Diversidad, endemismo, migración y estatus de conservación de las Aves del Parque Nacional Podocarpus

Abstract

Abstract: The Podocarpus National Park is a protected area of greater importance and size in the Tropical Andes of southern Ecuador. Researchers have tried to explain various topics related to the fauna it houses, the bird taxa being the best known, with 64 works published on them. The previous official list of Rasmussen and Rabeck (1994) published 25 years ago presents 558 registered species, other works have allowed the registration of a significant number of unreported species for this area, currently accounting for 642 species. This difference, which includes several new species or subspecies, is not recorded in any previous publication. For this reason, after 25 years of publication, it is necessary to update the official list of the PNP birds, allowing to establish the wealth and taxonomic diversity existing in this fauna group, as well as to define the levels of endemism, migration, conservation status national and global, in addition to defining future research priorities for the birds of this site, a key issue in the management of the area.