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1 Sep Eyelids and eye-rings [Frederik Brammer ] 30 Aug Re: optimal and suboptimal habitat [Juan Freile Ortiz ] 30 Aug Bird Voices of Northern California [Paulo Pulgarin ] 28 Aug Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" [Harold Greeney ] 28 Aug Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" [Chris Merkord ] 28 Aug Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow [Johan Ingels ] 28 Aug Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow [John Penhallurick ] 28 Aug Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow [Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordonez ] 28 Aug Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow [Robin Restall ] 28 Aug Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow [Carl Downing ] 28 Aug "Magdalena" Sparrow [John Penhallurick ] 27 Aug Psophia viridis Dark-winged Trumpeter taxon at Cristalino Lodge [Martin Reid ] 27 Aug Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" [Doug Hardy ] 27 Aug Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" [Philip Tanimoto ] 27 Aug "altitude" vs. "elevation" [Stefan Kreft ] 27 Aug Hilton Pond 08/22/10 (Front Yards & Sourwoods) ["Bill Hilton Jr. (RESEARCH)" ] 26 Aug Re: optimal and suboptimal habitat [Francisco Sanchez ] 26 Aug Re: optimal and suboptimal habitat [Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordonez ] 26 Aug optimal and suboptimal habitat [Juan Freile Ortiz ] 26 Aug Re: Request of various papers on molt [Eveling Tavera ] 25 Aug NEOLIT: Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Parag. [Santiago Claramunt ] 25 Aug NEOLIT: Bellbird [Santiago Claramunt ] 25 Aug Re: New bird for Peru! [Renzo Zeppilli ] 25 Aug Request for ornithological monograph 36 [Christian Devenish ] 24 Aug Paper request: Underhill & Zucchini (1988) [Miguel Moreno-Palacios ] 23 Aug Revista scientifico Mexicano La Naturaleza 1881 vol. 4 [Mark McReynolds ] 23 Aug New bird for Peru! [Gunnar Engblom ] 23 Aug Request of various papers on molt [Miguel Moreno-Palacios ] 23 Aug Re: Cracraft 1985 [Ellen Paul ] 22 Aug Re: Cracraft 1985 [Alex Lees ] 23 Aug Re: SENT! paper request Griwsold C and Baker 2002, Evolution [Jan Baiker ] 22 Aug paper request Griwsold C and Baker 2002, Evolution [Ricardo Canales ] 20 Aug NEOLIT: Marine Ornithology 38 (1) [Manuel Plenge ] 20 Aug Black Swift monograph on-line [Ian Paulsen ] 20 Aug Collecting Mites from Feather Techniques [JC ] 19 Aug Paper request [Frederik Brammer ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitól ologos del Perú (UNOP) 5 (2) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Journal of Animal Ecology 79 (5) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Ecography 33 (3) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Auk 127 (3) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Ecología Austral 20 (1) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Oryx 44 (3) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Animal Conservation 13 (4) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Oecologia 163 (3) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Journal of Biogeography 37 (7) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: Behavioral Ecology 21 (4) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug NEOLIT: American Naturalist 175 (6) & 176 (2) [Manuel Plenge ] 19 Aug Re: reference request [Eliot Miller ] 18 Aug Paper request (Pearman 1993, little known species from Colombia) [Jorge Avendaño ] 18 Aug Funds parrot conservation – final call/ Fon dos conservación de psitácidos- última lla mada [David Waugh ] 18 Aug reference request [Eliot Miller ] 16 Aug Re: Request for a bibliographic reference [Daniel Philippe ] 15 Aug Request for a bibliographic reference [Manuel Plenge ] 13 Aug Insurance questions [Ross Hawkins ] 12 Aug NEOLIT: Ornitología Neotropical 21 (2) [Manuel Plenge ] 12 Aug Streak-capped Spinetail (Cranioleuca hellmayri) Venezuela ["Diego Calderon-F." ] 11 Aug accomodation for the IOC / alojamiento IOC [Juan Mazar Barnett ] 10 Aug Re: E-mail address request [Jack Eitniear ] 10 Aug Little known and Seldom seen birds ["Diego Calderon-F." ] 10 Aug Sad news: Jacques Vielliard ["Vitor de Q. Piacentini" ] 10 Aug NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 2 - Addendum to previous message [Fabio Raposo ] 10 Aug Re: seeking for a pdf [Ellen Paul ] 10 Aug seeking for a pdf [Mauro Guimarães Diniz ] 9 Aug ovary size in female Coccyzus [Olivier Claessens ] 9 Aug First call for contributions to the IX Neotropical Ornithological Congress, Cusco, Peru 2011 ["Jose G. Tello" ] 8 Aug Seeking Ecuadorian research assistant--maybe ["candr1 AT i-bird.com" ] 8 Aug Phil Trans R Soc B, vol. 365, issues 1543-1553 [Fabio Raposo ] 8 Aug NEOLIT: Proc R Soc B vol. 277, issues 1684 [Fabio Raposo ] 8 Aug NEOLIT: Proc R Soc B vol. 277, issues 1683-1693 [Fabio Raposo ] 8 Aug NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 4 [Fabio Raposo ] 8 Aug NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 3 [Fabio Raposo ] 8 Aug NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 2 [Fabio Raposo ] 8 Aug NEW books [Ian Paulsen ] 8 Aug NEOLIT: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:2 through 56:3 [Andy Jones ] 8 Aug Re: NEOLIT: Rev. Bras. Ornitologia 17(1) [Manuel Plenge ] 8 Aug Re: NEOLIT: Rev. Bras. Ornitologia 18(1) ["Vitor de Q. Piacentini" ] Subject: Eyelids and eye-rings From: Frederik Brammer <frebram AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:24:52 -0300 Hello Neoorners, Many birds have an unfeathered ring of skin around each eye, sometimes of a contrasting colour. I have seen mention in the (older) literature of colours of the eyelids, but I am suspecting that older authors sometimes wrote eyelids when they were in fact referring to what we (today) normally call eye-rings (or periophthalmic rings, eyerims or orbital rings). Does anyone of you know if this is so, i.e. if I can take statements as "eyelids yellow" to mean "eye-rings yellow"? Or does it depend on whether the individual author refers both to eyelids and eye-rings in single/individual species? Sometimes they only mention eyelids... Any enlightenment woould be most welcome. Best wishes, Frederik Subject: Re: optimal and suboptimal habitat From: Juan Freile Ortiz <jfreileo AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:04:51 -0700 Gracias Francisco, Daniel y todos por las respuestas clarificadoras y las referencias de literatura. Ahora entiendo un poco mejor el tema...!   saludos,   Juan F --- El jue, 8/26/10, Francisco Sanchez escribió: De: Francisco Sanchez Asunto: Re: [NEOORN-L] optimal and suboptimal habitat A: NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Fecha: jueves, 26 de agosto de 2010, 03:36 pm Hi, Depending on whether habitats are equally available for birds, you may use the isodar method to check whether there are quantitative or qualitative between habitats. This reference may help you MORRIS, D. W. 1987. Tests of density-dependent habitat selection in a patchy environment. Ecological Monographs 57:269-281. Francisco On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Juan Freile Ortiz wrote: Dear all, Just a brief question: does it make any sense to talk about optimal and suboptimal habitats for birds, based on abundances/population densities? Let's assume a species is found in, say, 10 ind/km2 in habitat 1; 2 ind/km2 in habitat 2; and none in habitat 3. Does this suggest that habitat 1 might be optimal for the species, whereas habitat 2 not? (also assuming that habitat extension is fairly similar and that both habitats are natural and almost pristine; and that sampling effort was similar for all habitat types). Any insight on this (as well as must-read references) are welcomed. Thanks in advance for any contribution. Saludos, Juan Freile   -- Francisco Sánchez Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales, UDCA Calle 222 # 55 -37 Bogota, Colombia, South America Phone: +57-1-6761341 Subject: Bird Voices of Northern California From: Paulo Pulgarin <pulgarinrpc AT YAHOO.COM.MX> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:55:03 -0600 Dear all, My apologies for not being related with Neotropical Ornithologist. Does anyone have the following set of CD's? Bird Voices of Northern California (http://www.levalleyphoto.com/birdvoices/ ) Please respond out of the list to me in case you have it! Thanks, -- Paulo C. Pulgarin-R C/o Dr. Theresa Burg Department of Biological Sciences 4401 University Drive West Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4 Canada Ph: (403) 332-52-13 http://people.uleth.ca/~pulgarinrestrepo/ http://www.sao.org.co/boletinsao.html Subject: Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" From: Harold Greeney <revmmoss AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:10:07 -0700 I tend to agree with Chris, and certainly both elevational and altitudinal are used widely in scientific writing. However, for what its worth, as far as I can tell elevational is not a real word, while altitudinal is. Harold F. Greeney, PhD Director of Research Yanayacu Biological Station & Center for Creative Studies Napo Prov., Cosanga, Ecuador 0 degrees latitude, 2000 m It just doesn't get much better than this. ________________________________ From: Chris Merkord To: NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Sent: Sat, August 28, 2010 1:31:04 PM Subject: Re: [NEOORN-L] "altitude" vs. "elevation" Hi Stefan, After waffling for years I have finally decided to use "elevational" to refer to gradients and migrations (movements up- and down-slope). As you know much of the literature on elevational migration uses the term altitudinal migration, but from what I can tell the word elevation is more often used in the non-bird ecological literature. Thus I would suggest sticking with the definition others have given in this thread and reserve altitude for vertical distance above the surface of the ground. Cheers, Chris Merkord Grand Forks, ND chris AT merkord.com Subject: Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" From: Chris Merkord <chris AT MERKORD.COM> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:31:04 -0300 Hi Stefan, After waffling for years I have finally decided to use "elevational" to refer to gradients and migrations (movements up- and down-slope). As you know much of the literature on elevational migration uses the term altitudinal migration, but from what I can tell the word elevation is more often used in the non-bird ecological literature. Thus I would suggest sticking with the definition others have given in this thread and reserve altitude for vertical distance above the surface of the ground. Cheers, Chris Merkord Grand Forks, ND chris AT merkord.com Subject: Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow From: Johan Ingels <johan.ingels AT SKYNET.BE> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:21:36 +0200 No, Colombia ! -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Bulletin Board for Ornithologists working with Neotropical Birds [mailto:NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU] Namens Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordonez Verzonden: zaterdag 28 augustus 2010 13:58 Aan: NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Onderwerp: Re: [NEOORN-L] "Magdalena" Sparrow Columbia? On Aug 28, 2010, at 2:40 AM, John Penhallurick wrote: > Dear Friends, > I remember that when I did the Columbia trip with Paul Coopmans in 2001, he showed us a population of what I believe was Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris, which he told us was distinctively different from all other populations of that species, and provisionally called it “Magdalena” Sparrow, because it was confined to the Magdalena Valley of Colombia. He asked us not to tell others about this as he was planning to research it and write it up. Since Paul passed away a few years ago (a very sad loss indeed), I wonder does anyone else know anything about his or is anyone working on it? > Thanks > > Dr John Penhallurick > 86 Bingley Cres > Fraser A.C.T. 2615 > Australia > email:jpenhall AT bigpond.net.au > Phone: Home (612) 62585428 > Mobile:0408585426 > Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net > > -- Carlos Daniel Cadena Profesor Asociado Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad de los Andes Apartado Aéreo 4976 Bogotá, Colombia Tel: (57-1) 3394949 Ext. 2072 http://evolvert.uniandes.edu.co http://evodiversidad.blogspot.com/ Co-Editor Ornitología Colombiana www.ornitologiacolombiana.org/revista.htm Subject: Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow From: John Penhallurick <jpenhall AT BIGPOND.NET.AU> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:19:42 +1000 Carl and other neoorn-l users, Thanks for that suggestion. It was in 1999, and so ten years ago, so forgive my aging memory. I found the following comment in my trip notes: 14/6 Tena 1 S. 27/6 S.of. Hobo. 2 S. inexpectata = good species Magdalena Black-striped Sparrow My fundamental question remains. Does anyone know about this taxa? Dr John Penhallurick 86 Bingley Cres Fraser A.C.T. 2615 Australia email:jpenhall AT bigpond.net.au Phone: Home (612) 62585428 Mobile:0408585426 Please visit my website:http://www.worldbirdinfo.net _____ From: Bulletin Board for Ornithologists working with Neotropical Birds [mailto:NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Carl Downing Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 6:49 PM To: NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Subject: Re: [NEOORN-L] "Magdalena" Sparrow John, This would have been the magdalena valley race of Black-striped Sparrow. Carl El 28 Aug 2010, a las 08:40, John Penhallurick escribió: Dear Friends, I remember that when I did the Columbia trip with Paul Coopmans in 2001, he showed us a population of what I believe was Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris, which he told us was distinctively different from all other populations of that species, and provisionally called it “Magdalena” Sparrow, because it was confined to the Magdalena Valley of Colombia. He asked us not to tell others about this as he was planning to research it and write it up. Since Paul passed away a few years ago (a very sad loss indeed), I wonder does anyone else know anything about his or is anyone working on it? Thanks Dr John Penhallurick 86 Bingley Cres Fraser A.C.T. 2615 Australia email:jpenhall AT bigpond.net.au Phone: Home (612) 62585428 Mobile:0408585426 Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net Subject: Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow From: Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordonez <ccadena AT UNIANDES.EDU.CO> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:57:32 -0500 Columbia? On Aug 28, 2010, at 2:40 AM, John Penhallurick wrote: > Dear Friends, > I remember that when I did the Columbia trip with Paul Coopmans in 2001, he showed us a population of what I believe was Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris, which he told us was distinctively different from all other populations of that species, and provisionally called it “Magdalena” Sparrow, because it was confined to the Magdalena Valley of Colombia. He asked us not to tell others about this as he was planning to research it and write it up. Since Paul passed away a few years ago (a very sad loss indeed), I wonder does anyone else know anything about his or is anyone working on it? > Thanks > > Dr John Penhallurick > 86 Bingley Cres > Fraser A.C.T. 2615 > Australia > email:jpenhall AT bigpond.net.au > Phone: Home (612) 62585428 > Mobile:0408585426 > Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net > > -- Carlos Daniel Cadena Profesor Asociado Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad de los Andes Apartado Aéreo 4976 Bogotá, Colombia Tel: (57-1) 3394949 Ext. 2072 http://evolvert.uniandes.edu.co http://evodiversidad.blogspot.com/ Co-Editor Ornitología Colombiana www.ornitologiacolombiana.org/revista.htm Subject: Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow From: Robin Restall <robinrestall AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:06:27 -0430 Carl, Scientific name, please? Can you give a ref for the published description? Cheers, Robin On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Carl Downing < carl.downing AT birding-colombia.com> wrote: > John, > > This would have been the magdalena valley race of Black-striped Sparrow. > > Carl > > > > > > El 28 Aug 2010, a las 08:40, John Penhallurick > escribió: > > Dear Friends, > > I remember that when I did the Columbia trip with Paul Coopmans in 2001, he > showed us a population of what I believe was Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon > aurantiirostris, which he told us was distinctively different from all other > populations of that species, and provisionally called it “Magdalena” > Sparrow, because it was confined to the Magdalena Valley of Colombia. He > asked us not to tell others about this as he was planning to research it and > write it up. Since Paul passed away a few years ago (a very sad loss > indeed), I wonder does anyone else know anything about his or is anyone > working on it? > > Thanks > > > > Dr John Penhallurick > > 86 Bingley Cres > > Fraser A.C.T. 2615 > > Australia > > email:jpenhall AT bigpond.net.au > > Phone: Home (612) 62585428 > > Mobile:0408585426 > > Please visit my website: > http://www.worldbirdinfo.net > > > > > > Subject: Re: "Magdalena" Sparrow From: Carl Downing <carl.downing AT BIRDING-COLOMBIA.COM> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:48:44 +0100 John, This would have been the magdalena valley race of Black-striped Sparrow. Carl El 28 Aug 2010, a las 08:40, John Penhallurick escribió: > Dear Friends, > I remember that when I did the Columbia trip with Paul Coopmans in 2001, he showed us a population of what I believe was Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris, which he told us was distinctively different from all other populations of that species, and provisionally called it “Magdalenaâ€� Sparrow, because it was confined to the Magdalena Valley of Colombia. He asked us not to tell others about this as he was planning to research it and write it up. Since Paul passed away a few years ago (a very sad loss indeed), I wonder does anyone else know anything about his or is anyone working on it? > Thanks > > Dr John Penhallurick > 86 Bingley Cres > Fraser A.C.T. 2615 > Australia > email:jpenhall AT bigpond.net.au > Phone: Home (612) 62585428 > Mobile:0408585426 > Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net > > Subject: "Magdalena" Sparrow From: John Penhallurick <jpenhall AT BIGPOND.NET.AU> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:40:05 +1000 Dear Friends, I remember that when I did the Columbia trip with Paul Coopmans in 2001, he showed us a population of what I believe was Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris, which he told us was distinctively different from all other populations of that species, and provisionally called it "Magdalena" Sparrow, because it was confined to the Magdalena Valley of Colombia. He asked us not to tell others about this as he was planning to research it and write it up. Since Paul passed away a few years ago (a very sad loss indeed), I wonder does anyone else know anything about his or is anyone working on it? Thanks Dr John Penhallurick 86 Bingley Cres Fraser A.C.T. 2615 Australia email:jpenhall AT bigpond.net.au Phone: Home (612) 62585428 Mobile:0408585426 Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net Subject: Psophia viridis Dark-winged Trumpeter taxon at Cristalino Lodge From: Martin Reid <upupa AT AIRMAIL.NET> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:58:06 -0500 Dear all, I just read the online copy of the Oppenheimer and Silveira 2009 paper on these taxa (http://www.scielo.br/pdf/paz/v49n41/v49n41.pdf) and it clearly indicates that the taxon found at Cristalino Jungle Lodge (NW of Alta Floresta and just north of of the Rio Teles-Pirres) should be P.