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Neotropical Notebook contains two gularis for St Vincent and the publications on Guatemalan sections. The first summarises Grenadines (see Cotinga 26: 89) from 1577 to 2004, and a list of records published elsewhere in the have now been published55, and international museums with literature, following the format Hayes et al.34 report on the status holdings of Guatemalan previously established in Cotinga. of American specimens. The second lists unpublished and Haematopus palliatus in this undocumented records. Photo- region of the Caribbean. Mexico graphs are published where Flesh-footed Shearwater appropriate. US Virgin Islands Puffinus carneipes has been McNair46 reports on the historical documented for the country, having WEST INDIES distribution and abundance of the been photographed in Baja White-crowned Pigeon California, in March 199664, whilst British Virgin Islands Patagioenas leucocephala on St other records from the same Surveys have yielded four new Croix. peninsula published recently for the archipelago: include the first breeding of Magnolia Warbler Dendroica MIDDLE AMERICA Black-bellied Whistling-duck magnolia (in 1996), Golden- Dendrocygna autumnalis in Baja71 winged Warbler Vermivora Belize and more bird records from Isla chrysoptera (1997), Swainson’s Piaskowski et al.61 describe the Guadalupe63. Observations at a Thrush Catharus ustulatus (2000) avifauna of the Sibun riverine Forster’s Sterna forsteri and Red-necked Phalarope forest. colony in Colima have been made Phalaropus lobatus (2004)9. available47. A study of Thick- Costa Rica billed Rhynchopsitta Cuba Hanson33 provides new data on the pachyrhyncha nest-site density in A recent study has provided a breeding ecology of Stripe- Madera, Chihuahua, has revealed detailed résumé of our knowledge breasted Wren Thryothorus that the species is a highly social of the present-day distribution of thoracius. Recent observations breeder, which may have the globally threatened Plain made available via The Gone important implications for Pigeon Patagioenas inornata in Birding Newsletter26,27 include the management and conservation of the country68. American first documentation of Swallow- their breeding habitat51. New Oystercatcher Haematopus tailed Creagrus furcatus in natural history data for another palliatus has recently been Costa Rican waters, in April 2006, globally threatened endemic, recorded breeding in the country likewise the first documentation Sierra Madre Sparrow for the first time35. for American Pipit Anthus Xenospiza baileyi, have also been rubescens, in May 2006 on Cocos published recently53. The first Jamaica Island, the first report of Mottled records of Military Macaw Ara Graves28 reports the first record of Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata in militaris in the Sierra Madre del Audubon’s Warbler Dendroica the country, in March 2006, a Sur, Guerrero, in 20 years, have coronata auduboni in Jamaica. Brown-chested Martin Progne made been made since 20041. tapera, in March 2006, a Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrina Puerto Rico southward range extension for has been recorded for the first 19 We recently mentioned the first Double-striped Thick-knee time in Jalisco , and further Western Hemisphere record of Burhinus bistriatus, as well as the records of Limpkin Aramus Western Marsh Harrier Circus usual host of sightings of migrants guarauna have also been reported 56 aeruginosus (see Cotinga 26: 89); and new locality reports. from the same state . Important two further records, both from records of Grey-headed Kite Puerto Rico, have now been Guatemala Leptodon cayanensis (the first in published49. Piping Plover Eisermann & Avedaño22 present an eastern Mexico for almost 100 Charadrius melodus has been updated list of bird species reliably years) and Eye-ringed Flatbill proved to overwinter on the reported in Guatemala, updated Rhynchocyclus brevirostris (second island39. distributional information for more state record) have been reported 69 than 130 species, an evaluation of from Hidalgo . New records of Banded Philortyx fasciatus St Vincent vulnerability on a national level have expanded its range in Fuller details concerning the first using IUCN criteria, a bibliogra- western Mexico41. A small range Western Reef-heron Egretta phy of more than 1,200

