Aves (Battisti & Sorace, 2006)

Battisti, Corrado, Cento, Michele, Fraticelli, Fulvio, Hueting, Steven & Muratore, Sergio, 2021, Vertebrates in the “ Palude di Torre Flavia ” Special Protection Area (Lazio, central Italy): an updated checklist, Natural History Sciences 8 (1), pp. 3-28 : 7

Aves

We found data for 224 autochtonous species (36 of them, 16%, breed in the study area and six probably breed), 14 non-native taxa and 6 domestic forms ( Tab. 4). Three species – Puffinus lherminieri Lesson, 1839, Garrulus glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758), Passer hispaniolensis (Temminck, 1820) – have not been confirmed. Also, two historical observations for Aythya marila (Linnaeus, 1761) (in 1962-1963: G. Lepri Angelini, pers. comm.) and Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas, 1773) (Patrizi Montoro, 1909; Brunelli & Fraticelli, 2010), were carried out outside the time range considered in this study and have not been included.

Forty-three species are of conservation concern according to the Italian Red List (Gustin et al., 2019): one species is Regionally Extinct, five are Critically Endan- gered, 15 are Endangered and 22 are Vulnerable. Sixty-seven species are included in the annex I of the EU 147/ 2009 ‘Birds’ Directive. Sixty-seven species are of conservation concern according to BirdLife international (BirdLife International, 2017): 13 of global conservation concern (SPEC 1), 17 of European conservation concern, concentrated in Europe (SPEC 2), 37 of European conservation concern, not concentrated in Europe (SPEC 3). Most of them are migratory birds.

Some other species were recorded immediately outside the study area and are not included in the checklist: for example, Ciconia nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) (2 ind., 18 Oct. 2012, M. Cento, A. Manganaro, pers. obs.; historical records: 1962 -1963: G. Lepri Angelini, pers. comm.) and Limnodromus scolopaceus (Furbara: Fraticelli, 1998). Although quantitative data on species density, frequency and diversity have been obtained with standardized methods (point counts, linear transects, mapping techniques, local atlases and photo-trapping), a good number of species, especially accidental ones, results from occasional observations by birdwatchers and professional ornithologists and from the local ringing station database (Sorace et al., 2001, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2015).