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Unusual records of waterbirds in Costa Rice: possible connection to El Niño 2015-2016


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LUIS SANDOVAL1, VÍCTOR J. ACOSTA-CHAVES1,2, DIEGO OCAMPO1, CHUCK MORA3, ANDRÉS CAMACHO4, DANIEL MARTÍNEZ5 & CÉSAR SÁNCHEZ6,7
1Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, CP-11501-2060, San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica (biosandoval@hotmail.com)
2Fundación Rapaces de Costa Rica, PO Box 1626-3000 Heredia, Costa Rica
3Edificio Pánfilo #19, Av. 4, Calles 6 & 8, Heredia, Costa Rica
4San José, Costa Rica
5AP 497-7050, Cartago, Costa Rica
6Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
7Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Citation

SANDOVAL, L., ACOSTA-CHAVES, V.J., OCAMPO, D., MORA, C, CAMACHO, A., MARTÍNEZ, D., & SÁNCHEZ, C. 2016. Unusual records of waterbirds in Costa Rice: possible connection to El Niño 2015-2016. Marine Ornithology 44: 167 - 169

Received 13 March 2016, accepted 27 April 2016

Date Published: 2016/10/15
Date Online: 2017/02/28

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