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First documented record of Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea (Parulidae) in Brazil

First documented record of Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea (Parulidae) in Brazil Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 132–134. SHORT-COMMUNIC ARA TICLE TION June 2019 First documented record of Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea (Parulidae) in Brazil 1,3 2 Fernando Bittencourt de Farias & Larissa Dalpaz Servidão Brasiliano 123, Campeche, 88063-515, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Campus Universitário, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Corresponding author: fernando-farias@hotmail.com Received on 14 August 2018. Accepted on 04 July 2019. ABSTRACT: Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea; Parulidae) is a “Vulnerable” species which breeds in North America and migrates to winter in South America. Here we present the first documented re cord of the species in Brazil. One male was photographed foraging in the canopy of secondary forest on Santa Catarina island, south Brazil, on 07 April 2018. At the time of the record the species was expected to be on migration north to North America. Since the individual was heading south it is assumed that it was lost. This recor d can then be potentially explained by the vagrancy theory of reverse migrants. KEY-WORDS: Atlantic Forest, mariquita-azul, migration, Santa Catarina, vagrancy. The Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) is a migratory and 10:00 h. The foraging mode observed was foliage passerine of the Parulidae family and is listed as gleaning, which is regularly observed for the species in “Vulnerable” by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe cies North America (Jones et al. 2000). Repeated visits to the (Birdlife International 2016). The species breeds in eastern same location for several days following the first recor d U.S.A. and Canada during the northern hemisphere failed to relocate the species. spring and summer. After that it migrates south to The forest fragment where the species was recor ded winter on the eastern slopes of the Andes, from southern is a patch of secondary forest located behind a quarry in Colombia and Venezuela to Ecuador, southeastern Peru the south of Santa Catarina island. The individual was and northern Bolivia (Skolnik et al. 2012). On its way to emitting some calls spontaneously but did not react to South America it is a passage migrant through the Atlantic playback of the species. The lack of vocal response is coast of Central America. In its wintering area individuals an indicative that the individual was not defending a have most often been observed within a narrow elevation territory (Catchpole & Slater 2003), which was expected range of 500–2000 m (Robbins et al. 1992). since this is a non-breeding area for the species and also To date, Cerulean Warbler was included on the out of the reproductive season. secondary list of Brazilian birds based on two visual Our record represents not only the first documented records, which were without supporting physical record in Brazil, but the most austral one. The recor ded evidence (Piacentini et al. 2015). These two previous individual can be considered as a vagrant as it was outside undocumented records were on October 1980, in Serra do its regular migratory route (Veit 2000). This is similar Tinguá, Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil, at 330 for other records of North American warblers found in m a.s.l. (Scott & Brooke 1985); and during fieldwork in Brazil (Deconto & Vallejos 2017, Somenzari et al. 2018). Monte Belo, Minas Gerais state, southeastern Brazil, with At the time of record the individual was expected to be no precise date, but between 1981 and 1986 (Pacheco et returning to North America, but it is postulated it was al. 2014). heading in the opposite direction. This is the second case Here we present the first documented re cord of of a North American warbler recorded in Santa Catarina Cerulean Warbler for Brazil (Fig. 1). One adult male was at a time when they are found in North America (Garcia seen actively foraging between the leaves of an Inga tree 2016). Considering these aspects, our conclusion is that (Inga sp.) on 07 April 2018 in a forest patch at the Parque these records can be explained by the vagrancy theory of Natural Municipal do Maciço da Costeira, Florianópolis, reverse migrants (Gilroy & Lees 2003), in which birds o o Santa Catarina (27 38'45.61''S; 48 29'29.75''W; Fig. deviate by around 180 degrees of their route, thus going 2). The individual was observed foraging between 9:40 in the opposite direction than expected (Alerstam 1990). Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 2019 First record of Cerulean Warbler in Brazil Farias & Dalpaz Figure 1. Adult male Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) perched on a branch of an Inga tree, photographed on 07 April 2018 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Photo author: Fernando B. de Farias. used in this article. We are also grateful to Guilherme Willrich, Vitor Q. Piacentini and Thomas Worthington who reviewed the manuscript, and Guilherme Willrich who helped with the map. REFERENCES Alerstam T. 1990. Ecological causes and consequences of bird orientation. Experientia 46: 405–415. BirdLife International. 2016. Setophaga cerulea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe cies. http://iucnredlist.org/details/22721740/0 (Access on 26 June 2018). Catchpole C.K. & Slater P.J. 2003.  Bird song: biological themes and variations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Deconto L.R. & Vallejos M.A.V. 2017. Primeiro registro documentado de Setophaga virens (Aves: Parulidae) no Brasil.  Atualidades Ornitológicas 198: 14–17. Garcia D.H. 2016. WA2166503, Setophaga striata (Forster, 1772). http://www.wikiaves.com/2166503 (Access on 03 July 2018). Figure 2. Winter distribution of the Cerulean Warbler Gilroy J.J & Lees A.C. 2003. Vagrancy theories: are autumn vagrants (Setophaga cerulea; green area) with the two undocumented really reverse migrants? British Birds 96: 427–438. records in southeastern Brazil (blue dots) and the new record Jones J., Perazzi P.R., Carruthers E.H. & Robertson R.J. 2000. Sociality and foraging behavior of the Cerulean Warbler in in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil (red star). Adapted from Venezuelan shade-coffee plantations. Condor 102: 958–962. Birdlife International. Pacheco J.F., Parrini R. & Tavares D. 2014. Avifauna da RPPN Fazenda Lagoa e entorno, p. 164–172. In: Laurindo R.S., Novaes Also, our finding reinfor ces the importance of R.L.M. & Vieira M.C.W (eds.). RPPN Fazenda: educação, pesquisa maintaining monitoring efforts even in urban forest e conservação da natureza. Monte Belo: Ismecn. fragments and especially in poorly-sampled areas. Piacentini V.Q., Aleixo A., Agne C.E., Maurício G.N., Pacheco J.F., Bravo G.A., Brito G.R.R., Naka L.N., Olmos F., Posso S., Silveira Records such as the one reported here are useful to adding L.F., Betini G.S., Carrano E., Franz I., Lees A.C., Lima L.M., information to our understanding of vagrancy theories Pioli D., Schunck F., Amaral F.R., Bencke G.A., Cohn-Haft M., (Gilroy & Lees 2003) and identifying the paths and Figueiredo L.F.A., Straube F.C. & Cesari E. 2015. Annotated deviations of bird migration. checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 23: 91–298. Robbins C.S., Fitzpatrick J.W. & Hamel P.B. 1992. A warbler in trouble: Dendroica cerulea, p. 549–562. In: Hagan-III J.M. & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Johnston D.W. (eds.). Ecology and conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Fernando Pacheco kindly provided some of the literature Scott D.A. & Brooke M.L. 1985. The endangered avifauna of Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 2019 First record of Cerulean Warbler in Brazil Farias & Dalpaz southeastern Brazil: a report on the BOU/WWF expeditions of Lima D.M., Lima P.C., Lugarini C., Machado C.G., Martinez J., 1980/81 and 1981/82, p. 115–139. In: Diamond A.W. & Lovejoy Nascimento J.L.X., Pacheco J.F., Paludo D., Prestes N.P., Serafini T.E. (eds.). Conservation of tropical forest birds. Cambridge: P.P., Silveira L.F., Sousa A.E.B.A., Sousa N.A., Souza M.A., International Council for Bird Preservation. Telino-Jr. W.R. & Whitney B.M. 2018. An overview of migratory Skolnik B., Wiedenfeld D., Dettmers R., Aucca C., Daza L., Valle birds in Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58: e20185803. H., Sornoza F., Robayo J., Diaz D., Jane F., Lebbin D. & Hame Veit R.R. 2000. Vagrants as the expanding fringe of a growing P.B. 2012. Conservation planning and accomplishments for population. Auk 117: 242–246. protection of Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) nonbreeding habitat. Ornitología Neotropical 23: 319–329. Somenzari M., Amaral P.P., Cueto V.R., Guaraldo A.C., Jahn A.E., Associate Editor: Leandro Bugoni. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 2019 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ornithology Research Springer Journals

