Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015), SECTION B: LIFE SCIENCES
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015)

Observation on the Great Grebe Podiceps major (Aves: Podicipedidae) in Ecuador, with the first nesting record and description of calls

SECTION B: LIFE SCIENCES
Published 2015-05-22
Glenda M. Pozo-Zamora
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
Diego Batallas R.
Fundación Naturaleza Kakaram
Gabriela Echeverría-Vaca
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
César Garzón
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
Portada: Volumen 7 - Número 1
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Keywords

Podicipedidae
Podiceps major
La Tembladera
Tahuin
El Oro
breeding
natural history

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Pozo-Zamora, G. M., Batallas R., D., Echeverría-Vaca, G., & Garzón, C. (2015). Observation on the Great Grebe Podiceps major (Aves: Podicipedidae) in Ecuador, with the first nesting record and description of calls. ACI Avances En Ciencias E Ingenierías, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v7i1.220
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Abstract

We report two new localities for Podiceps major in Ecuador: La Tembladera wetland and the Tahuín dam. At the last locality we found the first nest from Ecuador, for which we describe its structure and the building behaviour of the couple. Furthermore, we describe the courtship and territorial calls of the species.

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