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Further Notes on Puna Bird Species on the Coast of Peru SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 93 sideringthe Dusky-cappedFlycatchers as residents(a con- John Terborgh, Diane Wiernasz, and Edwin Willis for servativebias, since they couldbe either residentor migrant) their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manu- the percentageof migrantswas 62%, roughly twice as high script. Princeton University provided partial funding for asWillis ’s highestaverage migrant percentageof migrants. our travel. We thank members of John Terborgh’s 1982 Tropical Ecology Field Course for their assistancein the field. We Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. Received 14 April 1983. Final accep- are indebted to William Brown for identifying the army tance 19 August 1983. ants. We are grateful to David Pearson, Scott Robinson, The Condor 86:93 Fulica gigantea. Giant Coot. On 17 July 1983, B. Wyper 0 The Cooper Ornithological Soclety 1984 and I watched a Giant Coot at Mejia as it fed among a crowd of Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) and other coots FURTHER NOTES ON PUNA (Fulica americana and F. ardesiaca), appearingthree times the size of the former and twice the size of the latter. This BIRD SPECIES ON THE coot has been previously recorded only once at sea level, COAST OF PERU also at Mejia, where one was presentbetween 8 December 1979 and 4 January 1980 (Hughes 1980). The vagrancy of this apparently flightlessspecies (FjeldsB 1981) seems R. A. HUGHES particularly noteworthy. Charadrius alticola. Puna Plover. Seenevery year since 1979 at Mejia, with up to six individuals at a time. The Twelve speciesof birds from the puna zone (high altitude) recordsare largelyfrom July through October. This plover of the Andes have been reported on the coast of Peru has been recorded several times for the coast region of (Pearsonand Plenge 1974, Hughes 1980). (The extent and Deptos. Lima and Ica (Pearsonand Plenge 1974) and the characterof the puna zone were describedbriefly by Pear- speciesis apparently a regularvisitor in small numbers to son and Plenge.) I here report two additional species,nei- coastalArequipa as well. ther ofwhich has previouslybeen recordedfrom the coast. Cinclodes atacamensis. White-winged Cinclodes.On 3 1 Phoenicoparrus jamesi. Puna Flamingo. On 27 March October 1981, I saw an individual on the banks of the 1982, Elizabeth Forster and I saw a sinale bird at Meiia river Tambo at Puente Fiscal, near Cocachacra,Depto. Lagoons on the coast of Depto. Arequipa. Its uniformly Arequipa, at an altitude of 160 m above sea level. The dark red legswere its most striking field mark but we also only previous coastalobservation of this specieswas of a noted its relatively short bill and pale coloration. The bird single bird at Mollendo. Depto. Arequipa. in Januarv- remained at the lagoonsat least until 27 July. The Puna February 1980 (Hughes 1980). _ _ Flamingo has a restrictedrange in the high Andes between The Andean Gull (Laws serranusl and the Chilean Fla- southwesternPeru and the northern extremities of Chile mingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) have been shown to visit and Argentina, frequenting saline lakes above 4,000 m. the coastregularly from the puna zone, the gull widespread The only previous report from a relatively low latitude and the flamingo at certain favored locations, suchas Par- appearsto be that of three birds found at less than 1,000 acasBay, Depto. Ica, and Mejia, Depto. Arequipa (Pearson m at Oran, province of Salta, Argentina, during July 1966 and Plenge1974). The Puna Ibis (Plegadis ridgwayz] should (Johnson 1972). now be added to the list: it occurs annually at Mejia, Recurvirostra andina. Andean Avocet. This specieshas occasionallyin flocks of 20 or more (July 1982) but more now appeared for three consecutive years at the Mejia often singlyor in groupsof 3-6. Although I have additional Lagoons.I sawa singlebird from 29 Augustto 8 September Mejia recordsfor the Puna Teal (Anas puna) and Andean 1981 and another was found on 11 June 1982. remaining Lapwing (Vanellus resplendens), these two speciescannot until 3 July. Yet another was located on 1 March 1985 be regarded as more than casual visitors to the coast of and it was still presenton 17 July; this last individual was Peru. seen by several observers,including B. Wyper, B. Wylie, J. P. Myers, T. Schulenberg,S. Allen and E. Ortiz. In all LITERATURE CITED instancesthe avocets associatedwith the resident Black- wingedStilts (Himantopus himantopus) and frequentlybe- FJELDSA,J. 1981. Biological notes on the Giant Coot haved aggressivelytoward them. The Andean Avocet nor- (Fulica gigantea). Ibis 123~423-437. mally inhabits saline lakes in the high Andes, rangingbe- HUGHES,R. A. 1980. Additional puna zone bird species tween central Peru and northwestern Argentina. I know on the coast of Peru. Condor 82:475. of only one previous record from an altitude below the JOHNSON,A. W. 1965. The birds of Chile and adjacent puna zone: a single bird at 330 m in the Huasco Valley, regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. Vol. 1. Platt province of Atacama, Chile (Johnson 1965). EstablecimientosGraficos SA, BuenosAires. Intensified birding in recent years along the south coast JOHNSON,A. W. 1972. Supplement to the birds of Chile of Peru-principally at Mejia-reveals that other puna and adjacent regionsof Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. zone species reach the coast more frequently than was Platt EstablecimientosGraficos SA, BuenosAires. hitherto suspected.This is borne out by the following ob- PEARSON,D. L., AND M. A. PLENGE. 1974. Puna bird servations: specieson the coast of Peru. Auk 9 1:626-63 1. Podiceps occipitalis. Silvery Grebe. On 22 May 1983, SCHULENBERG,T. W., AND T. A. PARKER,III. 1981. Sta- B. Wyper saw a pair of these grebesat Mejia Lagoonsand tus and distribution of somenorthwest Peruvian birds. I saw what were presumablythe same two on 25 June and Condor 83:209-216. 8 July. On 10 July, three birds were present, these being seen by B. Wyper, T. Schulenberg,S. Allen, and me. The only previous sea-level sighting of this specieswas of a Casilla 62, Mollendo, Peru. Received 14 October 1982. lone bird near Puerto Eten, Depto. Lambayeque, on 21 Final acceptance29 July 1983. July 1978 (Schulenbergand Parker 1981). .
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