Puno

Naturalist inventory of a high mountain forest area in the department of Puno (Peru)

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Participants: Fabrice Schmitt, Eric Buchel, Eric Didner, Frédéric Maillot.
Main results: first contact with a species new to science (an antwren Herpsilochmus nov. sp. ); census of rare species; severeal range extensions.
Follow-up: Following the suspicion of a new species, Dan Lane and a team from Louisiana State University went to the site and collected a pair of antwren, confirming that it was indeed a new species for the science. Description is in progress.
Communication: a scientific article describing the new species with Fabrice as co-author is in preparation.