Check List 17(5): 1261-1264, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1261
First record of Fulvous Whistling-duck, Dendrocygna bicolor (Vieillot, 1816) (Anseriformes, Anatidae), in the Rondônia state, Brazil
expand article infoRaul Afonso Pommer Barbosa‡, Daniel Camilo Teixeira§, Alisson Martins Albino|, Welington da Silva Paula do Nascimento, Ricardo Segundo da Silva Dutra#, Ariel Adorno de Sousa, Marcela Alvares Oliveira¤, André Luiz da Cruz Prestes#
‡ Clube de Astronomia e Ciências de Rondônia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil§ Universidade Nove de Julho, UNINOVE, São Paulo, Brazil| Programa de Pós- Graduação em Ciências Ambientais; Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil¶ Clube de Astronomia e Ciências de Rondônia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil# São Lucas Educacional – UniSl, Porto Velho, Brazil¤ Centro Universitário Aparício Carvalho, Porto Velho, Brazil

Corresponding author: Raul Afonso Pommer Barbosa ( raulpommer@hotmail.com )

Academic editor: Oscar Humberto Marín-Gómez
© Raul Afonso Pommer Barbosa, Daniel Camilo Teixeira, Alisson Martins Albino, Welington da Silva Paula do Nascimento, Ricardo Segundo da Silva Dutra, Ariel Adorno de Sousa, Marcela Alvares Oliveira, André Luiz da Cruz Prestes.
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Citation: Barbosa RAP, Teixeira DC, Albino AM, Nascimento WSP, Dutra RSS, Sousa AA, Oliveira MA, Prestes ALC (2021) First record of Fulvous Whistling-duck, Dendrocygna bicolor (Vieillot, 1816) (Anseriformes, Anatidae), in the Rondônia state, Brazil. Check List 17(5): 1261-1264. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1261
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Abstract

Based on field surveys, we report new distribution data of Fulvous Whistling-duck, Dendrocygna bicolor (Vieillot, 1816), from the state of Rondônia, southwestern Amazon, Brazil. This is the first record of D. bicolor from Rondônia and extend the geographic distribution of this species by 946 km from São Fabiano, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, and 688 km from Trinidad, Bolivia. 

Keywords
Migration, ornithology, range extension, tropical rainforest