Juan Manuel Fernandez‡, Luz Thomann‡, Blas Fandiño§, Rodrigo Cajade‡, Alejandra Hernando‡Corresponding author: Juan Manuel Fernandez ( fzjmanuel@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Oscar Humberto Marín-Gómez © Juan Manuel Fernandez, Luz Thomann, Blas Fandiño, Rodrigo Cajade, Alejandra Hernando. 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:
Fernandez JM, Thomann L, Fandiño B, Cajade R, Hernando A (2021) An annotated checklist of birds of Paraje Tres Cerros, Corrientes province, Argentina. Check List 17(2): 415-443. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.415 |  |
We provide an updated checklist of birds of a unique landscape in northeastern Argentina, which is characterized by three isolated, rocky outcrops and their surrounding agroecosystem. We recorded 188 bird species, including nine that are globally or nationally threatened. We highlight the presence of several grassland-specialist birds of conservation concern. Of the species recorded, 80.6% are residents and 17.7% are migrants. The heterogeneity of the landscape and its structural complexity accounts the existence of a high avian species diversity, which includes both generalists and specialists. This study confirms the conservation value of this ecosystem, due both to the rocky outcrops and grassland matrix. Grasslands are one of the most threatened biomes in the world.