Check List 13(5): 411-415, doi: 10.15560/13.5.411
First record of the Sungrebe, Heliornis fulica (Boddaert, 1783) (Gruiformes, Heliornithidae), from Piauí, northeastern Brazil
Leonardo Moura dos Santos Soares‡, André Bastos da Silva§, Anderson Guzzi‡ Universidade Federal do Piauí, Bom Jesus, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Brazil
Corresponding author: Leonardo Moura dos Santos Soares ( leonardomss65@hotmail.com ) Academic editor: Johan Ingels © 2017 Leonardo Moura dos Santos Soares, André Bastos da Silva, Anderson Guzzi. 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:
Soares LMS, Silva AB, Guzzi A (2017) First record of the Sungrebe, Heliornis fulica (Boddaert, 1783) (Gruiformes, Heliornithidae), from Piauí, northeastern Brazil. Check List 13(5): 411-415. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.411 |  |
Abstract
This study presents the first record of the Sungrebe Heliornis fulica for the state of Piauí in northeastern Brazil, a first sighting also in a Cerrado/Caatinga ecotone. On 19 December 2014, a female Sungrebe was collected by a local fisherman in the Corrente River located between the towns of Capitão de Campos and Piripiri in the northcentral part of the state of Piauí.
Keywords
Ecotone; Parnaíba River watershed; Corrente River; aquatic bird; geographic distribution; conservation