First documented record of the Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758) in mainland Ecuador
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Zoology
- Keywords
- Alcenidae, Coraciiformes, new record, vagrant, Machalilla National Park, Manabí, boreal migrant, Ecuador
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- © 2016 Cisneros-Heredia
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2016. First documented record of the Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758) in mainland Ecuador. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1896v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1896v1
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.