Check List 13(3): e19944, doi: 10.15560/13.3.2143
First record of Aramus guarauna (Linnaeus, 1766) (Aves: Aramidae) in Chile
Víctor Bravo‡§,
Carlos Zuleta‡§,
César Piñones§‡ Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile§ Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Norte de Chile, La Serena, Chile
Corresponding author:
Víctor Bravo
(
vbravo.ceanor@gmail.com
)
Academic editor: Caio José Carlos © 2017 Víctor Bravo, Carlos Zuleta, César Piñones. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Bravo V, Zuleta C, Piñones C (2017) First record of Aramus guarauna (Linnaeus, 1766) (Aves: Aramidae) in Chile. Check List 13(3): 2143. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.3.2143 |  |
Abstract
Aramus guarauna (Linnaeus, 1766) (Aves, Aramidae), is a heron that lives in Neotropical America and mainly inhabits swamps and freshwater wetlands from the southeastern United States to central Argentina. However, there have also been a small number of records of the bird in the southern part of Argentina. Here, we report the first documented record of A. guarauna in Chile, on the edge of the Ramsar site, Las Salinas de Huentelauquén (Canela, Región de Coquimbo). The presence of Aramus in this zone could be due to its great ability to colonize new environments.
Keywords
Huentelauquén; limpkin new record; distribution range; foraging