[v]. dextralis, and the few images of birds from this location that I can find on the Internet all appear to match the description of that taxon given in the above paper - including my own images: http://www.martinreid.com/Misc%20website/BR08DwTrumpeter.html My first question concerns the geo-physical boundaries mentioned in this paper and other sources on the taxa, specifically "east of the Rio Tapajos and west of the Rio Tocantins" or variations thereof: The Rio Tapajos is formed by the confluence of the Rios Teles-Pirres (flowing north-west) and Juruena (spelling?; flowing NNE) and this confluence forms the top of the "spike" in the the territory of the state of Mato Grosso... so which of these two major tributaries is regarded as forming the continuation of the Tapajos (in terms of geophysical range delimitation)? From the data in the above paper it would seem to be the Teles- Pirres, but I'd appreciate confirmation of that, and whether this is also true for other taxa that are divided by the Rio Tapajos - ? The IBC Internet Bird Collection has an entry for P. viridis: http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/dark-winged-trumpeter-psophia-viridis There are a handful of videos and photos, three of which are from Alta Floresta or Cristalino - yet all three photographers have labelled the birds as of the subspecies viridis...I'd appreciate a clarification, thanks! Martin PS: to the members of the SACC: any prospect of a proposal to split these forms soon? --- Martin Reid www.martinreid.com Subject: Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" From: Doug Hardy <dhardy AT GEO.UMASS.EDU> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:34:51 -0400 I've often felt that there should be a more standardized distinction between these terms, as they are quite often used interchangeably in the climate-related literature. I try to stick with the difference as Philip responded, with altitude referring to "free air" and elevation for sites on the ground. Below are a few more formal definitions grabbed from the web: Best wishes, Doug Hardy Amer. Meteor. Soc. /Glossary of Meteorology:/ altitude—1. A measure (or condition) of height, especially of great height, as a mountain top or aircraft flight level. In meteorology, altitude is used almost exclusively with respect to the height of an airborne object above the earth's surface, above a constant-pressure surface, or above mean sea level. Compare elevation. elevation—1. A measure (or condition) of height, especially with respect to the height of a point on the earth's surface above a reference plane (usually mean sea level), as “station elevation.â€� The term altitude (e.g., “high-altitude stationâ€�) and the general term “heightâ€� are also used in this sense. Southeast Regional Climate Center glossary: altitude: the vertical distance above a certain level, usually sea level or ground level. elevation: vertical distance from sea level to a point affixed to the ground. The elevation of a mountain, for example, may be 10,000 feet. Weather.com: Altitude - In meteorology, the measure of a height of an airborne object in respect to a constant pressure surface or above mean sea level. Elevation - The measure of height with respect to a point on the earth's surface above mean sea level. Sometimes referred to as station elevation. Philip Tanimoto wrote: > Stephan, > > My understanding of common use is that altitude can be applied either to ground or air-based locations, but is often used more for air-based locations (e.g flying at an altitude of 23,000 feet). Elevation is usually tied only to terrestrial locations with X,Y, and Z coordinates. > > Best regards, > > Philip > > =========== > P.D. Tanimoto > Conservation Imaging, Inc. > www.conservationimaging.org > College Station, Texas > > > Aug 27, 2010 10:43:25 AM, NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU wrote: > > =========================================== > > > >> Dear all, recently, I was pointed to an allegedly problematic confusion >> of the terms "altitude" and "elevation" in a manuscript I am co-authoring. I indeed see much sense in homogenising >> usage. And I also know that any two words cannot have exactly the same meaning. >> But I am ignorant of any relevantdifference in the meaning of the two terms. Could a proficient native speaker >> please shed light on this? Many thanks in advance. Best wishesStefan Kreft________________________________ Stefan Kreft >> Free download: >> A Biodiversity Conservation Vision for the >> Biocorridor Amboró-Madidi (in Spanish) >> amboro-madidi.redesma.org/library/book_vision.pdf >> ________________________________ >> > > -- ***************************************************************** Douglas R. Hardy, Ph.D. phone: 802-649-1829 or Dept. of Geosciences 413-545-0659 Morrill Science Center fax: 413-545-1200 or 802-649-1829 Univ. of Massachusetts e-mail: dhardy AT geo.umass.edu Amherst MA 01003-9297 http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/doug ***************************************************************** Subject: Re: "altitude" vs. "elevation" From: Philip Tanimoto <pdtanimoto AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:08:56 -0500 Stephan, My understanding of common use is that altitude can be applied either to ground or air-based locations, but is often used more for air-based locations (e.g flying at an altitude of 23,000 feet). Elevation is usually tied only to terrestrial locations with X,Y, and Z coordinates. Best regards, Philip =========== P.D. Tanimoto Conservation Imaging, Inc. www.conservationimaging.org College Station, Texas Aug 27, 2010 10:43:25 AM, NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU wrote: =========================================== >Dear all, recently, I was pointed to an allegedly problematic confusion >of the terms "altitude" and "elevation" in a manuscript I am co-authoring. I indeed see much sense in homogenising >usage. And I also know that any two words cannot have exactly the same meaning. >But I am ignorant of any relevantdifference in the meaning of the two terms. Could a proficient native speaker >please shed light on this? Many thanks in advance. Best wishesStefan Kreft________________________________ Stefan Kreft >Free download: >A Biodiversity Conservation Vision for the >Biocorridor Amboró-Madidi (in Spanish) >amboro-madidi.redesma.org/library/book_vision.pdf >________________________________ Subject: "altitude" vs. "elevation" From: Stefan Kreft <stefan_kreft AT GMX.DE> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:39:02 +0200 Dear all, recently, I was pointed to an allegedly problematic confusion of the terms "altitude" and "elevation" in a manuscript I am co-authoring. I indeed see much sense in homogenising usage. And I also know that any two words cannot have exactly the same meaning. But I am ignorant of any relevant difference in the meaning of the two terms. Could a proficient native speaker please shed light on this? Many thanks in advance. Best wishes Stefan Kreft ________________________________ Stefan Kreft Free download: A Biodiversity Conservation Vision for the Biocorridor Amboró-Madidi (in Spanish) amboro-madidi.redesma.org/library/book_vision.pdf ________________________________ Subject: Hilton Pond 08/22/10 (Front Yards & Sourwoods) From: "Bill Hilton Jr. (RESEARCH)" <research AT HILTONPOND.ORG> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:57:39 -0400 "This Week at Hilton Pond" we explore our small front yard at the Center, finding and photographing a diverse assemblage of flora and fauna from predatory insects to immature hummingbirds to unexpected orchids. For a photo essay about these organisms that could be hanging out in your own front yard, please see our installment for 22-26 August 2010 at http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek100822.html . We also pose a question about the importance of Sourwood trees as a hummingbird nectar source. This edition includes the exiting first announcement of how YOU--thanks to the amazing generosity of an alumnus from past Operation RubyThroat expeditions--can go with us for FREE next winter to Costa Rica. If you've always wanted to study hummingbirds in the warm, sunny Neotropics when winter weather is at its worst in North America, here's your big chance to receive one of TWO $1,799 trip scholarships while supporting Hilton Pond Center's education, research, and conservation endeavors. Don't forget to scroll down for a list of birds banded at Hilton Pond during the most recent period, as well as a couple of miscellaneous nature notes. Happy Nature Watching! BILL ========= RESEARCH PROGRAM c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA office & cell (803) 684-5852 fax (803) 684-0255 Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net): Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org ================== Subject: Re: optimal and suboptimal habitat From: Francisco Sanchez <fasbos AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:36:20 -0500 Hi, Depending on whether habitats are equally available for birds, you may use the isodar method to check whether there are quantitative or qualitative between habitats. This reference may help you MORRIS, D. W. 1987. Tests of density-dependent habitat selection in a patchy environment. Ecological Monographs 57:269-281. Francisco On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Juan Freile Ortiz wrote: > Dear all, > Just a brief question: does it make any sense to talk about optimal and > suboptimal habitats for birds, based on abundances/population densities? > Let's assume a species is found in, say, 10 ind/km2 in habitat 1; 2 ind/km2 > in habitat 2; and none in habitat 3. Does this suggest that habitat 1 might > be optimal for the species, whereas habitat 2 not? (also assuming that > habitat extension is fairly similar and that both habitats are natural and > almost pristine; and that sampling effort was similar for all habitat > types). > Any insight on this (as well as must-read references) are welcomed. > Thanks in advance for any contribution. > Saludos, > Juan Freile > > -- Francisco Sánchez Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales, UDCA Calle 222 # 55 -37 Bogota, Colombia, South America Phone: +57-1-6761341 Subject: Re: optimal and suboptimal habitat From: Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordonez <ccadena AT UNIANDES.EDU.CO> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:26:25 -0500 Juan, probably not. See this classic: Van Horne, B. 1983 Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality. Journal of Wildlife Management 47, 893-901. On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Juan Freile Ortiz wrote: > Dear all, > Just a brief question: does it make any sense to talk about optimal and suboptimal habitats for birds, based on abundances/population densities? > Let's assume a species is found in, say, 10 ind/km2 in habitat 1; 2 ind/km2 in habitat 2; and none in habitat 3. Does this suggest that habitat 1 might be optimal for the species, whereas habitat 2 not? (also assuming that habitat extension is fairly similar and that both habitats are natural and almost pristine; and that sampling effort was similar for all habitat types). > Any insight on this (as well as must-read references) are welcomed. > Thanks in advance for any contribution. > Saludos, > Juan Freile > > -- Carlos Daniel Cadena Profesor Asociado Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad de los Andes Apartado Aéreo 4976 Bogotá, Colombia Tel: (57-1) 3394949 Ext. 2072 http://evolvert.uniandes.edu.co http://evodiversidad.blogspot.com/ Co-Editor Ornitología Colombiana www.ornitologiacolombiana.org/revista.htm Subject: optimal and suboptimal habitat From: Juan Freile Ortiz <jfreileo AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:23:40 -0700 Dear all, Just a brief question: does it make any sense to talk about optimal and suboptimal habitats for birds, based on abundances/population densities? Let's assume a species is found in, say, 10 ind/km2 in habitat 1; 2 ind/km2 in habitat 2; and none in habitat 3. Does this suggest that habitat 1 might be optimal for the species, whereas habitat 2 not? (also assuming that habitat extension is fairly similar and that both habitats are natural and almost pristine; and that sampling effort was similar for all habitat types). Any insight on this (as well as must-read references) are welcomed. Thanks in advance for any contribution. Saludos, Juan Freile Subject: Re: Request of various papers on molt From: Eveling Tavera <evelingtavera17 AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:16:58 -0500 sent. On 23 August 2010 15:27, Miguel Moreno-Palacios wrote: > Dear all > > > > I would appreciate if anyone could send me a pdf copy of any of the > following manuscripts. > > > > Thanks > > > > Miguel Moreno-Palacios > > > > > > > > Pyle, P., A. McAndrews, P. Velez, R. L. Wilkerson, R. B. Siegel, & D. F. > DeSante. 2004. Molt patterns and age and sex determination of selected > southeastern Cuban landbirds. J. Field Ornithol. 75: 136–145. > > > > Ryder, T. B., & R. Durães. 2005. It's not easy being green: using molt > limits to age and sex green plumage manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Ornitol. > Neotrop. 16: 481–491 > > > > Marini, M. A., & R. Durães. 2001. Annual patterns of molt and reproductive > activity of passerines in south-central Brazil. Condor 103: 767–775. > > > Foster, M. S. 1987. Delayed plumage maturation, neoteny, and social system > differences in two manakins of the genus > *Chiroxiphia*. Evolution 41: 547–558. > > > > Hall, K. S. S., & B. S. Tullberg. 2004. Phylogenetic analyses of the > diversity of moult strategies in Sylviidae in relation to migration. Evol. > Ecol. 18: 85–105. > > > > -- BSc. Eveling Tavera Fernandez CORBIDI Sta Rita 105 of 202 Huertos de San Antonio, SURCO Lima - Peru T: (51-1)975598232 Subject: NEOLIT: Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Parag. From: Santiago Claramunt <sclara1 AT TIGERS.LSU.EDU> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:16:03 -0600 Just in case, in the same webpage of Fauna Paraguay you can find the: En la página web de Fauna Paraguay también se encuentra el: BOLETÍN DEL MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL DEL PARAGUAY http://www.faunaparaguay.com/boletin3.html Estos son los artículos ornitológicos aparecidos hasta el momento: Tendencias poblacionales del Nandayus nenday (Vieillot) (Aves: Psittacidae) en el Bajo Chaco Paraguayo. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Parag. Vol. 14 (1-2), Setiembre 2002, pp. 74 - 79 CRISTINA MORALES1 y CARMEN VITALE2 1Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, Sucursal 1 Campus U.N.A., 2169 CDP, Central XI, San Lorenzo, PARAGUAY. 2Fondo Mundial para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Cañada del Carmen 2780 Asunción Paraguay Resumen.- Se estudió la densidad y el tamaño de bandadas del ñandai (Nandayus nenday) en tres localidades del Bajo Chaco de julio de 1994 a julio de 1995. La densidad se calculó mediante una modificación de la metodología de Parcelas Circulares de Radio Fijo. La densidad y el tamaño de las bandadas variaron de acuerdo a los periodos reproductivos y tipos de ambientes. Se estimó una densidad promedio de 0,18 ± 0,18 a 0,70±0,52 individuos por hectárea y 3,3±2,3 a 11,8±15,20 individuos por bandada. En una localidad, densidad y tamaño de las bandadas fueron significativamente mayores durante el periodo post-reproductivo con respecto al reproductivo (P = 0,0019) y pre-reproductivo (P = 0,6). Los mismos aspectos no variaron significativamente entre las tres localidades du- rante el periodo no reproductivo de 1995. Las gramíneas invasoras y el suplemento alimentario aportado al ganado vacuno, constituyen ítems alimentarios de la especie en áreas fuertemente intervenidas. Abstract.- Density and size of nanday parrot (Nandayus nenday) flocks was studied in three localities of the Wet Chaco from July, 1994 to June, 1995. Density was calculated by means of a modification of the Fixed Radius Circular Plot method. Size end density of the flocks varied in accordance with reproductive seasonality different environments. A mean density of 0,18 ± 0,18 a 0,70±0,52 individuals per hectare and a size of 3,3±2,3 to 11,8±15,20 individuals per flock were estimated. In a single locality, density and size of the flocks were significantly higher during post-reproductive period than during the reproductive (P = 0,0019) and pre-reproductive (P = 0,6) periods. The same parameters did not show significant variation amongst the three localities during the reproductive period of 1995. The invasive grasses and the food supplement given to the cattle make part of the parrot’s food in strongly disturbed areas. Adición a la revisión de las epsecies del genero Brueelia Kéler 1936 (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) parásitos de Icterinae. Las especies parásitas del género Agelaius Vieillot 1816. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Parag. Vol. 15 (1-2), Agosto 2004, pp. 66 - 81. ARMANDO C. CICCHINO, Laboratorio de Parasitología, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3300, 7600 Mar del Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: cicchino AT copetel.com.ar Resumen.- Este trabajo trata cuatro especies del género Brueelia Kéler, 1936 parásitas de aves del género Agelaius: B. ornatissima (Giebel, 1874) ex A. phoeniceus (Linnaeus 1766) (también de Quiscalus quiscula (Linnaeus, 1758) Tangavius aeneus (Wagler, 1829) y Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus 1758), B. ruficapilla Cicchino, 1990 ex Agelaius r. ruficapillus Vieillot, 1819, B. thilia sp. nov. ex Agelaius thilius petersi Laubmann, 1934 y B. cyanopa sp. nov. ex A. c. cyanopus Vieillot 1819. Se proveen descripciones complementarias e ilustraciones basadas en especímenes adicionales para las primeras dos especies, así como descripciones de las dos especies nuevas, descripción de los dos últimos estados ninfales de las tres primeras especies y observaciones sobre su posición taxonómica entre las especies de Brueelia que parásitas de Icterinae (Fringilinae), dando descripciones y comentarios sobre su distribución, hospederos, preferencias de hospederos y sinoexismos accidentales. Abstract.- This paper deals with four species of the genus Brueelia Kéler, 1936 parasitic on Cowbirds of the genus Agelaius: B. ornatissima (Giebel, 1874) ex A. phoeniceus (Linnaeus 1766) (also from Quiscalus quiscula (Linnaeus, 1758) Tangavius aeneus (Wagler, 1829) and Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus 1758), B. ruficapilla Cicchino, 1990 ex Agelaius r. ruficapillus Vieillot, 1819, B. thilia sp. nov. ex Agelaius thilius petersi Laubmann, 1934 and B. cyanopa sp. nov. ex A. c. cyanopus Vieillot 1819. Complementary descriptions and illustrations based on additional specimens are provided for the former two species, descriptions of the two new species, descriptions of the last two nymphal instars for the three former species and remarks on their taxonomic position within the Brueelia species infesting Cowbirds (Fringilidae: Icterinae), descriptions and comments on their distribution and host/hosts preferences and accidental synoxenisms are given. Subject: NEOLIT: Bellbird From: Santiago Claramunt <sclara1 AT TIGERS.LSU.EDU> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:13:05 -0600 Estimados: I think this new journal has not been reviewed in NEOORN. It's a new online journal published by Fanua Paraguay. Here is a list of avian papers published so far. PDFs available for free. Una nueva revista para agregar a la lista. Es una revista online publicada por Fauna Paraguay. Envío una lista de los artículos sobre aves publicados hasta el momento. Los PDFs pueden ser descargados de la página de la revista. BELLBIRD http://www.faunaparaguay.com/journal.html BELLBIRD VOLUME 1: 2006 (complete volume in pdf 3.1MB) (Cover and Contents pdf 202Kb) * Smith P 2006 - Distraction Display of the White-browed Warbler Basileuterus leucoblepharus in Paraguay: A Short Note - Published Online November 2006. PDF 199Kb * Smith P 2006 - Growth and Development of a Clutch of Southern House Wren Troglodytes aedon musculus in Encarnación, Southern Paraguay - Published Online November 2006. PDF 855Kb * Smith P 2006 - Interspecific Aggression in Nesting Great Kiskadees Pitangus sulphuratus in Paraguay - Originally published in Boletín SAO 27, published here online November 2006. PDF 342Kb * Smith P 2006 - Leptotyphlops sp Attacked by Owls - Published Online November 2006. PDF 106Kb * Smith P 2006 - Prolonged Aggressive Territorial Encounter Between Two Hummingbird Species: A Short Note - Published Online November 2006. PDF 231Kb * VID Smith P, Betuel A 2006 - Observations at a Nest of Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ventralis at Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa, Southern Paraguay - Published Online November 2006. PDF 516Kb * Smith P, Betuel A 2006 - Probable Double-brooding in Picui Ground-doves Columbina picui with Notes on Reproductive Behaviour from an Urban Nest in Encarnación, Southern Paraguay - Published Online November 2006. PDF 610Kb * VID Smith P, del Castillo H 2006 - Common Tern Sterna hirundo A New Species for Paraguay - Published Online November 2006. PDF 230Kb * Smith P, del Castillo H, Batjes H, Wainwright B 2006 - Confirmation of Breeding of Eleothreptus candicans at Estancia Laguna Blanca, Paraguay, with Some Notes on Field Identification and Threats at the Site - Published Online November 2006. PDF 262Kb * Smith P, Wainwright B 2006 - Second Record of Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus for Eastern Paraguay - Published Online December 2006. PDF 287KbDesigned by Paul Smith 2006. This website is copyrighted by law. BELLBIRD VOLUME 2: 2007 * Smith P 2007 - Female Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandiTrapped in Caterpillar Silk: A Short Note - Published Online August 2007. * Smith P 2007 - A Probable Irruptive Event of Uniform Finch Haplospiza unicolor and a Summary of Previous Paraguayan Records - Published Online August 2007. BELLBIRD VOLUME 3: 2008 * Smith P, Betuel A, Batjes H 2008 - Weights and Morphometrics of Dry Chaco Birds from Teniente Enciso National Park, Departamento Boquerón - Published Online December 2008. BELLBIRD VOLUME 4: 2009-2010 Nada ornitologico. Subject: Re: New bird for Peru! From: Renzo Zeppilli <xenopsaris AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:07:28 -0500 Gunnar and all: this is an interesting series of records for Peru regarding Unicolored Blackbird due to the last cold front from patagonia that lowered the Temperatures down to 8ºC here in Tambopata rainforest SE Perú. Several locations: first record aparently Fabrice Schmidt in Cocha Blanco in Manu, end of July (with picture of a juvenile) From July 31tst up to date the local guides (Alex Durand among them) have been finding a family of this sp. in Tres Chimbadas lake wich apparently is staying there since their arrival. This morning they were still seen. The habitat is oxbow lake margins covered with floating grasses and the mentiones especies usually hangs together with a family of Black capped Donacobious (Donacobious atrocapillus) Hope this info helps best regards Renzo Zeppilli T. 2010/8/23 Gunnar Engblom > Dear all > > Alex Durand found Unicolored Blackbird at Cocha Tres Chimbadas last week. > > Photos here. > > > http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperu/blog/index.php/new-bird-for-peru/ > > Saludos > > Gunnar > > > Gunnar Engblom-Lima, Peru. > Gunnar's Blog - updated frequently. > http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperu/blog/ > Follow me on www.twitter.com/kolibrix > http://www.facebook.com/Gunnar.Engblom/ > > -- Renzo Zeppilli T. Bird Tour Leader / Environmental Educator t: +51-1-994158549 n: 415*8549 Subject: Request for ornithological monograph 36 From: Christian Devenish <chrisdevenish AT YAHOO.CO.UK> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:26:41 +0000 Dear all, I'd appreciate a pdf of this paper from someone with access to this issue. Many thanks, regards, Christian A Phylogeny of the Myiarchine Flycatchers Wesley E. Lanyon Ornithological Monographs No. 36, Neotropical Ornithology (1985), pp. 360-380 Subject: Paper request: Underhill & Zucchini (1988) From: Miguel Moreno-Palacios <miguelcmorenop AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:23:54 -0700 Dear all Anybody with access to this article?, I appreciate a pdf copy if possible.   