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Neotropical Birdingbirding T H E B I R D I N G M a G a Z I N E O F T H E Neotropical B I R D C L U B NeotropicalNeotropical BirdingBirding THE BIRDING MAGAZINE OF THE NEOTROPICAL BIRD CLUB Number 20 • Spring 2017 >> CONSERVATION AWARDS NBC Conservation Awards Update Compiled by Jez Bird The Neotropical Bird Club (NBC) Conservation 7. New surveys for Zapata Rail Cyanolimnus Awards Programme has grown significantly in cerverai, the elusive and poorly known Cuban recent years thanks to the support of private endemic. Nils Navarro Pacheco, Cuba. individuals and foundations alike. In 2016 Awarded $3,000. (Neotropical Birding 18: 60–63) we announced an 8. A second outreach campaign for the protection increase in both the number of awards and their of the Critically Endangered White-winged value (to $1,500, $3,000 and $5,000). We have been Guan Penelope albipennis in the Tumbesian extremely pleased with the response that this has region of Peru. Fabiola Riva Melofiro, Peru. elicited, with sharp increases in the number of Awarded $3,000. applicants to the programme and in the overall 9. Surveying an ‘Important Bird and Biodiversity amount disbursed during 2016. Area (IBA) in Danger’ for White-winged The deadlines for Conservation Award Nightjar Eleothreptus candicans. Joseph applications are 1 January and 1 July each year. Full Sarvary, Paraguay. Awarded $4,920. details of the awards programme and application process can be found on the NBC website Updates from past awards (www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/conservation/ First, congratulations to Argentina’s Instituto conservation-fund/). The NBC Conservation Espaço Silvestre. Bianca Bonaparte at the institute Awards Programme would be unable to support received a NBC Conservation Award in 2013 the projects we do without the generous support for her project working on the Endangered of organisations (especially the Tides Foundation) Vinaceous-breasted Amazon Amazona vinacea and individuals. If you or your company would like (see Neotropical Birding 16: 66). The institute to donate to the programme please contact Chris recently received its first international award for Sharpe ([email protected]). its work on Vinaceous-breasted Amazon, which was recognised as one of the top 50 social and 2016 awards environmental projects in Latin America in the NBC was able to offer nine awards during 2016: ‘biodiversity and wildlife ‘category of the Premios 1. Conservation of Chaco Eagle Buteogallus Latin América Verde (Latin American ‘Green coronatus in Córdoba, Argentina: identifying Awards’). And, in August 2016 the institute new areas to protect. Verónica Inés Serman, received the Premio Expressão de Ecologia, the Argentina. Awarded $1,500. highest environmental accolade given by the 2. Assessing the illegal trade in Red Siskin Brazilian Ministry of Environment. Since 2010 the Spinus cucullatus in Venezuela. Ada Sánchez- project has rehabilitated more than 80 Vinaceous- Mercado, Venezuela. Awarded $2,936. breasted Amazons, and following their work on 3. Investigating the conservation and habitat of education and livelihoods there has been a 62% Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis increase in women’s income in villages around in northwestern Peru. Renzo Piana, Peru. Parque Nacional Araucárias. Awarded $2,810. 4. Ecology and conservation of the Wattled Community assembly under climate Curassow Crax globulosa: one of the Amazon’s change: understanding and predicting most threatened birds. Alicia Carolina Bertsch, bird community responses: US$1,396. Brazil. Awarded $2,950. 5. Advancing the conservation of Rufous-faced Project dates: May 2015 to September 2016. Crake Laterallus xenopterus. Emiliano Agustín Understanding and predicting climate change Depino – Paraguay. Awarded $1,500. effects on biological communities has become a 6. In pursuit of the rarest: using sound recorders priority for conservation (Morn & Lechowicz 2008, to detect endangered and possibly extinct bird Gilman et al. 2010, Bellard et al. 2012, Fordham et species at Serra do Urubu, Pernambuco, Brazil. al. 2013). This project focused on a hyperdiverse Thiago Vernaschi Vieira da Costa, Brazil. area for birds in Bolivia: the humid montane forest Awarded $5,000. of the tropical Andes, locally known as Yungas. 