Title
Rediscovery of the hummingbird Heliodoxa rubricauda (Boddaert, 1783) (Aves: Trochilidae) in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil
Date Issued
02 June 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
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.
Volume
13
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia animal, Ciencia de productos lácteos
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85020397096
Source
Check List
ISSN of the container
1809127X
Sponsor(s)
To Lucídio and Sônia Goelzer, for inviting and allowing GAB and DBM to survey hummingbirds at their home garden in São Francisco de Paula, Vitor de Q. Piacentini, who helped identify the voice recording, and Geral Mayr (Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt), for providing the photograph of Ihering’s specimen. Adriana A. Aguillar and Lana Resende helped DF in the field and Ricardo A. Ramos and Marcos V. Cazali produced the map (Fig. 2) at the Laboratório de Geoprocessamento da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul. The authors also thank PUCRS university for authorization to conduct research and run the BBMA course at the CPCN Pró-Mata. The BBMA course was sponsored by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), with support from the National Audubon Society, Louisiana Bird Observatory, Costa Rica Bird Observatories, Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) and Associação Brasileira de Ciência Ecológica e Conservação (ABECO).
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