Spizaetus ornatus (Daudin, 1800)

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 : 16

Spizaetus ornatus

The putative historic occurrence of this hawk in the PCE is an enigma (reviewed by Carlos & Girão, 2006) that will probably never be solved due to the massive deforestation that the region has undergone. Here, we tentatively treat Marcgrave’s (1648) record – of a bird kept in captivity near the current municipality of Penedo – as valid for the state of Alagoas, but it is worth noting that deciding whether to put this species on our secondary or tertiary list is entirely a matter of speculation given the available evidence (see Carlos & Girão, 2006), so that both options would be equally reasonable.