Published February 20, 2018 | Version v1
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Casiornis fuscus

  • 1. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa eConservação de Aves Silvestres (CEMAVE). Cabedelo, PB, Brasil. & Parque das Aves. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
  • 2. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa eConservação de Aves Silvestres (CEMAVE). Cabedelo, PB, Brasil.
  • 3. Centro de Investigación Esquelde Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CIEMEP), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco. Esquel, Chubut, Argentina.
  • 4. Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Departamento de Zoologia (DZOO), Laboratório de Ecologia Comportamental e Ornitologia. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
  • 5. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Rio Claro, SP, Brasil.
  • 6. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa eConservação de Aves Silvestres (CEMAVE). Cabedelo, PB, Brasil
  • 7. Fundação BioBrasil. Salvador, BA, Brasil.
  • 8. Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas (DCBIO), Laboratório de Ornitologia. Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil.
  • 9. Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB). Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil.
  • 10. Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos (CBRO). Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
  • 11. de Passo Fundo (UPF), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB). Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil.
  • 12. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Museu de Zoologia (MZUSP). São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
  • 13. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Unidade Acadêmica da Garanhuns (UAG). Garanhuns, PE, Brasil.
  • 14. LouisianaState University, Museum of Natural Science. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

Description

Casiornis fuscus (MPR):

endemic to Brazil and occurs in the southern Amazon from lower Tapajós River east to PE and south to northeastern MT and central MG, including the entire Caatinga and part of the Cerrado (Scholes, 2004; Scholes & Boesman,2016). As stated by Sick (1997), it seems to be present in the north of its distribution only as a visitor during winter. This statement was recently confirmed and deepened a space-time analysis of historic records of museum specimens, field observations and digital vouchers at WikiAves and e-bird (Lees, 2016). In this analysis, a migratory pattern from part of the Caatinga and adjacent ecotones was identified, where records are centered in the period between December and March, expanding west to northern Cerrado and eastern Amazon between June and September. Although it can be recorded throughout the year in the Caatinga, where it also breeds, as corroborated by banding data (SNA, 2016), its occurrence in the Amazon is restricted to the period between April and October, when they use mainly open formations and young secondary forests as wintering areas (Lees, 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Somenzari, Marina, Amaral, Priscilla Prudente do, Cueto, Víctor R., Guaraldo, André de Camargo, Jahn, Alex E., Lima, Diego Mendes, Lima, Pedro Cerqueira, Lugarini, Camile, Machado, Caio Graco, Martinez, Jaime, Nascimento, João Luiz Xavier do, Pacheco, José Fernando, Paludo, Danielle, Prestes, Nêmora Pauletti, Serafini, Patrícia Pereira, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Sousa, Antônio Emanuel Barreto Alves de, Sousa, Nathália Alves de, Souza, Manuella Andrade de, Telino-Júnior, Wallace Rodrigues & Whitne, Bret Myers, 2018, An overview of migratory birds in Brazil, pp. 1-66 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 29, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.03, http://zenodo.org/record/5234679

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
Genus
Casiornis
Species
fuscus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Scholes, E. 2004. Casiornis fuscus. In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Christie, D. (Eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 9: Cotinga to Pipits and Wagtails. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 428.
  • Scholes, E. & Boesman, P. 2016. Ashthroated Casiornis (Casiornis fuscus). In: Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Available at: www.hbw.com/node/57494. Access in: 31 / 07 / 2016.
  • Sick, H. 1997. Ornitologia brasileira. Edicao revista e ampliada. Rio de Janeiro, Nova Fronteira.
  • Lees, A. C. 2016. Evidence for longitudinal migration by a " sedentary " Brazilian flycatcher, the Ash-throated Casiornis. Journal of Field Ornithology, 87 (3): 251-259.