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Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 132–134. SHORT-COMMUNIC ARA TICLE TION June 2019 First documented record of Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea (Parulidae) in Brazil 1,3 2 Fernando Bittencourt de Farias & Larissa Dalpaz Servidão Brasiliano 123, Campeche, 88063-515, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Campus Universitário, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Corresponding author: fernando-farias@hotmail.com Received on 14 August 2018. Accepted on 04 July 2019. ABSTRACT: Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea; Parulidae) is a “Vulnerable” species which breeds in North America and migrates to winter in South America. Here we present the first documented re cord of the species in Brazil. One male was photographed foraging in the canopy of secondary forest on Santa Catarina island, south Brazil, on 07 April 2018. At the time of the record the species was expected to be on migration north to North America. Since the individual was heading south it is assumed that it was lost. This recor d can then be potentially explained by the vagrancy theory of reverse migrants. KEY-WORDS: Atlantic Forest, mariquita-azul, migration, Santa Catarina, vagrancy. The Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) is a migratory and 10:00 h. The foraging mode observed was foliage passerine of the Parulidae family and is listed as gleaning, which is regularly observed for the species in “Vulnerable” by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe cies North America (Jones et al. 2000). Repeated visits to the (Birdlife International 2016). The species breeds in eastern same location for several days following the first recor d U.S.A. and Canada during the northern hemisphere failed to relocate the species. spring and summer. After that it migrates south to The forest fragment where the species was recor ded winter on the eastern slopes of the Andes, from southern is a patch of secondary forest located behind a quarry in Colombia and Venezuela to Ecuador, southeastern Peru the south of Santa Catarina island. The individual was and northern Bolivia (Skolnik et al. 2012). On its way to emitting some calls spontaneously but did not react to South America it is a passage migrant through the Atlantic playback of the species. The lack of vocal response is coast of Central America. In its wintering area individuals an indicative that the individual was not defending a have most often been observed within a narrow elevation territory (Catchpole & Slater 2003), which was expected range of 500–2000 m (Robbins et al. 1992). since this is a non-breeding area for the species and also To date, Cerulean Warbler was included on the out of the reproductive season. secondary list of Brazilian birds based on two visual Our record represents not only the first documented records, which were without supporting physical record in Brazil, but the most austral one. The recor ded evidence (Piacentini et al. 2015). These two previous individual can be considered as a vagrant as it was outside undocumented records were on October 1980, in Serra do its regular migratory route (Veit 2000). This is similar Tinguá, Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil, at 330 for other records of North American warblers found in m a.s.l. (Scott & Brooke 1985); and during fieldwork in Brazil (Deconto & Vallejos 2017, Somenzari et al. 2018). Monte Belo, Minas Gerais state, southeastern Brazil, with At the time of record the individual was expected to be no precise date, but between 1981 and 1986 (Pacheco et returning to North America, but it is postulated it was al. 2014). heading in the opposite direction. This is the second case Here we present the first documented re cord of of a North American warbler recorded in Santa Catarina Cerulean Warbler for Brazil (Fig. 1). One adult male was at a time when they are found in North America (Garcia seen actively foraging between the leaves of an Inga tree 2016). Considering these aspects, our conclusion is that (Inga sp.) on 07 April 2018 in a forest patch at the Parque these records can be explained by the vagrancy theory of Natural Municipal do Maciço da Costeira, Florianópolis, reverse migrants (Gilroy & Lees 2003), in which birds o o Santa Catarina (27 38'45.61''S; 48 29'29.75''W; Fig. deviate by around 180 degrees of their route, thus going 2). The individual was observed foraging between 9:40 in the opposite direction than expected (Alerstam 1990). Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 2019 First record of Cerulean Warbler in Brazil Farias & Dalpaz Figure 1. Adult male Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) perched on a branch of an Inga tree, photographed on 07 April 2018 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Photo author: Fernando B. de Farias. used in this article. We are also grateful to Guilherme Willrich, Vitor Q. Piacentini and Thomas Worthington who reviewed the manuscript, and Guilherme Willrich who helped with the map. REFERENCES Alerstam T. 1990. Ecological causes and consequences of bird orientation. Experientia 46: 405–415. BirdLife International. 2016. Setophaga cerulea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe cies. http://iucnredlist.org/details/22721740/0 (Access on 26 June 2018). Catchpole C.K. & Slater P.J. 2003.  Bird song: biological themes and variations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Deconto L.R. & Vallejos M.A.V. 2017. Primeiro registro documentado de Setophaga virens (Aves: Parulidae) no Brasil.  Atualidades Ornitológicas 198: 14–17. Garcia D.H. 2016. WA2166503, Setophaga striata (Forster, 1772). http://www.wikiaves.com/2166503 (Access on 03 July 2018). Figure 2. Winter distribution of the Cerulean Warbler Gilroy J.J & Lees A.C. 2003. Vagrancy theories: are autumn vagrants (Setophaga cerulea; green area) with the two undocumented really reverse migrants? British Birds 96: 427–438. records in southeastern Brazil (blue dots) and the new record Jones J., Perazzi P.R., Carruthers E.H. & Robertson R.J. 2000. Sociality and foraging behavior of the Cerulean Warbler in in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil (red star). Adapted from Venezuelan shade-coffee plantations. Condor 102: 958–962. Birdlife International. Pacheco J.F., Parrini R. & Tavares D. 2014. Avifauna da RPPN Fazenda Lagoa e entorno, p. 164–172. In: Laurindo R.S., Novaes Also, our finding reinfor ces the importance of R.L.M. & Vieira M.C.W (eds.). RPPN Fazenda: educação, pesquisa maintaining monitoring efforts even in urban forest e conservação da natureza. Monte Belo: Ismecn. fragments and especially in poorly-sampled areas. Piacentini V.Q., Aleixo A., Agne C.E., Maurício G.N., Pacheco J.F., Bravo G.A., Brito G.R.R., Naka L.N., Olmos F., Posso S., Silveira Records such as the one reported here are useful to adding L.F., Betini G.S., Carrano E., Franz I., Lees A.C., Lima L.M., information to our understanding of vagrancy theories Pioli D., Schunck F., Amaral F.R., Bencke G.A., Cohn-Haft M., (Gilroy & Lees 2003) and identifying the paths and Figueiredo L.F.A., Straube F.C. & Cesari E. 2015. Annotated deviations of bird migration. checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 23: 91–298. Robbins C.S., Fitzpatrick J.W. & Hamel P.B. 1992. A warbler in trouble: Dendroica cerulea, p. 549–562. In: Hagan-III J.M. & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Johnston D.W. (eds.). Ecology and conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Fernando Pacheco kindly provided some of the literature Scott D.A. & Brooke M.L. 1985. The endangered avifauna of Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 2019 First record of Cerulean Warbler in Brazil Farias & Dalpaz southeastern Brazil: a report on the BOU/WWF expeditions of Lima D.M., Lima P.C., Lugarini C., Machado C.G., Martinez J., 1980/81 and 1981/82, p. 115–139. In: Diamond A.W. & Lovejoy Nascimento J.L.X., Pacheco J.F., Paludo D., Prestes N.P., Serafini T.E. (eds.). Conservation of tropical forest birds. Cambridge: P.P., Silveira L.F., Sousa A.E.B.A., Sousa N.A., Souza M.A., International Council for Bird Preservation. Telino-Jr. W.R. & Whitney B.M. 2018. An overview of migratory Skolnik B., Wiedenfeld D., Dettmers R., Aucca C., Daza L., Valle birds in Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58: e20185803. H., Sornoza F., Robayo J., Diaz D., Jane F., Lebbin D. & Hame Veit R.R. 2000. Vagrants as the expanding fringe of a growing P.B. 2012. Conservation planning and accomplishments for population. Auk 117: 242–246. protection of Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) nonbreeding habitat. Ornitología Neotropical 23: 319–329. Somenzari M., Amaral P.P., Cueto V.R., Guaraldo A.C., Jahn A.E., Associate Editor: Leandro Bugoni. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 27(2): 2019

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Published: Jun 1, 2019

Keywords: Atlantic Forest; mariquita-azul; migration; Santa Catarina; vagrancy

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