First documented record of the Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 (Aves: Sternidae) in southeast Brazil

By

Tavares, Davi Castro
Moura, Jailson Fulgencio De
Siciliano, Salvatore

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013-8-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

9

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

806--808

Subjects

Aves , migratory seabird , Southeastern Brazilian coast

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/9.4.806

 

Abstract

We report the first record of Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 on the southeastern Brazilian coast. During monthly bird surveys in the northern Rio de Janeiro State, on January 2012 we recovered a tern banded in Massachusetts, USA. The present record stretches the S. dougallii southernmost geographic distribution in Brazil (Bahia state) by about 600 km. It is difficult to evaluate this species’ regional status due to the absence of continuous sampling efforts.