Rediscovery of the hummingbird Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) (Aves: Trochilidae) in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil

By

Bencke, Glayson Ariel.
Repenning, Márcio
Machado, Diogenes B.
Casas, Grasiela
García-Olaechea, Diego
Elizondo, Pablo
Franco, Danielle

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017-6-2

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

13

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

2133--6

Subjects

Araucaria Forest , Atlantic forest , Brazilian Ruby , Clytolaema , new records

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/13.3.2133

 

Abstract

We report the rediscovery of the hummingbird Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul after nearly 130 years without confirmed records. We captured 3 males and 1 female, and found 2 other birds (including an immature) at 3 sites in the municipalities of São Francisco de Paula and Cambará do Sul, in the northeast of the state. All records were at the top of the Southern Brazilian Plateau escarpment, at altitudes of about 900 m and near the southern limit of the Atlantic Forest.