Birds of La Plata Island, Machalilla National Park, Ecuador
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Zoology
- Keywords
- Aves, Birds, Pacific coast, Ecuador, bird diversity, bird survey, South America, Ornithology
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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. Birds of La Plata Island, Machalilla National Park, Ecuador. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2181v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2181v1
Abstract
La Plata Island, Machalilla National Park, is located 30 km off the Ecuadorian coast. In June 2000, I surveyed the avifauna of La Plata Island. In total I observed 57 species of birds (25 families). At least 17 species are known to breed on the island; in fact, for mainland Ecuador, Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata, Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus, Nazca Booby Sula granti, and Red-footed Booby Sula sula only breed in La Plata. Long-tailed Mockinbird subspecies Mimus longicaudatus platensis is the only endemic bird taxon of the island. House Sparrow Passer domesticus is the only non-native species of the island. Brown Booby Sula leucogaster, Ecuadorian Ground-Dove Columbina buckleyi, Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus and Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster are reported for the first time on the island. Isla de La Plata maintains an important biodiversity, and it is necessary to implement conservation, management and tourism plans on a sustainable way along with long-term monitoring studies of the fauna and flora.
Author Comment
This is the abstract of a poster presented in October 2002 at the 1st Congress of Ecology and Environment of Ecuador (1er Congreso de Ecología y Ambiente, Ecuador País Megadiverso), at Quito, Ecuador.
The original version in Spanish is posted in the second page.
The image of the poster is published in figshare: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3180673.v2