In last decades, populations and habitats of aquatic birds inhabiting coastal lagoons have declined dramatically,
because to several anthropic factors affecting their ecological dynamic. We evaluated an avian community associated to two
lagoonlets sited to western Cumaná: El Estadio (EE) and Aeropuerto Viejo (AV), using transects fixed distance, during nine
(EE) and five (Av) months, respectively. We calculated several seasonal community indexes, i.e., Relative Abundance (RA),
Richness (# spp.), Simpson Diversity (l), Evenness (J’), Occurrence (C), Similarity (SJ) and Specific Importance (SI). We
identified 31 species, belonging to 13 families. Scolopacidae (10 spp.), Charadriidae (5 spp.) and Laridae (4 spp.) showed the
highest species number. In all, fourteen was migrating Nearctic birds, six resident birds and eleven intratropical migrating birds.
Richness was gently higher in AV than EE (24 spp. vs. 22 spp.). The l mean was higher in AV than EE but no significant
differences. Species index SJ between lagoonlets resulted 41,66%. The flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) and small shorebirds
belonging to genus Calidris spp. showed the higher RE in EE and AV, respectively. These results would be revealing the
importance of small wetlands for migrating and resident aquatic birds, particularly the flamingo; the presence of this species
in these suburban wetlands would be showing the successful conservation initiatives.