Birds of Ambondrolava mangrove complex, southwest Madagascar

Charlie Gardner; Benjamin De Ridder; Carola De Ridder; Louise Jasper

doi:10.15560/8.1.001

Check List 8(1): 1-7, doi: 10.15560/8.1.001

Birds of Ambondrolava mangrove complex, southwest Madagascar

Charlier J. Gardner^‡, Carola De Ridder^§, Benjamin De Ridder^§, Louise D. Jasper

‡ University of Kent (United Kingdom) WWF Madagascar and Western Indian Ocean Programme Office, Madagascar§ Honko Mangrove Conservation & Education vzw, Belgium

Corresponding author: Charlier Gardner ( cjamgardner@yahoo.co.uk )

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: Gardner C, De Ridder B, De Ridder C, Jasper L (2012) Birds of Ambondrolava mangrove complex, southwest Madagascar. Check List 8(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.1.001

Abstract

Here we present the first bird species list for Ambondrolava (23°15’41” S, 43°37’42” E), a mangrove and freshwater wetland complex in dry southwest Madagascar. Sixty-nine species from 36 families were recorded, of which 14 species are endemic to Madagascar and 13 are endemic to the Madagascar region. Two globally threatened species were recorded: Charadrius thoracicus (Vulnerable) and Circus macrosceles (Vulnerable). With 36 species, Ambondrolava has the highest known wetland bird species diversity of any site in south and southwest Madagascar.

Keywords

avifauna; Madagascar