Ausência de registros de Accipitridae e Falconidae no portal Wikiaves para o domínio morfoclimático do Pantanal

Abstract

Brazil has 47 species of birds in the Accipitridae family and 20 in the Falconidae family, many of which are popularly known as hawks and falcons. The Wikiaves portal is the main aggregator of ornithological photographic records in Brazil, but photographic records of these families of the Pantanal are problematic when the portal does not require exact geographic determination and leads to incorrect conclusions of the inexistence of widely distributed species. The study was conducted based on consultations in the maps of records of twenty-three hawks and falcons on the portal, and on the analysis of the main literature focusing on avifauna in the Pantanal domain. As they are widely distributed species, it was noted that possibly these birds have their photographic records neglected by bird watchers or the portal allocates the record to coordinates in urbanized areas and far from the observation point. Therefore, this research aims to highlights the need for adjustments in the geographic determination of photographic records of these widely distributed species in a region that is one of the main bird observation routes in Brazil and alerts photographers who contribute to this science database citizen.