctus (an adult near Haliaetus leucocephalus reported Monjarás, dpto. Choluteca on 16 T o b a g o during a Royal Air Force Orn. Soc. January 1993), O cellated Hayes et al.19 report the expedition in March 1986 also Poorwill Nyctiphrynus ocellatus rediscovery of Grey-throated appears unlikely. The following (a female incubating two eggs 2 Leaftosser Sclerurus albigularis species are either not listed for km south-west of Las Marias on on Tobago. Seven specimens were Belize by Howell & Webb21 or are 16 May 1997 and regularly heard collected during 1898–1903, but considered to require verification, calling at the same locality in until March 1996, when the but for which there is some, 1996 and 1997), Bronzy Hermit species was found nesting south sometimes strong, evidence for Glaucis aenea (one of the most east of Castara, there were no their presence: Cinnamon Teal common hummingbirds in the additional reports from the Anas cyanoptera, Masked Duck Plátano River watershed, one was island. Further observations from Oxyura dominica, Solitary Eagle caught and released on 16 the Main Ridge of Tobago followed Harpyhaliaetus solitarius, February 1996), Green-and- in August 1997, but the authors Swainson’s Hawk Buteo rufous Kingfisher Chloroceryle conclude that the species’ swainsoni, Harpy Eagle Harpia inda (one 2 km north-west of Las population on the island is small harpyja, Crested Caracara Marias on 2 June 1997), White- and concentrated in the western Caracara plancus, Yellow vented Euphonia Euphonia portion of the Main Ridge breasted Crake Porzana minuta (a male seen on several between Mount Dillon and flaviventer, Long-billed occasions at La Venta, dpto. Parlatuvier Bay. D ow itcher Limnodromus Olancho in January 1996), scolopaceus, Forster’s Tern Northern Cardinal Cardinalis Central Am erica Sterna forsteri, Crested Owl cardinalis (a population presumed Lophostrix cristata, White- to originate from escapes appears M e x ic o throated Swift Aeronautes to have become well established Shiny Cowbird Molothrus saxatalis, Blue-throated on the Swan Islands, 200 km off bonariensis has recently reached Goldentail Hylocharis eliciae, the Honduran mainland since at Mexico. Kluza22 reports the Paltry Tyrannulet Zimmerius least June 1996) and W hite observation of a single male in vilissimus, Cassin’s Kingbird eared Ground-Sparrow burnt mangroves at the eastern Tyrannus vociferans, Warbling Melozone leucotis (observed edge of Río Celestún town, Vireo Vireo gilvus, Orange- repeatedly and a nest found on Yucatán on 27 May 1996, and crowned Warbler Vermivora Cerro Agua Buena, dpto. Olancho speculates on the potential celata, Tropical Parula Parula since February 1993). Other survival capabilities of local pitiayumi, Hermit Warbler records involved the third country endemics to this range-expanding Dendroica occidentalis, Blackpoll record of Semiplumbeous nest-parasite. Warbler D. striata, Flame- Hawk Leucopternis semiplumbeus Surveys of wintering colored Tanager Piranga (six observations of different birds shorebirds in the Ensenada bidentata, Lazuli Bunting at Las Marias in early 1996); two Pabellones and Bahia Santa Passerina amoena and records of Harpy Eagle Harpia Maria, Sinaloa, western Mexico, Audubon’s Oriole Icterus harpyja suggesting a breeding in December 1993 and February graduacauda. population in Honduras; the 1994 estimated that nearly second and third country records 40 000 American Avocet El Salvador since 1950 of Black-and-white Recurvirostra americana may use Although not reporting new Hawk-Eagle Spizastur the area during the non-breeding species for the country, Komar23, melanoleucos; regular observa season, nearly 10% of the world in reviewing avian diversity in, El tions of White-throated Crake population14. Salvador, provides an appendix Laterallus albigularis along the listing 73 species that probably Plátano River, where the species B e liz e occur there but have not yet been breeds (only one previous record); Miller & Miller26, in reviewing the formally reported. Field workers single specimen and sight records status of ornithology in Belize, in El Salvador are recommended of Black-and-white Owl Ciccaba discuss a number problematic to consult this listing. nigrolineata (two previous species which occur or probably records); a dead nestling Striped occur in the country, but for which H o n d u r a s Owl Asio clamator (one previous documentation is required. Eight new country records and specimen record); a new Green-fronted Hummingbird significant new information on population of Honduran
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Emerald Amazilia luciae near laguna Las Cloacas, 7 km Chubut, at Estancia La Gloria, on discovered 30 km north-east of south-east of General Pico, on 23 16 January 1997, is the third Gualaco in the Agalta Valley December 1996, and two on a province record; and a pair of where it is common in a 100 ha small pond north-west of laguna Southern Martin Progne plot of thorn forest at 500 m; a Don Tomás, on 18 January 1997; a modesta at the same locality, on 450-km northward range Snail Kite R ostrhamus sociabilis 17 January 1997, confirms the extension for Fulvous-bellied 12 km from General Pico on ruta species’ presence in Chubut. Antpitta Hylopezus fulviventris, provincial 102, on 4 May 1996, Gonnet & Blendinguer17 which was found to be common two 15 km from Eduardo Castex present 15 new distributional along the Plátano River (three on ruta nacional 15, on 15 records of Crowned Eagle specimens were taken); and new February 1997, and one at laguna Harpyhaliaetus coronatus in west observations of Three-wattled La Arocena on the same date; a Argentina and identify the area Bellbird Procnias tricarunculata Rufous-thighed Hawk Accipiter between northern San Luis and in the Sierra de Agalta that erythronemius was at laguna La Mendoza provinces south through suggest the species breeds there Arocena, on 16 March 1996; a La Pampa as that most suitable contra previous reports. male Masked Yellowthroat to conduct further research and Geothlypis aequinoctialis was 3 conservation efforts due to the P a n a m a km north of Toay, on 21 December higher density of the species Among a handful of reports from 1996 (the third province record); there. the country in late 1998 comes and a male Chestnut-capped Mazar Barnett et al.25 report the first record of Black Noddy Blackbird Agelaius ruficapillus the first record of Giant Anous minutus, watched closely at laguna La Arocena, on 15 Conebill Oreomanes fraseri in and well described at Islas Frailes February 1997 (second province Argentina and the southernmost del Norte, Las Monjas, on 12 record). for the species, based on a single September. This is the first Ordano28 presents the first individual found on 26 September country record. More regular fare description of a nest of 1997, 10 km west of Rodeo included a pair of Blue d ’Orbigny’s Chat-Tyrant Pampa, Salta. Seedeater Amaurospiza concolor Ochthoeca oenanthoides, by the Di Giácomo11 presents the first at Cerro Campana, on 8 August, side of a stream at Los Cardones description of the nest and eggs of with a male there on 5 September National Park, on 20 November Lesser Grass-Finch (on which date there was also a 1994, at 2600 m. Emberizoides ypiranganus and White-tailed Hawk Buteo Piacentini & Acerbo32 report confirms the presence of the albicaudatus and several Red- the first reliable records of species in Formosa province, crowned Ant-Tanagers Habia Tropical Screech-Owl Otus based on records at Reserva rubica in the same area). A choliba in Río Negro province and Ecológica El Bagual. Separately, Yellow-throated Warbler the southernmost ever for the the same author13 provides the Dendroica dominica was species: one at Cervantes, General first breeding record of Barred videotaped at Parque Omar, on 6 Roca, in summer 1982; a pair and A ntshrike Thamnophilus September, and on 2 August there three young photographed close to doliatus in Argentina: five nests was a Hook-billed Kite General Roca, on 29 August 1987; found at Reserva Ecológica El Chondrohierax uncinatus at and another individual photo Bagual, Formosa. Soberania National Park4. graphed at Villa Regina, General Navas & Bo27, based on four Roca (no date). specimens collected by W. H. South Am erica Ordano29, based on many Partridge and deposited at records throughout the province MACN, extend the known range A r g e n t in a in all seasons and a male of Torrent Duck Merganetta a. Blendinguer10 provides details of collected whose gonad condition armata 320 km northward to Las two Subtropical Doradito indicated reproductive activity, Flores, San Juan. They also found Pseudocolopteryx acutipennis at concludes that Greater Wagtail- that the Mendoza population of Agua de las Palomas, on 17–19 Tyrant Stigmatura budytoides is a Crested Duck Lophonetta December 1987, and two at Los breeding resident in Formosa specularioides (five specimens Nacimientos, on 15–19 January province, contrary to much of the examined, collected by W.H. 1988, the first records for previous literature. Partridge) appears to be Catamarca province. Babarskas & Flombaum6 intermediate between alticola Serracín & Romero38 present present the following records from from the north and nominate several interesting records for La Chubut province: a Collared specularioides from the south. Pampa province: four W hisper Plover Charadrius collaris in the ing Ibis Phimosus infuscatus at río Chubut, by Estancia La B r a z il La Arocena, 6 km north-east of Gloria, on 20 January 1997, is the Rufous-throated Sapphire General Pico, on 15 June 1996; first province record; up to 10 Hylocharis sapphirina has two Fulvous Whistling-Duck White-tipped Plantcutter recently been found to be common Dendrocygna bicolor in a marsh Phytotoma rutila in the río at Londrina, Paraná, with an
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immature collected on 25 Straight-billed Earthcreeper during the period; Slender- September 1997. Only one Upucerthia ruficaudus, and a billed Kite Rostrhamus hamatus previous record of the species female collected by Torres-Mura was frequent and a nest was existed for the state, and this was in November 1993 at the same discovered, 18 m from the ground regarded as doubtful. In addition, locality. in a Pseudobombax munguuba White-chinned Sapphire H. St. Pierre & Davies37 observed tree, on 6–9 July; Wattled cyanus was reported for the first a single Hooded Grebe Podiceps Curassow Crax globulosa, time in Paraná, being recorded at gallardoi within a group of 2200 unreported for 35 years in Peru, is Londrina on several occasions, as Silvery Grebes P. occipitalis on 5 present in the reserve, known well as at Parque Estadual Mata February 1997 at Monumento from two birds shot by a hunter dos Godoy and in the Sertaneja Natural Laguna de los Cisnes, near Nueva Esperanza village in district5. Porvenir, XII Region. This is the August 1996 and two other- Bagno & Rodrigues7 discuss first report in Tierra del Fuego captive birds; 11 Razor-billed the first records of four species in and the first published Chilean Curassow C. mitu recorded on Goiás state. A pair of White- record. transects suggests a healthy tufted Grebe Rollandia rolland Bernal et al.9 report an population is present in the was at Emas National Park in observation of a single Black- reserve; 21 Common Piping- October 1994. Several records of bellied Whistling-Duck Guan Pipile pipile were observed Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus Dendrocygna autumnalis at on transects; groups of 3–11 Pale at Emas are as follows: three in Reserva Nacional Lago Peñuelas, winged Trumpeter Psophia January 1996, one photographed V Región, on 17 February 1998, leucoptera were recorded on nine in December 1996 and two in July the second record in Chile, occasions, including six adults 1997. Another was found dead at although the authors do not accompanied by a juvenile and km 25 of road number GO 118 discard the possibility of the two young of c. 3 weeks, on 23 near the border with Federal individual being an escape. February; one Band-tailed District. At least three Band Rubio36 discovered three pairs Nighthawk Nyctiprogne tailed Nightjars Caprimulgus of White-cheeked Pintail Anas leucopyga was tape-recorded on 8 longirostris were seen and heard bahamensis with young on one of June 1995, a range extension of at Santuário de Vida Silvestre do the artificial lakes of a water 150 km; a total of five R ufous Morro Cabeludo. A single Bay treatment plant at La Farfana, necked Puffbirds Malacoptila winged Cowbird Molothrus Maipú, Región Metropolitana rufa was recorded from three sites badius was at Emas in January during November 1997–April within the park; Stripe-chested 1995. 1998. This record adds to previous Antwren Myrmotherula Machado et al.24 report the first ones from the region and the longicauda was discovered to be records of Pale-throated Serra- author stresses the need to re fairly common at 04°56'S 75°05'W; Finch Embernagra longicauda evaluate the status of the species Ash-breasted Antbird away from the Espinhaço in the area. Toledo41 photo Myrmoborus lugubris was fairly complex, and the southernmost graphed a single adult common on river islands in the for the species. It has been found Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon Marañón river, a minor range at Serra de São José and Serra do rubricauda at Estero Tongoy, IV extension from Maipuco on the Lenheiro (in the Mantiqueira Región, on 27 January 1998. The same watercourse; the highly range), as well as in the Rio Doce bird flew up to 100 m inland then localised Black-tailed Antbird basin, at Antonio Dias, Nova Era, returned to the sea; the author M. melanurus was discovered at and Bela Vista de Minas: in both conjectures that such records may two localities in the reserve, a areas it is resident. be influenced by the El Niño significant range extension from Alvarenga2 reports the weather phenomenon. the Ucayali river; the first nest of discovery of a premaxilla of an Aguirre & Seeger1 discovered a Ash-throated Gnateater Andean Condor Vultur gryphus single Stilt Sandpiper Calidris Conopophaga peruviana was among bones found near Lagoa himantopus in breeding plumage discovered on 30 July; Grey Santa, Minas Gerais, and at the mouth of Estero Cartagena, Elaenia Myiopagis caniceps was regarded as being c.11 000 years V Región, on 3 May 1998, the found to be fairly common in old (the early Holocene). southernmost record of the mixed-species canopy flocks; species in the country, extending Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis C h ile its known distribution over 1000 flaveola, which is localised in Torres-Mura42 reports the first km. south and west Amazonia, was records of Canyon Canastero found at one locality; one record of Asthenes pudibunda in Chile, pre P e r u Johannes’s Tody-Tyrant dating those published by van der Begazo & Valqui8 report on six Hemitriccus iohannis was made; a Gaast16: a male collected by R. months fieldwork in the Pacaya- group of five Three-striped Kuschel in July 1971 in Putre, Samiria National Reserve Flycatcher Conopias trivirgata Parinacota, I Region, held at between 1992 and 1996. Zigzag was recorded near Nuevo Museo Nacional de Historia Heron Zebrilus undulatus was Esperanza on 21–29 June 1995, Natural and mislabelled as a recorded on three occasions this species perhaps being a
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nomad or more regular migrant in B e liz e rediscovered at Murici reserve, much of Amazonia; and Grey BM reports the following recent Alagoas, following several years chested Greenlet Hylophilus observations of interest. On 18–19 without a confirmed record, a semicinereus was found to be January 1999, up to 18 R ing single bird being seen well and common but localised within the necked Duck Aythya collaris tape-recorded on 20 January reserve, the first locality in Peru. were at Crooked Tree Wildlife 1998. In the Benjamin Constant Sanctuary; a Yellow-breasted area, Amazonas, Elusive Crake Poliolimnas flaviventer Antpitta Grallaria eludens, O ther records received was apparently seen on Crooked Black-banded Crake Laterallus Tree Lagoon on 19 January 1999 fasciatus, Bar-bellied Puerto Rico by many birders; a male Yellow Woodcreeper Hylexetastes The exotic Ring-necked faced Grassquit Tiaris olivacea stresemanni, Red-billed Pheasant Phasianus colchicus is was seen amongst a flock of Ground-Cuckoo Neomorphus known to have been introduced to White-collared Seedeaters pucheranii and Rio Suno many West Indian islands but to Sporophila torqueola and Blue- Antwren Myrmotherula sunensis survive on only two: Eleuthera black Grassquits Volatinia were all seen on 1–3 December (Bahamas) and Cuba33. One was jacarina at Gallon Jug on 26 1997 (Tom Gullick), and, near heard calling in secondary forest January 1999 (the northernmost Itocatiara, in the same state, at La Parguera, south-west record of the species); and several Varzea Piculet Picumnus Puerto Rico, on 1 May 1998 Slate-coloured Seedeater varzeae and Plain Softtail (GMK). Sporophila schistacea were seen Thripophaga fusciceps of the race at both Chan Chich Lodge and obidensis were re-discovered on 8 M e x ic o Gallon Jug in seeding bamboo August 1997. In Rio Grande do Arjan & Heidi Boele report a from late November to mid- Sul, at São Francisco de Paula, number of interesting records January. five Red-spectacled Parrot from 1996–1997: a Pacific Loon Amazona pretrei were seen on 17 Gavia arctica pacifica was B r a z il October 1997 and, the next day, photographed at Bahia Banderas, Andrew Whittaker (AW) reports a three were near Itabezinho. At near Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, on host of recent interesting records Itatiaia National Park, Rio de 20 December 1996 (south of its (additional observers in Janeiro, an influx of Uniform normal winter range); a R ed parentheses) including: at least Finch Haplospiza unicolor was footed Booby Sula sula in four pairs of Bearded Tachuri registered on 23 October 1997, Banderas Bay, between Islas Polystictus pectoralis tape- with at least 30 individuals on Marietas and Punta Mita, recorded at Boa Vista, Roraima, bird-tables in the park. Also in Nayarit, on 13 March 1997; a on 25 August 1998. Another pair the National Park, a pair of Red- female Surf Scoter Melanitta was observed c. 10–15 km west of and-white Crake Laterallus perspicillata at San Blas harbour, the town in natural grassland. In leucopyrrhus was seen well, on 21 Nayarit, on 16 December 1997 addition, a nesting pair was found October 1997. (south of its normal winter near Cuiabá airport, Mato Grosso GMK reports the following range); a King Rail Rallus in late August-early September species, previously regarded as longirostris photographed at 1996 and 1997. In the Pantanal, hypothetical at Serra da Canastra Manzanillo, Colima, on 20 March near Pixaim, a male Rufous- National Park, Minas Gerais39, 1997; a Red-necked Phalarope rumped Seedeater Sporophila during a visit to the area on 3–5 Phalaropus lobatus near Marina hypochroma was observed on 4 November 1998: Upland Vallarta, Jalisco, on 26 December November 1996. At Chapada dos Sandpiper Bartramia 1997 (south of its normal winter Guimarães, Mato Grosso, a longicauda, P icui Ground Dove range); a first-winter Franklin’s singing Rufous-sided Pygmy- Columbina picui and Guira Gull Larus pipixcan photo Tyrant Euscarthmus Tanager Hemithraupis guira. graphed at the mouth of the Río rufomarginatus was found in Cuale, Jalisco, on 27–28 December stunted cerrado on 13–14 C h ile 1997 (north of its usual winter- September 1997, and other Derek Evans has recently range); a male M exican records from this site include a submitted many interesting Woodnymph Thalurania Crowned Eagle Harpy haliaetus observations from the period 22 ridgwayi 3 km east of La Bajada, coronatus on 10 September 1995, February 1997–22 February 1998 near San Blas, Nayarit, on 18 an Orange-breasted Falcon (additional observers in December 1997; and single Falco deiroleucus on 13 September parentheses). Five Westland Chestnut-sided Warblers 1996 (Kevin Zimmer), and several Petrel Procellaria westlandica Dendroica pensylvanica at Puerto migrating flocks, totalling 82 were off Valparaiso on 9 Vallarta, Jalisco, on 5–9 March birds, of Mississippi Kite Ictinia September 1997 (SNGH, SW) and 1997, and photographed at La mississippiensis on 14 November one, possibly two, were seen 18 Bajada, near San Blas, Nayarit, 1996, the second country record. km off Valparaiso, on 2 June 1998 on 18 December 1997. Alagoas Foliage-gleaner (JMB, MdS, GP). A Puna Philydor novaesi has been Flam ingo Phoenicoparrus jamesi
1 0 1 Cotinga 11 N eotropical N otebook was unusually low at 1300 m at National Park on 30–31 December, Colombia), Hairy-crested Tranque Sloman, south of and three near Salto Grande and Antbird Rhegmatorhina Quillagua on 9 February 1998. At two singles at separate localities melanosticta, Golden-winged Copiapo river-mouth, on 17 in Torres del Paine National Park Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum February 1998, seven Chiloe on 1 January 1998. A Bank calopterum, Orange-crested Wigeon Anas sibilatrix were Swallow Riparia riparia Flycatcher Myiophobus apparently the first record for observed over fields at the Elqui phoenicomitra (first record for region 1 (see Howell20 for river-mouth on 5 February 1998 east slope of Colombia) and Olive definition of Chilean regions used was the first record in region 2. An Tanager Chlorothraupis carmioli. here), a Cinereous Harrier adult Austral Thrush Turdus A list of the 327 species recorded Circus cinereus there was very falcklandii feeding two young at El and assessment of ornithological rare record in region 1, two Yeso dam, at 3000 m, on 3 fieldwork is available on the Common Moorhen Gallinula February 1998, was unusually internet at: http:// chloropus in the same place on high. A Yellow-winged www.proaxis.com/~salaman/ the same date were perhaps the Blackbird Agelaius thilius at the colombia98.html southernmost record in Chile, and mouth of the Copiapo river, on 17 two Southern Lapwing Vanellus February 1998, was the first E c u a d o r chilensis provided the first record record in region 1. J. Flanagan, I. Isherwood and J. for region 1. An Andean Avocet Willis report observations in the Recurvirostra andina at Chañaral C o lo m b ia vicinity of the Centro Shuar de on 8 February 1998 is one of a Two new species for Colombia, 86 Shaime, Río Nangaritza, during handful of coastal records and range extensions and 36 23–27 September 1997: Cocoi perhaps the first such from Chile. altitudinal extensions are Heron Ardea cocoi, Oilbird Two Least Sandpiper Calidris reported by Salaman & Donegan Steatornis caripensis, Blue- minutilla at Tranque Sloman on 9 in the Serranía de los fronted Lancebill Doryfera February 1998 was a rare record Churumbelos, Cauca, on the johannae, Striolated Puffbird for region 1, but up to five at eastern Cordillera of southern Nystalus striolatus, Black- Playa Changa, north of Coquimbo, Colombia during 14 July–18 crowned Tityra Tityra on three dates between 12 August 1998. New species for inquisitor, Red-crested Finch September 1997–19 February Colombia were Foothill Coryphospingus cucullatus (the 1998 (SNGH, SW), with one at Antwren Myrmotherula second country record) and Elqui river-mouth on 5 February spodionota and White-throated Crested Oropendola 1998, were the first records for Woodpecker Piculus Psarocolius d ecumanus were all region 2. A Short-billed leucolaemus. A Band-bellied new to the area, and 25 of the D ow itcher Limnodromus griseus Owl Pulsatrix melanota trapped globally threatened W hite at Playa Changa, north of during the fieldwork provided the necked Parakeet Pyrrhura Coquimbo, on 10–12 September first specific locality for Colombia. albipectus were recorded close to 1997 (SNGH, SW), was the first A number of second records for the village on 27 September. record for Chile. Huge numbers of Colombia included: Napo Franklin’s Gull Larus pipixcan Sabrew ing Campylopterus G u y a n a were in the north of the country villaviscensio (15 captures), Pink- Richard Ryan reports the in early 1998: c. 75 600 moved throated Brilliant Heliodoxa observation of seven Bearded south past Alacrán, on 17 gularis (three captures), White- Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis at January and c. 76 000 were in the streaked Antvireo Dysithamnus Dadanawa cattle ranch, southern Lluta valley below Poconchile, on leucostictus (one capture), Blue- Rupinuni district, in January 19–20 January. A Great Shrike- rumped Manakin Pipra isidorei 1998. Tyrant Agriornis livida at the (27 captures), Fiery-throated Copiapo river-mouth on 17 Fruiteater Pipreola P e ru February 1997 was the first record chlorolepidota, Grey-tailed Piha At Pixiana, near Pevas, Buckley’s for region 1. Single Eastern Lipaugus subalaris (four Forest-Falcon Micrastur buckleyi Kingbirds Tyrannus tyrannus captures), Cinnamon Tyrant and Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo were at San Miguel de Azapa on Neopipo cinnamomea (one Neomorphus pucheranii were seen 18 January 1998 and at Coya Sur, capture), Yellow-throated on 19 May 1998 (AW, David east of María Elena in the Loa Tanager Iridosornis analis and Ascanio). At Yanomono, east of valley on 10 February 1998; Vermilion Tanager Calochaetes Iquitos, north of the Amazon, a Paynter30 notes three previous coccineus. Other notable species pair of Lanceolated Monklet Chilean records. During 30 included Ecuadorian Piedtail Micromonacha lanceolata was December 1997–1 January 1998, Phlogophilus hemileucurus, observed on 29 May 1998 (AW). the first records of Rufous-tailed Gould’s Jewelfront Heliodoxa On the coast, near Lima, at least Plantcutter Phytotoma rara were aurescens, Black-billed 10 Waved Albatross Diomedea made in region 4: singles at two Treehunter Thripadectes irrorata were seen close inshore sites near Torres del Paine melanorhynchus (fourth record for on 7 June 1998 (AW).
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A. Banwell, N. Bostock, S. was at c. 450 m, c. 10 km south of to Phyllis and Mort Isler who are Colenutt, G. Engblom, J. Oracuzar, Amazonas, principally analysing the vocal characters to Hornbuckle, M. Hunnybun, J. feeding in Cecropia and uttering establish the relationships of this Neilsen, K. Turner and B. Wright loud tsip calls. Two Rufous- population to other forms in the report the following observations backed Inca-Finch Incaspiza Thamnophilus punctatus complex; in the north of the country during personat a at c. 2200 m in 6–8 Ash-throated Antwren 19 August–13 September 1998. xerophytic-type scrub above Herpsilochmus parkeri were Several Junin Grebe Podiceps Chagual, La Libertad, on the west observed near Jesus del Monte, on taczanowskii were seen on Lake slope of the Marañón Valley, 16–19 September 1998; a male Junín, where the species represented a small range Purple-breasted Cotinga reportedly enjoyed a successful extension. The commoner and Cotinga cotinga was near Jesus breeding season due to high water more widespread Buff-bridled del Monte, on 17–18 September levels. The total population is now Inca-Finch I. laeta was also 1998 (the second record for Peru estimated to have increased to present in this area. Two Masked and at the same locality as the c. 200. Yellow-faced Parrotlet Saltator Saltator cinctus were in first); two Blackish Pewee Forpus xanthops was not a canopy / subcanopy mixed Contopus nigrescens were along uncommon around Chagual, La feeding flock just below the start the Tarapoto–Yurimagus road Libertad but none was recorded of the Paty Trail, Huánaco. (San Martín), on 13–14 September elsewhere. Five male Royal BW, CB et al. report the 1998 (the species is known from Sunangel Heliangelus regalis following significant sightings only four localities in Peru); at were seen at Abra Patricia, San from an exploratory trip to the least three Ecuadorian Martín, at c. 2100 m. A pair of departments of San Martín and Tyrannulet Phylloscartes Speckle-chested Piculet Amazonas in the north of the qualaquizae were in roadside Picumnus steindachneri was seen country: Spot-tailed Nightjar forest at Aguas Verdes, below Abra in open dry forest, 39 km north of Caprimulgus maculicaudus was Patricia (San Martín) (this species Leimebamba, San Martín, at recorded near Jesus del Monte is known in Peru only from this c. 1800 m. A pair and three single (San Martín), on 17–19 September locality); 8–10 Bar-winged Great Spinetails Siptornopsis 1998; K oepcke’s Herm it Wood-Wren Henicorhina hypochondriacus were observed Phaethornis koepckeae, which is leucoptera were recorded near and tape-recorded at c. 2200 m in known from just four localities in Jesus del Monte, on 16–19 xerophytic-type scrub above Peru, was common near the tunnel September 1998, in a variety of Chagual, La Libertad, on the west 20 km north-east of Tarapoto on habitats from tall, moist hill forest slope of the Marañón Valley. A the road to Yurimaguas (San to fern-covered slopes on white possible Russet-mantled Martín), on 13–14 September sandy soil savanna woodland; up Softtail Thripophaga berlepschi 1998; a male and female Napo to 10 Orange-throated Tanager was seen near the pass at Abra Sabrew ing Campylopterus Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron Patricia at c. 2300 m. A pair of villaviscensio were recorded in the were in the Penas Blanca area, Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger sandy soil savanna at Jesus del along the Chiriaco–Oracuzar road was c. 12 km south of Oracuzar, Monte, on 16–18 September 1998 (Amazonas); and a pair of Amazonas, at c. 500 m. They were (the only known site for the Plumbeous Euphonia Euphonia stripping the vertical stems from species in Peru and apparently plumbea near the tunnel north plants in the head-downwards uncommon there); a female east of Tarapoto along the road to position, an action possibly Rufous-vented Whitetip Yurimaguas (San Martín) was facilitated by their upturned bills. Urosticte ruficrissa was at Jesus apparently the first record for Peruvian Plantcutter del Monte on 18 September 1998 Peru and a considerable range Phytotoma raimondii was (the species is known only from a extension. discovered to be still relatively few localities in eastern Ecuador Another apparently new bird numerous at Rafan, Lambayeque. and north-east Peru); 15 M aroon for Peru was a Golden-winged This area, which is the only tailed (Berlepsch’s) Parakeet Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera, presently known site for the Pyrrhura melanura berlepschi recorded at Pillahuata, on the species, has been bought by an were along the Tarapoto– Manu road, dpto. Cusco, on 2 American sugar company for Yurimaguas road, on 15 December 1998, at 2700 m (G. conversion to sugar cane. At least September, and four at Jesus del Engblom, J. Nordin). Paynter30 five Piura Chat-Tyrant Monte, on 18 September 1998; 4–5 lists no previous records in the Ochthoeca piurae were at San Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus country Damian, Ancash. Bar-winged punctatus of the subspecies Wood-Wren Henicorhina huallagae were observed in dry Acknowledgements leucoptera appeared to be common deciduous forest on the slopes of a Thanks are due to the following at Abra Patricia, at 2000– quebrada 15 km south of Tarapoto observers who submitted records: 2300 m. A group of four Orange- (San Martín), on 12 September A. Banwell, Arjan & Heidi Boele, throated Tanager 1998. Recordings of the N. Bostock, C. Bushell (CB), S. Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron vocalisations have been forwarded Colenutt, T. Donegan, G. Engblom,
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Derek Evans, J. Flanagan, J. (Hylophilus semicinereus). albigularis) on Tobago, West Hornbuckle, S. N. G. Howell Bull. Brit. Orn, Club 118: Indies. Caribbean J. Sci. 34: (SNGH), M. Hunnybun, I. 159–166. 166–168. Isherwood, G. M. Kirwan (GMK), 9. Bernal, M., Gallardo, H., 20. Howell, S. N. G. (1996) A G. Lasley, Juan Mazar Barnett Leiva, J., Miranda, I. & checklist of the birds of Chile. (JMB ), Bruce Miller (BM), J. Simeone, A. (1998) Registro Colorado Springs: American Neilsen, J. Nordin, G. Pugnali de Pato silbón de ala blanca Birding Association. (GP), Richard Ryan, Paul (Dendrocygna autumnalis) en 21. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. Salaman, Marco della Seta (MdS), Chile Central. Boletín (1995) A guide to the birds of K. Turner, Barry Walker (BW), S. Chileno de Ornitología 2: 29– Mexico and northern Central Webb (SW), Andrew Whittaker 30. America. Oxford: Oxford (AW), J. Willis, and B. Wright. 10. Blendinguer, P.G. (1998) University Press. Registros de aves poco 22. Kluza, D. A. (1998) First Neotropical Notebook: frecuentes en la Argentina y record of Shiny Cowbird compiled by Juan Mazar sector antártico argentino. (Molothrus bonariensis) in Barnett and Guy M. Kirwan Nuestras Aves 38: 5–8. Yucatán, Mexico. Wilson. Bull. 11. Di Giácomo, A. G. (1998) 110: 429–430. R e fe r e n c e s Descripción del nido y huevos 23. Komar, O. (1998) Avian 1. Aguirre, J. & Seeger, H. (1998) de Emberizoides ypiranganus, diversity in El Salvador. Registro del Playero de patas y presencia de la especie en Wilson Bull. 110: 511–533. largas (Calidris himantopus), Formosa, Argentina. El 24. Machado, R. B., Rigueira, S. E. en la zona central de Chile. Hornero 15: 51–52. & Vanucci Lins, L. (1998) Boletín Chileno de 12. Di Giácomo, A. G. (1998) Expansão geográfica do Ornitología 2: 32–33. Nidificación de Thamnophilus canário-rabudo (Embernagra 2. Alvarenga, H. M. F. (1998) doliatus en Argentina. El longicauda — Aves, Sobre a ocorrencia do condor Hornero 15: 53–57. Emberizidae) em Minas (Vultur gryphus) no Holoceno 13. Dobson, A. (1998) Fall bird Gerais. Ararajuba 6: 42–45. da região de Lagoa Santa, news. Bermuda Audubon Soc. 25. Mazar Barnett, J., Pugnali, G. Minas Gerais, Brasil. Newsletter 9 (3): 5. & della Seta, M. (1998) Ararajuba 6: 60–63. 14. Engilis, A., Oring, L. W, Primer registro del Saí 3. Anderson, D. L., Bonta, M. & Carrera, E., Nelson, J. W. & Grande Oreomanes fraseri Thorn, P. (1998) New and Lopez, A. M. (1998) Shorebird (Passeriformes: Coerebidae? noteworthy bird records from surveys in Ensenada Thraupidae?) en la Argen Honduras. Bull. Brit. Orn. Pabellones and Bahia Santa tina. El Hornero 15: 44–46. Club 118: 178–183. Maria, Sinaloa, Mexico: 26. Miller, B. W. & Miller, C. M. 4. Angehr, G. (1998) The critical winter habitats for (1998) Ornithology in Belize fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán Pacific Flyway shorebirds. since 1960. Wilson Bull. 110: 24(7): 3–4. Wilson Bull. 110: 332–341. 544–558. 5. dos Anjos, L., Ragoni, A. & 15. Fairhurst, C. W. (1998) 27. Navas, J. R. & Bo, N. A. (1998) Ferreira, J. (1998) Registros Sightings of the Black La distribución geográfica de de campo de Hylocharis Vulture (Coragyps atratus) in las razas de Lophonetta sapphirina e H. cyanus na Cuba. El Pitirre 11: 46. specularioides y Merganetta região de Londrina, norte do 16. van der Gaast, J. (1997) armata (Anatidae) en las Estado do Paraná, sul do Canyon Canastero Asthenes provincias de Mendoza y San Brasil (Trochiliformes: pudibunda in northern Chile. Juan, Argentina. El Hornero Trochilidae). Ararajuba 6: 51. Cotinga 8: 54. 15: 57–59. 6. Babarskas, M. & Flombaum, P. 17. Gonnet, J. M. & Blendinguer, 28. Ordano, M. (1998) Primera (1998) Nuevos registros de P.G. (1998) Nuevos registros descripción del nido del aves para la provincia de de distribución del Aguila Pitajo Canela (Ochthoeca Chubut, Argentina. Nuestras Coronada (Harpyhaliaetus oenanthoides). Nuestras Aves Aves 38: 13–14. coronatus) en el oeste de 38: 10–11. 7. Bagno, M. A. & Rodrigues, F. Argentina. El Hornero 15: 29. Ordano, M. (1998) Presencia H. G. (1998) Novos registros 39–42. de la Calandrita (Stigmatura de espécies de aves para o 18. Hallchurch, T. T. (1982) budytoides) en Formosa, Estado de Goiás, Brasil. Exercise King Vulture: Argentina. Nuestras Aves 38: Ararajuba 6: 64,–65. Belize: 23 February–16 13. 8 Begazo, A. J. & Valqui, T. H. March 1982. Adjutant 12: 3– 30. Paynter, R. A. (1995) Nearctic (1998) Birds of Pacaya– 36. passerine migrants in South Samiria National Reserve 19. Hayes, F. E., Hayes, W. K. & America. Cambridge, Mass: with a new population Garnett, T. O. (1998) Redis Publications of the Nuttall (Myrmotherula longicauda) covery of the Gray-throated Ornithological Club 25. and a new record for Peru Leaftosser (Sclerurus 31. Pérez-Rivera, R. A. (1998)
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Cacatua alba— nuevo informe Ornitología 2: 30–31. canasteros (Furnariidae) de para Puerto Rico. El Pitirre 37. St. Pierre, P. & Davies, M. Tarapacá (I Región): 11: 37. (1998) Observaciones confirmación de Asthenes 32. Piacentini, H. & Acerbo, P. ornitológicas en el pudibunda en Chile. Boletín (1998) Presencia del Alilicucu Monumento Natural Laguna Chileno de Ornitología 5: 24– Común Otus choliba en la de los Cisnes, Tierra del 27. Provincia de Río Negro, Fuego: nuevo registro de 43. Wingate, D. B. (1998) Varied Argentina. Nuestras Aves 38: Pimpollo Tobiano (Podiceps Thrush — new to Bermuda. 12. gallardoi) en Chile. Boletín Bermuda Audubon Soc. 33. Raffaele, H., Wiley, J., Garrido, Chileno de Ornitología 2: 28– Newsletter 9 (3): 3. O., Keith, A. & Raffaele, J. 29. 44. Wingate, D. B. (1998) Sum (1998 ) Birds of the West 38. Serracín, R. A. & Romero, F. mary of the 1997–98 Cahow Indies. London, UK: A. & C. (1998) Nuevos registros de nesting season. Bermuda Black. aves para la Provincia de La Audubon Soc. Newsletter 9 34. Rimmer, C. C., Goetz, J. E. & Pampa, Argentina. Nuestras (3): 4. McFarland, K. P. (1998) Bird Aves 38: 9–10. observations in the threat 39. Silveira, L. F. (1998) The birds ened forest f ragments of of Serra da Canastra Sierra de Neiba, Dominican National Park and adjacent Republic. El Pitirre 11: 38– areas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 39. Cotinga 10: 55–63. 35. Rodriguez, P. R., Shaffer, F., 40. Soy, J. P. & Kartley, J. R. M. Robert, M. & Socarras, E. (1998) The Black Vulture (1998) Adiciones a la (Coragyps atratus) continues ornitofauna de los Cayos wandering in Cuba. El Pitirre Coco, Paredón Grande y 11: 45. Guillermos, Cuba. El Pitirre 41. Toledo M., J. (1998) 11: 41. Observación de Ave del 36. Rubio C., M. (1998) trópico de cola roja (Phaethon Nidificación de Pato rubricauda) en el Estero gargantillo (Anas Tongoy, Región de Coquimbo bahamensis) en la (Chile). Boletín Chileno de Región Metropolitana. Ornitología 2: 31–32. Boletín Chileno de 42. Torres-Mura, J.C. (1998) Los
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Neotropical Notebook contains flamingos have not been recorded in Yucatan, and at Isla Holbox in three sections. The first consists on the island since Hurricane Quintana Roo. American White of short papers documenting Gilbert in 1988. During May 1998, Pelican is a regular winter visitor records. Photos and descriptions in the lagoons in the south of to the north coast of the are published where appropriate. Cozumel, we found a group of 50 peninsula, but this is the first The second section summarises birds, some of them juveniles. record on Cozumel. We observed a records published elsewhere, They remained throughout our group of c. 30 birds in the lagoons following the format established visit, moving only among the in the south of the island. in previous issues of Cotinga, and lagoons or to the mangroves. Both records were documented the third lists unpublished and by video footage, deposited at the undocumented records. Please American White Pelican Colección Nacional de Aves, indicate, with submissions, in Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Instituto de Biología, Universidad which section you wish your This species has not been Nacional Autónoma de México. records to appear. previously reported on Cozumel. Local environmentalist groups on Paynter3 listed American White Cozumel are monitoring the SHORT NOTES Pelican as occurring on the north presence of these species in west coast of the peninsula. Cozumel. Two notable records of birds López-Ornat et al.2 recorded it at for Cozum el Island, Quintana localities on the north-east coast Acknowledgements Roo, Mexico of the peninsula, at Ria Lagartos We are thankful to the Cozumel Island is located on the and Las Coloradas. He also organisations that provided Caribbean coast of Mexico, mentioned it for the north coast, financial support to our project: between 20°16' and 20°36'N and between Progreso and Dzidzantun United Nations Environment 86°44' and 87°02'W, in northern Quintana Roo. The island encompasses c. 490 km2, being the largest inhabited island of the Yucatan Peninsula. We conducted intensive avifaunal surveys on the island in 1994–1995 (Macouzet et al. in prep.), as well as during 1–10 May 1998. During the most recent visit, we surveyed wetlands in the south of the island, between Laguna Colombia and Faro Celarain. We found two species of special interest for the Cozumel avifauna documented here. American W hite Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (Charles Gambill) Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber Flamingos were recorded previously from Cozumel by Griscom1 during the Manson- Spindel expedition. In the expedition account, Griscom recorded a group of c. 600 flamingos. Paynter3 did not find them on the island, but local inhabitants mentioned their presence during winter. In the 1980s, local inhabitants mentioned that flamingos occurred in the island. However,
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Program — Caribbean Region; first for the Western Hemisphere, Comisión Nacional para el Uso y and also two first records for Conocimiento de la Biodiversidad; Trinidad. Joint Committee USFWS/INE- SEMARNAP, Neotropical Great Shearwater Puffinus Migratory Bird Conservation gravis Initiative of the National Fish One south of Crown Point on 29 and Wildlife Foundation, Idea June 1997 (FEH) was only the Wild, and Benotto. Thanks to second record for Tobago, Townsend Peterson who although the species has often commented on earlier drafts of been found off Trinidad in June. Little Egret Egretta garzetta (Charles this note. Gambill) Manx Shearwater Puffinus R e fe r e n c e s puffinus is apparently the first record for One at sea off the north-east coast 1. Griscom, L. 1926. The the Western Hemisphere, of Trinidad on 23 February 1997 ornithological results of the although the species occurs (FEH). This is only the fourth Mason–Spindel expedition to occasionally on Atlantic Islands record of the species from our Yucatan, 2. Chinchorro Bank west of Africa. and Cozumel Island. Am. area, but this Old World species occurs regularly in the Caribbean Mus. Novitates 236. Greater Flamingo in November–March. 2. Lopez-Ornat, A., Lynch, J. F. & Phoenicopterus ruber MacKinnon, B. 1989. New Up to four, all or mostly Red-footed Booby Sula sula and noteworthy records of immatures, at Brickfield mudflats An adult brown-phase bird was birds from the eastern on various dates during 7 seen at sea c. 17 km north of Yucatan Peninsula. Wilson December 1996–26 January 1998 Matelot, Trinidad, on 17 March Bull. 101: 390–409. (RPff et al., GW, FEH, IS, PJW). 1996 (FEH, see Cotinga 10: 103). 3. Paynter, R. A. 1955. The The fourth record for Trinidad. ornithogeography of the Breeds commonly on islands just north-east of Tobago, but rarely Yucatan Peninsula. Hartford: Ring-necked Duck Aythya recorded off Trinidad. Yale University Press. collaris A male and 2 females at Buccoo Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi Tania M. Macouzet & Patricia Marsh on 18 January 1997 (DWF Singles at Buccoo Swamp and Escalante-Pliego et al.); a female at Lowlands on 20 Turtle Beach on 24 March 1996 Instituto de Biología, March 1997 (FEH) may have been and 12 January 1997 (FEH et al., Departamento de Zoología, one of the same birds. The first see Cotinga 10: 103). One Universidad Nacional Autónoma published record for Tobago, previous record for Tobago, de México. Apartado Postal 70- although a pair at the same although well known as an off 153, Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán. locality on 18 January 1992 season visitor to Trinidad. México D.F. 04510. E-mail: (DWF) may also have been of this [email protected]. species. Little Egret Egretta garzetta Records from Nariva Swamp and Miguel Villanueva Sosa Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Trinity ponds on 13–14 January, Fundación de Parques y Museos, A male at Lowlands, Tobago, on 16–17 June, 31 August and 4 Isla Cozumel, Quintana Roo, 20 December 1995 (FEH, see September 1997, and Buccoo Mexico. Cotinga 10: 103). Rare on Tobago. Swamp on 14 August 1990, 26 March 1995 (see Cotinga 10: 103), Masked Duck Nomonyx Verification of rare bird 18 January, 27 February and 20 dominicus records from Trinidad & March 1997 (DWF, GW, FEH, Two males at Pitch Lake on 30 T o b a g o PJW et al.) indicate that the January 1993 (GW, RN). This A second group of records, mainly species is becoming well secretive species has been rarely from 1996–early 1998, but established in the area and may recorded on Trinidad in recent including some from the last 14 possibly already be breeding in years, probably because of the years, has been ratified by the the islands. scarcity of freshwater marshland. Trinidad & Tobago Rare Birds Committee, and are presented Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea King Vulture Sarcoramphus here. Sixty-one records have been leucorodia papa accepted, some with photographic An immature seen and Single adults over Trinity Hills evidence. Records for eight other photographed at Buccoo Swamp, and Aripo Savanna on 20 species were rejected. Those Tobago on 3 November 1986 February 1994 and 14 January (WSS, AJ); there may have been a accepted include four first records 1996 (GW et al., PJT). Rare visitor for Tobago, one of these possibly a second bird present earlier. This from the mainland.
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Black Vulture Coragyps atratus Black-necked Stilt Himantopus Scaled Dove Scardafella An adult over Little Tobago on 17 mexicanus squammata January 1997 (DWF et al.). Few Two at Buccoo Bay on 19 August An adult photographed at Nariva records from Tobago, although D. 1997 (FEH, NAT) was the second Swamp near Bush-Bush Creek on Rooks and others have reported record for Tobago. 7 December 1996 (RDM, RR et al.) individuals occasionally. was the first record on Trinidad Wood Sandpiper Tringa since G. D. Smooker collected two Yellow-headed Caracara glareola at Toco in late October 1929. Milvago chimachima A first-winter at Buccoo Swamp An adult at Bon Accord housing on 18 January and 27 February Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus estate on 18 January 1997 (DWF 1997 (DWF et al., FEH et al.) is minor et al.) was probably breeding. If the first record for Tobago of this Adults at Buccoo Swamp on 18–19 so, this would be the first such principally Old World species, January 1992, 18 January 1997 record for Tobago; the species only which is extremely rare in the and 3 July 1997 (DWF, FEH et al.) arrived on the island c.10 years Caribbean region but has demonstrate that the species is ago. occurred several times on not uncommon on Tobago in Barbados. suitable habitat. Trinidad Piping-Guan Pipile pipile Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa Grey-throated Leaftosser Two adults at Grande Riviere on One at Waterloo mudflats on 19 Sclerurus albigularis 30 May 1997 (FEH et al.) and October 1996 (FEH et al.). Rare on An adult photographed at its subsequently. There appears to be passage on Trinidad. nest-hole at Mount Dillon, Tobago, a population of indeterminate size on 21–22 March 1996, and others in the area, and conservation Ruff Philomachus pugnax seen or heard in this area on 20 authorities are understandably One photographed at Buccoo August 1997 (FEH, WKH, TOG et anxious not to place undue Marsh on 11 and 14 August 1990 al., see Cotinga 11: 98). The first pressure from visitors on the (GW et al.) was approximately the records since the 1963 hurricane, country’s only endemic species. sixth record on Tobago of this Old which decimated forest areas. World species. Caribbean Coot Fulica caribaea Scarlet Tanager Piranga An apparently tame bird for Black-headed Gull Larus olivacea several months (1993–4) at ridibundus An adult male photographed at Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust, An adult in worn breeding Monos island off north-west but was thought to be wild (FEH, plumage photographed during 4– Trinidad in late April 1995 (per MG, KS). An adult at Buccoo, 14 July 1994 near Store Bay, GG) is the third record for Tobago, on 30 May 1997 (BG), Tobago (FEH et al.). There are few Trinidad; all have been in late with another on 19 August and a records from Tobago of this Old spring. pair on 21 August (FEH et al.). World species, that appears to be Rare on both islands. becoming established in the New Rose-breasted Grosbeak World. Pheucticus ludovicianus Double-striped Thick-knee An adult male at the Asa Wright Burhinus bistriatus Lesser Black-backed Gull Nature Centre on 17 June 1997 One at Waller Field on 8 Larus fuscus (NLN et al.) is the fourth record December 1996 (RPff et al.) was A first-winter near Buccoo Reef for Trinidad, the date being quite only the third record for Trinidad. on 15–16 January 1997 (DWF et late for this passage migrant. al.) and 27 February and 20 American Oystercatcher March 1997 (FEH et al.). On the House Sparrow Passer Haematopus palliatus latter date an adult was found domesticus Five at Waterloo on 9 December nearby at Pigeon Point. There A pair photographed at Caroni on 1996 (RPff et al.) was the fourth have only been two previous 28 May 1997 (BG, RN) is the first record for Trinidad. records for Tobago. record for Trinidad for this species, well-known in the New Wilson’s Plover Charadrius Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa World for its tendency to colonise wilsonia tridactyla areas via artificial introduction. One of the race cinnamominus at An immature offshore at Buccoo Marsh on 27 April 1996 Blanchisseuse on 17 February Observers: D. Bass, R. P. ffrench, (FEH, DB, see Cotinga 10: 103); 1998 (FG et al.) was the first D. W. Finch, F. Gallo, T. O. the first record from Tobago of record from Trinidad, although Garnett, M. Gaskin, G. Gomes, B. this species, although this race vagrants have been reported from Goodwin, F. E. Hayes, W. K. has been found breeding on various West Indian islands as far Hayes, A. James, R. D. McNeill, R. Trinidad. south as St Lucia. Neckles, N. L. Newfield, R. Ramlal, I. Samad, W. S. Scott, K.
