







| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | CUCULIFORMES | CUCULIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Neomorphus radiolosus | |||
| Species Authority: | Sclater & Salvin, 1878 | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Endangered C2a(i) ver 3.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Year Published: | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
| Assessor/s: | BirdLife International | |||||||||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Bird, J., Butchart, S. | |||||||||||||||
| Contributor/s: | Solano, A., Karubian, J., Salaman, P., Jahn, O., Mena-Valenzuela, P., Palacios, B., Mew, J. | |||||||||||||||
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Justification: This species occurs at very low population densities and is often absent even from seemingly appropriate habitat; overall it is considered to have a very small and fragmented population that is isolated in small subpopulations. In most of its range, habitat loss and degradation are proceeding rapidly, indicating that there are significant and ongoing declines in range and population. Locally it is opportunistically hunted for food. This combination of factors has led to its uplisting to Endangered. |
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| Range Description: | Neomorphus radiolosus is found on the Pacific slope of the West Andes in south-west Colombia (Valle, Cauca, Nariño) and north-west Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Pichincha). It was recorded only rarely until 1988, since when it has been found in three areas in Colombia and at least six in Ecuador1,4,5,6,14,15,16,18,19,20. Hunters in the Junín area, Nariño, reported in the 1990s that they saw it every few months, but it is evidently a low-density species6. |
| Countries: |
Native:
Colombia; Ecuador
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| Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
| Population: | Population estimate = 0.125-0.5 individuals/km2 x 3,740 km2 (20% EOO) = 468-1,870, i.e. best placed within band 1,000-2,499 (upper density estimate based on estimates for N. geoffroyi in the BirdLife Population Density Spreadsheet, lower estimate according to extensive surveys in Esmeraldas sensu O. Jahn in litt. 2007 and P. Mena Valenzuela in litt. 2007). |
| Population Trend: |
Decreasing
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| Habitat and Ecology: | It inhabits wet foothill forests at 30-1,525 m16,18,19. It seems to be dependent on continuous primary forest, but also uses adjacent secondary areas6. Reports and information from local people suggest that it sometimes associates with collared peccaries Tayassu tajacu, and with mixed-species bird flocks attending army ant swarms4,6. It forages for arthropods from the ground by scouring foliage, stems and tree-trunks, or catching prey disturbed by army ants4,6. Two recently documented nesting attempts provided the first information on its nesting biology: one took place in March-April and the other in May, and both nests were located c.5 m above ground in understorey trees in primary forest12. The clutch size appears to be small and may be only a single egg12. A wide range of invertebrates (particularly grasshoppers) and vertebrates (mainly small frogs) were fed to the nestling12. Extensive visual and auditory transect-mapping samples16 (1997-2006) in Esmeraldas, covering an altitudinal range of 5-1,800 m confirmed that the species occurs at extremely low densities of 0.125-0.25 individuals/km2, or less, in most of its remaining Ecuadorian range; concordant with a radio-tagged adult that was found to have a home range of 5 km2 13. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | The Chocó region has long been a source of timber, but logging has intensified since the mid-1970s11. Deforestation is particularly rapid in Ecuador, Nariño, and along the Cali-Buenaventura and other roads7,8,9. By 1996, in western Ecuador the remnant cover of evergreen lowland and premontane forests was only 18% and 40% respectively24. In the late 1990s, primary forests in Nariño and within 60 km of San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas, were selectively logged, and then converted to oil palm plantations at a rapid rate2,16,23. Between 1998 and 2007 the area planted with African palms rose from only 3 km2 to 225 km2 (+900% per year)22 with a further 275-315 km2 due to be converted in the near future23. In Esmeraldas, annual deforestation rates in the lowlands (<300 m) were 3.8% and accumulated loss of primary forest >38% during the last decade22. During the same period, the cover of primary premontane forest (300-1300 m) was reduced by 7%22. Infrastructural improvement in the region, particularly the rapid expansion of the road network, is resulting in increased logging, small-scale agriculture, gold mining, and hunting for food7,8,10,11, which is already affecting some key protected areas16,17,18. There is intensive agricultural development, especially coca and banana plantations, at lower altitudes, and cattle-farming3,7,9,11,16,21. New legislation and the transfer of land-rights to local communities has been exploited by large businesses, for whom it has become cheap and easy to buy land2,9. |
| Conservation Actions: |
Conservation Actions Underway It is known from several protected areas, including Los Farallones de Cali and Munchique National Parks and El Pangan Nature Reserve (Colombia), Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve, Awacachi Biological Corridor, Protective Forest Los Cedros, Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve, and Jatun Sacha Bilsa Biological Reserve (Ecuador)1,4,6,10,18. Conservation Actions Proposed Survey foothill-forests within its range9. Study its ecology6. Develop a network of effectively protected reserves in its foothill range6. Designate the Awá Reserve, Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve, Awacachi Corridor, Gran Reserva Chachi, and Canandé Reserve, including the Río Santiago, Cayapas, Ónzole, and Hoja Blanca drainages, as a biosphere reserve2,16. Sustainably manage the buffer zone to the Awá Ethnic Reserve and Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve 2,16. Implement population monitoring programs17. Consolidate protection of the Mache-Chindul and Cotacachi-Cayapas ecological reserves through law enforcement against illegal logging, hunting, and colonization inside the reserves and sustainable management projects in their buffer zones17. |
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| Citation: | BirdLife International 2009. Neomorphus radiolosus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 May 2012. |
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