This Secondry Area comprises two small ranges of hills in north-east Brazil and the surrounding and intervening area between them (see map, p. 274). The Serra de Baturité runs for c.100 km in north-central Ceará, and the Serra de Ibiapaba runs for c.200 km in the western part of Ceará (reaching up to 900 m). These hills are found in the caatinga dry zone of Brazil, but within them lie semi-deciduous forest as well as the deciduous dry forest more typical of the general region. The area marks the range of Ochraceous Piculet Picumnus limae, and part of the range of Buff-breasted Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus mirandae, whose main distribution lies within the Atlantic slope of Alagoas and Pernambuco (EBA 071). Both species, classified as Vulnerable, are (poorly) known from only a handful of localities and occur in a region where considerable areas of habitat are being cleared. H. mirandae has been recorded in Serra de Baturité State Environment Protection Area (327 km²), from where a more-widespread threatened species, Moustached Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes falcirostris (Vulnerable), is also known.

Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. J., Long, A. J. and Wege, D. C. (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of the World. Priorities for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series 7. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.

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BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: Ceará caatinga and serras. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/332 on 22/12/2024.