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Shepard, P. J. Tizzard, G. White, P. amidst degraded scrub and Birds to watch 2: the world J. Willoughby. cultivation at Sorata, at c. 2800 m. list of threatened birds. Given tolerance of such habitats, Cambridge, UK: BirdLife The Trinidad & Tobago Rare we concur with Herzog et al.2 that International. Birds Committee currently this species is probably not 2. Herzog, S. K., Kessler, M., consists of seven members, threatened. Maijer, S. & Hohnwald, S. including the present authors, (1997) Distributional notes Davis W. Finch, Geoffrey Gomes, Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant on birds of Andean dry Floyd E. Hayes, William L. Anairetes alpinus forests in Bolivia. Bull. Brit, Murphy and Victor Quesnel. Endangered1 and restricted Orn. Club 117: 223–235. Records should be sent, preferably range7. Recorded at Choquetanga 3. Löwen, J. C. & Kennedy, C. P. on prescribed forms, to either of valley (16°20'S 67°57’W) on the La (1998) Birds and buses the authors at the addresses Paz–Coroico road in 1993 and around La Paz, Bolivia. below. 19965. We did not find the species Unpublished. here despite intensively searching 4. Mayer, S. J. (1995) Notes on Richard ffrench the few remaining Polylepis the occurrence and natural Toftingal, Laurieston Road, tracts. None of these were larger history of Berlepsch’s Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle than 100 m2, and no trees were Canastero Asthenes Douglas, DG7 2BE, Scotland. higher than 1.5 m; they are berlepschi. Cotinga 3: 15–16. apparently cut for firewood, 5. Mayer, S. J. (1996) Two Graham White presumably by residents of the birding sites near La Paz, Caroni Research Station, nearby village of Pongo. Further Bolivia. Unpublished. Waterloo, Carapichaima, research should endeavour to 6. Maijer, S. & Fjeldså, J. (1997) Trinidad, West Indies. Description of a new Cranioleuca spinetail from Bolivia and a “leapfrog Notes on scarce species in La pattern” of geographical Paz departm ent, Bolivia variation in the genus. Ibis We present noteworthy 139: 606–616. observations on threatened, 7. Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. restricted-range and poorly J., Long, A. J. & Wege, D. C. known birds in La Paz (1998 ) Endemic Bird Areas of department, Bolivia, in October the world: priorities for 1997. Further details (including biodiversity conservation. site guides) can be found in our Ash-breasted Tit-tyrant Anairetes alpinus Cambridge, UK: BirdLife unpublished trip report3, (Jon Fjeldså) International. available as part of the Neotropical Bird Club trip report determine whether or not the James C. Lowen series from the Club address. species is locally extinct. c/o Department of the Environment Transport and the Bolivian Spinetail Cranioleuca Giant Conebill Oreomanes Regions, Ashdown House, henricae fraseri 123 Victoria Street, London Recently described6 and known Near-threatened1. A new site for SW1E 6DE, UK. E-mail: from a small number of localities this species: four birds were seen [email protected]. in La Paz department, including in Polylepis scrub in the Churupampa near Sorata2,6. One Choquetanga valley on the La Corinne P. Kennedy was seen in the understorey of a Paz–Coroico road. Tape-recordings c/o Orchard Lodge, Grove Bridge, small dry tree-lined valley 1 km have been deposited in the Wantage, Oxon OX12 7PA, UK. north-east of Sorata (15°45'S National Sound Archive, UK. 68°38'W). Not shy and gave prolonged close views 1–2 m Golden-collared Mountain- Prim er registro de E g r e t t a above ground in dense semi- Tanager Iridosornis jelskii c a e r u le a para las islas deciduous scrub. Restricted range7. At Cotapata G a lá p a g o s (16°18'S 67°46'W) on the La Paz– El 18 de Noviembre de 1998 se Berlepsch’s Canastero Asthenes Coroico road, five in forest at observó un ejemplar juvenil de la berlepschii c. 2900 m, slightly below the garcita Egretta caerulea que Vulnerable1 and restricted range7. elevational range of 3000–3600 representa el primer registro de A new site for this species: one m given by Stattersfield et al.7. la especie para las islas seen in roadside scrub c. 25 km by Galápagos3. El individuo fue road south-east of Sorata, at R e fe re n c e s hallado posado en el borde de un c. 3400 m. Also seen in a 1. Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & manglar en la Bahía Elizabeth, al Eucalyptus and maize-filled ditch Stattersfield, A. J. ( 1994) oeste de la isla Isabela (ver foto
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p.85). Egretta caerulea se Argentina. Buenos Aires: Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes and an distribuye desde USA hasta Universidad Nacional de La adult Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris Bolivia1,6,7 y Argentina, donde se la Plata. melanotos. The latter is of ha observado recientemente4. El interest as Castro & Phillips2 list ejemplar juvenil es de color German Pugnali only two previous record in blanco5, y se parece a las otras c/o Asociación Ornitológica del Galápagos, both from the island of especies de garzas blancas que Plata, 25 de Mayo 749 2 piso Santa Cruz. Unfortunately, being habitan las islas, Casmerodius (1002) Cap. Fed., Argentina. E- unaware of its status during the albus y Bubulcus ibis3. Sin mail: [email protected]. observation, I did not document it embargo éste presenta una with photographs or field notes, coloración distintiva en las partes although I have extensive field desnudas del cuerpo. El pico se First record of Am erican Coot experience with this species. mostraba gris acero en la base y Fulica am ericana in t h e Birders visiting Isabela are negro en el ápice, y las patas una Galápagos Islands advised to check this site, as it is coloración olivácea. Ambas On 27-28 February 1999, I one of the few freshwater marshes características permiten la photographed at least two on Galápagos and has a high identificación correcta de esta American Coots Fulica americana potential for attracting migrants especie. Además el tamaño es at a small freshwater marsh on and vagrants. menor a Casmerodius albus, con the island of Isabela, c. 3 km la cual sería más fácil de north-west of Puerto Villamil, R e fe re n c e s confundir2. Galápagos Islands. This is the 1. American Ornithologists’ Durante los años 1997–1998 se first record of this species for the Union (1998) Checklist of registró el fenómeno de El Niño, Galápagos, and perhaps the North American birds. cuya influencia sobre el clima southernmost record ever of the Seventh edition. Lawrence, local puede contribuir a dar una species. I first observed the birds, Kansas: American explicación a la llegada de este without binoculars, during a Ornithologists’ Union. individuo a las islas, a más de 900 work-related visit to the site. I 2. Castro, I. & Phillips, A. (1996) km de su área de distribución only gave them a casual glance (I A guide to the birds of the habitual. am very familiar with the species, Galápagos Islands. having lived in the eastern USA Princeton, NJ: Princeton Bibliografía for 15 years) and made a mental University Press. 1. Altman, A. & Swift, B. (1993) note to check their status in 3. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Checklist of the birds of Castro & Phillips2. That evening I Sargatal, J. (eds.) (1997) South America. Third edition. was surprised to learn that there Handbook of the birds of the Ohio: Bookmasters Inc. were no records of this species in world, 4. Barcelona: Lynx 2. Blake, E. R. (1977) Manual of Galápagos. Thus, on 28 February I Edicions. Neotropical birds, 1. Chicago: returned to the site and was able University of Chicago Press. to obtain distant but identifiable Ottavio Janni 3. Castro, I. & Phillips, A. (1996) photographs, as well as noting the 5106 52nd Street NW, Washington A guide to the birds of the slightly larger size and bulk DC 20016, USA. Galápagos Islands. London, compared to nearby Common UK: A. & C. Black. Moorhens Gallinula chloropus, 4. Fraga, R. & Clark, R. (1999) the uniform blackish slate PUBLISHED RECORDS Birds of the Upper Bermejo plumage, the white undertail- FROM THE LITERATURE (Argentina and Bolivia). coverts, the white bill with a Cotinga 12: 77–78. restricted frontal shield, and the CARIBBEAN 5. Hancock, J. & Kushlan, J. thin white trailing edge to the (1984) The herons handbook. secondaries. The AOU1 and del BERMUDA London, UK: Christopher Hoyo et al.3 list northern Recent sightings in Bermuda Helm. Colombia as the species’ have included: the earliest ever 6. del Hoyo, J. Elliott, A. & southernmost wintering area, and spring date for Cory’s Sargatal, J. (1992) Handbook northern Ecuador as the southern Shearwater Calonectris of the birds of the world, 1. limit of the Andean subspecies’ diomedea (two on 14 February), a Barcelona: Lynx Editions. range. The site where the birds Northern Gannet Sida bassana 7. Sibley, C. G. & Monroe, B. L. were seen is a small, artificial in Castle Harbour on 13 February (1990) Distribution and. (created c. 7 years ago) marsh, by 1999, potential nesting behaviour taxonomy of the birds of the the road to Volcan Sierra Negra by Great Blue Heron Ardea world. New Haven & London, (c. 1 km past the turn to the herodias on an island on Great UK: Yale University Press. tortoise-rearing centre). Other Sound (no breeding records are 8. Steuellet, A. & Deautier, E. birds present included c. 20 known from Bermuda), six (1935) Catálogo sistemático Greater Flamingos overwintering Snow Geese Chen de las aves de la república Phoenicopterus ruber, a Lesser caerulescens, a Common
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Goldeneye Bucephala clangula tricolor (first records for Atlantic Chat Granatellus sallaei at Spittal Pond from 6 February region and winter range extension (presence confirmed), Thick 1999, a dead American of 300 km north), Black- billed Seed-Finch Oryzoborus Woodcock Scolopax minor at crowned Night-Heron funereus (commoner in Atlantic Paget on 2 December 1998, at Nycticorax nycticorax (breeds in region than previously supposed), least two Glaucous Gulls Larus the Atlantic region), Fulvous Hooded Oriole Icterus hyperboreus in February 1999, a Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna cucullatus (presence in Atlantic Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla in bicolor (first specimen records for region confirmed) and Chestnut Great Sound from 2-5 January Oaxaca), Ruddy Duck Oxyura headed Oropendola Psarocolius 1999, a Red-eyed Vireo Vireo jamaicensis (additional specimen wagleri (first specimen record for olivaceus on Paget Island on 31 records), Snail Kite Rostrhamus the state). December 1998, and a Lapland sociabilis (additional specimen Elsewhere the same author16 Bunting Calcarius lapponicus on and range extension north provides details of a sight record Nonsuch Island on 2–5 December eastward), Ruddy Crake of Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja 199810. Laterallus ruber (200 km range in Chiapas, at Reserva Florestal y extension), Common Moorhen Fáunica Selva El Ocote, on 12 CUBA Gallinula chloropus (perhaps March 1991. The record extends A Black-headed Gull Larus resident in Atlantic region), its currently known range in ridibundus, in winter plumage, American Coot Fulica Chiapas by nearly 300 km to the was found by a park ranger, at americana (records suggest west. 800 m, in the Sierra de Nipe, resident in Atlantic region). Winker et al.28 present a host of Pinares de Mayan, Holguin, on 4 Sungrebe Heliornis fulica new' data on the birds of the February 1984. The individual, (additional localities in Atlantic ornithologically little-studied which subsequently died, was region), Black-bellied Plover state of Tabasco. Details of nine collected and deposited at the Pluvialis squatarola (second state new species for the state appear: Museo Municipal Aradio Leyte. A record). Collared Plover Whip-poor-will Caprimulgus previous specimen of this species Charadrius collaris (presence in vociferus (a specimen record from exists from Cuba but lacked Atlantic region documented), 1984 and an aural record in details of date, locality or Black-necked Stilt Himantopus March 1996), Vaux’s Swift collector, and this record must mexicanus (range extension in Chaetura vauxi (two flocks in therefore be regarded as the first Atlantic region), Lesser March 1996), Long-tailed island record20. Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes (first Sabrewing Campylopterus On 27 November 1990, E. records for the Atlantic region), excellens (an adult female Cables found six nests of Cuban Long-billed Dowitcher collected in March 1996), White- Emerald Chlorostilbon ricordii Limnodromus scolopaceus (first throated Flycatcher on an aggregation of 12 records for the Atlantic region), Empidonax albigularis Euphorbia nivulia near Buena Herring Gull Larus argentatus (specimens taken in March 1996), Ventura, Holguin. Each nest was (first state records), Caspian Plain Wren Thryothorus situated within 30 cm of the next, Tern Sterna caspia (first records modestus (female collected in and all had eggs. No hostility for Atlantic region), Royal Tern March 1989), Slate-coloured between the nesting birds was S. maxima (first record in Atlantic Solitaire Myadestes unicolor recorded. This is remarkable and region), Striped Cuckoo Tapera (male collected in March 1996), represents the first record of naevia (additional confirmation of Black Robin Turdus infuscatus communal nesting in this presence in the state), Striped (sight record in March 1996), hummingbird21. Owl Asio clamator (major intra Nashville Warbler Vermivora state range extension), ruficapilla (female collected in Buff-bellied Hummingbird March 1996), and Swainson’s CENTRAL AMERICA Amazilia yucatanensis (second Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii state record), Great Antshrike (male collected in March 1996). In MEXICO Taraba major (presence in addition new information is Morales-Pérez17 provides new Atlantic region confirmed), Slate presented for the following distributional information on the headed Tody-Flycatcher species: Broad-winged Hawk birds of Oaxaca, based on a study Todirostrum sylvia (presence in Buteo platypterus, Ruddy Crake of specimens retained at the Atlantic region confirmed), Royal Laterallus ruber, Common Snipe Instituto de Historia Natural de Flycatcher Onychorhynchus Gallinago gallinago, Sandwich Chiapas. His information updates coronatus (range extension 200 Tern Sterna sandvicensis, Least that in Binford7. Data are km north-westward), Couch’s Tern S. antillarum, Mangrove presented for 30 species: Bare- Kingbird Tyrannus couchii Cuckoo Coccyzus minor, throated Tiger-Heron (second or third state record), Pauraque Nyctidromus Tigrisoma mexicanum (range Blue-winged Warbler albicollis, Violet Sabrewing extension in Atlantic region), Vermivora pinus (eight additional Campylopterus hemileucurus, Tricolored Heron Egretta state records), Grey-throated Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle
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Trinidad Piping-Guan Pipile pipile Egretta caerulea, Bahía Elizabeth, isla Isabela, Galápagos, 18 (Stephen Culley) de noviembre de 1998 (Marysabel Mendez Cattacchio) aenea, Wedge-billed previous information on their 1996. In addition, the authors Woodcreeper Glyphorhynchus breeding habits was available. The report further records and nesting spirurus, Ochre-bellied first nest of Great Potoo by Melodious Blackbird Dives Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus, Nyctibius grandis in Mesoamerica dives in the country. Sepia-capped Flycatcher is described; a nest of Torrent Leptopogon amaurocephalus, Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea PANAMA Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher was found at 35 m, considerably There is one previous record in Myiobius sulphureipygius, Great lower than all previous records; Panama of Fulvous Whistling- Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus two observations of nesting by Duck Dendrocygna bicolor; thus crinitus, Grey-collared Becard Tawny-chested Flycatcher one at Cocoli Spoil Pond on 22–23 Pachyramphus major, Mangrove Aphanotriccus capitalis in cavities October 1998 becomes the second Vireo Vireo pallens, Blue or crevices in trees are the first country record. The second record headed Vireo V. solitarius, known breeding records of this for the Atlantic slope in Panama Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas, near-threatened species; and the of Aplomado Falcon Falco Tree Swallow Tachycineta second known nest of Sooty- femoralis involved one along the bicolor, White-throated Robin faced Finch Lysurus Punta Pena–Almirante road on 2 Turdus assimilis, Yellow- crassirostris is described. November 1998, while 50 Black rumped Warbler Dendroica Among other interesting Swift Cypseloides niger at coronata, White-winged records reported recently. Black Fortuna around the same time Tanager Piranga leucoptera, Swift Cypseloides niger was was another significant record3. Orange-billed Sparrow confirmed to breed in the country Angehr4 reports the rapid Arremon aurantiirostris, Olive in 1997 when three nests, one at colonisation of the Lake Gatún Sparrow Arremonops least containing an egg, were area of the country by Snail Kite rufivirgatus, Savannah Sparrow found in an upper section of the Rostrhamus sociabilis since 1994, Passerculus sandwichensis, and Río Tiribí on 28–31 May. Previous presumably associated with the Lincoln’s Sparrow Melospiza authors have speculated that the introduction of apple snails lincolnii. species might nest in the country, Pomacea sp. into the lake in the but this is the first confirmation late 1980s. The colonists have GUATEMALA and extends its breeding range by arrived from at least 350 km The first record of Speckled 1500 km to the south-east14. away. Mourner Laniocera rufescens in Sánchez et al.25 have provided Petén department has been details of several new species for SOUTH AMERICA published recently: three males at the country: the first Southern Nakúm on the eastern edge of the Lapwing Vanellus chilensis was BRAZIL Maya Biosphere Reserve, on 21 photographed near Trinidad, on Among recent records published March 199526. 11 April 1993; two Brown- in Ararajuba, Sampaio & Castro24 throated Parakeet Aratinga report three new specimen C O S T A R IC A pertinax were photographed along records of Light-mantled Sooty Young & Zook29 report on nesting the Coto river, 22 km west of Paso Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata by four species, in the La Selva– Canoas, on 19 July 1996; and an in Bahia: singles at Praia de Braulio Carillo National Park adult male Mouse-coloured Subaúma and Praia de Baixios, complex, in the north-east of the Tyrannulet Phaeomyias murina during 28–31 August 1994, and country, for which little or no was collected at La Trocha, San Praia de Conceição, Itaparica José province, on 24 November
8 5 Cotinga 12 Neotropical Notebook island, on 7 July 1996. During PARAGUAY single bird seen near Paso Andrés July–September 1997, the first Fieldwork in a cerrado locality — Pérez, on 23 February 1998. The records for Minas Gerais of Parque Nacional Serranía San species had been recorded from Pygmy Nightjar Caprimulgus Luis, dpto. Concepción — during only four other departments in hirundinaceus, of the little-known late 1996 produced a number of the country. subspecies vielliardi, were made interesting records, including the The first specimen record of in the vicinity of Aimorés27. Betini first record of Veery Catharus Soft-plumaged Petrel et al.6 present new records of fuscescens for the country (an Pterodroma mollis was of an adult Henna-capped Foliage- immature mist-netted on 30 and two immatures found dead at gleaner Hylocryptus rectirostris October), which is also one of the Aguas Dulces beach, dpto. Rocha, from south-eastern São Paulo southernmost records in South on 5 and 8 October 1995. The state: at Conchal, 50 km north of America. Additional interesting adult and one immature were in Paulínia, in August 1992, at records are: migrant flocks of 154 sufficiently good condition to be Pontal, c. 80 km south-west of and 33 Snail Kite Rostrhamus deposited in the collections of Batatais, undated, and a pair at sociabilis on 22 and 23 October; Departamento de Vertebrados, Paulínia, on 30 January 1997. the second departmental record of Facultad de Ciencias and Museo A King Penguin Aptenodytes Crowned Eagle Harpyhaliaetus Nacional de Historia Natural11. patagonicus wrecked at coronatus, on 19 October; A male Yellow-legged Saquarema beach, Rio de Janeiro encouraging numbers of calling Thrush Platycichla flavipes on 5 January 1995 was the first Bare-faced Curassows Crax observed and photographed at country record. The bird was fasciolata; a specimen of Rufous Rincón de los Olivera, dpto. photographed and taken to Rio Nightjar Caprimulgus rufus Rocha, during 22 July-20 August Zoo18. A Crowned Eagle unassignable to subspecies, being 1996 is the first country record. It Harpyhaliaetus coronatus closest to the nominate race on is suggested that the bird was an observed at Itambé do Mato biometrics but nearer rutilus in overshooting migrant. Dentro, Minas Gerais, on 5 April coloration; the first departmental Aspiroz5 presents information 1996 is one of only a handful of records of Blue-crowned on two species new for the records in the state22. An Motmot Momotus momota; country and the confirmation of a Orange-headed Tanager significant numbers of Bare- third, plus several other Thlypopsis sordida mist-netted at throated Bellbird Procnias interesting records, all from the Fazenda Rio Conceição, Paraná, nudicollis at the western limit of Valle del Lunarejo, dpto. Rivera. A extends the known range of the its range, possibly seasonal pair of Sharp-tailed Grass- species c. 440 km to the south migrants; and further specimen tyrant Culicivora caudacuta was east1. Two pairs of Orange-eyed evidence for hybridisation observed and photographed, Thornbird Phacellodomus between White-bellied during February 1996, near La erythrophthalmus ferrugineigula Basileuterus hypoleucus and Palma. A male Uniform Finch were observed and tape-recorded Golden-crowned Warblers B. Haplospiza rustica was observed near Visconde de Mauá on 26 culicivorus23. briefly in August 1995. Several June 1998, and were found living presumed female and immature in sympatry with the nominate URUGUAY Capped Seedeater Sporophila race. This represents the first Several new observations of bouvreuil were seen and record of this subspecies in the White-tailed Hawk Buteo photographed adjacent to the state of Rio de Janeiro19. Andrade albicaudatus are as follows: on 10 first-named species. This is the et al.2 report on a nest of Black- January 1994 at Estancia El first confirmed report in the and-white Hawk-Eagle Pororó, dpto. Lavalleja; two, on 22 country. A Lesser Yellow Spizastur melanoleucus found at February 1996, at Ismael headed Vulture Cathartes Matozinhos, Minas Gerais, on 7 Cortinas, dpto. San José; on 10 burrovianus seen by Route 30, in July 1996. They present new April 1995 at Estancia Santa November 1995, was the first breeding data and one of the few Ema, dpto. Florida; six, on 23 departmental record. Bicoloured state records. February 1998, at Algorta, dpto. Hawks Accipiter bicolor observed Río Negro and on km 200 of Route in December 1995 and February ECUADOR 3, when it was photographed8. 1996 are the first for the Jahn et al.12 describe the Only four published records department15. Grey-crowned occurrence of the first existed for the country. Slaty-Flycatchers Connecticut Warbler Oporornis A Straight-billed Griseotyrannus agilis for Ecuador: a single mist- Reedhaunter Limnoctites aurantioatrocristatus were netted and photographed at Playa rectirostris seen at Estancia El observed on three occasions in de Oro, on the Río Santiago, Pororó, on 6 January 1994, is the October and December 1995. Esmeraldas Province, on 21 first record for dpto. Lavalleja9. November 1996. This record is not Menéndez et al. report the first VENEZUELA unexpected. Bicoloured Hawk Accipiter Kirwan & Sharpe13 provide new bicolor for Paysandú, based on a distributional and other
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information for 34 species. Ten (Apure), Sungrebe Heliornis March 1999 (largest ever flock) major range extensions are fulica (Bolívar), Upland (GMKet al.), and a total of three reported: Crested Eagle Sandpiper Bartramia Rose-breasted Grosbeaks Morphnus guianensis (Sucre), longicauda (Bolívar), Saffron Pheucticus ludovicianus above Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria headed Parrot Pionopsitta Puerto Escondido, on 23–24 interpres (Apure), Stilt pyrilia (Barinas), Pavonine March 1999 (very few records) Sandpiper Calidris Himantopus Cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus (CR, RS). (Apure), Military Macaw Ara (Aragua, Miranda and Mérida), militaris (Barinas / Guárico), Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl BRAZIL Spot-tailed Nightjar Otus watsonii (Bolívar), Crested Luís Fábio Silveira (LFS) has Caprimulgus maculicaudus Owl Lophostrix cristata (Bolívar), recently forwarded a list of (Bolívar), Chapman’s Swift Black-and-white Owl Ciccaba further additional records to the Chaetura chapmani (Bolívar), nigrolineata (Carabobo), Black- list of birds recorded in Serra da Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift banded Owl C. huhula (Bolívar), Canastra, Minas Gerais (initials Panyptila cayennensis (Miranda), Andean Potoo Nyctibius of other observers in parenthesis): Black-chested Tyrant maculosus (Táchira), Least Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis Taeniotriccus andrei (Monagas), Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus (photographed by LFS, DB in Ringed Antpipit Corythopis (Bolívar), Greenish Tyrannulet March 1999), Ocellated Crake torquata (Monagas) and Canada Phyllomyias virescens urichii Micropygia schomb urgkii (tape- Warbler Wilsonia canadensis (Sucre), Black-and-white recorded by DB in February 1999), (Sucre). In addition, the first Warbler Mniotilta varia Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus South American record of (Bolívar), Golden-winged (sight record by LFS in March Lawrence’s Warbler Vermivora Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera 1999), Band-winged Nightjar chrysoptera × V. pinus was made (Aragua and Merida), Black- Caprimulgus longirostris (tape- along the La Azulita road, Mérida throated Green Warbler recorded and photographed by on 19 November 1996; attention is Dendroica virens (Sucre), PD, DB in February 1999), drawn to the importance of the Cerulean Warbler D. cerulea Greenish Schiffornis Mucubaji Pass, Mérida as a (presence beyond February Schiffornis virescens (tape- flyway for migrant hirundines; confirmed) and Paria recorded by LFS, DB in March and new state records and lesser Whitestart Myioborus pariae 1999), Eastern Slaty Thrush range extensions are presented (Sucre). Turdus subalaris (tape-recorded for Slate-coloured Hawk by JM in December 1998), Leucopternis schistacea (Bolívar), OTHER RECORDS Flavescent Warbler Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle RECEIVED Basileuterus flaveolus (tape- Spizastur melanoleucos (Bolívar, recorded by JM in December Monagas and Carabobo), Ornate CUBA 1998) and Fawn-breasted Hawk-eagle Spizaetus ornatus BM reports some interesting Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota (Distrito Federal), Black Hawk- observations in the east of the (sight record by LFS, DB in March eagle S. tyrannus (Carabobo, island. A Swainson’s Warbler 1999). Aragua, Miranda and Distrito Limnothlypis swainsonii was at Federal), Yellow-breasted Guardalavaca on 22 December CHILE Crake Poliolimnas flaviventer 1998; single Plain Pigeons MN reports the occurrence of at Columba inornata were in the least 15, possibly many more, same area on 28 December 1998 Westland Petrel Procellaria and 2 January 1999; two Giant westlandica in the Canal Kingbirds Tyrannus cubensis Moraleda, just south of the Golfo were at Pinares de Mayarí on 23 de Corcovado, on 27 December December 1998; and 30 of the 1998. increasingly localised Cuban Grassquit Tiaris canora were at Acknowledgements El Saltón on 29–30 December Thanks to the following who 1998 with four at Jiguani on 29 forwarded or commented on December 1998. records: Louise Augustine (LA), Dante Buzzetti (DB), Pedro DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Develey (PD), Guy Kirwan (GMK), Among recent notable records, Blake Maybank (BM), Jeremy there was a Northern Rough Minns (JM), Marcus Nash (MN), winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx Craig Rudolph (CR), Rick serripennis at Cabo Rojo, on 22 Schaefer (RS) and Luís Fábio March 1999 (seventh record) (LA), Silveira. Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus c. 100 Tree Swallow Tachycineta (Marcus England) bicolor at Santo Domingo, on 20
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Neotropical Notebook: compiled 11. Gambarotta, J. C. & Laridae) en Cuba. El Pitirre by Juan Mazar Barnett and Calimares, C. (1998) 11: 96–97. Guy M. Kirwan. Confirmación del Petrel 21. Regalado Ruiz, P. (1998) Collar Gris Pterodroma Primer caso de nidificación R e fe re n c e s mollis (Gould) 1844, gregaria de Chlorostilbon 1. Abe, L. M. (1998) Registro de Procellariidae, para el ricordii (Aves: Trochilidae). “Saí-canário”, Thlypopsis Uruguay, y una nueva El Pitirre 11: 97. sordida d’Orbigny & especie para la avifauna 22. Ribeiro, R. C. C. (1997) Lafresnaye, 1837, na região uruguaya: Zorzal Azulado Ocorrência de Aguia-cinzenta sul do Estado do Paraná Platycichla flavipes (Vieillot) (Harpyheliaetus [sic] (Aves: Passeriformes: 1818, Turdidae. Achará 1: 28– coronatus) no município de Emberizidae). Atualidades 29. Itambé do Mato Dentro – Ornitológicas 81: 4. 12. Jahn, O., Viteri, M. E. J. and MG. Atualidades 2. de Andrade, M. A., Gontijo, R. Schuchmann, K.-L. (1999) Ornitológicas 78: 14. G. R. & Moura Mendes. L.G. Connecticut Warbler, a North 23. Robbins, M. B., Faucett, R. C. (1996) O Gavião-pato American migrant new to & Rice, N. H. (1999) Avifauna (Spizastur melanoleucus) em Ecuador. Wilson Bull. 111: of a Paraguayan cerrado Minas Gerais: uma ave rara e 281–282. locality: Parque Nacional ameaçada de extinção. 13. Kirwan, G. M. & Sharpe, C. J. Serranía San Luis, depto. Atualidades Ornitológicas 72: (1999) Range extensions and Concepción. Wilson Bull. 111: 12–13. notes on the status of little- 216–228. 3. Angehr, G. (1999) The known species from 24. Sampaio, C. L. S. & Castro, J. Field Editor’s Report(s). El Venezuela. Bull. Brit. Orn. O. ( 1998) Registros de Tucán 25: 3–4. Club 119: 38–47. Phoebetria palpebrata 4. Angehr, G. (1999) Rapid long 14. Marín, M. & Sánchez, J. E. (Foster, 1785) no litoral da distance colonization of Lake (1998) Breeding of the Black Bahia, Nordeste do Brasil Gatun, Panama, by Snail Swift (Cypseloides niger) in (Procellariiformes: Kites. Wilson Bull. 111: 265– Costa Rica. Orn. Neotropical Diomedeidae). Ararajuba 6: 268. 9: 219–221. 136–137. 5. Aspiroz, A. (1998) Avifauna 15. Menéndez, J., Antía, J. & 25. Sánchez, J. E., Naoki, K. & del Valle del Lunarejo, Carriquiry, A. (1998) Gavilán Zook, J. (1998) New Rivera. Achará 1: 22–25. pardo (Accipiter bicolor) en information about Costa 6. Betini, G., Pacheco, J. F., Paysandú. Achará 1: 16. Rican birds. Orn. Neotropical Aleixo, A. & de Lima, F C. T. 16. Morales-Pérez, J. E. (1998) A 9: 99–102. ( 1998) New records extend sight record of the Harpy 26. Seavy, N. E., Whitacre, D. F. & the known range of the Eagle (Harpia harpyja) in Cordova, M. (1997) First Henna-capped Foliage- Chiapas, Mexico. Orn. record of the Speckled gleaner (Hylocryptus Neotropical 9: 225–226. Mourner (Laniocera rectirostris) southeastward 17. Morales-Pérez, J. E. (1999) rufescens) for the Peten (Passeriformes: Furnariidae). Additional bird records for department of Guatemala. Ararajuba 6: 145–146. Oaxaca, Mexico. Bull. Brit. Orn. Neotropical 8: 245–246. 7. Binford, L. C. (1989) A Orn. Club 119: 16–25. 27. Vasconcelos, M. F. & Lins, L. V. distributional survey of the 18. Pacheco, J. F, Ramos, V. & (1998) First records of birds of the Mexican state of Fedullo, L. P. (1995) O Caprimulgus hirundinaceus Oaxaca. Ornithological Pinguim-rei (Aptenodytes vielliardi for Minas Gerais Monographs 43. New York: patagonicus) pela primeira State, Brazil. Ararajuba 6: American Ornithologists’ vez assinalado no Brasil. 134–135. Union. Atualidades Ornitológicas 64: 28. Winker, K., Weiss, S. A., Trejo 8. Carriquiry, A. (1998) Aguila de 13. P ., J. L. & Escalante P ., P. cola blanca (Buteo 19. Parrini, R., Carvalho, C. E. C. (1999) Notes on the avifauna albicaudatus). Nuevas citas & Minns, J. (1998) Ocorrência of Tabasco. Wilson Bull. 111: para varios departamentos. do joão-botina Phacellodomus 229–235. Achará 1: 15. erythropthalmus 29. Young, B. E. & Zook, J. R. 9. Carriquiry, A. (1998) ferrugineigula (Furnariidae) (1999) Nesting of four poorly- Pajonalera de pico recto no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. known bird species on the (Limnoctitis [sic] rectirostris) Atualidades Ornitológicas 84: Caribbean slope of Costa en Lavalleja. Achará 1: 15. 5. Rica. Wilson Bull. 111: 124– 10. Dobson, A. F. (1999) Winter 20. Regalado Ruiz, P. (1998) 128. birds 98/99. Bermuda Primer hallazgo de la Audubon Soc. Newsletter 10 Gaviota Reidora (Larus (1): 4–5. ridibundus Linneo) (Aves:
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Neotropical Notebook contains called Playa Bagdad, at a place of the same reserve. Several three sections. The first consists where local fishing boats pull up measurements and photographs of short papers documenting on the beach to unload and clean were taken before the bird was records. Photos and descriptions their catch. Playa Bagdad is 38 released. A female, probably the are published where appropriate. km east of the centre of same individual, was seen in the The second section summarises Matamoros at the eastern same area the next day. No records published elsewhere, terminus of Mexico Highway 2. similar species occur in this area. following the format established Fishing activity usually peaks in The photos are on file at Lamanai in previous issues of Cotinga, and mid- to late afternoon, therefore Field Research Center. the third lists unpublished and the concentration of gulls is undocumented records. Please usually greatest at that time. References indicate, with submissions, in When the fishermen are inactive, 1. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. which section you wish your as during days with high winds, (1995) A guide to the birds of records to appear. the gulls disperse from the area. Mexico and northern Central We speculate that many regularly America. Oxford: Oxford SHORT NOTES visit the Brownsville, Texas, USA, University Press. city landfill, which is less than 24 2. Land, H. C. (1970) Birds of km to the north, especially on Guatemala. Wynnewood, PA: Interesting gull records from days when the fishing boats are Livingstone. north-east Tamaulipas, inactive. The interesting gulls of 3. Monroe, B. L. (1968) A Mexico Playa Bagdad deserve further distributional survey of the On 25 November 1998 on a Gulf of study. We hope this note birds of Honduras. Orn. Mexico beach in extreme north encourages other observers to Monogr. 7. east Tamaulipas, we observed and visit the area. photographed an adult Kelp Gull Marcus C. England Larus dominicanus (Fig. 1, see Reference Lamanai Field Research Center, p.68), a first-winter Thayer’s Gull 1. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. RO. Box 63, Orange Walk, Belize. L. thayeri (Fig. 2) and several (1995) A guide to the birds of Lesser Black-backed Gulls L. Mexico and northern Central fuscus in various plumages. Seen, America. Oxford: Oxford Two new species for but not photographed, were University Press. Nicaragua Franklin’s L. pipixcan and On the basis of information in California Gulls L. californicus. John P. Gee and Carol E. Stiles & Skutch2, I report two new The following day we photo Edwards species for Nicaragua: Olive- graphed a gull that we have not, 9500 McGregor Lane, Dripping backed Quail-Dove Geotrygon as yet, been able to identify. In Springs, Texas 78620, USA. veraguensis and Yellow-margined some respects it is similar to an Flycatcher Tolmomyias assimilis. immature Great Black-backed Both are recorded from the Gull L. marinus, which has not yet First summer record of Ruby- Caribbean lowlands of north-east been recorded in Mexico (although throated Hummingbird Costa Rica south to South it is long overdue)1. However, it Archilochus colubris in Belize America, but neither has may be a hybrid. Constructive Ruby-throated Hummingbird apparently been reported north of comments and opinions on our Archilochus colubris is a the río San Juan which separates photographs (Figs. 3–4 on p.68) widespread migrant throughout south-east Nicaragua from Costa would be greatly appreciated by Central America1. Some extreme Rica. Both species were observed the authors. On 21 March 1999, at dates of occurrence during spring at Refugio Bartola, adjacent to the the same locality, we photo migration are 18 April for Gran Reserva Río Indio-Maiz, at graphed a first-winter Glaucous Honduras3 and 10 April for the confluence of the río Bartola Gull L. hyperboreus, which we Guatemala2. In Belize the latest and río San Juan, Río San Juan believe is the first Mexican record spring record is a female mist- province, south-east Nicaragua. away from Baja California and the netted on 22 April 1999 in An Olive-backed Quail-Dove Gulf of California (Fig. 5). Lamanai Archaeological Reserve was watched through 8×10 All of these were within a huge (L. Jones pers. comm.). On 6 July binoculars for c. 30 minutes, on 6 concentration of gulls c. 3 km 1999, I mist-netted a female of May 1999, at a distance of 3–8 m south of a public bathing beach, this species in the southern part while it foraged on the forest floor
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in front of me. The startlingly but not difficult to reach— and the during autumn migration in Cuba. conspicuous silvery-white facial local facilities are excellent and We consider that this observation stripe was noted, and the reasonable. For accommodation at may signify the presence of a forehead was creamy white, Refugio Bartola, contact its small wintering population in tinged buffy, rather than pure director, Daniel Querol, at Cuba. white1. [email protected]; for further On 10 February 1999, we A single Yellow-margined information on the area’s observed a single Giant Kingbird Flycatcher was observed, on 3 avifauna or travel arrangements, Tyrannus cubensis in the May 1999, at 5–8 m in open contact myself. mountains south-east of Moa, secondary scrubland for several Holguin province. The site (c. 400 minutes while foraging 3–4 m References m) is close to a small village above ground and calling noisily. 1. Ridgely, R. S. (1976) A guide to known as La Melba (20°27'N The vocalisations are well the birds of Panama . 74°49'W), c. 25 km south of the described in Stiles & Skutch2. At Princeton: Princeton main road to Moa. The habitat this range the grey cap and white University Press. was low altitudinal cloud forest eye-ring were prominent, and the 2. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. on serpentine soils. There are only underparts were seen to be pale (1989) A guide to the birds of two records from this area, both grey above and pale yellow below. Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: undated (‘mountains south of The latter two field marks, along Cornell University Press. Moa’ and Ojito de Agua1). Both with the quite different are apparently from the early vocalisations, distinguished this Martin L. Cody 1920s (O. H. Garrido pers. comm.). species from its relative T. Department of Organismic Few records (the most recent one sulphurescens. Biology, Ecology and Evolution, in June 1986) are available from The observation site is near- University of California, Los other parts of this province. pristine lowland Caribbean rain Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA. E- forest, at 30 m elevation (10°97'N mail: [email protected]. References 84°16'W); the climate is wet 1. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P, tropical, with c. 4 m of annual Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, precipitation, and a drier season Recent observations of A., Naranjo, C. G., Parker, T. in February–April during which threatened birds in eastern A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) c. 15% of the annual rainfall is Cuba Threatened birds of the recorded. The density and During a field trip in eastern Americas: the ICBP/IUCN diversity of the vertebrate fauna Cuba (provinces of Granma, Red Data Book. Cambridge, at this site is impressive, even by Santiago de Cuba and Holguin), UK: International Council for Neotropical standards. The we made a number of interesting Bird Preservation. University of California’s Field observations. 2. Garrido, O. H. & Garcia Biology Program has visited the On 4 February 1999, we Montaña, F. (1975) Catálogo site on two occasions, 1994 and observed a Gundlach’s Hawk de las aves de Cuba. La 1999. The (combined) bird list is Accipiter gundlachi over the Habana: Academia de now 255 species; this total can be forest canopy near an isolated Ciencias de Cuba. taken as that of an area of little village called La Platica (c.800 m), more than 1 km2. Comparisons on the north side of the Sierra Ghislain Rompré between years permit an estimate Maestra, Granma province. The Department of Geography, McGill for the site of 298 bird species. species is known from the Pico University, 805 Sherbrooke Street The list includes many species Turquino region of the Sierra West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, typically rare or absent at Maestra, although sightings are Canada. E-mail: disturbed sites, e.g. the larger scarce1. [email protected]. cracids (four species) and Ara On 8 February 1999, we found macaws (two species). Many a Bicknell’s Thrush Catharus Yves Aubry groups (tinamous, hawks, bicknelli on a short visit to Pico Canadian Wildlife Service, 1141, tanagers, flycatchers) are well Cuba, at 1825 m. The bird was Route de l’Église, PO. Box 10100, represented, and the 19 species of close to the summit on the south 8th floor, Sainte-Foy, Quebec G1V antbird include Wing-banded side of the mountain, in alpine 4H5, Canada. E-mail: Antbird Myrmornis torquata (not vegetation (canopy height 1.5 m). [email protected]. yet recorded in Costa Rica). The This record is the first from wide range of habitats, from eastern Cuba and the third island Arturo Kirkconnell riverine edge and gaps to primary record (singles were captured in Museo Nacional de Historia forest, contributes to the overall the Jardín Botánico, Havana, in Natural de Cuba, Obispo # 61, bird diversity. Refugio Bartola is October 1965 and on 26 October Habana Vieja 10100, Cuba. an ideal locale for Neotropical 19682). Bicknell’s Thrush is E-mail: [email protected]. birding — superb habitats, isolated considered by Garrido & Garcia Montaña2 to be a rare vagrant
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November–December2. In this 3. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. Scaled Fruiteater Ampelioides context, we detail an observation (1986)A guide to the birds of tschudii in Venezuela at Bellavista Lodge, Tandayapa, Colombia. Princeton: On 12 July 1999, together with Pichincha province, Ecuador, Princeton University Press. Nancy Lyman and Gary Sowell, I where the species has been seen 4. Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. observed a pair of Scaled regularly in recent years (see e.g. J., Long, A. J. & Wege, D. C. Fruiteater Ampelioides tschudii in Lowen unpubl. trip report, (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of Parque Nacional Yacambú, Lara available from the Neotropical the world: priorities for state, Venezuela. The observation Bird Club address as part of the biodiversity conservation. was made at 1,680 m in good light NBC trip report series) and where Cambridge, UK: BirdLife with the birds perched c. 7 m up in the only known nest was International (Conservation a tree close to the road and, at one discovered in 19962. Series 7). point, on an open limb. They were On 26 December 1997, we obviously large fruiteaters, being (together with O. Rodriguez and James C. Lowen noticeably bigger than either D. Becker) observed two adults c/o Department of the Handsome Pipreola formosa or feeding a juvenile 2–3 m up in Environment Transport and the Golden-breasted Fruiteaters P. tangled roadside forest growth. Regions, Ashdown House, 123 aureopectus. The following The juvenile was flicking its Victoria Street, London SW1W description was taken: bill wings and begging for food. Its 6DE, U.K. E-mail: noticeably heavy; cap black in plumage was dowdier than that of [email protected]. male and bronzy olive in female; the adults (but otherwise white loral area and prominent identical) and thus contra Hilty & Silvia Benitez P. malar; throat and collar lightly Brown3, who describe juveniles as School of Forestry and Environ scaled olive, below which there ‘duller [than adults], mainly mental Studies, Yale University, was a narrow black collar brownish with ferruginous back; d o 303 Mansfield St. Apt, I New reaching from the hindneck to the black wings and tail; and faint Haven, CT 06511-2053, USA. E- sides of the lower neck but not head pattern'. The adults were mail: [email protected]. meeting on the underparts; giving a sharp bush-tanager-like underparts pale yellow, heavily tseet call, as described by Greeney Bernabé López-Lanús scaled olive; back and upperwing- et al. and unlike the whistled, Proyecto Ognorhynchus, Carrera coverts black, heavily scaled frog-like wert known from 4, Nro. 5-48, Salento, Quindio, darker bronzy olive, especially on Colombia3. Taken with the nest Colombia. E-mail: the coverts; unsealed bronzy-olive record from the same locality, our [email protected] or patch in the wing; flight feathers observation suggests that the [email protected]. blackish with small bronzy-olive breeding season of Oreothraupis tips; tail bronzy olive, barred arremonops, at least in Pichincha yellow and black with white tips. province, Ecuador, includes New records and updates for This observation extends the November–December; a surprise Mindo, Ecuador species’ range north-eastward by given that the only other evidence The following species have c. 350 km. (from Colombia) would point recently been observed by the toward June as the nesting authors near Mindo, Ecuador, at Richard Ryan season. It is conceivable that the 00°02'S 78°48'W, at elevations 38 Brookside Avenue, Livingston, species is double-brooded. Further between 1200 and 1600 m. NJ 07039-4030. USA. fieldwork could obviously help Although this area has been clarify the situation. subject to considerable ornithological activity, these new Additional breeding data for References records indicate that much is still Tanager Finch Oreothraupis 1. Collar, N. J, Crosby, M. J. & to be learned about the avifauna arremonops Stattersfield, A. J. (1994) of the locality. New locality Tanager Finch Oreothraupis Birds to watch 2: the world records were determined by arremonops is considered list of threatened birds. reference to Kirwan & Marlow2, Vulnerable1 and is restricted to Cambridge, UK: BirdLife while general comments the Choco Endemic Bird Area of International (Conservation concerning altitude were drawn north-west Ecuador and south Series 4). from standard reference works4–6. west Colombia4. It is patchily 2. Greeney, H. F., Lysinger, M., distributed in thick undergrowth Walla, T. & Clark, J. (1998) New records of montane evergreen forest at First description of the nest Single Least Grebes 1200–2600 m4. The few breeding and egg of the Tanager Finch Tachybaptus dominicus were data comprise a male in breeding (Oreothraupis arremonops observed in Mindo, at c.1350 m, condition in June, a juvenile Sclater 1855), with additional on 3 December 1998 and 6 following adults the same month2, notes on behavior. Orn. January 1999, feeding in small and a nest with a single egg in Neotrop. 9: 205–207. ephemeral ponds. The species is
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3 4 Figure 1. Adult Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus, Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 25 November 1998 (Carol E. E d w a rd s) Figure 2. First-winter Thayer’s Gull Larus thayeri, Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 25 November 1998 (Carol E. Edwards) Figure 3. Unidentified gull Larus sp., presumed hybrid, with Herring L. argentatus and Laughing Gulls L atricilla, Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 26 November 1998 (Carol E. Edwards) Figure 4. Unidentified gull Larus sp., presumed hybrid, Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 26 November 1998 (Carol E. Edwards)
Figure 5. First-winter Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus, Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 21 March 5 1999 (Carol E. Edwards) normally found at lower has not previously been recorded before. A White-tipped elevations. A Little Blue Heron in this area. Black-billed Sicklebill Eutoxeres aquila was Egretta caerulea was observed at Cuckoos Coccyzus also mist-netted at Reserva Las an artificial pond in Mindo on 14 erythropthalmus were observed Tangaras on 24 August 1999. and 22 January 1999, while a during the last week of March This species is more common at single Laughing Gull Larus and first week of April 1999. One lower elevations. White-ringed atricilla flew over Mindo on 13 sub-adult, in heavy moult, was Flycatchers Conopias January 1999. An Eared Dove mist-netted at Reserva Las albovittatus were observed in Zenaida auriculata was observed Tangaras on 27 March 1999, at Mindo town during late March on 15 December 1998; although c. 1250 m. This Nearctic migrant and early April 1999, at c.1250 m. common at higher elevations, it had not been recorded in Mindo This species is usually found
68 Cotinga 13 Neotropical Notebook below 1000 m and has not References Pinus plantations, ranches, small previously been reported at 1. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., forest remnants and second Mindo. A Grey-cheeked Thrush Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, growth. This new finding lends Catharus minimus was observed A., Naranjo, C. G., Parker, T. support to our suspicion that road on 15 December 1998 and one A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) deaths may be a common cause of found dead, on 19 December 1998, Threatened birds of the mortality for this species in is preserved in the Museo Americas: the ICBP/IUCN southern Brazil. It also appears to Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Red Data Book. Cambridge, indicate that the species is not as Naturales. This Nearctic migrant UK: International Council for reliant on undisturbed or heavily has not previously been recorded Bird Preservation. forested areas in Santa Catarina on the western slope in Ecuador. 2. Kirwan, G. M. & Marlow, T. as the few previous records A Great Thrush Turdus fuscater (1996) A review of avifaunal suggest. Additionally, on 4 July, was observed along the entrance records from Mindo, we collected a Mottled Owl road to Mindo on 15 December Pichincha province, north Ciccaba virgata at km 12 of 1998, and, although common at western Ecuador. Cotinga 6: highway SC-474, near the rio higher elevations, this was the 47–57. Putanga, municipality of first area record. A female Lesser 3. Perez, V. & Lyons de Perez, J. Massaranduba (female; wing — Seed-Finch Oryzoborus A. (1998) Andean Cock-of-the- 248.0 mm, tail — 149.0 mm; angolensis, in heavy moult, was Rock Rupicola peruviana weight— 252 g; both specimens mist-netted at Reserva Las nest under a bridge. Cotinga are retained at the PUCRS Tangaras on 25 August 1999, at 9: 81–82. collection, Porto Alegre, RS). This c. 1250 m. Although widely 4. Ridgely, R. S, Greenfield. P. J. appears to be the first record of distributed, this species had not & Guerrero G. M. (1998) An this species in Santa Catarina2. been recorded at Mindo annotated list of the birds of previously. A male Yellow-tailed mainland Ecuador. Quito: References Oriole Icterus mesomelas was Fundación Ornitológica del 1. Bencke, G. A. & Bencke, C. S. observed, on 4 April 1999, near Ecuador. (1999) The potential the main entrance road to the 5. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. importance of road deaths as village, at c. 1300 m, singing in an (1989) The birds of South a cause of mortality for large area of second-growth. This America, 1. Austin: forest owls in southern species is more common at lower University of Texas Press. Brazil. Cotinga 11: 79–80. elevations, below 500 m. 6. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. 2. Rosário, L. A. do ( 1996) As (1994) The birds of South aves em Santa Catarina: Updates America, 2. Austin: distribuição geográfica e meio There was a notable influx of University of Texas Press. ambiente. Florianópolis: Grey-capped Cuckoos Coccyzus FATMA. lansbergi into the area in Jane A. Lyons and Vinicio February 1999; one was still Perez Glayson A. Bencke and Cinara present on 8 April, and an adult Mindo Bird Tours, Birdwatchers’ Bencke was mist-netted at Reserva Las House and Reserva Las Tangaras, Rua Augusto Spengler, 500/101 Tangaras, on 15 February 1999. Casilla Postal 17-17-404, Quito, Bloco 6, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Although recorded in Mindo Ecuador. E-mails: [email protected] Brazil 96815-020. previously, its occurrence is very and [email protected]. E-mail: [email protected] sporadic and the species has been unrecorded there for several years. A pair of Grey-breasted More road-killed owls and a New avifaunal records from Flycatcher Lathrotriccus new record for Santa the Mostardas peninsula, Rio griseipectus was observed and one Catarina, Brazil Grande do Sul, Brazil photographed, above Mindo in In a previous paper1, we drew Situated on the coastal plain of primary forest, at c. 1450 m, on 16 attention to the possibility that Rio Grande do Sul state, southern July 1999. Although previously road-deaths are an important Brazil, the long strip of land recorded in the area, records of cause of mortality among large separating the Laguna dos Patos this threatened species are owl species. On 29 June 1999, we from the Atlantic Ocean, known noteworthy1. First reported by found another road-killed as the Mostardas peninsula by Perez & Lyons de Perez3, a female Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana at km Belton1, is familiar to many Andean Cock-of-the-r ock 129 of the BR-470, near Lontras, birdwatchers because of the Lagoa Rupicola peruviana was again Santa Catarina (sex unknown; do Peixe, one of the most nesting under the same bridge wing — 301 mm, tail — 191 mm; important staging and wintering near Mindo on 28 July 1999*. weight— 590 g). This section of areas for migratory shorebirds in This is presumed to be the same highway passes through a mosaic South America. Belton1,2 noted the bird as was present in of disturbed and human- apparent absence in the September–November 1997. maintained habitats, including peninsula of many widespread
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passerine species, and also that marsh on 26 September, and one south of Mostardas town, on 16 several non-passerines common in seen from the RST-101, in a June 1999. Further north, he neighbouring areas of Rio Grande roadside marsh near the recorded 12 birds along c. 1 km of do Sul were not recorded there — settlement of Estreito, also on 26 the edge of S. giganteus marsh at in some cases unaccountably— by September. Additionally, GNM Lagoa do Peixe National Park, on him and other workers3,4. During recorded it at two locations within 17 June 1999. avifaunal inventories in the Lagoa do Peixe National Park: September 1998 at several three in an extensive marsh Small-billed Elaenia Elaenia localities in the southern half of (31°06'S 50°51'W) dominated by parvirostris the peninsula, we recorded 12 Scirpus giganteus (Cyperaceae) This summer resident was species not previously reported in just north of the road to the beach uncommon to fairly common in a the region. Localities, all in the resort of Mostardas, on 17 June narrow strip of forest parallel to municipality of São José do Norte, 1999, and one at Lagoa Pai João the coast, on old dunes between were (from north to south): (31°03'S 50°48'W), in the same Capão da Areia marsh and Lagoa southern part of Capão da Areia municipality, on 18 June 1999. Paurá, on 22–23 September. Some marsh (31°33'S 51°17'W); sandy were heard in a small patch of fields and coastal dunes just east Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter swampy forest near Bojuru of Lagoa Paurá (31°35'S 51°17'W); striatus lighthouse on 24 September, and environs of Bojuru lighthouse One flew between two Pinus 1–2 were at Barra do Estreito, on (31°43'S 51°28'W); Barra do plantations 2 km north of Bojuru 26 September. Estreito (31°50'S 51°43'W), and lighthouse, on 24 September. the northern part of Estreito Crested Doradito marsh (31°51'S 51°46'W). Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris Pseudocolopteryx sclateri Additionally, GNM made bairdii One singing from tall reeds at observations farther north within At least seven foraging on an Estreito marsh, on 26 September. and in the vicinity of the Lagoa do extensive sand flat just behind Peixe National Park, primary dunes near Capão da Warbling Doradito municipalities of Mostardas and Areia marsh, on 25 September. Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris Tavares (specific localities and Seen at close range and identified On 16 June 1999, GNM observed coordinates are mentioned in the by a combination of characters, one in a reed bed just east of species accounts). especially the pale brown Lagoa Capororoca. plumage and dark-centred rump. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Euler’s Flycatcher Many were seen at several Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail Lathrotriccus euleri locations along the RST-101 road Spartonoica maluroides Near- Relatively common in the forest south of the settlement of Bojuru; threatened between Capão da Areia marsh a few were at Barra do Estreito Eleven within an area of a few ha, and Lagoa Paurá, where we found and near the Estreito marsh on in the same location as the several on 22–23 September. On 26 September. Moreover, GNM Cinereous Harrier, on 25 24 September, a few were heard in saw six at Lagoa Capororoca September. Most were isolated the swampy forest near Bojuru (31°16'S 51°03'W), Tavares, on 18 and singing actively from A. lighthouse. June 1999. Possibly a recent trigynum tussocks in early and immigrant, it now appears mid-morning (four tape-recorded; Hellmayr’s Pipit Anthus widespread and well established all recordings will be archived at hellmayri in the peninsula. the Library of Natural Sounds, Appears widespread in coastal Cornell Laboratory of sandy fields and dunes with Cinereous Harrier Circus Ornithology). Additionally, GNM sparse vegetation in the southern cinereus recorded one in S. giganteus half of the peninsula. We observed An adult male hunting over marsh at Lagoa do Peixe National and tape-recorded the species at sandy, partially damp coastal Park, on 17 June 1999. Lagoa Paurá; along the coast just fields dominated by tussocks of south of Bojuru; at Bojuru Androtrichum trigynum Sulphur-bearded Spinetail lighthouse and at Estreito. Also (Cyperaceae) at Lagoa Paurá on Cranioleuca sulphurifera found by GNM near Lagoa 25 September. One seen and tape-recorded in a Capororoca, on 18 June 1999. small S. giganteus marsh near Long-winged Harrier Circus Bojuru lighthouse, on 24 References buffoni September. At least two heard in 1. Belton, W. (1984) Birds of Rio Records of single or paired birds an extensive reed bed of Scirpus Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1. (including a dark morph) at californicus at Estreito marsh, on Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Capão da Areia marsh on 22 and 26 September. Furthermore, GNM 178: 369–636. 25 September; Bojuru lighthouse heard 1–2 calling in a small 2. Belton, W. (1994) Aves do Rio on 24 September, and Estreito marsh (31°10'S 50°57'W) c. 9 km Grande do Sul, distribuição e
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biologia. São Leopoldo: Ed. Capital, Candelaria and Apóstoles References Unisinos. Departments1). On 30 July 1998, 1. Chebez, J. C. (1996) Fauna 3. Lara-Resende, S. & the authors discovered S. frontalis Misionera. Catálogo Leeuwenberg, F. (1987) at Iguazú National Park, sistemático y zoogeográfico de Ecological studies of Lagoa Argentina (25°36'S 54°22'W). One los vertebrados de la do Peixe. Final Report to was observed and tape-recorded provincia de Misiones WWF-US, Washington. on the Timbó trail, in the gently (Argentina). Buenos Aires: 4. Nascimento, I. L. S. (1995) As sloping part of a large forest tract. Literature of Latin America. aves do Parque Nacional da On 16 September 1998 the 2. Hayes, F. E. (1995) Status, Lagoa do Peixe. Brasília: species’ song was heard again distribution and IBAMA. nearby. On 7 February 1999, this biogeography of the birds of species was again observed and Paraguay. New York: Giovanni N. Maurício heard in young second-growth American Birding Association Rua Gonçalves Chaves, 3448 - patches in Parque Rolón, Puerto (Monogr. Field Orn. 1). Pelotas - RS - Brazil - 96015-560. Iguazú, 18 km from Iguazú 3. Hueck, K. (1978) Los bosques National Park (J. Protomastro de Sudamérica. Eschborn: Glayson A. Bencke pers. obs.). J. C. Chebez (pers. Sociedad Alemana de BIOLAW Consultoria Ambiental, comm.) also heard S. frontalis in Cooperación Técnica (GTZ). Rua Balduíno P. Vier, 413 - Estrela Parque Rolón, on the cliffs of the 4. Olrog, C. C. (1979) Nueva lista - RS - Brazil - 95880-000. E-mail: Iguazú River. The Iguazú area lies de la avifauna Argentina. [email protected]. in the Atlantic Forest region3, and Opera Lilloana 27: 1–324. the second-growth forest here has 5. Ridgely R. S. & Tudor, G. Nectandra megapotamica, (1994) The birds of South The first record of Sooty- Balfourodendron riedelianum, America, 2. Austin: fronted Spinetail Synallaxis Holocalyx balansae, Acacia University of Texas Press. frontalis for the Atlantic tucumanensis and Aspidosperma 6. Saibene, C. A., Castelino, M. Forest polyneuron as the commonest tree A., Rey, N. S., Calo, J. & Sooty-fronted Spinetail Synallaxis species, and dense stands of Piper Herrera, J. (1996) Inventario frontalis occurs in the gaudichaudianum with a mixture de aves del Parque Nacional undergrowth of woodland, gallery of Chusquea ramosissima, shrubs Iguazú (Misiones, Argentina). woodland, savannas with and small trees in the Buenos Aires: Literature of scattered bushes and in chaco undergrowth. Synallaxis frontalis Latin America. scrub, of Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil is obviously a rare species in the 7. Sick, H. (1997) Ornitologia and Argentina5. Its range in east Iguazú region, as it was recorded Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Paraguay and south-east Brazil only twice during an eight-month Ed. Nova Fronteira. includes cerrado vegetation fieldwork period. These (grassland with dry forest observations constitute the first Jorge J. Protomastro patches)2,7, even in areas with records of Synallaxis frontalis in Apartado postal 37, 3370 Puerto some taller forest, but there are the Atlantic Forest biome and the Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. E- no records in the Atlantic Forest Iguazú National Park area6, and mail: [email protected]. zones2,7. In north-east Argentina, represent a range extension of the eastern limit of its range c. 200 km eastward within Myriam Velazquez reaches the campos (with forest Argentina1,4. CIES, Parque Nacional Iguazú, patches) of southern Misiones, (in 3370 Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina.