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extension for Sparking-tailed capped Antshrike Thamnophilus Rufous-rumped Seedeaters Tilmatura ruficapillus and new localities for Sporophila hypochroma were also dupontii in the state of Morelos Salinas Monjita Neoxolmis the first for the province. The first has been reported76. Sandoval et salinarum in Santiago del Estero. documented record for prov. Chaco al.70 report the first Yellow- A bird in captivity in 1998 and five of Stygian Asio stygius was headed Blackbird observations in 2002–03 were the obtained in August 200412. Bodrati Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus first records of Solitary Eagle & Cockle11 provide notes on the for the continental part of the Harpyhaliaetus solitarius for prov. range and conservation of nine Yucután Peninsula, but overlook a Catamarca and a 400-km range threatened birds of the Atlantic previous record (albeit not extension south24. Bodrati10 reports Forest in the north-east of the documented) mentioned in these notable records for nine provinces country, including São Paulo pages (see Cotinga 20: 99). including several first provincial Tyrannulet Phylloscartes paulista Peterson & Navarro-Sigüenza60 records: Cinereous Harrier and Swallow-tailed Cotinga provide an interesting comparison Circus cinereus, Zone-tailed Phibalura flavirostris, both of between the avifauna of the Valley Hawk Buteo albonotatus, Grey- which are known from rather few of Mexico in the present-day and breasted Crake Laterrallus Argentine records in recent 100 years ago. exilis, Crimson-crested decades. Orange-backed Woodpecker Campephilus Troupial Icterus croconotus of the Panama melanoleucus and Plain race strictifrons has been recorded Details on the breeding ecology of Tyrannulet Inezia inornata for breeding in Argentina for the first the panamensis subspecies of Misiones; singles of Puna Plover time45. A flock numbering 10,000 Yellow-crowned Parrot Charadrius alticola in San Juan Mississippi Kites Ictinia missis- Amazona ochrocephala in western and Mendoza represent a range sippiensis has been observed Panama have been made extension of c.300 km south and recently4, and the introduced available66. the first records for both provinces. European Starling Sturnus In prov. Chaco Ash-coloured vulgaris is apparently explanding 59 SOUTH AMERICA Coccyzus cinereus and its range . Common Thornbird Argentina Phacellodomus rufifrons were first Brazil Michelutti & Torres50 present new records, whilst Bran-coloured Pacheco & Olmos54 have records of waterbirds for the centre Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus commenced publication of a of the country, including the and White-tipped Dove Leptotila valuable series of papers detailing second record for Santiago del verreauxi were detected in La new information on the birds of Estero of Least Pampa, and two Nacunda the ornithologically relatively Tachybaptus dominicus and the Nighthawks Podager nacunda at poorly known state of Tocantins; first records for Cordoba of Puerto Madryn were the first the first part covers the south-east Andean Goose Chloephaga record for Chubut. A sick Hook- region and details 308 species melanoptera, Andean Lapwing billed Kite Chondrohierax recorded during three rapid Vanellus resplendens and uncinatus found in northern Santa surveys, with accounts for the 17 Southern Pochard Netta Fe was the first provincial record57, which represent notable erythrophthalma (the latter also a and a dead Little Shearwater discoveries from either a distribu- new species for the country). Puffinus assimilis at Golfo Nuevo, tional or conservation standpoint. Savigny et al.72 present the first prov. Chubut, was also notable13. Another groundbreaking contribu- record for Argentina of Trindade Significant records from Santa Fe tion is that by Naka et al.52, on the Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana, presented by Manassero et al.42 state of Roraima, wherein the one observed in Golfo San Matías, include: the second province record authors provide information on 38 prov. Río Negro. Cinnamon of Hook-billed Kite; the first new state records, including the Warbling-finch Poospiza ornata records of Crowned Eagle first Brazilian specimen of Pale- has been recorded for the first Harpyhaliaetus coronatus for dpto. eyed Pgymy-tyrant Atalotriccus time