Check List 11(6): e19401, doi: 10.15560/11.6.1799
Non-passerine birds from Laguna Melincué Ramsar Site, Santa Fe province, Argentina
expand article infoMarcelo Romano‡, Ignacio Martín Barberis§, Marcelo Luppi, Fernando Pagano|
‡ Centro de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Ambiente, Argentina§ Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina| Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Corresponding author: Marcelo Romano ( marcelo_romano@fake_email.org )

© 2017 Marcelo Romano, Ignacio Barberis, Marcelo Luppi, Fernando Pagano.
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Citation: Romano M, Luppi M, Barberis I, Pagano F (2015) Non-passerine birds from Laguna Melincué Ramsar Site, Santa Fe province, Argentina. Check List 11(6): 1799. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1799
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Abstract
We present a waterbird inventory of the Laguna Melincué Ramsar Site in southern Santa Fe province, Argentina. We record 109 species from 28 families of non-passerine birds, including the 14 Nearctic species, four southern austral migrant species, three northern austral migrants, 17 partial migrants, and two altitudinal migrants. The eight most abundant species belong to different families and trophic groups. Thirty-six species were observed nesting or rearing chicks. This baseline knowledge of non-passerine birds will be useful to assist future conservation studies in this highly threatened area.
Keywords
agroecosystems; Pampas; waterbirds; wetlands; Laguna Melincué Ramsar Site