Introduced feral mink Mustela vison in Patagonia: a plausible cause of population declines in the Austral Rail Rallus antarcticus? Austral Rail Rallus antarcticus, recently rediscovered4 in Patagonia, has suffered a significant decline in range during the last century2. Even if new findings indicate that Rallus antarcticus is more common than previously thought, it has apparently disappeared from the Figure 1. Songs of Sooty-fronted Spinetail Synallaxis frontalis recorded in northern half of its former range Parque Nacional Iguazú, Argentina.
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in Argentina and Chile. During a Mink farms were established in Rail Rallus antarcticus in survey in Chubut Province (see north-west Chubut in the early Santa Cruz, Argentina. below) informants mentioned the 1940s (at Cholila, 42°31'S Cotinga 10: 96–101. introduced mink Mustela vison as 71°27'W), and by 1970 there was 5. Narosky, T. & Yzurieta, D. a main cause of the decline. In an increasing feral population in (1987) Guía para la view of the enigmas surrounding this area6. Mink populations now identificación de las aves de the species’ decline, I present here occur in Los Alerces National la Argentina y Uruguay. evidence suggesting that Park and at all other localities I Buenos Aires: Ed. Vázquez predation by this introduced surveyed. Mink is a well-known Mazzini. semi-aquatic mustelid may indeed predator of aquatic vertebrates, 6. Navas, J. R. (1987) Los have played a role in this process. including waterfowl3,6, but the vertebrados exóticos I searched for Austral Rail at species has not been studied in introducidos en la Argentina. five localities in a 90 km transect Argentina (G. Iglesias pers. Rev. Museo Arg. Ciencias covering different environments comm.). The hypothesis that Naturales, Zoología 14: 7–38. of western Chubut Province predation by this introduced (Argentina). Surveys were mammal threatens the survival of Rosendo M. Fraga undertaken on 13–19 February Rallus antarcticus deserves Museo Argentino de Ciencias 1998, using playbacks of Austral consideration. Mink have spread Naturales, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, Rail vocalisations. Areas surveyed north to Río Negro and (1405) Buenos Aires Argentina. E- within Nothofagus forest included Neuquén1,3 but may have not yet mail: [email protected] three marshes and bogs at Los reached southern Santa Cruz Alerces National Park (Lake province, the present stronghold Rivadavia, río Rivadavia and Lake of Austral Rail. PUBLISHED RECORDS Futalaufquen). I also explored a FROM THE LITERATURE large lake and associated marsh Acknowledgements (Laguna La Coqueta), located at G. Pugnali provided copies of WEST INDIES the ecotone between forest and Austral Rail vocalisations. My steppe. Finally, I surveyed the research was greatly facilitated by Bermuda extensive permanent marsh at authorities and park rangers at Additional records (see Cotinga the headwaters of Arroyo Pescado, Los Alerces, particularly P. Prieto 11: 97) from late 1998 included in typical Patagonian steppe. The and F. Nahuelpan. The Ap Iwan the following. A moribund habitats surveyed were mostly family kindly arranged my visit to Leach’s Storm-Petrel rush beds of Schenoplectus Arroyo Pescado. Oceanodroma leucorhoa was californicus, identified as a key discovered at Hamilton Harbour habitat for the species4. No Rallus References on 19 October; a Golden-winged antarcticus were detected in any 1. Christie, M. (1984) Inventario Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera of the five localities, all in a de la fauna de vertebrados was at Talbot estate on 24 relatively well-preserved state (I del Parque Nacional Nahuel October; a Swainson’s Warbler saw several rare birds and Huapi. Rev. Museo Arg. Limnothlypis swainsonii was at mammals during my search). Ciencias Naturales, Zoología Paget Sound on 10–11 November; During the survey I asked local 13: 523–534. and a Yellow-breasted Chat people or landowners about 2. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P, Icteria virens was at Outer Lea Rallus antarcticus, using a field Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto Dairy in October12. guide depiction5. At La Coqueta, A., Naranjo L. G., Parker T. A. an informant of Chilean birth, & Wege, D. C. (1992) Bahamas recognised the rail as the Pidén, Threatened birds of the A female Yellow-headed mentioning its past existence in Americas: the ICBP/IUCN Blackbird Xanthocephalus the area. The former owner of Red Data Book. Cambridge, xanthocephalus at Marsh Harbour Arroyo Pescado, Owen Ap Iwan, UK: International Council for also remembered having seen Bird Preservation. dump, on 8 September 1998, was the first record for Abaco and Rallus antarcticus in the marshes 3. Grigera, D., Ubeda, C. A. & there. He blamed the introduced Cali, S. (1994) perhaps only the fourth in the Bahamas12. mink Mustela vison for the Caracterización ecológica de disappearance of the species and la asamblea de tetrápodos del for a decline in the abundance of Parque y Reserva Nacional British Virgin Islands waterfowl in general. Park Nahuel Huapi, Argentina. A Sharp-shinned Hawk rangers in Los Alerces considered Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 67: 273– Accipiter striatus, the first record this viewpoint plausible, while 298. for this island group, was on the rural population in 4. Mazar Barnett, J., della Seta, Guama Island on 28 October12. Argentina’s Lake District M., Imberti, S. & Pugnali, G. commonly regard the mink as a (1998) Notes on the Barbados harmful predator3. rediscovery of the Austral McNair et al.10 report on the results of a mist-net migration
72 Cotinga 13 Neotropical Notebook monitoring station at Harrison’s Antilles; an unverified report (the SOUTH AMERICA Point, St. Lucy, Barbados, from first West Indies record) of late September to early November White-winged Swallow Bolivia 1997. Observations of 14 taxa of Tachycineta albiventer; the first Herzog et al. present the results Nearctic landbird migrants are Lesser Antilles record of of surveys in the Cordillera presented, most of which are Northern Rough-winged Cocapata, dpto. Cochabamba, in considered to be probably scarce Swallow Stelgidopteryx 1997–1998. The areas surveyed transients. The following eight serripennis; and the first represent a transition zone species are documented or (unverified) records of Blue between humid and dry reported for the first time in winged Warbler Vermivora intermontane Andean habitats, Barbados (five records, three sight pinus in the Lesser Antilles. and consequently provided a observations): Northern Rough number of novel distributional winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx CENTRAL AMERICA and altitudinal records. The most serripennis, Grey-cheeked significant of these are: a number Catharus minimus and Mexico of records of the little known Swainson’s Thrushes C. A detailed paper7 on the birds of Stripe-faced Wood-Quail ustulatus, Golden-winged El Triunfo, Chiapas, mentions the Odontophorus balliviani, the first Vermivora chrysoptera, Kentucky occurrence of four species — and second departmental records Oporornis farinosus and Hermit Thrush Catharus of Rufous Nightjar Connecticut Warblers O. agilis, guttatus, Blue-winged Warbler Caprimulgus rufus, the first Indigo Bunting Passerina Vermivora pinus, Crescent record of Blue-capped Puffleg cyanea and Blue Grosbeak chested Warbler V. superciliosa Eriocnemis glaucopoides in La Guiraca caerulea. and Melodious Blackbird Dives Paz department, as well as the dives —not previously mapped for northernmost records for the Lesser Antilles the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. The species at 3400 m in Cochabamba Feldmann et al . make available, first two species are vagrants to (an upslope altitudinal extension in English, significant new the area, but the latter two are of 500 m), significant numbers of records from the islands of residents. the near-threatened Hooded Guadeloupe and Martinique, that Mountain-Toucan Andigena update our knowledge as Costa Rica cucullata, further records of an summarised in the most recent An adult and downy young Paint undescribed subspecies of Sooty- edition of the AOU checklist. Data billed Crake Neocrex erythrops fronted Spinetail Synallaxis for 62 species are presented. observed near Golfito, on 5 June frontalis, the first departmental Among the most significant are 1998, is not only the second records of Bolivian Spinetail the following: the first record of confirmed country record and first Cranioleuca henricae (and the Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris for the entire Pacific slope of lowest altitudinal record, at 1800 diomedea in the Lesser Antilles: a Central America, but also the first m), the first record of Suiriri possible record of American observation of the young of this Flycatcher Suiriri suiriri in La White Pelican Pelecanus species18. Paz department, further records erythrorhynchos (first in the of a previously undescribed Lesser Antilles); the first breeding Panama species of Cnemotriccus flycatcher, records in the Lesser Antilles of The second record of Western significant numbers of the near- Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis; Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis in threatened Rufous-bellied the second Lesser Antilles record the country involved two birds Bush-Tyrant Myiotheretes of Gadwall Anas strepera; a below El Chorogo on 3 April 1999; fuscorufus, the first departmental specimen record of Northern the first record was in 1988. A records of White-tailed Shrike- Lapwing Vanellus vanellus; the Scaled Antpitta Grallaria Tyrant Agriornis andicola and first specific records from the guatimalensis at Cerro Azul, on Bluish Flowerpiercer Diglossa Lesser Antilles of Upland 25 April 1999, was the first caerulescens, and several Sandpiper Bartramia locality record and fills a gap in sightings of an unidentified all longicauda, Stilt Sandpiper its known range in the country7. black Diglossa flowerpiercer, at Calidris himantopus, Buff Recent published breeding 2700–3100 m, which is breasted Sandpiper Tryngites biology from the country includes considered to be an undescribed subruficollis, Short-billed the first description of the nest taxon. In addition, a host of new Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus and eggs of Spotted Wood-Quail altitudinal and habitat and Pomarine Jaeger Odontophorus guttatus13 and information is presented, Stercorarius pomarinus; the additional data for Rufescent involving upslope range second Lesser Antilles records of Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma extensions for 26 species. Franklin’s Gull Larus pipixcan lineatum4. and Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla; Brazil the first record of Caspian Tern A number of new records of Sterna caspia in the Lesser Sickle-winged Nightjar
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Eleothreptus anomalus in south slope on the Eastern Andes; the Magdalena Valley; and the first east Brazil are presented by first record of Black Hawk- record west of the Andes of Lined Kirwan et al.9 four records at Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus on the Seedeater Sporophila lineola. separate localities and involving west slope of the Eastern Andes; Strewe & Kreft16 report the ten individuals in São Paulo state, the first Magdalena Valley records first records of Masked and four sight records at Serra da of Barred Forest-Falcon Mountain-Tanager Buthraupis Canastra National Park, Minas Micrastur ruficollis; the first wetmorei and Black-backed Gerais. In addition, details of records of Marbled Wood-Quail Bush-Tanager Urothraupis previously unpublished specimen Odontophorus gujanensis on the stolzmanni for Nariño records, both from Santa west slope of the Eastern Andes; department; both species were Catarina, are also presented. The the second record of Crested recorded on Volcán Galeras in authors suggest that field workers Owl Lophostrix cristata from the 1997, the former only on 8 in these regions should actively Magdalena valley; the first November, but the latter species search this for this, perhaps records of Short-tailed appears to be fairly common overlooked, endangered species. Nighthawk Lurocalis there. Details are provided, by dos Anjos semitorquatus on the west slope of & Schuchmann3, of a nest, the Eastern Andes; the second Venezuela subsequently abandoned, of record of White-tipped Swift Nebot11 provides information on Chestnut-bellied Euphonia Aeronautes montivagus in the the establishment of a small Euphonia pectoralis, near Magdalena Valley; the first record population of Rose-ringed Morretes, Paraná, on 6 March of Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Parakeet Psittacula krameri in 1997. Previous observations of Panyptila cayennensis in the the eastern part of Caracas city nesting behaviour in this species Magdalena Valley; the first record since 1996. This appears to be the were for August and January. of Violet-headed first such population to be Other recently described Hummingbird Klais guimeti on reported in mainland South reproductive behaviour from this the west slope of the Eastern America, although the species has country includes a description of Andes and the Magdalena Valley; been widely introduced in many the nest, eggs and chicks of Drab the first records east of the other parts of the world. Water-Tyrant Ochthornis Western Andes of Green littoralis, based on observations Thorntail Popelaira conversii; SOUTH ATLANTIC on the río Jamari, Rondônia, in the first record of Tody Motmot October 19881, and the first nest Hylomanes momotula in the Falkland Islands of Short-tailed Nighthawk Magdalena Valley; the discovery Interesting reports from the Lurocalis semitorquatus to be of a significant population of archipelago include: a Tawny- discovered in Brazil, at Viçosa, White-mantled Barbet Capito throated Dotterel Oreopholus Minas Gerais, in November hypoleucos in the Serranía de la ruficollis, on Pebble Island, and a 199414. The observations confirm Quinchas; only the second Brown-chested Martin Progne that this species nests in trees. specimen of Ruddy Foliage- tapera, at Government House Vasconcelos17 reports the gleaner Automolus rubiginosus (Falklands Conservation northernmost record of Black- sasaimae; the second and third Newsletter 36) and a Trudeau’s capped Piprites Piprites records of Slaty Antwren Tern Sterna trudeaui (first pileatus and a range extension for Myrmotherula schisticolor on the record), on Bleaker Island, in Grey-backed Tachuri west slope of the Eastern Andes; September 1998; and a possible Polystictus superciliaris, both the first record of Chestnut- Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi, in records being made at Pico do crowned Gnateater Stanley Harbour, in early Papagaio, Minas Gerais, on 9 June Conopophaga castaneiceps on the February 1999 (Falklands 1999. west slope of the Eastern Andes Conservation Newsletter 38). In north of the head of the early April 1999, there was a Colombia Magdalena Valley; the first Black-necked Stilt Himantopus Stiles et al.15 provide details of records of Antioquia Bristle- mexicanus on Long Island significant new bird records from Tyrant Phylloscartes lanyoni east (Falklands Conservation the middle Magdalena Valley. of the río Magdalena; the first Newsletter 40). Many of these involve examples of records of Yellow-margined open-country species expanding Flycatcher Tolmomyias assimilis South Shetland Islands their range southward in in the Magdalena Valley; the Favero & Silva6 report the response to increased potential importance of the observation, documented deforestation. The authors also Serranía de las Quinchas for photographically, of a Least note significant new information Turquoise Dacnis-Tanager Seedsnipe Thinocorus for several forest species, most Pseudodacnis hartlaubi is rumicivorus on Nelson Island, on notably: the second and third highlighted; the first records of 1 December 1996, the first record records of Black-chested Hawk Dusky-faced Tanager for Antarctica. Leucopternis princeps on the west Mitrospingus cassinii in the
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OTHER RECORDS RE Neotropical Notebook: 10. McNair, D. B., Massiah, E. B. CEIVED compiled by Juan Mazar Frost, M. D. (1999) New and Barnett and Guy M. Kirwan. rare species of Nearctic landbird migrants during Bolivia References autumn for Barbados and the Bennett Hennessey reports tape 1. Alves, V. S. & Soneghet, M. L. Lesser Antilles. Carib. J. Sci. recording and briefly seeing a L. (1999) Ninhos, ovos e 35: 46–53. Scaled Fruiteater Ampelioides filhotes de Ochthornis 11. Nebot, J. C. (1999) First report tschudii in the canopy at Serranía littoralis (Passeriformes: on the Rose-ringed Parakeet Cuchillo, Pilon Lajas Biosphere Tyrannidae). Ararajuba 7: (Psittacula krameri) in Reserve, dpto. Beni (15°15'S 27–29. Venezuela and preliminary 67°08'W), on 19 October 1998, at 2. Angehr, G. (1999) The observations on its behavior. 900 m. The species was tape- Fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán Orn. Neotrop. 10: 115–117. recorded there again on 21 25 (4): 3. 12. Norton, R. L. (1999) West October 1998. According to the 3. dos Anjos, L. & Schuchmann, Indies region. North Amer. Armonía Bolivian bird database, K.-L. (1999) Notes on the Birds 53: 110–111. this is the second record of the reproductive behaviour and 13. Roberts, D. L., Pomara, L. & species in the country, the first the nest of the Chestnut- Hartmann, A. (1999) First being by Ted Parker at Serranía bellied Euphonia (Euphonia nest records for the Spotted Bellavista (38 km north of pectoralis). Bull. Brit. Orn. Wood-quail from premontane Caranavi), dpto. La Paz (1675 m), Club 119: 133–135. western Panama. PQF News in June 1979. 4. Dyrcz, A. (1999) Nesting of the 13–14: 2–3. Rufescent Tiger-Heron 14. Simon, J. E. & Bustamante, P. Brazil Tigrisoma lineatum on Barro F. S. (1999) Observações The third record of Mississippi Colorado Island (Republic of sobre a reprodução de Kite Ictinia mississippiensis was Panama). Orn. Neotrop. 10: Lurocalis semitorquatus no a group of at least 200 migrating 105–106. Brasil (Aves: Caprimulgidae). south over the Transpantaneira 5. Favero, M. & Silva, M. P. Ararajuba 7: 35–37. Highway, south of Poconé, on 17 (1999) First record of the 15. Stiles, F. G., Rosselli, L. & October 1997 (HB). In the same Least Seedsnipe Thinocorus Bohórquez, C. I. (1999) New area, in March 1999, a Grey rumicivorus in the Antarctic. and noteworthy records of Pileated Finch Coryphospingus Orn. Neotrop. 10: 107–109. birds from the middle pileatus was observed at km 25 on 6. Feldmann, P., Benito-Espinal, Magdalena valley of the Transpantaneira Highway, E. & Keith, A. R. (1999) New Colombia. Bull. Brit. Orn. between Poconé and Porto Jofre bird records from Club 119: 113–129. (PB), the first record for the Guadeloupe and Martinique, 16. Strewe, R. & Kreft, S. (1999) Pantanal region. West Indies. J. Field Orn. 70: First records of Masked 80–94. Mountain-Tanager Venezuela 7. Gómez de Silva, H., G., (Buthraupis wetmorei) and Two new species for Margarita González-García, F. & Black-backed Bush-Tanager Island are as follows. A female Casillas-Trejo, M. (1999) (Urothraupis stolzmanni) and three juvenile Saffron Birds of the upper cloud (Thraupinae) for Nariño, Finches Sicalis flaveola were at forest of El Triunfo, Chiapas, southwestern Colombia. Orn. Laguna Suarez on 23 July 1999, Mexico. Orn. Neotrop. 10: 1– Neotrop. 10: 111–113. with a male and a juvenile there 26. 17. Vasconcelos, M. F. (1999) next day and a single male on 25 8. Herzog, S. K., Fjeldså, J., Contribuição ao July (CF). Older news, from Kessler, M. & Balderrama, J. conhecimento ornitológico do November 1996, concerns a male A. (1999) Ornithological Pico do Papagaio, município and two female Dickcissels surveys in the Cordillera de Aiuruoca, Minas Gerais. Spiza americana trapped locally Cocapata, depto. Atualidades Ornitológicas 90: by the owner of a pet shop, and Cochabamba, Bolivia, 10– 11. bought by RR, who released them. transition zone between 18. Watson, D. M. & Benz, B. W. humid and dry intermontane (1999) The Paint-billed Crake Acknowledgements Andean habitats. Bull. Brit. breeding in Costa Rica. Thanks are due to the following Orn. Club 119: 162–177. Wilson Bull. 111: 422–424. observers and correspondents 9. Kirwan, G. M., Martuscelli, P., who submitted and forwarded Silveira, L. F. & Williams, R. records: Paulo Boute (PB), Hugh S. R. (1999) Recent records of Buck (HB), John Croxall, Charles the Sickle-winged Nightjar Fletcher (CF), Bennett Hennessey, Eleothreptus anomalus in Robin Restall (RR) and David south-east Brazil. Bull. Brit. Thorns. Orn. Club 119: 202–206.
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Neotropical Notebook contains for Cuba. In the afternoon of 7 white on its wingtips, and was three sections. The first consists of April 1999, SMW saw a Franklin’s identified according to the short papers documenting records. Gull moulting into second following features: wings more Photos and descriptions are alternate plumage on the rocky rounded than Laughing Gull, published where appropriate. The shore with several Laughing Gulls which are longer and more second section summarises Larus atricilla at Playa El Chivo, pointed; general coloration paler, records published elsewhere, near the entrance to the Havana not as dark-mantled as Laughing following the format established Tunnel, in eastern Havana City. It Gull. Its dorsal surface was seen in previous issues of Cotinga, and was watched, at 200–260 m, with several times as it flew quite high the third lists unpublished and binoculars for c. 90 minutes and over the water, and the wing-tip undocumented records. Please was seen again there for pattern was very distinct, indicate, with submissions, in approximately the same period appearing paler than Laughing which section you wish your next day. A week later, on 14 April, Gull due to the obvious black and records to appear. another was observed at Playa white bands, the broad outer edge Larga, a tourist resort on the Bay was white with a black subtermi SHORT NOTES of Pigs (Matanzas Province), 162 nal band, bordered on the inner km south-east of Havana city. At side by a white band, which was 10h30, AK, PB and 15 other also very conspicuous. Franklin’s F ra n k lin ’s G u ll Larus pipixcan birdwatchers located a Franklin’s Gull breeds in central North and Mississippi Kite Ictin ia Gull among a tight flock of 10 America and winters primarily mississippiensis new to Cuba Laughing Gulls flying south-west, along the Pacific coast of South Franklin’s Gull Larus pipixcan and in direct comparison could America, south to southern Chile has previously been reported in observe the distinctly smaller (also Galápagos). It is less several West Indian islands: body and wings than Laughing common at this season north to Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, St. Gull. It was apparently an adult Mexico and rare on high Andean Barthelemy and Guadeloupe3. in definitive alternate plumage, lakes in Peru and Bolivia, and Here, we report the first records with a complete black hood and occasionally reaches north to
Field sketches by Peter Burke
101 Cotinga 14 Neotropical Notebook central coastal California and The nest of the Snowy Cotinga es el primer registro de Florida1. Carpodectes nitidus in C o s ta parasitismo de M. bonariensis en Our record of Mississippi Kite R ica el genero Cistothorus3. Ictinia mississippiensis represents The breeding biology of the Snowy El Cucarachero de Pantano es the first for Cuba and the West Cotinga Carpodectes nitidus is un ave endémica de las elevaciones Indies. The only kite that almost unknown1. In April 1999, altas (2400–4000 msnm) de los regularly migrates through Cuba near the village of Canalete, on departamentos de Cundinamarca y is Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides the Atlantic slope of the Cordillera Boyacá (Colombia)1,2 y amenazada forficatus. This observation was de Guanacaste, in north-west de extinción por la acelerada made 17 April 1999, when three Costa Rica near the border with destrucción de su hábitat, individuals were seen by PB and Nicaragua, we found a nest of the conformado por la vegetación 15 participants of a commercial species. It was situated in a emergente de humedales y por birding tour at Boca de Jaruco, 1 leafless tree (known locally as bosques adyacentes de aliso Alnus km west of Rio Jaruco, Havana cabillo or cabejo) in a largely acuminata1. Aunque la presencia province. All three were in first deforested area near a dirt road. de M. bonariensis en los alternate plumage with banded The adjacent tree, apparently of departamentos mencionados no es tails (not all-dark as in adults); the same species, was in a full reciente (J. Hernández com. pers.), pale whitish heads; dull grey leaf, despite it being the dry es posible que sus hábitos underparts; pale, whitish panel on season. The nest was 10–12 m reproductivos sean bastante secondaries; and long, square- above ground and was placed, negativos sobre las poblaciones del tipped tail. They were observed unobtrusively, in a three-pronged Cucarachero de Pantano, como ya soaring and foraging within the tree fork. It appeared unusually se ha documentado para varias smoke from a brush fire beside the small for the size of the bird, and especies en el caribe6. Dado el highway for 30 minutes (see would have gone unnoticed but for tiempo de la observación se sketches). Mississippi Kite breeds the arrival of the female, which descarta la posibilidad de que el in the south-east USA and largely was feeding at least one nestling pichón estuviera siendo winters in central South America, (seen peering from the nest). Air alimentado simultáneamente por where it is principally recorded in temperatures at midday, during varios hospederos, como ha sido Paraguay and northern Argentina; the dry season, are 37–38° , reportado para Molothrus ater1. scattered sight reports exist in making the bird’s choice of an Dado el delicado estado de winter north to south Texas and unshaded location in which to nest conservación del Cucarachero de Florida, but the vast majority lack appear rather unusual. Pantano, es necesario considerar documentation1. al Chamón Maicero como una R e fe re n c e probable amenaza para sus R eferen ces 1. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. poblaciones como también para las 1. American Ornithologists’ (1989) A guide to the birds of de otras especies endémicas que Union (AOU) (1998) Check Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: habitan los humedales como la list of North American birds. Cornell University Press. monjita Agelaius icterocephalus Seventh edition. Lawrence, bogotensis5 y que este factor se Kansas: American Ornitholo Gerald Klebauskas and Amalia debe tener en cuenta en el gists’ Union. Pacheco momento al emprender proyectos 2. Raffaele, H., Wiley, J., Garrido, c/o R.R.2, Box 2821, Factoryville, de investigativos y/o O., Keith, A. & Raffaele, J. PA 18419, USA. conservacionistas en la región. (1998) Birds of the West Indies. London, UK: A. & C. Agradecimientos Black. Prim er registro de parasitismo Al grupo de Ornitología de la reproductivo en el Universidad Nacional junto a Peter Burke Cucarachero de Pantano quienes se visitó el humedal La 13 McKenzie Avenue, London, ON, Cistothorus apolinari p o r el Conejera. A F. Gary Stiles y Jorge N6C 1V1, Canada. Chamón Maicero M o lo th ru s Botero por la revisión del bonariensis manuscrito. Arturo Kirkconnell A principios de marzo de 1999 Museo Nacional de Historia durante 30 minutos una pareja del Referencias Natural, Obispo 61, Plaza de Cucarachero de Pantano 1. Collar, N. J, Gonzaga, L. P., Armas, Habana Vieja, Cuba. Cistothorus apolinari alimentando Krabbe N., Madroño Nieto A., un pichón del Chamón Maicero Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. A. & Steve M. Whitehouse Molothrus bonariensis en la Wege D. C. (1992) Threatened 6 Skipton Crescent, Berkeley vegetación emergente del humedal birds of the Americas: the Pendlesham, Worcester WR4 0LG, La Conejera, Santafé de Bogotá, ICBP/ IUCN Red Data Book. UK. Colombia a 2600 msnm. Este Cambridge, UK: Interna registro coincide con la época tional Council for Bird reproductiva de ambas especies1 y Preservation.
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Figures 1–2. Adult Grey-headed Gull Larus cirrocephalus, San Cristobal, Galápagos, 9 August 1978 (H. Lee Jones)
2. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. among a migrating flock of c.50 feet, and bill deep red; eye yellow; (1986) A guide to the birds of Plumbeous Ictinia plumbea and dusky underwing. Colombia. Princeton: 80 Swallow-tailed Kites Elanoides As the species was not included Princeton University Press. forficatus, 20 km north of El Vigía, in Harris3, I assumed that this 3. Friedmann, H. & Kiff, L. F. south-west Mérida. The light was could represent the first (1985) The parasitic cowbirds from behind us, and the birds Galápagos record, but that it and their hosts. Proc. West. moved slowly over a small hill would turn up in the future, Found. Vertebr. Zool. 4. close to the road we were standing perhaps regularly, as more birders 4. Klein, N. K. & Rosenberg, K. V. on. The Mississippi Kite had a visited this archipelago. When (1986) Feeding of the Brown solid black tail and lacked rufous Castro & Phillips2 was published headed Cowbird (Molothrus wing patches, as did the adjacent in 1996, I was surprised to learn ater) fledglings by more than Plumbeous Kites. I have seen that L. cirrocephalus was still one ‘host’ species. Auk 103: many 100s of these species, with unrecorded in the islands. The 213–214. my field experience of species is ‘recorded very 5. Naranjo, L. G. (1995) Patrones mississippiensis commencing in frequently’ in coastal Ecuador1 de reproducción en dos 1948 and plumbea in 1960. and is ‘fairly common’ in coastal poblaciones aisladas de Peru1. It also is found discontinu- Agelaius icterocephalus (Aves: Richard Ryan ously in eastern South America, Icteridae). Caldasia 86: 89– Neotropic Bird Tours, 38 Brookside along much of the Atlantic coast, 100. Avenue, Livingston, NJ 07039- and in the interior along the 6. Wiley, J. W. (1985) Shiny 4030, USA. Amazon River and its tributaries. Cowbird parasitism in two avian communities in Puerto R eferen ces Rico. Condor 87: 165–176. First record in the Galápagos 1. Butler, Y. (1979) The birds of Islands of Grey-headed Gull Ecuador and the Galápagos J. I. Velásquez-Tibatá, Aquiles Larus cirrocephalus archipelago. Portsmouth, NH: Gutiérrez y Esteban Carillo On 9 August 1978, while visiting Ramphastos Agency. Departamento de Biología, San Cristobal in the Galápagos, I 2. Castro, I. & Phillips, A. (1996) A Universidad Nacional de photographed an adult Grey guide to the birds of the Colombia, Diag. 145a #31-10 headed Gull Larus cirrocephalus Galápagos Islands. Princeton, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia. E- in alternate plumage. It was first NJ: Princeton University Press. mail: [email protected]. seen on the beach and subse 3. Harris, M. P. (1974) The quently in flight. The following Collins field guide to the description is from my field notes: birds of Galápagos. Mississippi Kite Ic tin ia Similar in appearance to Black Lexington: The Stephen mississippiensis in Venezuela headed Gull Larus ridibundus; thin Greene Press. Very few records of Mississippi bill; body size slightly smaller, 4. Parker, T. A., Parker, S. A. & Kite Ictinia mississippiensis are slimmer than Lava Gull L. Plenge, M. A. (1982) An available from northern South fuliginosus with it. White body, pale annotated checklist of America, although the species has (‘ghost’) grey head extending only to Peruvian birds. Vermillion: long been known to winter in the hind crown as in ridibundus; grey Buteo Books. southern part of the continent and mantle (between Ring-billed L. migrate through Central America. delawarensis and California Gull L. H. Lee Jones On 12 September 1999, along with californicus in shade); base of outer 6108 Wildwood Road, Lake Wally and Lois Goldfrank, I primaries white; black wing tips Isa bella, California 93240, USA. observed an adult of this species with white subterminal spots; legs,
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Rediscovery of the Royal R e fere n c e s On 16 June 1997, SKH observed C in clo d e s Cinclodes aricomae 1. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., two Roraiman Flycatchers in B o liv ia Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, L. Myiophobus roraimae within the On a trip, organised by EcoBolivia G., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. understorey of humid montane and Wildlife Conservation Society, A. & Wege D. C. (1992) forest, at 1,050 m, at Cerro Asunta to the recently created Madidi Threatened Birds of the Pata, dpto. La Paz (15°03'S National Park, in November 1997, Americas: the ICBP/IUCN 68°29'W). Single individuals were colleagues and myself followed an Red Data Book. Cambridge, relocated in the same area, by both old mule trail from Pelechuco to UK: International Council for authors, later the same day and Apolo through the Cordillera Bird Preservation. the following morning. They were Apolobamba, The trail ascends 2. Fjeldså, J. & Krabbe, N. (1990) seen well for several minutes at through passes above 4700 m. On Birds of the high Andes. eye level and close range and the stretch between Ucañani and Copenhagen: University of identified by the typical upright shortly after Puina, just before the Copenhagen Zool. Mus. & Myiophobus posture, warm brown descent to the lowlands, several Svendborg: Apollo Books. upperparts and paler olive-grey patches of Polylepis forest that underparts, combined with two had escaped logging and fires Thomas Valqui broad cinnamon-rufous wingbars were noticed, almost hidden by Ap. Postal 18-930. Lima 18, Peru. and conspicuous orange crown- rocky ridges at locations distant E-mail: stripe (highly visible in two from the trail. The largest patches [email protected]. territorial individuals). The single were just above Chullu, at seen in the afternoon of 16 June Ucañani but were inaccessible. was perched at c. 1 m, by a small At one place, c. 3 hours beyond First records of Barred creek within the forest, preening Puina, it was possible to access a P a ra k e e t Bolborhynchus lineola after bathing. Although a slight small isolated patch of Polylepis and Roraiman Flycatcher southerly range extension, the (c. 1 ha). A single Royal Cinclodes M yiophobus roraimae in Bolivia presence of Myiophobus roraimae Cinclodes aricomae was observed During recent fieldwork in in the northern Bolivian Andes is over a period of 20 minutes, Bolivia we observed two species not unexpected as it is known from disappearing into the dense forest not previously reported in the dpto. Puno, south-east Peru7. on three occasions. It flicked country1,6. On 24 June 1996 a However, it appears to be rare and pieces of moss from the ground flock of c. 12 Barred Parakeets local in the Asunta Pata area, beneath Polylepis trees, leaving Bolborhynchus lineola flew low where two previous expeditions obvious marks. An inspection of over humid montane forest, at (Parker & Bailey5 and S. Cardiff the area revealed many fresh 2950 m, along the abandoned and J. V. Remsen in litt.) failed to marks within an undergrowth-free road from Aguirre to El Palmar record the species. Contrary to area of c. 150 m2. The overall size (Serranía de Callejas), Carrasco Ridgely & Tudor7, it was not found of the woodland suggests that the National Park, dpto. Cochabamba in an area with impoverished soil, bird was also using other patches (17°10'S 65°35'W). Subsequently, but in rather tall forest on clayey of forest, although no such areas SKH made tape-recordings of an soil. were visible in the vicinity. unidentified parakeet on the Royal Cinclodes was previously same road on 27 June (3300 m), R efere n c e s known in Bolivia from a specimen 3 July (2550 m) and 13 July 1996 1. Arribas, M. A., Jammes, L. & taken at Tilo Tilo, La Paz depart (2000 m), later identified by N. Sagot, F. (1995) A bird list of ment in 1876. Subsequently, it was Krabbe (in litt.) as Bolborhynchus Bolivia. Santa Cruz: collected at a locality in Puno, Peru, lineola. Prior to this, F. Sagot Armonía. in 1931 and rediscovered elsewhere (pers. comm.) obtained a tape 2. Collar, N. J. (1997) Family in the same country in the 1980s1. It recording of the species, on 4 Psittacidae. In del Hoyo, J., is best known from the area around April 1996, at Abra la Cruz, Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (eds.) Abra Malaga in Cuzco. Considered Amboró National Park, dpto. Handbook of the birds of the highly threatened, due to Polylepis Santa Cruz (17°51'S 64°21'W, in world, 4. Barcelona: Lynx deforestation, its population has humid montane forest at 2100– Edicions. been estimated to be as low as 100– 2450 m). Although no bird was 3. Fjeldså, J. & Krabbe, N. (1990) 1502. The species’ rediscovery in seen, the recording is identical to Birds of the high Andes. Bolivia offers the hope that it may those from Carrasco. SKH’s Copenhagen: University of also be located in other areas. recording of 27 June, as well as Copenhagen Zool. Mus. & Nonetheless, the population in the that of Sagot, is included in Svendborg: Apollo Books. Puina area, may be the only such Mayer4. These records represent a 4. Mayer, S. (2000) Birds of within an officially protected area. significant southern range Bolivia 2.0 (CD-ROM). Furthermore, the protection of these extension for this patchily Westernieland: Bird Songs Polylepis forest cannot be taken for distributed species, which was International. granted; on the contrary, they previously only known from as 5. Parker, T. A. & Bailey, B. remain highly threatened. far south as Cuzco, Peru2,3. (1991) A biological assess-
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ment of the Alto Madidi the winter providing the first Chondestes grammacus at region and adjacent areas of record for the West Indies and Southside on 25 September the northwest Bolivia. RAP second in the Western Hemi fourth Bermudan record; all of Working Papers 1. Washing sphere, while three Grey Herons have been in the 1990s. A Pine ton DC: Conservation A. cinerea also wintered in this Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator at International. area from 11 October onwards. A Fort Scaur on 14 November was 6. Remsen, J. V. & Traylor, M. A. Southern Lapwing Vanellus the fifth record for Bermuda and (1989) An annotated list of chilensis, at Fosters, St. Lucy, on the first for 22 years. An the birds of Bolivia. Vermil 28 July, was the first West Indian Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla , lion, South Dakota: Buteo record. Single Wood Sandpipers on 22 June2,3,6 was an unusual Books. Tringa glareola were also on the summer record. 7. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. island on 25 April and during late (1994) The birds of South November to 14 December 1998, Cuba America, 2. Oxford: Oxford and three Ruff Philomachus Wallace et al.8 report interesting University Press. pugnax also overwintered in records from Cayo Coco, Barbados. On 5 March an Arctic Archipielago de Sabana- Sebastian K. Herzog Skua Stercorarius parasiticus Camagüey (ASC), in 1995–1997. Institut für Vogelforschung, was observed from land. A Little Of principal note were the first Vogelwarte Helgoland, An der Gull Larus minutus, last noted on West Indian record of Black- Vogelwarte 21, 26386 27 December, was possibly also throated Grey Warbler Wilhelmshaven, Germany; and the first West Indies record, while Dendroica nigrescens (photo Casilla 632, Cochabamba, Bolivia. a Great Black-backed Gull L. graphed on 17 October 1997) and E-mail: marinus on 13 December was the first Cuban occurrence of Hermit [email protected]. sixth island record. Finally a Thrush Catharus guttatus Canada Warbler Wilsonia (immature trapped on 25 Michael Kessler canadensis trapped on 31 October December 1995). Other significant A.-v.-Haller-Institut für was the first island and third Cuban records included: the Pflanzenwissenschaften, Untere Lesser Antilles record5. fourth record of Audubon’s Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri Germany. Bermuda (found dead on 27 February 1996), All records refer to 1999. A the eighth record of Hooded Common Teal Anas crecca of the Merganser Mergus cucullatus PUBLISHED RECORDS Eurasian race was at Marsh Lane (two females on 29 November to FROM THE LITERATURE on 20 April, and a Gull-billed early December 1996), the largest Tern Gelochelidon nilotica, at numbers of Piping Plover CARIBBEAN Warwick Pond on 8 March was an Charadrius melodus thus far exceptional spring record. A reported in Cuba, the tenth record Bahamas Virginia Rail Rallus limicola on of American Oystercatcher An immature Black-headed Gull Long Island on 6 June was the Haematopus palliatus (one Larus ridibundus at Cable Beach, first summer record in Bermuda. photographed on 7 June 1995), the New Providence on 20–21 January An American Robin Turdus 10–11th records of Whimbrel 1999 was the third record for the migratorius, at Jenningsland on Numenius phaeopus, three reports island group. A Great Black- 17 July–6 August, was also an of Red Knot Calidris canutus, all backed Gull L. marinus on New exceptional record for summer. A involving flocks of 15–49 birds Providence on 2–6 March 1998 was probable Black-necked Grebe (five previous records in Cuba), the fifth record for the Bahamas. Podiceps nigricollis was seen at the sixth record of Dunlin C. Rarer was a Red-bellied Spittal Pond on 7 November; this alpina (four photographed on 20 Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus species has only been recorded January 1997), the 8–9th record of at West End, Grand Bahama, on 15 once previously. A probable Pomarine Skua Stercorarius February 1999, the first record for Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope pomarinus (juvenile on 17 the West Indies5. A Chuck-will’s- was on Nonsuch Island on 10 January 1997), the ninth record of widow Caprimulgus carolinensis November. Two Curlew Great Crested Flycatcher discovered incubating two eggs, on Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea Myiarchus crinitus (one on 10 Grand Bahama, on 1 June 1999 is (the 6–7th records) were present November 1995), the sixth record the first breeding record for the on 17 September–1 October. A of Wood Thrush Hylocichla West Indies6. Ruff Philomachus pugnax arrived mustelina (one trapped and Barbados in early September and was observed on 8–10 February 1997), present until at least 26 the third record of Orange- All reports refer to 1998. A crowned Warbler Vermivora Purple Heron Ardea purpurea, September. An American celata (one trapped on 29 initially located at Graeme Hall Woodcock Scolopax minor was flushed at Southampton on 28 November 1995), a total of 77 swamp in autumn, remained for October. A Lark Sparrow individuals of Swainson’s
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Warbler Limnothlypis swainsoni, OTHER RECORDS 12 November 1997, and two 2–3 Kentucky Warblers RECEIVED American Redstarts Setophaga Oporornis formosus during 20 ruticilla, at Putre, Tarapacá December 1995 to 23 February Belize province, on 22 November 1997 1996, the seventh record of LJ and JA closely observed a male (MF). Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria Hermit Warbler Dendroica virens (one trapped on 22 occidentalis, in alternate plumage, Cuba November 1995), and the fourth at Hidden Valley Falls, Mountain A number of interesting records record of Chipping Sparrow Pine Ridge, Cayo District, on 23 were made during 1999 and early Spizella Passerina (one on 20 March 2000. This is only the 2000 (all AK, GMK et al. unless November 1996). second Belize record. otherwise stated). Dates refer to 1999 unless otherwise stated. A Dominican Republic Bolivia Giant Kingbird Tyrannus The second record of Dunlin MH informs us of the following. A cubensis was at Hacienda La Vega, Calidris alpina involved two at Green-backed Becard west of Trinidad, on 30 October, Las Salinas, Bahia de Las Pachyramphus viridis at Trinidad the first record in Sancti Spiritus Calderas, on 28 December 19985. on 19 September 1998 is the first province for several decades. record in Beni Department, and a Other reports involve the Jamaica Rusty-necked Piculet Picumnus following scarce migrants: single A Spotted Rail Pardirallus fuscus at Cutal Lodge, Beni, on 18 Blue-winged Warblers maculatus, heard at Caymanas September 1998 appears to Vermivora pinus at Pálpite, Ponds west of Kingston in January represent a small range extension. Zapata, on 15 February and near 1999, was apparently only the Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Bermejas, Zapata, on 9 February second island record this decade5. Anairetes alpinus is still present 2000, singles of Swainson’s in the Choquetanga Valley; in Thrush Catharus ustulatus and CENTRAL AMERICA 1998, up to two were seen on 13 Wilson’s Warbler Wilsonia and 15 September. Additional pusilla in Parque Ahnendares, La Belize records of Mississippi Kite Habana on 25 October (GMK, A Long-billed Starthroat Ictinia mississippiensis in the RPM, JP), single Hooded Heliomaster longirostris seen 0.5 country involved c. 200 between Warblers W. citrina at El Cenote, mile south of Mile 40 on the Santa Rosa de La Roca to San Zapata, on 13–14 February and on Western Highway, on private Javier, Santa Cruz, in mid-October Cayo Coco, on 6 April 2000 (GMK, property, probably in November, 1999, and 2000 in the southern FR), a Kentucky Warbler was well described and appears to part of Noel Kempff Mercado Oporornis formosus near Playa be the first country record of this National Park, 25 km north of Girón, Zapata, on 26 October, a species1. Santa Rosa de La Roca, on 8 Scarlet Tanager Piranga November 1999 (DR). olivacea in the same area on 27 Costa Rica October, and a Pomarine Skua Stercorarius pomarinus, Eastern The second country record of Brazil Common Teal Anas crecca Two additional reports (about the Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus, Prothonotary Warbler involved a male at Finca Las fourth and fifth country records) Concavas (between Cartago and of Mississippi Kite Ictinia Protonotaria citrea and Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius, on Cayo Paraiso), on 4 January 2000. mississippiensis from the Three Southern Lapwings Pantanal are as follows: c. 20 over Paredón Grande, on 1 November. Vanellus chilensis were reported the Transpantaneira, between Records in 2000 included the 13th Cuban record of Bananaquit in the San Isidro area on 13 Poconé and the rio Pixiam on 12 March 2000, one of the very few October 1999 and a total of 63 at Coereba flaveola, present on the last-named cay on 14 February. A records in Costa Rica4. Chapada dos Guimarães on 14 October 1999 (PO). Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus was on Cayo SOUTH AMERICA Romano, from 5 April to at least Chile mid-month (AJ, AK et al.; video Brazil A breeding-plumaged Hooded taped), several Whimbrels Three Great Blue Herons Ardea Grebe Podiceps gallardoi was Numenius phaeopus on Cayo herodias on the Anavilhanas observed c. 10 km east of Porvenir, Guillermo, during 26 March to 6 Archipelago, on 20 October 1997, Region XII, on 30 October 1997. April (AG et a l., GMK, FR), two were the first country record7. There is only one previous Upland Sandpipers Bartramia published report from the country longicauda at Bermejas, on 24 (see Cotinga 11: 100). Other March (GMK et al.), with another interesting reports include two in the Sierra de Cubitas, Ciego de Bank Swallows Riparia riparia Ávila, on 25 March, and a Black at Laguna El Peral, Valparaiso, on
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billed Cuckoo Coccyzus from Mindo include a Collared References erythropthalmus (the third Cuban Plover Charadrius collaris, on 11 1. Anon. (1999) Long-billed record) on Cayo Coco, on 27 March March 1995, and an adult male Starthroat (Heliomaster (per AG). Five Sand Martins Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica longirostris) reported by Riparia riparia migrated past striata, on 10 March 1995 (MF). Philip Balderamos. Belize Miramar, La Habana, on 31 March Audubon Soc. Newsletter 31 (GMK). Another Orchard Oriole Guatemala (3): 10. was at La Güira National Park, WWP reports and describes, the 2. Dobson, A. (1999) Spring and Pinar del Rio, on 16 April (AJ, AK first Bonaparte’s Gull Larus summer bird report. Ber et al.). Philadelphia for the country, at muda Audubon Soc. Newslet Livingston, on the Caribbean ter 10(2): 2. Ecuador coast, on 30 December 1999. 3. Dobson, A. (1999) Fall Bird The following records from 1999, Report (Sept. to Nov.). by PA and OJ, are of species new Mexico Bermuda Audubon Soc. for the Podocarpus National Park TLE reports a Ross’s Goose Anser Newsletter 10 (3): 2. bird list: a male Black-throated rossii at La Pesca, Tamaulipas in 4. Garrigues, R. (2000) The Gone Brilliant Heliodoxa schreibersii November 1999. At Puerto Birding Newsletter 1 (1). between río Bombuscaro and Peñasco, Sonora on 22–23 5. Norton, R. (1999) West Indies Zamora, on 5–6 October; two November 1999 there was a region. North Amer. Birds 53: White-tailed Hillstar Urochroa Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus 214–215. bougueri c. 5 km upstream from at Shrimp Pond, a flock of 20 6. Norton, R. (1999) West Indies the park headquarters on 15 Hooded Mergansers Mergus region. North Amer. Birds 53: October; a Mouse-colored cucullatus at the sewage pond and 436–437. Tyrannulet Phaeomyias murina three Oldsquaws Clangula 7. Parkes, K. C. (1998) First at La Fragrancia, on the Loja– hyemalis at Pelican Point (all SG). record of the Great Blue Zamora road, c. 10 km from Heron for Brazil. Colonial Zamora, at c. 1100 m, on 12 St Lucia Waterbirds 21: 89–90. October; a male Scarlet-breasted A male Scarlet Tanager Piranga 8. Wallace, G. E., Wallace, E. A. Fruiteater Pipreola frontalis olivacea, the sixth island record, H., Froehlich, D. R., near the park headquarters on 15 was reported on 18 April 2000 Kirkconnell, A., Torres, E. S., October; an Andean Slaty (JG). Carlisle, H. & Machell, E. Thrush Turdus nigriceps near río (1999) Hermit Thrush and Bombuscaro headquarters on 16 Acknowledgements Black-throated Gray Warbler, October (OJ only); and several Thanks are due to the following new for Cuba, and other records of Guira Tanager who forwarded or commented on significant bird records from Hemithraupis guira in the río records: John Abbott (JA), Pablo Cayo Coco and vicinity, Ciego Bombuscaro and La Fragrancia Andrade (PA), Dalcio Dacol, de Avila province, Cuba, areas. In addition, a female Little Andrew Dobson, Ted Eubanks 1995–1997. Florida Field Woodstar Acestura bombus was (TLE), Martin Flack (MF), Juan Nat. 27: 37–51. seen at flowering Inga trees on 5– Fernando Freile (JFF), Steve 6 October and records of six other Ganley (SG), Jeff Gerbracht (JG), species were apparently new for Alan Greensmith (AG), Mike the río Bombuscaro section of the Hunter (MH), Ottavio Janni (OJ), park. A Rufous-browed Alvaro Jaramillo (AJ), Lee Jones Tyrannulet Phylloscartes (LJ), Arturo Kirkconnell (AK), superciliaris was reported with a Guy M. Kirwan (GMK), Bruce W. mixed-species flock at Miller, Rod Martins (RPM), Bombuscaro, on 23 March 1995 Patricia O’Neill (PO), W. W. Plomp (MF). (WWP), J. Price (JP), Firdous Raja On 2 September 1997 a Cliff (FR), David Ricalde (DR) and Swallow Hirundo pyrrhonota was Barry Wright. collected by H. Oñate and JFF in Mindo town (00°05'S 78°46'W, at Neotropical Notebook: compiled c. 1300 m) and deposited in the by Juan Mazar Barnett and QCAZ Zoology Museum of the Guy M. Kirwan. Pontifi cia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (QCAZ 1489). This is a new altitudinal record for this boreal migrant, previously known largely from tropical areas below 1000 m. Other interesting records
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Neotropical Notebook contains Cyanerpes cyaneus is one of the Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis three sections. The first consists few introduced passerines to have episcopus of short papers documenting become established in Cuba. This One on the east edge of Naranjo records. Photos and descriptions beautiful species, easy to capture town (22°31'N 99°18'W) on 8 are published where appropriate. due to its flocking behaviour, is January 1997 was in good feather The second section summarises mainly frugivorous and thus condition, reducing the likelihood records published elsewhere, comparatively easily kept in cages that it was a released cage bird. It following the format established at sea. Its disjunct distribution in appeared healthy, foraging in the in previous issues of Cotinga, and Cuba3 may suggest that more top of a small papaya and later the third lists unpublished and than one introduction occurred. flying to a nearby utility line. undocumented records. Please The citation above provides a Howell & Webb6 list the species indicate, with submissions, in plausible origin for its presence in for the Xilitla, SLP but not which section you wish your Cuba. further north. This record extends records to appear. the range, as depicted in Howell References & Webb6, north by c. 130 km. It SHORT NOTES 1. American Ornithologists’ was recorded on the El Naranjo Union (1998) Check-list of CBC in 19744 (two) and was North American birds. reported in 19813 (during CBC W as Red-legged Seventh edition. Lawrence, week) and 19947 (seven), Honeycreeper C yanerpes Kansas: American Ornitholo indicating that the species occurs cyaneus carneipes in C u b a gists’ Union. irregularly in north-east SLP, introduced from Mexico? 2. Passuth, L. (1975) El Dios de rather than being a vagrant there. The Aparecido de San Diego, or la lluvia llora sobre México. It is an easily identified species Azulito Cyanerpes cyaneus, as it is La Habana: Ed. Arte y Lit. and the omission of the 1974 and known in Cuba, is a well- 3. Raffaele, H., Wiley, J., Garrido 1981 CBC sightings from Howell established introduction, being O., Keith, A. & Raffaele, J. & Webb6 is an apparent oversight. common in Sierra del Rosario and (1998) Birds of the West Northward range extensions by Sierra de La Güira, Pinar del Río Indies. London, UK: A. & C. species characteristic of disturbed province, and scattered localities Black. lowland tropical forest have been throughout Cuba, but is unknown documented for several Mexican from the Isle of Pines1. I have Orlando H. Garrido birds5,6. compared long series of specimens Museo de Historia Natural, from Cuba with those from Obispo 61, Habana Vieja, Cuba. Yellow-winged Tanager elsewhere, and consider the Thraupis abbas Cuban population to unequivo First observed by the author and cally belong to C. c. carneipes. This New distributional records of Greg Griffiths on 30 December suggests its presence in Cuba has two tanagers in Mexico 1990 on the Gómez Farias CBC. A been insufficiently long to produce Using the detailed distributional flock of 34 individuals was near morphological differentiation. The maps provided by Howell & Webb6 villa Julio (23°08'N 99°12'W), origin of its introduction is field workers in Mexico can which is c. 15 km by air north unknown. readily determine possible range west of Gómez Farias, Tamps. I Passuth2 notes that Diego extensions. The two tanagers also observed it at Rancho El Velázquez, governor of Cuba in below were observed during visits Cielito (23°07’N 99°09’W), c.10 km 1915–1919, instructed Juan de to Tamaulipas (Tamps.) and San north of Gómez Farias, in 1995 Grijalba to visit Mexico and bring Luis Potosí (SLP) with students (16 birds) and 1997 (10 individu goods to the island. On their return, from Baker University in als). This species was reported on these expeditions docked in Havana midwinter 1990-1997. Coordi the first Gómez Farias CBC in Bay, Trinidad and Santiago de nates and geographical 19728 and has been seen on every Cuba. The first trip that anchored descriptions are presented for such CBC since, with a maximum in Havana Bay was described thus each sighting. In addition, of 141 individuals in 19761, but ‘The seven small brigantines … Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) usually 2–4 are seen. The author disembarked their load in small conducted at El Naranjo, SLP and also observed the species at El chalupas consisting of bundles and Gómez Farias, Tamps, since 1972 Salto, SLP (22°35'N 99°23W), c. 10 barrels of spice, unknown birds in were examined for records of km north-east of Naranjo: three cages, tanned furs’. these species. on 19 January 1992 and singles on
