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Tersina viridis

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa eConservação de Aves Silvestres (CEMAVE). Cabedelo, PB, Brasil. & Parque das Aves. Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.
  • 2. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa eConservação de Aves Silvestres (CEMAVE). Cabedelo, PB, Brasil.
  • 3. Centro de Investigación Esquelde Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CIEMEP), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco. Esquel, Chubut, Argentina.
  • 4. Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Departamento de Zoologia (DZOO), Laboratório de Ecologia Comportamental e Ornitologia. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
  • 5. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia. Rio Claro, SP, Brasil.
  • 6. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa eConservação de Aves Silvestres (CEMAVE). Cabedelo, PB, Brasil
  • 7. Fundação BioBrasil. Salvador, BA, Brasil.
  • 8. Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas (DCBIO), Laboratório de Ornitologia. Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil.
  • 9. Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB). Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil.
  • 10. Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos (CBRO). Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
  • 11. de Passo Fundo (UPF), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB). Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil.
  • 12. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Museu de Zoologia (MZUSP). São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
  • 13. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Unidade Acadêmica da Garanhuns (UAG). Garanhuns, PE, Brasil.
  • 14. LouisianaState University, Museum of Natural Science. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

Description

Tersina viridis (MPR):

occurs from Panama to eastern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, represented by resident populations as well as migratory populations that move short distances. Populations from the extreme south of the distribution (northern Argentina and southern Brazil) are migratory and fly north during austral winter (Hilty, 2011). In Brazil, it is present in RS only between September and April (Belton, 1985) and there are records of breeding activity in lowland Atlantic Forest areas in SP between September and March, which suggests that the species leaves this region between April and August (Aleixo & Galetti, 1997). Groups of 100 individuals or more have been reported between March and August in MG (Hilty, 2011). In the region of Garanhuns/PE, the species can be observed from May to September, which coincides with mistletoe fructification (W. Telino-Júnior, pers. obs.) and with the hypothesis of migration north during austral winter. In the region of Alter do Chão/PA, it is recorded only during the rainy season between January and June (Sanaiotti & Cintra, 2001). Photographic records (WikiAves, 2016) and banding data (SNA, 2016) do not confirm such patterns available in the literature, but in GO, MG, SP, PR, SC and RS the species presents breeding activity (September-December) related to the elevation: most records (78% or 18 out of 23) are from localities with an elevation of over 600 m. Breeding data from lower elevations need to be confirmed by the respective authors, because they may have been obtained in areas that are higher than the altitude of the center of the municipality (which is the available coordinate). The same altitudinal pattern has been observed for most of the young (72% or 8 out of 11) remaining over 600 m even though their records were more dispersed during the year. In the Amazon, its presence seems to be distributed in the months of the year, which suggests a pattern of regular occurrence, even though there are no records of breeding activity (WikiAves, 2016). This way, the species was classified as partially migratory due to its tendency of altitudinal restriction in breeding activity of the Atlantic Forest population and it needs to be studied further.

Notes

Published as part of Somenzari, Marina, Amaral, Priscilla Prudente do, Cueto, Víctor R., Guaraldo, André de Camargo, Jahn, Alex E., Lima, Diego Mendes, Lima, Pedro Cerqueira, Lugarini, Camile, Machado, Caio Graco, Martinez, Jaime, Nascimento, João Luiz Xavier do, Pacheco, José Fernando, Paludo, Danielle, Prestes, Nêmora Pauletti, Serafini, Patrícia Pereira, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Sousa, Antônio Emanuel Barreto Alves de, Sousa, Nathália Alves de, Souza, Manuella Andrade de, Telino-Júnior, Wallace Rodrigues & Whitne, Bret Myers, 2018, An overview of migratory birds in Brazil, pp. 1-66 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 33, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.03, http://zenodo.org/record/5234679

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE87D9FFA93401A1697B7584C5F8D3

Cites
Publication: http://www.wikiaves.com (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.03 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5234679 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF97FFA1FF893421A20C794F810FFFE0 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03AE87D9FFA93401A1697B7584C5F8D3 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/318160881 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314715/taxon/03AE87D9FFA93401A1697B7584C5F8D3.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
Genus
Tersina
Species
viridis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Hilty, S. L. 2011. Family Thraupidae. In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Christie, D. (Eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 16: Tanagers to New World Blackbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. p. 46-329.
  • Belton, W. 1985. Birds of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Part 2. Formicariidae through Corvidae. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History, 180 (1): 1-241.
  • Aleixo, A. & Galetti, M. 1997. The conservation of the avifauna in a lowland Atlantic forest in south-east Brazil. Bird Conservation International, 7: 235-261.
  • Sanaiotti, T. M. & Cintra, R. 2001. Breeding and migrating birds in an Amazonian savanna. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 36 (1): 23-32.
  • WikiAves - A Enciclopedia das Aves do Brasil. 2016. A Enciclopedia das Aves do Brasil. Available at: www.wikiaves.com.