First documented record of the Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758) in mainland Ecuador

1 Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
2 Aves y Conservación / BirdLife Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
3 Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador
4 Department of Geography, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.1896v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Biodiversity, Zoology
Keywords
Alcenidae, Coraciiformes, new record, vagrant, Machalilla National Park, Manabí, boreal migrant, Ecuador
Copyright
© 2016 Cisneros-Heredia
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Cisneros-Heredia DF. 2016. First documented record of the Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758) in mainland Ecuador. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1896v1

Abstract

I present the first documented record of the Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon in mainland Ecuador. A young male M. alcyon was observed and photographed on the surroundings of Puerto López, province of Manabí, Ecuador in September 2005. A very rare vagrant in mainland Ecuador, M. alcyon was previously known from a single sighting in December 1995. In the absence of strong evidence for the occurrence of M. alcyon in mainland Ecuador, it remains classified as a hypothetical species in all country’s ornithological reference, pending corroborating evidence, which is now provided.

Author Comment

This manuscript contains the first vouchered record of a bird species from Ecuador. A version of this manuscript was submitted to a journal. However, this manuscript contains complete information about the record, and it will serve as a reference to other papers that study bird diversity in the Neotropics.