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1 January 1996 and 9 January Luis Potosí, Mexico. National was relatively straightforward. 1997. It was reported on the first Audubon Soc. Field Notes 49: The grey (not buff-yellow) breast, El Naranjo, SLP CBC in 19722 838–839. blackish cap, whitish (not yellow) and all but three censuses until 8. Webster, F. (1973) Christmas supercilium, and not especially 1994, with a maximum of 75 in Bird Count Gomez Farias, brightly coloured underparts that year7, but most years 3–6 Tamaulipas, Mexico. Amer. combine to eliminate juvenile were reported. Howell & Webb6 Birds 27: 537–538. Pacific Golden-Plover. Most record the species’ presence in the importantly, the long primary Xilitla area, but not further north. Roger L. Boyd extension, probably the single The records above are the first for Biology Dept.. P.O. Box 65, Baker most important field mark1, Tamaulipas and extend its range University, Baldwin City, KS, clearly established the bird as north by c. 200 km. The species is 66006, USA, E-mail: American Golden-plover. apparently common in winter as [email protected]. The 29 November date is fully far as the area north of Gómez a month or more later than all Farias. It is easily identified and previous autumn records in these CBC sightings were A late November American Mexico2. Nevertheless, it may not apparently omitted from Howell Golden-Plover P luvialis have been wintering locally, as & Webb6 by oversight. d o m in ic a in west Mexico autumn migrants in California American Golden-plover Pluvialis have been noted until 24–25 Acknowledgements dominica is rare on the west coast November, in 1977 at Goleta3, and I wish to acknowledge financial of North America, mainly tardy migrants in the eastern assistance from Baker University encountered during autumn USA have perhaps remained into that supported the January migration. In Mexico, at this early December4. Even so, given student expeditions. I also wish to season, it is considered probably a the tendency for some to winter in thank my able field companions, rare to uncommon transient (mid- the eastern USA and the in particular Jan L. Boyd, Jon J. August through October) relatively hospitable clime of Boyd, Christa Edwards, Norma throughout but with ‘few specific coastal Nayarit, the San Bias Gallegos, Greg Griffiths, Scott records’2. As the species winters individual was potentially the Kimball, Kristen Mitchell, and principally in South America, it is first American Golden-plover Jeff Rupert. The manuscript was seldom encountered in North attempting to winter in Mexico. improved by comments from Town America after mid-October. There Peterson and Mark Robbins. are several winter records in the Acknowledgements eastern United States4 but all I thank Steve N. G. Howell and References wintering golden-plovers on the Paul E. Lehman for helpful 1. Arvin, J. & Webster, F. (1977) west coast have been Pacific discussion on the status of Christmas Bird Count Gomez Golden-plover P. fulva. American Golden-Plover in Farias, Tamaulipas, Mexico. On 29 November 1999, I western North America. Amer. Birds 31: 896-897. photographed an American 2. Feltner, B. (1973) Christmas Golden-Plover at San Blas, References Bird Count El Naranjo, San Nayarit, Mexico, which Brenda D. 1. Dunn, J. L., Morlan, J. & Luis Potosí, Mexico. Amer. Smith and I watched for 30 Wilds, C. P. (1987) Field Birds 27: 536–537. minutes with a small flock of identification of forms of 3. Feltner, B. (1982) Christmas Grey Plovers P. squatarola at Lesser Golden-Plover. In Bird Count El Naranjo, San Chacalilla shrimp ponds. It was Grant, P. J., Sharrock, J. T. R., Luis Potosí, Mexico. Amer. distinctly smaller than the latter Taggar, S. & Shirihai, H. Birds 36: 768–769. (Fig. 1), with a thinner bill, (eds.) International bird 4. Feltner, B. & Emanuel, V. especially at the tip. Its plumage identification. Eilat: Proc. 4th (1975) Christmas Bird Count was fresh, without signs moult or Internat. Identification El Naranjo, San Luis Potosí, heavy wear. Breast grey, lacking Meeting. Mexico. Amer. Birds 29: 593– distinct buff or yellow tones. 2. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. 594. Broad whitish supercilium, (1995) A guide to the birds of 5. Gómez de Silva G., H. (1998) contrasting with distinctively Mexico and northern Central Distributional and temporal blackish crown. Mantle dark grey, America. Oxford: Oxford records of some Mexican heavily spangled yellow and University Press. birds. Cotinga 9: 16–20. white. Long wings distinctive (Fig. 3. Lehman, P. E. (1994) The birds 6. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. 2), with five primary tips visible of Santa Barbara County, (1995) A guide to the birds of beyond longest tertial. California. Santa Barbara: Mexico and northern Central Underwings wholly grey, lacking Vert. Mus., University of America. Oxford: Oxford black axillaries. No calls heard. California. University Press. Field identification of P. 4. Paulson, D. R. & Lee, D. S. 7. Jackson, N. (1995) Christmas dominica versus P. fulva can be (1992) Wintering of Lesser Bird Count El Naranjo, San problematic, but the San Blas bird Golden-Plovers in eastern
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Figure 1. American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica (le ft) Figure 2. American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica , San with Grey Plover P. squatarola (right), San Blas, Nayarit, Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, 29 November 1999. Note white Mexico, 29 November 1999. Note smaller size and supercilium, grey breast, and long prim ary extension thinner bill of the golden-plover (Michael A. Patten) (Michael A, Patten)
North America. J. Field Orn. 22 December 1985 during the the status of Cassin’s Kingbird in 63: 121–128. Belize City Christmas Bird Count Belize was unknown by Lasley, (CBC) and during the 1986 Belize who is very familiar with the Michael A. Patten City CBC. Here, we describe the species, but visiting the country Department of Biology, University first fully documented record of for the first time. Upon learning of California, Riverside, California Cassin’s Kingbird in Belize. that the species was undocu 92521, USA. On 22 December 1999, an mented for the country, a full apparent adult Cassin’s Kingbird description of the bird was made. was discovered by Lasley during The bird was relocated in the Cassin’s Kingbird T yran n u s the Gallon Jug CBC in the same area at c. 14h45, when vo cifera n s d o cu m en ted in Orange Walk District of north several additional observers, B elize west Belize. It was initially including Paul Wood and Jeff Cassin’s Kingbird Tyrannus observed at c. 11h30, frequenting a Gordon, were present and it was vociferans is a common summer fence at the west end of the studied at leisure through resident from Wyoming south airstrip and loosely associating telescopes for c. 10 minutes. Wood through the western USA to the with several Tropical Kingbirds and Gordon, professional birding highlands of Mexico as far south Tyrannus melancholicus, Fork guides familiar with the Gallon as Oaxaca. It winters through tailed T. savana and Scissor-tailed Jug area, concurred with the much of west and central Mexico Flycatchers T. forficatus. The identification. In addition, it was with some reports in Guatemala fence separated a cattle pasture noted (during direct comparison) and a very few in Honduras1. from a two-lane dirt road. An Miller & Miller4 summarise approximately 25-m grass verge several sight reports of the flanked the road opposite a species in Belize, but consider all habitat mosaic of tropical moist as requiring verification. Lee forest, a shade-coffee plantation Jones (pers. comm.) provided and fallow agricultural fields. The another summary of sight reports Cassin’s Kingbird was initially of Cassin’s Kingbird for Belize noted in flight, when its back and and confirmed the lack of a tail were noted as distinctly documented record, as do Howell2, darker than the Tropical Howell & Webb3 and Miller & Kingbirds common in the area. It Miller5. was observed at length from These undocumented reports c. 25 m: the uniformly dark-grey are as follows: W. P. Nickell breast was obvious, as was a clean banded thousands of birds in the white, sharply delineated chin Stann Creek District, including patch; the tail had a squared tip, two reported Cassin’s Kingbirds not notched as is usual in Tropical in 1960, and singles in 1961, 1962 Kingbird; the belly was yellow and and 19634. Walters6 reported the legs dark, while the back was banding one in 1985 near Belize greyish olive, not greenish olive as Figure 1. Cassin’s Kingbird Tyrannus City, which was disputed by in Tropical Kingbird. vocife rans, Gallon Jug, Orange W alk, Howell2. Singles were reported on During the initial observation, Belize, 22 December 1999 (Greg W . La sle y)
60 C o tin g a 1 5 Neotropical Notebook that the bill was noticeably America. Oxford: Oxford Half Moon Cay and the type- shorter than Tropical Kingbird, University Press. specimen on 2 January 1907 at and that the tail was dark brown 4. Miller, B. W. & Miller, C. M. Toledo Settlement near Punta to blackish with a very pale tip (1998) Ornithology in Belize Gorda. The latter is the only and pale edges to the outer since 1960. Wilson Bull. 110: record for south Belize. Here, we rectrices. A Scissor-tailed 544–558. elaborate on the status of C. Flycatcher harassed the Cassin’s 5. Miller, B. W. & Miller, C. M. badius as reported by England2, Kingbird, whereupon it gave a (1998) Birds of Belize: a ‘fairly common’ along New River loud, burry kbeeeer immediately checklist. Belize City: Belize in north-central Belize in recognisable as a typical Audubon Society. December-May, ‘while a small vocalisation of the species. Eight 6. Walters, R. (1993) Some number of individuals can be photographs of the bird were records of birds from Belize, found on most nights through the obtained. Central America, including rest of the year’. Bruce & Carolyn Miller also three first records. Bull. Brit. saw the Cassin’s Kingbird on 26 Orn. Club 113: 145–147. Methods December at c. 09h30, on the same Field studies have been conducted fence. It was immediately Greg W. Lasley along New River Lagoon at recognisable by its darker 305 Loganberry Court, Austin, Lamanai since late 1998. The coloration. They observed it for Texas 78745-6527, USA. E-mail: study area and methods for the c. 15 minutes using binoculars. As [email protected]. landbird programme are it moved from fence to fence, its described in England2. Opportuni field marks and darker coloration Bruce & Carolyn Miller ties to census nocturnal species provided a ready contrast with Gallon Jug, c/o Box 37, Belize along New River are possible those of the Tropical Kingbirds City, Belize, Central America. E- during Lamanai Outpost Lodge’s using the fences. Further mail: [email protected]. spotlight river safari, which takes photographic documentation was a small number of lodge guests at obtained. On subsequent visits night on the New River and its over the next week, it was not Notes on the status of tributaries. These trips are encountered, but on 2 March 2000 Yucatan Nightjar Caprimulgus operated almost nightly. C. badius Victor Emanuel and Barry b a d iu s along the New River, was easily detected on these trips, Zimmer located a Cassin’s Orange W alk District, Belize as was Common Pauraque Kingbird in the same area and Yucatan Nightjar Caprimulgus Nyctidromus albicollis and obtained additional photographs, badius has been the subject of Northern Potoo Nyctibius as well as tape-recordings of its much taxonomic and distribu jamaicensis. Yucatan Poorwill vocalisations. It is presumed that tional confusion since its Nyctiphrynus yucatanicus was the March observation was of the description. Endemic to the also present, but not typically same wintering individual. Yucatán, including Cozumel, its near the water’s edge. Identifica winter movements and distribu tion of C. badius was based upon Acknowledgements tion south through Belize and Howell3 and Howell & Webb4. We thank Mark Lockwood, Steve northern Honduras (one record) Spotlighting trips usually began Howell, Cheryl Johnson and Lee are poorly understood1,3. at 20h00 and occupied c. 2 hours, Jones for reviewing earlier drafts Difficulties in detection and using a 1.5 million candlepower of this note and making many identification of silent birds, and a halogen spotlight, which permits helpful comments and sugges lack of nocturnal field work, any species with a reflective tions. coupled with erroneous records eye-shine to be spotted at distances perpetuated in the literature, in excess of 100 m. Under these References have made seasonal movements conditions, caprimulgids may often 1. American Ornithologists’ hard to interpret3,4. be specifically identified by Union (1998) Check-list of Howell & Webb4 consider C. eye-shine color (R. Arevalo pers. North American birds. badius to breed in Yucatán south comm.; pers. obs.), but the Seventh edition. Lawrence, to Ambergris Caye, wintering in reliability of this feature requires Kansas: American Ornitholo eastern Belize, south through further testing. Once a bird was gists’ Union. extreme eastern Guatemala and located, the boat was manoeuvred 2. Howell, S. N. G. (1995) A north-west Honduras. Howell3 close enough to allow everyone to critique of Walters’ (1993) reviewed its status in Belize, see it. This distance depends on new bird records from Belize. where the few published records the species and— in the guide’s Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 115: are in January–March (winter experience — its likelihood of 177–180. and migration), although breeding flushing. Every effort was made to 3. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. can be expected in the extreme reduce disturbance to a minimum (1995) A guide to the birds of north. Russell5 cited two and caprimulgids were often Mexico and northern Central specimens from Belize: one approached to within several collected 28 February 1958 on metres.
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Results and discussion and Lamanai Outpost Lodge Skutch4 recorded consumption of a Caprimulgids have not been the supported our research. The small lizard by T. bairdii. Stiles & focus of research at Lamanai. Forestry Department of the Skutch5 report that Pharomachrus While numbers of C. badius Ministry of Natural Resources mocinno, T. massena and T. observed per night were only and the Environment, Belize, clathratus) eat frogs and lizards. infrequently recorded through permitted field work along New Black-headed Trogon Trogon September 1999, the species’ River. Lee Jones, Bruce & Carolyn melanocephalus is a common presence or absence was recorded Miller, and Andrew Vallely made resident of tropical and subtropi nightly. Highest counts were helpful comments on an earlier cal forests, and disturbed areas, during January 1999 when a draft. This is ornithology from southern Mexico to northern minimum of 12 was recorded per contribution number 6 of Lamanai Costa Rica1. On 29 May 1999, in night. Lowest numbers were in Field Research Center. the Lamanai Archaeological June-September, when the Reserve, Belize (17°45'N 88°39W), maximum count is six on 13 References we observed an adult male T. September 1999. Otherwise, the 1. American Ornithologists’ melanocephalus with a dead maximum count is two, but at Union (1998) Check-list of lizard (Anolis sp.; total length = least one was found most nights North American birds. c/ 10 cm) in its bill. It perched throughout the year. Seventh edition. Lawrence, motionless for c. 30 seconds, in full It is possible that C. badius Kansas: American Ornitholo view at a distance of c. m, at head breeds along New River, although gists’ Union. height. We did not see it obtain no juveniles have been recorded. 2. England, M. C. (2000) The the lizard, nor were we able to Vallely & Whitman6 report fewer Landbird Monitoring follow it to witness the lizard’s than ten records at Hill Bank, on Programme at Lamanai, eventual disposition. Although the south-west shore of New Belize: a preliminary this observation does not prove River Lagoon. More specifically, assessment. Cotinga 13: 32– that T. melanocephalus feeds on Vallely (pers. comm.) noted 43. vertebrate prey, this is the first records of five singles from the 3. Howell, S.N.G. (1997) reported evidence that this vicinity of Hill Bank, between 18 Photospot: Yucatan Nightjar species may supplement its diet February and 27 March, but Caprimulgus badius. Cotinga in this manner. nocturnal field work there has 8: 86–87. been purely opportunistic (A. 4. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. Acknowledgements Vallely pers. comm.). Night trips (1995) A guide to the birds of We thank Mark and Monique by MCE and BC to Hill Bank to Mexico and northern Central Howells, the Lamanai Outpost survey Morelet’s Crocodile America. Oxford: Oxford Lodge, and Lamanai Field Crocodylus moreletii have failed University Press. Research Center for supporting to produce C. badius. There is also 5. Russell, S. M. (1964) A our fieldwork, while SGP thanks only one record of C. badius along distributional study of the the Wildlife Conservation Society the lagoon shore north of birds of British Honduras. for its support. Our research Lamanai, and only one record Orn. Monogr. 1. would not be possible without the from Dawson Creek. None of 6. Vallely, A. C. & Whitman, A. A. cooperation of the Ministry of these areas have been sampled as (1997) The birds of Hill Bank, Natural Resources and Environ intensively as New River. northern Belize. Cotinga 8: ment and Department of We tentatively conclude that 39–49. Archaeology, Government of the New River watershed Belize. Robert C. Beason, Linnea constitutes the southernmost Marcus C. England, Benjamin Hall and two anonymous point of the summer range — and Cruz and Carlos Godoy reviewers made helpful comments possibly breeding range — of C. c/o Lamanai Field Research Center, on the manuscript. This is badius. Other areas with similar P. O. Box 63, Orange Walk, Belize. ornithology contribution number riparian forest habitat in 7 of the Lamanai Field Research northern Belize should be Center. surveyed for the species in the Possible consumption of a summer to clarify its range. lizard by a Black-headed References Increased effort to thoroughly T ro g o n Trogon melanocephalus 1. American Ornithologists’ document the species’ numbers Remsen et al.3 noted that trogons Union (1998) Check-list of should help elucidate its status as have a mixed diet of fruit and North American birds. a non-breeding summer resident arthropods, or feed primarily on Seventh edition. Lawrence, or confirm expectations3 that this fruit. Few exceptions to this have Kansas: American Ornitholo species may breed in north Belize. been reported for New World gists’ Union. Trogonidae. Within the genus 2. Haverschmidt, F. (1968) Birds Acknowledgements Trogon, Haverschmidt2 reports at of Suriname. Edinburgh: Mark & Monique Howells, the least one record of foraging on a Oliver & Boyd. Lamanai Field Research Center small lizard by T. viridis, while 3. Remsen, J. V, Hyde, M. A. &
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Chapman, A. (1993) The diets International (Conservation individuals and paler in others. of Neotropical trogons, Series 4). Sides of neck and backs lacked motmots, barbets, and 2. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & any pale coloration’. toucans. Condor 95: 178–192. Sargatal, J. (eds.) (1994) Juvenile and immature White- 4. Skutch, A. F. (1983) Birds of Handbook of the birds of the collared Swifts Streptoprocne tropical America. Austin: world, 2. Barcelona: Lynx zonaris always possess a white University of Texas Press. Edicions. collar3, which eliminates the 5. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. 3. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. possibility of confusion between it (1989) A guide to the birds of (1986) A guide to the birds of and C. lemosi, in addition to the Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: Colombia. Princeton, NJ: differences in size, silhouette and Cornell University Press. Princeton University Press. behaviour. The juvenile plumage 4. Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. of C. lemosi is unknown3 and my Marcus C. England J., Long, A. J. & Wege, D. C. suggestion that the wholly black Dept. of Biology, University of (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of individuals were such is based on Missouri– St Louis, 8001 Natural the world: priorities for their behaviour pattern and Bridge Road, St Louis MO 63121, biodiversity conservation. silhouette, although it is possible USA. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife that they were another International (Conservation Cypseloides species. Thomas R. Rainwater Series 7). The Institute of Environmental Acknowledgements and Human Health, Department Ralf Strewe Chris Canaday and Viviana Caro of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech. Institut für Biogeographie, translated the text from Spanish. University, Box 41163, Lubbock, Zentrum für Umweltforschung, TX. 79409-1163, USA. E-mail: 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany. References [email protected]. 1. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, Steven G. Platt W hite-chested Swift L. G., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, Wildlife Conservation Society, P. O. Cypseloides lemosi in w e s t T. A. & Wege D. C. (1992) Box 1620, Phnom Penh, Cambo E cuador? Threatened birds of the dia. E-mail: [email protected]. On 13 April 1997, P. Gastezzi and Americas: the ICBP/IUCN I observed 15 swifts with the Red Data Book. Cambridge, features of White-chested Swift UK: International Council for First record of Rufous-headed Cypseloides lemosi. This species, Bird Preservation. Chachalaca O rtalis originally known only from 2. Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & erythroptera for Colombia Colombia, has recently been Stattersfield, A. J. (1994) Five Rufous-headed Chachalaca sighted in east Ecuador1,2,4 as far Birds to watch 2: the world Ortalis erythroptera in coastal west as Cordillera de los list of threatened birds. Nariño, on 22 December 1999, is Huacamayos, Napo Province Cambridge, UK: BirdLife the first record for Colombia. They (BLL, 17 October 1998, unpubl.) International. (Conservation were observed during a boat and Archidona on the Loreto road, Series 4). excursion on a branch of the río Napo1. Our sighting in coastal 3. Marín, M. & Stiles, G. (1992) Mira, c. 15 km south-west of Ecuador, at almost sea level, c. 35 On the biology of five species Tumacó, at a forest border within km from Bahía de Caráquez, of swifts (Apodidae, an area of tropical lowland forest Manabí province, appears to he Cypseloidinae) in Costa Rica. and patches of mangrove. This the first record in west Ecuador, Proc. West. Found. Vert. Zool. range-restricted species occurs in but requires corroboration due to 4: 285–351. the Tumbesian region (EBA 045) the lack of photographic, 4. Ridgely, R. S., Greenfield, P. J. of extreme north-west Peru and specimen, or sound-recording & Guerrero, M. (1998) An west Ecuador (north to dpto. documentation. The following annotated list of the birds of Esmeraldas (pers. obs. at Bilsa field notes were made ‘adults, mainland Ecuador. Quito: Biological Reserve and Río juveniles without chest patch, and Fundación Ornitológica del Palenque Scientific Centre), and individuals in transition between Ecuador, CECIA. was expected for Nariño2,3. Due to juvenile and adult plumage. hunting pressure and severe Adults (n = 8): plumage black with Bernabé López-Lanús habitat loss, Ortalis erythroptera conspicuous white patch only on Instituto von Humboldt Colombia is considered vulnerable1,4. chest, not reaching the sides of / Departamento Biología de la References neck or back. Juveniles (n = 3): Conservación, Transversal 16 1. Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & completely black. Birds in #133-30 Int. 25, Bogotá, Colombia. Stattersfield, A. J. (1994). transitional plumages, likely E-mail: Birds to watch 2: the world subadults (n = 4): black with a [email protected]. checklist of threatened birds. dusky chest patch similar to Cambridge, UK: Birdlife adults, which was darker in some Registro altitudinal inusual de
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la Pava Carunculada Aburria realizar, aunque no puedo ECOCiencia & BirdLife aburri en Ecuador especificar si se trata de International. La Pava Carunculada Aburria migración altitudinal o 5. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. aburri es un crácido raro de geográfica3,6. Es posible que este (1986) A guide to the birds of bosque que habita a lo largo de las registro sea sólo accidental, y Colombia. Princeton, NJ: estribaciones y pedemontes corresponda a un individuo Princeton University Press. andinos desde las montañas de extraviado. La posibilidad de que 6. del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Perijá y Santa Marta, Venezuela y este espécimen haya sido Sargatal, J. (eds.) (1994) Colombia respectivamente, hasta transportado por otras personas o Handbook of the birds of the el sur de Perú3,5,6. En Ecuador es por animales de presa es world, 2. Barcelona: Lynx considerada como una especie rara descartada ya que no existe Edicions. de las estribaciones y subtrópicos ningún sendero que permita el 7. Marín, M. A., Carrion, B. J. M. del noroccidente y oriente, entre tránsito frecuente de gente en la & Sibley, F. C. (1992) New 1200 y 2100 m de altitud (P. región, y además no se distributional records for Coopmans com. pers.), aunque en encontraron rastros de heridas Ecuadorian birds. Orn. otros países ocasionalmente superficiales. Neotrop. 3: 27–34. alcanza los 600 y 2500 m6,8. Un estudio específico de la 8. Parker, T. A., Stotz, D. F. & Esta especie, aparentemente migración estacional de A. aburri Fitzpatrick, J. W. (1996) migratoria estacional3,6 es proveerá de mejor evidencia para Ecological and distributional conocida de pocas localidades en determinar si está relacionada databases. In Stotz, D. F., la estribación oriental de los únicamente con la altitud. Muy Fitzpatrick, J. W., Parker, T. Andes del Ecuador, y fue poco se conoce de este raro A. & Moskovits, D. K. reportada por primera vez para el crácido, altamente sensible a Neotropical birds: ecology occidente por Marín et al.7 pese a alteraciones en su hábitat and conservation. Chicago: que se la conocía previamente del natural8 que ha declinado University of Chicago Press. Cerro Munchique, suroccidente de notoriamente en los últimos diez Colombia1,6. Del Hoyo et al.6 años, y es considerado en la Juan F. Freile erróneamente señala que en actualidad como Vulnerable en el Centro de Biodiversidad y Ecuador la especie está país5 y casi-amenazado Ambiente (CBA), Museo de restringida a la estribación globalmente2. Zoología QCAZ, Sección oriental. Ornitología, Departamento de La presente nota reporta el Agradecimientos Biología, Pontificia Universidad hallazgo de un individuo A G. Onore por sus comentarios, a Católica del Ecuador, Casilla recientemente muerto (nota del Elisio Tapia por compartir su Postal 17-12-122, Quito, Ecuador. colector) en la cima del volcán inmenso interés y conocimiento de E-mail: [email protected]. Reventador (00°04'S 77°40'W), la naturaleza, y a F. Ortiz-Crespo provincia de Napo, Andes y T. de Vries por revisar esta nota. orientales, a 3500 m de altitud. First record of Hudsonian El espécimen fué colectado por Referencias G o d w it Limosa haemastica in Elisio Tapia en noviembre de 1999 1. Chapman, F. M. (1926) The G aláp ag o s y depositado días más tarde en la distribution of bird-life in Although records of summering colección ornitológica del museo Ecuador. Bull. Amer. Mus. shorebirds in the Neotropics are QCAZ, Departamento de Biología, Nat. Hist. 36. relatively commonplace, Pontificia Universidad Católica 2. Collar, N. J., Crosby, M. J. & Hudsonian Godwit Limosa del Ecuador (QCAZ 1716). Stattersfield, A. J. (1994) haemastica is considered a rare No es probable que este Birds to watch 2: the world migrant and winter visitor to hallazgo constituya un registro de list of threatened birds. coastal Ecuador (Mitch Lysinger una población residente, ya que el Cambridge, UK: BirdLife pers. comm.). hábitat en la cima del Reventador International (Conservation On 29 June 1999, while está constituido básicamente por Series 4). participating in a birding tour of páramo herbáceo con heléchos y 3. Fjeldså, J. & Krabbe, N. (1986) the Galápagos, I found a escasos arbustos, debido a Some range extensions and Hudsonian Godwit in full erupciones volcánicas recientes other unusual records of breeding plumage at a small (G. Onore com. pers.). Aburria Andean birds. Bull. Brit. Orn. freshwater pond within Puerto aburri tiende a habitar Club. 106: 115–124. Villamil, Isabela Island. I principalmente en bosque 4. Granizo, T., Guerrero, M., immediately pointed it out to montano maduro y bordes del Pacheco, C., Phillips, R., Mitch Lysinger and the other mismo5,6. Ribadeneira, M. B. & Suárez, eight tour participants. We Así, sugiero que este registro L. (1997) Lista de aves watched it feeding as close as 20 m debe estar relacionado con los amenazadas de extinción en for c. 1 hour. Although not fully movimientos estacionales que A. el Ecuador. Quito: UICN-Sur, aware of the significance of the aburri aparentemente tiende a CECIA, INEFAN, sighting, Randall Siebert and I
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obtained a number of photographs References permitted extremely close (Fig. 1, see p. 66). The bird was 1. American Ornithologists’ approach. One was photographed immediately recognised by its Union (1998) Checklist of (Fig. 1). Over four days in August relatively large size and long, North American birds. 1998, 15, again apparently slightly upturned, bicolored bill, Seventh edition. Lawrence, exhausted, individuals were at pinkish-red with a black tip. Head Kansas: American Ornitholo Pantanos de Villa. These are the and neck finely streaked or gists’ Union. first records of Progne subis in spotted dark grey and whitish, 2. Castro, I. & Phillips, A. (1996) coastal Peru. creating an effect of a pale grey A guide to the birds of the Female Southern Martin P. head and neck, contrasting with Galapagos Islands. modesta murphyi, which is rich brick-red breast and belly. Princeton, NJ: Princeton resident in coastal Peru, lacks the Pale line above eye and dark line University Press. hoary whitish forecrown and from bill base to eye, a suggestion 3. del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & collar of subis, and is much of black and white scalloping on Sargatal, J. (eds.) (1997) darker below. Female and the breast sides admixed with Handbook of the birds of the immature Purple Martin also brick-red, and undertail-coverts world, 3. Barcelona: Lynx resembles Grey-breasted Martin barred black and white. Back Edicions. P. chalybea, but that species, primarily dark brownish grey with 4. Harris, M. (1974) A field guide which is also unknown around small whitish spots. Wing-coverts to the birds of Galapagos. Lima, does not have a pale obviously paler grey and flight London, UK: Collins. forecrown or collar6. feathers appeared blackish. In 5. Hayman, R, Marchant, J. & Identification to subspecies flight, tail largely or entirely Prater, T. (1986) Shorebirds. level, without specimens, must black, with a white rump patch Boston, MA: Houghton be considered tentative. Some almost equal in extent to black Mifflin Co. features of the flock, such as the tail. Primary bases and outer breadth and extremely pale secondaries white, creating a Allen Chartier nuchal collar and forecrown, conspicuous bar in flight. 1442 West River Park Drive, correspond to arboricola or Underwings greyish, also with a Inkster, M1 48141, USA. hesperia, (according to Ridgway7, white bar and conspicuous black Phillips5, and specimens at Field underwing-coverts. Museum of Natural History, The AOU1 lists the South First records of Purple Martin Chicago), which breed in western American wintering range of the Progne subis in coastal Peru North America (British Columbia species as the coasts of Peru and Purple Martin Progne subis is a south to Sonora, Mexico). C. R. Chile, with the principal common and widespread breeder Brown (pers. comm, to OG) wintering grounds in south-east in North America that winters in suggested that the photographs South America, in Argentina, South America. It typically indicate a two-year-old Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and migrates through Venezuela, the individual, based on the amount the Falklands. Hayman et al.5 Guyanas, Brazil, north Argentina, of blue in the back and crown; plots a similar winter distribu and parts of Amazonian Peru1. first-year females are largely tion and describes it as a Migration timing in northern and brown with little blue on the vagrant to the Falklands, New western South America is not well dorsum or head. Zealand, the western USA and known. Southbound birds have Despite occurrence in two Galápagos, among other sites, been reported in south-east USA consecutive years, we regard but cites no reference for a in late May and early June8, there Purple Martin as only a vagrant Galápagos record. Neither are few records from South to coastal Peru. Other migrants, Castro & Phillips2 nor Harris4 America before August1, and the primarily found in Amazonia or list this species for the archi earliest published reports from the east slope of the Andes, which pelago, and Galápagos is not Peru are in mid-September4. are rare on the Peruvian coast, mentioned within the species’ Determination of migratory include Eastern Kingbird range in del Hoyo et al.3. Thus, it routes and timing in South Tyrannus tyrannus, Fork-tailed appears that the information in America are hampered by the Flycatcher T. savana, Swainson’s Hayman et a l.3 is in error, and relative lack of specimens (and Thrush Catharus ustulatus and there have been no previously observers), and possibility of American Redstart Setophaga published records of Hudsonian confusion with other species of ruticilla2,3. The austral winter in Godwit from Galápagos. Progne. Lima usually occupies June- During August 1997, LT and September, but 1997–1998 were Acknowledgements AT observed c. 45 female- El Niño years, and coastal Peru I thank Mitch Lysinger, a member plumaged Progne subis at had clear sunny ‘winters’. of the Ecuadorian records Pantanos de Villa, a coastal Whether these unusual climatic committee, for his helpful wetland on the outskirts of Lima, events can be related to records commentary and Randall Siebert Peru. They appeared exhausted, of Purple Martins is unknown. for his excellent photos. as they perched on fences and
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Figure 1. Hudsonian G odwit Limosa haemastica P u e rto Figure 1. Female Purple Martin Progne subis, Pantanos de Villamil, Isabela, Galápagos, 29 June 1999 (Randall Villa, Lima, Peru, August 1997 (Luis Torres) S e ib e rt)
References Oscar González alula, and most tail feathers were 1. Brown, C. R. (1997) Purple Departamento de Ornitología, worn, but it was otherwise fresh Martin (Progne subis). In Museo de Historia Natural, plumaged and adult-like. Poole, A. & Gill, F. (eds.) The Universidad Nacional Mayor de Immature, mostly first-winter birds of North America. San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Mailing Herring Gulls regularly occur Philadelphia: Academy of address: Gómez del Carpió 135, south to both coasts of Panama, Natural Sciences of Philadel Barrio Médico, Lima 34, Peru. E- where they are rare, in December phia & Washington DC: mail: [email protected]. to late April2, and there are a few American Ornithologists’ recent sightings from the Pacific Union. Luis Torres coast of Colombia (anon, reviewer 2. Hughes, R. A. (1988) Nearctic E-mail: [email protected]. of this manuscript, 16 September migrants in southwest Peru. 1986) and Venezuelan coast1. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 108: 29– Alejandro Tello Thus, the occurrence of a nearly 43. Asociación Yanavico / Terranuova. adult bird on the Peruvian coast 3. Koepcke, M. (1970) The birds Lord Cochrane 150E San Isidro, in mid-September is most of the Department of Lima, Lima, Peru. E-mail: remarkable. Unless additional Peru. Wynnewood, Penn.: [email protected]. future sightings suggest that Livingston Publishing Herring Gulls do occasionally Company. Thomas S. Schulenberg cross the equator, we consider it 4. Oren, D. C. (1980) Enormous Environmental and Conservation most probable that this observed concentration of martins Programs, Field Museum of bird had been ship-assisted. (Progne spp.) in Iquitos, Peru. Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Condor 82: 344–345. Shore Drive, Chicago IL, 60605- References 5. Phillips, A. R. (1986) The 2496. USA. E-mail: 1. Harrison, P. (1983) Seabirds: known birds of North and [email protected]. an identification guide. Middle America, 1. Denver, Beckenham: Croom Helm. Colorado: Denver Mus. Nat. 2. Ridgely, R. S. (1976) The birds Hist. An observation of Herring of Panama . Princeton, NJ: 6. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. G u ll Larus argentatus on th e Princeton University Press. (1989) The birds of South Peruvian coast America, 1. Austin: Univer On 14 September 1983, from N. Krabbe sity of Texas Press. 08h30 to 09h00, we observed, and Zoologisk Museum, 7. Ridgway, R. (1904) The birds NK photographed (Fig. 1, see Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, of North and Middle America, p. 67), a nearly adult Herring Gull Copenhagen, Denmark. 3. Bull. US Natn. Mus. 50. Larus argentatus together with 8. Stevenson, H. M. & Anderson, Kelp Gulls Larus dominicanus, on S. James B. H. (1994) The birdlife of the beach at Ventanilla, 30 km c/o 83 Welbeck Street, Hull, East Florida. Gainesville: north of Lima, Peru. The bird was Yorkshire HU5 3SB, UK. University of Florida Press. between its third summer (fourth calendar year) and fourth-winter B. Walker plumage (= adult)1. The entire Casilla 595, Cuzco, Peru. primaries, primary-coverts and
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New bird records from north Paulo in c. 1870 and has now been visit to AL, GMK et al. observed east Brazil recorded in many parts of eastern two Stripe-backed Bittern During late December 1999 and Brazil, and as far inland as Ixobrychus involucris at Riacho early January 2000, we made a Manaus7. Nonetheless, there are Salgado, near Palmeira dos number of interesting ornithologi still relatively few published Indios, on 4 February 1995. cal observations in the states of localities in the arid north-east; Teixeira et al. 11 knew of records, Sergipe (SE), Alagoas (AL) and thus eight tape-recorded at in north-east Brazil, from only Ceará (CE), north-east Brazil. Nascente do Farias, CE, on 3 Maranhão and Sergipe, and it Voucher tape-recordings, made by January 2000 appears to be only has subsequently occurred in JMB, have been deposited at the the second state record and third Piauí3. Cornell Laboratory of Natural published locality in north-east Sounds, Ithaca, New York, and Brazil9. Our records of Rufous Acknowledgements Arquivo Sonoro Elias Coelho, Hornero Furnarius rufus at the We are grateful to Morton L. Isler Universidade Federal de Rio de same locality, on the same date, and José Fernando Pacheco for Janeiro. Significant records are as and at nearby Balneário Caldas, their assistance with this follows. (All species mentioned for Chapada do Araripe, CE, on 4 manuscript. SE, with the exception of Cocoa January 2000, appear to be the Thrush Turdus fumigatus, had first published localities in the References previously been recorded in the state. This species has been 1. Juniper, T. & Parr, M. (1998) same area as our observations by spreading its range in eastern Parrots. A guide to the parrots Fry, Souza, Pacheco & Whitney, Brazil6 and has only recently of the world. Robertsbridge: and Parrini & Minns, but their (1985) reached the north-east10. A Pica Press. observations are unpublished.) A flock of 150–200 Purple Martin 2. Pacheco, J. F. & Whitney, B. M. group of four Red-shouldered Progne subis roosted, high on a (1995) Range extensions for Macaw Ara (Diopsittaca) nobilis telephone antenna, in Barbalha, some birds in northeastern were in forest between Santa CE, on 3–4 January 2000. Sick8 Brazil. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club Luiza do Itanhi and Crasto, SE, mentions no records in north-east 115: 157–163. on 27 December 1999. This is the Brazil, although Paynter4 notes 3. Olmos, F. & Souza, M. F. B. first state record. Although it was its occurrence in Bahia, and thus (1988) A new record of the considered relatively common in our observation appears to be the Streaked Bittern from this part of Brazil by Juniper & first state record. northeastern Brazil. Wilson Parr1, Teixeira et al.11 knew of There are few AL records of Bull. 100: 510–511. very few records from coastal Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture 4. Paynter, R. A. (1995) Nearctic regions in this area. The forest Cathartes burrovianus and passerine migrants in South near Crasto is principally known Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift America. Cambridge, Mass: for its population of Fringe- Panyptila cayennensis2,9,11. We Publications of the Nuttall backed Fire-eye Pyriglena atra, recorded a single of the latter at Ornithological Club 25. discovered in 19942, and it is Pedra (Serra) Branca, near 5. Raposo, M. A. (1997) A new worth remarking that we found Murici, on 31 December 1999 species of Arremon this globally threatened species to and the vulture over Murici, on 1 (Passeriformes: Emberizidae) be still relatively common, with January 2000. On a previous from Brazil. Ararajuba 5: 3–9. 8–10 observed and tape-recorded. On the same day, in the same forest, we observed and tape- recorded a single Pectoral Sparrow Arremon taciturnus. Raposo5 provides a list of localities with specimen records of this species. Sergipe is not represented, but its occurrence is wholly expected given the availability of records from all surrounding states. Finally, neither Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui and Cocoa Thrush appear to have been mentioned previously for SE, although we tape-recorded both near Crasto, on 27 December 1999. Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild was introduced into São Figure 1. Near-adult Herring Gull Larus argentatus. Ventanilla, 30 km north of Lima, Peru, 14 September 1983 (N. Krabbe)
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6. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. niche. One, with a paler reddish on some little-known birds in (1994) The birds of South chest, was assumed to be an north-west Argentina. America, 2. Oxford: Oxford immature. Cotinga 9: 64–75. University Press. Poospiza boliviana is a range- 5. Mazar Barnett, J. & Pearman, 7. Sibley, C. G. (1996) Birds of restricted species to Endemic Bird M. (in press) Lista comentada the world 2.0. Cincinnati: Area (EBA) 056 (High Andes of de las aves argentinas. Thayer Birding Software. Bolivia and Argentina), which is Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. 8. Sick, H. (1997) Ornitologia of critical conservation priority6. 6. Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. The principal threats facing the J., Long, A. J. & Wege, D. C. Nova Fronteira. EBA were noted near Santa (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of 9. Teixeira, D. M., Nacinovic, J. Victoria, namely habitat the world: priorities for B. & Luigi, G. (1987) Notes on conversion and terracing for biodiversity conservation. some birds of northeastern cultivation, overgrazing and Cambridge, UK: BirdLife Brazil (3). Bull. Brit. Orn. deforestation for firewood, and International (Conservation Club 108: 75–79. consequent erosion. In general, Series 7). 10. Teixeira, D. M., Nacinovic, J. this area of north-west Argentina Juan Mazar Barnett, Germán B. & Pontual, F. B. (1987) (Salta and Jujuy) constitutes an Pugnali and Marco della Seta Notes on some birds of important part of the EBA, as c/o Asociación Ornitológica del northeastern Brazil (2). Bull. several species with restricted Plata, 25 de Mayo 749 2°6, 1002 Brit. Orn. Club 107: 151–157. ranges and of conservation Buenos Aires, Argentina. 11. Teixeira, D. M., Nacinovic, J. concern have been recorded B. & Tavares, M. S. (1987) throughout1. The national parks, Notes on some birds of Calilegua and Baritú, only PUBLISHED RECORDS northeastern Brazil. Bull. marginally protect relevant FROM THE LITERATURE Brit. Orn. Club 106: 70–74. habitats in Jujuy and Salta provinces, and conservation CARIBBEAN Guy M. Kirwan strategies for the region should 74 Waddington Street, Norwich focus on high-elevation montane B aham as NR2 4JS, UK. scrub and Polylepis woodlands, The fourth West Indian record of combining habitat management, White-winged Black Tern Juan Mazar Barnett environmental education and Chlidonias leucopterus was at Av. Forest 1531 1°B, 1430 Buenos designation of protected areas. McKinney Pond, Cat Island, but is Aires, Argentina. Problems with the existing not dated18. delimitation and characterisation of the EBA will be considered B arbados Bolivian W arbling-Finch elsewhere. Poospiza boliviana in Argentina Both the Purple Ardea purpurea On 27 September 1997, we References and Grey Herons A. cinerea, previously reported here, recorded at least three Poospiza 1. Fjeldså, J. & Krabbe, N. (1990) remained at Graeme Hall swamp, boliviana in Santa Victoria, Salta The birds of the high Andes. the former on 3 March-28 April province, Argentina (22°15'N Copenhagen: Zoological and the latter during 3 March to 65°00'W; at c. 2250 m). Two were Museum, University of 16 May 1999. A Little Stint photographed by JMB and Copenhagen & Svendborg: Calidris minuta, photographed at published by Mayer3. Although Apollo Books. previously reported in the 2. Fjeldså, J. & Mayer, S. (1996) Packers, Christ Church, on 16 May 1999, was the second island country5, this is the first Recent ornithological surveys in record18. documented record, and the the Valles region, southern southernmost known for the Bolivia — and the possible role species. of the Valles for the evolution of Cayman Islands They were in hedgerows and Andean avifauna. Rønde: A Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris agricultural fields in the environs Centre for the Research on bairdii at Midland Acres, on 22– of a small village, and formed part Cultural and Biological 23 May 1999 was the first record of a rather large, loose flock of Diversity of Andean Rainfor for Grand Cayman and a rare Rufous-sided Warbling-finch ests (DIVA), Technical Report 1. report from this part of the Poospiza hypochondria and 3. Mayer, S. (2000) Birds of Caribbean18. Rufous-collared Sparrow Bolivia 2.0 (CD-ROM). Zonotrichia capensis foraging on Westernieland: Bird Songs C u b a the ground and among dense International B. V. The fourth island record of bushes. All observations match 4. Mazar Barnett, J. Clark, R., Scissor-tailed Flycatcher previous reports1,2. Fjeldså & Bodrati, A., Bodrati, G., Tyrannus forficatus was made in Mayer2 comment on the species’ Pugnali, G. & della Seta, M. Holguin, in January 199917. poorly understood ecological (1998) Natural history notes
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Jam aica B razil Bencke & Kindel4, in a forest Davis & Zonfrillo8 report the Whittaker & Oren26, reporting on bird study in the north-east of the observation of an erythristic avifaunal work along the rio state, report range extensions, Yellow-billed Parrot Amazona Juruá, in western Amazonia, new species (Pale-browed collaria, in the east of the island, mention the discovery of 12 Treehunter Cichlocolaptes in November 1997. additions to the Brazilian leucophrus, Spot-backed avifauna: Black-capped Antshrike Hypoedaleus guttatus CENTRAL AMERICA Tinamou Crypturellus and Spotted Bamboowren atrocapillus, Black-billed Psilorhamphus guttatus) and the M ex ico Cuckoo Coccyzus occurrence of several globally Louisiana Waterthrush Seiurus erythropthalmus, Chimney threatened species in Rio Grande motacilla was recently recorded Swift Chaetura pelagica, do Sul. Previously unpublished for the first time on Cozumel Scarlet-headed Barbet details of two eggs of Sickle Island16. Urbina-Torres25 reports Eubucco tucinkae, White-lined winged Nightjar Eleothreptus on the addition of 34 species to the Antbird Percnostola lophotes, anomalus, taken in Rio Grande do avifauna of the little-studied Rufous-fronted Antthrush Sul, in November 1925 (only the interior state of Morelos. Formicarius rufifrons, Round third reported instance of nesting tailed Manakin Pipra in this species) are presented by P a n a m a chloromeros, Sulphur-bellied Lowen14. Additionally, in the same A Lined Seedeater Sporophila Flycatcher Myiodynastes journal, Simon et al.23 provide new lineola, near Fort Sherman, on 2 luteiventris, Black-faced nesting information for Rufous- January 2000, is apparently the Cotinga Conioptilon mcilhennyi, capped Spinetail Synallaxis first record for the country3. Yellow-green Vireo Vireo ruficapilla, based on observations flavoviridis, Casqued in Minas Gerais. A Caatinga Black-Tyrant Knipolegus SOUTH AMERICA Oropendola Psarocolius oseryi and Black-and-white franciscanus reported in Campo Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa. Formoso municipality, Bahia, in A rg e n tin a The first specimen records for the January 1997, represents a In October 1995, Least country of Blue-headed Macaw 440 km north-eastward range Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus Ara couloni, Emerald Toucanet extension from its nearest known was discovered nesting in Aulacorhynchus prasinus, Manu locality13. Pacheco19 discusses the Misiones province, in the north Antbird Cercomacra manu and possibility and presents evidence east of the country, the first Scarlet Tanager Piranga that the type-locality of Cherry- record in Argentina and a olivacea were also made. The throated Tanager Nemosia 1300 km southward range authors also speculate on the rourei could be Macaé de Cima, extension12. Darrieu & Camperi7 possibly specific status of the Rio de Janeiro, rather then the report the first certain records for obrieni subspecies of Rufous alleged Muriaé, in Minas Gerais. Corrientes province of the headed Woodpecker Celeus A review of unpublished following species, based on a spectabilis. records in Bahia yielded first collection made by William H. Aleixo et al. 1 report on range state records of the following Partridge between 1960 and 1962: extensions and new distributional species: Yellow-nosed Albatross Tataupa Tinamou Crypturellus information for the following Diomedea chlororhynchos, Thin tataupa, Stripe-backed Bittern species in south-east Amazonia: billed Prion Pachyptila belcheri, Ixobrychus involucris, Masked Silky-tailed Nightjar Sooty Shearwater Puffinus Duck Nomonyx dominicas, Grey Caprimulgus sericocaudatus, griseus, Great Shearwater P. headed Kite Leptodon Rufous-capped Nunlet gravis, Brown Pelican Pelecanus cayanensis, Plumbeous Kite Nonnula ruficapilla, Chestnut- occidentalis, White-rumped Ictinia plumbea, Long-winged throated Spinetail Synallaxis Hawk Buteo leucorrhous, Dusky- Harrier Circus buffoni and cherriei, Peruvian Recurvebill legged Guan Penelope obscura, White-throated Hummingbird Simoxenops ucayalae, Buff- Azure Gallinule Porphyrio Leucochloris albicollis. Study of a throated Foliage-gleaner flavirostris, Arctic Skua collection, made by Andor Kovacs, Automolus ochrolaemus, Banded Stercorarius parasiticus, White- yielded the first records of Sooty Antbird Dichrozona cincta, collared Swift Streptoprocne Shearwater Puffinus griseus, Black-chested Tyrant zonalis, Great Dusky Swift Harris’ Hawk Parabuteo Poecilotriccus andrei, Large Cypseloides senex, Saw-billed unicinctus, Red Phalarope headed Flatbill Ramphotrigon Hermit Ramphodon naevius, Phalaropus fulicarius and megacephala, Dusky-tailed Brazilian Ruby Clytolaema Greater Yellow-Finch Sicalis Flatbill R. fuscicauda, Law rubricauda, Red-breasted auriventris in Chubut, and first rence’s Thrush Turdus Toucan Ramphastos dicolorus, certain record of Rufous bellied lawrencii and White-lored Checkered Woodpecker Seedsnipe Attagis gayi in Río Euphonia Euphonia Picoides mixtus, Spot-fronted Negro6. chrysopasta. Woodpecker Veniliornis
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maculifrons, Planalto Foliage- record5. A male White-winged Acknowledgements gleaner Phi lydor dimidiatus, Black-Tyrant Knipolegus Thanks are due to the following Giant Antshrike Batara cinerea, aterrimus at Reserva Nacional who forwarded or commented on Long-billed Antwren Altos de Lircay, VII Region, on 13 records: Jürgen Lehnert (JL), Herpsilochmus longirostris, October 1998, is the first country Fernando Pacheco and David Wege. Ochre-rumped Antbird record20. Drymophila ochropyga, Pin Neotropical Notebook: compiled tailed Manakin Ricura militaris, V e n e zu e la by Juan Mazar Barnett and Shear-tailed Grey-Tyrant Hilty10, in a paper covering range Guy M. Kirwan. Muscipipra vetula, Sharp-tailed extensions and new behavioural Grass-Tyrant Culicivora information based on field work R eferences caudacuta, Grey-headed during 1986 to 1997, reports the 1. Aleixo, A., Whitney, B. M. & Flycatcher Mionectes rufiventris, occurrence of three new species to Oren, D. C. (2000) Range White-rumped Swallow the country: Red-tailed Hawk extensions of birds in Tachycineta leucorrhoa, Tawny- Buteo jamaicensis (Mérida, in southeastern Amazonia. headed Swallow Stelgidopteryx February 1992, the first record for Wilson Bull. 112: 137==142. fucata, Unicoloured Blackbird South America), Cinnamon- 2. Amado R, N., Loreto, M. S. & Agelaius cyanopus, White- throated Woodcreeper García, M. D. (1999) Nueva bellied Warbler Basileuterus Dendrexetastes rufigula (many información sobre la hypoleucus, Chestnut-headed sightings in the Río Grande distribución de Tanager Pyrrhocoma ruficeps, Forestry Reserve, Bolívar) and Recurvirostridae en Chile. Buffy-fronted Seedeater Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant Boletín Chileno de Sporophila frontalis and Marsh Stigmatura napensis (records in Ornitología 6: 27–28. Seedeater S. palustris24. June 1996 and January 1998 on 3. Angehr, G. (2000) The the same island in the río Fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán C h ile Orinoco, 25 km south of Puerto 26(2): 3–4. Three records of White-tailed Ayacucho). Records of 47 other 4. Bencke, G. A. & Kindel, A. Kite Elanus leucurus in the north species are also reported. In (1999) Bird counts along an of Chiloé Island, X Region, Chile, addition, Silva21 has recently altitudinal gradient of between 1987 and 1997 are the reviewed the distribution of Atlantic forest in northeast southernmost records in the Northern Helmeted Curassow ern Rio Grande do Sul, country15. Amado et al.2 report two Pauxi pauxi and Wattled Guan Brazil. Ararajuba 7: 91–107. Himantopus himantopus of the Aburria aburri in the country. 5. Brito, J. L (1999) Segundo melanurus form, on 1 November registro para Chile del 1996, at Rinconada de Mejillones, Pingüino Azul Eudyptula II Region, a northward range OTHER RECORDS minor (Spheniscidae) en la extension of c. 700 km. One, of the RECEIVED costa de Santo Domingo. form mexicanus, in September Boletín Chileno de 1997, at the mouth of the río C o lo m b ia Ornitología 6: 45–46. Lluta, is the first country record. A breeding colony of 10–15 pairs 6. Camperi, A. R. (1998) These authors also report an of Baudo Oropendola Avifauna andinopatagónica: Andean Avocet Recurvirostra Gymnostinops cassini was lista comentada de especies. andina on the coast of Arica. A discovered nest-building and egg- Physis Secc. C. 56: 33–46. small colony of Dolphin Gull laying in January 2000, near El 7. Darrieu, C. A. & Camperi, A. Larus scoresbii at Isla Doña Valle, Chocó. A female-plumaged R. (1998) Estudio de una Sebastiana, X Region, is the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker colección de aves de la northernmost breeding record in Sphyrapicus varius was between provincia de Corrientes, the country9. A nest of Zenaida Mindo and San Lorenzo, Santa República Argentina Dove Zenaida meloda at La Marta, on 24 February 2000, at (Rheidae a Picidae). Physis Herradura, Coquimbo, in January c. 1100 m. A male Chestnut Secc. C. 55: 5–15. 1998, is the southernmost sided Warbler Dendroica 8. Davis, H. & Zonfrillo, B. (2000) breeding of the species22. Some 20 pensylvanica was in Tayrona An erythristic Yellow-billed Austral Rails Rallus antarcticus National Park, Magdalena, on 7 Parrot Amazona collaria. at Estancia Brazo Norte and March 2000, and a Rufous- Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 120: 58. neighbouring Pali Aike National browed Tyrannulet 9. Espinosa G., L. A. & von Park, XII Región, on 28 January Phylloscartes superciliaris was Meyer H., A. P. (1999) 1999, represent the first record in near San José de Palmar, Choco, Nidificación de Gaviota the country since at least 195111. at c. 1200 m, on 13 February 2000 Austral (Larus scoresbii) en An immature Little Penguin (all JL). la Isla Doña Sebastiana, Eudyptula minor found in March Provincia de Llanquihue, 1997, at Santo Domingo, V Chile. Boletín Chileno de Region, is only the second country Ornitología 6: 28–29.