Underhill LG & Zucchini W.     Miguel Moreno1988. A model for avian primary moult. Ibis 130: 358-372 Subject: Revista scientifico Mexicano La Naturaleza 1881 vol. 4 From: Mark McReynolds <belizejungleman AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:23:38 -0700 Yo buscando por este revista antigua - el volumen 4. Favor conteste en español o inglés. I am looking for this old periodical - volume 4. Please answer in Spanish or English. Gracias, Mark McReynolds PhD Candidate, Antioch University New England Studying Scarlet Macaws in Belize and Central America Subject: New bird for Peru! From: Gunnar Engblom <kolibriexp AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:13:12 -0500 Dear all Alex Durand found Unicolored Blackbird at Cocha Tres Chimbadas last week. Photos here. http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperu/blog/index.php/new-bird-for-peru/ Saludos Gunnar Gunnar Engblom-Lima, Peru. Gunnar's Blog - updated frequently. http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperu/blog/ Follow me on www.twitter.com/kolibrix http://www.facebook.com/Gunnar.Engblom/ Subject: Request of various papers on molt From: Miguel Moreno-Palacios <miguelcmorenop AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:27:42 -0700 Dear all   I would appreciate if anyone could send me a pdf copy of any of the following manuscripts.   Thanks   Miguel Moreno-Palacios      Pyle, P., A. McAndrews, P. Velez, R. L. Wilkerson, R. B. Siegel, & D. F. DeSante. 2004. Molt patterns and age and sex determination of selected southeastern Cuban landbirds. J. Field Ornithol. 75: 136–145.  Ryder, T. B., & R. Durães. 2005. It's not easy being green: using molt limits to age and sex green plumage manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Ornitol. Neotrop. 16: 481–491  Marini, M. A., & R. Durães. 2001. Annual patterns of molt and reproductive activity of passerines  in south-central Brazil. Condor 103: 767–775.  Foster, M. S. 1987. Delayed plumage maturation, neoteny, and social system differences in two manakins of the genus Hall, K. S. S., & B. S. Tullberg. 2004. Phylogenetic analyses of the diversity of moult strategies in Sylviidae in relation to migration. Evol. Ecol. 18: 85–105. Chiroxiphia. Evolution 41: 547–558.  Subject: Re: Cracraft 1985 From: Ellen Paul <ellen.paul AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:24:00 -0400 Sent Ellen Paul Executive Director The Ornithological Council Email: ellen.paul AT verizon.net "Providing Scientific Information about Birds" http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET" On 8/22/10 5:50 PM, Alex Lees wrote: > Historical biogeography and patterns of differentiation within the > South American avifauna: areas of endemism Subject: Re: Cracraft 1985 From: Alex Lees <lincslister AT YAHOO.CO.UK> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:50:42 +0000 Hi all   Does anyone have an electronic copy of Cracraft's 1985 Ornithological Monograph 'Historical biogeography and patterns of differentiation within the South American avifauna: areas of endemism', I guess this is a perennial solicitation on here but I don't seem to have a copy...   thanks   Alex *********************************************************************** Dr Alexander C. Lees Dept. of Zoology Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Caixa Postal 399 CEP 66040-170 Belém - PA BRAZIL http://www.freewebs.com/alexlees/index.htm *********************************************************************** --- On Mon, 16/8/10, Daniel Philippe wrote: From: Daniel Philippe Subject: Re: [NEOORN-L] Request for a bibliographic reference To: NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Date: Monday, 16 August, 2010, 8:47 Hi Manuel,   Lynch-Arribalzaga, Enrique 1902. Apuntes Ornitológicos. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 3 (1): 151-167.   There : http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50863#171   Best, Daniel     De : Bulletin Board for Ornithologists working with Neotropical Birds [mailto:NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU] De la part de Manuel Plenge Envoyé : lundi 16 août 2010 00:19 À : NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Objet : [NEOORN-L] Request for a bibliographic reference   I have come across the following citation: Lynch-Arribalzaga  1902.   An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, (3), I, p. 166.  I have searched the web but cannot find it.   Could someone specially in Argentina advise me the full bibliographic reference (author full name, title, page numbers, etc.)   Any information will be appreciated.   Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru   plenge.manuel AT gmail.com     Subject: Re: SENT! paper request Griwsold C and Baker 2002, Evolution From: Jan Baiker <jbaiker AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:50:56 +0200 Sent 2010/8/23 Ricardo Canales > Dear friends: > > I´m looking for this paper. > Thanks for your help. > > Griswold C, Baker AJ (2002) Time to the most recent common > > ancestor and divergence times of populations of common > > chaffinches ( > *Fringilla coelebs*) in Europe and North Africa: > > insights into pleistocene > > > > > > -- > MC Ricardo Canales del Castillo > Investigador de Tiempo Completo > Laboratorio de Biología de la Conservación > Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular > Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas > Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León > canalesrcc AT hotmail.com > (81)83 76 35 25 > (81)83 29 40 00 ext. 3674 > Subject: paper request Griwsold C and Baker 2002, Evolution From: Ricardo Canales <canalesrcc AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:17:49 -0500 Dear friends: I´m looking for this paper. Thanks for your help. Griswold C, Baker AJ (2002) Time to the most recent common ancestor and divergence times of populations of common chaffinches (*Fringilla coelebs*) in Europe and North Africa: insights into pleistocene -- MC Ricardo Canales del Castillo Investigador de Tiempo Completo Laboratorio de Biología de la Conservación Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León canalesrcc AT hotmail.com (81)83 76 35 25 (81)83 29 40 00 ext. 3674 Subject: NEOLIT: Marine Ornithology 38 (1) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:49:44 -0500 Neoorners, Three papers from Marine Ornithology 38 (1). They can be downloaded from: http://www.marineornithology.org/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?vol=current Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Pistorius, Pierre A., Nic Huin, and Sarah Crofts 2010. Population change and resilience in Gentoo Penguins *Pygoscelis papua* at the Falkland Islands. Marine Ornithology, 38: 49-53. Abstract: Data on population size and breeding success of Gentoo Penguins *Pygoscelis papua *at the Falkland Islands have been collected since 1990 as part of the Falkland Islands Seabird Monitoring Programme (FISMP). During the austral summer of 2005/2006, the third five-yearly survey of all Gentoo Penguins breeding in the Falklands Archipelago was undertaken. Results are presented and compared to previous population estimates. The number of breeding pairs in 2005/2006 was estimated at 65,857, a decline of 42% since 2000, which was attributed largely to paralytic shellfish poisoning resulting from a harmful algal bloom event in 2002. Based on a selected number of colonies that were monitored annually, the population increased by over 95% since 2005, and numbered a record high of some 128,500 breeding pairs in 2008. On average, annual breeding success was 1.01 (ranging between 0.51 and 1.44) chicks per breeding pair. Although no particular trend was evident, breeding success was above average between 2004 and 2008 which is likely to contribute towards future population growth. Baldassin, Paula, Roberta Aguiar Santos, Joao Marcelo M. Da Cunha, Max R. Werneck, and Hugo Gallo 2010. Cephalopods in the diet of Magellanic Penguins *Spheniscus magellanicus* found on the coast of Brazil. Marine Ornithology, 38: 55-57. No Abstract. Elizondo, Pablo, and Luis Sandoval 2010. Caribbean records of Long-tailed Jaeger *Stercorarius longicaudus* from Costa Rica. Marine Ornithology, 38: 61-62. No Abstract. Subject: Black Swift monograph on-line From: Ian Paulsen <birdbooker AT ZIPCON.NET> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:35:27 -0700 HI ALL: The link to this monograph can be found at my blog here: http://birdbookerreport.blogspot.com/2010/08/black-swift-monograph-on-line.html Some of the information in it pertains to the Neotropics. sincerely -- Ian Paulsen Bainbridge Island, WA, USA " Which just goes to show that a passion for books is extremely unhealthy." from Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart". Subject: Collecting Mites from Feather Techniques From: JC <jcdelascasas AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:29:14 -0500 Hi. I would like to know if someone may recommend me a better technique to collect mites from feathers instead of using: 1) brush (I guess that I can mix samples of mites from one bird sample with another bird sample) 2) dust (5% Malathion) (¿Could be harmful for the bird?) 3) tweezers (I guess I would squash every mite at the point to be unidentified) I appreciate light on this subject. Best regards JC Juan Carlos De Las Casas El Chamicero Birding in the Capital Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia. www.elchamicero.com info AT elchamicero.com Corporación Sentido Natural - SN www.sentidonatural.org JC AT sentidonatural.org Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia. Subject: Paper request From: Frederik Brammer <frebram AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:00:16 -0300 Hi neoorners, Does someone have access to an electronic version of this paper, please? STEINHEIMER, F. D. 2003. A hummingbird nest from James Cook’s Endeavour voyage, 1768-1771. Archives of Natural History 30 (1): 163-165. Cheers, Frederik Brammer Subject: NEOLIT: Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitól ologos del Perú (UNOP) 5 (2) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:14:30 -0500 Neoorners, From the Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitólologos del Perú (UNOP). Those wishing a PDF of the “Boletín” should write to maplenge AT hotmail.com Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Perú More, Alexander 2010. El Cóndor Andino y la Penísula Illescas. Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitólologos del Perú (UNOP), 5 (2): 2-4. [Coastal northern Peru] Mitta, Miguel A. 2010. Primer registro de *Chloephaga melanoptera* en el Santuario Nacional Lagunas de Mejía. Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitólologos del Perú (UNOP), 5 (2): 5. [Coastal southern Peru] Nolazco, Sergio, Jesús Conde, and Maura Jurado 2010. Electrocución fatal de un Aguilucho de Pecho Negro *Geranoaetus melanoleucus *en la ciudad de Lima. Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitólologos del Perú (UNOP), 5(2 ): 6-7. Figueroa, Judith, and Marcelo Stucchi 2010. Registro del Huaco de corona amarilla (*Nyctanassa violacea*) al sur del Perú. Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitólologos del Perú (UNOP), 5 (2): 8-9. [Coastal southern Peru] Rivas Mogollón, Emil L. 2010. Registro del Piquero Pardo *Sula leucogaster *(Boddaert, 1783) en Isla Foca. Piura –Perú. Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitólologos del Perú (UNOP), 5 (2): 10-11. [Coastal northern Peru] Stucchi, Marcelo, and Judith Figueroa 2010. Ataque del halcón peregrino (*Falco peregrinus*) a gaviotas *Leucophaeus modestus*, *Larus belcheri* y *L*.*dominicanus *. Boletín Informativo de la Union de Ornitólologos del Perú (UNOP), 5 (2): 12-13. [Coastal southern Peru] Subject: NEOLIT: Journal of Animal Ecology 79 (5) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:57:08 -0500 Neoorners, Dra. Carolina I. Miño of Universidade Federal de São Carlos, SP, Brazil, has forwarded to me the references of three papers published in the *Journal of Animal Ecology* 79 (5), to list them in NEOLIT. Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Perú Sekercioglu, Cagan H. 2010*. ** *Partial migration in tropical birds: the frontier of movement ecology*. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79:* 933-936*.* *Can be downloaded from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01739.x/pdf* E-mail: c.s AT utah.edu Partial migration, in which only some individuals of a species migrate, might be central to the evolution of migratory behaviour and is likely to represent an evolutionary transition between sedentariness and complete migration. In one of the few detailed, individual-based migration studies of tropical birds, Jahn et al. study the partial migration system of a South American bird species for the first time. Food limitation forces the large adult males and small, young females to migrate, contrary to the expectations of the body size and dominance hypotheses. This study confirms the importance of food variability as the primary driver of migratory behaviour. There is urgent need for similar studies on the movement ecology of understudied tropical bird species, whose diversity of migratory behaviour can shed light on the evolution of bird migration*.* * * * * Jahn, Alex E., Douglas J. Levey, Jeffrey A. Hostetler, and Ana María Maman* 2010. Determinants of partial bird migration in the Amazon Basin. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79: 983–992.* *Can be downloaded from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01713.x/pdf* *E-mail: alexjahn77 AT yahoo.com* *Summary* *1. Little is known about mechanisms that drive migration of birds at tropical latitudes. Because most migratory bird species in South America have populations that are present year-round, partial migration (in which only some individuals of a given population migrate at the end of the breeding season) is likely to be common, providing an opportunity to assess proximate mechanisms of migration.* *2. Two non-mutually exclusive hypotheses explaining intraspecific variation in migratory behaviour were tested in a Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus population in the southern Amazon Basin, where a dramatic dry season decrease in the abundance of insect food for kingbirds may promote migration of some individuals.* *3. The Dominance hypothesis predicts sub-dominant individuals migrate at the end of the breeding season and dominant individuals do not, whereas the Body Size hypothesis predicts smaller individuals migrate and larger individuals do not.* *4. Based on 4 years of data on individually-marked birds, strong support was found for occurrence of partial migration in the study population.* *5. In the best model, the largest males (which are typically older and dominant to younger individuals) had the highest probability of migrating. Younger females (which are the smallest individuals in the population) were also more likely to migrate than other kingbirds, except the largest males. Thus, an individual’s probability of migrating was associated with a more complex interaction of size, age and sex than predicted by current hypotheses.* *6. These results suggest that determinants of migratory behaviour differ between North temperate and tropical latitudes. Most tests of partial migration theory have been conducted on granivores (e.g. emberizids) or omnivores (e.g. turdids and icterids) at North temperate latitudes, where seasonality is primarily defined by temperature cycles. In tropical South America, however, the most common long-distance migrants are primarily insectivorous (i.e. tyrannids), and seasonality is largely defined by rainfall cycles.* *7. We propose a hypothesis based on seasonal food limitation to explain partial migration of primarily insectivorous species in seasonal tropical habitats.* * * * * *Biancucci, Luis, and Thomas E. Martin 2010. Can selection on nest size from nest predation explain the latitudinal gradient in clutch size?. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79: 1086–1092.* *E-mail: luis.biancucci AT gmail.com* *Summary* *1. Latitudinal variation in clutch sizes of birds is a well described, but poorly understood pattern. Many hypotheses have been proposed, but few have been experimentally tested, and none have been universally accepted by researchers.* *2. The nest size hypothesis posits that higher nest predation in the tropics favours selection for smaller nests and thereby constrains clutch size by shrinking available space for eggs and/or nestlings in the nest. We tested this hypothesis with an experiment in a tropical forest and a comparative study between temperate and tropical field sites.* *3. Specifically, we tested if: (i) predation increased with nest size; (ii) tropical birds had smaller nests controlled for body size; and (iii) clutch size was explained by nest size controlled for body size.* *4. Experimental swapping of nests of different sizes showed that nest predation increased with nest size in the tropical site. Moreover, nest predation rates were higher in species with larger nests in both sites. However, nest size, corrected for body mass and phylogeny, did not differ between sites and was not related to clutch size between sites.* *5. Hence, nest predation can exert selection on nest size as predicted by the hypothesis. Nest size increased with adult body mass, such that adult size might indirectly influence reproductive success through effects on nest size and nest predation risk. Ultimately, however, selection from nest predation on nest size does not explain the smaller clutch sizes typical of the tropics.* Subject: NEOLIT: Ecography 33 (3) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:58:14 -0500 Neoorners, At the request of José (Pépe) Tello herewith one paper published in Ecography 33 (3). Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Perú Lee, Alan T. K., Sunil Kumar, Donald J. Brightsmith, and Stuart J. Marsden 2010. *Parrot claylick distribution in South America: do patterns of "where" help answer the question "why"? Ecography, 33: 503-513.