Articles
Below we suggest a few articles for background reading. They cover bird lists, taxonomy, feeding and other behavior of the birds you are likely to see during your BirdingRio tour:
- BROWNE, P. W. P. (2005) The birds of Parati, south-east Brazil. Cotinga 24: 85-98.
- BUZZETTI, D. R. C. (2000) Distribuição altitudinal de aves em Angra dos Reis e Parati, sul do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. In: Alves, M. A. S., Silva, J. M. C., van Sluys, M., Godoy Bergallo, H. & Rocha, C. F. D. (eds.) A Ornitologia no Brasil: pesquisa atual e perspectivas. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Universidade do Rio de Janeiro.
- CLAYDSON, P. A., RAPOSO, M. A. & PARRINI, R. (2007) Validação de Poospiza cabanisi Bonaparte, 1850 (Passeriformes: Emberizidae). Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 15 (1) 103-112.
- MALLET-RODRIGUES, F., PARRINI R. & PACHECO, J. F. (2007) Birds of the Serra dos Órgãos, State of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil: a review. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 15 (1):05-35.
- PACHECO, J. F. (1988) Black-hooded antwren Formicivora [Myrmotherula] erythronotos re-discovered in Brazil. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. 108(4): 179-182.
- PACHECO, J. F. & FONSECA, P. S. M. (2001) The remarkable rediscovery of the Kinglet Calyptura. Cotinga 16: 44-47.
- PARKER III, T. A. & GOERCK, J. M. (1997) The importance of national parks and biological reserves to bird conservation in the Atlantic Forest region of Brazil. Ornithol. Monogr. 48: 527-541.
- SCOTT, D. A. & BROOKE, M. L. (1985) The endangered avifauna of Southeastern Brazil: a report on the BOU/WWF expeditions of 1980/81 and 1981/82. In: DIAMOND, A. W. & LOVEJOY, T. E. eds. Conservation of tropical forest birds. Cambridge, International Council for Bird Preservation, v.4, p. 115-39.
- SICK, H. (1993) Birds in Brazil: a natural history. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- WHITNEY, B. M., PACHECO, J. F. & PARRINI R. (1995) Two species of Neopelma in southeastern Brazil and diversification within the Neopelma/Tyranneutes complex: implications of the subespecies concept for conservation (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Ararajuba 3: 43-53.
And some other articles related to ornitology in Brazil:
- ASSIS, C. P., RAPOSO, M. A., STOPIGLIA, R. & PARRINI, R. (2007) Validation of Thamnophilus capistratus Lesson, 1840 (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). The Auk 124(2): 665-676.
- PARRINI, R., RAPOSO, M. A., PACHECO, J. F., CARVALHÃES, A. M. P., MELO Jr.,T. A., FONSECA, P. S. M. & MINNS, J. C. (1999) Birds of the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Cotinga 11: 86-95.
- RAPOSO, M. A., BARNETT, J. M., KIRWAN, G. M. & PARRINI, R. (2002) New data concerning the distribution, behaviour, ecology and taxonomic relationships of Minas Gerais Tyrannulet Phylloscartes roquettei. Bird Conservation International 12 (3): 241-253.
- SILVEIRA L. F. (1998) The birds of Serra da Canastra National Park and adjacent areas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Cotinga 10: 55-63.
- TOBIAS, J. A., BUTCHART, S. H. M. & COLLAR, N. J. (2006) Lost and found: a gap analysis for the Neotropical avifauna. Neotropical Birding 1: 3-22.
- WHITNEY, B. M., PACHECO, J. F., BUZZETTI, D. R. C. & PARRINI, R. (2000) Systematic revision and biogeography of the Herpsilochmus pileatus complex, with description of a new species from northeastern Brazil. The Auk 117 (4) 869-891.