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10. Hilty, S. L. (1999) Three bird Bailarín (Elanus leucurus) en Venezuela. Wilson Bull. 111: species new to Venezuela and Chiloé (X Región). Boletín 564-569. notes on the behaviour and Chileno de Ornitología 6: 23– 22. Simeone C., A. & Simeone C., distribution of other poorly 24. S. (1999) Nidificación de la known species. Bull. Brit. 16. Macouzet, T. & Escalante- Paloma de Alas Blancas Orn. Club 119: 220–235. Pliego, P. (2000) First record (Zenaida meloda) en la 11. Imberti, S. & Mazar Barnett, of Louisiana Waterthrush Región de Coquimbo. J. (1999) El Pidén Austral (Seiurus motacilla) from Boletín Chileno de (Rallus antarcticus) Cozumel Island, Quintana Ornitología 6: 42. redescubierto en Chile. Roo, Mexico. Orn. Neotrop. 23. Simon, J. E., Pacheco, S. & Boletín Chileno de 11: 183–184. Silva, N. F (1999) Descrição Ornitología 6: 44–45. 17. Mancina, C. A. & López, R. do ninho de Synallaxis 12. Krauczuk, E. R. (2000) (1999) First report of Scissor- ruficapilla Viellot, 1819 Presencia de Chordeiles tailed Flycatcher, Tyrannus (Aves: Furnariidae). pusillus como nidificante en forficatus Gmelin Ararajuba 7: 145–148. la provincia de Misiones, (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae), 24. Souza, D. G. S. (1999) Novos Argentina. Orn. Neotrop. 11: in eastern Cuba. El Pitirre registros de espécies de aves 85–86. 12: 11. no estado da Bahia e sua 13. de Lima, F. C. T. (1999) A 18. Norton, R. L. (1999) West correlação com os range extension for the Indies region. North. Amer. ecossistemas. Atualidades Caatinga Black-tyrant, Birds 53: 333–335. Ornitológicas 88: 6–7. Knipolegus franciscanus 19. Pacheco, J. F. (1999) É de 25. Urbina-Torres, F. (2000) New (Tyrannidae), a rare Brazil Minas Gerais o exemplar distributional information ian endemic. Bull. Brit. Orn. único e original de Nemosia from the state of Morelos, Club 119: 270–271. rourei? Atualidades Mexico. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 14. Lowen, J. C. (1999) Um novo Ornitológicas 89: 7. 120: 8–15. registro da reprodução de 20. Saucedo, C. & Herrera, P. 26. Whittaker, A. & Oren, D. C. Eleothreptus anomalus (1999) Primer registro de (1999) Important ornithologi (Caprimulgiformes: Knipolegus aterrimus para cal observations from the Rio Caprimulgidae) para o Brasil. Chile. Boletín Chileno de Juruá, western Amazonia, Ararajuba 7: 139. Ornitología 6: 46. including twelve additions to 15. McGhee, S., Rozzi, R., Torres- 21. Silva, J. L. (1999) Notes about the Brazilian avifauna. Bull. Mura, J. C., & Wilson, M. the distribution of Pauxi Brit. Orn. Club 119: 235–260. (1999) Observaciones del pauxi and Aburria aburri in
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Neotropical Notebook contains RGW); and an adult near (SNGH, KB; Figs. 3–4). This three sections. The first consists of Progreso, Yucatán, 3 January 1999 latitude ties in with the previous short papers documenting records. (RGW). All adults and older southernmost records of this Photos and descriptions are immatures possessed characters of Pacific Rim gull, from Isla published where appropriate. The the west European race graellsii. Socorro12, and is the first record second section summarises from mainland Mexico south of records published elsewhere, Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus Baja California9. following the format established An adult near Playa Bagdad, in previous issues of Cotinga. The Tamaulipas, on 25 November 1998 Sabine’s Gull Larus sabini third lists unpublished and (Gee & Edwards 2000, Figs. 1–2) A juvenile along the waterfront at undocumented records. Please was the first state record, and it or Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, on indicate, with submissions, in another has been seen there on 26 November 1999 (DL, SNGH; which section you wish your each subsequent visit: 21 March, Fig. 5) constitutes the first state records to appear. 13 September and 4 December record and only the second from 1999, and 15 February 2000 (JPG, the Yucatán Peninsula7,9. SHORT NOTES CEE). Small numbers still occur in the Río Lagartos area of north Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa Yucatán10, e.g. two adults at Las tridactyla Recent new gull records from Coloradas, on 27 November 1996 Single first-winters were at San Mexico (SNGH, JPM) and 22 December Blas, Nayarit, on 8 January 1999 Gulls are well known for their 1997 (RGW), and a fourth-year or (MO’B, SNGH) and at Barra de propensity to wander and adult at Río Lagartos, on 1 Navidad, Jalisco, on 13 February vagrants can turn up seemingly December 1998 (SNGH). Although 1999 (WR). The San Bias anywhere. The Neotropics, the AOU1 considers the occurrence individual frequented the dock however, remain a relatively gull- of this species ‘hypothetical’ in and beach where it was studied at poor area, although 20 species North America (including Mexico), close range, while that at Barra have occurred in Mexico4,9. Here there are numerous records and was seen well from a boat, flying we report additional recent even reports of breeding in just off the rocks near town. These records of six species of gulls, from Louisiana, as well as hybrid pairs records mirror an exceptional various regions of Mexico (initials of Kelp × Herring L. argentatus invasion of this species to waters of observers other than the gulls2. off California during the 1998– authors are noted in Acknowledge 1999 winter, and interestingly ments). W estern Gull Larus occidentalis they parallel the two previous An adult at San Blas, Nayarit, on southernmost reports from Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus 9 January 1998 (SNGH) was Mexico’s Pacific coast9. fuscus studied carefully at close range This species is being reported with and had flesh-pink legs with no Acknowledgements increasing frequency from east trace of yellow, a bright yellow bill We thank Kimberly Baldwin (KB), Mexico in winter. Recent records with a small orange-red gonys Robert A. Behrstock (RAB), Jon L. include up to five (all second- spot, and a bill that was not Dunn (JLD), John P. Martin winter or older) at Playa Bagdad, exceptionally deep or swollen, all (JPM), Michael O’Brien (MO’B) Tamaulipas, on 25–26 November characters that help separate and Will Russell (WR) for 1998, 21 March, 13 September and Western from Yellow-footed Gull company in the field and sharing 4 December 1999, and 15 Larus livens. The San Blas their observations with us. February 2000 (JPG, CEE; Fig. 1); individual represents only the up to three (mainly third-winter third record south of Baja References and older, but one first-winter on California3,8,9, all of which have 1. American Ornithologists’ 27 November 1996) at Río been adults. Union (1998) Check-list of Lagartos/Las Coloradas, Yucatán, North American birds. on 27 November 1996 (two; Glaucous-winged Gull Larus Seventh edition. Washington SNGH, JPM), 2–22 December glaucescens DC: American Ornithologists’ 1997 (up to three; RAB, JLD, A first-winter in apparently full Union. RGW), 5 January 1999 (one; juvenile plumage6,11 was at the 2. Dittman, D. L. & Cardiff, S. W. RGW), 30 November 1999–15 mouth of the río Ameca, Nayarit/ (1998) Kelp Gull and Herring January 2000 (one; SNGH, DL, Jalisco, on 9 January 2000 × Kelp Gull hybrids: a new
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saga in gull ID problems. Dan Lane times during the period. Two Louisiana Orn. Soc. Newslet LSU Museum of Natural Science, Fiery-billed Aracari Pteroglossus ter 181: 5–7. 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, frantzii flew into the same tree, as 3. Erickson, R. A. (1994) Western Louisiana 70803, USA. did two other Ramphastos, but the Gull in Acapulco: first record latter did not become involved. for the Mexican state of Richard G. Wilson One of the Pteroglossus, however, Guerrero. Euphonia 3: 55–58. Apdo. 84-004, Mexico 10580 D.F., suddenly approached the two in 4. Garrett, K. L. & Molina, K. C. Mexico. combat and appeared to try and (1998) First record of the climb onto them. This caused the Black-tailed Gull for Mexico. two Ramphastos to leave, the Western Birds 29: 49–54. Dominance behaviour in lower still grasped by the upper 5. Gee, J. P. & Edwards, C. E. toucans for a second or so. All six (2000) Interesting gull Occasionally avian behaviour is individuals departed simultane records from north-east sufficiently strange as to make it ously and quickly disappeared Tamaulipas, Mexico. Cotinga worthwhile reporting in the hope from view, the dangling toucan 13: 65, 68. that, combined with other commencing normal flight 6. Howell, S. N. G. (2000) Moult observations, a clear pattern and following a short drop when it was and age of first-year ‘white understanding will emerge. On 21 released. winged’ gulls. Brit. Birds 93: February 2000, in Jardin Botánico This appears best interpreted 99–100. Wilson, near San Vito, south Costa as an aggression-submission 7. Howell, S. N. G. & Prairie, L. J. Rica (at 1100 m), our attention interaction between individuals (1989) Notable gull records was drawn to two adult Chestnut- within an established dominance from the Yucatán Peninsula. mandibled Toucans Ramphastos hierarchy. Skutch7 reports what Aves Mexicanas 2 (2): 3–4. swainsonii. flying from tree to tree. may have been bill-to-bill pushing 8. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. They were in an area of open dominance contests in P. frantzii. (1992) Southernmost records canopy at the edge of Las Cruces ‘Dueling’ with bills appears of Western and Yellow-footed forest. No obvious size, colour, or widespread among rhamphastids9 Gulls. Western Birds 23: 31– bill length differences were noted and their use in social interac 33. between the two, which were c. 30 tions6 may prove to be one answer 9. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. m diagonally above us. The to the ancient puzzle of the (1995) A guide to the birds of following is a composite of our function of their giant bills7,9. Mexico and northern Central brief observations, edited by the Strong intraspecific aggression in America. Oxford: Oxford senior author. which the mandible is used to hold University Press. One Ramphastos had a green a victim during an attack has 10. Howell, S. N. G., Correa S., J. fruit and appeared to feed it to the been reported in Pale-mandibled & Garcia B., J. (1993) First other, a behaviour commonly Aracari Pteroglossus records of the Kelp Gull in observed in toucans8. We erythropygius2. Stable interspecific Mexico. Euphonia 2: 71–80. considered this perhaps an hierarchies related to feeding 11. Howell, S. N. G., King, J. R. & example of courtship feeding1,5 or occur among other frugivores3, Corben, C. (1999) First of an adult feeding a nearly and an intraspecific dominance prebasic moult in Herring, mature juvenile, but there hierarchy has been demonstrated Thayer’s, and Glaucous followed a loud clashing of bills, in at least one avian herbivore in winged Gulls. J. Field Orn. and the two appeared for perhaps the New World tropics, the White 70: 543–554. 30 seconds to be involved in a winged Trumpeter Psophia 12. Wehtje, W, Walter, H. S., struggle. One individual, leucoptera (although dominance Rodriguez E., R., Llinas, J. & considered the original possessor interactions there appear Castellanos V., A. (1993) An of the fruit, grasped the other primarily among males for access annotated checklist of the behind the eyes, with its bill, to females)4. To our knowledge, in birds of Isla Socorro, Mexico. causing the fruit to drop. The such hierarchies, subordinate Western Birds 24: 1–16. grasped bird dropped below the individuals have not exhibited individual holding it, keeping its such dramatically submissive Steve N. G. Howell upturned, closed bill largely behaviour (which presumably Point Reyes Bird Observatory, between the others mandibles helped avoid serious injury) as 4990 Shoreline Highway, Stinson (suggesting that it might have that we observed. Beach, California 94970, USA. been a female with a shorter bill). For approximately three minutes Acknowledgements John P. Gee and Carol E. (partially timed) it dangled We thank Gretchen Daily, Jared Edwards completely inert, with the sole Diamond, Mercedes Foster, Dick 9500 McGregor Lane, Dripping exception that it once partly Hutto, Ivan Jimenez, Bette Springs, Texas 78620, USA. extended its wings for less than a Loiselle, Van Remsen and Gary second. The dangling individual Stiles for helpful comments. was shaken vigorously several
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Figure 1. Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in fo re ground (with Ring-billed Gull L. delawarensis) and adult Kelp Gull L. dominicanus a t rear, Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 25 November 1998 (Carol E. Edwards) Figure 2. Adult Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus and ju ve nile Thayer’s Gull L . thayeri, Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 25 November 1998. Note the Kelp’s blackish upperparts, heavy bill and pale greenish legs, and the Thayer’s relatively slender black bill (Carol E. Edwards) Figures 3–4. Juvenile Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens, río Ameca mouth, Jalisco/Nayarit, 9 January 2000, w ith Laughing Gulls L. atricilla and Brown Pelicans Pelecanus occidentalis. N o te the overall large size and heavy build, stout black bill and pale wingtips concolorous with the upperparts (Steve N. G. Howell) Figure 5. Juvenile Sabine’s Gull Larus sabini, P u e rto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 26 Novem ber 1999, with Laughing Gull L. atricilla and Sandwich Terns Sterna sandvicensis (Dan Lane)
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References interpres it was observed to be less 1. Bourne, G. R. (1974) Red The first Terek Sandpiper bulky but approximately the same billed Toucan in Guyana. Xenus cinereus in Trinidad and size as that species. The crown, Living Bird 13: 99–126. Tobago upperparts and breast were pale 2. Brydon, A. (1995) Intra Accompanied by Kenny Calderon to medium grey, contrasting with specific aggression in Pale- (a local guide), a small group of the white underparts. The bill was mandibled Aracari British birders and myself visited dark, long and distinctly Pteroglossus erythropygius. Trinidad and Tobago, in June– upturned. The orange-yellow legs Cotinga 3: 55. July 1999. On the second day of were relatively short. It had a 3. Daily, G. C. & Ehrlich, P. R. the trip, 28 June, we were greeted marked horizontal stance and as (1994) Influence of social with torrential rain but unde it ran forwards it leaned forward status on individual foraging terred we set off for the mudflats and bobbed its rear in the manner and community structure in a at Waterloo. Near the coast, the of a Spotted Actitis macularia or bird guild. Oecologia 100: rain got even heavier and the Common Sandpiper A. hypoleucos. 153–165. roads and fields began to flood. Unfortunately, the heavy 4. Eason, P. K. & Sherman, P. T. Eventually KC announced that we persistent rain made close (1995) Dominance status, should try to observe shorebirds approach impossible and after it mating strategies and from a fishing shelter at the edge had finally disappeared from view copulation success in of the flats. To our great surprise, all the waders took flight and the cooperatively polyandrous the shelter proved to be an ideal Terek Sandpiper was not white-winged trumpeters, site to scan the shore. Attention subsequently relocated. Though Psophia leucoptera (Aves: finally turned to the smaller only a rather ‘sketchy’ description Psophiidae). Animal Behav. shorebirds, some of which was obtained, written in my field 49: 725–736. required careful scrutiny. Kenny notebook within a few minutes of 5. Howe, H. F. (1983) pointed out a party of c. 20 the observation, all the main Ramphastos swainsonii (Dios Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris identification features were noted: Tede, Toucan de Swainson, pusilla, among which I found a size, coloration, bill length and Chestnut-mandibled Toucan). few Western Sandpiper C. maini. shape, leg colour, stance and tail In Janzen, D. H. (ed.) Costa After c. 20 minutes Peter Wild bobbing action. The record has Rican natural history. announced that he had found a been accepted by the Trinidad & Chicago: University of bird resembling Terek Sandpiper Tobago Rare Birds Committee Chicago Press. Xenus cinereus, a species that was (Richard ffrench pers. comm.). 6. Riley, C. M. & Smith, K. G. known to him solely from field There are only three previous (1992) Sexual dimorphism guide illustrations. I regarded this records in the Neotropics, two in and foraging behavior of identification as extremely Argentina and one in Brazil1. Emerald Toucanets unlikely, but when Terry Marshall Aulacorhynchus prasinus in located the individual and asked Reference Costa Rica. Ornis me to study it, I soon realised that 1. Mazar Barnett, J. (1997) First Scandinavica 23: 459–466. PW’s original suspicions were report of Xenus cinereus 7. Skutch, A. F. (1983) Birds of entirely correct! KC had, (Charadriiformes: tropical America. Austin: unsurprisingly, never even heard Scolopacidae) for Brazil. University of Texas Press. of the species. Realising that it Ararajuba 5: 236–237. 8. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. was almost certainly a first record (1989) A guide to the birds of for Trinidad and Tobago, and Dr Moss Taylor Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: possibly the Caribbean, I began to 4 Heath Road, Sheringham, Cornell University Press. make careful mental notes of the Norfolk NR26 8JH, U.K. 9. Van Tyne, J. (1929) The life relevant features, while trying to history of the toucan ensure that all members of the Ramphastos brevicarinatus. group saw it. Unfortunately, A new locality for Gold-ringed Univ. Michigan, Mus. Zool., during the ten minutes that it was Tanager Bangsia aureocincta Mise. Publ. 19: 1–43. under scrutiny, it frequently During 1994 I discovered a small disappeared behind some population of the poorly known Paul R. Ehrlich, Sallie-Anne vegetation. There was, however, no Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia Bailey, Ellyn Bush, Thomas doubt of the identification: I have aureocincta at Alto de los Davis and Sarah Girshick previously seen three in England Galápagos (04°51'N 75°12'W, Center for Conservation Biology, (where it is also rare), one at 1800–2050 m), on the border Stanford University, Stanford, CA Eilat, Israel, and six in Goa, India. between the departments of Choco 94305-2040, USA. It was noticeably larger than and Valle del Cauca. Up to six the Semipalmated Sandpipers, individuals, including three males, among which it initially fed c. 200 m were observed on ten dates away, but as it passed close to a between 6 and 25 April. Stiles1 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria considered the species to be
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currently restricted to the nearby 1999) estimate just two/10 ha. A early morning on several Alto de Pisones. The forest on Alto population of nominate gigantea occasions. In early June, MRW de los Galápagos has an in Napo Province, Ecuador, tape-recorded it singing before impressive avifauna, including the appears to favour patches of sunrise, at c. 05h45 along trail H, following species: Velvet-purple secondary forest, but emerge to c. 75 m from the lodge. On two Coronet Boissonneaua jardini, feed in adjacent cattle pastures3. occasions TN witnessed it White-faced Nunbird Hapaloptila The species is currently capturing a Giant Earthworm castanea, Toucan Barbet considered Endangered5. Glossoscolex giganteus, when it Semnornis ramphastinus, spent several minutes in a ‘tug-of- Tyrannine Woodcreeper Study site war’ until either the entire Dendrocincla tyrannina, Yellow A G. g. hylodroma was observed earthworm was extracted or the breasted Antpitta Grallaria regularly at Bellavista Reserve prey was dismembered. TN also flavotincta, Olivaceous Piha from December 1997 until its witnessed it dissect an earthworm (Cotinga) Snowornis cryptolophus, untimely death in July 1998. into several smaller pieces before Black Solitaire Entomodestes Bellavista (00°01'S 78°40'W, devouring it. We are confident coracinus and Black-chinned c. 2200 m) is on the old Mindo– that it hunted earthworms at the Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus Nono road, c. 10 km west of muddy intersection of trails H and notabilis. Unfortunately guerrilla Tandayapa, north-west Ecuador. F because the anaerobic soil activity currently inhibits Approximately 10% of the conditions forced worms to the ornithological exploration of this 1600 ha Bellavista reserve is surface to gain more oxygen. area as well as of the implementa undisturbed primary montane However, it was killed by the tion of a conservation cloud forest or temperate wet Bellavista milkman, close to the management plan that has been forest, while 70% has been muddy intersection of trails H and prepared for the region. If the selectively logged and the F, in July 1998. Since then, no situation improves I recommend remaining 20% former cattle further records of G. gigantea at San José de Palmar as a pasture with scattered trees, Bellavista have been made, convenient base for anyone living fence posts and some although at least three pairs are seeking to explore the area. regenerating forest. The G. resident on the 10 ha Loma Linda gigantea was observed along two property, owned by TN, c. 200 m Reference heavily used trails that bisect very below Bellavista. 1. Stiles, F. G. (1998) Notes on steep montane forest slopes which the biology of two threatened had been selectively logged until Implications species of Bangsia tanagers c. 20 years ago. These trails are Given these data and similar in northwestern Colombia. used by ecotourists (principally descriptions in de Soye et al.4, it is Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 118: 25– birdwatchers), lodge employees clear that G. gigantea readily 31. and locals who deliver goods to the forages along muddy trails — lodge on a daily basis. either within forest or in pastures Justin Farthing directly adjacent. Use of trails by 1 Ratfords Yard, Great Wilbraham, Observations G. gigantea may increase its Cambridge CB1 5JT, UK. The G. gigantea hylodroma was detectability leading to higher first encountered, in December than average mortality, given that 1997 by TN, along trails H and F the Ecuadorian population Behaviour and use of human at Bellavista. It was easily continues to grow at 1.8% per year trail by a Giant Antpitta approached in the early morning, and that most rural Ecuadorians Grallaria gigantea usually at 06h00, and later in the habitually carry slingshots. Giant Antpitta Grallaria gigantea afternoon, near 18h00. Occasion is a rare and highly range- ally it was encountered on either References restricted species of humid trail H or F at noon. Most 1. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. montane and submontane forest, observations followed a similar (1986) A guide to the birds of secondary woodland and adjacent pattern: upon being disturbed on Colombia. Princeton, NJ: muddy clearings in the north-west the trail, it would hop or run Princeton University Press. Andes1–4. The subspecies rapidly from the observer along 2. Krabbe, N., DeSmet, G., hylodroma of west Ecuador is the trail for 10–15 m. Very Greenfield, P., Jácome, M., known from 1200 to 2000 m3,4. In infrequently, it would fly along the Matheus, J. C. & Sornoza F., contrast, most other observations trail. If the observer continued to M. (1994) Giant Antpitta of G. gigantea have been at 2300– advance, it would move away Grallaria gigantea. Cotinga 2: 3000 m1,4. Based on numbers likewise, maintaining a 10–15 m 32–34. singing, de Soye et al.4 estimated distance between it and the 3. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. that c.11.5 individuals/ha may be observer. On one occasion, TN (1994) The birds of South expected in suitable submontane ‘pushed’ it in this manner c. 250 m America, 2. Oxford: Oxford forest at Mindo, west Ecuador. In along trail H. It was photographed University Press. contrast, Perez & Lyons (in litt. and tape-recorded singing in the
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4. de Soye, Y., Schuchmann, K. L. montane and upper-montane from the north-east and only the & Matheus, J. C. (1997) Field evergreen forest; Urubici and São second from the littoral. Sick8 notes on Giant Antpitta. Joaquim area (c. 27°59'S 49°39'W) noted that the species is extending Cotinga 7: 35–36. comprising mixed planalto its range in eastern Brazil due to 5. Stattersfield, A. J. & Capper, woodland with a predominance of deforestation. D. R. (eds.) (2000) Threatened Araucaria and areas of dense birds of the world. Cam bamboo undergrowth at 900–1000 Ash-throated Crake Porzana bridge, UK: Birdlife Interna m; and Correia Pinto (27°36'S albicollis tional & Barcelona: Lynx 50°24'W), a privately owned One was seen well in flight, in the Edicions. plantation area with large tracts Piraí valley, on 2 October 1995 of pines and Eucalyptus destined (JAT). Also found on Ilha de Santa Mark R. Welford for paper and cellulose production, Catarina, where considered a Dept, of Geology and Geography, with some patches of Araucaria common resident (LNN). Rosário7 Georgia Southern University, forest. Many of our records are listed five previous localities, all Statesboro, GA 30460-8149, USA. documented with tape-recordings in the south of the state, though and these are indicated. They she does not provide details. The Tony Nunnery have been deposited at either or Piraí record is the first from Loma Linda, Tandayapa Valley, both Arquivo Sonoro Elias northern Santa Catarina. Pichincha Province, Ecuador. Coelho — Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and the Library of Royal Tern Sterna maxima Natural Sounds — Cornell A group of four at Laguna, 80 km Records of bird species Laboratory of Ornithology. south of Ilha de Santa Catarina, previously considered uncom in June 1997 (LNN) and another, mon in Santa Catarina state, Yellow-crowned Night-heron on Ilha de Santa Catarina, in July Brazil Nyctanassa violacea 2000, perched on a pier with a In recent years we have made a Single individuals were seen on 10 group of Sandwich Tern Sterna number of interesting records of and 24 October and 20 December sandvicensis eurygnatha (LNN, globally threatened species and 1997, and 17 September and 21 CAM). Previously known from new southernmost localities for October 1998 in mangroves and only three localities in the state7. Atlantic Forest endemics within marshes in the northern part of Santa Catarina. Additionally, we Ilha de Santa Catarina (LNN). R. Sandwich Tern Sterna have added 11 species to the state B. A. Silva (pers. comm.) found a sandvicensis list. These records have been pair nesting in mangroves at the At least five of the subspecies published elsewhere5. Here we Estação Ecológica de Carijós, in acuflavida, on 5 March 1998, at present additional records of the northern part of the same Naufragados, the southernmost species with few previous state island, in November 1998. It was point of Ilha de Santa Catarina, records7, made during avifaunal considered rare in Santa Catarina flying very close to the beach with work in 1994–2000. Most records by Rosário7 with only two previous a group of the eurygnatha come from the following localities: records, both from the littoral. subspecies (LNN). Apparently Reserva Particular do Patrimonio there are only two other records of Natural de Volta Velha (c. 26°06'S Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis this Nearctic subspecies in Brazil 48°40'W), a privately owned Two records from Ilha de Santa (from Rio Grande do Norte and reserve, near Itapoá, which Catarina: two individuals were Rio de Janeiro)8, this being the protects the last remnants of seen flying high over rio Tavares, southernmost ever in the country lowland evergreen forest in the on 3 November 1997, and another and the first state record. state; Ilha de Santa Catarina perched in mangroves at Ratones, (27°10'–27°50'S 48°25'–48°35'W), on 17 September 1998 (LNN). Common Potoo Nyctibius griseus in Florianópolis municipality, a 54- Rosário7 mapped the species in One singing in a garden at km-long and 18-km-wide island, only the two southernmost Cacupé, Ilha de Santa Catarina, which possesses some relatively quadrants in the state, and on 19 October 1997 (LNN). well-preserved Atlantic Forest, as suggested it may be declining due Subsequently, the species was well as patches of mangrove and to a decrease in Pomacea snails, heard at other places on the restinga; Parque Botânico do which constitute its principal food. island, where it was considered Morro do Baú (26°47'–26°50'S fairly common4. One calling at 48°55'–48°57'W), in Ilhota and White-tailed Hawk Buteo Itapoá, on 15 October 1998 (LNN, Luiz Alves municipalities, a albicaudatus MAGA, ALR). There are only two protected area of montane and One was at Salto do Piraí on 4 other localities with recent records lower montane evergreen forest October 1995 (JAT) and another in the state7, but it has probably (at 200–820 m); Salto do Piraí flew over Morro da Igreja, Urubici, been overlooked in many areas. (26°18'S 48°50'W), near Joinville, on 14 June 1998 (LNN). Rosário7 which encompasses the waterfall lists five previous state records, and 400 ha of lower montane, but the Piraí record is the first
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Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis Pale-browed Treehunter recent in October 19867, but we At least two were heard, on 7 Cichlocolaptes leucophrus suspect the species has been October 1997, and one seen on 4 Records from Salto do Piral are as overlooked and is commoner than April 1998, at Costa de Dentro, follows: three on 4 October 1995, these records suggest. Ilha de Santa Catarina (LNN, two on 5 October 1995 in mixed- MAGA). There are only three species flocks (JAT) and two on 9 Highland Elaenia Elaenia obscura previous state records, all from April 1997, in foothill forest One with an active nest at Urubici the Atlantic Forest region7. (JMB). These last birds chased on 11 February 1997 (GMKet al.). Probably this is another species each other noisily close to a At Volta Velha, Itapoá, up to four that has been overlooked in Santa mixed-species flock, which they were seen and tape-recorded, in a Catarina. appeared to be following. The calls low restinga clearing, on 15–18 were tape-recorded. At Volta July 2000 (JMB, DB, LNN, MAGA, Spot-billed Toucanet Selenidera Velha, Itapoá, three separate CAM, ALR). It was also found to maculirostris individuals (one tape-recorded) on be a common resident at Ilha de Three were seen at Salto do Piral 16 July 2000. These are the 6-9th Santa Catarina4. There are only on 4 October 1995 (JAT). Single state records from where only six other localities in the state7, individuals were seen at Morro do three recent localities, all in the and the Volta Velha records are Baú on 20 April 1997 (unrecorded north-east, are known7. Previously the first from the north-east. there by Marterer3) and Salto do recorded at Joinville8. Piral on 26 April 1997, and up to Tropical Pewee Contopus four at Itapoá on 21 April 1998 Dusky-tailed Antbird Drymophila cinereus (LNN). Rosário7 considered it rare malura One was tape-recorded in the in Santa Catarina, with the most One seen in Três Barras, near the canopy of edge forest at Volta recent record from 1968, at Paraná border, in June 1996 Velha, Itapoá, in mid-July 2000 Camboriú, although it was (Denize A. Machado, LNN). There (JMB, DB). Four previous subsequently recorded at Salto do are only three other recent records localities in the state, all in the Piraí2. in the state, where it is considered north-east7. rare7. Pale-breasted Spinetail Vermilion Flycatcher Synallaxis albescens Bay-ringed Tyrannulet Pyrocephalus rubinus One in a shrubby, degraded area Phylloscartes sylviolus At Volta Velha, Itapoá, at least one by the road to Salto do Piral, on 9 All records were at Salto do Piral: male and a female, tape-recorded April 1997 (JMB). Known from three on 4 October 1995, two on 5 in fields and gardens around the just three localities in the state, October 1995 (JAT) and a pair was reserve headquarters, in mid-July all in the western third, and with observed outside the reserve on 10 2000 (JMB, DB, LNN, MAGA, the most recent record in 19897. It April 1997 (JMB). These birds, CAM, ALR). Considered a rare is presumably more widespread in which were tape-recorded, moved Neotropical migrant at Ilha de the state, especially given high in the canopy of a tree at the Santa Catarina, where there are a increasing deforestation. forest edge by the access road. number of records, all in August– Recorded only twice previously in March4. There are only four other Rufous-breasted Leaftosser the state, once at this locality, recent records in the state, all in Sclerurus scansor when it was collected9, but there the eastern third". One at Morro da Lagoa, Ilha de were no subsequent records7. Santa Catarina, in March 1994 Wing-barred Piprites Piprites (JMB) was in mature secondary Fuscous Flycatcher Cnemotriccus chloris woodland. Subsequently, the fuscatus At Volta Velha, Itapoá, in mid-July species was observed in most On 10 April 1997, a single bird 2000, one individual apparently forest remnants on the island, was observed on the edge of followed a mixed-species flock at a where now considered a fairly secondary forest at Salto do Piraí forest edge (JMB, DB). One common resident4. On 9 April (JMB). A pair was observed previous state record, at Estrada 1997, a pair at Salto do Piral was nesting in a tree stump at the do Quiriri, Joinville, in October associating with a loose mixed- same locality, on 29 October 1998 19927. species flock (JMB). There are (GMK et al.). There are also a only five other state records, one number of records from Ilha de Long-billed Gnatwren of which involves a specimen (held Santa Catarina, where it appears Ramphocaenus melanurus in Museu Nacional do Rio de to be migratory, with the first Two singles seen on 21 May 1998 Janeiro [MNRJ]) collected near records being from October and and on 15 October 1998, at Volta Piral in 19287. The species was the last ones from March (1998)4. Velha, Itapoá, both following considered rare in Santa There appear to be just three mixed-species flocks in the mid Catarina7 and uncommon in published records for the state, all storey (LNN). There is only one northern Rio Grande do Sul1. from the littoral, with the most recent record in the state (from
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1980), at Itapiranga near the Rod McCann and Rob Williams, Luciano Nicolás Naka Argentine border, in the for their company in the field Haroldo Sores Glavan 4280, westernmost part of the state7. during two brief visits to the state. Cacupé (88050-000), Florianópolis, The only other record involves a JMB thanks Santiago Imberti and Santa Catarina, Brazil. specimen from Joinville, taken in Rosendo M. Fraga for company in 1928, housed in MNRJ7. Sick8 the field during July 2000. Juan Mazar Barnett listed the species’ coastal range in Av. Forest 1531 1°B, (1430) Buenos Brazil as being from Pará to Santa References Aires, Argentina. Catarina, while Ridgely & Tudor5 1. Belton, W. (1984) Birds of Rio described its coastal range as Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1. Bull. Guy M. Kirwan Pernambuco to southern São Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 178: 74 Waddington Street, Norwich Paulo. 369–636. NR2 4 JS, UK. 2. Machado, D. A. (1996) Estudo Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus de populações de aves Joe A. Tobias leucomelas silvestres da região do Salto c/o BirdLife International, One seen and heard at Salto do do Piraí e uma proposta de Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Piral on 4 October 1995 (JAT) conservação para a Estação Cambridge CB3 0NA, UK. appears to be the fifth state Ecológica do Bracinho, record7, and the first from the Joinville— SC. Dissertação de Dante Buzzetti north-east. Mestrado— ESALQ/USP. Centro de Estudos Ornitológicos, 3. Marterer, B. T. P. (1996) São Paulo, Rua Dom Manuel 173, Long-billed Wren Thryothorus Avifauna do Parque Botânico 04602-050 São Paulo, SP, Brazil. longirostris do Morro do Baú. Riqueza, Many at Ilha do Porto Belo in aspectos de frequências e 1997 (LNN, ALR). At Volta Velha, abundância. Florianópolis: PUBLISHED RECORDS Itapoá, two separate individuals FATMA. FROM THE LITERATURE were tape-recorded, on 16 July 4. Naka, L. N. & Rodrigues, M. 2000 (JMB, DB), at a woodland (2000) As aves da Ilha de CARIBBEAN edge with a marshy area, and on Santa Catarina. the banks of a stream within open Florianópolis: Ed. Cuba forest. Only four other previous Universidade Federal de Mitchell et al.35 examine the sight records in the state, most in Santa Catarina. current status of Fernandina’s the littoral7. 5. Naka, L. N., Mazar Barnett, J., Flicker Colaptes fernandinae, Kirwan, G. M., Tobias, J. A. & mapping all recent localities and Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus de Azevedo, M. A. G. (2000) comparing these with its haemorrhous New and noteworthy bird historical distribution. The first A group, on 22 May 1998, at Volta records from Santa Catarina specimens of Chimney Swift Velha, Itapoá (LNN, MAGA) and state, Brazil. Bull. Brit. Orn. Chaetura pelagica for the island heard at the same locality in July Club 120: 237–250. were two exhausted migrants at 2000 (LNN, CAM). There are only 6. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. Cabo de San Antonio, Pinar del four other recent records in the (1989) The birds of South Río, on 22 October 199851. state7. America, 1. Austin: Univer sity of Texas Press. Dom inica 7. Rosário, L. A. do (1996) As Acknowledgements A first-winter Great Black- aves em Santa Catarina. We are grateful to William Belton, backed Gull Larus marinus at Rafael A. Dias, Fernando Pacheco Distribuição geográfica e meio Mahaut, on 9 March 1999, was the ambiente. Florianópolis: and Robert Ridgely for their first island record, and only the FATMA. comments on these records. LNN third for the eastern Caribbean47. is grateful to Marcos A. G. de 8. Sick, H. (1997) Ornitologia brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Azevedo (MAGA) and Andrei L. Haiti Nova Fronteira. Roos (ALR), who shared many The first record of Swallow field trips in the state and to 9. Underdown, C. E. (1933) Notes on some birds from Santa tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus Curtis A. Marantz (CAM) for in Hispaniola involved two, with a company in the field in July 2000; Catharina, Brazil. Auk 50: 323–324. dramatic movement of Osprey Denize A. Machado and Dinâmica Pandion haliaetus, over Gonaïves Projetos Ambientais permitted Bay, on 28 August 199921. him to join many field trips, and L. A. do Rosário and B. T. P. Marterer offered friendship and advice. GMK is grateful to David Beadle, Mark A. Elwonger et al.,
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Jamaica Mexico at 2710 m at Iruya, Salta The fourth Nashville Warbler Morales-Pérez et al.31 extend the province, represents an upward Vermivora ruficapilla for the known range of Black-banded range extension of more than island was at Aylsham, St. Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes 1300 m for the species33. Acerbo1 Andrew, from 3 February 2000 for picumnus in Chiapas, based on details occurrences of Chiguanco at least a month28. Two Greater specimen records. Thrush Turdus chiguanco from Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber Neuquén and Río Negro provinces, were at Falmouth in winter 19986. Panama where only a few records existed. The first description of the nest The second record of Short-tailed St. Vincent & Grenadines and nesting behaviour of Hawk Buteo brachyurus, first Smith & Smith50 recently (May Nightingale Wren Microcerculus confirmed records of Stygian Owl 1998) reconfirmed the presence of marginatus has been published Asio stygius and Spectacled Owl Rufous-vented Chachalaca recently from observations in 1996 Pulsatrix perspicillata and first Ortalis ruficauda on Union Island and 199718. Elsewhere, interesting record of Giant Cowbird and Bequia, its only known distributional and elevational Molothrus (Scaphidura) localities in the West Indies. information for 18 species is oryzivorus were reported from presented in a recent paper based Chaco province16. Black-backed CENTRAL AMERICA on a visit to the Cerro Chucantí, Grosbeak Pheucticus within the Serranía de Majé, in aureoventris has been reported for C osta Rica 19964. More recent records include the first time in Chaco province, There have been a number of several reports of Choco Toucan and for the second in Formosa records, since 1989, of Blue Ramphastos brevis, potentially the province17. A straggler Chinstrap tailed Hummingbird Amazilia first verifiable country record, at Penguin Pygoscelis antárctica cyanura at Monteverde, Palo Cana, Darién, in late March to and one King Penguin Verde and Carara, for which mid-April 2000, and a Dunlin Aptenodytes patagonicus photographic evidence exists of at Calidris alpina at Panamá Viejo, represent the first and fourth least one; a male Prairie on 9 March 20002. Subsequently, records in Buenos Aires province Warbler Dendroica discolor was the third country record of respectively, with both being at Monteverde from at least late Fulvous Whistling-Duck found near Miramar8. A January to mid-March 2000; Dendrocygna bicolor, a flock of 33 Magellanic Oystercatcher records of Wedge-tailed Grass- at Las Macanas marsh on 14 July Haematopus leucopodus observed Finch Emberizoides herbicola and 2000, was made, and other at Mar de Cobo, Buenos Aires, was Bay-winged Hawk Parabuteo interesting reports included two the third provincial record9. unicinctus, at Isla Damas just Lanceolated Monklet Baigorria10 reports the first north of Quepos, in early 2000 Micromonacha lanceolata, at Osprey Pandion haliaetus in represent intra-country range Santa Fé, on 15 July, one, probably Mendoza province, at Dique Los extensions; and two potential new two Oilbirds Steatornis Reyunos. The only modern record country records involve a Clapper caripensis at Barro Colorado of Crowned Eagle Rail Rallus longirostris sighting, Monument, on 9–10 July, a Bare Harpyhaliaetus coronatus and the at the edge of mangroves along necked Umbrellabird third of Many-coloured Chaco the Gulf of Nicoya, near Costa de Cephalopterus glabricollis and Finch Saltatricula multicolor Pájaros, and a Swallow-tailed Black-and-white Becard were reported for Buenos Aires Gull Creagrus furcatus, off Pachyramphus albogriseus, at province, along with a number of Golfito, from the M/V Temptress25. Santa Fé, on 15 July, and a Least other seldom-recorded species in Subsequent reports in 2000 Sandpiper Calidris minutilla, at that province22. Three records, included a Pine Warbler Aguadulce Salinas, on 14 July, the involving immatures, of Hook Dendroica pinus on 9 September earliest ever autumn record in the billed Kite Chondrohierax and a male Prairie Warbler on country3. uncinatus, observed near Colonia 25 September just east of Paraiso Liebig, are the first confirmed (other individuals of the former SOUTH AMERICA reports from Corrientes province15. were present in the same area in Maceda et al.29 report the first early October 1999 and at Argentina records of the following species in Tortuguero on 8 November 1999); There have been many interesting La Pampa province: Ringed Teal an immature Black-throated observations published recently. Callonetta leucophrys, a pair near Blue Warbler D. caerulescens at The second country record of Santa Rosa; White-crowned La Virgen del Socorro, on 17 Wren-like Rushbird Tern Sterna trudeaui, four September; and a female Phleocryptes melanops observations at Laguna Don Cerulean Warbler D. cerulea in schoenobaenus was made at Abra Tomás; Black Skimmer Montezuma during early Pampa, in Jujuy province32, while Rynchops niger, a single at the September26. a Rough-legged Tyrannulet same locality; and the first Phyllomyias burmeisteri observed confirmed report of Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail Spartonoica
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maluroides, a pair observed near Brazil rufoaxillaris in Minas Gerais is Santa Rosa. The southernmost Bauer et al.12 report, in detail, on documented5. Elsewhere, Dias23 record of Rufous Casiornis the rediscovery of Cherry- reports the first occurrence of the Casiornis rufa was one observed throated Tanager Nemosia exotic European Goldfinch in spring, at Reserva Natural rourei, in Espírito Santo, in Carduelis carduelis in Brazil, a Punta Lara, Buenos Aires February 1998, and subsequent pair on the Rio Grande do Sul– province36. Southern Pochard observations, and Mazar Barnett Uruguay border, at Chuí, on 23–24 Netto erythrophthalma was et al.34 similarly on Kaempfer’s February 1998, with further reported for the first time in Salta Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus observations in October 1998 and province, at El Rey National kaempferi. Naka et al . 38 present February 1999. Bauer & Pacheco11 Park49. records of 11 species new to the provide a useful bird list for the Two Elliot’s Storm-Petrels state of Santa Catarina, as well as Visconde de Mauá region of the Oceanites gracilis, collected in El observations of 12 species of Sierra da Mantiqueira, at the Bolsón, Río Negro, 12 years apart, conservation concern and 14 border of Minas Gerais and Rio de are the first country records44, as species for which fewer than three Janeiro, and Pacheco43 separately were up to four Chestnut- state records previously existed. updates the avifauna of Amapá throated Huet-huet Maurício & Dias31 provide new state from a new study of the Pteroptochos castaneus found at distributional information for 19 literature, providing novel Reserva Natural Turística species in Rio Grande do Sul, and information for 17 species. Lagunas de Epulaufquen, document the presence of Rufous Neuquén45. Navas & Bó40 report Gnateater Conopophaga lineata Colom bia the first concrete records of in Uruguay for the first time. Based on field work in Nariño in White-tipped Plantcutter Borges14 presents the first country 1996–1998, Strewe53 presents new Phytotoma rutila, Correndera records of Yapacana Antbird departmental and Pacific-slope Pipit Arthus correndera, Plain Myrmeciza disjuncta, from Jaú records for 21 species, as well as a Seedeater Catamenia inornata National Park, based on tape- new species for Colombia — and Greater Yellow-Finch recordings, photographs and two Andean Gull Larus Sicalis auriventris in San Juan specimens. These extend the serranus —and significant new province, and the first Hellmayr’s species’ distribution 500 km records for six other species, Pipit Anthus hellmayri in southwards. Six records of up to including an altitudinal range Mendoza province, all based on three White-bellied Storm- extension, of 350 m downslope, specimens obtained by W. H. Petrels Fregetta grallaria, with for the globally threatened Choco Partridge in 1963. The nest of the one photographed, in 1997 from a Vireo Vireo masteri. Photographic Stripe-headed Brush-Finch bottom long-liner, represent the and sound-recording evidence are Buarremon torquatus is described first documentation of the species presented in support of some for the first time, from the Baritú in Brazil41. Petry et al.46 report on species. Having gone unnoticed in National Park, Salta24. three specimens of Cape Verde the country since 1979, Mous Straneck52 presents the Shearwater Calonectris tached Antpitta Grallaria alleni following noteworthy records: a edwardsii found on the coast of was rediscovered, in late 1995, at male Green-backed Firecrown Rio Grande do Sul, and also Otún-Quimbaya Fauna and Flora Sephanoides sephaniodes observed mention a sight record at sea, off Sanctuary, in the Central Andes27. during winter and spring 1998 in São Paulo, in May 1997 and a Calamuchita, Córdoba, is the previous specimen record from Ecuador second provincial record; the first Bahia; these are the only country Moustached Antpitta Grallaria confirmed reports of Ash- records. alleni was first found in the throated Crake Porzana Recent observations published country in 1990 and has since albicollis for Jujuy and Santa Fe in Melopsittacus include the been recorded at a total of six based on tape recordings; and up following. Vasconcelos & Roos54 localities (four in Pichincha to three Black Rails Laterallus provide new records of birds from province and at single sites in jamaicensis in December 1992 Parque Estadual do Morro do Cotopaxi and Napo provinces) on near El Bolsón, Río Negro, are a Diabo, São Paulo, while both slopes of the Andes27. southward range extension of Nascimento & Neto39 present Specimens were taken in 1992 more than 1000 km. Two waterbird data, collected in 1992– and 1994. Ortiz-Crespo42 has observations of Mourning 1994, from the Sobradinho Lake described the nest of the Sierra-Finch Phrygilus fruticeti region of Bahia. Information on Rainbow Starfrontlet Coeligena near Calamuchita, Córdoba, are breeding and the current iris. the second and third provincial distribution of the globally records, and two Carbonated threatened Blue-throated Peru Sierra-Finches P. carbonarius Parakeet Pyrrhura cruentada has Another specimen of the little- observed near Colonia Belgrano, been summarised30, while known Fine-barred Piculet Santa Fe, represent the first elsewhere the northward spread of Picumnus subtilis has recently record in that province. Screaming Cowbird Molothrus come to light48.
