Dendrocolaptes medius, Todd, 1920

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 : 10

Dendrocolaptes medius

Records from four different sites in the lowland rainforests of Pernambuco and Alagoas suggest that this woodcreeper was relatively more widespread in the PCE until the 1950s. One specimen was collected in Igarassu, Pernambuco, in 1945 (MNRJ 24788; Berla, 1946), two in São Miguel dos Campos in 1951 (MZUSP 37307 and 37308; Pinto, 1954), two in Rio Largo in 1951 (MZUSP 37309 and 37310; Pinto, 1954), and two at Usina Sinimbu in 1957 (MZUSP 38999 and LACM 26865). Once the region’s lowland forests have been virtually decimated, the species is currently known from only one site, the Murici Ecological Station, where it is seemingly very rare and may be close to extinction.