Three bird species new to Brazil from the serra da mocidade, a remote mountain in Roraima

• Autor(a) principal: Laranjeiras, Thiago Orsi
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Melinski, Ramiro Dário, Naka, Luciano Nicol?s, Leite, Gabriel Augusto, Lima, Gisiane Rodrigues, D'Affonsêca Neto, José Anselmo, Cohn-Haft, Mario
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do INPA
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15315
• topic: Bird; Data Interpretation; Geographical Distribution; Montane Forest; Mountain Region; New Species; Taxonomy; Understory; Mount Roraima; Pacaraima Mountains; Aves; Catharus Aurantiirostris; Emberizinae; Grallaria Guatimalensis; Motacilla; Turdidae

From 15 January to 06 February 2016, we conducted an expedition to the Serra da Mocidade, a remote and previously unexplored mountain range in extreme northern Amazonian Brazil. There we encountered three bird species never before documented in Brazilian territory: Grallaria guatimalensis (Grallariidae) was photographed, audio recorded, video recorded and a single specimen collected; Catharus aurantiirostris (Turdidae) was similarly documented and a series of specimens collected; and a single individual of Parkesia motacilla (Parulidae) was photographed. All were found in the understory of montane forest at 1000–1550 m elevation. We interpret each of these as most likely representing a regularly occurring population on Mocidade. However, each had probably been overlooked in Brazil for a different reason and represents a distinct distributional pattern. Adding these novelties to Brazil's previously published total of 1919 species clearly expresses the country's position among the most bird-rich in the world, perhaps the richest, and suggests that further exploration of Brazil's Amazonian mountains will yield more discoveries. © 2019, Sociedade Brasileira de Ornitologia. All rights reserved.