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Uruguay were also up to four Pectoral G uatem ala A pair of Hill Myna Gracula Sandpiper C. melanotos on 23–29 PK sent the following records, religiosa was found nesting in January. An Arctic Skua relating to 1999: two Muscovy Colonia department7. Recent Stercorarius parasiticus was on Duck Cairina moschata along the avifaunal work in north-west dpto. Saunders Island, on 26 January, río Passion, near El Ciebal, on 6 Artigas produced the first country and on Pebble Island, on 12 November; four Black Skimmer records of Large Elaenia Elaenia February. In addition, Black et Rynchops niger at Sayaxche, on 6– spectabilis and Rufous Casiornis al.13 provide records of 17 species 7 November, perhaps the first Casiornis rufa19. Rufous of seabirds previously considered Petén record; an Azure-crowned Gnateater Conopophaga lineata uncommon in the archipelago’s Hummingbird Amazilia has recently been added to the list waters. cyanocephala near El Ciebal on 8 of species reliably recorded from November; a female Lovely the country (see Brazil above)31. Cotinga Cotinga amabilis and a OTHER RECORDS group of six Band-backed Wren V enezuela RECEIVED Campylorhynchus zonatus in the Colvee20 describes the first same area, on the same date; a observations of Orinoco Softtail Cuba female Prothonotary Warbler Thripophaga cherriei since 1970, GMK reports the following in Protonotaria citrea on the north three (one male and one pair) in 2000. A Chimney Swift Chaetura east side of Lake Amatitlán, on 16 dense riverside forest along the pelagica was c. 20 km south of October, with 20 in mangroves río Capuana, near Guacharaca Matanzas city, on 14 April, a 1 km east of Ixtapa, on the Pacific Afuera, Amazonas. Bananaquit Coereba flaveola at coast, on 28 November; a Pálpite, Matanzas, on 23 July Swainson’s Warbler SOUTH ATLANTIC 2000 (the 21st island record and Limnothlypis swainsonii at Tikal, first from the well-watched Zapata on 5 November; and a pair of Falkland Islands region), five White-rumped Scarlet-rumped Tanager The following interesting records Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis Ramphocelus passerinii near El were published in Falklands near Jagüey Grande, Matanzas, on Ciebal, on 8 November. Conservation Newsletter 47 (July 24 July 2000, and a N orthern 2000). All were made in 2000. A Rough-winged Swallow Jamaica pair of Great Grebe Podiceps Stelgidopteryx serripennis The following observations refer to major was on Pebble Island, on between Pálpite and Guamá, on 1999: a Yellow-throated Vireo 18–23 January at least, while 2–8 21 July 2000 (the earliest ever Vireo flavifrons was at Marshall’s Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba autumn record). Potentially the Pen, on 8-9 November at least coscoroba are now resident on the first Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris (GMK, RPM, JP, FR); a Willow same island. A Great White bairdii for Cuba was at Casilda, Flycatcher Empidonax traillii Egret Egretta alba was at Trinidad, on 17–18 July 2000, was tape-recorded at Windsor Estancia, on 11 February, and on with a Pectoral Sandpiper C. Caves, on 10 November (GMK, Weddell Island, on 13 February, melanotos there at the same time FR) and a Northern Rough and an immature Cocoi Heron (JB). A Bananaquit was at Las winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx Ardea cocoi was at Teal Inlet, on Terrazas, west of Habana, also in serripennis was at Rocklands, 13 May–4 July. A Rosy-billed July (JB). A Ruby-crowned near Montego Bay, on 11 Pochard Netta peposaca was on Kinglet Regulus calendula, the November (GMK, FR). Saunders Island, in December second island record, was reported 1999, moving to Pebble Island, on in the Zapata region, on 17 Mexico 27 January–12 February. Other November 2000 (MF). A Grace’s Warbler Dendroica vagrants included an American GW has drawn our attention to graciae was above Cola de Caballo Purple Gallinule Porphyrula some corrections and clarifications south of Monterrey, on 3 October martinico found dead at Teal Inlet to the records presented in and an immature Prairie Warbler on 4 July, a White-winged Coot Cotinga 14: 106–107. The D. discolor was at the Balcon de Fulica leucoptera on Pebble Island Bananaquit record was the 20th Montezuma archaeological area, on 18–29 January at least and a individual to be recorded in Cuba, c. 20 km south-west of Ciudad Red-gartered Coot F. armillata the Pomarine Skua Stercorarius Victoria, on 4 October (RH). sighted at several localities pomarinus was the 9th (or 10th) between 3 June and 16 July. for Cuba and the Lesser Black- St Lucia Vagrant shorebirds included up to backed Gull Larus fuscus was the Two firsts for the island were four Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris second (and first documented) recorded in 1999, a Northern bairdii on Cape Pembroke, record. Rough-winged Swallow between December 1999 and Stelgidopteryx serripennis on 17 January 2000, with two on Pebble March and a House Sparrow Island on 23 January, where there Passer domesticus the following day (MT).
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Acknowledgements Buenos Aires, Argentina. 20. Colvee, J. (2000) In search of The following forwarded or Nuestras Aves 40: 15. the Orinoco Softtail. World commented on records: John Bell 10. Baigorria, J. (1999) Registro Birdwatch 22 (2): 22–23. (JB), Dan Brooks, Dalcio Dacol, del Aguila Pescadora 21. Crouse, D. G. & Keith, A. R. Mark Finn (MF), Rich Hoyer (RH), (Pandion haliaetus) en la (1999) A remarkable Osprey Peter Kaestner (PK), G. M. provincia de Mendoza, flight and first record of Kirwan (GMK), R. P. Martins Argentina. Nuestras Aves 40: Swallow-tailed Kite for (RPM), Andy Mitchell, J. Price 9. Hispaniola. El Pitirre 12: 91. (JP), F. Raja (FR), Luís Fábio 11. Bauer, C. & Pacheco, J. F. (2000) 22. Delhey, J. K. P. & Carrete, M. Silveira, Moss Taylor (MT) and Lista das aves da região de (1999) Aves nuevas o poco George Wallace (GW). Visconde de Mauá, Serra da conocidas para el sudoeste de Mantiqueira, no limite dos la provincia de Buenos Aires, Neotropical Notebook: compiled Estados do Rio de Janeiro e Argentina. Nuestras Aves 40: by Juan Mazar Barnett and Minas Gerais. Atualidades 11–12. Guy M. Kirwan. Ornitológicas 97: 7. 23. Dias, R. A. (2000) The 12. Bauer, C., Pacheco, J. F., occurrence of the European References Venturini, A. C. & Whitney, B. Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis 1. Acerbo, P. (1999) El Zorzal M. (2000) Rediscovery of the in Brazil. Orn. Neotrop. 11: Chiguanco (Turdus Cherry-throated Tanager 249–251. chiguanco) en las provincias Nemosia rourei in southern 24. Di Giacomo, A. G. & López de Neuquén y Río Negro, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Bird Lanús, B. (2000) Nuevos Argentina. Nuestras Aves 40: Conserv. Intern. 10: 97–113. aportes al conocimiento de la 4. 13. Black, A. D., Gillon, K. W. & nidificación de algunas aves 2. Angehr, G. (2000) The White, R. W. (2000) Uncom del noroeste argentino. Fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán mon seabirds in Falkland Hornero 15: 131–134. 26(4): 3–4. Island waters, 1998–1999. 25. Garrigues, R. (2000) The Gone 3. Angehr, G. (2000) The Sea Swallow 49: 36–42. Birding Newsletter 1 (2). Fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán 14. Borges, S. H. (2000) Primeiro 26. Garrigues, R. (2000) The Gone 26(7): 5–6. registro de Myrmeciza Birding Newsletter 1 (3). 4. Angehr, G. R. & Christian, D. disjuncta para o Brasil 27. Krabbe, N. & Coopmans, P. G. (2000) Distributional (Passeriformes: (2000) Rediscovery of records from the highlands of Thamnophilidae). Nattereria Grallaria alleni the Serranía de Majé, an 1: 14–15. (Formicariidae) with notes on isolated mountain range in 15. Chatellenaz, M. L. (1999) El its range, song and identifica eastern Panama. Bull. Brit. Milano Pico Garfio tion. Ibis 142: 183–187. Orn. Club 120: 173–178. (Chondrohierax uncinatus) en 28. Lacy, D. S. (2000) The 5. D’Angelo Neto, S. (2000) las provincias de Corrientes y Nashville Warbler in Ocorrência de Molothrus Misiones, Argentina. Aylsham, St. Andrew. rufoaxillaris (Passeriformes: Nuestras Aves 40: 17. BirdLife Jamaica Broadsheet Emberizidae) na região de 16. Chebez, J. C., Braslavsky, O., 74: 8–9. Francisco Sá, norte de Minas Derwidueé, T. & Soria, A. 29. Maceda, J. J., Fernández, M. Gerais. Melopsittacus 3: 134– (1999) Novedades and Tittarelli, F. (1999) 136. ornitogeográficas argentinas Nuevos registros de aves para 6. Anon. (2000) Bird notes. V. Nuestras Aves 40: 5–6. la provincia de La Pampa. BirdLife Jamaica Broadsheet 17. Chebez, J. C. & Casañas, H. Nuestras Aves 40: 18–19. 75: 26. (1999) Rey del Bosque 30. Mattos, G. T. de & Andrade, M. 7. Aspiroz, A. B. (1999) Miná del (Pheucticus aureoventris) en A. de (2000) Observações himalaya (Gracula religiosa) el chaco occidental argentino. sobre a tiriba Pyrrhura nidificando en Colonia del Nuestras Aves 40: 7–8. cruentata (Psittacidae): Sacramento, Uruguay. 18. Christian, D. G. & Roberts, D. espécie endêmica da Mata Nuestras Aves 40: 14. (2000) First description of Atlântica. Melopsittacus 3: 8. Bachmann, S. (1999) Pingüino nest and nesting behavior of 128–133. de Barbijo (Pygoscelis the Nightingale Wren. Wilson 31. Maurício, G. N. & Dias, R. A. antarctica) y Pingüino Rey Bull. 112: 284–287. (2000) New distributional (Aptenodytes patagonicus) en 19. Claramunt, S. & Gonzalez, E. information for birds in la provincia de Buenos Aires, M. (1999) Elaenia spectabilis southern Rio Grande do Argentina. Nuestras Aves 40: y Casiornis rufa, dos Sul, Brazil, and the first 8 . Tyrannidae nuevos para record of the Rufous 9. Bachmanii, S. & Isacch, J. P. Uruguay (Aves: Gnateater Conopophaga (1999) Ostrero Austral Passeriformes). Com. Zool. lineata for Uruguay. Bull. (Haematopus leucopodus) en Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo Brit. Orn. Club 120: 230– Mar de Cobo, provincia de XII (194): 1–8. 236.
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32. Mazar Barnett, J. (1999) La 39. Nascimento, J. L. X. do & 47. Rimmer, C. C. & Wieczoreck, P. raza puneña del Junquero Neto, A. S. (2000) Aves R. (1999) First record of (Phleocryptes melanops aquáticas da região do Lago Great Black-backed Gull in schoenobaenus) en la de Sobradinho, Bahia — Dominica. El Pitirre 12: 82– Argentina. Nuestras Aves 40: conservação e potencial de 83. 13. manejo. Melopsittacus 3: 53– 48. Schifter, H. (2000) A further 33. Mazar Barnett, J. (1999) 63. specimen of the Fine-barred Registro extralimital de la 40. Navas, J. R. & Bó, N. A. (2000) Piculet (Picumnus subtilis) in Mosqueta Pico Curvo Aportes al conocimiento de la the Museum of Natural (Phyllomyias burmeisteri). distribución, la cría y el peso History, Vienna, Austria. Orn. Nuestras Aves 40: 13. de aves de las provincias de Neotrop. 11: 247–248. 34. Mazar Barnett, J., Kirwan, G. Mendoza y San Juan, 49. Serra, D., Urcelay, C. & Soria, M., Pearman, M., Naka, L. N. República Argentina. Primera A. (1999) El Pato Castaño & Tobias, J.A. (2000) parte. (Aves: Phytotomidae, (Netta erythrophthalma) en el Rediscovery and subsequent Mimidae, Troglodytidae, Parque Nacional El Rey, observations of Kaempfer’s Motacillidae, Emberizidae y Salta, Argentina. Nuestras Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus Fringillidae). Hornero 15: Aves 40: 20. kaempferi in Santa Catarina, 123–127. 50. Smith, P. W. & Smith, S. A. Brazil, with notes on 41. Olmos, F. (2000) Registro (1999) The Rufous-vented conservation, life history and documentado e novas Chachalaca (Ortalis plumage. Bird Conserv. observações de Fregetta ruficauda) in the West Indies. Intern. 10: 371–379. grallaria para o Brasil El Pitirre 12: 83–84. 35. Mitchell, A. D., Kirkconnell, A. (Procellariiformes: 51. Sosa, A. L. & Perez Mena, E. & Wells, L. J. (2000) Notes on Hydrobatidae). Nattereria 1: E. (1999) First specimen the status and nesting 20–22. record of a Chimney Swift ecology of Fernandina’s 42. Ortiz-Crespo, F. (2000) The (Chaetura pelagica) (Aves: Flicker Colaptes fernandinae. nest of the Rainbow Star Apodidae) for Cuba. El Pitirre Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 120: frontlet, Coeligena iris. Bull. 12: 113–114. 103–112. Brit. Orn. Club 120: 205–208. 52. Straneck, R. J. (1999) Nuevas 36. Montaldo, N. H. & Roitman, G. 43. Pacheco, J. F. (2000) Alguns localidades para aves de la G. (1999) Registro del registros históricos para a Argentina. Rev. Mus. Arg. Burlisto Castaño (Casiornis ornitologia do Amapá. Cien. Nat., n. s. 1: 173–180. rufa) en la selva de Punta Atualidades Ornitológicas 96: 53. Strewe, R. (2000) New Lara, provincia de Buenos 5. distributional sightings of 28 Aires, Argentina. Nuestras 44. Pearman, M. (2000) Primeros species of birds from Dpto. Aves 40: 19. registros del Paiño de Elliot Nariño, SW Colombia. Bull. 37. Morales-Pérez, J. E., González- (Oceanites gracilis) en la Brit. Orn. Club 120: 189–195. Ortega, M. A. A. & Argentina. Hornero 15: 141– 54. Vasconcelos, M. F. de & Roos, Domínguez, P. G. (2000) 143. A. L. (2000) Novos registros Records of the Black-banded 45. Pearman, M. (2000) Notes on a de aves para o Parque Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes population of Chestnut- Estadual do Morro do Diabo, picumnus in Chiapas, Mexico. throated Huet-huet São Paulo. Melopsittacus 3: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 120: Pteroptochos castaneus in 81–84. 133–136. Neuquén province: a new 38. Naka, L. N., Mazar Barnett, J., Rhinocryptid for Argentina. Kirwan, G. M., Tobias, J. A. & Hornero 15: 145–150. de Azevedo. M. A. G. (2000) 46. Petry, M. V., Bugoni, L. & Silva New and noteworthy records Fonseca, V. S. da (2000) bird records from Santa Occurrence of the Cape Verde Catarina state, Brazil. Bull. Shearwater Calonectris Brit. Orn. Club 120: 237–250. edwardsii on the Brazilian coast. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 120: 198–200.
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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 Colombia, 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 forest, 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 birds 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, Ecuador, Peru, 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 bird 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, Bolivia Southern range extension for America, 1. Austin: Univer and Brazil. 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 forests (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. Argentina 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 argentinas. 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 Nyctiphrynus 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 taxonomy 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. Paraguay 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
85 Cotinga 17 Neotropical Notebook another near Frigate Bay on 23 References Esquivel, E. Z., Kennedy, C. March 2001. Four American 1. Alverson, W. S., Moskovits, D. P, Perrens, M. & Pople, R. G. Coot Fulica americana were at K. & Shopland, J. M. (eds.) (2001) First records, notewor South Friar’s Bay Salt Pond on 23 (2000) Bolivia: Pando, Río thy observations and new February 2000, with three on Tahuamanu. Rapid Biological distributional data for birds Frigate Bay Salt Pond in March Inventories Report 1. in Paraguay. Bull. Brit. Orn. 2001. Among shorebirds, up to 70 Chicago: The Field Museum. Club 121: 23–37. Black-necked Stilt Himantopus 2. Anciães, M., Coelho, M. M. & 12. Delgado, V., C. A. (2000) mexicanus were at South Friar’s Chaves-Cordeiro, P. H. (2001) Ampliación distribucional del Bay Salt Pond in 2000, with Records of the Elegant Saltarín Mayor (Schiffornis roughly the same number at Mourner (Laniisoma elegans) major) en Colombia. Boletín Frigate Bay in 2001, a Wilson’s in forest fragments of Minas SAO 11: 38–42. Snipe Gallinago gallinago Gerais state, Brazil. 13. Dobson, A. (2000) Bird report delicata near Cockleshell Bay on Melopsittacus 4: 44–46. June to September. Bermuda 20 February 2000, four Short 3. Anderson, D. L. (2000) Notes Audubon Soc. Newsletter 11 billed Dowitcher Limnodromus on the breeding, distribution, (3): 3. griseus at South Friar’s Bay Salt and taxonomy of the 14. Dobson, A. (2000) Bird report Pond on 20 and 23 February 2000 Ocellated Poorwill October to November. and one at Frigate Bay on 17 (Nyctiphrynus ocellatus) in Bermuda Audubon Soc. March 2001, and a Western Honduras. Orn. Neotrop. 11: Newsletter 11 (4): 1–2. Sandpiper Calidris mauri at the 233–238. 15. Dobson, A. (2001) Winter bird latter locality on the same date. A 4. Angehr, G. (2001) The report December 2000 to Ring-billed Gull Larus Fieldeditor’s report. El Tucán February 2001. Bermuda delawarensis was off Basseterre 27 (2): 3–4. Audubon Soc. Newsletter 12 on 17 March 2001 and two 5. D’Angelo Neto, S. & Queiroz, (1): 4–6. American Herring Gull L. S. R. (2001) Ocorrência da 16. Dobson, A. (2001) Spring bird argenteus smithsonianus were maria-corruíra (Euscarthmus report March to May 2001. there on 18 and 23-24 February rufomarginatus) no norte de Bermuda Audubon Soc. 2000. One or two first-winter Minas Gerais, Brasil. Newsletter 12 (2): 3–4. Black-headed Gull L. Tangara 1: 90–94. 17. Estela U., F. A., Briceño, E. R., ridibundus were also in the same 6. Anon. (2001) Lifeline for two Restrepo, J. H. & Rodriguez, place on 17 March 2001 (a of Ecuador’s rarest endemics. D. (2000) Ampliación del possible first record). A Prairie World Birdwatch 23 (2): 6. rango altitudinal de la Warbler Dendroica discolor was 7. Azevedo Júnior, S. M. de, Tangara (Nemosia pileata). at Caribelle Batik on 22 March Nascimento, J. L. X. do & Boletín SAO 11: 85–88. 2001. (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. (RH), Floyd Hayes, Arturo G., Force, M. P., Spear, L. B. & (1999) Second report of the Kirkconnell (AK), André van Ainley, D. C. (2000) Status of Veery Catharus fuscescens Kleunen (AvK), Cathy MacLaggan the Westland Petrel salicicola (Aves: Turdidae) for (CM), Blake Maybank (BM), Pedro (Procellaria westlandica) off Cuba. El Pitirre 12: 44–45. Rodriguez (PR), Ivan Samuels South America. Notornis 47: 22. Garrigues, R. (2001) The Gone (IS), Peter van Scheepen, Thomas 179–183. Birding Newsletter 2 (1). Schulenberg, Roland van der 10. Cadena, C. D., Londoño, G. A. 23. Garrigues, R. (2001) The Gone Vliet, Andrew Whittaker (AW) & Parra, J. L. (2000) Nesting Birding Newsletter 2 (2). and John van der Woude (JvdW). records of five antbird species 24. Garrigues, R. (2001) The Gone from the Colombian Amazon. Birding Newsletter 2 (3). Neotropical Notebook: Wilson Bull. 112: 313–317. 25. Guilherme, E. (2000) On the compiled by Juan Mazar 11. Capper, D. R„ Clay, R. P, arrival of the House Sparrow Barnett and Guy M. Kirwan. Madroño N., A., Mazar (Passer domesticus) in Barnett, J., Burfield, I. J., southwestern Brazilian
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Amazon. Melopsittacus 3: schomburgkii from coastal 47. Smith, P. W. & Smith, S. A. 171–172. São Paulo, Brazil. Ararajuba (1999) A sight record of 26. Hamilton, R. A., Pike, J. E., 8: 141–142. Ringed Kingfisher Wurster, T. E. & Radamaker, 37. Mee, A. & Ohlson, J. (2001) (Megaceryle torquata) for K. (2000) First record of an Sira Tanagers seen again. Grenada. El Pitirre 12: 49– Olive-backed Pipit in Mexico. World Birdwatch 23 (2): 3. 50. Western Birds 31: 117–119. 38. Norton, R. (2000) West Indies 48. Smith, P. W. & Smith, S. A. 27. Hinkelmann, C. & Fiebig, J. region. North Amer. Birds 54: (2000) Recent sight reports of (2001) An early contribution 109–111. Lesser Black-backed Gulls to the avifauna of Paraná, 39. Peña R., M. & Weber, W. H. (Larus fuscus) from Cuba. El Brazil. The Arkady Fiedler (2000) Reencuentro del Pitirre 13: 43–44. expedition of 1928/29. Bull. Saltarín Cabecidorado 49. Telino Júnior, W. R., Lyra Brit. Orn. Club 121: 116–127. (Chloropipo flavicapilla) en Neves, R. M. & Carneiro, R. 28. Kattan, G. H., Alvarez-López, Antioquia. Boletín SAO 11: S. (2000) Observações de H., Gómez, N. & Cruz, L. 46–47. Touit surda (Psittacidae) em (2000) Notes on the nesting 40. Rodríguez, C. M. P., fragmentos florestais de biology of the Apical Fly Fernández, A., Reyes, E., Pernambuco, Brasil. catcher, a Colombian Navaro, N. & Osorio, J. A. L. Melopsittacus 3: 159–165. endemic. J. Field Orn. 71: O. (2000) Nuevos registros de 50. Telino Júnior, W. R., Lyra 612–618. Charadriiformes Neves, R. M., Farias, G. B. de, 29. Kirwan, G. M. (2000) Rose- (Scolopacidae) para la costa Brito, M. T. de, Pacheco, G. & ringed Parakeet (Psittacula norte de Oriente, Cuba. El Siqueira, S. A. de O. (2001) krameri) recorded in the Pitirre 13: 21. Ocorrência e aspectos West Indies. El Pitirre 13: 42. 41. Rodríguez, P. B., Garcia, G. A. comportamentais da pomba- 30. Kirwan, G. M. & Flieg, G. M. & Alvárez, V. B. (1999) Nuevo antártica, Chionis alba (2001) Cuban Kite update. registro de Botito de Cola de (Charadriiformes: Birding 33: 137. Tijera Tyrannus forficatus en Chionididae), em 31. Kirwan, G. M. & Kirkconnell, Cuba. El Pitirre 12: 47–48. Pernambuco, Brasil. Tangara A. (2000) Leucism in 42. Salguero-Faría, J. A. & Roig- 1: 26–29. Crescent-eyed Pewee Bachs, C. (2000) Senegal 51. Thorstrom, R., Massiah, E. & (Contopus caribaeus) in Parrot, Blue-crowned Hall, C. (2000) Grenada western Cuba. El Pitirre 13: Parakeet, Olive-throated Hook-billed Kite 88. Parakeet and Green-winged (Chondrohierax uncinatus 32. Krabbe, N. (2000) Rediscovery Macaw: new psittacine mirus) surveys and nesting of Asthenes wyatti azuay records for Puerto Rico. El activity. El Pitirre 13: 92. (Chapman 1923) with notes Pitirre 13: 45–46. 52. Vargas, M. R. & Padilla, J. A. on its plumage variation and 43. Sánchez, B. & Rodríguez, D. (2000) Registro Ostero Negro taxonomy of the Asthenes (2000) Avifauna associated (Haematopus ater) en anthoides superspecies. Bull. with the aquatic and coastal Maldonado. Achará 4: 19–20. Brit. Orn. Club 120: 149–153. ecosystems of Cayo Coco, 53. Venzal, J. M. & Mazzulla, J. C. 33. López-Lanús, B. (2000) Cuba. El Pitirre 13: 68–75. (2000) Nuevos registros de Carduelis cucullatus aún 44. Santos, A. S. R. (2000) The aves para el departamento de sobrevive en Colombia. first documented record of Salto. Achará 4: 14–16. Boletín SAO 11: 89–91. Itatiaia Spinetail (Schizoeaca 54. Vogel, C. J., Herrera, M. & 34. Marín, M. (2000) The Shiny moreirae) in the state of São Olivera A., M. A. (2001) First Cowbird (Molothrus Paulo, Brazil. Boletim Centro record of Taczanowski’s bonariensis) in Chile: de Estudos Ornitológicos 14: Tinamou Nothoprocta introduction or dispersion? 51–52. taczanowskii for Bolivia. Orn. Its hosts and parasitic 45. Shaffer, F., Rodríguez, P. B., Neotrop. 12: 181–182. trends. Orn. Neotrop. 11: Robert, M. & Torres, E. S. 55. Willson, S. K. (2000) First nest 285–296. (2000) Observaciones y record of the White-throated 35. Martínez, O., Garrido, O. H., adiciones a la ornitofauna del Antbird (Gymnopithys Reynard, G. B., Suárez, W, Archipiélago Sabana- salvini) and detailed nest Kirkconnell, A. & Wiley, J. W. Camagüey, Cuba, 1998–2000. records of the Hairy-crested (2000) A new family and El Pitirre 13: 76–81. Antbird (Rhegmatorhina genus of bird (Aves: 46. Sharpe, C. J., Ascanio- melanosticta). Orn. Neotrop. Caprimulgiformes: Echeverría, D. & Rodriguez, 11: 353–357. Nyctibiidae) for Cuba. El G. A. (2001) Further range Pitirre 13: 65–67. extensions and noteworthy 36. Mazar Barnett, J. (2000) An records for Venezuelan birds. extralimital record of Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 121: 50– Ocellated Crake Micropygia 62.
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Neotropical Notebook contains known though Stiles & Negret7 three sections. The first consists of Acknowledgements noted that in late September- short papers documenting records. Our observations were made October at Las Guacas, dpto. Photos and descriptions are during the ‘Migration of North Cauca, Colombia, the first heavy published where appropriate. The American raptors in northern showers of the rainy season second section summarises records Colombia’ project directed by Dr trigger the emergence of swarms published elsewhere, following the Marc Bechard and Greg of small beetles which attract format established in previous Kalteneker (Boise State Univer large numbers of swifts including issues of Cotinga. The third lists sity), Cesar Marquez (Instituto C. lemosi. Breeding behaviour is unpublished and undocumented von Humboldt) and the authors. unknown. Eisenmann & records. Please indicate, with We thank those organisations that Lehmann2 reported flocks of 20–25 submissions, in which section you provided financial support and individuals, occasionally within wish your records to appear. donations: US National Fish & mixed-species flocks of swifts, and Wildlife Service, Lincoln Park Zoo always at 16h30–18h30 in the SHORT NOTES Scott Neotropical Fund, Sociedad Cali–Santander area, suggesting Antioqueña de Ornitologia, ‘roosting’ aggregations. However, Instituto von Humboldt and observations above Cali in October First records of Red-tailed Birder’s Exchange. Paul Salaman 1994–August 1995 revealed such H a w k Buteo jamaicensis in commented on an earlier draft of flocks to comprise White-collared C o lo m b ia this note. Streptoprocne zonaris, Chestnut- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo collared Cypseloides rutilus and, jamaicensis breeds in North R eferen ces twice, White-chinned Swifts C. America and through much of the 1. Ferguson-Lees, J. & Christie, cryptus (CD pers. obs.). Antilles, and winters in Middle D. A. (2001) Raptors of the On 8 March 2000 near Leticia, America south to Panama1, with world. London, UK: A. & C. dpto. Amazonas, Colombia (2 km one record in South America, from Black. east of km 11 on the main road Venezuela (in Mérida during 2. Hilty, S.L. (1999) Three bird north of Leticia), we observed a February 1992)2. In November species new to Venezuela and large mixed flock of Chaetura 1999 and 2000 we monitored notes on the behaviour and swifts, 50–100 m above an area of Nearctic raptor migration at distribution of other poorly cleared forest. Interest in the flock Fredonia (05°54'N 75°43'W), dpto. known species. Bull. Brit. stemmed from our previous day’s Antioquia, north-west Colombia. Orn. Club 119: 220–235. observation of a Grey-rumped While observing large movements Swift Chaetura cinereiventris of Swainson’s Buteo swainsoni and Ana María Castaño R. and among Ashy-tailed C. andrei and Broad-winged Hawks B. Gabriel Jaime Colorado Z. Short-tailed Swifts C. brachyura, platypterus, we observed a total of Sociedad Antioqueña de which is a notable record for three Red-tailed Hawks B. Ornitologia (SAO), Cra. 63 B # 36- Amazonian Colombia. While jamaicensis; a solitary adult on 5 12, apto. 302, Medellín, Colombia. attempting to relocate the Grey- November 1999, an adult on 20 E-mails: [email protected]; rumped Swift we noticed a large March 2000 among a Swainson’s [email protected]. dark swift with a distinct white Hawk flock, and a lone juvenile on (apparently heart-shaped) breast 9 November 2000. The first was patch, which was its most notable flying slowly, c. 200 m from the The first White-chested Swift feature. Experience of White- observation point; it had broad, Cypseloides lemosi in collared Swift and an awareness of fairly rounded wings, dark mantle Amazonian Colombia the identification features and with whitish underparts, and a White-chested Swift Cypseloides potential for Biscutate Swift distinct reddish tail from above. lemosi is known from several Streptoprocne biscutata to occur in The second individual possessed localities in Colombia, between Colombia enabled us to quickly the same plumage pattern, and Cali and Popayán in dptos. Valle eliminate both these. The bird’s was heavier bodied than and Cauca1,3, several sight records size and structure were those of a Swainson’s Hawk. The juvenile since 1990 mostly in the foothills Cypseloides. In comparison to the was identified mainly by its grey- and subtropical zone of Napo accompanying Ashy-tailed and brown tail with many blackish Province, Ecuador4,5, and a recent Short-tailed Swifts it was bands. These records are the first record from the Cordillera del marginally larger and darker, for Colombia. Condor, Peru6. Its ecology is little lacking any pale areas on the
102 Cotinga 18 Neotropical Notebook rump and uppertail-coverts, with 7. Stiles, F. G. & Negret, A. J. streams. My observations, apparently uniform upperparts (1994) The non-breeding together with the report of the and no white collar. It had a distribution of Black Swift: a Kwinti, imply that a population of proportionately longer tail and clue from Colombia and the species occurs on the upper longer, blunter wings than the unsolved problems. Condor Coppename River. (For distribu butter-knife-shaped pointed wings 96: 1091–1094. tion maps of T. fasciatum and T. of Chaetura spp. or the bulging lineatum. in Suriname see http:// secondaries of Short-tailed Swift. Carl Downing www1/nhl.nl/~ribot/php4/ Sight records at Yuturi Lodge, 13 Aston Place, St Mellons, Cardiff verspreiding.htm.). In addition, eastern Napo, Ecuador, in July- CF3 0PH, UK. E-mail: Michel Clément observed two August 1996 and August 19985 carl.downing@birding- Tigrisoma fasciatum, at saut suggest that movements from the colombia.com. Ananas, in the upper Mana River Andes into the Amazonian area of French Guiana, during 24 lowlands, perhaps during post Jeremy Hickman to 30 July 1995, which is just to breeding dispersal, may not be 15 Kensington Park, Magor, the east of Suriname. unusual and that our record at Monmouthshire NP26 3QG, UK. Leticia was perhaps to have been R eferen ce expected. 1. Meyer de Schauensee, R. & A possible population of Phelps, W. H. (1978) A guide Acknowledgements Fasciated Tiger-Heron to the birds of Venezuela. We are grateful to Sean Scalon, Tigrisoma fasciatum on th e Princeton, NJ: Princeton Nick Bird and Julie Simmonds for upper Coppename, Suriname University Press. their company in March 2000 and Fasciated Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma all those we have birded with in fasciatum occurs east of the Andes Otte Ottema Colombia during the last ten near fast-flowing mountain Bird Department, Stinasu years. streams1. Here I report the first Foundation for Nature Conserva observations in Suriname. On 22– tion in Suriname, Cornelis R eferen ces 23 May and 25 June 2001 a T. Jongbauwstraat 14, P.O. Box 1. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P., fasciatum was seen near Foengoe 12252, Paramaribo, Suriname. E- Krabbe, N., Madroño-Nieto, islet, in the Coppename River. It mail: [email protected]. A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. was perched on a stone below a A. & Wege, D. C. (1992) bush near the riverbank, hunting Threatened birds of the for fish by a large rapid, on the Crimson Fruitcrow Americas: the ICBP/IUCN two first-named dates, and was Haematoderus militaris feeding Red Data Book. Cambridge, seen flying across the river in the on Cecropia sciadophylla UK: International Council for same area on 25 June. The bird On 29–31 August and 11 Bird Preservation. was mainly dark bluish-grey with November 2001 a male Crimson 2. Eisenmann, E. & Lehmann V., finely barred neck-sides, whitish Fruitcrow Haematoderus militaris F. (1962) A new species of foreneck (marked darker) and was recorded near a camp between swift of the genus Cypseloides belly. The crown was very dark the Voltzberg and Van Stockum from Colombia. Amer. Mus. bluish-grey and the bill black with Mountains, within the Central Novit. 2117. a yellow base. The throat was Surinam Nature Reserve. The bird 3. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. naked and yellow. Its size and was seen and heard in August but (1986) A guide to the birds of structure were much as Rufescent only heard in November. In the Colombia. Princeton, NJ: Tiger-Heron T. lineatum. morning of 31 August it was Princeton University Press. I showed the relevant plate in observed feeding on seeds of 4. Howell, S.N.G (2002) Addi The birds of Venezuela1 to some Cecropia sciadophylla. Foods of tional information on the Kwinti Bush Negros, who live in this species, as specifically birds of Ecuador. Cotinga 18: this area and whom I regard as recorded in the literature, are 62-65. fairly good birdwatchers. They large insects such as beetles1 and 5. Ridgely, R. S. & Greenfield, P. recognised the species, stating that cicadas2, making the present J. (2001) The birds of Ecuador, it is rarer than T. lineatum and observation of interest and 1. Ithaca, NY: Cornell that it tends to hide. The Kwinti confirming Snow’s3 supposition University Press. also reported that it inhabits areas that the species is also a fruit- 6. Schulenberg, T. S. (ed.) (1997) upstream of Foengoe islet along eater. Interestingly Snow3 also The Cordillera del Condor tributaries of the upper mentions that ‘Schomburgk (1848) region of Ecuador and Peru: a Coppename, but had never reported it as a migrant in the biological assessment. observed it below Foengoe islet. Kanuku Mountains of southern Washington DC: Conservation The area the Kwinti described is Guyana, occurring only in June International (RAP Working part of the 1.6-million-ha Central and July (the wet season) when Papers 7). Suriname Nature Reserve and the fruits that it eats are ripe’. possesses some fast-flowing
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R eferen ces R eferen ces differentiation: evidence from 1. Haverschmidt, F. & Mees, G. F. 1. Ridgely, R. S. & Greenfield, P. termitarium nesting parrots (1994) The birds of Suriname. J. (2001) The birds of Ecuador. and trogons. Ph.D. Durham, Paramaribo: VACO. Ithaca, NY: Cornell NC: Duke University. 2. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. University Press. 2. Brightsmith, D. J. (2000) Use (1994) The birds of South of arboreal termitaria by America, 2. Oxford: Oxford Matthew R. Clark nesting birds in the Peruvian University Press. Yale School of Forestry and Amazon. Condor 102: 529– 3. Snow, D. W. (1982) The Environmental Studies, New 538. cotingas: bellbirds, Haven, CT 06511, USA. 3. Collar, N. J. (1997) Family umbrellabirds and other Psittacidae (Parrots). In: del species. London, UK: Brit. Justin Strauss Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Sargatal, Mus. (Nat. Hist.) & Ithaca, United States Peace Corps, Quito, J. (eds.) Handbook of the birds NY: Cornell University Press. Ecuador. of the world, 4. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. Otte Ottema 4. Haverschmidt, F. (1960) Some Bird Department, Stinasu First nest record of Scarlet further notes on the nesting Foundation for Nature Conserva shouldered Parrotlet Touit of birds in termites’ nests. tion in Suriname, Cornells h u e tii Emu 60: 53,–54. Jongbauwstraat 14, P.O. Box Current literature presents very 5. Hindwood, K. A. (1959) The 12252, Paramaribo, Suriname. E- few data on timing of breeding for nesting of birds in the nests mail: [email protected] Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet Touit of social insects. Emu 59: 1– huetii and nothing regarding its 36. nesting behaviour. A male in 6. Juniper, T. & Parr, M. (1998) New altitudinal record of apparent breeding condition was Parrots: a guide to the parrots Brown Violetear C o lib rí reported in Venezuela in April, and of the world. Robertsbridge: delphinae possible nesting from Mato Grosso, Pica Press. Consultation of Ridgely & Brazil, in September–December3,6. 7. Terborgh, J. W, Robinson, S. Greenfield1 permits researchers in We observed a pair excavating a K., Parker, T. A., Munn, C. A. Ecuador to easily determine presumed nest in an arboreal & Pierpont, N. (1990) possible range extensions. On 24 termitarium 2 m above ground on Structure and organisation of July 2000, we captured a Brown 11 October 2001 near Pantiacolla an Amazonian forest bird Violetear Colibri delphinae in a Lodge, by the río Madre de Dios, community. Ecol. Monogr. 60: mist-net c. 1 km north of the Peru. The incomplete cavity was 213–238. protected forest of El Tundo near c. 15 cm deep and had an entrance Sozoranga, Loja, at 2250 m. The hole 8 cm wide; the termitarium Joe Tobias and Nat Seddon site was dominated by shrub itself was quite small, c. 50 cm 131 Catharine Street, Cambridge habitat of the Melastomataceae deep and c. 30 cm broad. Both CB1 3AP, UK. E-mail: family and within 50 m of the edge individuals excavated over a 20- [email protected]. of a narrow corridor of riparian minute period. The timing (in forest dominated by Neotropical mid-dry season) coincides with Walnut Juglans neotropica with peak breeding activity in most bird A new site for Royal Cinclodes thickets in the understorey of species in lowland forests of south Cinclodes aricomae and o th e r bamboo Chusquea spp. Brown east Peru7. Though very few noteworthy records from the Violetear is rare in southern nesting records exist for any Touit Illampu Valley, Bolivia Ecuador, and has previously been (many members of this Parque Nacional y Area Manejo recorded mainly in Zamora- Neotropical genus being Integrado (Cotapata) covers Chinchipe province to the east1. inconspicuous or apparently c. 60 000 ha in the Andes north This record is the first known nomadic), nests have been east of La Paz, Bolivia. capture in Loja province, and was reported in tree holes and arboreal Encompassing an altitudinal also at an elevation much higher termitaria3,6. It is likely that Touit range of 1100–5600 m in the than most of those previously parrotlets, like some Aratinga and Cordillera La Paz (within the recorded1. Brotogeris parakeets, regularly Cordillera Real), Cotapata has a breed in the arboreal nests of rich diversity of ecosystems, one of Acknowledgements social insects, joining a rather long the most imperilled of which is We thank Fundación Ecológica list of birds that are known to do semi-humid Polylepis woodland. Arcoiris for their graciousness and The Illampu Valley, in the south hospitality during our respective west corner of Cotapata (16°15'S stays in Ecuador. We especially R eferen ces 68°01W) supports fragments of thank Sergio Abad, Max Arias and 1. Brightsmith, D. J. (1999) The this fragile ecosystem, of which Mauricio Guerrero for their help. roles of predation and only c. 2% is extant along the competition in nest niche entire east slope of the Bolivian
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Andes4. In Illampu, at c. 4000 m, contrasting greyer crown of the alpinus in a protected area in single separate mixed Polylepis/ latter (in addition to being overall Bolivia9. Presently human activity Buddleia stands are present in more robust). It then flew in Illampu is moderate and three blind canyons, each with a downslope, disappearing from concentrated on the valley’s large, deep lake in the centre. view. Presumably the same central floor, not in the blind Composition is c. 50% Buddleia, individual was relocated later that canyons. However, humans exploit and 50% Polylepis, the former day, flaking moss and exfoliating the Polylepis fragments whose tending to be taller and to emerge bark from the bases of Polylepis growth is strongly correlated with from the denser Polylepis with its bill, in keeping with firebreaks, and, where accessible understorey. Fragments are dense, published descriptions of this to livestock, these woodlands are with the tallest trees being c. 4 m, characteristic behaviour6. heavily grazed. However, prospects and the majority being dwarf In addition, several species for the conservation of the shrubs. These canyons possess a were recorded that have restricted Polylepis fragments in Illampu are much more humid climate than ranges8 or were until recently good given the relatively low- the broader, windswept valley considered Near Threatened2, density human population, lack of floor, and the woodlands are namely Tawny Tit-Spinetail roads and general inaccessibility frequently drenched in mist or in Leptasthenura yanacensis, Line- of the area. If the local inhabitants mixed rain and snow. fronted Canastero Asthenes (only one extended family The conservation significance of urubambensis, Scribble-tailed seasonally inhabits the valley) can Illampu was recognised in Canastero A. maculicauda and be encouraged to coppice and September 1999, during Giant Conebill Oreomanes fraseri. prune, rather than burn3, and biodiversity surveys conducted by Furthermore, some uncommon or livestock grazing patterns are the Center for Biodiversity and otherwise poorly known species shifted, at least for a time, the Conservation at the American associated with Polylepis, e.g. interests of all can probably be Museum of Natural History Rufous-rumped Bush-Tyrant sustained. (AMNH/CBC), and its Bolivian Cnemarchus erythropygius and The occurrence of these collaborators (Museo Nacional de Stripe-headed Antpitta Grallaria extremely rare and vulnerable Historia Natural and Museo de andicola, both of which had not species in such proximity to La Historia Natural Noel Kempff been recorded at Illampu in Paz (Illampu is c. 30 km from Mercado), during which time Ash September 1999 or 2000, were Bolivia’s largest city) is notewor breasted Tit-tyrant Anairetes very vocal, and territorial in thy, and will be the focus of further alpinus was discovered9. Illampu October 2000. Also, quite investigation. was revisited for eight days in remarkably, Stygian Owl Asio September and 17 days in October stygius was observed twice, Acknowledgements 2000, primarily to evaluate the hunting rats among boulder- Our work was supported by the status of A. alpinus, map the strewn páramo adjacent to Center for Biodiversity and extent of the Polylepis fragments Polylepis / Buddleia scrub at dusk. Conservation at the American and gather initial ecological data It was readily identifiable, even in Museum of Natural History, New for their management. A poor light, due to its Asio York, in collaboration with the remarkable diversity of Polylepis- proportions, very dark plumage Collection Boliviana de Fauna, La dependent, and other little-known, and prominent ear-tufts, all Paz, Bolivia, and made possible by transition-zone5,7 birds was observed as it perch-hunted from the kind co-operation of PN-ANMI recorded during these visits. large boulders. It was seen to fly Cotapata, and SERNAP. In addition to the Endangered up from lower in the valley, Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant, the presumably spending the day at a R eferen ces Critical2 Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes slightly lower elevation than the 1. Bates, J. M., Parker, T. A., aricomae was discovered here in Polylepis stands. This little-known Capparella, A. P. & Davis T. J. September 2000. Only one was owl, uncommon and local (1992) Observations on the seen; initially flushed from a throughout the vast majority of its campo, cerrado and forest Polylepis thicket, it landed on an range, is known from a specimen avifaunas of eastern dpto. exposed boulder nearby. The taken in eastern dpto. Santa Cruz1 Santa Cruz, Bolivia, including uniform dark umber upperparts and a sight record from similar 21 species new for the coloration, pale buffy stripe at the habitat to the present one from country. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club base of the remiges (obvious in Cochabamba3. 112: 86–98. flight), and long, stout bill were all Because the species inhabiting 2. BirdLife International (2000) readily observed. It was, in all these Polylepis fragments, and the Threatened birds of the world. respects, quite similar to Stout fragments themselves, are Cambridge, UK: BirdLife billed Cinclodes, much darker and extremely vulnerable, this area International & Barcelona: browner than the form of Bar requires conservation attention. Lynx Edicions. winged Cinclodes C. fuscus Along with the one in the 3. Fjeldså, J. (1987) Birds of albiventer present at Illampu (CJV Choquetonga Valley, this is part of relict forests in the high Andes pers. obs.), and lacked the the only known population of A. of Peru and Bolivia.
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Copenhagen: Zoological Christopher J. Vogel On 25 May 2001, we tape- Museum, University of Center for Biodiversity and recorded (Fig. 1) a singing Copenhagen. Conservation, American Museum Grey-breasted Crake, at 19h00, in 4. Fjeldså, J. & Kessler, M. (1996) of Natural History, Central Park marsh at the edge of Laguna Conserving the biological West at 79th Street, New York, NY Iberá, 2 km from the main diversity of Polylepis 10024, USA. entrance of Cnia. Pellegrini town, woodlands of the highlands of in Laguna Iberá Provincial Park Peru and Bolivia. A Susan E. Davis (28°40'S 57°18'W). This individual contribution to sustainable Center for Biodiversity and did not sing again, but possibly natural resource management Conservation, American Museum two others responded with the in the high Andes. Copenha of Natural History / Museo Historia long trill to playback. This is the gen: Nordic Foundation for Natural ‘Noel Kempff Mercado’ first record in Corrientes province Development and Ecology. Santa Cruz, Bolivia. and a range extension of c. 200 km 5. Fjeldså, J . & Krabbe, N. (1990) south-east. The birds of the high Andes. Copenhagen: Zoological First record of Grey-breasted Acknowledgements Museum, University of C ra k e Laterallus exilis in We thank G. Pugnali for assisting Copenhagen & Svendborg: Corrientes, north-east our field work. R. Fraga provided a Apollo Books. A rg e n tin a critical review of the manuscript. 6. Fjeldså, J., Krabbe N. & Grey-breasted Crake Laterallus Parker, T. A. (1987) Rediscov exilis inhabits marshy lake edges R eferen ces ery of Cinclodes excelsior and wet meadows to 1200 m in 1. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. aricomae and notes on the central and northern South (1986) A guide to the birds of nominate race. Bull. Brit. America including the Caribbean Colombia. Princeton, NJ: Orn. Club 107: 112–114. coast1,3. It is rarely seen due to its Princeton University Press. 7. Remsen, J. V. & Traylor, M. A. elusive habits and because it 2. Pearman, M., Pugnali, G. D., (1989) An annotated checklist inhabits dense marshes, rarely Casañas, H. & Bodrati, A. of the birds of Bolivia. entering open or short-grass areas. (2000) First record of Grey Vermilion, SD: Buteo Books. In Argentina it has recently been breasted Crake Laterallus 8. Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. reported from the provinces of exilis from Argentina. Cotinga J., Long, A. J. & Wege, D. C. Chaco and Formosa2,4 (pers. obs.). 13: 79–82. (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of The song is a dit...ditditditdit, 3. Lowen, J. C., Bartrina, L., Clay, the world: priorities for very different from any other R. P. & Tobias, J. (1996) biodiversity conservation. crake in Argentina, but may be Biological surveys and Cambridge, UK: BirdLife confused with the noise given by conservation priorities in International (Conservation an insect that inhabits the same eastern Paraguay. Cambridge, Series 7). habitat. In response to playback it UK: CSB Conservation 9. Vogel, C. J. & Hennessey, B. utters a long trill very similar to Publications. (2002) Discovery of a new site that of many other crakes, 4. Mazar Barnett, J. & Pearman, for the Ash-breasted Tit- including Rufous-sided Crake M. (2001) Annotated checklist tyrant Anairetes alpinus in Laterallus melanophaius, which of the birds of Argentina. Bolivia. Cotinga 17: 80. also inhabits Laguna Iberá (pers. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. obs.). Ignacio Roesler Calle 2 N°1187 (1900), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: [email protected].
Diego L. Monteleone Magallanes N°1640 (1878), Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: [email protected].
Registro de la Garza Azul Egretta caerulea en la provincia de Tucumán, Argentina El 29 de agosto del 2001 encontramos un individuo adulto y aparentemente solitario de Egretta Figure 1. Song of Grey-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis, recorded at Laguna Iberá caerulea, en un bañado sobre la Provincial Park, Corrientes province, Argentina, on 25 May 2001 ( Ignacio Roesler) ruta provincial 308, entre Juan B.
