Category: Waterfowl of Colombia
#waterfowl The concern of many Colombians are those with their work they have volunteered to alleviate the beauty of waterbirds and their importance for the country's aquatic ecosystems, these people have been turning to wetlands to count birds for more than two decades now. This document was also published in commemoration of the first thirty years of the Calidris Association in order to further promote the study and conservation of waterbirds in Colombia and the rest of the Americas. The Calidris Association is a non-governmental organization (NGO), non-profit, based in Cali, Colombia, that works to learn more about the national avifauna. It is currently carrying out research and education processes in different parts of the country,
When compared to Colombian “terrestrial” ornithology, the actual research on the country's waterfowl is relatively recent. Only what was previously mentioned about the personal work of some volunteers It can be said that except for a few works from the end of the 19th century (Robinson 1895, Townsend 1895) and the first two decades of the twentieth century (Allen 1900a, b, Chapman 1917, Todd and Carriker 1922, Nicephorus-Mary 1923), the study of waterfowl in Colombia did not begin until the mid-1930s with Murphy's work on South American seabirds (1936) and the pioneering contributions made by Dugand (1939, 1940) in the Magdaleno-Caribe region. This research on avifauna associated with marine and freshwater aquatic environments in the country progressed relatively slowly until the end of the 1970s (Figure 1). Between 1940 and 1959, the main contributions were made by José Ignacio Borrero and Armando Dugand. While the former had a strong interest throughout this period in gathering information about the Anatidae family as a hunting resource (eg Borrero 1944, 1947, 1958), several of Dugand's works (1947a, b and c) were the first to concentrate on species associated with marine environments. Over the next 20 years, the number of researchers interested in Colombian waterfowl increased markedly, but progress in the state of knowledge was not significant,
Here are some species already seen and with some recorded information
