Henri Pittier National Park (VE031), Venezuela

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National Name: Parque Nacional Henri Pittier

Administrative Region: Aragua, Carabobo

Coordinates: 10°25'N 67°38'O       

Global IBA criteria: A1, A2 (033, 035), A3 (NAN, NSA)

Area: 107.800 ha

Altitude: 0-2.436 m

Protection: National Park

Neotropical Migratory Birds of Conservation Concern (7)

• Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
• Cerulean Warbler Dendroica cerulea
• American Golden-plover Pluvialis dominica
• Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia
• Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
• Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
• Canada Warbler Wilsonia canadensis

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The Henri Pittier National Park is situated in the center-west of the Serrania (cordillera) Littoral. This Park is the most representative montane protected area in Venezuela and protects a continuum of habitats from coastal lagoons and savannahs, right up to mountain cloud forests. It is here in the cloud forests where the famous Rancho Grande Biological Station was established; one of the best known tropical research stations in the Americas (BirdLife International 2005, in press).

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• Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
• Snowy Egret Egretta thula
• Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
• Great Egret Casmerodius albus
• Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
• Green Heron Butorides virescens
• Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
• Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
• Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
• Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
• Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
• Merlin Falco columbarius
• Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
• Sora Porzana carolina
• Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola
• Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
• Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
• Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
• Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
• Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
• Sanderling Calidris alba
• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
• Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
• Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
• White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
• Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
• Stilt Sandpiper Micropalama himantopus
• Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica
• Royal Tern Sterna maxima
• Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis
• Common Tern Sterna hirundo
• Least Tern Sterna antillarum
• Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
• Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
• Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
• Eastern Wood-pewee Contopus virens
• Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
• Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
• Grey Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
• Sand Martin Riparia riparia
• Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
• Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
• Veery Catharus fuscescens
• Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
• Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
• Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
• Tennessee Warbler Vermivora peregrina
• Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia
• Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanica
• Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia
• Black-throated Blue Warbler Dendroica caerulescens
• Black-throated Green Warbler Dendroica virens
• Blackburnian Warbler Dendroica fusca
• Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata
• Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
• American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
• Northern Waterthrush Seiurus noveboracensis
• Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
• Mourning Warbler Oporornis philadelphia
• Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
• Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula