Phylloscartes ceciliae Teixeira, 1987

Pereira, Glauco Alves, Dantas, Sidnei de Melo, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Roda, Sônia Aline, Albano, Ciro, Sonntag, Frederico Acaz, Leal, Sergio, Periquito, Mauricio Cabral, Malacco, Gustavo Bernardino & Lees, Alexander Charles, 2014, Status of the globally threatened forest birds of northeast Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 54 (14), pp. 177-194 : 188

Phylloscartes ceciliae Teixeira, 1987 ,

Alagoas Tyrannulet (IUCN and MMA: EN)

This PCE endemic is known from 17 localities in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas (Roda et al., 2011) and was found in just one of 15 fragments inventoried by Silveira et al. (2003a). We found this species in another four sites in Pernambuco ( Table 2, Fig. 9 ). Although still highly imperilled, this species’ conservation prospects are slightly brighter than those of the other four ‘Murici endemics’ – Philydor novaesi , Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti , Myrmotherula snowi and Terenura sicki , occurring in more forest patches albeit always at low densities ( Fig. 3 ).

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FIGURE 3: Patch occupancy for 13 threatened species of the PCE between 2003-2014, dark grey circles denote critically endangered (CR) species, light grey circles endangered (EN) species and white circles vulnerable (VU) species.The white triangles are used for two species – Cichlocolaptes mazarbanetti and Automolus lammi which have yet to be evaluated by the IUCN.

FIGURE 9: Phylloscartes ceciliae Teixeira, 1987, Alagoas Tyrannulet, Frei Caneca, PE, December 2007 (Ciro Albano).