Bird Richness of Pantanos de Villa wildlife refugee, Chorrillos, Lima, Peru was documented, aperiodically between November 2004 to August 2007 employing 10 surveys by visual detection. The avian richness was 58 species, belonging to 47 genera, 26 families and 12 orders. Jacknife of first and second order and Chao-1 estimators of species richness indicated that could be registered at least 25, 43 and 56 more species and could be detected 69.8, 57.4 and 50.8%, respectively, of possible species that can occur in the study zone. The highest species richness and the higher value of Shannon index were recorded
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