Drymophila squamata (Lichtenstein & Mhk, 1823)

Lima, Rafael Dantas, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Lemos, Renata Constant de Amorim, Lobo-Araújo, Lahert William, Andrade, Arthur Barbosa de, Francisco, Mercival Roberto & Efe, Márcio Amorim, 2022, An annotated avian inventory of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, one of the world’s most threatened avifauna, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-36 : 9

Drymophila squamata

Unpublished genetic data suggest that the PCE population has diverged from populations south of the São Francisco River ( Fazza, 2015). It is probably extinct in the neighboring state of Pernambuco, wherein the last documented record we are aware of is a male tape-recorded in 2008 (WA 1369365; C. Albano). The PCE population of the Scaled Antbird survives only in the Murici Ecological Station.Ornithologists that surveyed the region between the 1980s and early 2000s reported that the species was very common ( Teixeira et al., 1986; eBird checklist S64422055 by T. Schulenberg; C. Marantz pers. comm.), but now it seems to be almost as scarce as Myrmotherula snowi , with only 22 birds captured during more than ten years of mist netting at the Murici Ecological Station (October 2010 – March 2021).The PCE population probably deserves conservation concern.