Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana

DOCUMENTED RECORDS OF ASH-COLORED (Coccycua cinerea) IN AMAZONIAN PERÚ

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Fernando ANGULO1 CORBIDI., Jesús [email protected] Alexander ALFEREZ FLORES 2 Asociación Centro de Innovación Científico Amazónica-Wake Forest University. [email protected]

ABSTRACT The Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea) it is considered a hypothetical for Peru and there are no documented records of its presence within the country. It is considered to be a rare austral migrant to the lowlands of the southwest Peruvian Amazon. It is considered a vagrant in the northern Peruvian Amazon. Here we report four documented records of the species from

further discuss the seasonality of the records and the species’ status within Peruthe southern and propose Peruvian to change Amazon its status and confirm from Hypothetical its occurrence to rare in theaustral country. migrant. We austral migrant, ocurrence, peruvian amazon.

KEYWORDS: REGISTROS DOCUMENTADOS DEL CUCLILLO GRIS (Coccycua cinerea) EN LA AMAZONIA PERUANA

RESUMEN El Cuclillo Gris (Coccycua cinerea) es considerado como una especie hipotética para el Perú y no existen registros documentados de su presencia dentro del

del suroeste peruano. Es considerado un divagante en el norte de la Amazonía peruana.país. Se le Aquí considera reportamos como uncuatro raro registrosmigrante documentadosaustral en la llanura de la amazónicaespecie al

analizamos la estacionalidad de los registros y el estado de la especie en Perú y proponemossur de la Amazonía cambiar peruana su estado y confirmamos de hipotético su a migrante ocurrencia austral en el raro. país. Además,

PALABRAS CLAVE: Amazonía peruana, ocurrencia, migratorio austral Vol. 27 (1) 2018. 25-30 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24841/fa.v27i1.449 25 Documented records of ash-colored cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea) in Amazonian Peru

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The Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea) is by Percy Avendaño on September 4 2016 at Villa found in Paraguay (except in the far northwest), greenCarmen square Biological 12). The Station, was Cuzco in the department gardens of the(12°53’40.5”S biological station./ 71°24’11.1”W, 517 m) (Figure 1, th 2017, one individual was Uruguay, Northern Argentina (South to Río Negro) observed and photographed (Figure 2, above westand locallyBrazil, east in southern and north Brazil Bolivia, (Santa and southern Catarina On September 9 and Rionortheastern Grande do PeruSul). Itand winters extreme in central southeast and Colombia (Payne, 2018). right) by JAAF at 6:23 am in a degraded gold In Peru, C. cinerea it is considered a Hypothetical mining area on the north bank of the Madre de Dios et al., 2018), since, 13).River, The west bird of wasPuerto perched Maldonado 2 m above (12°34’17.78”S the ground as until now, there are no documented records level/ 69°04’18.56”W, in riverine vegetation 202 m) (Figure surrounding 1, green asquare pond species (Plenge, 2018; Remsen et Tessaria integrifolia). al. (2010) consider the species as a rare austral th 2018, two individuals were migrantof its presence to lowlands in the of country.the southwest Schulenberg and very observedin flooded andforest photographed (including (Figure 2, bottom On September 12 There are at least two published rare on the north bank of the Amazon River. left) by FAP at 8:35 am at Amazonia Lodge, record belongs to one individual observed on July Madre de Dios department (12°52’10.86”S / 13undocumentedth records for the country. The first 71°22’26.93”W, 493 m) (Figure 1, green square clearing.15). There were perched at 6 m above the ground 1982) 1977 (Figure in the 1, Tambopata red triangle River, 2). The Madre bird de was Dios in level in a leafless th tree 2018, at the one border individual of a forest was transitionaldepartment (12°5O”Sforest, hopping / 69°16”W, along 205 branches m) (Parker, and vines in the lower canopy of a tall forest tree, and On October 7 was apparently associating with a mixed-species observed and photographed at 9:55 am at Isla Rolín, an island on the Madre de Dios River, Madre (Ancistrops strigilatus de Dios department, just in front of Inkaterra (flockMicroxenops that included milleri Chestnut-winged Hookbill Lodge (12°32’54.93”S / 69°03’9.27”W, 177 m) (Pygiptila stellaris) and), Rufous-tailednumerous tanagers, Xenops (Figure 1, green square 16). The observers were honeycreepers and greenlets.), Spot-winged Antshrike (FigureDennis Osorio,2, bottom Noé right). Huaraca, The bird Plinio was Arapa perched and The second published record pertains to one onthe a bird Tessaria was integrifolia photographed bush, by in David successional Ascanio individual seen foraging low above the ground in vegetation. an agricultural plot at Intuto, Loreto department Ash-colored Cuckoo was included as hypothetical on the of Peru list following 19th et al., (03°29’22’’S / 74°46’59’’W, 120 m) on February 2010; Plenge, 2018), and remained there due to just before1994 (Figure this meets 1, red the triangle Ucayali 5). and This forms locality the the record by Parker (1982) (Schulenberg Amazon.is along the Its Tigre occurrence River that is presumably flows to the accidental Marañon et al., 2017). withinthe lack the of country confirmed and propose published to recordsmove it from As for documented records, one individual was HypotheticalPeru. With this to article,rare austral we document migrant status its presence on the observed(Díaz-Alvan and photographed (Figure 2, above left) Peru list.

