Avifauna of Dinira National Park, Venezuela

Adrián Naveda-Rodríguez; Francisco Bisbal

doi:10.15560/4.3.373

Check List 4(3): 373-381, doi: 10.15560/4.3.373

Avifauna of Dinira National Park, Venezuela

Adrián Naveda-Rodríguez^‡, Francisco Bisbal^‡

‡ Museo de la Estación Biológica de Rancho Grande, Venezuela

Corresponding author: Adrián Naveda-Rodríguez ( adrian.naveda@gmail.com )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Naveda-Rodríguez A, Bisbal F (2008) Avifauna of Dinira National Park, Venezuela. Check List 4(3): 373-381. https://doi.org/10.15560/4.3.373

Abstract

This is a preliminary inventory of the avifauna of Dinira National Park (DNP), northeastern of Venezuelan Andes, a region that is poorly known ornithologically. In the field work (30 days), 127 bird species (10 orders, 41 families) were recorded, ca. 9 % of the total birds known to Venezuela. From them, just three corresponding to endemic species (2.4 %) whereas 14 (11.0 %) were migrants. Also, new important range extensions were documented, especially for some birds previously reported in Táchira and Mérida states (Merganetta armata and Dendrocincla tyrannina). From recorded species 33 are threatened in different levels, but only five of them are protected by Venezuelan laws.

Keywords

avifauna; Venezuela; Andes; species inventory