* *Download from: *http://www.bluehillescape.co.za/Peru/aims.html* or e-mail:* * *a.t.lee AT mmu.ac.uk** *Abstract: *Geophagy is well known among some Neotropical parrots. The clay apparently adsorbs dietary toxins and/or provides supplemental nutrients. We used location data and 23 environmental layers to develop a predictive model of claylick distribution using Maxent software. We related species characteristics to claylick use and examined how parrot assemblages using claylicks changed with distance from the centre of claylick distribution. Fifty-two parrot claylicks were reported from an area of ca 4 million km2but over 50% were restricted to a 35 000 km 2 region of southeast Peru and northern Bolivia. Claylicks were strongly associated with moist forest on younger (<65 millions of yr) geological formations and exposed river banks. The predictive model of claylick distribution matched our reported range well, with precipitation of warmest quarter, land cover, temperature seasonality, and distance from the ocean being most important predictors of claylick presence. Twenty-six of the region's 46 parrot species visited claylicks. Species differed greatly in their lick use, but body size, dietary breadth, abundance and other traits were poor predictors of lick use. We are confident that our survey identified the distribution of major parrot claylicks in South America, although less conspicuous parrot geophagy may occur elsewhere. We suggest that claylick distribution reflects both underlying geology (allowing claylick formation in only some regions) and the physiological need for geophagy among parrots in different parts of the continent. Data on the latter are inconclusive, but we argue that parrot claylick distribution supports the contention that geophagy is related more to sodium deficiencies than to protection from dietary toxins.** * * Subject: NEOLIT: Auk 127 (3) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:48:47 -0500 Neoorners, At the request of José (Pépe) Tello herewith two papers published in the Auk 127 (3). Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Perú Townsend, Jason M., Christopher C. Rimmer*, *and Kent P. McFarland 2010.* *Winter territoriality and spatial behavior of Bicknell's Thrush (*Catharus bicknelli*) at two ecologically distinct sites in the Dominican Republic. Auk, 127: 514-522.** E-mail: jatownse AT syr.edu Abstract: We used radiotelemetry to investigate the spatial behavior of wintering Bicknell's Thrushes (*Catharus bicknelli*) at a mid-elevation rainforest site and a high-elevation cloud-forest site in the Dominican Republic. We also analyzed blood stable carbon isotopes and fecal samples to compare thrush diets at these two floristically and climatically distinct sites. Birds consumed a primarily fruit-based diet at the mid-elevation site and a primarily arthropod-based diet at the high-elevation site. Despite these dietary differences, individuals at both sites defended and maintained exclusive, minimally overlapping core use areas and home ranges. The mean size of both core use areas and home ranges was similar between males and females and between adults and first-winter birds. Presence of nonterritorial or "floater" individuals was low at both sites (2.7% and 5.6%). Birds at the arthropod-dominated site were observed significantly more often on or within 1 m of the ground than birds at the fruit-heavy site, which were more often observed in the mid-canopy structure above 2 m. Birds at both sites displayed agonistic behaviors toward conspecifics and toward playback of conspecific vocalizations. Exclusive territoriality was the predominant winter social system, and we suggest that both arthropods and fruit are defensible resources for wintering Bicknell's Thrushes. Pacheco, M. Andreína, Steven R. Beissinger, and Carlos Bosque 2010. Why grow slowly in a dangerous place? Postnatal growth, thermoregulation, and energetics of nestling Green-rumped Parrotlets (*Forpus passerinus*). Auk, 127: 558-570. [Venezuela] E-mail: maria.pacheco AT asu.edu Abstract: We studied growth in the Green-rumped Parrotlet (*Forpus passerinus*), a small Neotropical parrotlet that has an unusually long nestling period (28–35 days) and feeds nestlings nutritionally poor seeds. We asked why nestlings grow slowly even though nest predation is their main mortality factor. We examined nutrient accretion and the development of thermoregulation and computed an energy budget until fledging. We described three periods of growth: (1) days 1–13, when peak accretion for sodium, lipids, and energy occurred; (2) days 14–22, when nestlings became endothermic and accretion for proteins, calcium, and phosphorus peaked; and (3) days 23–30, when nestlings reached 90% of the asymptotic values of body components. The deposition rate of lipids (logistic constant *K* = 0.33) was higher than that of protein (*K* = 0.19), ash and calcium (*K* = 0.20), and, particularly, phosphorus (*K* = 0.14). In concordance with their slow growth, nestlings became endothermic only 10 days before fledging, considerably later than expected from asymptotic mass. Total metabolized energy during the nestling period was 1,133.3 kJ, of which 59.2% accounted for resting metabolic rate and 26.2% for activity. Growth efficiency, the proportion of total metabolized energy allocated to tissue deposition, was 14.5%, one of the lowest reported for altricial nestlings. We argue that nestling growth was not energy-limited and that limiting nutrients were deposited slowly as a result of restrictions imposed by low availability of protein and phosphorus in the diet. We propose that slow growth and poor diets are interrelated in Green-rumped Parrotlets and other Psittaciformes, but the direction of the causal relationship between them is unclear. Subject: NEOLIT: Ecología Austral 20 (1) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:38:30 -0500 Neoorners, One paper in Ecología Austral 20 (1) Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Ibarra, Tomás, Tomás Altamirano, Nicolás Gálvez, Isabel Rojas, Jerry Laker , and Cristián Bonacic 2010. Avifauna de los bosques templados de *Araucaria araucana* del sur de Chile. Ecología Austral, 20: 33-45. E-mail: jtibarra AT uc.cl Abstract: Los estudios sobre el ensamble de aves de los bosques templados de Araucaria araucana son escasos. Como resultado, no se conocen ni los cambios estacionales del ensamble, ni el efecto de la profundidad de la nieve invernal sobre la diversidad, ni los elementos estructurales del bosque que serían relevantes para las aves. Entre 2008 y 2009 se estudió estacionalmente el ensamble de aves de estos bosques en la región de la Araucanía, sur de Chile. Mediante puntos de conteo y señuelos acústicos, fueron registradas un total de 29 especies. El ensamble mostró una estacionalidad marcada: la riqueza y la abundancia relativa de aves fueron máximas en verano y mínimas en invierno. La profundidad de nieve se relacionó de forma negativa con la riqueza y con la abundancia relativa de aves durante el invierno. Cuando se presentó una profundidad de nieve mayor a 1 m, no se registraron aves que usan el sotobosque (e.g., Scelorchilus rubecula, Scytalopus magellanicus), pero se registraron aves que usan árboles grandes del dosel (e.g., Colaptes pitius, Campephilus magellanicus). El diámetro a altura del pecho, la variable del hábitat que mejor predijo los cambios de riqueza, mostró una relación positiva con ella. Los bosques de A. araucana ofrecen un hábitat con una complejidad estructural que sirve a una importante diversidad de aves y son relevantes para su conservación. Esta complejidad estructural sería especialmente relevante para gremios con requerimientos específicos de hábitat (aves del sotobosque y aves que usan árboles grandes), que serían las aves más afectadas por siglos de explotación de los bosques templados en el sur de Sudamérica. Subject: NEOLIT: Oryx 44 (3) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:31:48 -0500 Neoorners, Two papers in Oryx 44 (3) Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Lambertucci, Sergio A. 2010. Size and spatio-temporal variations of the Andean condor *Vultur gryphus* population in north-west Patagonia, Argentina: communal roosts and conservation. Oryx, 44: 441-447. E-mail: slambertucci AT crub.uncoma.edu.ar Abstract: Estimations of the population sizes of threatened species are fundamental for conservation. The current estimate of the population of the Andean condor *Vultur gryphus* is based on limited local counts. Simultaneous censuses of 10 condor communal roosts were therefore conducted during 2006–2008 in north-west Patagonia, Argentina, to obtain a minimum population number, to estimate the size of the local population, and to describe use of the roosts by season and age classes. I fitted the data to two asymptotic models to calculate the population of condors as a function of the number of communal roosts surveyed. In an area of c. 6,300 km2 I obtained a minimum population size of 246 individuals by direct observation, and a population estimate of 296 condors (range 260–332) by applying the models. This population, the largest known of this species, comprises 68.5% adults and 31.5% immatures. Condors had large aggregations in some communal roosts and used the area seasonally, increasing in numbers from autumn to spring and decreasing in summer. Long-term monitoring of communal roosts across the Andean condor’s range is essential for the monitoring of this rare and vulnerable species. Posadas-Leal, César, Leonardo Chapa-Vargas, José Tulio Arredondo-Moreno, and Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald 2010. Effects of habitat type on bird nesting in the desert grasslands of central Mexico: conservation implications. Oryx, 44: 448-454. E-mail: lchapa AT ipicyt.edu.mx Abstract: Populations of North American grassland birds have suffered drastic declines. The causes of these declines are only partially understood and may vary among regions. During the 2004 and 2005 breeding seasons we recorded survival information from 220 nests of four bird species in nine study sites representing three habitat types of the desert grasslands of central Mexico, where grassland birds had not yet been studied. We predicted that land-use change from shortgrass steppe to heavily grazed savannah-type grasslands and agriculture would negatively affect nesting success, number of fledglings and nest abundance. We also examined temporal effects on reproductive success. We found some evidence that nest survival of savannah sparrows *Passerculus sandwichensis*, loggerhead shrikes *Lanius ludovicianus* and white-winged doves *Zenaida asiatica* varied with date, and that nest survival of the dove was lowest in agricultural sites. However, confidence intervals were large, suggesting that other variables were also important. Whereas white-winged dove nests were notably more abundant in agricultural areas compared to the other habitat types, western meadowlark *Sturnella neglecta* nests were not found in agricultural areas. Ploughing caused the largest proportion of nest failures in agricultural areas and, on average, all species fledged fewer young per nest in agricultural areas. Therefore, minimizing agriculture and adjusting harvest times could enhance conservation of grassland-nesting birds in central Mexico. Our study also suggests that inter-annual variation in rainfall can change the onset of nesting by at least 2 months. Subject: NEOLIT: Animal Conservation 13 (4) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:23:35 -0500 Neoorners, One paper in Animal Conservation 13 (4) Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Carrete, M., S. A. Lambertucci, K. Speziale, O. Ceballos, A. Travaini, M. Delibes, F. Hiraldo, J. A. Donázar 2010. *Winners and losers in human-made habitats: interspecific competition outcomes in two Neotropical vultures. Animal Conservation, 13: 390-398.*** E-mail: martina AT ebd.csic.es Abstract: Understanding the factors underlying species coexistence is a major focus in community ecology. When dealing with competition between native and exotic species, the competitive exclusion of the 'weaker' species can have consequences for biodiversity conservation. We examined interspecific interactions during foraging between black vultures *Coragyps atratus* and Andean condors *Vultur gryphus* in Southern Argentina. Previous studies suggest facilitatory interactions between them. However, in most parts of their distribution ranges, these species did not coexist until recently, when black vultures expanded their geographic range following human development. Thus, facilitatory processes or segregation patterns could not be fine-tuned enough to allow their coexistence. Our hypothesis is that black vultures and Andean condors compete for food resources, and that this competitive scenario can change depending on local species abundances and habitat humanization. We experimentally placed sheep carcasses in two habitats differing in degrees of humanization to study the foraging patterns in these species. Both species exploited carcasses with similar temporal patterns. However, the first to arrive and the dominant species were different in both habitats, according to their abundances. Although black vultures do not completely prevent the arrival of Andean condors to carcasses, they represent serious obstacles for feeding. Thus, while dominance hierarchy at carcasses could be related to body size, carcass consumption was determined by species abundance. Our results support the hypothesis that the expansion of a 'winning' species may trigger interspecific competition with other 'loser' species, with negative responses towards human activities when they became abundant. Although the results are not conclusive, invasion and extinction processes could be occurring and they can have serious consequences for the diversity (i.e. richness and evenness) of the New World scavenger guilds. Subject: NEOLIT: Oecologia 163 (3) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:18:25 -0500 Neoorners, One paper in Oecologia 163 (3) Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Bonebrake, Timothy C., and Steven R. Beissinger 2010. Predation and infanticide influence ideal free choice by a parrot occupying heterogeneous tropical habitats. Oecologia, 163: 385-393. E-mail: tcbone AT stanford.edu Abstract: The ideal free distribution (IFD) predicts that organisms will disperse to sites that maximize their fitness based on availability of resources. Habitat heterogeneity underlies resource variation and influences spatial variation in demography and the distribution of populations. We relate nest site productivity at multiple scales measured over a decade to habitat quality in a box-nesting population of *Forpus passerinus*(green-rumped parrotlets) in Venezuela to examine critical IFD assumptions. Variation in reproductive success at the local population and neighborhood scales had a much larger influence on productivity (fledglings per nest box per year) than nest site or female identity. Habitat features were reliable cues of nest site quality. Nest sites with less vegetative cover produced greater numbers of fledglings than sites with more cover. However, there was also a competitive cost to nesting in high-quality, low-vegetative cover nest boxes, as these sites experienced the most infanticide events. In the lowland local population, water depth and cover surrounding nest sites were related with *F. passerinus* productivity. Low vegetative cover and deeper water were associated with lower predation rates, suggesting that predation could be a primary factor driving habitat selection patterns. Parrotlets also demonstrated directional dispersal. Pairs that changed nest sites were more likely to disperse from poor-quality nest sites to high-quality nest sites rather than vice versa, and juveniles were more likely to disperse to, or remain in, the more productive of the two local populations. Parrotlets exhibited three characteristics fundamental to the IFD: habitat heterogeneity within and between local populations, reliable habitat cues to productivity, and active dispersal to sites of higher fitness. Subject: NEOLIT: Journal of Biogeography 37 (7) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:11:17 -0500 Neoorners, One paper in Journal of Biogeography 37 (7) Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Loiselle, Bette A., Catherine H. Graham, Jaqueline M. Goerck, and Milton Cezar Ribeiro 2010. *Assessing the impact of deforestation and climate change on the range size and environmental niche of bird species in the Atlantic forests, Brazil. *Journal of Biogeography, 37:* **1288-1301.*** E-mail: loiselle AT umsl.edu Abstract: *Aim *Habitat loss and climate change are two major drivers of biological diversity. Here we quantify how deforestation has already changed, and how future climate scenarios may change, environmental conditions within the highly disturbed Atlantic forests of Brazil. We also examine how environmental conditions have been altered within the range of selected bird species. *Location *Atlantic forests of south-eastern Brazil. *Methods *The historical distribution of 21 bird species was estimated using Maxent. After superimposing the present-day forest cover, we examined the environmental niches hypothesized to be occupied by these birds pre- and post-deforestation using environmental niche factor analysis (ENFA). ENFA was also used to compare conditions in the entire Atlantic forest ecosystem pre- and post-deforestation. The relative influence of land use and climate change on environmental conditions was examined using analysis of similarity and principal components analysis. *Results *Deforestation in the region has resulted in a decrease in suitable habitat of between 78% and 93% for the Atlantic forest birds included here. Further, Atlantic forest birds today experience generally wetter and less seasonal forest environments than they did historically. Models of future environmental conditions within forest remnants suggest generally warmer conditions and lower annual variation in rainfall due to greater precipitation in the driest quarter of the year. We found that deforestation resulted in a greater divergence of environmental conditions within Atlantic forests than that predicted by climate change. *Main conclusions *The changes in environmental conditions that have occurred with large-scale deforestation suggest that selective regimes may have shifted and, as a consequence, spatial patterns of intra-specific variation in morphology, behaviour and genes have probably been altered. Although the observed shifts in available environmental conditions resulting from deforestation are greater than those predicted by climate change, the latter will result in novel environments that exceed temperatures in any present-day climates and may lead to biotic attrition unless organisms can adapt to these warmer conditions. Conserving intra-specific diversity over the long term will require considering both how changes in the recent past have influenced contemporary populations and the impact of future environmental change. Subject: NEOLIT: Behavioral Ecology 21 (4) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:58:58 -0500 Neoorners, One paper in Behavioral Ecology 21 (4) Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Riehl, Christina 2010. Egg ejection risk and hatching asynchrony predict egg mass in a communally breeding cuckoo, the Greater Ani (*Crotophaga major *). Behavioral Ecology, 21: 676-683.