Levantamento de registros de aves ameaçadas de extinção do bioma cerrado utilizando a plataforma Wikiaves

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Birds are one of the most important faunal groups in terms of bioindication of environmental quality and Brazil has one of the richest birdlife in the world with a total of 1,919 bird species in the country. OBJECTIVES: analyze recorded data of endangered and critically endangered birds in the cerrado biome from the list of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation - ICMBIO of endangered animals and later analyze their records on wikiaves and their locations in sightings. METHODOLOGY: a scan of Cerrado avifauna species included in the categories: endangered (EN) and critically endangered (CR) of extinction was carried out, through reading the Red Book of Brazilian fauna threatened with extinction, volume III, published by ICMBIO. RESULTS: Fourteen species were detected in the Cerrado, distributed in 6 orders and 12 families. Of the 14 taxa, 14 species (80%) were included in the category (EN), and 3 species (20%) in the category (CR). The orders Accipitriformes and Tinamiformes had the highest rate of sighting in the state of Mato Grosso, the order Anseriformes and Psittaciformes with the highest rate of sighting in the state of Goiás and Tocantins, and the Order Columbiformes and Passeriformes with the highest rate in the state of Minas Gerais. CONCLUSION: all states of the cerrado biome presented records on the website (WikiAves) of at least one of the 14 species of birds categorized in EN and CR, according to the ICMBIO red fauna book.