Richard Klim
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Seems a bit extreme for a journal to publish a formal Erratum just to suggest an alternative English common name.
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Richard Klim
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Richard Klim
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Peter Kovalik
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Scytalopus speluncae
Paola Pulido-Santacruz, Marcos Ricardo Bornschein, Ricardo Belmonte-Lopes, Sandro L. Bonatto. Multiple evolutionary units and demographic stability during the last glacial maximum in the Scytalopus speluncae complex (Aves: Rhinocryptidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Article in Press. Available online 24 May 2016.
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Paola Pulido-Santacruz, Marcos Ricardo Bornschein, Ricardo Belmonte-Lopes, Sandro L. Bonatto. Multiple evolutionary units and demographic stability during the last glacial maximum in the Scytalopus speluncae complex (Aves: Rhinocryptidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Article in Press. Available online 24 May 2016.
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l_raty
laurent raty
Peter Kovalik
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COLOMBIA Birding
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ABSTRACT
We describe Scytalopus alvarezlopezi from the Western Andes of Colombia. The new species forms part of a distinctive clade of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae) that also includes S. robbinsi from Ecuador and S. stilesi and S. rodriguezi, which occur on the Central and Eastern Andes of Colombia. S. alvarezlopezi is easily diagnosable from its near relatives by its song and mitochondrial DNA; differences in plumage exist but are more subtle. The species inhabits dense understory vegetation on the floors and lower slopes of ravines in cloud forest at elevations of 1,300 to 2,100 m. On the Pacific slope, its altitudinal distribution is sandwiched between those of S. chocoensis (below) and S. vicinior (above); the latter in turn is replaced higher up by S. spillmanni and S. latrans, but S. alvarezlopezi also occurs at ~2,000–2,100 m on eastern slopes just below the low ridgeline. All of the latter species are distinguished by vocal and plumage characters. Marked sexual differences in plumage exist in stilesi, but females have yet to be collected for alvarezlopezi and rodriguezi. We consider that S. alvarezlopezi is not threatened at present, but could be potentially vulnerable due to its restricted distribution; it is endemic to Colombia.
"Etymology. We take pleasure in naming this species in honor of Humberto Álvarez-López, the‘‘dean of Colombian ornithology,’’ for his many contributions to the knowledge and study of this country’s birds over nearly half a century. Humberto was professor of ornithology at the Universidad del Valle for nearly 4 decades and helped train several of Colombia’s foremost ornithologists and conservationists; in 1979 he founded in Cali the first local ornithological society in Colombia, an example soon followed by other cities in the country, and long edited and wrote for its journal. His book Introducción a las Aves de Colombia, published in 1979, was instrumental in making the observation of birds accessible to students and the public at large in Colombia, and arguably spearheaded the development of field ornithology in the country. In 1987 Humberto was president of the third Neotropical Ornithological Congress, the only one to be held in Colombia. He painstakingly translated Hilty’s monumental Guide to the Birds of Colombia into Spanish and was a founding member of the Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología, serving for more than 10 years as president and member of its governing body, where his sage advice on difficult matters often has been decisive. ¡Muchas gracias, ‘‘Maestro’’!
We suggest the English name of Tatamá Tapaculo for S. alvarezlopezi because the majority of localities for this species are in the middle sector of the Western Andes near the border between Risaralda and Chocó Departments, in which the most prominent and best-known mountain is Cerro Tatamá, the center of Tatamá National Park; Cerro Montezuma is in the park’s buffer zone, Pisones is also within ~7 km of the park boundary, and CDC and OLR have found this species in several sites within the park itself."
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lewis20126
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Assume this is "alto pisiones' tapaculo?
Cheers, alan
Cheers, alan
Daniel Philippe
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Probably.
Type locality. Colombia, department of Risaralda, municipality of Mistrató, Alto de Pisones, 8 km northeast of Geguadas, elevation 1,710 m, shallow ravine in cloud forest; coordinates 58250N, 768020W.
antshrike69
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That's my understanding.
COLOMBIA Birding
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indeed... the bird found originally at Alto Pisones and that many of you have seen in either Montezuma, Anchicayá, Apía, Galápagos Road, etc...