** E-mail: criehl AT princeton.edu. Abstract: The Greater Ani (*Crotophaga major*) is a neotropical cuckoo in which several females lay eggs in a single nest. Group members synchronize egg laying and compete for reproduction by ejecting early-laid eggs from the communal nest. Eggs are large ( 17% of female body mass) and vary greatly in size. I assessed the effects of egg size, hatching asynchrony, and position in the laying order on the survival and growth of nestlings to test the hypothesis that females invest more resources in eggs that are likely to give rise to surviving offspring. The egg’s position in the female’s laying sequence was a significant predictor of egg mass, with first-laid eggs and last-laid eggs consistently smaller than those in the middle of the clutch. Females that initiated laying in the communal nest almost always lost their first-laid eggs, and these females also exhibited the most extreme variation in egg mass. Nestlings from last-laid eggs were more likely to hatch asynchronously and starve before fledging, and the mass of last-laid eggs decreased as the degree of hatching asynchrony increased. Ejection and starvation probabilities were not affected by egg mass; therefore, low survivorship of first-laid and last-laid eggs was due solely to their position in the laying order, not to their smaller size. These data suggest that individual females allocate more resources to eggs that are likely to survive to fledging and that reproductive competition among communally breeding females explains much of the variation in egg size in this species. Subject: NEOLIT: American Naturalist 175 (6) & 176 (2) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:51:35 -0500 Neoorners, In a few more days the 25th International Ornithological Congress (IOC) will take place in Campos de Jordao, Brazil on 22-29 August 2010. For various reasons some reviewers have not been able to make known some resent papers. In this and subsequent e-mails I will try to bring you up to date on some journals. Two papers in American Naturalist. Manuel A. Plenge American Naturalist 175 (6) Muchhala, Nathan, and James D. Thompson 2010. Fur versus feathers: pollen delivery by bats and hummingbirds and consequences for pollen production. American Naturalist, 175: 717-726. eâ€�mail: n_muchhala AT yahoo.com Abstract: One floral characteristic associated with bat pollination (chiropterophily) is copious pollen production, a pattern we confirmed in a local comparison of hummingbirdâ€� and batâ€�adapted flowers from a cloud forest site in Ecuador. Previous authors have suggested that wasteful pollen transfer by bats accounted for the pattern. Here we propose and test a new hypothesis: bats select for increased pollen production because they can efficiently transfer larger amounts of pollen, which leads to a more linear male fitness gain curve for batâ€�pollinated plants. Flight cage experiments with artificial flowers and flowers of *Aphelandra acanthus* provide support for this hypothesis; in both instances, the amount of pollen delivered to stigmas by birds is not related to the amount of pollen removed from anthers on the previous visit, while the same function for bats increases linearly. Thus, increased pollen production will be linearly related to increased male reproductive success for bat flowers, while for bird flowers, increased pollen production leads to rapidly diminishing fitness returns. We speculate that fur takes up and holds more pollen than feathers, which seem to readily shed excess grains. Our gainâ€�curve hypothesis may also explain why evolutionary shifts from bird to bat pollination seem more common than shifts in the opposite direction. American Naturalist 176 (2) Symonds, Matthew R. E., and Glenn J. Tattersall 2010. Geographical variation in bill size across bird species provides evidence for Allen’s Rule. American Naturalist 176: 188-197. E-mail: symondsm AT unimelb.edu.au. Abstract: Allen’s rule proposes that the appendages of endotherms are smaller, relative to body size, in colder climates, in order to reduce heat loss. Empirical support for Allen’s rule is mainly derived from occasional reports of geographical clines in extremity size of individual species. Interspecific evidence is restricted to two studies of leg proportions in seabirds and shorebirds. We used phylogenetic comparative analyses of 214 bird species to examine whether bird bills, significant sites of heat exchange, conform to Allen’s rule. The species comprised eight diverse taxonomic groups—toucans, African barbets, Australian parrots, estrildid finches, Canadian galliforms, penguins, gulls, and terns. Across all species, there were strongly significant relationships between bill length and both latitude and environmental temperature, with species in colder climates having significantly shorter bills. Patterns supporting Allen’s rule in relation to latitudinal or altitudinal distribution held within all groups except the finches. Evidence for a direct association with temperature was found within four groups (parrots, galliforms, penguins, and gulls). Support for Allen’s rule in leg elements was weaker, suggesting that bird bills may be more susceptible to thermoregulatory constraints generally. Our results provide the strongest comparative support yet published for Allen’s rule and demonstrate that thermoregulation has been an important factor in shaping the evolution of bird bills. Subject: Re: reference request From: Eliot Miller <eliot.isaac AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:39:00 +1000 I was able to get in touch with the author. Call off the search party. Thanks! On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Eliot Miller wrote: > Hi all, > > Was wondering if someone could provide me with the reference: > > Alava et al. 2007. Occurrence, abundance, and notes on some threatened > Ecuadorian birds in Manglares Churute. Ornitologia Neotropical 18: 223-232 > > It would be much appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Eliot > Subject: Paper request (Pearman 1993, little known species from Colombia) From: Jorge Avendaño <javecuis AT YAHOO.COM.MX> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:45:31 -0700 Hi all, If anybody has a copy of the paper mentioned below, it would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jorge Pearman, M. 1993. Some range extensions and five species new to Colombia, with notes on some scarce or little known species. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 113: 66-75. Subject: Funds parrot conservation – final call/ Fon dos conservación de psitácidos- última lla mada From: David Waugh <lpf_director AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:57:28 -0700 LORO PARQUE FUNDACION SUPPORT FOR PARROT IN-SITU CONSERVATION AND RESEARCH PROJECTS- FINAL CALL The total funds awarded by the Loro Parque Fundación for projects beginning or continuing in 2010 have been €/EUR 850,000. NOTICE FOR APPLICATIONS FOR PROJECTS TO BEGIN IN 2011 The Loro Parque Fundación supports projects which have parrot species as their focus of attention. Its main interest is to utilise these projects to improve the conservation prospects of threatened parrots and to promote biodiversity conservation. The Loro Parque Fundación supports projects in two categories: A “Principal Projectsâ€�: these tend to be long-term and have a significant proactive input by the Loro Parque Fundación; budgets are usually above €/EUR 20,000 per annum. B â€�Small-scale grantsâ€�: created to address short-term parrot conservation research priorities, with a relatively small input by the Loro Parque Fundación. The total amount available every year for all projects of this type at present is €/EUR 25,000, and individual project budgets average €/EUR 4,000 per annum. Applications for projects to begin in 2011 will reviewed at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees and Advisors of the Loro Parque Fundación. To be included in the review, applications must be received by the Loro Parque Fundación by extended date of Monday 30th August 2010. For application forms and the Guidelines for Applicants, please go to the website: www.loroparque-fundacion.org/en or send an email to: environment AT loroparque-fundacion.org ************************************* LORO PARQUE FUNDACION FINANCIACION DE PROYECTOS DE CONSERVACIÓN E INVESTIGACIÓN IN SITU SOBRE LOROS - ULTIMA LLAMADA La cantidad total de fondos dirigidos a la financiación de proyectos en el año 2010 ha sido de 850.000 €. NOTIFICACIÓN DEL PLAZO DE RECEPCIÓN DE PROYECTOS PARA 2011 Loro Parque Fundación financia proyectos que tienen en su foco de atención los loros. Nuestro principal objetivo es que estos proyectos sirvan para mejorar el estado de conservación de las especies amenazadas de loros, así como para promover la conservación de la biodiversidad terrestre. Loro Parque Fundación financia proyectos en dos categorías: A "Proyectos Principales": Estos proyectos tienen objetivos a largo plazo y una implicación activa y significativa por parte de la Fundación. La financiación concedida suele estar por encima de los 20.000 € al año. B "Becas a pequeña escala": Creadas para atender demandas de conservación de loros a corto plazo, con una implicación menor por parte de Loro Parque Fundación. El total disponible para estos proyectos es actualmente de 25.000 € y las cantidades financiadas por proyecto son en promedio de unos 4.000 €. Las solicitudes para los proyectos que comiencen en 2011 serán revisadas en la reunión anual del Comité Científico de Loro Parque Fundación. Para que puedan ser incluidas en dicha revisión, las propuestas deben recibirse en Loro Parque Fundación antes de la nueva fecha del lunes 30 de agosto de 2010. Los formularios y las guías de solicitud pueden obtenerse en: www.loroparque-fundacion.org o por enviar un correo electrónico a environment AT loroparque-fundacion.org ************************************************************* Subject: reference request From: Eliot Miller <eliot.isaac AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:59:45 +1000 Hi all, Was wondering if someone could provide me with the reference: Alava et al. 2007. Occurrence, abundance, and notes on some threatened Ecuadorian birds in Manglares Churute. Ornitologia Neotropical 18: 223-232 It would be much appreciated. Thanks! Eliot Subject: Re: Request for a bibliographic reference From: Daniel Philippe <laurette.daniel AT ORANGE.FR> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:47:56 +0200 Hi Manuel, Lynch-Arribalzaga, Enrique 1902. Apuntes Ornitológicos. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 3 (1): 151-167. There : http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50863#171 Best, Daniel De : Bulletin Board for Ornithologists working with Neotropical Birds [mailto:NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU] De la part de Manuel Plenge Envoyé : lundi 16 août 2010 00:19 À : NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Objet : [NEOORN-L] Request for a bibliographic reference I have come across the following citation: Lynch-Arribalzaga 1902. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, (3), I, p. 166. I have searched the web but cannot find it. Could someone specially in Argentina advise me the full bibliographic reference (author full name, title, page numbers, etc.) Any information will be appreciated. Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru plenge.manuel AT gmail.com Subject: Request for a bibliographic reference From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:19:26 -0500 I have come across the following citation: Lynch-Arribalzaga 1902. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, (3), I, p. 166. I have searched the web but cannot find it. Could someone specially in Argentina advise me the full bibliographic reference (author full name, title, page numbers, etc.) Any information will be appreciated. Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru plenge.manuel AT gmail.com Subject: Insurance questions From: Ross Hawkins <humlist AT HUMMINGBIRDSOCIETY.ORG> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:11:30 -0700 Following the board meeting this past Monday, I called our regular insurance agent (with whom we have long had our general liability policy). I learned the following: Directors and Officers insurance requires a completion of a questionnaire, which I am working on. No estimate as to cost, but on the web I found a policy for NPO's--at $975. If the two estimates I am requesting are this high, that will be prohibitive. We'll see. Workman's Compensation policy--needed, now that we have two employees (I'm one of them). This will cost $211 a year. Ross Subject: NEOLIT: Ornitología Neotropical 21 (2) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:17:24 -0500 Neoorners, Herewith the references of papers in “Ornitología Neotropical” 21 (2). Please be advised that I do not include the Abstract, in view that these are not available for copy and paste in the web and for me it would be a bit time consuming to type them. However, I do include the author’s e-mail so you can request pdf’s if you need them. Please note that when the country where the research/investigation has been carried out is not mentioned in the title, I have included it in brackets. Manuel A. Plenge Lima, Peru Jenner, Tom 2010. Life history of the White-breasted Hawk (*Accipiter chionogaster*). Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 157-180. [Honduras and El Salvador] E-mail: jennertom AT hotmail.com Ibañez, Lucía, Claudia P. Tambussi, and Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche 2010. Análisis morfométrico del surco nasal en aves. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 181-194. E-mail: luciamibanez AT yahoo.com.ar del Rosario Avalos, Verónica 2010. Selección de sitios de anidación por la Palkachupa (*Phibalura flavirostris boliviana*, Cotingidae) en Bolivia. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 195-202. E-mail: veronikavalos AT gmail.com Brunetta, Bruno, and Luiz dos Anjos 2010. Variações na distribuição espacial e no grito social da gralha-picaça (*Cyanocorax chrysops*) na Mata Atlântica, sul do Brasil. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 203-213. E-mail: brbrunetta AT yahoo.com.br Berón, María Paula, and Marco Favero 2010. Monitoreo de la dieta de la Gaviota de Olrog (*Larus atlanticus*) en la Laguna Mar Chiquita (Buenos Aires, Argentina) durante el período no reproductivo. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 215-224. E-mail: mpb03 AT yahoo.com.ar Taylor, Joseph, and Oliver Komar 2010. The Ruddy-capped Nightingale-thrush (*Catharus frantzii*) in El Salvador: notes on the life history and ecology of two isolated populations. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 225-239. E-mail: joe.taylor AT birdlife.org Gantz, Alberto 2010. Winter food preference of Black-faced Ibis (*Theristicus melanopis* Gmelin 1789) in pastures of southern Chile. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 241-250. E-mail: agantz AT ulagos.cl Oliveira, Leonardo S. de, Livia M. S. Sousa, Paulo V. Davanço, and Mercival R. Francisco 2010. Breeding behaviour of the Lined Seedeater (*Sporophila lineola*) in southeastern Brazil. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 251-261. E-mail: mercival AT ufscar.br Juhant, Matías A. 2010. Austral spring migration counts of raptors in Punta Rasa, Argentina. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 263-270. E-mail: matias_juhant AT yahoo.com.ar González-Quevedo, Catalina, Brian C. Bock, and Juan Guillermo Lopera 2010. Genetic variability and structure of Oilbird (*Steatornis caripensis*) colonies in Antioquia, Colombia. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 271-281. E-mail: catagql AT yahoo.com Lizarralde, Zulma, Silvia Ferrari, Susana Pittaluga, and Carlos Albrieu 2010. Seasonal abundance and trophic ecology of the Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica) at Río Gallegos Estuary (Patagonia, Argentina. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 283-294. E-mail: zlizarralde AT uarg.unpa.edu.ar Strewe, Ralf, Carlos Villa-De León, and Jürgen Vega 2010. First reported nest of the Black-fronted Woodquail (*Odontophorus atrifrons*). Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 295=298. [Colombia] E-mail: rstrewe AT alpec.org Krüger, Lucas, and Maria Virginia Petry 2010. Black-and-white Monjita (*Xolmis dominicanus*) followed by the Saffron-cowled Blackbird (*Xanthopsar flavus*): statistical evidence. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 299-303. [Brazil] E-mail: vpetry AT unisinos.br Ramoni-Perazzi, Paolo, Guillermo Bianchi-Ballesteros, Luis Daniel Otero, Irma Alejandra Soto-Werschitz, and Guillermo Bianchi-Pérez 2010. Giant Cowbird (Molothrus oryzivora) as brood-parasite of the Green Jay (*Cyanocorax yncas*) in the Venezuelan Andes. Ornitología Neotropical, 21: 305-309. E-mail: rpaolo AT ula.ve Subject: Streak-capped Spinetail (Cranioleuca hellmayri) Venezuela From: "Diego Calderon-F." <tocsdiegocalderon AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:21:02 -0500 Hi all... I was wondering if the Streak-capped Spinetail has been recorded recently in the Venezuelan Perija Mountains or nearby?... thanks for any info! Hola a todos, sabe alguien si Cranioleuca hellmayri ha sido de nuevo registrado en el Perija Venezolano o en sitios cercanos?... gracias! Diego. -- Diego Calderon-Franco COLOMBIA Birding http://www.colombiabirding.com http://www.youtube.com/user/COLOMBIABirdingDiego http://www.flickr.com/photos/colombia_birding_diego/sets Subject: accomodation for the IOC / alojamiento IOC From: Juan Mazar Barnett <juanmbarg AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:03:00 -0300 Dears alls, sorry for the non-strictly-bird message. Is anyone on the list still looking for accomodation in Campos do Jordao during the IOC, or knows of someone needing a room? I have booked a room in a Pousada in town, and looking for someone to share with. Pleas contact me off the list. Thank you! Holas! alguien aún está buscando alojamiento durante el congreso? Tengo reservada una habitación en una pousada cerca del centro de convenciones. Si hay alguien interesado o conocen de alguien que lo esté, les agradezco mucho si me contactan en privado. Muchas gracias!! Juan Subject: Re: E-mail address request From: Jack Eitniear <jackeitniear AT YAHOO.COM> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:30:06 -0700 NEOORN READERS   Recent correspondence has resulted in a few bounced messages. Anyone that can provide current addresses for the following it would be apreciated. Off course please reply offlist.   Lury de Almedia Accordi (Brazil-RS), Peter Neusser (USA-New York),Marc Robbins (USA-Kansas), W. Douglas W. Robinson (USA-Oregon).   Thanks in advance Jack Jack Clinton Eitniear jce AT cstbinc.org www.cstbinc.org       Editor/Texas Ornithological Society Publications Editorial Committee/The Wilson Journal of Ornithology Editorial Committee/Ornitologia Neotropical Editorial Committee/International Journal of Galliformes Conservation "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave" Dakota Indian Saying --- On Tue, 8/10/10, Diego Calderon-F. wrote: From: Diego Calderon-F. Subject: [NEOORN-L] Little known and Seldom seen birds To: NEOORN-L AT LISTSERV.LSU.EDU Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 3:00 PM Cortesía de Juan Mazar Barnett! - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=181440&id=689746977&l=25ec795e7a Courtesy of Juan Mazar Barnett! - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=181440&id=689746977&l=25ec795e7a -- Diego Calderon-Franco COLOMBIA Birding http://www.colombiabirding.com http://www.youtube.com/user/COLOMBIABirdingDiego http://www.flickr.com/photos/colombia_birding_diego/sets Subject: Little known and Seldom seen birds From: "Diego Calderon-F." <tocsdiegocalderon AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:21 -0500 Cortesía de Juan Mazar Barnett! - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=181440&id=689746977&l=25ec795e7a Courtesy of Juan Mazar Barnett! - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=181440&id=689746977&l=25ec795e7a -- Diego Calderon-Franco COLOMBIA Birding http://www.colombiabirding.com http://www.youtube.com/user/COLOMBIABirdingDiego http://www.flickr.com/photos/colombia_birding_diego/sets Subject: Sad news: Jacques Vielliard From: "Vitor de Q. Piacentini" <rupornis AT YAHOO.COM.BR> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:54:47 -0700 Dear all, I'm sorry to inform that Professor Jacques Vielliard died yesterday night in Belém, Brazil, at 65. All (the little) I know came from the press/media. Apparently he had complications after a surgery in the stomach or digestive tract. Vítor Piacentini Subject: NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 2 - Addendum to previous message From: Fabio Raposo <fabioraposo AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:33:42 -0300 Many thanks to Manuel Plenge for indicating that this interesting paper was missing in the original message. Please contact the authors for PDFs. ------------------------------------------------------------ Saving Darwin's muse: evolutionary genetics for the recovery of the Floreana mockingbird Paquita E. A. Hoeck1,*, Mark A. Beaumont2, Karen E. James3, Rosemary B. Grant4, Peter R. Grant4 and Lukas F. Keller1 + Author Affiliations 1Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland 2School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6BX, UK 3Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK 4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA *Author for correspondence (paquitahoeck AT access.uzh.ch). Abstract The distribution of mockingbird species among the Galápagos Islands prompted Charles Darwin to question, for the first time in writing, the 'stability of species'. Some 50 years after Darwin's visit, however, the endemic Floreana mockingbird (Mimus trifasciatus) had become extinct on Floreana Island and, today, only two small populations survive on two satellite islets. As Darwin noted, rarity often precedes extinction. To avert extinction, plans are being developed to reintroduce M. trifasciatus to Floreana. Here, we integrate evolutionary thinking and conservation practice using coalescent analyses and genetic data from contemporary and museum samples, including two collected by Darwin and Robert Fitzroy on Floreana in 1835. Our microsatellite results show substantial differentiation between the two extant populations, but our coalescence-based modelling does not indicate long, independent evolutionary histories. One of the populations is highly inbred, but both harbour unique alleles present on Floreana in 1835, suggesting that birds from both islets should be used to establish a single, mixed population on Floreana. Thus, Darwin's mockingbird specimens not only revealed to him a level of variation that suggested speciation following geographical isolation but also, more than 170 years later, return important information to their place of origin for the conservation of their conspecifics. ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Fábio Sarubbi Raposo do Amaral Postdoctoral fellow Universidade de São Paulo Depto. de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. Rua do Matão, 277. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05508-090. http://sites.google.com/site/fabioraposoamaral/ Subject: Re: seeking for a pdf From: Ellen Paul <ellen.paul AT VERIZON.NET> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:14:00 -0400 Sent. Ellen Paul Executive Director The Ornithological Council Email: ellen.paul AT verizon.net "Providing Scientific Information about Birds" http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET" On 8/10/10 7:02 AM, Mauro Guimarães Diniz wrote: > dear friends > I wonder if someone could help me with this pdf: > Remsen, J. V., Jr. (1995) The importance of continued collecting of > bird specimens to ornithology and bird conservation. Bird Conserv. > Intern. 5:145-180. > thanks in advance > cheers > Mauro > > -- > Mauro Guimarães Diniz > +55 31 9956.4831 > Endereço skipe: mauro.diniz.fauna.ibamamg > > > "Todo caminho da gente é resvaloso. > Mas, também, cair não prejudica demais - a gente levanta, > a gente sobe, a gente volta." > (João Guimarães Rosa) > > Antes de imprimir esta mensagem pense na sua responsabilidade com o > meio ambiente. > > As informacoes contidas nesta mensagem e nos arquivos anexados sao > para uso > exclusivo do destinatario aqui indicado e podem conter assuntos > comerciais, de > propriedade intelectual ou outras informacoes confidenciais, > protegidas pelas leis > aplicaveis. > Caso nao seja o destinatario correto, por favor, notifique o remetente > imediatamente e elimine esta mensagem, uma vez que qualquer revisao, > leitura, > copia e, ou divulgacao do conteudo desta mensagem sao estritamente > proibidas > e nao autorizadas. > Obrigado por sua cooperacao. > The information contained in this message and the attached files are > restricted to > the addressee, and may contain commercial information, copyright, or other > confidential information protected by law. > If you are not the recipient, please notify the sender immediately and > delete it > from you system, since any change, reading, copy and, or dissemination > of this > e-mail is strictly prohibited by and not authorized. > Thank you. Subject: seeking for a pdf From: Mauro Guimarães Diniz <mauro.diniz AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:02:13 -0300 dear friends I wonder if someone could help me with this pdf: Remsen, J. V., Jr. (1995) The importance of continued collecting of bird specimens to ornithology and bird conservation. Bird Conserv. Intern. 5:145-180. thanks in advance cheers Mauro -- Mauro Guimarães Diniz +55 31 9956.4831 Endereço skipe: mauro.diniz.fauna.ibamamg "Todo caminho da gente é resvaloso. Mas, também, cair não prejudica demais - a gente levanta, a gente sobe, a gente volta." (João Guimarães Rosa) Antes de imprimir esta mensagem pense na sua responsabilidade com o meio ambiente. As informacoes contidas nesta mensagem e nos arquivos anexados sao para uso exclusivo do destinatario aqui indicado e podem conter assuntos comerciais, de propriedade intelectual ou outras informacoes confidenciais, protegidas pelas leis aplicaveis. Caso nao seja o destinatario correto, por favor, notifique o remetente imediatamente e elimine esta mensagem, uma vez que qualquer revisao, leitura, copia e, ou divulgacao do conteudo desta mensagem sao estritamente proibidas e nao autorizadas. Obrigado por sua cooperacao. The information contained in this message and the attached files are restricted to the addressee, and may contain commercial information, copyright, or other confidential information protected by law. If you are not the recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from you system, since any change, reading, copy and, or dissemination of this e-mail is strictly prohibited by and not authorized. Thank you. Subject: ovary size in female Coccyzus From: Olivier Claessens <oclaessens2 AT ORANGE.FR> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 23:00:30 +0200 Dear NEOORNers, I'm sure some of you have some experience with dissection of birds. I'm interested in gonad development details given on the label of a museum specimen. The bird is a female Coccyzus cuckoo, and the label mentions: Gonads: 14x10mm, lo 2.5mm, ovid enlarg The question is: Does this indicate with certainty that the bird was breeding? Or can a migrant cuckoo collected during migration prior to breeding, exhibit such ovary development? (and incidentaly, what does "lo 2.5mm" mean?). Thanks for any help. Cheers, Olivier Claessens Subject: First call for contributions to the IX Neotropical Ornithological Congress, Cusco, Peru 2011 From: "Jose G. Tello" <jtello AT AMNH.ORG> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:29:05 -0400 >>>>ENGLISH VERSION IXth Neotropical Ornithological Congress, Cusco, Perú, November 8 – 14, 2011 CALL FOR PLENARY SPEAKERS - deadline September 20, 2010 - SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS and ROUND-TABLES - deadline November 30, 2010 - The Neotropical Ornithological Society (NOS) and the Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú (UNOP) are pleased to announce the IXth Neotropical Ornithological Congress (NOC), in parallel with the VIII Peruvian Ornithological Congress. Both meetings will be held in Cusco, Perú, from November 8-14, 2011. The Co-chairs of the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) invite ornithologists working in the Neotropics to submit proposals (in English or Spanish) for plenary speakers, symposia, workshops and round-tables. PLENARY SPEAKERS Suggestions for plenary speakers should include a brief statement of support emphasizing the relevance of the proposed speaker’s research to the shaping of current Neotropical ornithological knowledge. Five plenary speakers will be selected. Presentations may be given in either Spanish or English. SYMPOSIA Suggestions for symposia should address new topics or significant syntheses of major avian research fields conducted in the Neotropics. Symposia will be chaired by one convener and one co-convener and will be organized in 2-hr blocks. Each symposium will consist of a 10-min introduction, five presentations of 20 min each, and a 10-min conclusion. Each speaker will have 15 min for presenting and 5 min for questions. A total of 18 symposia will be accepted. Requests for symposia must be submitted by conveners or co-conveners, and should include a one/two-page synopsis (English or Spanish) with details on goal and purpose, a tentative list of speakers, titles of their contributions, their addresses, and a note regarding whether they have agreed to participate. Symposium talks may be given in Spanish or English. Symposia papers, if properly reviewed, corrected and delivered on due time, will be published in the Proceedings. Symposia organizers will be notified of the decision of the SPC by December 10, 2010. WORKSHOPS, ROUND-TABLES AND OTHER CONFERENCE MEETINGS Proposals for one- or one and a half-hour workshops and round-tables will also be considered. Workshops should concentrate on discussions of new concepts or methods. Round-tables should cover new or controversial issues. Organizers should provide a one-page synopsis that includes a title, name and contact information of organizer(s), goal or purpose, structure, expected number of participants and particular facilities needed. Other requests by specific interest groups, or societies, should also be submitted to the SPC for scheduling and allocation of meeting rooms to minimize overlap with other activities of the Congress. Proponents of workshops and round-tables will be informed of the decision of the SPC by December 10, 2010. PROCEEDINGS The full texts of Plenary and Symposium presentations (excluding introductory and concluding remarks), properly peer-reviewed and delivered on due time, will be published in the Proceedings of the IXth Neotropical Ornithological Congress, as a supplement to the respective Volume of Ornitología Neotropical, the Quarterly Journal of the Neotropical Ornithological Society. A maximum of approximately 8-15 printed pages (including tables, figures, and references) will be devoted to each Plenary and Symposium paper, respectively. DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS The deadline for suggestions of plenary speakers is SEPTEMBER 20, 2010. The deadline for submission of proposed symposia, workshops, and round-tables is NOVEMBER 30, 2010. Symposium, workshop and round-table organizers will be notified by 10 December, 2010 of whether their proposal is accepted. Scientific Program Committee: Jose G. Tello Scientific Program Co-chair jose.tello AT liu.edu Department of Biology Long Island University Brooklyn, NY 11201 U.S.A. Thomas Valqui Scientific Program Co-chair tvalqui AT corbidi.org Secretary of the Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú (UNOP) Submit proposals by e-mail (in Word format, font size 12) to both Co-chairs of the Scientific Committee. PLEASE NOTE that the general call for oral communications and posters will be sent out later in 2010. Submission will take place from JANUARY 30, 2011 TO APRIL 30, 2011, through the web page of the Congress. All participants must be registered. Registration will open on JANUARY 30, 2010. Registration can be made after acceptance of the contribution. For additional information about the Congress a web site will be available by August 24, 2010. >>>>SPANISH VERSION IX Congreso de Ornitología Neotropical, Cusco, Perú, Noviembre 8 – 14, 2011 PRIMERA CONVOCATORIA PARA CONFERENCISTAS MAGISTRALES – fecha límite: Setiembre 20, 2010 SYMPOSIA, TALLERES Y MESAS REDONDAS – fecha límite: Noviembre 30, 2010 La Neotropical Ornithological Society (NOS) y la Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú (UNOP) se complacen en anunciar el IX Congreso de Ornitología Neotropical (CON) en paralelo con el VIII Congreso Peruano de Ornitología. Ambas reuniones se llevarán a cabo en Cusco, Perú, del 8 al 14 de Noviembre del 2011. Los Co-presidentes del Programa Científico (CPC) invitan a los ornitólogos que trabajan en el Neotrópico a presentar propuestas (en inglés o español) para conferencistas magistrales, simposia, talleres y mesas redondas. CONFERENCISTAS MAGISTRALES Las sugerencias para conferencistas magistrales deben incluir una breve declaración de apoyo destacando la importancia del área de investigación del expositor en la formación de los conocimientos actuales en Ornitología Neotropical. Se seleccionará cinco conferencistas magistrales. Las presentaciones podrán llevarse a cabo en español o en inglés. SIMPOSIA Las sugerencias para simposia deben abordar nuevos temas o síntesis significativas de las áreas principales de investigación ornitológica llevadas a cabo en el Neotrópico. Los simposia deberán ser presididas por un coordinador y un co-coordinador y deben organizarse en bloques de 2 horas. Cada simposium consistirá de una introducción de 10 minutos, cinco presentaciones de 20 minutos cada una, y una conclusión de 10 minutos. Cada ponente tendrá 15 minutos para la presentación y 5 minutos para preguntas. Un total de 18 simposia serán aceptados. Las solicitudes de simposia deberán ser presentadas por los organizadores u co-organizadores, y deben incluir un resumen de dos páginas (inglés o español) con los detalles del objetivo y finalidad, una lista provisional de expositores, los títulos de sus contribuciones, sus direcciones de contacto y una nota comunicando si estos ya han aceptado participar. Las presentaciones podrán dictarse en español o inglés. Los textos de las presentaciones, después de ser debidamente revisados y entregados en la fecha límite establecida, serán publicados en las memorias del congreso. Los organizadores de simposia serán notificados de la decisión del CPC a partir del 10 de diciembre del 2010. TALLERES, MESAS REDONDAS Y OTRAS REUNIONES Se considerara propuestas de talleres y mesas redondas de una hora y hora y media de duración. Los talleres deben concentrarse en discusiones de nuevos conceptos o métodos. Las mesas redondas deben tratar temas nuevos y/o controversiales. Los organizadores deben proporcionar una sinopsis de una página que incluya el título, nombre y datos de contacto del organizador(s), objetivo o propósito, estructura, número esperado de participantes y cualquier facilidad especial que se necesite. Otras solicitudes de grupos de interés específicos o sociedades, deben también ser enviadas al CPC para su programación y asignación de salas de reuniones a fin de minimizar cualquier conflicto con otras actividades del Congreso. Los organizadores de talleres y mesas redondas serán informados de la decisión del CPC a partir del 10 de diciembre de 2010. MEMORIAS Los textos completos de las conferencias magistrales y simposia (con exclusión de los comentarios de introducción y conclusión), después de ser debidamente revisados y entregados en la fecha límite establecida, serán publicados en las memorias del IX Congreso de Ornitología Neotropical, como suplemento del volumen correspondiente de Ornitología Neotropical, la revista trimestral de la Sociedad de Ornitología Neotropical. Un máximo de 8-15 páginas impresas (incluyendo tablas, figuras y referencias) serán dedicadas a cada conferencia magistral y ponencia de Simposia, respectivamente. PLAZOS DE PRESENTACIÓN DE LAS PROPUESTAS La fecha límite para las sugerencias de conferencistas magistrales es el 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DEL 2010. La fecha límite para la presentación de propuestas para simposia, talleres y mesas redondas es el 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DEL 2010. Los organizadores de Simposia, talleres y mesas redondas serán notificados a partir del 10 de diciembre del 2010, o cuando su propuesta sea aceptada. Comité del Programa Científico: Jose G. Tello Co-presidente del Programa Científico jose.tello AT liu.edu Department of Biology Long Island University Brooklyn, NY 11201 U.S.A. Thomas Valqui Co-presidente del Programa Científico tvalqui AT corbidi.org Secretario de la Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú (UNOP) Envíe sus propuestas for correo electrónico (en formato Word, tamaño de fuente 12) a los dos co-presidentes del Comité Científico. POR FAVOR TENGA EN CUENTA que la convocatoria general de comunicaciones orales y posters se hará posteriormente a finales del 2010. Los envíos tendrán lugar del 30 DE ENERO DEL 2011 AL 30 DE ABRIL DEL 2011, a través de la página web del Congreso. Todos los participantes deben estar registrados. El registro se abrirá el 30 DE ENERO DEL 2010. El registro puede hacerse después de la aceptación de la contribución. Información adicional sobre el Congreso podrá ser obtenida en un sitio web que estará disponible a partir del 24 de agosto del 2010. Jose G. Tello Assistant Professor Department of Biology Long Island University 1 University Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 718-488-1470; Fax: 718-488-1465 E-mail: jose.tello AT liu.edu & Research Associate Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Phone: 212-769-5579; Fax: 212-769-5759 E-mail: jtello AT amnh.org Subject: Seeking Ecuadorian research assistant--maybe From: "candr1 AT i-bird.com" <candr1@I-BIRD.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 20:44:15 -0700 Greetings: This is a tentative look at the possibility of having an Ecuadorian undergraduate student working as a research assistant on the Galapagos. The project is NSF funded and there are negotiations with the Darwin station for permissions to work with marine iguanas. I realize that this is not dealing with birds, but am posting this in case someone might know of an interested individual for this project. It is a requirement that an Ecuadorian assist in research done on the islands. As yet details of length of stay (perhaps a month), travel from the mainland, stipend and living expenses are not at all known at the moment, but progress is being made so that the probability that the project will move forward is increasing. I am not the primary investigator, but am helping this person with the details of the project. Mainly, what I am asking is how to go about trying to locate possible candidates for this position. Any help or ideas will be appreciated. Cheers, Richard Tkachuck, PhD Please contact me personally at: richardtkachuck AT gmail.com ---------------------------------------- Subject: Phil Trans R Soc B, vol. 365, issues 1543-1553 From: Fabio Raposo <fabioraposo AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:27:58 -0300 For PDFs, please contact the authors. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B 'Darwin's Galapagos finches in modern biology': Vol. 365, No. 1543 Darwin's Galápagos finches in modern biology Arhat Abzhanov abzhanov AT fas.harvard.edu Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1001-1007 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1001 Multilocus genotypes from Charles Darwin's finches: biodiversity lost since the voyage of the Beagle Kenneth Petren, Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, Andrew A. Clack, and Ninnia V. Lescano ken.petren AT uc.edu Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1009-1018 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1009 How to save the rarest Darwin's finch from extinction: the mangrove finch on Isabela Island Birgit Fessl, Glyn H. Young, Richard P. Young, Jorge Rodríguez-Matamoros, Michael Dvorak, Sabine Tebbich, and John E. Fa glyn.young AT durrell.org Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1019-1030 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1019 Acoustic discrimination of sympatric morphs in Darwin's finches: a behavioural mechanism for assortative mating? Jeffrey Podos jpodos AT bio.umass.edu Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1031-1039 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1031 Divergence with gene flow as facilitated by ecological differences: within-island variation in Darwin's finches Luis Fernando de León, Eldredge Bermingham, Jeffrey Podos, and Andrew P. Hendry luis.deleonreyna AT mail.mcgill.ca Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1041-1052 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1041 Evolution of sexual dimorphism in bill size and shape of hermit hummingbirds (Phaethornithinae): a role for ecological causation Ethan J. Temeles, Jill S. Miller, and Joanna L. Rifkin ejtemeles AT amherst.edu Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1053-1063 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1053 Conspecific versus heterospecific gene exchange between populations of Darwin's finches Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant prgrant AT princeton.edu Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1065-1076 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1065 Mechanical stress, fracture risk and beak evolution in Darwin's ground finches (Geospiza) Joris Soons, Anthony Herrel, Annelies Genbrugge, Peter Aerts, Jeffrey Podos, Dominique Adriaens, Yoni de Witte, Patric Jacobs, and Joris Dirckx anthony.herrel AT mnhn.fr Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1093-1098 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1093 The tale of the finch: adaptive radiation and behavioural flexibility Sabine Tebbich, Kim Sterelny, and Irmgard Teschke sabine.tebbich AT univie.ac.at Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1099-1109 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1099 The beak of the other finch: coevolution of genetic covariance structure and developmental modularity during adaptive evolution Alexander V. Badyaev abadyaev AT email.arizona.edu Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1111-1126 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1111 Differentiation with drift: a spatio-temporal genetic analysis of Galápagos mockingbird populations (Mimus spp.) Paquita E. A. Hoeck, Jennifer L. Bollmer, Patricia G. Parker, and Lukas F. Keller paquitahoeck AT access.uzh.ch Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1127-1138 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1127 Host-pathogen coevolution, secondary sympatry and species diversification Robert E. Ricklefs ricklefs AT umsl.edu Phil Trans R Soc B 2010;365 1139-1147 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/365/1543/1139 ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'The population genetics of mutations: good, bad and indifferent': Vol. 365, No. 1544 No articles of interest. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'Maximum entropy production in ecological and environmental systems: applications and implications': Vol. 365, No. 1545 No articles of interest. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'The biology and regulation of spermatogenesis': Vol. 365, No. 1546 No articles of interest. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'Origin of Species: 150 years later': Vol. 365, No. 1547 No articles directly related to Neotropical birds, but very interesting issue for those interested in evolutionary biology. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'New experimental and theoretical approaches towards the understanding of the emergence of viral infections' : Vol. 365, No. 1548 No articles of interest. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'The effects of climate change on biotic interactions and ecosystem services': Vol. 365, No. 1549 No articles of interest. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'Challenges and opportunities of using GPS-based location data in animal ecology': Vol. 365, 1550. No articles of interest. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme Issue 'Neuronal network analyses: progress, problems, and uncertainties': Vol. 365, No. 1551 No articles of interest. ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B 'Genetics and the causes of evolution: 150 years of progress since Darwin': Vol. 365, No. 1552 No article of interest (but worth a look for those interested in evolutionary biology). ------------------------ *Phil Trans R Soc B Theme issue 'Cooperation and deception: from evolution to mechanisms': Vol. 365, No. 1553 No articles of interest. ------------------------ Dr. Fábio Sarubbi Raposo do Amaral Postdoctoral fellow Universidade de São Paulo Depto. de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. Rua do Matão, 277. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05508-090. http://sites.google.com/site/fabioraposoamaral/ Subject: NEOLIT: Proc R Soc B vol. 277, issues 1684 From: Fabio Raposo <fabioraposo AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:54:38 -0300 For reprints, please contact the authors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two pulses of diversification across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in a montane Mexican bird fauna B. R. Barber1,* and J. Klicka2 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA 2Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA *Author and address for correspondence: Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, 401 WIDB, Provo, UT 84602, USA (brbarber76 AT gmail.com). Abstract Understanding the evolutionary history of the species in a particular region provides insights into how that fauna was formed. Of particular interest to biogeographers is examining the impact a geographical barrier had in generating temporal genetic diversity among codistributed species. We examined the impact a major New World barrier, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (IT) in southern Mexico, had on a regional bird fauna. Specifically, genetic data from 10 montane-forest bird taxa were analysed using approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) to test the hypothesis of simultaneous intraspecific diversification at the IT. Because effective population size (Ne) has the greatest impact on coalescent times, thereby affecting tests of divergence among codistributed taxa, we chose priors for both current and ancestral Ne using empirical estimates of theta. The ABC method detected two discrete diversification events. Subsequent analysis with the number of diversification events constrained to two suggests that four taxa diverged in an older event, with the remaining six diverging more recently. Application of a range of mutation rates from 2.0 to 5.0% Myr?1 places both events within the Pleistocene or Late Pliocene, suggesting that fluctuations in montane habitat induced by climate cycles and a late Pliocene seaway may have fractured this montane bird fauna. The results presented here suggest this avian fauna responded in a relatively concerted fashion over the last several million years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Fábio Sarubbi Raposo do Amaral Postdoctoral fellow Universidade de São Paulo Depto. de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. Rua do Matão, 277. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05508-090. http://sites.google.com/site/fabioraposoamaral/ Subject: NEOLIT: Proc R Soc B vol. 277, issues 1683-1693 From: Fabio Raposo <fabioraposo AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:52:16 -0300 For reprints, please contact the authors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1683 Resonating feathers produce courtship song Kimberly S. Bostwick1,*, Damian O. Elias2,?, Andrew Mason2 and Fernando Montealegre-Z3 + Author Affiliations 1Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA 2University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON M1C-1A4, Canada 3School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK *Author for correspondence (ksb6 AT cornell.edu). Abstract Male Club-winged Manakins, Machaeropterus deliciosus (Aves: Pipridae), produce a sustained tonal sound with specialized wing feathers. The fundamental frequency of the sound produced in nature is approximately 1500 Hz and is hypothesized to result from excitation of resonance in the feathers' hypertrophied shafts. We used laser Doppler vibrometry to determine the resonant properties of male Club-winged Manakin's wing feathers, as well as those of two unspecialized manakin species. The modified wing feathers exhibit a response peak near 1500 Hz, and unusually high Q-values (a measure of resonant tuning) for biological objects (Q up to 27). The unmodified wing feathers of the Club-winged Manakin do not exhibit strong resonant properties when measured in isolation. However, when measured still attached to the modified feathers (nine feathers held adjacent by an intact ligament), they resonate together as a unit near 1500 Hz, and the wing produces a second harmonic of similar or greater amplitude than the fundamental. The feathers of the control species also exhibit resonant peaks around 1500 Hz, but these are significantly weaker, the wing does not resonate as a unit and no harmonics are produced. These results lend critical support to the resonant stridulation hypothesis of sound production in M. deliciosus. ------------------ Birds adjust acoustic directionality to beam their antipredator calls to predators and conspecifics Jessica L. Yorzinski* and Gail L. Patricelli + Author Affiliations Department of Evolution and Ecology and Animal Behavior Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA *Author for correspondence (jyorzinski AT ucdavis.edu). Abstract Animals in many vertebrate species vocalize in response to predators, but it is often unclear whether these antipredator calls function to communicate with predators, conspecifics or both. We evaluated the function of antipredator calls in 10 species of passerines by measuring the acoustic directionality of these calls in response to experimental presentations of a model predator. Acoustic directionality quantifies the radiation pattern of vocalizations and may provide evidence about the receiver of these calls. We predicted that antipredator calls would have a lower directionality if they function to communicate with surrounding conspecifics, and a higher directionality and aimed at the receiver if they function to communicate with the predator. Our results support both of these functions. Overall, the birds produce antipredator calls that have a relatively low directionality, suggesting that the calls radiate in many directions to alert conspecifics. However, birds in some species increase the directionality of their calls when facing the predator. They can even direct their calls towards the predator when facing lateral to it-effectively vocalizing sideways towards the predator. These results suggest that antipredator calls in some species are used to communicate both to conspecifics and to predators, and that birds adjust the directionality of their calls with remarkable sophistication according to the context in which they are used. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1684 Foraging in an oxidative environment: relationship between ?13C values and oxidative status in Adélie penguins Michaël Beaulieu*, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Yvon Le Maho, André Ancel and François Criscuolo + Author Affiliations Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, CNRS-UdS, 23 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg, France *Author for correspondence (michael.beaulieu AT c-strasbourg.fr). Abstract The alternation of short/coastal and long/pelagic foraging trips has been proposed as a strategy for seabirds to reconcile self-feeding and parental care. Both types of foraging trips may result in different foraging efforts and diet qualities, and consequently are likely to modify the oxidative status of seabirds. We examined the relationship between the oxidative status of Adélie penguins and (i) the duration of their foraging trips and (ii) their plasma ?13C values reflecting their spatial distribution. The oxidative status did not correlate with the foraging trip duration but with the ?13C values: high values being associated with high levels of oxidative damage. This relationship is likely to be related to the prey properties of penguins as both parameters are largely determined by the diet. Two non-exclusive hypotheses can be proposed to explain this relationship: (i) penguins foraging in coastal areas feed on a diet enriched in 13C and depleted in antioxidant compounds; (ii) birds with low antioxidant capacity are constrained to forage in coastal areas. Our study is the first to show that the adoption of different foraging strategies is associated with different levels of oxidative stress. However, further studies are needed to investigate the underlying mechanisms of this intriguing relationship. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1685 No articles of interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1686 Corticosterone, testosterone and life-history strategies of birds Michaela Hau1,2,*, Robert E. Ricklefs3, Martin Wikelski1,2, Kelly A. Lee4 and Jeffrey D. Brawn5 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Migration and Immuno-ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Schlossallee 1a, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA 3Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA 4Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA 5Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1102 Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61821, USA *Author for correspondence (mhau AT orn.mpg.de). Abstract Steroid hormones have similar functions across vertebrates, but circulating concentrations can vary dramatically among species. We examined the hypothesis that variation in titres of corticosterone (Cort) and testosterone (T) is related to life-history traits of avian species. We predicted that Cort would reach higher levels under stress in species with higher annual adult survival rates since Cort is thought to promote physiological and behavioural responses that reduce risk to the individual. Conversely, we predicted that peak T during the breeding season would be higher in short-lived species with high mating effort as this hormone is known to promote male fecundity traits. We quantified circulating hormone concentrations and key life-history traits (annual adult survival rate, breeding season length, body mass) in males of free-living bird species during the breeding season at a temperate site (northern USA) and a tropical site (central Panama). We analysed our original data by themselves, and also combined with published data on passerine birds to enhance sample size. In both approaches, variation in baseline Cort (Cort0) among species was inversely related to breeding season length and body mass. Stress-induced corticosterone (MaxCort) also varied inversely with body mass and, as predicted, also varied positively with annual adult survival rates. Furthermore, species from drier and colder environments exhibited lower MaxCort than mesic and tropical species; T was lowest in species from tropical environments. These findings suggest that Cort0, MaxCort and T modulate key vertebrate life-history responses to the environment, with Cort0 supporting energetically demanding processes, MaxCort promoting survival and T being related to mating success. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1687 Mate choice and mate competition by a tropical hummingbird at a floral resource Ethan J. Temeles1,* and W. John Kress2 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, USA 2Department of Botany, MRC-166, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA * Author for correspondence (ejtemeles AT amherst.edu). Abstract The influence of male territorial and foraging behaviours on female choice has received little attention in studies of resource-defence mating systems even though such male behaviours are thought to affect variation in their territory quality and mating success. Here we show that female purple-throated carib hummingbirds Eulampis jugularis preferred to mate with males that had high standing crops of nectar on their flower territories. A male's ability to maintain high nectar standing crops on his territory not only depended on the number of flowers in his territory, but also on his ability to enhance his territory through the prevention of nectar losses to intruders. We observed that males defended nectar supplies that were two to five times greater than their daily energy needs and consistently partitioned their territories in order to provide some resources to attract intruding females as potential mates. Such territorial behaviour resulted in males defending some flowers for their own food and other flowers as food for intruding females. Collectively, our results suggest that variation in mating success among males is driven primarily by variation in territory quality, which ultimately depends on a male's fighting ability and size. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1688 No articles of interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1689 Experimental cooling during incubation leads to reduced innate immunity and body condition in nestling tree swallows Daniel R. Ardia1,*, Jonathan H. Pérez2 and Ethan D. Clotfelter2 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Biology, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, USA 2Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, USA *Author for correspondence (daniel.ardia AT fandm.edu). Abstract Nest microclimate can have strong effects that can carry over to later life-history stages. We experimentally cooled the nests of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Females incubating in cooled nests reduced incubation time and allowed egg temperatures to drop, leading to extended incubation periods. We partially cross-fostered nestlings to test carry-over effects of cooling during incubation on nestling innate constitutive immunity, assessed through bacteria killing ability (BKA) of blood. Nestlings that had been cooled as eggs showed a lower ability to kill bacteria than control nestlings, regardless of the treatment of their foster mother. However, there was no effect of treatment of rearing females on nestling BKA in control nestlings, even though cooled females made significantly fewer feeding visits than did control females. This suggests that the effect of cooling occurred during incubation and was not due to carry-over effects on nestling condition. Nestlings that were exposed to experimental cooling as embryos had lower residual body mass and absolute body mass at all four ages measured. Our results indicate that environmental conditions and trade-offs experienced during one stage of development can have important carry-over effects on later life-history stages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1690 No articles of interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1691 Bone density and the lightweight skeletons of birds Elizabeth R. Dumont* + Author Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 221 Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003, USA *bdumont AT bio.umass.edu Abstract The skeletons of birds are universally described as lightweight as a result of selection for minimizing the energy required for flight. From a functional perspective, the weight (mass) of an animal relative to its lift-generating surfaces is a key determinant of the metabolic cost of flight. The evolution of birds has been characterized by many weight-saving adaptations that are reflected in bone shape, many of which strengthen and stiffen the skeleton. Although largely unstudied in birds, the material properties of bone tissue can also contribute to bone strength and stiffness. In this study, I calculated the density of the cranium, humerus and femur in passerine birds, rodents and bats by measuring bone mass and volume using helium displacement. I found that, on average, these bones are densest in birds, followed closely by bats. As bone density increases, so do bone stiffness and strength. Both of these optimization criteria are used in the design of strong and stiff, but lightweight, manmade airframes. By analogy, increased bone density in birds and bats may reflect adaptations for maximizing bone strength and stiffness while minimizing bone mass and volume. These data suggest that both bone shape and the material properties of bone tissue have played important roles in the evolution of flight. They also reconcile the conundrum of how bird skeletons can appear to be thin and delicate, yet contribute just as much to total body mass as do the skeletons of terrestrial mammals. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1692 No articles of interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Proc R Soc B Vol. 277, No. 1693 Character displacement from the receiver's perspective: species and mate recognition despite convergent signals in suboscine birds Nathalie Seddon and Joseph A. Tobias* + Author Affiliations Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK *Author for correspondence (joseph.tobias AT zoo.ox.ac.uk). Abstract Many social animals use long-distance signals to attract mates and defend territories. They face the twin challenges of discriminating between species to identify conspecific mates, and between individuals to recognize collaborators and competitors. It is therefore often assumed that long-distance signals are under strong selection for species-specificity and individual distinctiveness, and that this will drive character displacement when closely related species meet, particularly in noisy environments. However, the occurrence of signal stereotypy and convergence in rainforest species seems to contradict these ideas, and raises the question of whether receivers in these systems can recognize species or individuals by long-distance signals alone. Here, we test for acoustically mediated recognition in two sympatric antbird species that are known to have convergent songs. We show that male songs are stereotyped yet individually distinctive, and we use playback experiments to demonstrate that females can discriminate not only between conspecific and heterospecific males, but between mates and strangers. These findings provide clear evidence that stereotypy and convergence in male signals can be accommodated by fine tuning of perceptual abilities in female receivers, suggesting that the evolutionary forces driving divergent character displacement in animal signals are weaker than is typically assumed. --------------- Storms drive altitudinal migration in a tropical bird W. Alice Boyle1,2,*, D. Ryan Norris2 and Christopher G. Guglielmo1 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 2Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 *Author for correspondence (aboyle7 AT uwo.ca). Abstract Although migration is a widespread and taxonomically diverse behaviour, the ecological factors shaping migratory behaviour are poorly understood. Like other montane taxa, many birds migrate along elevational gradients in the tropics. Forty years ago, Alexander Skutch postulated that severe storms could drive birds to migrate downhill. Here, we articulate a novel mechanism that could link storms to mortality risks via reductions in foraging time and provide, to our knowledge, the first tests of this hypothesis in the White-ruffed Manakin (Corapipo altera), a small partially migratory frugivore breeding on the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica. As predicted, variation in rainfall was associated with plasma corticosterone levels, fat stores, plasma metabolites and haematocrit. By collecting data at high and low elevation sites simultaneously, we also found that high-elevation residents were more adversely affected by storms than low elevation migrants. These results, together with striking temporal capture patterns of altitudinal migrants relative to storms, provide, to our knowledge, the first evidence that weather-related risks incurred by species requiring high food intake rates can explain altitudinal migrations of tropical animals. These findings resolve conflicting evidence for and against food limitation being important in the evolution of this behaviour, and highlight how endogenous and exogenous processes influence life-history trade-offs made by individuals in the wild. Because seasonal storms are a defining characteristic of most tropical ecosystems and rainfall patterns will probably change in ensuing decades, these results have important implications for understanding the ecology, evolution and conservation of tropical animals. