Birds of Estação Ecológica da Serra das Araras, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil: additions and review

By

Vitorino, Breno Dias
Da Frota, Angélica Vilas Boas
Ikeda Castrillon, Solange Kimie
Nunes, Josué Ribeiro Da Silva

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-10-26

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

14

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

893--922

Subjects

Biodiversity , Biogeography , ecotone , neotropical birds , ornithological survey , protected area , Província Serrana

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/14.5.893

 

Abstract

We present an inventory, followed by a consolidated list, for the avifauna of Estação Ecológica da Serra das Araras (EESA), state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. In our expeditions, we identified 287 species, 82% of them documented. Of these, 28 species are new records for EESA. Six are threatened, such as Lophornis gouldii (Lesson, 1832). Other noteworthy records include the first documentation of Oxyruncus cristatus Swainson, 1821, for Mato Grosso. The consolidated list includes 458 species, of which 255 were assigned to the primary list and 203 to the secondary list. The significant number of species compiled herein places EESA among the most species-rich protected areas of Brazil, especially in regard to areas not predominantly covered by forest. In terms of species composition, this is a community typical of an ecotone environment, featuring many species characteristic of the Cerrado and the Amazon and some of the Pantanal wetland.