in more than two decades in General Obligado; the first pilaris and second locality in prov. Entre Ríos67. Capllonch et province record of Bat Falcon country for Yapacana Antbird al.15 reports the first records of Falco rufigularis for some years; a Myrmeciza disjuncta, as well as Yellow-chinned Spinetail Semipalmated Plover discussing the avian biogeography Certhiaxis cinnamomea and Charadrius semipalmatus of this, the northernmost state in Firewood-Gatherer Anumbius (photographed) and a Least Brazil. Vasconcelos et al.78 present annumbi, and provide information Seedsnipe Thinocorus new distributional and natural concerning American Swallow- rumicivorus, in dpto. Rosario, were history data for some 40 species in tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus both second provincial records; Minas Gerais, including several and White-bellied Seedeater White-throated Hummingbird new to the state list and some with Sporophila leucoptera for prov. Leucochloris albicollis in the same few records in Brazil. Tucumán, as well as presenting department represented the first Furthermore, they also provide a new provincial records of Rufous- province record; and several new commentary on the relation-

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ship between Rufous Casiornis Sandwich Thalasseus Moustached Antpitta Grallaria rufus and Ash-throated sandvicensis in Región V, in April alleni, Ash-coloured Tapaculo Casiornis C. fuscus. Galetti et al.25 (photograph); single records of Myornis senilis and Pale-footed have estimated the population of Snowy-crowned Terns Sterna Swallow Notiochelidon flavipes, the globally threatened Red- trudeaui in Región V and Región as well as Swallow-tailed tailed Amazon Amazona VI; the southernmost record of Nightjar Uropsalis segmentata, brasiliensis in São Paulo state at Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis White-bellied Woodstar just over 1,200 individuals. New vesper in the country, in the Región Acestrura mulsant and Rufous- state records reported of late Metropolitan (photograph); as well breasted Flycatcher Leptopogon include: the first documentation of as a new bird for Chile, a Tawny- rufipectus (previously known from Scaled Dove Columbina headed Swallow Alopochelidon southern Antioquia only on the squammata for Rio Grande do fucata, in Región III, in March basis of unpublished observa- Sul74; the first records of Maguari (photograph; see Short tions)37. The same study also Ciconia maguari in Communications, this issue)73. obtained significant latitudinal Pernambuco58; the first records of range extensions for 23 species Masked Booby Sula dactylatra in Colombia and altitudinal extensions of 300 São Paulo75; the first record of Though currently relatively little m+ for 26 species. The globally Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus visited by foreigners, Colombian threatened Masked Mountain- tricolor in Mato Grosso do Sul17; appears to be thriving tanager Buthraupis wetmorei has the first nesting record of Harpy with many interesting publications recently been discovered in dptos. Eagle Harpia harpyja also in appearing in both national and Quindío and Tolima, representing Mato Grosso do Sul44; new records international journals at present. a 300-km range extension3, whilst of Ornate Hawk-eagle Spizaetus Two new trochilids for the country the globally threatened Tolima ornatus in Rio Grande do Sul and have been located in a natural Dove Leptotila conoveri has been Santa Catarina48; and no fewer history collection: Many-spotted found in dpto. Cauca16. New than eight first records for Santa Hummingbird Taphrospilus natural history data on the Cauca Catarina, as well as records of six hypostictus and Violet-chested Guan Penelope perspicax, another species considered rare there2. Hummingbird Sternoclyta species of considerable conserva- Piratelli & Blake62 detail avian cyanopectus20. The first Long- tion concern, have been communities in the south-east billed Numenius published65. Peruvian Cerrado region, in the country’s americanus for Colombia was Meadowlark Sturnella bellicosa interior. photographed on 16 March 2006 appears to be expanding its range on the north coast; at the same in the country (where it was first Chile site, on the same day, the same discovered only recently, though Wedge-rumped Storm-petrel observers found a Snowy