Elanoides forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 7-8

Elanoides forficatus

Records from extreme northeastern Brazil are few and sparse, and always involving single individuals. All records from the states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco and Alagoas fall between October and April ( Roda & Pereira, 2006; Pereira et al., 2014b; WikiAves,

2021;V.Leandro pers.comm.), but there are records in the & Weick, 2008; Holt et al., 2020). However, birds in the PCE nearby state of Piauí almost year-round (WikiAves, 2021). exhibit a brown belly (e.g., WA 2156248; S. Jones) and thus

The only documented record for Alagoas is one individ- are best assigned to the Atlantic Forest form S.v.borelliana .

ual photographed in Japaratinga on 19 October 2018

(WA 3332050; R. Oliveira). We tentatively assume that Trogon viridis the subspecies in the state is E. f. yetapa, but it remains to be assessed whether birds that reach the region come Formerly recorded in several sites in the states of from North America (E. f. forficatus) or from other regions Pernambuco and Alagoas ( Berla, 1946; Pinto, 1954; Farias

(E.f. yetapa) and whether the species is a regular visitor in et al., 2002; Roda, 2003; Silveira et al., 2003a; Minns et al.,

extreme northeastern Brazil. 2010; Pereira et al., 2019b), thus suggesting that the species was once common or at least more widespread in

Harpagus bidentatus the region. However, it has not been recorded in the PCE for nearly a decade.In the Murici Ecological Station, three

One specimen collected in Goiana, Pernambuco, in were observed between 4and5March 2001,of which one

October 1945 ( Lamm, 1948) and two photographs from was tape-recorded ( ML 128023; C. Marantz pers. comm.) ,

the Murici Ecological Station in January 2008 (WA 57323; and another was tape-recorded on 11 October 2002 ( XC

C. Albano) and November 2009 (WA 108070; F. Tavares) 511851 ; D. Buzzetti). Despite several ornithologists and are the only documented records in the PCE. birdwatchers conducting field work at this site, Greenbacked Trogons have not been recorded there anymore.

Strix virgata The last record of this species in the PCE we are aware of is a male photographed in Passo de Camaragibe, Alagoas,

Seemingly uncommon and local in the PCE (Roda & on 23 March 2013 (WA 1423861; J. Nogueira).

Pereira, 2006; Sagot-Martin et al., 2020). Reference works,

likely based only on records from the state of Maranhão Trogon collaris eytoni and unaware of the species’ occurrence in the PCE,usually assign the populations throughout northeastern Brazil to One female collected in Murici on 11 May 1984

the whitish-bellied Amazonian form S.v.superciliaris (König ( Teixeira et al., 1986) is the only record of this species in the PCE. Despite dozens of ornithologists and hundreds of birdwatchers conducting field work in Murici in the last four decades, no new records of the species have been produced, suggesting it may be extinct in the PCE.