Sporagra yarrellii (Audubon, 1839)

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 : 189

Sporagra yarrellii (Audubon, 1839) ,

Yellow-faced Siskin (IUCN and MMA: EN)

Formerly widespread in north-eastern Brazil, now all populations are very reduced and fragmented following decades of intense illegal trapping (Fernandes-Ferreira et al., 2012). Here, we found this species in seven new sites in Pernambuco ( Table 2). This species is still often encountered for sale in some places in north-east Brazil.