First documented record of Amazilia tzacatl (de la Llave, 1893) (Aves, Trochilidae) in the Colombian Orinoco region and comments of its distribution at the eastern Andes

Orlando Acevedo-Charry; Orlando E. Acevedo-S.; Sonia I. Charry B.

doi:10.15560/14.1.87

Check List 14(1): 87-91, doi: 10.15560/14.1.87

First documented record of Amazilia tzacatl (de la Llave, 1893) (Aves, Trochilidae) in the Colombian Orinoco region and comments of its distribution at the eastern Andes

Orlando Acevedo-Charry^‡, Orlando E. Acevedo-S.^§, Sonia I. Charry B.^|

‡ Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico§ Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá DC, Colombia| Unaffiliated, Bogotá DC, Colombia

Corresponding author: Orlando Acevedo-Charry ( acevedocharry@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Nárgila Gomes de Moura

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: Acevedo-Charry O, Acevedo-S. O, Charry B. SI (2018) First documented record of Amazilia tzacatl (de la Llave, 1893) (Aves, Trochilidae) in the Colombian Orinoco region and comments of its distribution at the eastern Andes. Check List 14(1): 87-91. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.1.87

Abstract

Land use change and anthropic colonization influence forest degradation and biodiversity turnover. We present the first documented record of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl, for the eastern slope of the Andes-Orinoco region of Colombia. This hummingbird is widely known as a “non-forest” species in lowlands in the west of the Andes. We discuss recent observations in the eastern Andes. These records could be associated with land use change and deforestation fronts through the Andes.

Keywords

Andean passes; Arauca; colonization of generalist species; deforestation; hummingbird distribution; piedmont