Aves Linnaeus, 1758 New records for the Jaú National Park, Amazonas, Brazil.docVIP

Chec List ISSN 1809-127X (online edition) ? 2010 Check List and Authors Open Access | Freely available .br Journal of species lists and distribution Aves Linnaeus, 1758: New records for the Jaú National Park, Amazonas, Brazil Ricardo Afonso M. de Almeida Funda??o Vitória Amaz?nica - Programa de Pesquisa Científica. Rua Estrela D’Alva, casa 146, Loteamento Parque Morada do Sol. Bairro Aleixo. CEP 69060-093. Manaus, AM, Brazil. E-mail: almeida@.br Abstract: As the result of some eight years of fieldwork, 469 bird species have been recorded at the Jaú National Park by the year 2002. Fieldwork conducted between 2000 and 2008 added 12 species to the list, including Myrmotherula klagesi, Cephalopterus ornatus, Campylorhamphus procurvoides, Venilinornis cassini, Pteroglossus aracari, Todirostrum pictum, Monasa atra, Porphyrio martinica, and Percnostola rufifrons which were restricted to fluvial islands of Rio Negro. All new records belong to species which are either little known, have very low natural densities, are patchily distributed or are vagrants. Jaú National Park (JNP) covers an area of 2,272,000 ha, some 200 km north-west of Manaus (Borges et al. 2004), on the lower Rio Negro, Amazonas state, Brazil. The avifauna of JNP has been studied since 1994 and birds are considered to be one of the park’s best known groups (Borges et al. 2001). The species recorded constitute some 50 % of the known central Amazonian avifauna. The first bird list for the park, the result of seven years of fieldwork, contained 445 species (Borges et al. 2001). Following an additional three years of work devoted to the “Windows of Biodiversity Project”, an additional 24 species were recorded, bringing the list to 469 species (Borges 2004). Between January 2003 and December 2005 I made monthly visits to JNP, resulting in the sampling of some months of the year that had not been well-covered in pr