Alagoas Curassow (Mitu mitu) - BirdLife species factsheet

Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu

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References

Actualidades Ornitologicas. 2000. AO apresenta uma entrevista com o Sr. Dalton Marchioli, expert criador de saíras e afins. Actualidades Ornitologicas 93(Jan/Feb): 10.

Brooks, D.M. 2006. Conserving cracids: the most threatened family of birds in the Americas. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

Collar, N.J.; Butchart, S.H.M. 2013. Conservation breeding and avian diversity: chances and challenges. International Zoo Yearbook 48(1): 7-28.

Costa, M.C.; Oliveira Jr, P.R..; Davanceo, P.V.; de Camargo, C.; Laganaro, N.M.; Azeredo, R.A.; Simpson, J.; Silveira, L.F.; Francisco, M.R. 2017. Recovering the Genetic Identity of an Extinctin- the-Wild Species: The Puzzling Case of the Alagoas Curassow. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0169636.

del Hoyo, J. 1994. Cracidae (Chachalacas, Guans and Curassows). In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (ed.), Handbook of the birds of the world, pp. 310-363. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.

Gama, G.M.; Malhado, A.C.M.; Bragagnolo, C.; Correia, R.A.; Ladle, R.J. 2015. Cultural viability of reintroducing the ecologically extinct AlagoasCurassow (Pauxi mitu Linnaeus, 1766) to Northeast Brazil. Journal for Nature Conservation 29: 25-32.

Grau, E. T.; Pereira, S. L.; Silveira, L. F.; Wajntal, A. 2003. Molecular markers contribute to a breeding programme of the extinct-in-the-wild Alagoas Curassow Mitu mitu and confirm the validity of the species. Bird Conservation International 13: 115-126.

Lisboa, C. 2017. Reintrodução do mutum-de-Alagoas está próxima da realidade. ((o))eco.

Muñoz, M.C.; Kattan, G.H. 2007. Diets of cracids: How much do we know? Ornitologia Neotropical 18: 21-36.

Pereira, G.A.; de Melo Dantas, S.; Silveira, L.F.; Roda, S.A.; Albano, C.; Sonntag, F.A.; Leal, S.; Periquito, M.C.; Malacco, G.B.; Lees, A.C. 2014. Status of the globally threatened forest birds of northeast Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 54(14): 177-194.

Silveira, L. F.; Olmos, F.; Long, A. 2003. The Alagoas Curassow: world's rarest cracid. Bulletin of the IUCN/Birdlife/WPA Cracid Specialist Group 17: 31-34.

Further resources

IUCN SSC Galliformes Specialist Group

Detailed species account from the Threatened birds of the Americas: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 1992). Please note, taxonomic treatment and IUCN Red List category may have changed since publication.

Recuento detallado de la especie tomado del libro Aves Amenazadas de las Americas, Libro Rojo de BirdLife International (BirdLife International 1992). Nota: la taxonomoía y la categoría de la Lista Roja de la UICN pudo haber cambiado desde esta publicación.

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