Plover apparently overlooked), perhaps in Oceanodroma tethys has been Charadrius alexandrinus, response to increasing deforesta- found breeding in the north of the Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa tion in the Chocó36. Three Elegant country8; it was previously known and American Herring Gull Terns Sterna elegans, banded as only as a non-breeding visitor. Larus smithsonianus, all of which chicks in southern California, have Observations from the period are known in Colombia from few been recovered on the Pacific March–June 2006 reported records14. In fact the Numenius coast, augmenting the few definite recently in the newly launched was first observed and records of this species in the birdwatchers’ bulletin, La photographed the previous day, country18. The nest of the Chiricoca7, include: several inland along with at least one other bird Variegated Bristle-tyrant occurrences of Wilson’s Storm- new for Colombia; full details will Pogonotriccus poecilotis has been petrel Oceanites oceanicus in appear in these pages in due described40. American White March–April; seven Black-faced course. New records from the Pelican Pelecanus Ibis Theristicus melanopis Serranía de las Quinchas, an area erythrorhynchus has recently been branickii in Región I (one of the subject to much ornithological recorded from Isla San Andrés in few records of this race in Chile; investigation of late (see, e.g., the Caribbean23. photograph); the southernmost Cotinga 25: 24–32), have been record in Chile (and perhaps South published in the journal Ecuador America) of Least Caldasia38. An ornithological Harold Greeney and colleagues Calidris minutilla, in Región VII; survey of the Páramo de Frontino, continue to contribute extraordi- two records of Red Phalarope in the Western Andes, yielded the nary quantities of new natural Phalaropus fulicarius in Región the first records from this history (especially breeding) data III; two Parasitic Jaegers cordillera of Black-chested for Ecuador’s birds. Recent commu- Stercorarius parasiticus in the Buzzard-eagle Geranoaetus nications include papers on Strait of Magellan on 1 April; two melanoleucus, Rusty-faced Green-fronted Lancebill Grey-hooded Larus cirro- Parrot Hapalopsittaca Doryfera ludovicae30, Moustached cephalus in Región I, in June amazonina, Rufous-bellied Antpitta Grallaria alleni31, (photograph); up to three Nighthawk Lurocalis rufiventris, Peruvian Antpitta Grallaricula

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peruviana29, Long-wattled status is subject to debate; until del Sur, Guerrero, México. Umbrellabird Cephalopterus very recently, it was regarded as a Huitzil 7: 20–22. penduliger32 and Rufous- highly disjunct race of Rufous- 2. Amorim, J. F. & Piacentini, V. breasted Flycatcher Leptopogon headed Woodpecker C. spectabilis Q. (2006) Novos registros de rufipectus21. (see Neotrop. Birding 1: 10–11). aves raras em Santa More information can be found at: Catarina, Sul do Brasil, Netherlands Antilles http://arruda.rits.org.br/ incluindo os primeiros Wells & Childs Wells79 report the notitia/servlet/newstorm.ns.presen- registros documentados de current significance of the island tation.NavigationServlet?publicati algumas espécies para o of Bonaire for breeding terns and onCode=6&pageCode=67&textCod Estado. Rev. Bras. Orn. 14: plovers. e=19739&date=currentDate&conte 145–149. ntType=html. Other recent reports 3. Arbeláez-Cortés, E. & Baena- from Brazil include a female Tovar, O. (2006) Primer Paraguay registro del Azulejo de Bodrati et al.10 found, in 2001, a Black-legged Dacnis Dacnis nigripes in the garden of the Hotel Wetmore (Buthraupis Common Tody-flycatcher wetmorei, Thraupinae) para Todirostrum cinereum in dpto. Alto Simon, Itatiaia National Park in 2006 (IR), and another observation el Quindío, Andes Centrales Paraná, representing the southern- de Colombia. Orn. most record for the country. (the third) of the globally threatened Forbes’s Blackbird Colombiana 4: 78–81. Curaeus forbesi at Pirapora, Minas 4. Areta, J. I. & Seipke, S. H. Peru (2006) A 10,000 Mississippi Gerais (a flock of six on 19 Surveys in 2003 of Lake Titicaca, Kite flock observed in Fuerte November 2006) (GMK, HS). on the Peru/Bolivia border, Esperanza, Argentina. Orn. produced a population estimate of Neotrop. 