Check List 11(6): e19388, doi: 10.15560/11.6.1786
Fourteen new additions to the list of birds of Quindío department, Colombia
expand article infoEnrique Arbeláez-Cortés‡, Javier Ignacio Garzón-Z.§, María del Socorro Sierra‡, Fernando Forero‡, Pedro José Cardona-Camacho, Alejandro Bayer, Yully Andrea Beltrán-Arcila, Laura Milena Ramírez Urrea|, Gustavo Patiño, Jorge Enrique Morales-Sánchez#, Diego Duque-Montoya¤, Oscar Humberto Marín-Gómez|
‡ Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia§ Fundación para la Investigación y Conservación de Especies Nativas Neotropicales Continentales y Oceánicas Universidad del Quindío, Colombia| Universidad del Quindío, Colombia¶ Grupo de observadores de aves “Los Turpiales”, Colombia# Universidad Distrital “Francisco José de Caldas”, Colombia¤ Fundación Ornitológica del Quindío and Corporación Autónoma Regional del Quindío, Colombia

Corresponding author: Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés ( enriquearbelaez@gmail.com )

© 2017 Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés, Javier Garzón-Z., María Sierra, Fernando Forero, Pedro Cardona-Camacho, Alejandro Bayer, Yully Beltrán-Arcila, Laura Urrea, Gustavo Patiño, Jorge Morales-Sánchez, Diego Duque-Montoya, Oscar Marín-Gómez.
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Citation: Arbeláez-Cortés E, Patiño G, Garzón-Z. J, Beltrán-Arcila Y, Duque-Montoya D, Sierra M, Forero F, Urrea L, Cardona-Camacho P, Morales-Sánchez J, Bayer A, Marín-Gómez O (2015) Fourteen new additions to the list of birds of Quindío department, Colombia. Check List 11(6): 1786. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1786
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Abstract
Recent records of bird species in the Colombian Andes have shown that this region is not as well known as was previously believed. We compiled data from a major collection of Colombian birds and from our recent field observations to complement the bird species list of Quindío department. We report the addition of 14 species to Quindío’s checklist and data of museum vouchers for 12 species reported only from field observations. The majority of additions were from localities below 1,900 m above sea level, a zone that has been highly transformed by human activities. Our dataset, and other information, raised the number of bird species in Quindío to 560. This information must be considered in decisions about the land use in this region of the Colombian Andes.
Keywords
Andes; Aves; biodiversity; new records; South America