Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti

Pereira, Glauco Alves, Dantas, Sidnei de Melo, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Roda, Sônia Aline, Albano, Ciro, Sonntag, Frederico Acaz, Leal, Sergio, Periquito, Mauricio Cabral, Malacco, Gustavo Bernardino & Lees, Alexander Charles, 2014, Status of the globally threatened forest birds of northeast Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 54 (14), pp. 177-194 : 186

Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti

Barnett & Buzzetti, 2014,

Cryptic Treehunter (Not Evaluated)

This recently-described taxon ( Mazar-Barnett & Buzzetti, 2014), was formerly confused with the preceding species with which it is cryptically similar but differs subtly in morphology, plumage, behaviour and vocalizations (see also Claramunt, 2014). Like Philydor novaesi it is only known from Murici and RPPN Frei Caneca and was apparently a specialist in foraging in arboreal bromeliads. Mazar-Barnett & Buzzetti (2014) suggest that it should be listed as Critically Endangered both nationally and internationally. Realistically however this species is also likely extinct, there have been no records from other sites in the region and the last records from Frei Caneca were obtained in February 2005 (D. Buzzetti: XC#180936) and the last records from Murici was in April 2007 (D. Buzzetti: XC#180893). The disappearance of these two Furnarids and the Glaucidium pygmy-owl represent the first evidence for extinctions of endemic Brazilian birds in modern times.