Keywords
new records
Tropical dry forests
Coastal wetlands
Caribbean
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Abstract
New localities for the Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris) in Colombia are detected, records for the Caribbean coast of Colombia come from the departments of Magdalena and La Guajira. The records are obtained in the birds in Tropical dry Forests and coastal wetlands monitoring program. The range extension of populations are an indicator of the deterioration of the natural ecosystems of the region, according to the anthropophily of the species.References
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