FIFTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR ECUADORIAN RECORDS IN ORNITHOLOGY (CERO), WITH COMMENTS ON SOME PUBLISHED, UNDOCUMENTED RECORDS

• Published in: Revista Ecuatoriana de Ornitología
• Main Authors: Freile, Juan, Olmstead, Scott, Athanas, Nick, Brinkhuizen, Dusan, Navarrete, Lelis, Nilsson, Jonas, Sánchez-Nivicela, Manuel, Solano-Ugalde, Alejandro, Greenfield, Paul
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Red Aves Ecuador & USFQ PRESS 2020
• Subjects: Committee for Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology; hypothetical records; new country records; range extensions; Comité Ecuatoriano de Registros Ornitológicos; extensiones de distribución; nuevos registros; registros hipotéticos; Galapagos; Cora; Stercorarius longicaudus; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: https://revistas.usfq.edu.ec/index.php/reo/article/view/1990; https://doi.org/10.18272/reo.vi6.1990

Wepresent new distributional records of birds in Ecuador evaluated by the Committee for Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO) from November 2017 through June 2019. This report includes two species new to Ecuador (Pelecanoides garnotii,Conirostrum margaritae), five species with first documented country records (Thaumastura cora,Anous minutus,Setophaga pensylvanica,S. virens,Spiza americana), two species with first documented Galapagos records (Oceanodroma hornbyi,Egretta tricolor), remarkable range extensions for 15 species (Amazilia amazilia, Aramus guarauna, Vanellus chilensis,Attagis gayi,Anous stolidus,Sterna hirundo,Thalasseus elegans,T. sandvicensis, Eurypyga helias, Mycteria americana, Plegadis falcinellus,Gampsonyx swainsonii,Rosthramus sociabilis, Glaucidium peruanum, Thlypopsis sordida), new records of 16 rare species (Oressochen jubatus, Spatula cyanoptera, Podiceps major,Stercorarius longicaudus,Larus belcheri, Pelagodroma marina, Oceanodroma markhami, Egretta rufescens,Plegadis ridgwayi,Buteo swainsonii,Megascops koepckeae, Tyrannus albogularis, Setophaga castanea,Dolichonyx oryzivorus, Icterus chrysater,I. galbula) and additional records for 8 species. Finally, we invalidate previous records of Pyrilia pyriliapublished in different sources, reject records of six species submitted to CERO, and discuss six previously published, undocumented records that might prove erroneous. CERO revises and updates the country bird list, which currently stands at 1696 species (1642 confirmed and documented; 54 undocumented). Presentamos nuevos registros de distribución de aves del Ecuador que han sido evaluados por el Comité Ecuatoriano de Registros Ornitológicos (CERO) entre noviembre 2017 y junio 2019. Incluimos reportes de dos especies nuevas para Ecuador (Pelecanoides garnotii, Conirostrum margaritae), cinco especies con primera documentación en Ecuador (Thaumastura cora, Anous minutus,Setophaga pensylvanica,S. virens,Spiza americana), dos especies con primera documentación en Galápagos (Oceanodroma ...