Fourteen new additions to the list of birds of Quindío department, Colombia

By

Arbeláez Cortés, Enrique
Garzón-Z., Javier Ignacio
Sierra, María Del Socorro
Forero, Fernando
Cardona-Camacho, Pedro José
Bayer, Alejandro
Beltrán-Arcila, Yully Andrea
Urrea, Laura Milena Ramírez
Patiño, Gustavo
Morales-Sánchez, Jorge Enrique
Duque-Montoya, Diego
Marín-Gómez, Oscar Humberto

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-11-4

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1786--9

Subjects

Andes , Aves , Biodiversity , new records , South America

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1786

 

Abstract

Recent records of bird species in the Colombian Andes have shown that this region is not as well known as was previously believed. We compiled data from a major collection of Colombian birds and from our recent field observations to complement the bird species list of Quindío department. We report the addition of 14 species to Quindío’s checklist and data of museum vouchers for 12 species reported only from field observations. The majority of additions were from localities below 1,900 m above sea level, a zone that has been highly transformed by human activities. Our dataset, and other information, raised the number of bird species in Quindío to 560. This information must be considered in decisions about the land use in this region of the Colombian Andes.