56 Neotropical Birding 20 With more than 600 species recorded, the Yungas data collection, of whom two are continuing their harbours almost half of Bolivia’s bird species, involvement in the project. including five of the 14 endemic species in the Flavia A. Montaño Centellas country (Balderrama 2009). The Yungas is also a highly threatened ecosystem that is particularly Current status of the Endangered vulnerable to global climate change. Apolinar’s Wren Cistothorus apolinari I examined factors governing the make-up in the wetlands of Bogotá: US$1,200. of bird communities at different altitudes along two well-conserved elevational gradients in the Project dates: July–November 2014. Surveys Bolivian Andes. Through intense audiovisual were conducted from July–November 2014 to censuses conducted between April and November record information on the abundance and habitat across elevations (replicated eight times per preferences of the Endangered Apolinar’s Wren complete gradient) I collected data on bird Cistothorus apolinari in key wetlands in the communities in 200 m elevational bands from savanna of Bogotá, Colombia. The study also 1,350–3,650 m. Bird species within each 200 m aimed to identify key threats. band were gathered to represent an ‘assemblage’ We visited several wetlands: Torca– for data analyses. Overall, I recorded 349 resident Guaymaral; La Conejera; Humedal Juan species in the study gradients. Amarillo; Jaboque; Florida; and Tibanica. Sites At the end of the field season, I visited the Field were selected based on historical records of the Museum of Natural History (Chicago, IL, USA) species. On average five visits were made to each and gathered morphological information on 325 site. Surveys recorded just four individuals from bird species detected on my censuses. Data on three locations. Despite this, there was apparently nine morphological traits related with foraging suitable vegetation at all wetlands visited ecology and flight performance were gathered (something that we determined using historical for 3–8 individuals per species (depending on descriptions of vegetation taken when previous available skins). A database of ecological traits records of Apolinar’s Wren were made). was also developed from literature and field A major threat to Apolinar’s Wren identified observations. Ecological and morphological traits during the study is the apparent abundance were used to calculate functional diversity indices of Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis. This for the assemblage of each elevational band. As species has been recorded parasitising the nests expected, my preliminary results show a decay of Apolinar’s Wren. It may have increased owing of functional diversity with elevation. However, to other human modifications to the landscape, different traits show different patterns of diversity. but with the wren population now perilously low, After this interesting result, the project was further suppression by cowbird parasitism is a real extended for another long field season (May– threat to its persistence. October 2016) to enable collection of further Other threats facing the species recorded information to better explore local changes in during the study were the presence of semi-feral functional traits across these gradients and to dogs (which potentially predate wrens), and investigate potential hypotheses that might explain habitat degradation related to burning, improper these patterns. My preliminary explorations reveal, disposal of solid waste in wetlands, desiccation as expected, that temperature and slope are the of wetlands and pollution of waterbodies. main factors explaining changes in functional Wetlands in the region are under further pressure diversity across these gradients. That said, novel because the rural poor have moved into areas of models will be developed as new field information marshland, fuelling further habitat clearance and is added. The first phase of the project has been drainage. successfully completed; I am now working on the Cucarachero is the local name for Apolinar’s second phase. Concluding in August 2017, this Wren. In November 2015 the ‘Cucarachero will model community changes under determined Wetland Fayre’ was held to highlight to local climate change scenarios. The results will hopefully have implications for the conservation of threatened and endemic species in the Yungas Visit the NBC website http://neotropicalbirdclub.org under a changing climate. for more information about the NBC Conservation Finally, the project has also included a strong Fund, including guidelines for applicants and a link educational component. Six Bolivian biology to download an application form. The guidelines students have participated in bird censuses and and form are also available in Spanish. Neotropical Birding 20 57 >> CONSERVATION AWARDS 1 2 1 Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer feeding on Puya atra, an enemic bromeliad from the Bolivian Yungas (Cesar Mayta). 2 The Critically Endangered Alagoas Antwren Myrmotherula snowi is being monitored in the Pernambuco Centre of Endemism (Márcio Efe). communities the ecology and conservation increase knowledge about the life history and significance of the species and the deteriorating population of endemic and endangered species. state of the region’s wetlands. In every month since 2010, we have conducted at Adriana Sua-Becerra least
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