Jennifer R. Powell‡, Jonathan P. Slifkin§, Frank T. Spooner|, Jeffrey Roth¶, Laurie Allnatt#, Ryan Andrews¤, Matt Smokoska«Corresponding author: Jennifer R. Powell ( jennifer.powell@mail.utoronto.ca ) Academic editor: Rodolpho Credo Rodrigues © Jennifer R. Powell, Jonathan P. Slifkin, Frank T. Spooner, Jeffrey Roth, Laurie Allnatt, Ryan Andrews, Matt Smokoska. 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:
Powell JR, Slifkin JP, Spooner FT, Roth J, Allnatt L, Andrews R, Smokoska M (2022) Bird species inventory in secondary tropical montane cloud forest at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica. Check List 18(1): 17-65. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.1.17 |  |
The tropical montane cloud forests (TMCF) of the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica are a unique and understudied habitat that is home to a high number of endemic bird species. Cloudbridge Nature Reserve is a TMCF reforestation reserve lying on the Pacific slope of Cerro Chirripó in the cantón of Pérez Zeledón. Here, we synthesize data collected at Cloudbridge between March 2016 and May 2020 from multi-year point count, walking, call-playback, and camera trap surveys along with photographs collected from February 2007 to April 2021 to present a bird species inventory of the reserve. In total, 204 bird species from 40 families, including 40 endemic species, were identified, and monthly presence summarized for each species. We discuss the implications of our findings for understanding TMCF avian communities, as well as the importance of year-round surveys using a variety of techniques to better capture overall avian diversity.