First documented record of the Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 (Aves: Sternidae) in southeast Brazil

Davi Tavares; Jailson Moura; Salvatore Siciliano

doi:10.15560/9.4.806

Check List 9(4): 806-808, doi: 10.15560/9.4.806

First documented record of the Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 (Aves: Sternidae) in southeast Brazil

Davi Castro Tavares^‡, Jailson Fulgencio de Moura^§, Salvatore Siciliano^§

‡ Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Brazil§ Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública – FIOCRUZ, Brazil

Corresponding author: Davi Tavares ( wetlandbirdsbrazil@gmail.com )

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Citation: Tavares D, Moura J, Siciliano S (2013) First documented record of the Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 (Aves: Sternidae) in southeast Brazil. Check List 9(4): 806-808. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.4.806

Abstract

We report the first record of Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 on the southeastern Brazilian coast. During monthly bird surveys in the northern Rio de Janeiro State, on January 2012 we recovered a tern banded in Massachusetts, USA. The present record stretches the S. dougallii southernmost geographic distribution in Brazil (Bahia state) by about 600 km. It is difficult to evaluate this species’ regional status due to the absence of continuous sampling efforts.

Keywords

Aves; migratory seabird; southeastern Brazilian coast