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Two centuries of ornithological exploration of the Rio Doce Basin, southeastern Brazil. Part II—A catalogue of its birds and a gazetteer
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October 2024

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The Rio Doce Hydrographic Basin (RDB) lies almost completely in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, a highly threatened tropical rainforest. The RDB has suffered dramatic anthropogenic impacts during the last two centuries and is currently one of the most degraded regions in southeastern Brazil. In this paper, we gathered 140,742 bird records collected since the early 19th by more than two thousand naturalists, professional scientists, and citizen scientists. This vast database was compiled from several sources, including published literature, unpublished technical reports, natural history museums, and citizen science platforms. After checking and standardizing the database, we found high species richness in the RDB, with 689 species recorded to date, from which 675 (98%) were documented by specimens or digital vouchers. This database is presented as a detailed catalogue, including maps containing all localities in which each species has been recorded. We present text accounts for 40 noteworthy species recorded in the RDB, and a complete gazetteer for the 636 localities sampled. Preliminary analyses reveal that the RDB avifauna suffered a dramatic change in its species composition during the last two centuries, mostly due to human activity. Highly sensitive species associated to pristine forests vanished, while species associated to dry and open habitat expanded their ranges in the RDB. Finally, in addition to thoroughly characterization of the RDB avifauna, this paper provides the basis for a series of studies about the avifauna of one of the hottest hotspots of biodiversity in the entire Neotropical region.


Two centuries of ornithological exploration of the Rio Doce basin, southeastern Brazil. Part I—A history of the landscape, its explorers, and their collections

September 2023

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The Rio Doce Hydrographic Basin (RDB) was once covered by magnificent tropical forest, which remained untouched by Europeans for three centuries after the arrival of the Portuguese colonists in the Brazilian coast in 1500. Nevertheless, a dramatic change in land use occurred throughout the entire RDB after the turn of the 19th century. Currently, the RDB is one of the most degraded regions in southeastern Brazil and, recently, it was the scenario of the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history. In this series of papers, we aim to construct a baseline biodiversity assessment that documents the changes in bird communities within the RDB throughout the last two centuries. In this first part, we present the history of the RDB landscape, its explorers, and their collections based on an extensive literature review and museum data. Early biological surveys in the RDB only started at the beginning of the 19th century and were conducted mostly by German and French naturalists. During the first eight decades of ornithological exploration, foreign field naturalists conducted expeditions to the RDB and collected hundreds of bird specimens. Unfortunately, labelling and curatorial procedures were often poor and despite the prodigious efforts of those naturalists, results obtained were often meagre. The second phase of exploration occurred from the 1900s to the 1960s and was dominated by expeditions conducted by Brazilian natural history museums. During this phase, labelling and curatorial procedures improved considerably and the material collected significantly advanced our knowledge about the RDB avifauna The third phase occurred from the 1970s to the first decade of the 21st century, when collection of specimens decreased sharply and the research activity slowly shifted from museums to universities, with a focus on ecology and natural history. We are now in a fourth, more pluralistic phase, in which research continues to be done by universities, Brazilian natural history museums have resumed their collection activity, and birdwatching has emerged as a popular activity in Brazil, producing a tremendous amount of data in a short period of time.


Figura 4. Parte da coleção de ovos de Antônio Caetano da Silva Guimarães Jr., sem data. Fonte: arquivo da família Guimarães.
Figura 5. Caio Guimarães Chagas. Fonte: jornal 'O Liberal', de março 1994.
Figura 6. Coleção de ovos depositada no "Museu do Enéas" em Arcos, MG, doada por Geraldo de Sousa em 2003, mas sem origem conhecida. Foto: Marcelo A. A. Silva.
Coletores de ovos de aves brasileiras no início do século XX: “Caetano-Guimarães-Chagas” em Minas Gerais
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Resumo. A história das coleções de ovos de aves assim como de seus coletores no Brasil é pouco conhecida. Durante visi-tas a museus brasileiros e do exterior, para um projeto sobre a biologia reprodutiva de aves neotropicais, encontramos mais de 1.000 ninhadas coletadas (e relatos de outros milhares) en-tre 1899-1957 em Minas Gerais por três ornitólogos amadores praticamente desconhecidos. Relatamos aqui informações im-portantes sobre estas coleções e destes três personagens obtidas nos museus, na literatura e de parentes. Os irmãos José Cae-tano Sobrinho e Antônio Caetano da Silva Guimarães Jr., e o sobrinho Caio Guimarães Chagas foram os maiores coletores de ovos de aves brasileiras. Informações sobre coleções científicas de ovos e a história dos seus coletores fazem parte do acervo do nosso conhecimento sobre as aves e necessitam ser melhor cata-logadas e divulgadas para o público. Demonstramos que ainda existe muito a ser descoberto e descrito por e sobre ornitólogos profissionais e amadores sobre este aspecto pouco conhecido, divulgado e valorizado da ornitologia brasileira. Abstract. The history of bird egg collections and of its collectors in Brazil is poorly known. During visits to natural history museums in Brazil and overseas, to collect data for a neotropical birds reproductive biology project, we found more than 1,000 egg sets collected (and reports of other thousands) between 1899-1957 at Minas Gerais by three almost unknown amateur ornithologists. We report here important information about these collections and these three characters obtained at museums, the literature and their relatives. The brothers José Caetano Sobrinho and Antônio Caetano da Silva Guimarães Jr., and their nephew Caio Guimarães Cha-gas were the greatest collectors of eggs of Brazilian birds. Information about scientific egg collections and the history of their collectors is part of the collection of our knowledge about birds and need to be better catalogued and disclosed to the public. We showed here that there is still a lot to be discovered and described by and about professional and amateur ornithologists about this poorly known, publicized and valo-rized side of Brazilian ornithology.

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... The number of egg sets he collected is probably much higher, since we found reports that he owned a collection of 3,800-4,500 eggs . Complementing the information from Marini et al. (2018), Guimarães Sobrinho was born in 1881 and part of his egg collection was acquired by MZUSP (Machado, 1939). He was an active egg collector but published only two breeding biology notes (Guimarães Sobrinho, 1932a, b). ...

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Oological collections and egg collectors of Brazilian birds: an overview
Coletores de ovos de aves brasileiras no início do século XX: “Caetano-Guimarães-Chagas” em Minas Gerais

... Lopes et al. 2017). Altogether 3% of the registered species (three species) are threatened with extinction (IUCN 2020, MMA 2014): Culicivora caudacuta (Vieillot, 1818), Anthus nattereri Sclater, 1878, and Coryphaspiza melanotis (Temminck, 1822). ...

Aves de três municípios do Alto Rio São Francisco, Minas Gerais, Brasil