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Fábio Sarubbi Raposo do Amaral Postdoctoral fellow Universidade de São Paulo Depto. de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. Rua do Matão, 277. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05508-090. http://sites.google.com/site/fabioraposoamaral/ Subject: NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 4 From: Fabio Raposo <fabioraposo AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:32:38 -0300 Biology Letters Online Table of Contents Alert For reprints, please contact the authors. ---------------------------------------------------- Relaxed predation risk reduces but does not eliminate sociality in birds Guy Beauchamp* + Author Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, P.O. Box 5000, St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada J2S 7C6 *guy.beauchamp AT umontreal.ca Abstract Disentangling the relative contribution of predation avoidance and increased foraging efficiency in the evolution of sociality in animals has proven difficult given that the two types of benefits often operate concurrently. I identified different types of refuges from predation in birds related to morphological and ecological traits, providing an opportunity to examine concomitant changes in sociality over evolutionary times. Results of a matched-species comparative analysis indicated a reduction in the size of foraging or non-foraging groups but not complete disappearance under negligible predation risk. The results suggest that while predation avoidance is an important component in the evolution of sociality in birds, it is most probably not acting alone but rather in conjunction with other benefits such as increased foraging efficiency. ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Fábio Sarubbi Raposo do Amaral Postdoctoral fellow Universidade de São Paulo Depto. de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. Rua do Matão, 277. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05508-090. http://sites.google.com/site/fabioraposoamaral/ Subject: NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 3 From: Fabio Raposo <fabioraposo AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:29:21 -0300 Biology Letters Online Table of Contents AlertFor reprints, please contact the authors. ---------------------------------------------------- Evolution of ultraviolet vision in shorebirds (Charadriiformes) Anders Ödeen1,*, Olle Håstad2 and Per Alström3,4 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden 2Department of Evolutionary Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden 3Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7007, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden 4Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden *Author for correspondence (anders.odeen AT ebc.uu.se). Abstract Diurnal birds belong to one of two classes of colour vision. These are distinguished by the maximum absorbance wavelengths of the SWS1 visual pigment sensitive to violet (VS) and ultraviolet (UVS). Shifts between the classes have been rare events during avian evolution. Gulls (Laridae) are the only shorebirds (Charadriiformes) previously reported to have the UVS type of opsin, but too few species have been sampled to infer that gulls are unique among shorebirds or that Laridae is monomorphic for this trait. We have sequenced the SWS1 opsin gene in a broader sample of species. We confirm that cysteine in the key amino acid position 90, characteristic of the UVS class, has been conserved throughout gull evolution but also that the terns Anous minutus, A. tenuirostris and Gygis alba, and the skimmer Rynchops niger carry this trait. Terns, excluding Anous and Gygis, share the VS conferring serine in position 90 with other shorebirds but it is translated from a codon more similar to that found in UVS shorebirds. The most parsimonious interpretation of these findings, based on a molecular gene tree, is a single VS to UVS shift and a subsequent reversal in one lineage. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Fábio Sarubbi Raposo do Amaral Postdoctoral fellow Universidade de São Paulo Depto. de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. Rua do Matão, 277. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05508-090. http://sites.google.com/site/fabioraposoamaral/ Subject: NEOLIT: Biol Lett Vol. 6, No. 2 From: Fabio Raposo <fabioraposo AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:28:26 -0300 Biology Letters Online Table of Contents AlertFor reprints, please contact the authors. ---------------------------------------------------- Individual consistency in flight initiation distances in burrowing owls: a new hypothesis on disturbance-induced habitat selection Martina Carrete* and José L. Tella + Author Affiliations Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), 41092 Sevilla, Spain *Author for correspondence (martina AT ebd.csic.es). Abstract Individuals often consistently differ in personalities and behaviours that allow them to cope with environmental variation. Flight initiation distance (FID) has been measured in a variety of taxa as an estimate of the risk that an individual is willing to take when facing a predator. FID has been used to test life-history trade-offs related to anti-predatory behaviour and for conservation purposes such as to establish buffer zones to minimize human disturbance, given its species-specific consistency. Individual consistency in FID, however, has been largely overlooked. Here we show that, even after controlling for several confounding effects, this behaviour has a strong individual component (repeatability = 0.84-0.92) in a bird species, leaving a small margin for behavioural flexibility. We hypothesize that individuals may distribute themselves among breeding sites depending on their individual susceptibility to human disturbance. This habitat selection hypothesis merits further research, given its implications on both evolutionary and applied ecology research. For example, selection of human-tolerant phenotypes may be promoted through the humanization of habitats occurring worldwide, and when population means instead of individual variability in FID are considered for designing buffer zones to reduce human impacts on wildlife -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Fábio Sarubbi Raposo do Amaral Postdoctoral fellow Universidade de São Paulo Depto. de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva. Rua do Matão, 277. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05508-090. http://sites.google.com/site/fabioraposoamaral/ Subject: NEW books From: Ian Paulsen <birdbooker AT ZIPCON.NET> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:38:48 -0700 HI ALL: I wrote about books of Neotropical interest here: http://blogs.nature.com/grrlscientist/2010/08/birdbooker_report_130.html and Seeds of Amazonian Plants here: http://birdbookerreport.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-title_04.html plus the Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia here: http://birdbookerreport.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-title_07.html sincerely -- Ian Paulsen Bainbridge Island, WA, USA " Which just goes to show that a passion for books is extremely unhealthy." from Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart". Subject: NEOLIT: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:2 through 56:3 From: Andy Jones <ajones AT CMNH.ORG> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 19:36:22 -0400 NEOORNers: Relevant highlights from the latest five issues of MPE are listed below. I have included a few papers of general interest in systematics as well as papers on other taxa within the Neotropics. E-mail me directly for PDFs: ajones [at] cmnh [dot] org Andy -- Andy Jones, Ph.D. William A. and Nancy R. Klamm Endowed Chair of Ornithology and Head of Department of Ornithology Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle Cleveland, OH 44106 http://www.cmnh.org/site/researchandcollections_Ornithology.aspx Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ornitholoco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55:2 The Lanius excubitor (Aves, Passeriformes) conundrum—Taxonomic dilemma when molecular and non-molecular data tell different stories Olsson, Urban; Alström, Per; Svensson, Lars; et al. A multi-gene estimate of phylogeny in the nightjars and nighthawks (Caprimulgidae) Han, Kin-Lan; Robbins, Mark B.; Braun, Michael J. A molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the manakins (Aves: Pipridae) McKay, Bailey D.; Barker, F. Keith; Mays, Herman L.; et al. 55:3 Multilocus phylogeny and rapid radiations in Neotropical cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Cichlidae: Cichlinae) López-Fernández, Hernán; Winemiller, Kirk O.; Honeycutt, Rodney L. 56:1 Multilocus phylogeny and rapid radiations in Neotropical cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Cichlidae: Cichlinae) López-Fernández, Hernán; Winemiller, Kirk O.; Honeycutt, Rodney L. Phylogeny of the genus Hirundo and the Barn Swallow subspecies complex Dor, Roi; Safran, Rebecca J.; Sheldon, Frederick H.; et al. Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA: Combination of multiple nuclear introns resolves a well-supported phylogeny of New World orioles (Icterus) Jacobsen, Frode; Friedman, Nicholas R.; Omland, Kevin E. Towards an assessment of character interdependence in avian RNA phylogenetics: A general secondary structure model for the avian mitochondrial 16S rRNA do Amaral, Fábio Raposo; Sheldon, Frederick H.; Wajntal, Anita 56:2 Phylogenetic and structural analysis of the HbA (aA/ßA) and HbD (aD/ßA) hemoglobin genes in two high-altitude waterfowl from the Himalayas and the Andes: Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) and Andean goose (Chloephaga melanoptera) McCracken, Kevin G.; Barger, Christopher P.; Sorenson, Michael D. Two aspects along the continuum of pigeon evolution: A South-Pacific radiation and the relationship of pigeons within Neoaves Gibb, Gillian C.; Penny, David S-DIVA (Statistical Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis): A tool for inferring biogeographic histories Yu, Yan; Harris, A.J.; He, Xingjin 56:3 Not a simple case – A first comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis for the Midas cichlid complex in Nicaragua (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Amphilophus) Geiger, Matthias F.; McCrary, Jeffrey K.; Schliewen, Ulrich K. Are rapids a barrier for floodplain fishes of the Amazon basin? A demographic study of the keystone floodplain species Colossoma macropomum (Teleostei: Characiformes) Farias, Izeni Pires; Torrico, Juan Pablo; García-Dávila, Carmen; et al. Subject: Re: NEOLIT: Rev. Bras. Ornitologia 17(1) From: Manuel Plenge <plenge.manuel AT GMAIL.COM> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:50:40 -0500 Vitor, I think I can speak up for everybody that benefits from NEOLIT. Thank you very much for your contribution. Sinceros saludos, Manuel 2010/8/8 Vitor de Q. Piacentini > Dear all, > > I'm not the reviewer of RBO, but in order to help Manuel Plenge in his > wonderful effort to keep everybody noticed of the latest publications, I'm > pasting the contents of RBO 17 (1). > Best, > Vítor Piacentini > > Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia vol. 17, núm. 1, março/2009. > > *Artigos* > > * * > > *p.1* > > *Where is the symbol of Brazilian Ornithology? The geographic distribution > of the Golden Parakeet (**Guarouba guarouba **- Psittacidae)* > > *Onde está o símbolo da Ornitologia Brasileira? A distribuição geográfica > da ararajuba (**Guarouba guarouba **- Psittacidae)* > > *Thiago Orsi Laranjeiras and Mario Cohn-Haft * > > * * > > * * > > *p.20* > > *Dinâmica de um dormitório comunal de **Aratinga aurea **(Psittacidae) em > área urbana no centro-oeste do Brasil* > > *Dynamics of one communal roost of the **Aratinga aurea **(Psittacidae) in > an urban area of the center-west of Brazil* > > *Vitor de Oliveira Lunardi e Diana Gonçalves Lunardi * > > * * > > *p.28* > > *Sobre o uso de níveis de sensibilidade de aves à fragmentação florestal > na avaliação da Integridade Biótica: um estudo de caso no norte do Estado do > Paraná, sul do Brasil* > > *On the use of the sensitivity levels of birds to forest fragmentation in > the evaluation of the Biotic Integrity: a study case in the north of State > of Paraná, southern Brazil* > > *Luiz dos Anjos, Gabriela Menezes Bochio, João Vitor Campos, Gabriel B. > McCrate e Fernando Palomino* > > * * > > *p.37* > > *The use of playbacks can influence encounters with birds: an experiment* > > *O uso de **Playbacks **pode influenciar encontros com aves: um > experimento* > > *André Magnani Xavier de Lima and James Joseph Roper * > > > > *p.41* > > *Etnoecologia, etnotaxonomia e valoração cultural de Psittacidae em > distritos rurais do Triângulo Mineiro, Brasil* > > *Ethno-ecology, ethno-taxonomy and cultural value of Psittacidae in rural > districts of the Triângulo Mineiro region, Brazil* > > *Patrícia Thieme Onofri Saiki; Lucia de Fátima Estevinho Guido e Ana Maria > de Oliveira Cunha* > > > > *p.53* > > *Revisão da distribuição e dados de história natural do gaviao**-**pombo** > -**pequeno (**Leucopternis lacernulatus**), incluindo o registro de > predação sobre teiú (**Tupinambis meriane**) em Mata Atlântica de > Tabuleiro, sudeste do Brasil* > > *A review on distribution and natural history of White-necked Hawk (**Leucopternis > lacernulatus**), including a record of prey on Tegu Lizard (**Tupinambis > meriane**) at Reserva Natural Vale, southeastern Brazil* > > *Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo; Vinicius Del Gaudio Albergaria e Adriano > Garcia Chiarello* > > * * > > *p.59* > > *Utilização de recursos alimentares por **Philydor atricapillus **e **P. > rufum **(Aves: Furnariidae) em uma área de Mata Atlântica da Ilha Grande, > RJ* > > *Use of food resources by **Philydor atricapillus **and **P. rufum **(Aves: > Furnariidae) in an Atlantic rainforest at Ilha Grande, RJ* > > *Aline Francisca Paineiras Delarmelina**1 **e Maria Alice S. Alves* > > * * > > * * > > *Notas* > > * * > > *p.65* > > *Dados biológicos de **Puffinus lherminieri **anilhados em Fernando de > Noronha em 2005 e 2006* > > *Biological data of **Puffinus lherminieri **banded in Fernando de Noronha > archipelago during 2005 and 2006* > > *Luiz Augusto Macedo Mestre; Andrei Langeloh Roos e João Luiz Xavier do > Nascimento * > > * * > > *p.70* > > *Reprodução de **Fluvicola nengeta **(Tyrannidae) em área urbana da cidade > do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil* > > *Fluvicola nengeta **(Tyrannidae) breeding at an urban area in Rio de > Janeiro city, RJ, Brazil* > > *Vanessa Cardoso Tomaz, Victor Marcelo Fernandes e Maria Alice S. Alves * > > * * > > *p.73* > > *Novos registros ornitológicos para o Parque Estadual do Cantão: > distribuição e conservação da avifauna do ecótono Amazônia-Cerrado* > > *New ornithological records to the Cantão State Park: area distribution > and avifauna conservation of the Amazon-Cerrado ecotone* > > *Renato Torres Pinheiro e Túlio Dornas * > > * * > > *p.77* > > *Predação pelo bem-te-vi **Pitangus sulphuratus **(Passeriformes, > Tyrannidae) no baiacu **Colomesus asellus **(Actinopterygii, > Tetraodontidae) e camarão de água doce (Crustacea, Decapoda)* > > *Predation by the Great Kiskadee **Pitangus sulphuratus **(Passeriformes, > Tyrannidae) on the Amazon Pufferfish **Colomesus asellus **(Actinopterygii, > Tetraodontidae) and freshwater shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda)* > > *Fernando da Silva Carvalho Filho* > > * * > > *p.79* > > *Registro de nidificação de **Dendrocolaptes platyrostris **(Dendrocolaptidae) > em forro de edificação semi-rural* > > *Breeding record of **Dendrocolaptes platyrostris **(Dendrocolaptidae) in > the roof of a semi-rural building* > > *Shayana de Jesus e Sandra Bos Mikich * > > > > *p.82* > > *Novo registro amplia mais ao sul o limite da distribuição geográfica de * > *Parkerthraustes humeralis **(Passeriformes) no Brasil* > > *New record extends southward the known range of the Yellow-shouldered > Grosbeak (**Parkerthraustes humeralis, **Passeriformes)* > > *Alessandro Pacheco Nunes * > > * * > > *p.84* > > *A record of predation on a poisonous toad **Rhinella granulosa **(Anura, > Bufonidae) by Guira Cuckoo **Guira guira **(Cuculidae, Crotophaginae) in > the state of Ceará, Brazil* > > *Registro de predação de um anuro venenoso **Rhinella granulosa **(Anura: > Bufonidae) por **Guira guira **(Cuculidae, Crotophaginae) no Estado do > Ceará, Brasil* > > *Paulo Cesar Mattos Dourado de Mesquita * > > > > Subject: Re: NEOLIT: Rev. Bras. Ornitologia 18(1) From: "Vitor de Q. Piacentini" <rupornis AT YAHOO.COM.BR> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 12:14:00 -0700 Bellow is the content of RBO 18(1). The next number (18[2], June 2010) is expected to be available in one or two weeks. Hopefully the official reviewer of RBO will bring the contents to NeoOrn. Best, Vítor Piacentini Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia, vol. 18, núm. 1, março/2010   Artigos   p.1 As Aves do Tocantins, Brasil – 2: Jalapão Birds of Tocantins, Brazil – 2: Jalapão region José Fernando Pacheco e Fábio Olmos   p.19 Frugivoria e dispersão de sementes de Ficus organensis (Moraceae) por aves em um fragmento de Mata de Restinga, Pelotas, RS Frugivory and seed dispersal of Ficus organensis (Moraceae) by birds in a Restinga Forest, Pelotas, RS Fernanda Ribeiro da Silva   p.26 Avifauna em praças da cidade de Lavras (MG): riqueza, similaridade e influência de variáveis do ambiente urbano Birds in squares of Lavras city: richness, similarity and influence of urban environment variables Talita Vieira Braga, Antônio Carlos da Silva Zanzini, Ricardo Augusto Serpa Cerboncini, Matusalém Miguel e Aloysio Souza de Moura.   p.34 Contribución al conocimiento de la avifauna del Parque Nacional Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco, departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia Julián Q. Vidoz, Miguel A. Aponte, Miguel A. Velásquez y Rudy Alarcón     Notas   p.45 Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus) pick organic debris from the hair of a domestic dog in southeastern Brazil Urubus-de-cabeça-preta (Coragyps atratus) apanham partículas orgânicas na pelagem de um cão doméstico no sudeste brasileiro Ivan Sazima   p.49 Plantios comerciais de Eucalyptus como dormitórios comunais de papagaios Amazona spp.: convergência seletiva Commercial Eucalyptus plantation as communal night roosts of parrots Amazona spp.: selective convergence Lucas Aguiar Carrara, Luciene Carrara P. Faria, Paulo de Tarso Z. Antas, José Roberto de Matos, Robert Cardoso Sartório e Evânio Trivilim Scopel   p.55 Reprodução de Glaucidium brasilianum (Gmelin, 1788) em área urbana de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais Breeding of Glaucidium brasilianum (Gmelin 1788) in the urban environment of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais Welerson Santos Castro, Alexandre Gabriel Franchin and Oswaldo Marçal Júnior   p.59 Primeiro registro documentado e aumento na distribuição do topetinho-vermelho, Lophornis magnificus (Vieillot, 1817), para o Estado do Tocantins, Brasil First documented record of Frilled Coquette, Lophornis magnificus (Vieillot, 1817) for the State of Tocantins, Brazil Marco Aurélio Crozariol e Gabriel Augusto Leite   p.61 Squacco Heron Ardeolla ralloides in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago: the fourth Brazilian record with comments on the prospects for a colonisation event Ardeola ralloides no Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha: o quarto registro brasileiro com comentários sobre as possibilidades para colonização Bradley James William Davis   p.64 Deformidad del pico en el azulejo de jardín Thraupis episcopus (Passeriformes: Thraupidae) de Venezuela Deformidade do bico no sanhaço-da-amazônia Thraupis episcopus (Passeriformes: Thraupidae) na Venezuela Carlos Verea y José Manuel Verea   p.68 Behaviour and diet of the Mantled Hawk Leucopternis polionotus (Accipitridae; Buteoninae) during deforestation of an Atlantic Rainforest landscape in Southeast Brazil Comportamento e dieta do Gavião-pombo-grande Leucopternis polionotus (Accipitridae; Buteoninae) durante o desmatamento de um remanescente de Mata Atlântica no sudeste brasileiro Luiz Fernando Salvador-Jr