Aves, Charadriidae, Charadrius modestus Geographic distribution and a recent record to state of S o Paulo, Brazil.docVIP

Check List 4(4): 464–466, 2008. ISSN: 1809-127X NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION Aves, Charadriidae, Charadrius modestus: Geographic distribution and a recent record to state of S?o Paulo, Brazil César Cestari Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Caixa postal 199. CEP 13506-900. Rio Claro, SP, Brazil. E-mail: cesar_cestari@.br Rufous-chested Dotterel Charadrius modestus is a small to medium-sized plover (19 – 22 cm, 79 – 94 g) common in grasslands, estuaries, peninsulas and beaches (Carstairs 1989; Sick 1997). It has no recognized subspecies and its distribution is occasionally occurs (Sick 1997; Clements and Shany 2001). Adult breeding plumage is distinguished by brown cap almost encircled by white supercilious. Face, cheeks and throat are clean ash-grey; lower neck and breast bright rufous, bordered below by a fairly broad black band. Upperparts are brown/grey. The adult non-breeding plumage, rufous, black and grey is lost. The forehead is pale buff, speckled darker and the supercilious is cream. Breast is predominantly grey-brown and mottled paler (Hayman et al. 1986; Figure 1). estimated in 410,000 km , including the territories 2 of Falkland Island, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Peru (Delany and Scott 2002; BirdLife International 2004; Infonatura 2007). The species is regarded a rare austral migrant in the south coast of Peru (north of Lima) and southeast coast of Brazil (S?o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) where it Figure 1. Non-breeding individual of Rufous-chested Dotterel photographed at Rio Una Estuary located in Juréia-Itatins Ecological Reserve, south coast of state of S?o Paulo. Photo by C. Cestari. 464  Check List 4(4): 464–466, 2008. ISSN: 1809-127X NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION The population size of Rufous-chested D