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Figure 1. Records of Coccycua cinerea from Madre de Dios and Loreto departments and adjacent Colombia. Red triangles: previous published and undocumented records. Green squares: documented records presented in this manuscript. Black dots: other records from eBird (2018). Red text are river names.

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Figure 2. Coccycua cinerea at Villa Carmen Biological Station, Cuzco department. Photo by P. Avendaño (upper left). C. cinerea at the north bank of the Madre de Dios River, west of Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios department. Photo by J. Alferez (upper right). A pair of C. cinerea at Amazonia Lodge, Madre de Dios department. Photo by F. Angulo (bottom left). C. cinerea at Isla Rolín, Madre de Dios River, Madre de Dios department. Photo by D. Ascanio (bottom right).

Figure 3. Number of records of Coccycua cinerea per months of the year.

Vol. 27 (1) 2018. 25-30 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24841/fa.v27i1.449 28 Documented records of ash-colored cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea) in Amazonian Peru Coordinates 12°50” S - 69°16” W - 69°16” S 12°50” 03°29’22” S - 74°46’59” W - 74°46’59” S 03°29’22” 3°47'39.7"S - 70°25'37.8"W 3°47'39.7"S 12°53'40.5"S - 71°24'11.1"W 12°53'40.5"S 4°13’10.6” S - 69°56’39.4” W - 69°56’39.4” S 4°13’10.6” 3°30’52.4” S - 73°08’06.8” W - 73°08’06.8” S 3°30’52.4” 12°46’18.1” S - 71° 23’07.8” W 23’07.8” - 71° S 12°46’18.1” 12°38’53.6” S - 69° 12’43.1” W 12’43.1” S - 69° 12°38’53.6” 12°36’14.1” S - 69° 12’05.4” W 12’05.4” S - 69° 12°36’14.1” 12°33'31.6'' S - 69° 03'13.9'' W - 69° 03'13.9'' S 12°33'31.6'' 13°08’14.1” S - 69° 36’42.9” W 36’42.9” - 69° S 13°08’14.1” 12°24'55.7'' S - 68° 48'35.8'' W 48'35.8'' S - 68° 12°24'55.7'' 12°52'10.86"S - 71°22'26.93"W 12°52'10.86"S 12°34'17.78"S - 69°04'18.56"W 12°34'17.78"S 13°04’38.9” S - 69° 39’49.9” W 39’49.9” - 69° S 13°04’38.9” 12°33'58.7'' S - 70° 06'03.0'' W - 70° 06'03.0'' S 12°33'58.7'' Peru Peru Peru Peru Peru Peru Peru Peru Peru Peru Peru Country Colombia Colombia Amazonas / Amazonas / Amazonas Cuzco / Peru / Cuzco Loreto / Peru / Loreto Peru / Loreto Department/ Madre de Dios / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre / de Dios Madre ------YES YES YES YES Documented in Peru and adjacent Colombia. Records are chronologically displayed. chronologically are Records Colombia. and adjacent in Peru Wiebe Roberson Observers Ted Parker Ted Rudy Gelis Rudy Jose Alvarez Jose Jesús Alferez Jesús Douglas Stotz Frank Murphy Frank David Ascanio David David Krueper David Jhon Van Dort Van Jhon Andrew Kratter Andrew Mauricio Ugarte Mauricio Percy Avendaño Percy Will Sweet / Alex Alex / Sweet Will Fernando Angulo Fernando John Luther / Don / Luther John Luis Germán Naranjo Luis 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 N° Ind. Coccycua cinerea Coccycua Year 1977 1975 1987 1993 2017 1994 2012 2016 2018 2018 2018 2014 2001 2003 2005 2009 Records of of Records July July July June Table 1: Table Month August August October October February November November September September September September September 7 2 9 4 4 11 13 12 19 18 18 14 10 30 20 Day 22-23 1 7 3 2 5 6 9 8 4 11 13 12 15 16 14 10 N°

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the manuscript. To the editorial team of the colored Cuckoo for Peru (Figure 1, Table 1) journal, that make useful comments. FAP want (eBird,There 2018). are a All minimum involve one of 14 individual, records ofexcept Ash- the record from Amazonia lodge by FAP, which to acknowledge Manu Expeditions Birding Tours and participants Yve Morrell, Michael Brothers, involves two. Most of the records are from Bob & Susan Steele, Mitch Harris and Bob Wallace. Madre de Dios except oneet al in., Cuzco(2017), (Figure and one 1, REFERENCES green square 12), and two in Loreto: the record Amazoniamentioned (Loreto) in Díaz-Alvan (eBird, 2018) (Figure 1, red The triangleby M. Ugarte, 5, black which dot 9). are Thirteen located (n=13) in Northern records avifauna of the río Tigre basin, northern Perú. are between June and November, with the Díaz-Alvan,Ornitología J.; Socolar, Neotropical J.B.; Alvarez A., J. 2017.

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