. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Juan F. Freile 233 Bull. 2008 128(4) New distributional records of birds from western Ecuador, and comments on the avifauna of Isla de La Plata by Juan F. Freile Received 14 December 2007 Distribution of birds in Ecuador is fairly well documented based on more than a centu- ry of collections and field research recently summarised by Ridgely & Greenfield (2001), which facilitated the identification of 107 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in the country (Freile & Santander 2005). New distributional records are published with regularity as
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Juan F. Freile 233 Bull. 2008 128(4) New distributional records of birds from western Ecuador, and comments on the avifauna of Isla de La Plata by Juan F. Freile Received 14 December 2007 Distribution of birds in Ecuador is fairly well documented based on more than a centu- ry of collections and field research recently summarised by Ridgely & Greenfield (2001), which facilitated the identification of 107 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in the country (Freile & Santander 2005). New distributional records are published with regularity as new areas are explored or bird lists are compiled as a result of intensive field work. Here I present new records of birds from the western lowlands, based on visits to deciduous and semi- deciduous forests and wetlands of the Tumbesian Endemic Bird Area (Stattersfield et al. 1998). I also document new breeding records for Isla de la Plata (see Cisneros-Heredia 2005) and briefly discuss the dynamics of avian colonisation and breeding on this small continen- tal island. I follow Ridgely & Greenfield (2001) for systematics and BirdLife International. Figure 1. Map of western Ecuador showing study sites (circles and numbers, see Table 1). The grey-shaded area represents land above 600 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : British Ornithologists' Club
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