Two new American Flamingo nesting sites recorded in Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo.- New nesting areas of the American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) have been reported in the Manglares de Estero Balsa National Park, Dominican Republic. This discovery was highlighted in a scientific note by Eladio Fernández (Propagas Foundation), María Paulino, and Luis Ramón Paulino (both from Grupo Acción Ecológica) in the 24th issue of Novitates Caribaea, a journal published by the National Museum of Natural History “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano.”

The same issue features the results of an aerial survey conducted by Joel Timyan and Anne-Isabelle Bonifassi from the National Trust of Haiti, along with Jean-Marry Exantus from the Episcopal University of Haiti. The survey inspected 19 wetlands using a fixed-wing aircraft over four days, documenting approximately 1,333 flamingos across five sites. Additionally, the researchers compiled historical and recent data to map the distribution of the species in Haiti.

Issue 24 of Novitates Caribaea includes a total of ten contributions: five articles and five notes. The authorship spans 30 researchers from 17 institutions across Cuba, the United States, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Switzerland, and Haiti.

Among the notable contributions is an article on the spatiotemporal patterns in the abundance and biomass of parrotfish on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. This article, authored by marine biologist Someira Zambrano from the Center for the Conservation and Ecodevelopment of Samaná Bay and its Environment (CEBSE), Dominican Republic, includes contributions from four other researchers.