Check List 14(3): 519-522, doi: 10.15560/14.3.519
First documented record of the Stripe-backed Bittern, Ixobrychus involucris (Vieillot, 1823) (Aves, Ardeidae) in Peru
Rachel Kilby‡, Mauricio Ugarte§, Stuart Timson|, Dennys Góngora Romero‡‡ Reserva Ecológica Taricaya, Puerto Maldonado, Peru§ Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru| Projects Abroad, London, United Kingdom
Corresponding author: Mauricio Ugarte ( mugartelewis@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Michael J. Andersen © 2018 Rachel Kilby, Mauricio Ugarte, Stuart Timson, Dennys Góngora Romero. 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:
Kilby R, Ugarte M, Timson S, Romero DG (2018) First documented record of the Stripe-backed Bittern, Ixobrychus involucris (Vieillot, 1823) (Aves, Ardeidae) in Peru. Check List 14(3): 519-522. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.3.519 |  |
Abstract
We report the sighting and capture of a Stripe-backed Bittern, Ixobrychus involucris (Vieillot, 1823), in the Reserva Ecológica Taricaya, 26 km northeast of Puerto Maldonado on the margin of the Madre de Dios River, department of Madre de Dios, southeast Peru. This record confirms the presence of the species for the country, likely as a rare austral migrant. There have been 4 undocumented observations in 40 years, all of them restricted to the Madre de Dios department in the extreme southeast of the country.
Keywords
Madre de Dios; new record; Reserva Ecológica Taricaya.