Biota from the coastal wetlands of Praia da Vitória (Terceira, Azores, Portugal): Part 3 – Birds

Abstract

The data presented here come from field observations of Aves between August 2013 and October 2018 as part of a LIFE research project aiming to preserve and restore three coastal wetlands from Praia da Vitória (Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal). Systematic monthly observations were carried out for five years in order to provide a checklist and monitoring of bird species and subspecies observed in three sites: Paul da Praia da Vitória (PPV), Paul do Belo Jardim (PBJ) and Paul da Pedreira do Cabo da Praia (PPCP). Main objectives were to determine their ornithological richness while also adding data to the overall knowledge of Azorean Avifauna and to monitor seasonal and between-year variation on species abundance.During a five-year observation period (2013-2018), a total of 82,985 birds belonging to 108 species/subspecies were observed. From this, 16,663 were in PPV, 11,793 from PBJ and 54,529 from PPCP. The total richness was 55, 40 and 85, respectively. Three species are first records for the Azores:Aythyaamericana(Eyton, 1838);Chlidoniasleucopterus(Temminck, 1815) andTringabrevipes(Vieillot, 1816). One species is a new record for Terceira Island:Lophodytescucullatus(Linnaeus, 1758).

Biota from the coastal wetlands of Praia da Vitória (Terceira, Azores, Portugal): Part 4 – Vascular plants

“…This is the fourth contribution, based on a comprehensive project that aimed to inventory the biota of a rare habitat in the Azores (coastal wetland). In previous contributions, arthropods (Borges et al 2018), bryophytes (Gabriel et al 2019) and birds (Goulart et al 2019) were listed with taxonomical and ecological remarks. Amongst those records, 11 were new for the Azores and 19 were new for Terceira.…”

“…Since the earlier works by Dias et al (1991), Morton et al (1997) and Morton et al (1998), the first comprehensive study of Praia da Vitória wetlands was done by the LIFE-CWR coastal wetlands restoration project, under the responsibility of Praia da Vitória Municipality. The present data paper is the fourth of a series dealing with the biota from these coastal wetlands (see Borges et al 2018, Gabriel et al 2019, Goulart et al 2019).…”

Biota of coastal wetlands of Praia da Vitória (Terceira Island, Azores): Part 2 - Bryophytes

“…The three coastal wetlands of Praia da Vitória municipality are a case in point, well worth restoration and habitat protection. The areas, studied during the LIFE-CWR Project – Paul da Praia da Vitória (PPV), Paul do Belo Jardim (PBJ) and Paul da Pedreira do Cabo da Praia (PPCP) – are best known for their birds (Barcelos et al 2015; Dias 2018; Goulart et al 2019); however, they harbour other important and interesting biological groups, such as molluscs and arthropods (Martins and Borges 2019), plants and lichens (Elias et al 2019).…”