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Resource availability and diet in Harpy Eagle breeding territories on the Xingu...
Aguiar-Silva, Francisca Helena; Junqueira, Tiago Guimarães; Sanaiotti, Tânia Margarete; Guimarães, V. Y.; Mathias, Pablo Vinícius ClementeIn the Tapajos-Xingu interfluve, one of the largest birds of prey, the Harpy Eagle, is under intense anthropogenic pressure due to historical and recent reductions in forest cover. We studied prey availability and use by Harpy Eagle on six breeding territories on the low- and mid-Xingu River, between 2013 and 2015. We evaluated food resource availability using the environmental-surveys database from two methods...
Abundance of Harpy and crested eagles from a reservoir-impact area in the low- ...
Sanaiotti, Tânia Margarete; Junqueira, Tiago Guimarães; Palhares, V.; Aguiar-Silva, Francisca Helena; Henriques, Luiza Magalli Pinto; Oliveira, G.In the Brazilian Amazon, two monospecific genera, the Harpy Eagle and Crested Eagle have low densities and are classified by IUCN as Near Threatened due to habitat loss, deforestation, habitat degradation and hunting. In this study, we evaluate occurrence of these large raptors using the environmental surveys database from Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant. Integrating the dataset from two methods, we plotte...