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Alberdi y Graneros, c. 27°38'S Hernán Casañas, Juan Klavins West Indian W histling-Duck 65°23'W, provincia de Tucumán. El y Rubén Cargnelutti Dendrocygna arborea at Laguna ejemplar llegó volando a una Aves Argentinas / AOP, Delegación del Rincón, a Baird’s Sandpiper pequeña laguna, que abarcaba, con Córdoba, CC 9, (5178) Cruz Calidris bairdii a n d Black-billed vegetación acuática y monte del Grande, Córdoba, Argentina. C u c k o o C o c cyzu s tipo chaqueño seco bajo a su erythropthalmus at Cabo Rojo, an alrededor, una superficie American Golden Plover aproximada de 3 ha. El ejemplar PUBLISHED RECORDS Pluvialis dominica a n d te n B la c k voló y se posó a unos 4 m del suelo FROM THE LITERATURE T e r n Chlidonias niger a t L ag o y a unos 20 m de la ruta, sobre un Enriquillo, and Olive-throated Algarrobo P a r a k e e t s Prosopis sp. sin follaje. W EST INDIES Aratinga nana at two Allí permaneció unos minutos, localities. pudiendo ser fotografiado por HC. Bermuda El ejemplar pudo ser fácilmente Reports for 2001 included the Guadeloupe The first record of A n t il l e a n identificado por su distintivo fourth record of Sharp-tailed plumaje oscuro, con la cabeza y N i g h t h a w k Chordeiles S a n d p ip er Calidris acuminata at cuello hasta el comienzo del pecho North Pond, on 29 July–6 August, gundlachii on the island was in y espalda rufo-liláceo, y celeste and the first summer record of June 2000 and in July the same plomizo en el resto de la parte American Woodcock Scolopax year two individuals were dorsal y alas. Por la incidencia de minor on 1 June, at Dolly’s Bay17. observed, raising the possibility of la luz del sol se observó un notable the species breeding there41. brillo en todo su plumaje, y resaltó Cuba su iris amarillo. El ave parecía Many interesting records from the Jamaica bastante desconfiada y en seguida island have been published T h e f i r s t Connecticut Warbler voló alejándose de la laguna. No se recently. Following recent reports Oporornis agilis for the island was pudieron observar otros detalles, reported at Mason River Game in western Cuba, N o r t h e r n pero sí fue posible comparar este Sanctuary, Clarendon, on 29 P o t o o Nyctibius jamaicensis w a s individuo con una Egretta thula November 200015. found at two localities in extreme posada no muy lejos, y sus eastern Cuba, in early January tamaños eran muy similares. Más Puerto Rico 200136. Field work in December tarde el ejemplar fue relocalizado Pérez-Rivera52 draws attention to 2000–January 2001 produced the en un sector de playa sin records of Rose-ringed Parakeet first January records of S t i l t vegetación, donde se movía en Psittacula krameri on the island S a n d p ip e r Calidris Himantopus, busca de alimento, pero no between February 1985 and April Chestnut-sided D e n d ro ic a permaneció allí mucho tiempo, 1990 and, in a different area, in pensylvanica a n d B l a c k p o ll siendo ésta la última observación. July–October 1990. Tossas & W a r b le r s D. s tr i a t a , the fourth En esta ocasión se observó que el Delannoy58 report on the avifauna and fifth records of Lesser Black- ave por momentos volaba con el of M aricao State Forest, including backed Gull Larus fuscus, th e cuello parcialmente estirado, a num ber of interesting island fifth record of M arbled Godwit comportamiento similar al de records, e.g. a S w a in s o n ’s L im o s a fe d o a , the first records in Syrigma sibilatrix. Este sería el W a r b le r Limnothlypis swainsonii the Oriente of W hite-cheeked octavo registro publicado para la in January 1992 and a K e n t u c k y P i n t a i l Anas bahamensis a n d Argentina1,2 y el primero para la W a r b le r Oporornis formosus in Spotted Rail Pardirallus provincia de Tucumán. March 1992. m a c u la tu s , and the first winter record in the W est Indies of Agradecimientos CENTRAL AMERICA W a r b lin g V ir e o V ireo g ilv u s 38. A Agradecemos la colaboración de le u c is tic Yellow-faced Grassquit Mark Pearman, Juan Mazar Tiaris olivacea was found on Cayo Mexico Barnett, Guy M. Kirwan, Guillermo in January 2001; this The first record of the globally Alejandro Bodrati y Rosendo plumage aberration is almost threatened Bearded Wood- Fraga. wholly unknown within the Partridge Dendrortyx barbatus in genus37. Oaxaca was made in the Sierra Referencias Norte, in August 19981, while a 1. Kirwan, G. M. (en prensa) Dominican Republic new breeding locality for Military Nuevos registros de Egretta The third and fourth S w a in s o n ’s Macaw Ara militaris in the same caerulea y Riparia riparia en W a r b le r s Limnothlypis state16 and the first King Vulture el sur argentino. Nuestras swainsonii in Hispaniola were Sarcoramphus papa for Baja Aves. trapped in the Sierra de Baoruco, California were also reported 2. Mazar Barnett, J. & Pearman, in January 2000 and January recently18. A recent paper57 argues M. (2001) Lista comentada de 200154. Lithner42 reports some that a mid-1880s specimen of las aves argentinas. Barce interesting observations during Giant Kingbird Tyrannus lona: Lynx Editions. September 1999, including six cubensis, which has been
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questioned in some of the recent V ir e o V ireo g r is e u s at EARTH on W oodpecker M e la n e rp e s literature dealing with Mexico, 5 November 1999; a N a s h v i ll e c a n d id u s , Short-crested should stand as reliable proof of W a r b le r Vermivora ruficapilla a t Flycatcher M y ia r c h u s fero x, the species’ (former) occurrence in Rancho N aturalista, from 20 Green-backed Becard the country. The specimen appears November 1994; a female B la c k - Pachyramphus viridis a n d M a n y - to have been taken on 25 February throated Blue Warbler c o lo u r e d C h a c o Fin c h 1886, but the collecting locality Dendroica caerulescens at Savegre Saltatricula multicolor. B o d ra ti et (perhaps Isla Mujeres) cannot be on 12 December 1996; a male a l .7 add to these data, with certainly identified. C o o p e r ’s W estern Tanager P ir a n g a information on Barred Piculet H a w k Accipiter cooperii was ludoviciana at Rancho N aturalista Picumnus cirratus, S c i m it a r recently (May 2001) discovered for several days in late 1995; and billed W oodcreeper D r y m o r n is breeding in Oaxaca, a 1000-km a n Am erican Pipit A n th u s b r id g e s ii, Brown Cacholote extension south-east of its ru b e sc e n s at Tarcoles, in late Pseudoseisura lophotes, P e a r ly - breeding range21. Other observa 199326. The third and fourth vented Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus tions, recently published in the country records of S o u t h e r n margaritaceiventer , and others. online journal, Huitzil, include the L a p w in g Vanellus chilensis The status of 25 species has been first records of Cassin’s Finch occurred in late 2001, w ith a pair updated for Córdoba province, Carpodacus cassini a n d M e x ic a n at Playa Hermosa, south of Jaco, including records of K in g V u lt u r e D u c k Anas platyrhynchos diazi rem aining from 17 December 2001 Sarcoramphus papa , M it r e d for Oaxaca29, as well as records of to at least 8 January 2002. A P a r a k e e t Aratinga mitrata a n d 67 species, principally waterbirds, W hite Tern G y g is a lb a was found Rufous-sided W arbling-Finch raptors and shorebirds, which moribund at Sierpe de Osa, on 28 Poospiza hypochondria 61. T h e update information for localities in October 2001 (and subsequently status of 18 species is updated for central Oaxaca22. d ied ). A Chipping Sparrow north-west Buenos Aires province, Spizella passerina, perhaps only with details on Chaco Pipit Costa Rica the second Costa Rican record, was Anthus chacoensis56. A N a c u n d a A Pomarine Skua Stercorarius at Cahuita in mid-November 2001, N i g h t h a w k Podager nacunda w a s p o m a r in u s was reported off while perhaps only the third observed on 31 January 1997 at Tortuguero, on 27 M arch 2001, and country record of Black-headed Estancia Rincón de los Morros, a Long-billed Curlew Numenius G r o s b e a k P h e u c tic u s Southern Santa Cruz province; this americanus was at Chome, on 15 melanocephalus involved a female vagrant record extends the September 2001. Sightings of at M onteverde in mid-October species’ range by 1300 km and Lovely Cotinga Cotinga amabilis 2 0 0 1 . A W hite-tailed Emerald represents the southernmost at Los Llanos, near Santa Elena Elvira chionura was discovered at locality33. A fem ale W hite-sided may represent the first records 2200 m at the Savegre Hotel de H il l s t a r Oreotrochilus from the Pacific Slope. C in n a m o n M ontaña on 4 November 200127. leucopleurus at Chaltén, Los Hummingbird Amazilia rutila Glaciares National Park, on 6 a n d W hite-throated Magpie-Jay SOUTH AMERICA February 1993, represents the C a lo c itta fo r m o s a were reported southernm ost locality for this south of Dominical, representing Argentina species44. The first specimen significant southward extensions Orgeira50 provides new records records in San Juan province have of the ranges of both species. Some and information concerning the at- recently been presented for S o u t h late reports from Jay VanderGaast sea distribution of A t l a n t i c American Snipe G a llin a g o in c lu d e a S o r a Porzana carolina P e t r e l Pterodroma incerta off p a r a g u a ia e , M ountain Parakeet at Carara, on 3 May 1998; a South America, including the Bolborhynchus aurifrons a n d Paint-billed Crake N e o crex discovery of four large concentra Swainson’s Flycatcher e ry th r o p s photographed at Las tions of the species off Buenos Myiarchus swainsoni, along w ith Palmitas, north of Guacimo, on 27 Aires province, and other records other new distributional November 1996, with perhaps from the Drake Passage and information, based on a collection three birds present at this time; a Weddell Sea. Single C o m m o n by W. H. Partridge from this and breeding-plumaged H u d s o n ia n Tody-Flycatchers Todirostrum M endoza provinces47. M aceda43 G o d w it Limosa haemastica a t c in e r e u m observed on 11 February updates the status of C r o w n e d Tarcoles, on 3 May 1998; a 2000 and 21 March 2001 at Puerto E a g l e Harpyhaliaetus coronatus breeding-plumaged Arctic Tern Iguazú, Misiones province, are the in La Pam pa province. The first Sterna paradisaea photographed first country records11. Bodrati6 re c o rd o f Slaty Elaenia E la e n ia at Playa Azul (no date provided, updates the occurrence of ten stre p e ra in Córdoba province was perhaps the first country record); species in Buenos Aires province, one at Los Cocos on 23–27 20+ Violet-green Swallow at partidos Baradero and San December 199760. The second to Tachycineta thalassina at Río Pedro. Noteworthy are records of fifth and subsequent records of Birris, on 18 November 1996, and Plum beous Ibis Theristicus Green-winged Saltator S a lta to r another at Carara in April 2000; a caerulescens, Large-billed Tern s im ilis were recently presented for dark-eyed juvenile White-eyed Phaetusa simplex, W h ite Buenos Aires province8.
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Bolivia colony of Black Skimmer exhibits variation in plumage and A specimen of Fawn-breasted Rynchops niger near Manoel soft-parts coloration as well as in B r il l ia n t Heliodoxa rubinoides, Viana, in October 1998, was the that of the irides, suggesting a taken in 1982 at Cocapata, north first breeding record for Rio degree of previously unrecognised of Cochabamba, has recently been Grande do Sul and one of the few geographic variation in the discovered. This record is the first available in B razil19. New records species. in the country and a range o f Tail-grass W etland Tapaculo extension of 1000 km south53. Scytalopus iraiensis are presented Ecuador from Paraná, where the species is Freile23 provides details of a new Brazil now known from 24 sites10. Bencke altitudinal record of L u n u la t e d Borges et al.9 provide a species list et a l.4 provide novel breeding A n t b ir d Gymnopithys lunulatus, and other information for the biology data for Brown-breasted from 950 m, in dpto. Pastaza, in important Jaú National Park, in Pygmy-Tyrant Hemitriccus November 1999. Amazonas state. Several first o b so le tu s a n d Striolated Tit- country records have recently been Sp i n e t a i l Leptasthenura striolata. Falkland Islands / lslas Malvinas documented, including a Red The third record of S o u t h e r n A recently published review of tailed Tropicbird Phaethon Giant Petrel Macronectes vagrant records from the period rubricauda photographed at the g ig a n te u s in Paraná was a beached 1996 to 2000 includes the first Abrolhos archipelago, Bahia, on 24 im m ature found near Matinhos, on Black-necked Stilt Himantopus September 199714, and five 14 Septem ber 199935. mexicanus, Stilt Sandpiper specimens of Amazonian A recent paper examines the Micropalama himantopus, Parrotlet Nannopsittaca distribution and overall bird Elegant Tern Sterna elegans and dachilleae taken at Serra do species associations along two Brown-chested Martin Divisor National Park, Acre, on 19 altitudinal transects at 800-1,400 Phaeoprogne tapera for the July 199664. Whittaker67 presents m in the Serra do Cipó, M inas archipelago, as well as possibly the details of the first confirmed Gerais, between 1994 and 200045. first breeding record of White- records of Buckley’s Forest- K irw a n et a l.39 provide details of crested Elaenia Elaenia Falcon Micrastur buckleyi in significant observations made in albiceps63. Brazil; reports, all documented the rio São Francisco Valley in with tape-recordings, are available recent years, including two French Guiana from four localities in Acre, additions to the M inas Gerais Ingels34 reports on new observa between 1992 and 1999. The first a v ifa u n a , W hite-browed Guan tions of birds, principally feeding documented record of Scarlet- Penelope jacucaca a n d G r e a t e r and breeding behaviours, in the hooded Barbet Eubucco tucinkae W agtail-Tyrant S t ig m a tu r a country during November 1999. was a male collected in Serra do budytoides. New records of Divisor National Park on 20 July Orange-headed Tanager Netherlands Antilles 199665. The first specimen records Thlypopsis sordida from Paraná Wells & Childs Wells62 report the of Yellow-green Vireo Vireo have been reported recently, with first observation of Philadelphia flavoviridis involved three taken observations at four new V ir e o Vireo philadelphicus on by the rio Javarí, Amazonas, in localities2. Vasconcelos et a l .59 Curaçao, on 1 April 2000. October 195966. A mention of present a new locality for C ip o Barred Tinamou Crypturellus C a n a s t e r o Asthenes luizae, th e Paraguay casiquiare for Brazil is proven to Campina do Bananal, 170 km Capper et al.13 provide new be incorrect as the locality is north of previously known sites, distributional information for 22 within Colombia51. and W illis & Oniki68, in reporting species in the country, based on A review of Brazilian records of on a nest of P la n a lt o field work between 1995 and 1997, Spectacled Petrel Procellaria W oodcreeper Dendrocolaptes while Lesterhuis & Clay40 report conspicillata offers new informa platyrostris in São Paulo, point to the first record of R u d d y tion on the species in São Paulo, differences in songs between the T u r n s t o n e Arenaria interpres, at Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do nominate form of south-east Brazil Bahía de Asunción, on 7-13 Sul49, while other interesting and the subspecies intermedius October 2000. seabird records involve the second from inland dry forests, but to sixth records of Tristan acknowledge the existence of Trinidad and Tobago Albatross Diomedea (exulans) intermediate specimens. The status of Little Egret Egretta dabbenena in the country, from garzetta in the islands is reviewed, São Paulo, Santa Catarina and Rio Colom bia and a list of 33 records presented, Grande do Sul48. A small colony of Slaty-backed Nightingale- by Hayes & White31. Elsewhere in Audubon’s Shearwaters Th r u s h Catharus fuscater has El Pitirre the first records of Puffinus lherminieri found in recently been discovered in the Caribbean M artin Progne August 1993 at Itatiaia archi country’s Central Cordillera, at dominicensis for Trinidad, in pelago, Espírito Santo, represents two sites, near Pereira and April–May 1999, April–May 2000 the first country record20, and a Manizales3. The new population and February–April 200146, are
109 Cotinga 18 Neotropical Notebook presented, as are the first records appears to be a ‘new’ locality for a fork of peripheral branches of a of Swainson’s Hawk Buteo this globally threatened bird. tree, c. 2.7 m above ground and swainsoni for Trinidad and Several observers have apparently overhanging a well-used trail Chacachacare Island, in May 1998 failed to locate Berlepsch’s through second growth and and October 1999–January 200030. C a n a s t e r o A sthenes berlepschi at scrub. The walls of the nest were the well-known site of Sorata, 7.6 mm deep and comprised the Uruguay dpto. La Paz, most recently KE on fibre of Cecropia flowers with moss An Eastern Slaty-Thrush T u r d u s 14–15 October 2001, suggesting on the exterior. Interior diameter s u b a la r is observed at Refugio de that this Near-Threatened species of the nest was 16.75 mm, the Fauna Laguna de Castillos, dpto. may be in local decline. total height of the nest 34.25 mm Rocha on 18 November 1999 was and depth within the cup 16.75 the first country record24, while a Brazil mm (DBe). Highland Elaenia E la e n ia A new locality for the globally o b sc u ra photographed near Paso threatened Rufous-sided Guatem ala Centurion, dpto. Cerro Largo on 7 Pygmy-Tyrant Euscarthmus IS reports an observation (see Fig. November 1997 was also the first rufomarginatus (Fig. 2, p.113) was 3, p.113) of an apparent King country record55. The latter species discovered in Bahia, in cerrado Rail Rallus elegans in lakeside was seen again during the beside the BA-349, c. 170 km west vegetation at Lake Petén-Itza, breeding seasons of 1997– 1999, of Correntina, on 7 February 2002, Petén, between 13 and 17 with a nest being found on 12 while only the fifth-known locality February 1993 by Sidney Samuels. November 1998. Several L e s s e r for São Francisco Sparrow This would the first country Grass-Finch Emberizoides Arremon franciscanus was found record. ypiranganus on 5 and 7 July 1999 just north of Montalvânia, Minas at Quebrada de los Cuervos, dpto. Gerais, on 8 February 2002( DB, Mexico T r e in ta y T r e s 25, a n d o th e rs AG, GMK, JM). Interesting observations from a observed on 13 February 2000 at visit to the country in September- Reserva de Biosfera Bañados del Chile October 2001 included the Este, dpto. Rocha, are the first A weak immature Blue-footed following (status based on Howell published country records12. A B o o b y Sula nebouxii videotaped & Webb32 and, for Oaxaca, Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis on the beach at Arica, on 3 August Binford5). A Yellow-throated on 9 July 1999, also at Quebrada 2000, appears to be the second or W a r b le r Dendroica dominica a t de los Cuervos, was the second third report for the country (MCH, Tacámbaro, Michoacán, on 1 country record25. The second to SML). October, appears to be the first fifth records of Green-backed state record. Significant reports B e c a r d Pachyramphus viridis Cuba from Oaxaca included a involved one near Laguna Negra, TM et al. submitted some Blackburnian Warbler D. fu s c a dpto. Rocha, on 10 December 1997, interesting observations from a at La Soledad, on 8 October and singles collected at Paso March 2002 visit. Perhaps (or even (perhaps the state’s first autum n Centurión, dpto. Cerro Largo, on 6 probably) the same Lesser Black- record); up to five W edge-tailed April 1998, and at Cerro Pan de backed Gull Larus fuscus a s Shearwater P u ffin u s p a c ific u s Azúcar, dpto. Maldonado, on 2 July mentioned in C o tin g a 14: 106, was (earliest w inter record), an 1998, with subsequent sight at Cayo Romano on 7 March, while i m m a tu r e Red-footed Booby records there28. Lone male E n t r e at least 30 R e d K n o t Calidris S u la s u la (few previous state Rios Seedeaters Sporophila canutus (perhaps only the ninth records), a group of seven zelichi observed at Reserva de island record) were present on unidentified s c o t e r M e la n itta sp. Biosfera Bañados del Este, dpto. Cayo Coco (with seven on Cayo (no previous state records of any Rocha on 13 and 20 February, and Guillermo, on 19 February; B&RQ) scoter) and an Elegant Tern 7 March 2000 are among the few on the same date. Twenty-seven Sterna elegans, all seen during a available recent records12. Black Skimmer Rynchops niger pelagic 15 km offshore from Puerto were at Las Salinas, Zapata, on 14 Angel, on 9 October. A nother of the M a rc h . A t le a s t 3 0 0 Lesser Scaup last-named species was at Laguna OTHER RECORDS Aythya affinis were at Embalse La Ventosa, near Salinas Cruz, on RECEIVED Maximo, near Los Congilones, 10 October (only one previous Camagüey, on 23 February (B&RQ). state record for autum n), with a Bolivia R e d K n o t Calidris canutus (no KE notes the presence of four Ecuador previous state records in autum n) Red-fronted M acaw Ara A nest occupied by a female L it t le at the same locality on the same rubrogenys in Torotoro National W o o d s ta r Chaetocercus bombus date. There are few previous state Park, dpto. Potosí, on 29 with two eggs was found on 10 records of Chestnut-sided September 2001. Local people January 2001, at 300 m in the W a r b le r Dendroica pensylvanica; report that the species breeds Colonche Hills, Comuna Loma thus one at km 52, above Valle annually in the area, but this Alta. The nest was constructed on Nacional, on 19 October was
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significant, it being the first Slaty-backed Nightingale- 13. Capper, D. R., Clay, R. R, autumn record. A B la c k - a n d - Thrush in the Central Andes Madroño N., A, & Mazar w h i t e H a w k -Ea g l e S p iz a s tu r of Colombia, with notes on its Barnett, J. (2001) New melanoleucos, well watched at the ecology and geographical information on the distribu same site on the same date, variation. Wilson Bull. 113: tion of twenty-two bird represents an intra-state range 134–139. species in Paraguay. extension, based on Binford5. At 4. Bencke, G. A., Fontana, C. S., Ararajuba 9: 57–59. le a s t o n e Cassin’s Vireo V ireo Mahler, J. K. F. & Joenck, C. 14. Couto, G. S., Interaminense, L. c a s s in i was carefully watched at M. (2001) First description of J. L. & Morette, M. E. (2001) Cerro Huitepec, near San the nest of the Brown-breasted First record of Red-tailed Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, on Pygmy-Tyrant (Hemitriccus Tropicbird (Phaethon 12 October, w ith Blue-headed obsoletus) and additional rubricauda) in Brazil. V i r e o s V. solitarius. There are information on the nesting of Nattereria 2: 24–25. apparently no previous state the Striolated Tit-Spinetail 15. Davis, S. (2001) A survey and records of this species but, given (Leptasthenura striolata). Orn. inventory of the avifauna of that the V. solitarius complex has Neotrop. 12: 1–9. the Mason River Game only recently been recognised to 5. Binford, L. C. (1989) A Sanctuary, Clarendon, contain three species-level (rather distributional survey of the Jamaica. El Pitirre 14: 34. than subspecies) taxa and the birds of the Mexican state of 16. Dirección de la Reserva de la difficulties of specific identifica Oaxaca. Orn. Monogr. 43. New Biosfera Tehuacán–Cuicatlán tion, further and more concrete York: American Ornitholo (2001) Registro de evidence of this form’s occurrence gists’ Union. Guacamaya Verde (Ara south of the Isthmus of 6. Bodrati, A. (2001) Notas sobre militaris) en los cañones del Tehuantepec is desirable. (All DB, aves infrecuentes o poco río Sabino y río Seco, Santa MAE, GMK, RPM.) conocidas para la provincia de Maria Tecomavaca, Oaxaca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. México. Huitzil 2 : 17–19. Acknowledgements Nuestras Aves 41: 13–17. 17. Dobson, A. (2001) Summer The following forwarded records: 7. Bodrati, A., Bodrati, G. & bird report June to July 2001. David Beadle (DB), Dusty Becker Fernández, H. (2001) Notas Bermuda Audubon Soc. (DBe), Steve Bird, Mark Elwonger sobre la avifauna del norte de Newsletter 12( 3): 3. (MAE), Karl Evans (KE), Arthur la provincia de Buenos Aires, 18. Duncan, R. B. & Lacroix, J. A. V. Grosset (AG), Megan C. Hall Argentina. Nuestras Aves 41: (2001) First sight of the King (MCH), Guy M. Kirwan (GMK), 17–21. Vulture in Baja California, Steve M. Lister (SML), Tim 8. Bodrati, A., Ferrari, C., Mexico. J. Raptor Res. 35: 74. Marlow (TM), Rodney Martins Bordón, E., Novoa, D. & 19. Efe, M. A., Bugoni, L., Mohr, L. (RPM), Jeremy Minns (JM), Andy Huergo, R. R. (2001) El V, Scherer, A., Scherer, S. B. Mitchell, Bill & Rowena Quantrill Pepitero Verdoso (Saltator & Bairro, O. P. (2001) First- (B&RQ), Ivan Samuels (IS) and similis) en la provincia de known record of breeding for Chris Tynan. Buenos Aires, Argentina. the Black Skimmer (Rynchops Nuestras Aves 41: 29. niger) in a mixed colony in Neotropical Notebook: c o m p iled 9. Borges, S. H., Cohn-Haft, M., Ibicuí River, Rio Grande do b y Juan Mazar Barnett a n d Pereira Carvalhães, A. M., Sul state, southern Brazil. Guy M. Kirwan. Henriques, L. M., Pacheco, J. Intern. J. Orn. 4: 103–107. F. & Whittaker, A. (2001) 20. Efe, M. A. & Musso, C. M. References Birds of the Jaú National (2001) First record of 1. Aguilar-Rodríguez, S. H. Park, Brazilian Amazon: Audubon’s Shearwater (2000) Registro de la perdiz species check-list, biogeogra (Puffinus lherminieri) for veracruzana o Chivizcoyo phy and conservation. Orn. Brazil. Nattereria 2: 21–23. (Dendrortyx barbatus Gould) Neotrop. 12: 109–140. 21. Forcey, J. M. (2001) Breeding en la sierra norte de Oaxaca, 10. Bornschein, M. R., Pichorim, M. of Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter México. Huitzil 1: 9–11. and Reinert, B. L (2001) New cooperii) in Oaxaca. Huitzil 2: 2. Arzua, M., Scherer-Neto, P, records of Wetland Tapaculo 21–23. Figueiredo, G. J., Carrano, E., (Scytalopus iraiensis). 22. Forcey, J. M. (2002) Notes on Ribas, C. F. & Rachwald, M. Nattereria 2: 29–33. the birds of central Oaxaca, (2001) Novos registros de saí- 11. Bosso, A. (2001) Todirostrum part I: Podicipedidae to canário Thlypopsis sordida cinereum (Tyrannidae), una Laridae. Huitzil 3 : 1–10. (Emberizidae) no Estado do nueva especie para la 23. Freile, J. F. (2001) Extension Paraná, com comentários sua avifauna argentina. Hornero altitudinal en la distribución distribução. Ararajuba 9: 16: 49–50. del Hormiguero Lunulado 143–144. 12. Calimares, C. (2000) (Gymnopithys lunulata) en 3. Beltrán, W. & Kattan, G. Observaciones de campo. Ecuador. Orn. Neotrop. 12: (2001) First record of the Achará 3: 18. 183–185.
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24. Gambarotta, J. C. (2000) 36. Kirwan, G. M. (2001) Further supposed migration to South Registro del Zorzal Herrero records of the Northern Potoo America. El Pitirre 14: 61–62. (Turdus nigriceps) en el dpto. (Nyctibius jamaicensis) in 47. Navas, J. R. and Bó, N. A. de Rocha. Achara 3:24. Cuba, and a correction to (2001) Aportes al 25. Gambarotta, J. C. & Martínez et al. (2000). El conocimiento de la Calimares, C. (2000) Pitirre 14: 10. distribución, la cría y el peso Segundos registros del Coludo 37. Kirwan, G.M. (2001) A de aves de las provincias de Chico (Emberizoides leucistic Yellow-faced Mendoza y San Juan, ypiranganus) y de la Grassquit (Tiaris olivacea) in República Argentina. Ratonera Aperdizada Cuba. El Pitirre 14: 10. Segunda parte (Aves: (Cistothorus platensis) para 38. Kirwan, G. M., Flieg, G. M., Falconidae, Scolopacidae, Uruguay. Achará 3: 88–89. Hume, R. & LaBar, S. (2001) Thinocoridae, Columbidae, 26. Garrigues, R. (2001) The Gone Interesting distributional and Psittacidae, Strigidae, Birding Newsletter 2( 4). temporal records from Cuba, Caprimulgidae, Apodidae, 27. Garrigues, R. (2002) The Gone winter 2000–2001. El Pitirre Furnariidae, Rhinocryptidae y Birding Newsletter 3( 1). 14: 43–46. Tyrannidae). Hornero 16: 31– 28. González, E. M., Geymonat, G. 39. Kirwan, G. M., Mazar Barnett, 37. & Calimares, C. (2001) J. & Minns, J. (2001) Signifi 48. Neves, T. S. & Olmos, F. (2001) Nuevos registros de Anambé cant ornithological observa Tristan Albatross (Diomedea Verde (Pachyramphus viridis) tions from the rio São dabbenena) in Brazil. (Passeriformes, Tyrannidae) Francisco Valley, Minas Nattereria 2: 19–20. en Uruguay. Nuestras Aves 41: Gerais, Brazil, with notes on 49. Olmos, F. (2001) Revision of 22–23. conservation and biogeogra the records of Spectacled 29. Grosseiet, M. & Forcey, J. M. phy. Ararajuba 9 : 145–161. Petrel (Procellaria (2002) Registros de 40. Lesterhuis, A. J. & Clay, R. P. conspicillata) in Brazil, with Carpodacus cassini y Anas (2001) First record of a Ruddy new observations on its platyrhynchos diazi en Turnstone Arenaria interpres distribution. Nattereria 2: 16– Oaxaca, México. Huitzil 3: 11– in Paraguay. Wader Study 18. 13. Group Bull. 95: 68. 50. Orgeira, J. L. (2001) Nuevos 30. Hayes, F. E. (2001) First sight 41. Levesque, A. (2001) Premiere registros del Petrel Atlántico records of Swainson’s Hawk mention de L’Engoulevent de (Pterodroma incerta) en (Buteo swainsoni) for Trinidad Gundlach (Chordeiles Océano Atlántico Sur y and Chacachacare Island, with gundlachii) en Guadeloupe. Antártida. Orn. Neotrop. 12: comments on its status and El Pitirre 14: 7–8. 165–171. trans-Caribbean migration. El 42. Lithner, S. (2001) A birding 51. Pacheco, J. F. (2001) A Pitirre 14: 63–65. trip to the Dominican Colombian, not a Brazilian 31. Hayes, F. E. & White, G. L. Republic and Puerto Rico. El record: the case of the Barred (2001) Status of the Little Pitirre 14: 11–19. Tinamou (Crypturellus Egret (Egretta garzetta) in 43. Maceda, J. J. (2001) Nuevas casiquiare). Nattereria 2: 14– Trinidad and Tobago. El citas del Águila Coronada 15. Pitirre 14: 54-58. (Harpyhaliaetus coronatus) 52. Pérez-Rivera, R. (2001) 32. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. para la provincia de La Comments on Kirwan’s first (1995) The birds of Mexico Pampa, Argentina. Nuestras record of the Rose-ringed and northern Central Aves 41: 27–28. Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) America. Oxford: Oxford 44. Mazar Barnett, J. (2001) in the West Indies. El Pitirre University Press. Nuevo registro del Picaflor 14: 9. 33. Imberti, S. (2001) Primera Andino (Oreotrochilus 53. Renner, S. C. & Schuchmann, observación del Ñacundá leucopleurus) para Santa K.-L. (2001) The Fawn (Podager nacunda) en Santa Cruz (Argentina). Nuestras breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa Cruz, Argentina, la más Aves 41: 31. rubinoides, a hummingbird austral para la especie. 45. Melo-Júnior, T. A., Vasconcelos, species new to Bolivia. Bull. Nuestras Aves 41:10. M. F., Fernandes, W. & Brit. Orn. Club 121: 252–255. 34. Ingels, J. (2001) Notes on some Marini, M. Â. (2001) Bird 54. Rimmer, C. C. & Almonte, J. French Guianan birds. species distribution and (2001) Additional notes on the Tangara 1 : 139–145. conservation in Serra do Cipó, wintering status of 35. Isfer, O. & Kajiwara, D. (2001) Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bird Swainson’s Warbler in the New occurrence of the Conserv. Intern. 11: 189–204. Dominican Republic. El Southern Giant Petrel 46. Murphy, W. L. & Hayes, F. E. Pitirre 14: 5–6. (Macronectes giganteus) (2001) First records of 55. Rocha, G. (2000) Primeros (Aves: Procellariidae) in Caribbean Martin (Progne registros de Viudita Oscura Paraná state, Brazil. Intern. J. dominicensis) for Trinidad, (Elaenia obscura) para Orn. 4: 108–109. with comments on its Uruguay. Achara 3: 9.
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56. Roesler, I. (2001) Nuevas citas (Cassin, 1851) in Brazil. records. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club de aves para el partido de Nattereria 2: 27. 121: 198–208. General Villegas, provincia de 67. Whittaker, A. (2001) Notes on 68. Willis, E. O. & Oniki, Y. (2001) Buenos Aires, Argentina. the poorly-known Buckley’s On a nest of the Planalto Nuestras Aves 41: 32–33. Forest Falcon Micrastur Woodcreeper, Dendrocolaptes 57. Smith, P. W. (2001) Comments buckleyi including voice, platyrostris, with taxonomic on George F. Gaumer and the range and first Brazilian and conservation notes. provenance of a Giant Wilson Bull. 113: 231–233. Kingbird Tyrannus cubensis specimen from Mexico. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 121: 249–252. 58. Tossas, A. G. & Delannoy, C. A. (2001) Status, abundance, and distribution of birds of Maricao State Forest, Puerto Rico. El Pitirre 14: 47–53. 59. Vasconcelos, M. F. de, D’Angelo Neto, S. & Rodrigues, M. A. (2002) A range extension for the Cipó Canastero Asthenes luizae and the consequences for its conservation status. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 122: 7– 10. 60. Volkmann, L. R. (2001) Fiofío Plomizo (Elaenia strepera) en la provincia de Cordoba, Argentina. Nuestras Aves 41: 26. 61. Volkmann, L. & Cargnelutti, R. (2001) Nuevas localidades para aves de Córdoba, Argentina. Nuestras Aves 41: 23–26. 62. Wells, J.V . & Childs Wells, A. M. (2001) First sight record of Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus) for Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, with notes on other migrant songbirds. El Pitirre 14: 59– 60. 63. White, R. & Henry, A. (2001) Rare and vagrant birds in the Falkland Islands 1996–2000. Wildlife Conserv. in the Falkland Islands 1: 16–18. 64. Whitney, B. M. & Oren, D. C. (2001) First record of Amazonian Parrotlet (Nannopsittaca dachilleae) in Brazil. Nattereria 2: 26. 65. Whitney, B. M. & Oren, D. C. (2001) Physical evidence for the occurrence of Scarlet- hooded Barbet (Eubucco tucinkae) in Brazil. Nattereria 2: 27. 1. Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet Touit huetii, near Pantiacolla Lodge, río Madre de 66. Whitney, B. M. & Pacheco, J. F. Dios, Peru, 11 October 2001 ( Joe Tobias; see p. 104) (2001) Physical evidence of 2. Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus, west of Correntina, the occurrence of Yellow- Bahia, Brazil, February 2002 (A rthur Grosset , see p. 110) green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis 3. King Rail Rallus elegans. Lake Petén-Itza, Petén, February 1993 (Sidney Samuels; see p. 110)
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Neotropical Notebook contains During a visit to Peralta, in the (Fig. 1). Measurements (in mm) three sections. The first consists of Ciénaga de Zapata, on 17 were: 36.5 × 25.4, 35.2 × 25.5, 35.4 short papers documenting records. November 2000, we found a nest of × 26.4, 36.6 × 26 and 37.2 × 26.5. Photos and descriptions are the species, the first to be Confirmation that the nest published where appropriate. The discovered in Cuba. It was located belonged to a Spotted Rail came second section summarises records just above the water level and was when one of the adults published elsewhere, following the attached to an Annona glabra (videotaped) came within 5 m of format established in previous (Annonaceae) bush, and consisted AK while he was measuring the issues of Cotinga. The third lists of a cup of weeds, with some dead eggs. It was very active, constantly unpublished and undocumented leaves in the rather shallow uttering its alarm call and moving records. Please indicate, with depression. The overall diameter around the nest. Incubation was submissions, in which section you was 23 cm and the nest was 9 cm estimated at 20 days; certainly by wish your records to appear. deep, while the internal cup 9 December the nest was empty, measured 8 cm. Nest material the young having apparently SHORT NOTES comprised 12 species of flowering departed. plants, most of them herbaceous— Annona glabra, Thalia trichocalyx Acknowledgements Description of the first nest of (Marantaceae), Conocarpus erectus Ramona Oviedo Prieto identified Spotted Rail Pardirallus (Combretaceae), Paspalum the nest materials, NBC and maculatus discovered in Cuba blodguettii (Poaceae), Sporobolus Birdquest provided financial Spotted Rail Pardirallus indicus (Poaceae), Chara sp. support for AK’s work in the maculatus is widespread in the (Characeae) — with several species Ciénaga de Zapata, and Roberto Neotropics, south from Mexico to of Cyperaceae, namely Claudium Posada, Emilio Alfaro, Francisco south Brazil and north Argentina; jamaicense, Cyperus ligularis, Kirkconnell and Arturo in the Greater Antilles it has been Cyperus sp.,Dichromena colorata, Kirkconnell Jnr assisted his reported from Hispaniola, is Eleocharis cellulosa, Rhynchospora research there. CB is grateful to considered casual in Jamaica cyperoides and R. globosa. The Mark Finn, who provided his (where it may have bred in the bulk of the nest was constructed of travel to Cuba. 19th century) and in Cuba is leaves and inflorescences of the known from Havana, Matanzas two Poaceae species, with some References and Las Villas provinces, and sticks of Annona glabra. A. glabra 1. American Ornithologists’ probably the Isle of Pines1, and and Thalia trichocalyx leaves were Union (1998) Check-list of was recently reported from used to line the nest, along with North American birds. Guantánamo province4, perhaps two Conocarpus erectus leaves. The Seventh edition. Lawrence, suggesting that the species may be nest contained five subelliptical KA: American Ornithologists’ more widely distributed in the eggs, creamy white with sparse Union. main island than previously dark reddish-brown and purple 2. Garrido, O. H. & Kirkconnell, supposed. The only detailed field spots and small blotches, typically A. (2000) A field guide to the information concerning the species distributed uniformly, but in one birds of Cuba. Ithaca, NY: in Cuba was presented by concentrated at the larger end Cornell University Press. Gundlach3 and Watson6. 3. Gundlach, J. (1876) Breeding biology for the species Contribución a la ornitología was most recently summarised by cubana. La Habana: Imprenta Taylor & van Perlo6. No nest data La Antilla. is available for the species from 4. Kirwan, G. M., Flieg, G. M., Cuba2, although Gundlach3 Hume, R. A. & LaBar, S. described one egg (39 mm × 28 (2001) Interesting mm; white with an ochre wash distributional and temporal mainly at the large end, with records from Cuba, winter brown and lilac spots) found close 2000-2001. El Pitirre 14: 43– 46. to a dead adult in Zapata Swamp, Figure 1. N est and eggs of Spotted Rail 5. Taylor, B. & van Perlo, B. and another, subsequently laid by Pardirallus maculatus, Peralta, Zapata a bird that was obtained in a Swamp, 17 November 2000 (Chris (1998) Rails: a guide to the market. Bradshaw) rails, crakes, gallinules and coots of the world.
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Robertsbridge: Pica Press. 2. Ferguson-Lees, J. & Christie, obvious white patch on the ear- 6. Watson, G. E. (1962) Notes on D. A. (2001) Raptors of the coverts, lacking on the two A. the Spotted Rail in Cuba. world. London, UK: A. & C. affinis; although this feature can Wilson Bull. 74: 349–356. Black. be present on A. affinis, it tends to 3. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. be more conspicuous and Arturo Kirkconnell (1995) A guide to the birds of persistent in A. marila4 and, in my Museo Nacional de Historia Mexico and northern Central experience, is considerably more Natural de Cuba, Calle Obispo 61, America. Oxford: Oxford prevalent in the latter. Plaza de Armas, La Habana, Cuba. University Press. Unfortunately, the distance (never 4. Wheeler, B. K. & Clark, W. S. less than c. 100 m) and light did Chris Bradshaw (1995) A photographic guide not permit comparison of the bill 6 Collet Walk, Parkwood, to North American raptors. nails, a useful distinguishing Gillingham, Kent ME8 9QL, UK. San Diego, CA: Academic characteristic at close range4,6; and Press. none of the birds displayed its wing stripe during the 30-minute Juvenile plumage of Lesser Kenneth M. Burton observation period. Conditions did Yellow-headed Vulture P.O. Box 716, Inverness, CA 94937- not permit photographic Cathartes burrovianus 0716, USA. documentation. On 16 January 2002, Laurie Ness Although identification of scaup and I observed many Lesser can be problematic and Yellow-headed Vultures Cathartes First record of Greater Scaup distinguishing features are subtle burrovianus, including several Aythya marila on the Yucatán and somewhat variable4, the juveniles and immatures, with Peninsula, Mexico features we observed were Turkey Vultures C. aura and Black On 18 January 2002, while consistent and unambiguous Vultures Coragyps atratus at accompanied by Laurie Ness, I throughout the observation period. Celestún dump, Yucatán, Mexico found a female Greater Scaup Furthermore, I have considerable (20°51'N 90°23'W). The juvenile C. Aythya marila c. 9 km east of experience with both species, burrovianus were overall slightly Progreso, Yucatán, Mexico which are common winter browner than the adults, with (21°17'N 89°33'W). It was residents in California. greyish heads. Their primary swimming and diving in a According to Howell & Webb3, A. projection and leg colour were mangrove lagoon south of the marila is a rare winter visitor to indistinguishable from the adults'. Dzilam de Bravo road, at a Baja California and Sonora, but Also like the adults, they lacked flamingo Phoenicopterus-viewing the latter authors indicate no the scaly appearance created by pavilion near the site of the Mexican records outside those the pale fringes to the upperwing- narrow track opposite the Los areas. However, it is also a rare coverts characteristic of North Flamencos sign as described under winter visitor to the Texas coast American races of Turkey Vulture Site 14.6 in Howell2. The bird was and upper Rio Grande Valley1,5,6, of all ages1. In addition, they loosely associated with two female and has been recorded in the appeared to lack the pale fringes Lesser Scaup A. affinis, permitting vicinity of Matamoros, to the mantle feathers good comparative views. Although Tamaulipas6. This sighting is the characteristic of juvenile Turkey we were looking into the sun and first record of the species on the Vulture4. This plumage has not there was considerable glare, we Yucatán Peninsula. Rare Bird been adequately described in the were, with the aid of a good Alerts for winter 2001–02 did not literature2,3 (S. N. G. Howell pers. telescope, able to observe several indicate an influx of A. marila into comm.). The presence or absence of key identification features. Texas or Florida, so this scaling, particularly on the wings, The bird was obviously a female occurrence cannot be considered should distinguish juveniles (and scaup on the basis of the white part of a larger event. other age classes) of the two patch at the base of the bill, and species when at rest. Immatures of was slightly longer bodied and References both species acquire a duller stockier than the A. affinis. The 5. Holt, H. R. (1992) A birder’s version of the adult head crown was distinctly flat, highest guide to the Rio Grande coloration at six months (S. N. G. in front, with a ‘double-bump’ Valley of Texas. Colorado Howell pers. comm.). effect reminiscent of Common Springs: American Birding Loon Gavia immer. In contrast, the Association. Acknowledgements crowns of the A. affinis clearly had 6. Howell, S. N. G. (1999) A bird- Steve N. G. Howell commented on peaks at the rear, sloping to the finding guide to Mexico. a preliminary draft of this note. bill. The bill of the A. marila was Ithaca, NY: Cornell distinctly longer and broader than University Press. References those of the A. affinis and 7. Howell, S. N. G. & Webb, S. 1. Clark, W. S. & Wheeler, B. K. appeared slightly less curved on (1995) A guide to the birds of (1987) Hawks. Boston: the culmen when viewed from the Mexico and northern Central Houghton Mifflin. side. The bird had a diffuse but
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America. Oxford: Oxford throat contained some yellow with the río San Juan on the University Press. flecking and the undertail-coverts Caribbean slope of Costa Rica. The 8. Kaufman, K. (1990) Advanced had a slight yellow wash. lodge property comprises over 480 birding. Boston: Houghton The dominant phenotype in this ha of primary forest, a lesser Mifflin Co. hybrid complex is referred to as amount of secondary forest, 9. Lane, J. A. & Tveten, J. L. ‘Brewster’s’ Warbler1. The latter extensive cattle pasture and palm- (1974) A birder’s guide to the has been recorded around five heart plantations with scattered Texas coast. Revised edition. times in Costa Rica4. It would almendro Dipteryx panamensis Denver: L. & P. Photography. appear not unusual to encounter a trees. There are also several small 10. Sibley, D. A. (2000) The Sibley hybrid of this complex in the lakes, 0.4–2.0 ha in size, scattered guide to birds. New York: Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica, around the property. I recorded Alfred A. Knopf. as Golden-winged Warbler is several interesting species and considered an uncommon winter behaviour during a recent, three- Kenneth M. Burton resident and Blue-winged Warbler month stay in the area. P.O. Box 716, Inverness, CA 94937- a very uncommon to very rare In December 2001 there were 0716, USA. winter resident in Costa Rica, but several days of heavy rain, the latter is most frequent in the followed by flooding. During this Caribbean lowlands3. This record period I recorded four species of W intering ‘Lawrence’s’ is one of the few records of this larids on the río San Carlos. On W arbler in northern Costa recessive phenotype on the the 24th, a flock of six Laughing Rica wintering grounds; Kirwan & Gull Larus atricilla was observed On 12 December 2001, while Sharpe3 mention a record for flying south. A winter-plumaged canoeing near Laguna del Lagarto Venezuela, and Hilty2 three Caspian Tern Sterna caspia, Lodge, I found an adult male others, which are apparently the observed flying north on the same ‘Lawrence’s’ Warbler. The lodge is only such occurrences in South date, may be the first record of situated on the río San Carlos, c. 15 America. The ‘Lawrence’s’ and this species on the Caribbean km upstream of its confluence ‘Brewster’s’ Warbler phenotypes slope of Costa Rica2. On 28 with the río San Juan, on the should be searched for anywhere December, I encountered a small Caribbean slope of Costa Rica. within the normal wintering flock of gulls on the river, flying ‘Lawrence’s’ Warbler is the result range of either Golden-winged and north. It comprised two immature, of hybridisation between Blue Blue-winged Warblers. probably second-year, Herring winged Warbler Vermivora pinus Gulls Larus argentatus and an and Golden-winged Warbler V. References adult Ring-billed Gull L. chrysoptera. The ‘Lawrence’s’ 1. Dunn, J. L. & Garrett, K. L. delawarensis. The only logical phenotype is recessive and usually (1997) A field guide to explanation for these arrivals results from second-generation warblers of North America. must be the continuous rainstorms backcrosses1. The bird was with a Boston: Houghton Mifflin. that were coming from the mixed flock comprising a Slate 2. Hilty, S. L. (2003) Birds of Caribbean at the time. headed Tody-flycatcher Venezuela. Princeton, NJ: Scarlet Macaw Ara macao was Todirostrum Sylvia, Lesser Princeton University Press. observed on a daily basis on the Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes, 3. Kirwan, G. M. & Sharpe, C. J. lodge property. This species was Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo (1999) Range extensions and extirpated from the Caribbean flavifrons, Golden-winged Warbler, notes on the status of little- slope of Costa Rica by the 1950s, Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta known species from with the exception of the north varia and Chestnut-sided Warbler Venezuela. Bull. Brit. Orn. west Caribbean slope east to the Dendroica pensylvanica, and was Club 119: 38–47. río Frio2. This river is regularly observed until 12 4. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. approximately 50 km west of the February 2002. The composition of (1989) A guide to the birds of lodge. Employees of the lodge and the flock that it accompanied Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: local people commented that changed little during this period. Cornell University Press. Scarlet Macaw had recolonised the Adult male ‘Lawrence’s’ Warbler area two years previously. Each retains the black throat and ear- Tyler L. Hicks day I encountered 2–4 individuals coverts of Golden-winged Warbler 910 Eastview, Mulvane, KS 67110, foraging on the forest edge and in but maintains the body coloration USA. scattered trees within pasture. On of Blue-winged Warbler, although the río San Carlos the species was coloration can be highly variable encountered with increasing in some individuals. This Notes on the avifauna of the frequency closer to Nicaragua. A individual matched the above lower río San Carlos, Costa roost tree was located early in description with the exception of Rica December 2001. It was c. 32-m-tall the dull olive colour reaching onto La Laguna del Lagarto Lodge is almendro, sited within a large the crown, leaving only the situated on the río San Carlos c. 15 cattle pasture, and was utilised forehead bright yellow. The black km upstream from its confluence regularly from early December
74 Cotinga 19 Neotropical Notebook until early February. Thereafter, I Woodcreeper Dendrocincla Verification of rare bird surmise the birds began to roost at fuliginosa, 3–4 Northern Barred- records from Trinidad and their nest sites. A maximum of 16 Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptos Tobago was recorded at the roost tree at sanctithomae, a Black-faced A third group of records, mainly one time. The birds had probably Antthrush Formicarius analis, 6–8 from 1997 to 2001, has been arrived from Nicaragua, where they Ocellated Antbird Phaenostictus ratified by the Trinidad & Tobago were often observed flying in some mcleannani, 2–4 Bicoloured Rare Birds Committee, and these numbers on the opposite side of the Antbird Gymnopithys bicolor and are presented here. Records for 92 río San Juan. Increased logging in two Spotted Antbird Hylophylax species have been accepted, some Nicaragua may be forcing the naevioides. Other species were with photographic evidence. macaws to seek new areas, observed on a more sporadic basis. Records for 22 species were including within Costa Rica. In the Rufous Motmot Baryphthengus rejected. Those accepted include 13 1990s logging rates in Nicaragua martii was observed with the flock first records for Trinidad and ten were ten times those of the approximately 50% of the time. first records for Tobago. These Amazon1. It will be interesting to Rufous-winged Woodpecker results reflect much-increased see if numbers continue to increase Piculus rubiginosus was observed activity among birders in recent given continued destruction of the on two occasions, a solitary years, assisted by improved Nicaraguan forest. individual on the first occasion and communication via the Internet. Between eight and ten pairs of subsequently a pair. A single Long For convenience, taxonomic order Great Green Macaw Ara ambigua tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura and nomenclature generally follow occurred on and around the lodge longicauda was observed twice, the usage in A guide to the birds of property. During early January the only times I saw the species Trinidad and Tobago, 1991 edition, birds’ faces began to flush deep descend from its usual haunt in by Rf. red, and I rarely encountered more the subcanopy. Cocoa Woodcreeper than one pair utilising a feeding Xiphorhynchus susurrans was Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris tree together. The repertoire of observed once, but was harassed diomedea squawks, growls, and other loud constantly by a pair of Northern Dead individuals were found at calls diversified, and an increase Barred Woodcreeper and Manzanilla beach on 29 January in allopreening was observed. By eventually driven away. By far the 1998, 2 February 2000 and 20 late January courtship and strangest species I observed with November 2001 (ER, GW, AA). copulation was regularly observed. an ant-following flock was a pair of Rarely recorded on Trinidad. In the first week of February, one Mealy Parrot Amazona farinosa. pair was observed copulating The birds were observed walking Manx Shearwater Puffin us while hanging upside-down from on the ground and were covered by puffinus the thin outer branches of a the ants, but I did not observe the One was found dead at Manzanilla tamarindo Leucaena leucocephala birds pick up anything with their beach on 14 November 1997 (PB); tree. The pair faced each other, beaks. They mostly focused on the there are only six records for while inverted, and bill-clacked antbirds that were actively feeding Trinidad. during copulation. The process in the vegetation surrounding lasted c. l minute, at which time them. Why the parrots descended White-tailed Tropicbird the male took flight, but soon to the ground is intangible to me; Phaethon lepturus returned and the process was possibly they were attracted to the One or two adults have been repeated up to three times. This loud, excited calls of the accompa recorded on a number of occasions behaviour continued for three days nying antbirds and woodcreepers. at Little Tobago, including in April after the initial sighting, and the The pair spent approximately 45 1998, on 26 November 2000 and 29 birds utilised the same branches minutes on the ground before September 2001 (FH, MB, PD et each time. returning the canopy. al.). Only one previous confirmed record for Tobago. Composition of army-ant- References following flocks 1. Merrill, T. (2002) Nicaragua: a Grey Heron Ardea cinerea I regularly encountered army-ant country study, http:// Single immatures were found at swarms and the birds that www.lcweb2.loc. gov/cgi-bin/ Bon Accord, Tobago on 15 January associate with them, and spent query 2/r?frd/ 1999, and on Trinidad, at Trincity much time following one such flock cstdy:@field(DOCID+ni0079). ponds, on 27 September 2001, and in the northern part of the forest, 2. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. at Nariva Swamp, on 16 December which had little understorey, (1989) A guide to the birds of 2001 (DF, PD, CR), constituting permitting easy viewing of the Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: the first record for Tobago, and the flock. It is reasonable to assume Cornell University Press. second for Trinidad. that the flock was the same group, as the ‘core birds’ varied little in Tyler L. Hicks species composition and number: 910 Eastview, Mulvane, KS 67110, namely 2–3 Plain-brown USA.
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Western Reef-Heron Egretta 9–13 June 2001 (MK, FH) was the Swainson’s Hawk Buteo gularis first record for Trinidad. swainsoni An immature was at Buccoo Records of light-morph adults over marsh on 16 December 2000 (MK); Green-winged Teal Anas crecca north-east Tobago on 17 March it was seen frequently in the area An adult male at Buccoo marsh on 1998 and 21 June 1998 (Rf, GE) until at least January 2002. First 23 November 1998 (GW) was the are the third and fourth records record for Tobago. third record for Tobago. for Tobago.
Rufescent Tiger-Heron Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Black-collared Hawk Tigrisoma lineatum A female at Caroni rice fields on 4 Busarellus nigricollis One was at Cumuto Savannah on November 1998 (GW); occasionally An adult of this rarely seen 1 August 2000 (MK). Few records winters in Trinidad. species was in Nariva Swamp on on Trinidad. 11 October 1998 (GW). Ring-necked Duck Aythya Jabiru Jabiru mycteria collaris Rufous Crab-hawk Buteogallus One or two were at Caroni rice A male and two females at aequinoctialis fields in late June 1999 (RM, SR, Lowlands pond on 23 November One considered to be a subadult FH), constituting only the second 1998 (GW) and in early 1999 was photographed at Nariva record for Trinidad. Also, one was (various observers) constituted the Swamp on 10 February 1996 (BB photographed at Buccoo on 30 third record for Tobago. et al.). Very rare on Trinidad. September-5 October 1998 (SW), the second record for Tobago. Comb Duck Sarkidiornis Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus melanotos tyrannus Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari A male at Caroni rice fields on 9 An adult was in the Waller Field One frequented the shore at September 1997 (GG et al.) and a area in September 1998–January Orange Valley for some time after group of up to 17 in the same area 1999 (Rf, DF), and an immature 17 August 2001 (MK et al.). This is from mid- to late August 2000 (FH, was by the Blanchisseuse Road on the first record for Trinidad; but various observers) are only the 18 September 1999 (CR). Rare on the bird’s condition cast some third and fourth records for Trinidad. doubt on its wild status. Trinidad, although the species has long been known to local hunters. Northern Caracara Caracara Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus plancus Individuals or small groups were Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax An adult was at Galera Point on at Caroni rice fields or Diego uncinatus 10 August 2000 (GW); a rare Martin River in May 1998, on 30 A pair with two immatures was at visitor to Trinidad. October 1999, in late July 2000 Tableland on several occasions and on 8 January 2001 (GW, MG, between May and December 1998 Spotted Rail Pardirallus MK). Uncommon on Trinidad. (GW), indicating probable local maculatus breeding. An immature female at A dead individual was found on a Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja Buccoo on 4 January 1998 (FH et road at Carapichaima on 6 July An immature was at Caroni rice al.) was only the second record for 1997 (GW); quite rare on Trinidad. fields in September 1998, and an Tobago. adult in the same area in August Rufous-necked Wood-Rail 1999 (GW et al.). Rare on Trinidad. Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis Aramides axillaris An immature was at Nariva One was in mangroves by Blue Greater Flamingo Swamp on 1 April 1998 (PDu et River, Caroni on 16 September Phoenicopterus ruber al.) and an immature at Caroni 1998 (Rf et al.) and two at Four, including two immatures, rice fields on 4 July 2000 and on Cacandee on 18 December 2000 were at Brickfield mudflats in many occasions in 2001 and 2002 (MK, GW). Well distributed early September 1997 (GW). (MK, various observers). This throughout several islets off north Occasional visitor to Trinidad. species presumably visits from the west Trinidad, but on the main continent, but its occurrence is island appears confined to the Fulvous Whistling-Duck patchy. Caroni mangroves. Dendrocygna bicolor An adult was at Buccoo marsh in White-tailed Hawk Buteo Paint-billed Crake Neocrex January–Mareh 1998 (WP, DM, albicaudatus erythrops FH, Rf et al.). Only the second An adult was near Oropouche One by Caroni rice fields on 16 record for Tobago. Lagoon on 6 June 2001 (HK) and September 2001 (MK) was only an immature at Caroni rice fields the fourth record for Trinidad (all Northern Pintail Anas acuta in late November 2001 (MK et al.). have occurred between June and A female at Caroni rice fields on Rare nowadays on Trinidad. September).
