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Ángela María Mendoza, María Fernanda Torres, Andrea Paz, Natalia Trujillo-Arias, Diana Lopez-Álvarez, Socorro Sierra, Fernando Forero and Mailyn A. Gonzalez. Cryptic diversity revealed by DNA barcoding in Colombian illegally traded bird species. Molecular Ecology Resources, Accepted Article.

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Donegan, Verhelst, Ellery, Cortes & Salaman 2016. Revision of the status of bird species occurring or reported in Colombia 2016 and assessment of BirdLife International's new parrot taxonomy. Conservacion Colombiana 24: 12-36.

http://www.proaves.org/ya-esta-disponible-la-nueva-edicion-de-la-revista-conservacion-colombiana/

Also available on researchgate:

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._BirdLife_International's_new_parrot_taxonomy

Plus a paper on bird migration patterns in the Colombian Caribbean in the same issue.
 
The Magdalena River Valley

Juliana Sandoval-H, Juan Pablo Gómez and Carlos Daniel Cadena. Is the largest river valley west of the Andes a driver of diversification in Neotropical lowland birds? The Auk, Volume 134, 2017, pp. 168–180.

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Donegan, Quevedo, Verhelst, Cortés-Herrera, Ellery & Salaman 2015. Revision of the status of bird species occurring or reported in Colombia 2015, with discussion of BirdLife International's new taxonomy. Conserv Colomb 23: 3–48. [pdf]

IOC Version 7.1 (Draft) Species Update

Added

Merida Sunangel Heliangelus spencei

Longumare’s Sunangel Heliangelus clarisse

Geoffroy’s Wedgebill Schistes geoffroyi
 
New Colombia checklist

This now reflects the updates in Conservacion Colombiana October 2016.

https://www.researchgate.net/public...ers_on_occurrencestatus_Listado_de_Aves_de_Co

Hopefully it will form some really useful baseline source materials in connection with ACO and AOU-SACC's unsuccessful, divisive and broadly pointless attempts to produce a different list with different authors for the AOU-SACC website. Good luck!

http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=1218313&MLID=NEO&MLNM=Neotropical Ornithology
 
Psittacara frontatus

Donegan, Verhelst, Ellery, Cortes & Salaman 2016. Revision of the status of bird species occurring or reported in Colombia 2016 and assessment of BirdLife International's new parrot taxonomy. Conservacion Colombiana 24: 12-36.

http://www.proaves.org/ya-esta-disponible-la-nueva-edicion-de-la-revista-conservacion-colombiana/

Also available on researchgate:

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._BirdLife_International's_new_parrot_taxonomy

Plus a paper on bird migration patterns in the Colombian Caribbean in the same issue.

IOC Updates Diary Apr 1 Accept Cordilleran Parakeet
 
http://asociacioncolombianadeornitologia.org/revista-ornitologia-colombiana-no-16/

A new Colombian checklist out by Avendano et al. It follows SACC taxonomy generally (except for a few things) so does not recognize many of the IOC/BirdLife splits considered in the ProAves list that SACC had not got round to thinking about yet.

It's not clear whether anyone is taking forwards the ProAves list these days though, so this may be all people will be getting from now on.

Thomas
 
Curious if anyone knows of any more detailed information published on where the boundary between Schistes albogularis and Schistes geoffroyi? Specimens from Pereira area and from Anori area (W slope and N end of the Central Cordillera, respectively) photographed in the SACC proposal are albogularis. There is a specimen of geoffroyi in the same photo that was collected just south of Pitalito, near where the Magdalena valley peters out, essentially where the Eastern and Central Cordilleras are linked. Are there any specimens from the E slope of the Central Cordillera?
 
