Check List 13(3): e19735, doi: 10.15560/13.3.2133
Rediscovery of the hummingbird Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) (Aves: Trochilidae) in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil
expand article infoGlayson A. Bencke‡, Márcio Repenning§, Diogenes B. Machado|, Grasiela Casas, Diego García-Olaechea#, Pablo Elizondo¤, Danielle Franco«
‡ Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil§ Curso de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil| Centro de Estudos em Manejo de Aves Silvestres, Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil¶ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil# Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Peru¤ Costa Rica Bird Observatories, Costa Rica« Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Corresponding author: Glayson Bencke ( gabencke@fzb.rs.gov.br )

© 2017 Glayson Bencke, Márcio Repenning, Diogenes Machado, Grasiela Casas, Diego García-Olaechea, Pablo Elizondo, Danielle Franco.
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Citation: Bencke G, Repenning M, Elizondo P, Machado D, García-Olaechea D, Casas G, Franco D (2017) Rediscovery of the hummingbird Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) (Aves: Trochilidae) in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Check List 13(3): 2133. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.3.2133
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Abstract
We report the rediscovery of the hummingbird Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul after nearly 130 years without confirmed records. We captured 3 males and 1 female, and found 2 other birds (including an immature) at 3 sites in the municipalities of São Francisco de Paula and Cambará do Sul, in the northeast of the state. All records were at the top of the Southern Brazilian Plateau escarpment, at altitudes of about 900 m and near the southern limit of the Atlantic Forest.
Keywords
Atlantic Forest; Araucaria forest; Brazilian Ruby; Clytolaema; new records