17: 433–437. at least 2,582 Titicaca Flightless Peru 5. Azpiroz, A., Ascanio, D., Rollandia microptera, An Andean Swift Aeronautes Restall, R., Soto, A., Bosque, which the authors of the study andecolus was observed hawking C. & Rodríguez-Ferraro, A. advise should be considered an over the beach at Paracas on 22 (2006) Status and distribu- underestimate43. New data on the July 2004; this record, at sea level, tion of the House Sparrow breeding ecology of Green-and- appears to be well below any (Passer domesticus) in gold Tanager Tangara schrankii previous recorded altitude for this Venezuela. Orn. Neotrop. 17: have been published77. species (CB, JH). A 457–460. Phaethon sp. (thought to be 6. Azpiroz, A. B. & Rodríguez- Venezuela probably a juvenile Red-billed P. Ferraro, A. (2006) rubricauda) was seen on a pelagic Several new bird records from the Noteworthy observations of off Paracas on 23 July 2004 (CB, state of Falcón have been reported the birds of Falcón state, JH). of late6, as well as a review of the northwestern Venezuela. status and distribution of House Orn. Neotrop. 17: 445–451. Sparrow Passer domesticus in the Acknowledgements 7. Barros, R. & Schmitt, F. (2006) country5. Contributions to the NEO-ORN Resumen de avistamientos, ‘NeoLit’ service by the following, marzo–junio 2006. La Diego Calderón-Franco, Knut Chiricoca 1: 9–17. OTHER RECORDS RECEIVED Eisermann, Kimball L. Garrett, 8. Bernal, M., Simeone, A. & Flores, M. (2006) Breeding of Argentina Stefan Kreft, Steve Latta, Vitor Piacentini, Manuel Plenge and Wedge-rumped Storm-petrels IR reported the following in 2006: (Oceanodroma tethys) in a Hudsonian Godwit Limosa Paulo C. Pulgarin, greatly assisted the compilation of this review. northern Chile. Orn. Neotrop. haemastica and Lesser Shrike- 17: 283–287. Tyrant Agriornis murina in dpto. Records were contributed by Colin Bushell (CB), John Hopkins (JH), 9. Boal, C. W., Sibley, F. C., General Villegas (both first records Estabrook, T. S. & Lazell, J. for north-west prov. Buenos Aires). Guy Kirwan (GMK), Ignacio Roesler (IR) and Hadoram Shirihai (2006) Insular and migrant (HS). species, longevity records, Brazil and new species records on One of the most spectacular pieces Neotropical Notebook compiled Guana Island, British Virgin of news from the period covered by: Guy M. Kirwan, Jeremy Islands. Wilson J. Orn. 118: here was the rediscovery, by Minns, Ignacio Roesler and 218–224. Brazilian ornithologist Advaldo do 10. Bodrati, A. (2005) Nuevos George Wallace. Prado, of the enigmatic (so-called) aportes a la distribución de Caatinga (Kaempfer's) algunas aves Argentinas. Woodpecker Celeus obrieni, References Nuestras Aves 50: 30–33. which was previously known from 1. Almazán-Núñez, R. C. & Nova- 11. Bodrati, A. & Cockle, K. (2006) Muñoz, O. (2006) La a single specimen taken in Piauí in Habitat, distribution, and guacamaya verde (Ara the 1920s and whose taxonomic conservation of Atlantic militaris) en la Sierra Madre

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Xeno-canto: request for tional databases for Neotropical Furthermore, waterbirds and recordings birds, in Stotz et al. Neotropical are also relatively Xeno-canto (www.xeno-canto.org), birds: ecology and conservation, poorly represented. The organisers a website on Neotropical bird University of Chicago Press) and would very much like to hear from sounds, now hosts over 8,000 Natureserve/Infonatura (http:// recordists working in those areas recordings of c.2,500 species. The www.natureserve.org/infonatura/). or with these families. Recordings main aim is to aid identification of To increase its usefulness and from other areas in the Neotropics Neotropical birds. Personal scope, xeno-canto is seeking remain most welcome too. collections from recordists brought recordings from several areas that Contact Willem-Pier Vellinga, together form the site’s core. are poorly represented: the Groenesteinlaan 12, 9722 BX, Recordings are linked in various Caribbean, the southern cone, Groningen, the Netherlands, e- ways, using sound characters, and northern Mexico and the Pacific mail [email protected], or Bob distribution and habitat coast of Peru and Chile, as well as Planqué, Spaarnestraat 27, 2515 information from Parker et al. Honduras, Guatemala, El VL Den Haag, the Netherlands, e- (1996, Ecological and distribu- Salvador, Colombia and Guyana. mail [email protected].

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