Title
First record of the gray-legged tinamou, crypturellus duidae, and other poor-soil specialist birds from peatlands in the putumayo river basin, loreto, Peru
Date Issued
01 April 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
Abstract
Crypturellus duidae (Tinamidae) is a poor-soil specialist with isolated populations in Amazonia, and is considered restricted to white-sand forest habitats. We report the first record of C. duidae in a peatland forest in northern Peru, in the Putumayo River basin. Our record extends the known distribution of C. duidae between two disjoint areas of occurrence in Peru and Colombia, and shows its presence in peatland forest, another forest type on nutrient-poor soils. Additionally, we report the presence of other poor-soil specialist bird species that were previously registered in peatlands. Together with the new record of C. duidae, these bird records provide evidence of the diversity of poor-soil specialists in peatland forests.
Start page
155
End page
158
Volume
50
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85090722965
Source
Acta Amazonica
ISSN of the container
00445967
Sponsor(s)
We thank the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana for funding our fieldwork and the Proyecto Especial Binacional Desarrollo Integral de la Cuenca del Rio Putumayo for support. We thank the entire field team involved in the inventory: Geancarlo Coello, Claudia Ramos, Guillisa Flores, Ian Medina, Jorge Pizarro, Amilcar Ortiz, Victor Vásquez and Kember Mejía. We thank members of the Mashunta, Santa Rita, and Nueva Jerusalen indigenous communities for support in the field. We thank Luis Torres and Marcos Ríos for sharing information about peatlands in Peru, and Surecht Ruiz for assistance in preparing the map in Figure 1. Finally, we thank Claudia Keller, Sergio Borges and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on the manuscript.
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