Inventory of birds in the riparian forest of the National Intercultural University of the Amazon

Abstract

The present work was developed at the University campus of the Intercultural National University of the Amazon (INUA) in Ucayali - Peru, during the wet season that corresponds to December 2017. The objective was to determine which ornithological species exist within the environments destined for the future, like a Botanical Garden. The methodology used was to evaluate 31 stations or counting points, within the campus. The results of the first ornithological inventory carried out at the National Intercultural University of the Amazon, show a record of 283 individuals with a total of 54 species, belonging to 22 families and 14 orders, with Cacicus cela being the species with the largest distribution range. The most representative order was the Passeriformes, composed of the families Icteridae, Fringillidae, Furnaridae, Thamnophilidae, Thraupidae, Tyrannidae and Troglodytidae. The most representative family was the Thraupidae, with the species, Ramphocelus carbo, Thraupis episcopus, Thraupis palmarum, Saltator maximus, Sporophila murallae.