Aves Nuevas o Poco Conocidas de Santa Fe (Argentina), Incluyendo los Sitios Ramsar Jaaukanigás y Melincué

Non-passerine birds from Laguna Melincué Ramsar Site, Santa Fe province, Argentina

“…These 109 species represent almost half of the non-passerine birds reported by Fandiño and Giraudo (2010) for the whole of Santa Fe province (i.e., 231 species). These results confirm the importance of this wetland as a site of high environmental heterogeneity and biological diversity within a homogeneous and lowdiversity agricultural matrix (Di Giacomo et al 2005;Romano et al 2005;Giraudo et al 2008;Romano et al 2014).…”

“…We have been conducting nonpasserine waterbird surveys at Laguna Melincué for more than 20 years. In this work, we update our own and others' previous published waterbird and landbird data (Romano et al 2005;Saggesse et al 2007;Giraudo et al 2008), including new records of non-passerine species taken during the last 12 years.…”

First records of Calidris canutus Linnaeus, 1758 (Charadriiformes, Scolopacidae) and Trogon surrucura Vieillot, 1817 (Trogoniformes, Trogonidae) for Entre Ríos province (Argentina), and noteworthy reports of other birds in protected areas

“…This species inhabits the central and southern parts of Brazil (states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Goiás, São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul), and eastern Paraguay, while in Argentina it is present in Misiones, northern Corrientes, eastern Formosa and Chaco, and northern Santa Fe. This observation represents the southernmost record of this species, 390 km south of its previously known distribution in Argentina (Ramsar Site Jaaukanigás, Reconquista, Santa Fe) (Giraudo et al 2008) and 650 km southwest from Cerro Largo, Uruguay (Claramunt and Cuello 2013).…”

A New Record of James's Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) from Laguna Melincué, a Lowland Wetland in East-Central Argentina

“…However, this is the first record of James's Flamingo in 20 years of systematic surveys in the Southern Santa Fe wetland complex (Romano et al 2005). A recent study listing new species records for Laguna Melincue ´does not mention James's Flamingo (Giraudo et al 2008), and a recent revision of the checklist of birds for Santa Fe province did not list this species (Fandin ˜o and Giraudo 2010). A series of 314 surveys carried out in different seasons at 66 wetlands in the southeast Co ´rdoba province from 2007-2010, less than 100 km from our study area, did not record the presence of James's Flamingos (Brandolin et al 2011).…”