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Azure Gallinule Porphyrula Valley (FH, MK) was the first Large-billed Tern Phaetusa flavirostris record for Trinidad and South simplex Individuals at Caroni ricefields on America (see Cotinga 17: 20–22). An adult and an immature were at 10 May 1999 (GW) and 22 August the Hilton lakes, Tobago on 20 2000 (MK) indicate that the Red Knot Calidris canutus May 2001 (RT). The first record for species’ local range has expanded One in non-breeding plumage at Tobago of this tern, which on beyond Nariva Swamp. Speyside on 7 September 2000 (Rf, Trinidad is largely confined to the PJ) was the first record for Tobago, west coast or adjoining wetlands. American Coot Fulica though it is commonly seen on americana passage through Trinidad. Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus An adult at Bon Accord ponds on minor 24 March 2001 (MK, GS) was the Buff-breasted Sandpiper Records from Bon Accord (FH) on second record for Tobago. The Tryngites subruficollis 1 February 1999 and Lowland species is easily confused with Several were seen on passage ponds (MK) on 7 January 2001 Caribbean Coot. through Trinidad in May/June and suggest the species is probably September/October 2000 and 2001 resident in small numbers in Pied Lapwing Hoploxypterus (MK); singles at Crown Point on 15 western Tobago. cayanus October and at Speyside on 16 An adult by the Arena Dam road October 2000 (MK, FH, BS) are Dark-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus on 12 March to early April 1998 the first records for Tobago since melacoryphus (PG et al.) was the first record for the 19th century. One was at Todd’s Road on 26 Trinidad. August 1998 (GW); rare on Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus Trinidad. American Oystercatcher tricolor Haematopus palliatus An immature at Caroni rice fields Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus Up to five on various occasions at on 28 August–12 September 1998 One at Caroni rice fields on 12 Waterloo between late 1997 and (GG et al.) and two in the same September 2001 (MK) was the March 1999 (various observers). location on 1 October 2000 (MK, first record for Trinidad. FH) are the first records for Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Trinidad. Rufous-shafted Woodstar One at Waterloo on 28 June 1999 Chaetocercus jourdanii (MT et al.) was the first record for Franklin’s Gull Larus pipixcan A female or immature was at Asa Trinidad and north-east South Both immatures and adults have Wright Nature Centre on 28 America (see Cotinga 16: 66). been found on the west coast of August 2000 (Rf). Very rare on Trinidad between Port of Spain Trinidad. Upland Sandpiper Bartramia and San Fernando on several longicauda dates, including 5 January, 7–26 Scaled Antpitta Grallaria Three at Brickfield mudflats on 14 February, 14–20 March 1999, 2–3 guatemalensis September 2001 (NL), one at December 2000, 22 January and One seen by many observers (Rf, Caroni rice fields on 19-25 22 April 2001 (DBM, FH, GW, AM et al.) at the Asa Wright September (MKet al.), and one at MK). The first records for Nature Centre on 8 April–9 June Hilton golf course, Tobago on 26 Trinidad. 1999 was the first record in October 2001 (NH), the first Trinidad for many years. Tobago record since the 19th Lesser Black-backed Gull century. Records of this species are Larus fuscus Blue-backed Manakin sparse, but they tend to come in Several, both adults and Chiroxiphia pareola groups. immatures, have been found on Females were seen on nests at Trinidad’s west coast in Gilpin Trace on 29 March 1998 Long-billed Curlew Numenius December–March in recent years (Mf) and 12 April 2000 (EC, Rf). americanus (various observers). The species These are the second and third Two at Buccoo marsh on 30 has clearly become a regular breeding records for Tobago. September 1988 (SW) provide the visitor to the area. first authentic record of the Variegated Flycatcher species for Tobago since a dubious Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus Empidonomus varius 19th century report. An adult was found at Waterloo on Two photographed at Asa Wright 8 July 2000 (FH, BS), remaining in Nature Centre on 18 November Black-tailed Godwit Limosa the area until 1 October; a similar 2001 (RW, RR). Rare in Trinidad. limosa bird was at San Fernando until 10 An adult photographed on various February 2001 (HK). These Venezuelan Flycatcher occasions between 14 September constitute are the first records for Myiarchus venezuelensis 2000 and 21 January 2001 at Trinidad (see Cotinga 18: 85–88). A pair at a nest in a bamboo Caroni rice fields and Orange stump at Gilpin Trace on 19
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March 1998 (Rf) was the first fourth record for Tobago and the Yellow Grosbeak Pheucticus breeding record for Tobago. first for Trinidad. chrysopeplus An adult male was at Asa Wright Spotted Tody-Flycatcher Cape May Warbler Dendroica Nature Centre on 8 November Todirostrum maculatum tigrina 1999 (HB). The first record for Two at Oropouche Lagoon on 6 An adult male at Trincity ponds Trinidad of this species, whose March 1999 (GW) were a area on 31 December 1998–8 April range in Venezuela extends east to significant range extension on 1999 (WP, DM, and various the mountains of Monagas and Trinidad from the Icacos observers) was the second record Sucre. Captive origin is possible, peninsula, where hitherto all for Trinidad, and the first to but probably unlikely. previous records have been made. winter on the island. Dickcissel Spiza americana Slaty Elaenia Elaenia strepera Cerulean Warbler Dendroica An adult male at Speyside on 13 One at Brasso Seco on 21–22 July cerulea January 1998 (CA et al.) was the 1998 (CR, ER) was the first An adult male at Heights of Aripo first Tobago record. Trinidad record. on 22 November 2000 (MB, CR et al.) was the first record for Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus White-winged Swallow Trinidad. Flocks up to 50 on several days in Tachycineta albiventer October 2000 and 2001, mainly at An adult and an immature at Blackburnian Warbler Caroni rice fields, but also at Speyside on 5 September 2000 (I & Dendroica fusca Galera Point (FH, MK et al.); this GB) was the first record for An adult male at Morne Bleu on passage migrant may have been Tobago. 26 March 2001 (CR et al.) was the overlooked hitherto. sixth record for Trinidad. Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon In addition to the above, records pyrrhonota Chestnut-sided Warbler were accepted for the following 20 Singles were at Trincity ponds on Dendroica pensylvanica species, whose status has already 17 April 2000 (NA), and Caroni One was photographed at Lopinot been established: Masked Booby rice fields on 3 March and 19 Valley on 30 December 2000 (RN) Sula dactylatra, Little Egret September 2001 (MK). Few records and another was at Moka on 17 Egretta garzetta, Masked Duck in Trinidad. December 2001 (GW); rarely seen Nomonyx dominicas, King Vulture on Trinidad. Sarcoramphus papa, Yellow White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus headed Caracara Milvago An immature at Buccoo in early Golden-rumped Euphonia chimachima, Aplomado Falcon January-February 1998 (WP, DM, Euphonia cyanocephala Falco femoralis, Trinidad Piping- FH) and an adult in the same An adult male was at Brigand Hill Guan Pipile pipile, Caribbean Coot locality on 28 January 1999 (RN) on 3 March 1999 (PH). This rarely Fúlica caribaea, Marbled Godwit are the first records for Tobago. seen euphonia is a much-desired Limosa fedoa, Ruff Philomachus target of bird catchers, so an pugnax, Black-headed Gull Larus Black-whiskered Vireo Vireo escape from captivity cannot be ridibundus, Ring-billed Gull L. altiloquus ruled out. delawarensis, Yellow-billed Cuckoo Singles were at Arena forest on 19 Coccyzus americanus, Green- February 2001 (MK) and near Scarlet Tanager Piranga throated Mango Anthracothorax Scotland Bay on 28 April 2001 olivacea viridigula, Short-tailed Pygmy- (CR); quite rare on Trinidad. An adult male was at Aripo Tyrant Myiornis ecaudatus, Bank Agricultural Station on 18 April Swallow Riparia riparia, Blackpoll Golden-winged Warbler 2000 (MK), another at Nariva and Warbler Dendroica striata, Vermivora chrysoptera a third at Arena forest in April Moriche Oriole Icterus An adult male was at Kings Bay 2001 (CR). All six recent records chrysocephalus, Yellow-bellied Trail on 20 June 2001 (JK, AJ), an for Trinidad have been in spring. Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis interesting date. The first record and Ruddy-breasted Seedeater for Tobago of a species that has Summer Tanager Piranga rubra Sporophila minuta. One record not been recorded in the Lesser The diagnostic call of this species was accepted without the species Antilles. was heard at Grafton estate on 15 being certainly established, January 1999 (DF et al.), the first namely a Common Chordeiles Northern Parula Parula record for Tobago. minor or Antillean Nighthawk C. americana gundlachii, either of which would Single males were at Buccoo Rose-breasted Grosbeak be a first record for Tobago. marsh on 9 February 1998 (FH, Pheucticus ludovicianus Records were accepted for Chukar NT) and at Pointe-a-Pierre on 22 Two males were at Morne Bleu in Alectoris chukar and Eurasian February 1998 (FH, GWi). The late January 1999 (KM, CR, FH), Collared Dove Streptopelia the fourth record for Trinidad. decaocto, but both were considered
78 Cotinga 19 Neotropical Notebook to be escaped captives. Records for 17 March 2002, while censusing 2000, a group of 12–14 White 22 species were rejected for a waterbirds on Laguna Mica, Napo breasted Parakeet was observed variety of reasons, mostly Province, Ecuador, at 3,900 m, we flying 15 m overhead while I was uncertain identification. found an adult White-cheeked stationed in one of the passes that Observers: C. Abrams, A. Pintail. It was initially located by represents the border between the Adcock, N. Arnold, P. Bacon, M. LL within a flock of 230 Yellow two countries. The flock flew from Bowen, B. Bowman, I. & G. billed Pintail Anas spinicauda the Ecuadorian side of the range Broadbent, H. Brokaw, E. Clarke, roosting in the centre of the lake, into the valley of the Alto Cenepa P. Davis, P. Dukes, G. Engblom, M. and was seen well through a and forest in Peru. The group was ffrench, R. ffrench, D. Finch, P. telescope in good light conditions. observed without binoculars for Gaywood, M. Gillespie, G. Gomes, This is the first record away from c. 10 seconds, but the distinctive, N. Hacking, P. Harris, F. Hayes, A. the coastal hinterland in Ecuador broad white band across the James, P. Jones, J. Kaplan, M. and appears to be the second- breast, extending onto the head- Kenefick, H. Kilpatrick, N. highest altitudinal report ever. and neck-sides, was clearly seen in Lallsingh, C. Lowe, D. B. McNair, the clear, sunny conditions. D. McRae, J. Mehmel, K. Mellen, A. References The ecology of the cloud forest Mendus, R. Mohammed, R. 1. Fjeldså, J. & Krabbe, N. (1990) along the río Cenepa within Peru Neckles, W. Petersen, S. Ramsaran, Birds of the high Andes. is identical to that on the N. Riches, C. Rooks, E. Rooks, R. Copenhagen: Zool. Mus., Univ. Ecuadorian side where this Rowlett, I. Samad, B. Sanasie, G. Copenhagen & Svendborg: parakeet is relatively uncommon. Stephen, M. Taylor, R. Taylor, N. Apollo Books. The entire area has been the Trimm, S. Warry, R. Webster, G. 2. Ridgely, R. S. & Greenfield, P. subject of conflict between Wilson, A. White, and G. White. G. (2001) The birds of Ecuador and Peru, and, therefore, The Committee presently Ecuador, 1. London, UK: A. & visiting the Peruvian side of the consists of Martyn Kenefick C. Black. río Cenepa was politically difficult. (Secretary), Richard ffrench, This situation and the presence of Geoffrey Gomes, Floyd Hayes, Leigh Lock, land mines in the area prohibited William Murphy, Courtenay Rooks 2 West Grove Road, Exeter, Devon, visiting this remote Peruvian and Graham White. Records EX2 4LU, UK. E-mail: forest. This sighting is the first should be sent to the Secretary at [email protected]. observation of the species for Peru. [email protected]. Copies of the Species Review List Robert S. R. Williams, Itziar References and the Rare Bird Report Form Olmedo and Irina Munoz 1. Clements, J. F & Shany, N. are available on the Internet at BirdLife International, Casilla 17- (2001) A field guide to the http://www.geocities.com/ttrbc. 17-717, Quito, Ecuador. E-mails: birds of Peru. Temecula, CA: [email protected]; Ibis Publishing. Richard ffrench [email protected]; 2. Ridgely, R. S & Greenfield, P. J. Toftingal, Laurieston Road, [email protected]. (2001) The birds of Ecuador. Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas Ithaca, NY: Cornell DG7 2BE, Scotland. University Press. White-breasted Parakeet Martyn Kenefick Pyrrhura albipectus: a new Lelis Navarrete 36 Newalloville Avenue, San Juan, record for Peru De las Azucenas N47-30 y Av. Eloy Trinidad & Tobago. White-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura Alfaro, Quito, Ecuador. albipectus is considered endemic to Ecuador. In the light of new A unusual altitudinal record of distributional records, it has been Further sightings of Selva White-cheeked Pintail Anas suggested that ‘this species is C acique Cacicus koepckeae in bahamensis in Ecuador likely to occur in adjacent Peru’1. Manu National Park, Peru White-cheeked Pintail Anas Nevertheless, it has not previously Following its discovery in 1963 at bahamensis is a widespread been recorded there2. Balta, dpto. Loreto4, Selva Cacique Neotropical species, generally Corporación Ornitológica del Cacicus koepckeae was among the associated with coastal habitats, Ecuador (CECIA) has recently most enigmatic of Neotropical though occurring inland in conducted surveys in the birds. It evaded conclusive southern South America, regularly Cordillera del Condor, which forms rediscovery until March-April to 2550 m near Cochabamba, part of the border between 1998, when it was found on the Bolivia, and once at 4080 m, at Ecuador and Peru. As part of upper río Camisea, dpto. Cusco, Lago Junín, Peru1. In Ecuador, it is these, a field visit to an area and later (in October 1998) on the a common resident on the coast known as Condor Mirador (03°38'S nearby río Manu Chico, dpto. and in adjacent lowlands, where it 78°23'W; at 1800 m), in Morona- Madre de Dios2. In the interim, has rapidly expanded its range Santiago province, was there were at least two since the first record in 19532. On undertaken. On 19 December inconclusive reports from Manu
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National Park in the 1980s1,6. One by flying away. (1965) A new species of of these — from Cocha Cashu These are the first confirmed Cacicus (Aves, Icteridae) from Biological Station — was initially sightings of Selva Cacique at Peru. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. considered ‘almost certain’, and Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Louisiana State Univ. 33. the species was therefore listed as the most accessible locality for the 5. Schulenberg, T. S., Marantz, C. provisional on a site inventory6. species to date (N. G. Gerhart in A. & English, P. H. (2000) Despite an enormous amount of litt. 2002). They follow 30 years of Voices of Amazonian birds, 1. field work and mist-netting at this intensive field work at the site, Ithaca, NY: Cornell locality, no further observations albeit in a little-visited locale away Laboratory of Ornithology. were made, such that the species from the main study grid. The 6. Terborgh, J., Fitzpatrick, J.W. was removed from subsequent species is not so much skulking as & Emmons, L. (1984) lists3 and considered unlikely to inconspicuous and highly local; Annotated checklist of bird occur in the immediate vicinity (J. knowledge of its vocalisations and and mammal species of Cocha Terborgh pers. comm. 2001). habitat requirements will Cashu Biological Station, In September 2001, I found undoubtedly lead to many more Manu National Park, Peru. three separate groups of Selva records within its small range. Fieldiana Zool. 21. Cacique holding territories along a c. 5-km stretch of shallow creek (c. 5 Acknowledgements Joe Tobias m broad) flowing through pristine I thank INRENA and John 131 Catharine Street, Cambridge lowland forest, c. 8 km from Cocha Terborgh for permission to work at CB1 3AP, UK. E-mail: Cashu Biological Station (uplands Cocha Cashu Biological Station, [email protected]. trail). They were always along the Manu National Park, Peru, and creek itself, never in adjacent Nat Seddon for preparing the forest, and appeared to be sonogram. Notes on breeding behaviour restricted to disturbed riverine in Black-faced Cotinga regrowth containing cane, bamboo, References Conioptilon mcilhennyi dense creepers and some 1. Collar, N. J., Gonzaga, L. P, Black-faced Cotinga Conioptilon Heliconia. All records of the Krabbe, N., Madroño Nieto, mcilhennyi — a relatively recently species appear to be along small A., Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. discovered species2 — is restricted rivers2,4. The groups apparently A. & Wege, D. C.C (1992) to tall floodplain forests in south comprised adults, and were stable Threatened birds of the west Peru1, with recent records in number (one of four, one of five Americas: the ICBP/IUCN from adjacent Acre, western and one of six individuals) and Red Data Book. Cambridge, Brazil, in November 19944, and each tended to be found in the UK: International Council for Pando, northern Bolivia, in July same stretch of creek over a four- Bird Preservation. 2001 (Armonía Bolivian Bird week period. Previous sightings 2. Gerhart, N. G. (in press) Database). As there is no have been of 1–4 individuals, Rediscovery of the Selva information on its breeding usually pairs2, and a group of six4. Cacique in southeastern Peru, behaviour3 (G. Greene pers. comm. At Cocha Cashu, the groups with notes on its habitat, 2002), I describe two nests of this ranged from the low understorey voice, and nest. Wilson Bull. species that I found at Cocha to the upper canopy, but spent 3. Karr, J. R., Robinson, S. K., Cashu Biological Station, Manu most time 1–5 m above ground in Blake, J. G. & Bierregaard, R. National Park, dpto. Madre de dense tangles of bamboo or vines. O. (1990) Birds of four Dios, Peru, in 2001. The species was most frequently Neotropical forests. In: A bird was watched nest located by its loud and distinctive Gentry, A. H. (ed.) Four building in an isolated streamside vocalisations5 (see Fig. 1), which it Neotropical rainforests. New tree (Cecropia sp.) on 16 often gave, although it tended to Haven: Yale University Press. September. This nest site — c. 15 m respond to playback of these calls 4. Lowery, G. H. & O’Neill, J. P. above ground — was abandoned for unknown reasons after two days, and another nest was commenced in the same tree at the same height. Nest-building was undertaken by one individual, presumably the female, although the ‘male’ was in constant attendance. The ‘female’ visited Figure 1I. Sonogram of calls of Selva Cacique Cacicus koepckeae (probably one the site every few minutes through individual, although possibly a duet) recorded at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, the middle of the day, carrying Manu National Park, Peru, in September 2001. This was the only vocalisation scraps of fine plant fibre that were given during the study period: two (1–3) high notes followed by two low notes wound onto two narrow, open (transcribed as ching-ching chung-chung), repeated frequently. Sonogram created with Avisoft-SASLab Pro on standard wide-band settings (FFT = 5 12, frequency branches at their fork. The ‘male’ bandwidth = 235 Hz, time resolution = 4 ms). was in constant attendance,
80 Cotinga 19 Neotropical Notebook apparently mate-guarding, but this time3. Breeding behaviour in mcilhennyi in south-east never directly assisted with nest the cotinga family in general is Peru. Bird Conserv. Intern. construction. Both individuals extremely poorly known, largely 10: 277–285. frequently called and ‘sang’ (see because so many species are 2. Lowery, G. H. & O’Neill, J. P. Fig. 1), and the nest-building difficult to locate when not (1966) A new genus and operation was undertaken with displaying or vocalising, and species of cotinga from little wariness. Nest-building because so many of their eastern Peru. Auk 83: 1–9. occurred daily, but even after a inconspicuous nests are probably 3. Snow, D. (1982) The cotingas: week the nest itself was barely situated in the forest canopy. bellbirds, umbrellabirds and visible. It was not possible to Nest structure in Conioptilon is other species. London, UK: return to this nest and further apparently typical for the family: Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist) & details are therefore unavailable. most cotingas build open nests, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Another pair was discovered these usually being tiny flimsy University Press. feeding a single nestling c. 35 m looking saucer-shaped structures3. 4. Whittaker, A. & Oren, D. C. above ground in an enormous The dense covering of down in (1999) Important Ceiba cf. pentandra young Conioptilon is also a ornithological records from (Bombacaceae), on 28–30 common feature of cotinga the rio Juruá, western September 2001. The nest — nestlings3. In the first Conioptilon Amazonia, including twelve sufficiently small as to be nest described above, guarding of additions to the Brazilian invisible — was situated at the fork the female by the male was avifauna. Bull. Brit. Orn. of two branches. Both adults fed apparently intense during nest Club 119: 235–260. the nestling, often vocalising building (and therefore loudly as they did so, drawing presumably shortly before the Joe Tobias attention to themselves. The nest fertile period). This behaviour is 131 Catharine Street, Cambridge, tree also contained an active nest common in many temperate bird CB1 3AP, UK. E-mail: of Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus species but has not been [email protected]. ornatus. The young appeared previously reported in the almost uniformly pale grey with Cotingidae; indeed, males of most no black visible on the head, and cotingas either make no effort to Feeding behaviour of herons the face relatively pale. On closer protect their paternity or spend a t sea o ff th e coast o f south inspection, this nestling was little time with the female during east Brazil clearly well developed (almost the the breeding period3. The following observations size of adults) but covered in down document behaviour by two heron which was mottled pale and black; Acknowledgements species apparently foraging for it was easily mistaken for a patch I thank INRENA and John waste from fishing boats at sea, of lichen until it gaped for food. Terborgh for permission to work at near Baia da Ilha Grande, Parati, These are the first breeding Cocha Cashu Biological Station, south-east Brazil, during 30 records, and therefore the first Bennett Hennessey for providing December 2000 to 18 March 2001. description of both nest and useful information, and Nat Parati is c. 150 km west-southwest nestling for the genus. The main Seddon for preparing the of Rio de Janeiro. breeding season for most species sonogram. In the mid-morning of 18 in south-east Peru commences in January 2001, from a beach known August–September, continuing References as Prahinia, c. 8 km north-east of until December-March, and on 1. Lloyd, H. (2000) Population Parati, I observed two Black- these grounds Conioptilon was densities of the Black-faced crowned Night-heron Nycticorax accurately predicted to breed at Cotinga Conioptilon nycticorax around a fishing boat 400–500 m offshore. They were associated with 19 Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnifícens, eight Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax olivaceus and c. 6 terns (probably Royal Sterna maxima and Common S. hirundo). One of the herons remained high above the surface, the other came Figure 1. Sonogram of song and calls of Black-faced Cotinga Conioptilon mcilhennyi, low (as did some of the other recorded at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru. The species), landed on the sea and ‘song’ is loud and distinctive, usually likened to one of the main calls of Smooth flew off again. billed Ani Crotophaga ani or an old-fashioned telephone: an upwardly inflected brriiing. The call is a simple pew note. The two vocalisations were given regularly At mid-morning of 2 February during nest-building and chick-rearing by both male and female. Sonogram created 2001, at the same location, I with Avisoft-SASLab Pro on standard wide band settings (FFT = 512, frequency observed five Black-crowned bandwidth = 235 Hz, time resolution = 4 ms). Night-heron, c. 15 terns (Royal or
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Cayenne Sterna sandvicensis the development of such Talagante (33°S), prov. Talagante, eurygnathus), four Neotropic behaviour. Baia da Ilha Grande is entre el 12 y 27 de abril de 19906. Cormorant and a Cocoi Heron a large bay (c. 50 km × 40 km) of Esta información es repetida de Ardea Cocoi around several fishing the Atlantic Ocean, with many manera incompleta por Sallabery boats 400-500 m offshore. The forested islands of all sizes. Many et al.7. Revisando la colección del latter flew c. 50 m above the small boats (c. 10 m long) fish the difunto Francisco Behn, se surface, then descended with legs bay, and herons regularly move encontró un tercer espécimen outstretched, settled briefly on the between the mainland and islands nunca reportado en la literatura. sea, before flying low to the shore, during daylight. Sometimes, on Este fue colectado por F. Behn, el where it perched on a boulder. these trips, the birds doubtless fly 10 de febrero de 1968, en Caspana Finally, at 15h30, on 24 close to fishing boats, and may, in (22°S, 3200 m), prov. del Loa. Se February 2001, from a yacht c. 6 the past, have been attracted by trata de un macho, pesando 57 g, km east-northeast of Parati, I other bird species congregating testis 2.5 × 1 mm (CFB # 934). observed five Black-crowned around these boats. Sin duda el Benteveo es una Night-heron, which while especie errante en Chile, y de apparently en route between the References momento no hay ningún patrón en mainland and an island c. 1 km 1. del Hoyo, J., Andrew, A. & estos movimientos, aunque la offshore, circled behind a fishing Sargatal, J. (eds.) (1992) mayoría son entre el otoño y el boat, with 1–2 briefly alighting on Handbook of the birds of the invierno austral. No es posible the sea. world, 1. Barcelona: Lynx determinar la subespecie, por Although all my observations Edicions. carecer de material comparativo. were at such distance that it was 2. Hancock, J. & Kushlan, J. En resumen, la especie ha sido impossible to observe what, if (1984) The herons handbook. encontrada en Chile en los meses anything, the herons took from the New York: Harper & Row. de febrero, abril, julio y sea, that they briefly settled on the septiembre, en las regiones I, II, V, surface strongly suggests that P. W. P. Browne Area Metropolitana y VIII, y desde they were feeding. Such behaviour 115 Crichton Street, Ottawa K1M el nivel del mar hasta los 3.200 m close to fishing boats, which in two 1V8, Canada. E-mail: de altitud. cases attracted other species [email protected]. known to scavenge fish waste, Agradecimientos indicates that the herons were Se le agradece a la señora E. Behn attracted by the same food Un nuevo registro del por facilitarme el acceso a la resource. Del Hoyo et al.1 and B enteveo Pitangus sulphuratus colección. Hancock & Kushlan2 mention that p ara C hile herons do forage aerially, albeit El Benteveo Pitangus sulphuratus Referencias rarely, but apparently only in tiene una amplia distribución en 1. Johnson, A. W. (1967) The natural circumstances and not Sudamérica, principalmente al birds of Chile and adjacent while scavenging around fishing este de los Andes, desde el norte de regions of Argentina, Bolivia boats. The only known instances of Colombia y por el este desde and Peru, 2. Buenos Aires: either species feeding offshore are Venezuela, hacia el sur llegando al Plat Establecimientos recorded for the race falklandicus centro sur de Argentina, Neuquén Gráficos. of Black-crowned Night-heron, y Río Negro, con unos pocos casos 2. Johnson, A. W. (1969) Nuevo which visits kelp beds 500 m from de errantes en Chile5. hallazgo del Benteveo. Bol. land2. Indeed, Cocoi Heron has not El primer espécimen para Chile Orn. I (6): 1. previously been recorded at sea1,2. fue capturado en las cercanías de 3. Marin, M., Kiff, L. F. & Peña A Cocoi Heron was also observed Cholguan (37°S), prov. de Ñuble, en G., L. (1989) Notes on Chilean flying across the mouth of the bay julio 1966, por E. Lamothe4. birds with descriptions of two at Prahinia, on 5 February, again a Johnson1 da erróneamente la fecha new subspecies. Bull. Brit. few hundred metres out. de este espécimen como enero de Orn. Club 109: 66–82. Aerial foraging of herons 1967 y da la localidad como cerca 4. Philippi B., R. A. (1967) Tres appears not uncommon around de los Angeles (c. 37°S), prov. Bío- especies de aves capturadas Parati, given my observations over Bío. Luego Johnson2 reportó un por primera vez en Chile. Bol. less than three months. It is also registro visual el 8 de septiembre Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 29: 121– noteworthy that the behaviour de 1969, un poco al sur de Santo 124. occurred in full daylight, although Domingo (33°S), prov. San Antonio. 5. Ridgely, R. S. & Tudor, G. Black-crowned Night-Heron is El segundo espécimen reportado (1994) The birds of South principally a crepuscular / para Chile, fue capturado en America, 2. Austin: University nocturnal feeder2. Several were Quebrada de Suca (19°S), prov. de of Texas Press. regularly observed feeding on the Iquique, el 7 de julio de 1986, por 6. Rottman, J. (1990) mudflats at Parati, but only in D. Veas3. Luego se reportó un Observaciones breves. Bol. late evening. The topography segundo registro visual por J. Inf. UNORCH 9: 5. around Parati may have favoured Rottman en las cercanias de 7. Sallabery, M., Aguirre, J. &
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Yáñez, J. (1992) Adiciones a la mogotes forest in the west of the Pluvialis fulva and 6–7 Baird’s lista de aves de Chile: country in June 2000. Sandpiper Calidris bairdii at descripción de especies Chômes, on 4 January, still one nuevas para el país y otros Dominican Republic Southern Lapwing Vanellus datos ornitológicos. Not. Mens. A possible hybrid between chilensis at Playa Hermosa until Mus. Hist. Nat. 321: 3–10. Kirtland’s Warbler Dendroica 21 February (see Cotinga 18: 108), kirtlandii and Blackburnian a possible South Polar Skua Manuel Marin Warbler D. fusca was trapped and Catharacta maccormicki near Casilla 15, Melipilla, Chile. E- photographed in October 199728. Carate, on the Osa Peninsula, on 2 mail: [email protected]. The use of sea caves for nesting by January, possibly the first Antillean Palm Swift Tachornis Eurasian Collared Dove phoenicobia has recently been Streptopelia decaocto in Costa Rica PUBLISHED RECORDS reported27; there are no previously at Grecia, in December 2001, and FROM THE LITERATURE well-documented records of the at least eight Cave Swallows genus using habitats other than Hirundo fulva at La Ensenada W EST INDIES palms in which to breed. Lodge, on 30 January 2002, with several of the same species at Berm uda Guadeloupe Chômes in February15. Mississippi Kite Ictinia Fifteen new species have recently Later in the year, on 19 June, a mississippiensis has recently been been added to the island list, of male White-tailed Emerald added to the Bermuda list, one which are three are considered Elvira chionura was at Kiri Lodge, over Nonsuch Island, on 20 May unconfirmed29. Particularly near Tapanti National Park, 200253. Among other records from notable, among confirmed apparently the first record on the spring 2002, most significant were observations, are those of Wood Caribbean side of the Cordillera de the second island record of Little Sandpiper Tringa glareola and Talamanca. Further records of Egret Egretta garzetta, on 24 Bare-eyed Robin Turdus Pearl Kite Gampsonyx swainsonii April to 3 May, the first Whimbrel nudigenis, which has been proved continue to expand its known Numenius phaeopus for about ten to breed. American Coot Fulica range northward in the country, years, on 10 June, the latest ever americana has recently while Red-breasted Blackbird spring record of Veery Catharus (February–March 2001) been Sturnella militaris is similarly fuscescens, on 4 May, the first May discovered to breed on the island30. expanding on the east slope. June record of Prairie Warbler and early July brought records of Dendroica discolor, and the first Puerto Rico Red Knot Calidris canutus, five summer record of Rose-breasted The sixth-ever (and first white- Surfbird Aphriza virgata and Grosbeak Pheucticus phase) Reddish Egret Egretta Sanderling Calidris alba, the ludovicianus, on 10 June10. The rufescens in the country was first summer records of these globally threatened Cahow discovered in December 200143. species in the country16. Pterodroma cahow enjoyed a Elsewhere, Holley et al.22 present record breeding season, 65 pairs St Kitts-Nevis the first description of the nest succeeded in fledging 36 chicks33. A recent survey found no evidence and eggs of Ochre-breasted for the continued existence of the Antpitta Grallaricula flavirostris Barbados West Indian Whistling-Duck from observations in 1999 and The wintering grounds of Dendrocygna arborea in St Kitts- 2000. Caribbean Martin Progne Nevis4. What was apparently the dominicensis are unknown but are first American Coot Fulica Mexico presumed to in South America. americana to be recorded on the The first record of Hooded Observations in winter 2000/2001 latter island was observed on 16 Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus indicate that at least small April 200113. in Campeche involved a group of numbers overwinter on 15 in November 199944. Five new Barbados14. MIDDLE AMERICA species were recently added to the avifauna of Cozumel Island: Cuba Costa Rica Orange-crowned Warbler Winter surveys of high-altitude Among interesting records from Vermivora celata, Nashville areas of the Sierra Maestra in early 2002 were a subadult Harpy Warbler V. ruficapilla, Canada 1999 and 2000 revealed the Eagle Harpia harpyja Warbler Wilsonia canadensis, presence of 12 and 19 individuals (photographed at an unknown Red-throated Ant-tanager of Bicknell’s Thrush Catharus location), perhaps the first Habia fuscicauda and Blue-black bicknelli, demonstrating that the American Avocet Recurvirostra Grassquit Volatinia jacarina32. species is apparently a regular americana on the Caribbean coast Peregrine Falco peregrinus has wintering bird in this part of the of the country, at Tortuguero recently been reported breeding island31. Wiley et al.52 provide Canals, on 31 January, a first- up to 390 km north of earlier interesting data from surveys of winter Pacific Golden Plover nesting records in Baja Califor-
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nia45. New breeding data, Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus Grassquit Tiaris fuliginosa47. including descriptions of the nests tyrannus and Stripe-capped Vasconcelos48 adds the following and eggs, have recently been Sparrow Aimophila strigiceps, as new records for Serra da Caraça, provided for Green-backed well as a number of range Minas Gerais: Great Black Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus extensions in these and Mendoza Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga, and Grey-throated Chat province. Details of the Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix Granatellus sallaei46. Further distribution of two poorly known koeniswaldiana, Ferruginous breeding, distributional and raptors, White-throated Hawk Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium temporal data on 70 species in Buteo albigula and Rufous-tailed brasilianum, Versicoloured central Oaxaca are provided by Hawk B. centralis are presented Emerald Amazilia versicolor, Forcey12 in the second part of his for Neuquén, Rio Negro and Robust Woodpecker three-part paper, including Chubut provinces17,18. Silvery Campephilus robustus, White- observations of ten species not Grebe Podiceps occipitalis has throated Woodcreeper previously reported from or recently been proven to breed in Xiphocolaptes albicollis, Sooty considered rare in the study area. Buenos Aires province8; previous Tyrannulet Serpophaga statements in the literature nigricans, Hellmayr’s Pipit Nicaragua concerning the species’ nesting Anthus hellmayri and Red- Recent field work at El Jaguar, there have been undocumented. rumped Cacique Cacicus Jinotega, has revealed the haemorrhous. The discovery of presence of four new species in the Brazil Band-winged Nightjar country: Green-crowned A juvenile Eurasian Spoonbill Caprimulgus longirostris at Brilliant Heliodoxa jacula, Veery Platalea leucorodia was Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Catharus fuscescens, Plain photographed on Ilha Fernando de Grosso, marks the first record for Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis Noronha during a stay of several the state49. D’Angelo Neto et al.7 and Bay-headed Tanager weeks in January-February 1999 report three new localities for the Tangara gyrola, while two records (K. Hazevoet in Dutch Birding 24: globally threatened Narrow of Golden-cheeked Warbler 205) and there is a previous record billed Antwren Formicivora Dendroica chrysoparia, on 4 and 7 from the island in November 1996 iheringi in Minas Gerais. Within a April 2002, are the first (per J. F. Pacheco), the first discussion of the avifauna of the Nicaraguan records since 18912. records for South America. A mangroves at Santos-Cubatão, in recent desk study by Van São Paulo, Olmos & Silva e Silva39 Panama Remsen42 has demonstrated that present a number of interesting The presence of Southern the true winter range of the updates to the status of several Lapwing Vanellus chilensis, a Veery Catharus fuscescens, which birds in the state, most of them rarity in the country, at Tocumen in the past has been variously migrants or recent colonists. International Airport, one killed in considered to encompass much of February 1997 and two present northern South America east of Chile between June and July 1999, has the Andes, is probably confined to The first country records of been reported recently19. south-central and south-east Black-backed Grosbeak Brazil, based on specimen Pheucticus aureoventris were SOUTH AMERICA analysis. Such studies, which made in Region I in December serve to highlight the erroneous 199825 and February 200038. The A rgentina nature of previous assumptions northernmost Chilean record of The presence of Ruby Topaz concerning winter ranges of Black-necked Swan Cygnus Chrysolampis mosquitus in Nearctic migrants, may prove melancoryphus was made at Argentina has been confirmed highly useful in the conservation Taltal, in February 199950. Little through photographs of a juvenile of declining North American Blue Heron Egretta caerulea has male and observations of a male at songbirds. The following species recently been found to be a Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, in April- have recently been recorded at resident at a site in Region IV, well May 200141. New breeding records Estação Ecológica Uruçuí-Una, south of its known range in the of Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Piauí, being in each case the first country36. Wilson et al. have in Buenos Aires province are state record: Stygian Owl Asia recently re-identified a specimen presented by Fiameni11, while Di stygius (range extension of c. 800 of Little Penguin Eudyptula Giacomo et al.9 note the first km north-west from Chapada minor taken in central Chile as an confirmed Córdoba reports of Diamantina), Checkered adult, not a young bird52. The Plumbeous Ibis Theristicus Woodpecker Picoides mixtus discovery, in February 2000, of a caerulescens and Ash-throated (range extension of c. 970 km north nest containing two chicks of Crake Porzana albicollis, first from Planaltina, Distrito Federal), Giant Conebill Oreomanes confirmed La Pampa record of Spotted Puffbird Bucco tamatia fraseri in Region I confirms its Fulvous Whistling-Duck (range extension of c. 600 km resident status in Chile20. A new Dendrocygna bicolor and first south-east from Couto de record of Wattled Jacana Jacana confirmed San Luis records of Magalhães, Tocantins) and Sooty jacana in the same region was
84 Cotinga 19 Neotropical Notebook made in May 199837. Swainson’s seen on 24 April (c. l month later Acknowledgements Hawk Buteo swainsoni has been than previous records in the The following forwarded records: confirmed to occur in Chile, based country)1. Dusky-legged Guan Guntram Meier and David Wege. on specimens taken in the Juan Penelope obscura has recently been Fernández Islands, in 1875, and added to the list of species reliably Neotropical Notebook: compiled the Andes of Curicó, in 192335, and recorded from the country54. by Juan Mazar Barnett, Guy M. Wilson’s Plover Charadrius Kirwan and Jeremy Minns. wilsonia has recently (September Venezuela 1999) been observed near Arica, Ned Johnson23 has located R e fe r e n c e s Region I10. The first record of previously unreported specimens 1. Anon. (2002) El Urutau Upland Goose Chloephaga picta of Rufous-crowned Tody-tyrant (Boletín de Notícias de Guyra in the Juan Fernández was made Poecilotriccus ruficeps Paraguay) 1 (3). in February 200021, and White melanomystax from Trujillo and 2. Anon. (2002) Four new bird faced Storm-petrel Pelagodroma Mérida (in this country, the species records for Nicaragua and the marina has recently been was previously known only from rediscovery of the Golden confirmed to occur in Chilean Táchira), as well as the eastern cheeked Warbler (Dendroica waters, based on a specimen and Andes of Colombia (see above). chrysoparia). La Tangara 40. photographs taken near Isla Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris 3. Botero, C. A. (2001) First Alejandro Selkirk in February diomedea has been added to the specimen of the Ecuadorian 200024. list of species recorded in the Cacique from Colombia with country, based on a dead notes on its nesting behavior. Colom bia individual found at the Araya Wilson Bull. 113: 327–328. The presence of Ecuadorian Peninsula, in December 199934. 4. Childress, R. B. & Hughes, B. Cacique Cacicus sclateri in (2001) The status of the West Tinigua National Park, dpto. Meta, Indian Whistling-Duck has recently been confirmed with OTHER RECORDS (Dendrocygna arborea) in St. specimens, providing unequivocal RECEIVED Kitts–Nevis, January– documentation of the species’ February 2000. El Pitirre 14: presence in Colombia3. Further Antigua 107–112. information on the species’ GM submitted the following 5. Cleere, N. & Ingels, J. (2002) breeding biology was also observations relating to 2001: five First record of the Rufous collected. During a study of Double-crested Cormorant Potoo Nyctibius bracteatus geographical variation within the Phalacrocorax auritus at Bird and in-flight drinking by the Rufous-crowned Tody-Tyrant Island on 29 April (perhaps the Semi-collared Nighthawk Poecilotriccus ruficeps first record), two Osprey Pandion Lurocalis semitorquatus in superspecies, Johnson23 located haliaetus at Green Island on 4 May French Guiana. Bull. Brit. previously overlooked specimens of (an uncommon visitor), two Orn. Club 122: 154–155. P. r. melanomystax from Boyacá, in Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides 6. Cleere, N. & Ingels, J. (2002) the eastern Andes, as well as forficatus over Green Island on 27 Notes on the breeding biology Venezuela (see below). May (perhaps the first record), an of the Blackish Nightjar immature Common Black Hawk Caprimulgus nigrescens in French Guiana Buteogallus anthracinus at French Guiana .Alauda 70: The first country records of Seatons on 10 May (perhaps the 253–259. Rufous Potoo Nyctibius first record), an apparently nest 7. D’Angelo Neto, S., Vasconcelos, bracteatus were made around Said prospecting American M. F. de & Silveira, L. F. in September 20005, and the first Oystercatcher Haematopus (2002) Range extensions, nest data for Wing-banded Wren palliatus at Green Island on 20 plumage variation, and Microcerculus bambla were May (previously considered only a conservation of the Narrow recently presented by Judien & vagrant), four pairs of Roseate billed Antwren (Formicivora Cariveau26. Additional breeding Tern Sterna dougallii and 50–70 iheringi), a Brazilian data for Blackish Nightjar Sooty Tern S. fuscata were endemic. Intern. J. Orn. 4: Caprimulgus nigrescens were nesting on Great Bird Island on 11 225–229. presented recently6. May (both are considered 8. Darrieu, C. A., Soave, G. E., uncommon on Antigua), a Bank Juárez, M. & Camperi, A. R. Paraguay Swallow Riparia riparia at Green (2001) First breeding record In April 2002, an exceptional Island on 4 May (considered a of the Silvery Grebe (Podiceps concentration of up to 20,000 vagrant throughout most of the occipitalis) in the [sic] Buenos Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus Lesser Antilles), and a Philadel Aires province, Argentina. was present at Estancia Fortín phia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus at Orn. Neotrop. 12: 87–89. Patria, 30 km north of Bahía Wallis on 25 May (vagrant to 9. Di Giacomo, A. G., Di Giacomo, Negra, with the last birds being Antigua/Barbuda). A. S. & Marchisio, C.A. (2001)
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Nuevos registros de aves para (2001) First description of the 33. Madeiros, J. (2002) Cahow el centro de la Argentina. nest, nest site, and eggs of the update 2002. Bermuda Nuestras Aves 42: 18–20. Ochre-breasted Antpitta. Audubon Soc. Newsletter 13 10. Dobson, A. (2002) Bird report Wilson Bull. 113: 435–438. (3): 6. Apr–June 2002. Bermuda 23. Johnson, N. K. (2002) 34. Marín, G., Muñoz, J., Guevara, Audubon Soc. Newsletter 13 Leapfrogging revisited in S. & Rodriguez, J. R. (2002) (3): 4–5. Andean birds: geographical Calonectris diomedea, nuevo 11. Fiameni, M. A. (2001) Nuevos variation in the tody-tyrant procelárido para Venezuela. registros de nidificación de la superspecies Poecilotriccus Orn. Neotrop. 13: 91–92. Golondrina Tijerita (Hirundo ruficeps andP. lulae. Ibis 144: 35. Marín, M. (2000) El Aguilucho rustica) en la Argentina. 69-84. Langostero Buteo swainsoni Nuestras Aves 42: 13. 24. Johow, F. (2000) Confirmación una nueva especie que se 12. Forcey, J. M. (2002) Notes on de la Golondrina de Mar de debe agregar a la lista de aves the birds of Central Oaxaca, Ceja Blanca (Pelagodroma chilenas. Bol. Chileno Orn. 7: Part II: Columbidae to marina) en aguas chilenas. 26–27. Vireonidae. Huitzil 3: 14–27. Bol. Chileno Orn. 7: 28–29. 36. Martínez, M. R. (2000) La 13. Francis, J. (2001) American 25. Johow, J. C. (2000) Primer Garza Azul (Egretta caerulea) Coot (Fulica americana) on registro de Pheucticus especie residente en La Nevis. El Pitirre 14: 127. aureoventris (Passeriformes, Serena, IV Región. Bol. 14. Frost, M. D. & Massiah, E. B. Emberizidae) para Chile. Bol. Chileno Orn. 7: 33. (2001) Caribbean Martins Chileno Orn. 7: 34. 37. Miranda Salinas, L. (2000) (.Progne dominicensis) 26. Jullien, M. & Cariveau, D. Nuevo registro de Jacana overwinter at roost in (2001) First description of the Jacana jacana (Linné, 1766) Bridgetown, Barbados. El nest of the Wing-banded Wren para la I Región de Tarapacá, Pitirre 14: 128–129. in French Guiana. Wilson Chile. Bol. Chileno Orn. 7: 28. 15. Garrigues, R. (2002) The Gone Bull. 113: 398–403. 38. Miranda Salinas, L. (2000) Birding Newsletter 3 (2). 27. Kirwan, G. M., Williams, R. S. Avistamiento de Pheucticus 16. Garrigues, R. (2002) The Gone R. & Bradshaw, C. G. (2002) aureoventris (Passeriformes, Birding Newsletter 3 (3). Antillean Palm Swift Emberizidae) en la 17. Gelain, M., Ojeda, V., Trejo, A., Tachornis phoenicobia desembocadura del río Lluta, Sympson, L., Amico, G. & nesting in sea caves in the I Región de Chile. Bol. Vidal Russell, R. (2001) Dominican Republic. El Chileno Orn. 7: 37. Nuevos registros de Pitirre 15: 65–66. 39. Olmos, F. & Silva e Silva, R. distribución y nidificación del 28. Latta, S. C. & Parkes, K. C. (2001) The avifauna of a Aguilucho Andino (Buteo (2001) A possible Dendroica southeastern Brazilian albigula) en la Patagonia kirtlandii hybrid from mangrove swamp. Intern. J. argentina. Hornero 16: 85-88. Hispaniola. Wilson Bull. 113: Orn. 4: 137–207. 18. Gelain, M. A. & Trejo, A. (2001) 378–383. 40. Peredo, R. (2000) Observación Nuevos registros del 29. Levesque, A. & Jaffard, M.-E. de Charadrius wilsonia Aguilucho Cola Rojiza (Buteo (2002) Quinze nouvelles Ridgway, 1919 en Chile. Bol. ventralis) en la Patagonia espèces d’oiseaux observées Chileno Orn. 7: 29–30. argentina. Hornero 16: 97-99. en Guadeloupe (F.W.I.). El 41. Pugnali, G. & Pearman, M. 19. Godinez, E. (2000) Vanellus Pitirre 15: 1–4. (2001) Confirmación de la chilensis en Panamá. Bol. 30. Levesque, A., Yésou, P. & presencia del Colibrí Rubí Chileno Orn. 7: 31. South, M. (2002) Nidification (Chrysolampis mosquitus) en 20. González C., G. E. & Torres- de la Foulque l’Amérique Argentina. Hornero 16: 93–95. Mura, J. C. (2000) (Fulica americana) en 42. Remsen, J. V. (2001) True Nidificación de Oreomanes Guadeloupe (Petites Antilles). winter range of the Veery fraseri (Passeriformes, El Pitirre 15: 44–45. (Catharus fuscescens): lessons Fringillidae) en Tarapacá, 31. Lianes Sosa, A., Aubry, Y., for determining winter ranges Andes de Chile. Bol. Chileno Oviedo Preto, I. R., Shaffer, F., of species that winter in the Orn. 7 : 19–23. Marrero, A. H. & Rompré, G. tropics. Auk 118: 838–848. 21. Guicking, D. & Fiedler, W. (2001) Bicknell’s Thrush 43. Rodriguez-Mojica, R. (2002) A (2000) Primer registro de (Catharus bicknelli): a winter Reddish Egret (Egretta Caiquén Chloephaga pida resident in Cuba. El Pitirre rufescens) in the western (Gmelin, 1789) para el 14: 136–137. coast of Puerto Rico. El archipiélago de Juan 32. Macouzet, T. M. & Escalante- Pitirre 15: 40–41. Fernández. Bol. Chileno Orn. Pliego, P. (2000) New records 44. Rojas-Soto, O. R. & Alba 7: 26. of birds for Cozumel Island, Bocanegra, A. de (2002) 22. Holley, D. R., Lindell, C. A., Mexico. Southwest. Nat. 45: Record of the Hooded Roberts, M. A. & Biancucci, L. 79–81. Merganser (Lophodytes
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cucullatus) in “Los Petenes”, 48. Vasconcelos, M. F. de (2001) Río, Cuba, June 2000. El northwestern Campeche, Adiçoes à avifauna da Serra Pitirre 15: 7–15. México. Orn. Neotrop. 13: 85– do Caraça, Minas Gerais. 52. Wilson, R. P., Simeone, A. & 86. Atualidades Orn. 104: 3. McGill, P. (2000) Nota 45. Ruiz C., G. & Contreras B., A. 49. Vasconcelos, M. F. de (2002) O complementaria a la J. (2000) New northern bacurau-rupestre observación de un Pingüino nesting record of the (Caprimulgus longirostris) no Azul Eudyptula minor en la Peregrine Falcon in Baja estado do Mato Grosso, Brasil. costa de Santo Domingo. Bol. California, Mexico. J. Raptor Atualidades Orn. 105: 11. Chileno Orn. 7: 30. Res. 34: 151. 50. Villarroel Olivares, M. (2000) 53. Wingate, D. B. (2002) 46. Salgado-Ortiz, J., Figueroa- Presencia de Cisnes de Cuello Mississippi Kite — new record Esquivel, E. M., Larios- Negro en playas de Taltal, II for Bermuda. Bermuda Guzmán, S. & Robertson, R. J. Región. Bol. Chileno Orn. 7: Audubon Soc. Newsletter 13 (2001) Descriptions of nests 32. (3): 2–3. and eggs of the Green-backed 51. Wiley, J. W., Urquiola, A. R., 54. Zyskowski, K. & Clay, R. P. Sparrow and the Grey- Bermudez, E. R, Cabrera, M. (2001) First documented throated Chat from the F., Ramírez, L. G. D., record of the Dusky-legged Yucatan Peninsula. Wilson Pumaniega, M. G., Rodríguez, Guan (Penelope obscura) in Bull. 113: 328–331. Y. R., Pumaniega, G. C., Paraguay. Bull. IUCN/ 47. Silveira, L. F., Calonge- Fernández, O. S., Hernández, BirdLife/WPA Cracid Méndez, A. & Brito, G. R. R. R. M., González, A. V. & Specialist Group 13: 19–22. (2002) Range extensions and Ibarra, M. E. (2002) Bird new records for birds in Piauí surveys in the mogotes state, Brazil. Intern. J. Orn. 4: vegetational complex in the 219–224. Sierra del Infierno, Pinar del
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