Justification This scarce and poorly known species has a moderately small, fragmented distribution, and is likely to be declining in most areas owing to ongoing habitat loss. It is therefore considered Near Threatened, and should be monitored carefully in the near future.

Family/Sub-family Dendrocolaptidae

Species name author (Des Murs, 1849)

Taxonomic source(s) SACC (2005 + updates), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993), Stotz et al. (1996)

Identification

Population estimate

Population trend

Range estimate (breeding/resident)

Country endemic?

unknown

decreasing

23,700 km²

No

Range & population Campylorhamphus pucherani is rare, local and patchily distributed in the Andes of south Colombia (West Andes in Cauca and Valle del Cauca, principally on the west slope, and above the upper Río Magdalena valley in Huila), north-west (west Pichincha) and north-east Ecuador (few records, including one on the summit of Cerro Sur Pax in Sucumbios province⁷), and east Peru (rare and local in Amazonas, San Martín, Huánuco, Ayacucho and Cuzco)^1,3.

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Ecology: Although very poorly known, this species is considered rare in open cloud, elfin and humid montane forest at 900-3,250 m, primarily above 2,000 m ^3,4.

Threats Within its Colombian range, unplanned colonisation following the completion of roads and massive logging concessions have reduced forest cover by 40% and deforestation is accelerating⁵. Currently, intensive logging, human settlement, cattle-grazing, mining and coca and palm cultivation all threaten the remaining forest^2,6. Its habitat throughout the east Andes of Ecuador and Peru are under intense pressure from conversion to agriculture and cattle pasture, mining operations and logging^5,6.

Conservation measures proposed Conduct further surveys within the range to determine its true distribution and abundance. Campiagn for the protection of remaining forest habitats within the altitudinal range.

References 1. Clements and Shany (2001). 2. Dinerstein et al. (1995). 3. Fjeldså and Krabbe (1990). 4. Ridgely and Tudor (1994). 5. Salaman (1994). 6. Stattersfield et al. (1998). 7. Schulenberg in litt. (2001).

Text account compilers Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International), David Capper (BirdLife International), James Gilroy (BirdLife International), Andrew O'Brien (BirdLife International)

Contributors Thomas Schulenberg (Field Museum of Natural History Chicago)

IUCN Red List evaluators Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International), James Gilroy (BirdLife International)

Recommended citation BirdLife International (2009) Species factsheet: Campylorhamphus pucherani. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 10/2/2010

This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List.

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