BIRDS
Some birding places and its checklists
(by Antonio Silveira)
Birds of Canavieiras - BA
Despite the large
extractive exploitation
of crabs and
fish in their mangroves, as well as the old cocoa
farm, the Conty of Canavieiras, in Bahia,
still has large remaining areas of rich Bahian
Atlantic Forest, known
for its great biodiversity.
Besides miles of
mangroves that enter the rivers
Pardo and Salsa, the most important of the region,
there are large areas of dunes,
beyond the rainforest itself, with large vegetation,
inhabited, besides the great variety
of birds, mammals threatened with extinction .
Area of large crops of cocoa
(cacao), made in the shade of
the forest
that eventually provide habitat for many species of birds.
Today most of these crops
are forsaken in view of the plague
that raged through the region,
which increased the natural area, and thus environments
for wildlife.
We (Antonio Silveira accompanied by the biologist
Maurício Arantes) went a few
times to visit forest
regions in private areas, mainly in Fazenda (farm) Country (in 1994, 2009 and
2010) as well as on 1.29.2010.
We navigated the river Salsa for about
See the lists
below:
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English version
added on April 5th, 2010.
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