TY - JOUR

T1 - Diurnal raptors of West Africa woodland-farmland mosaics

T2 - Data from walking-transects in eastern Guinea-Bissau

AU - Rodrigues, Patrícia

AU - Mirinha, Marco

AU - Palma, Luís

PY - 2020/5/1

Y1 - 2020/5/1

N2 - Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, which in spite of its rich biodiversity and the high proportion of protected areas remains under-surveyed in relation to most animal groups, including raptors. The first scientific articles about raptors were only very recently issued. Here, we report raptor occurrence data from eastern Guinea-Bissau. Raptors were surveyed in the dry season along transects walked around 21 villages in a rural woodland-farmland mosaic landscape. The raptor assemblage is composed of 25 species of which the hooded vulture, the lizard buzzard and the African harrier-hawk were the species more often encountered, followed by the African white-backed vulture. The palm-nut vulture, black kite, brown snake-eagle, grasshopper buzzard, African hawk-eagle, grey kestrel and lanner falcon were secondary, although not uncommon species. The remaining species were seldom recorded. The study complements previous knowledge on this bird group, specifically in the central-eastern part of the country, and reaffirms the international relevance of Guinea-Bissau for the conservation of the hooded and African white-backed vultures.

AB - Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, which in spite of its rich biodiversity and the high proportion of protected areas remains under-surveyed in relation to most animal groups, including raptors. The first scientific articles about raptors were only very recently issued. Here, we report raptor occurrence data from eastern Guinea-Bissau. Raptors were surveyed in the dry season along transects walked around 21 villages in a rural woodland-farmland mosaic landscape. The raptor assemblage is composed of 25 species of which the hooded vulture, the lizard buzzard and the African harrier-hawk were the species more often encountered, followed by the African white-backed vulture. The palm-nut vulture, black kite, brown snake-eagle, grasshopper buzzard, African hawk-eagle, grey kestrel and lanner falcon were secondary, although not uncommon species. The remaining species were seldom recorded. The study complements previous knowledge on this bird group, specifically in the central-eastern part of the country, and reaffirms the international relevance of Guinea-Bissau for the conservation of the hooded and African white-backed vultures.

KW - diurnal raptors

KW - endangered

KW - Guinea-Bissau

KW - transect walks

KW - woodland-farmland mosaics

KW - Environmental planning

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079390321&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1758155920901424

DO - 10.1177/1758155920901424

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85079390321

VL - 13

SP - 18

EP - 23

JO - Avian Biology Research

JF - Avian Biology Research

SN - 1758-1559

IS - 1-2

ER -