Rapid inventory of birdlife observed in the municipality of Guaratinguetá, SP Danilo Corrêa de Paula Júnior, Karla Conceição Pereira, Vladimir Stolzenberg Torres

Abstract

The increase in human interference in natural areas directly affects biodiversity conservation. As cities expand, environments are increasingly restricted to isolated fragments, thus suffering interference in their ecological processes, rapidly impacting the factors that depend on them. Species lists are a fundamental tool for developing conservation policies at various levels, and birds form a group that is relatively easy to sample, and some groups respond quickly to environmental changes. Guaratinguetá/SP, in the Atlantic Forest biome, was the area covered by this study. The in loco species survey was carried out from April 2018 to August 2020. Birds were identified by visualization and vocalization. The taxonomy was based on Bencke et al. (2010) and Torres et al. (2018), and the nomenclatural review was processed through Avibase (the World Bird Database), following the classification system of the Brazilian Committee for Ornithological Records. The study records 38 families encompassing 101 species. Although there are a large number of threatened species, as can be seen from the list in Decree No. 63,853/2018, none of those recorded here were considered under this condition. Cyanocorax cristatellus (Temminck, 1823), Psittacara leucophthalmus (Statius Muller, 1776), Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827) and Vireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766) deserve more attention in order to confirm their effective presence in the region, seeking to avoid erroneous records due to possible incorrect identification, as well as verification of their environmental status in case of confirmed occurrence.