New records and distribution extensions of some bird species in the Colombian Andean-Orinoco, department of Meta

Johanna Murillo-Pacheco; Wilian Bonilla-Rojas

doi:10.15560/12.2.1876

Check List 12(2): e19478, doi: 10.15560/12.2.1876

New records and distribution extensions of some bird species in the Colombian Andean-Orinoco, department of Meta

Johanna I. Murillo-Pacheco^‡, Wilian F. Bonilla-Rojas^§

‡ Universidad de los Llanos (Colombia) Universidad de Alicante, Spain§ Universidad de los Llanos Corporación Llanera de Ornitología y de la Naturaleza – KOTSALA, Colombia

Corresponding author: Johanna Murillo-Pacheco ( johannamurillo@gmail.com )

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Citation: Murillo-Pacheco J, Bonilla-Rojas W (2016) New records and distribution extensions of some bird species in the Colombian Andean-Orinoco, department of Meta. Check List 12(2): 1876. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.2.1876

Abstract

Here we present new records for four bird species to the Andean foothills of the department of Meta in Colombia, and we confirm the occurrence and document range extensions for these in the basin of the Orinoco river. These species are the Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps (Linnaeus 1758), the Yellow-chinned Spinetail, Certhiaxis cinnamomeus (Gmelin 1788), the Yellow-browed Tyrant, Satrapa icterophrys (Viellot 1818), and the Glossy Ibis, Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus 1766). We also report new sightings of the Prothonotary Warbler, Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert 1783), Least Grebe, Tachybaptus dominicus (Linnaeus 1766), Oilbird, Steatornis caripensis (Humboldt 1817) and Epaulet Oriole, Icterus cayanensis (Linnaeus 1766) in the Colombian Andean-Orinoco (Meta department).

Keywords

aquatic birds; East Andean piedmont; Orinoco basin river region; species confirmation; Villavicencio