For those who are on Facebook and can understand Spanish, here is a really cool presentation by Andres Cuervo at the recent Colombian birders meeting in Tumaco, Narino (far SW Colombia, really good birding by the way):

https://www.facebook.com/2196187447...6/UzpfSTY3MDA5MzUxNjoxMDE1Njc2MTMyMjkwODUxNw/

It touches upon a variety of subjects, but a couple that stood out are:

Red-headed Barbet is two species (Red-headed Barbets from west of the Andes and in Central America are more closely related to Versicolored Barbet of Peru than they are to Red-headed Barbets from east of the Andes; this is kind of surprising from a biogeographic standpoint)

The Rufous Antpitta complex should be split into 16 species, versus the current three species (Rufous, Chestnut, and according to the presentation Bicolored as well, which I did not know about). Given current named subspecies, several of the 16 species must be undescribed taxa. See here as well: https://twitter.com/cdanielcadena/status/1161426294900482050
This Rufous Antpitta study has been ongoing for decades now, it's great to see that the results are apparently near publication
 
Looks like there is great info there, thank you for pointing this out and providing the links Ottavio! I will have to listen to the whole thing later.

I'm curious about the 6 Colombian species of "G rufula complex" mentioned in Daniel's Twitter post - is that Bicolored, Chestnut, and 4 "Rufous" Antpittas? A quick look at Andres's slide from his presentation, I see 5 mapped - Santa Marta, Perija, E Andean/Cundinamarca, "typical" rufula, and the W Andean population.

In any case, I really agree it will be wonderful to see the G rufula study published, hopefully it really is drawing near!

Cheers,
Josh
 
I'm curious about the 6 Colombian species of "G rufula complex" mentioned in Daniel's Twitter post - is that Bicolored, Chestnut, and 4 "Rufous" Antpittas? A quick look at Andres's slide from his presentation, I see 5 mapped - Santa Marta, Perija, E Andean/Cundinamarca, "typical" rufula, and the W Andean population.

That's also unclear to me, Chestnut Antpitta is only in Peru (and I suspect one of the 16 species is the undescribed, vocally distinct 'Chestnut' Antpitta population in Pasco, Peru), so the six species from Colombia mentioned in the twitter post could be the five mapped by Andres Cuervo plus Bicolored, the only problem is that none of the six specimens pictured in the twitter post look like Bicolored
 
That's also unclear to me, Chestnut Antpitta is only in Peru (and I suspect one of the 16 species is the undescribed, vocally distinct 'Chestnut' Antpitta population in Pasco, Peru), so the six species from Colombia mentioned in the twitter post could be the five mapped by Andres Cuervo plus Bicolored, the only problem is that none of the six specimens pictured in the twitter post look like Bicolored

I had a total brainfart. I am well aware of the Rufous / Chestnut affinities, but when I thought about 6 for Colombia I thought about Tawny instead of Chestnut so included one for that. Oops! So 6 for Colombia would then presumably be the 5 forms of Rufula + Bicolored.

I also assume Chestnut will be a two-way split. What is interesting to me is the lack of vocal distinction between W Andean birds and C Andean birds - assuming birds at, say, La Eme, must be the W Andean form? To my ear the sound well within the scope of nominate G rufula rufula from the Cen Andes to S Ecuador. But then again the forms in S Peru/Bolivia are vocally fairly similar to each other as well.

I am curious what the 16 species would be. Typically we hear about a roughly 9-10 way split of G rufula:
Santa Marta
Perijá
Bogota/E Andes/Chingaza/various name for this form I've heard
W Andes
nominate (C Colombia - S Ecuador)
Cajamarca (N Peru)
obscura (Cen Peru - not aware of a name name for this taxon)
occabambae (Cusco region - again not aware of names for this)
cochabambae (at least near Cochabamba, Bolivia)
and perhaps another taxon in N Bolivia?

That leaves 6 slots open...
-Bicolored Antpitta
-N Chestnut Antpitta
-S Chestnut Antpitta
-perhaps Gray-naped Antpitta is considered part of this complex as well?

That would still leave 1-2 unexplained... perhaps a N/S split of Bicolored Antpitta?
 
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