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Notes on Geographic Distribution

Aves Ciconiidae Ciconiiformes

Americas Ecuador South America

Plegadis ridgwayi (J.A. Allen, 1876) (Aves, Threskiornithidae): range extension and a new country record for Ecuador

Córdova-González

Jorge

1 Platt

May

1 Ordóñez-Delgado

Leonardo

lyordonez2@utpl.edu.ec https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4593-1728 1

Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos (EcoSs-Lab), Departmento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja., Loja, Ecuador

Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos (EcoSs-Lab), Departmento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.

Loja

Ecuador

Corresponding author: Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado (lyordonez2@utpl.edu.ec).

Academic editor: Galo Buitrón-Jurado

2020

12 10 2020

16 5 1343 1346 E2E992EC-4A36-5084-8743-6284DAF4C35E 09 05 2020 20 09 2020

Jorge Córdova-González, May Platt, Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado

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Abstract

We report the second record of Puna Ibis, Plegadis ridgwayi J.A. Allen, 1876 (Aves, Threskiornithidae), from Ecuador and the first record of this species in seasonally dry tropical forests of the southwest of the country. An individual of P. ridgwayi was sighted in November in Zapotillo, Loja province, 440 km from the only previous record in Ecuador and 65 km from the northernmost Peruvian record. The new record from Ecuador, along with records from the northern coast of Peru, suggests that P. ridgwayi may be expanding its geographic distribution northward in this region.