"On a collecting trip to the Alto de Pisones on the mule trail from Geguadas to Puerto de Oro in northwestern Risaralda department, Colombia, in early June 1992, F. Gary Stiles (FGS) repeatedly heard churring trills emanating from the thick understory of the slopes above the campsite at an elevation of 1,530 m, and ascribed them to some sort of frog. While sitting quietly higher on this slope, he was surprised to find a presumed pair of Scytalopus tapaculos walking and hopping toward him, one of which gave the churring call. The birds approached him to within ~3 m, then at some slight movement hurriedly moved away and disappeared in the morass of low vegetation; some 2 min later he heard several longer churrs from the direction in which they had disappeared. Now realizing that the sound was that of a tapaculo, FGS attempted on..."
email me tocsdiegocalderon AT gmail.com for a PDF if you are interested
"On a collecting trip to the Alto de Pisones on the mule trail from Geguadas to Puerto de Oro in northwestern Risaralda department, Colombia, in early June 1992, F. Gary Stiles (FGS) repeatedly heard churring trills emanating from the thick understory of the slopes above the campsite at an elevation of 1,530 m, and ascribed them to some sort of frog. While sitting quietly higher on this slope, he was surprised to find a presumed pair of Scytalopus tapaculos walking and hopping toward him, one of which gave the churring call. The birds approached him to within ~3 m, then at some slight movement hurriedly moved away and disappeared in the morass of low vegetation; some 2 min later he heard several longer churrs from the direction in which they had disappeared. Now realizing that the sound was that of a tapaculo, FGS attempted on..."
email me tocsdiegocalderon AT gmail.com for a PDF if you are interested
Melanie
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From the article:
So it took 25 years to describe this bird. Here is a video from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP3bBx4PyCk
So it took 25 years to describe this bird. Here is a video from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP3bBx4PyCk
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Fred Ruhe
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Already in 1980 I read in the Age of Birds by Alan Feduccia that Larry D. Martin was studying a new family of freshwater Hesperornithiformes. Feduccia repeated this statement in his 1996 and 1999 book the Origin and Evolution of birds. Martin died on December 16, 2010, the paper on the freshwater Hesperornithiformes was published on line first on may 1 2012.
The family is the Brodavidae, the paper is:
Larry Dean Martin, Evgeny N. Kurochkin & Tim T. Tokaryk, 2012
A New Evolutionary Lineage of Diving Birds from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia
Palaeoworld 192: 1-5 on line first 21: 59-63
Peter Kovalik
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Jim LeNomenclatoriste
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Tif Update March 11, 2017
Tapaculos: The “Alto Pisones” Tapaculo has finally been described by Stiles et al. (2017). I have added it to the TiF list using their suggested English name: Tatama Tapaculo, Scytalopus alvarezlopezi. It seems to be sister to the Ecuadorian Tapaculo / El Oro Tapaculo, Scytalopus robbinsi.
[Furnariidae, Furnariida II, 3.03]
Tapaculos: The “Alto Pisones” Tapaculo has finally been described by Stiles et al. (2017). I have added it to the TiF list using their suggested English name: Tatama Tapaculo, Scytalopus alvarezlopezi. It seems to be sister to the Ecuadorian Tapaculo / El Oro Tapaculo, Scytalopus robbinsi.
[Furnariidae, Furnariida II, 3.03]
l_raty
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Out of curiosity, is there an actual logic behind introducing a wholly new English name...?
"Pisones Tapaculo" has almost 3,000 hits in Google. We now have a quarter of century of literature behind us, that potentially includes significant information about this bird, but which cannot be retrieved using the 'standard' procedure (searching on a scientific name) due to our failure of having named it before now. At first sight, it seems that adding a new English name on top of this can only worsen the situation.
"Pisones Tapaculo" has almost 3,000 hits in Google. We now have a quarter of century of literature behind us, that potentially includes significant information about this bird, but which cannot be retrieved using the 'standard' procedure (searching on a scientific name) due to our failure of having named it before now. At first sight, it seems that adding a new English name on top of this can only worsen the situation.
Markus Lagerqvist
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Good question, had the same though when I saw the name. Also true for some of the splits in the new HBW/BirdLife checklist. Why is e.g. Palkachupa Cotinga - which is pretty well established as a name - now suddenly called Apolo Cotinga. Maybe a good reason? :h?:
antshrike69
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Agreed. An undescribed species with (therefore only) an English name, well established and recognisable to the many people who have seen this bird in the field or google it. Much as I quite like the new name, given all the changes in Tapaculo taxonomy in recent years, it would surely be better to stick with Alto Pisones. Anything else seems so contrary as to question the motive. The last thing anyone wants is a repeat of the Urrao Antpitta shenanigans.
Peter Kovalik
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