Open AccessAn aberrant record of Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin (Statius Muller, 1976) (Aves: Opisthocomidae) in Venezuela
Author(s) -
Galo BuitrónJurado
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1809-127X
DOI - 10.15560/10.1.153
Subject(s) - geography , national park , archaeology , zoology , environmental protection , forestry , ecology , biology
I report an aberrant record of Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin in the Andes of Lara, Venezuela. During field work in July 2011 in the Yacambu National Park, in an area of premontane cloud forest, I observed and photographed an individual of O. hoazin in El Blanquito reservoir. This is the first record of the species in Lara State, and apparently the highest record of the species in northern South America.
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