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An overview of the diet of the Great Black Hawk Urubitinga urubitinga (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) and report of new prey species

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Knowledge on the natural history and ecology of several species of birds of prey is limited, despite information on diet is important to understand ecological and functional processes as well as coevolutionary aspects of predator-prey interactions. This study aimed to review the taxa predated by the Great Black Hawk Urubitinga urubitinga based on data available in the literature and digital media databases. We also report the first record of predation of the Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianus and siluriform fish by U. urubitinga and describe its feeding behavior. The taxonomic composition of the diet of the Great Black Hawk includes reptiles (35% of the taxa reported), followed by birds (22%) and fish (20%). We found that snakes and fish are important prey items of the Great Black Hawk. However, this bird of prey has a varied diet, which includes several other species. We highlight the importance of collaborative citizen science to understand the diet of birds of prey and emphasize the importance of the least possible interference during leisure activities in natural areas.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank for the support by FAPEMAT in Corredor ecológico, econômico e cultural do rio Paraguai no contexto das mudanças climáticas (Project No. 0308817/2017), Programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Ciências Ambientais of Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, and Centro de Pesquisa em Limnologia, Biodiversidade e Etnobiologia do Pantanal and also wish to thank Claumir C. Muniz for the fish identification and Eder C. Fermiano and Odair D. Silva for the reptile identification.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Brazil) (Finace Code 001) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). AVBF and BDV received a scholarship from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Mato Grosso (FAPEMAT) and CAPES (007/2018), and CJS received a research fellowship from CNPq. FAPEMAT funded the project Corredor ecológico, econômico e cultural do rio Paraguai no contexto das mudanças climáticas (Process No. 0308817/2017).

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  1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais (PPGCA), Centro de Pesquisa em Limnologia, Biodiversidade e Etnobiologia do Pantanal (CELBE), Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil

    Angélica Vilas Boas da Frota, Breno Dias Vitorino, Josué Ribeiro da Silva Nunes & Carolina Joana da Silva

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AVBF: Conceptualization, investigation, data curation, formal analysis, writing—original draft, and writing—review and editing. BDV: Conceptualization, investigation, data curation, and writing—review and editing. JRSN: Writing—review and editing. CJS: Supervision, writing—review and editing, and funding acquisition.

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da Frota, A.V., Vitorino, B.D., da Silva Nunes, J.R. et al. An overview of the diet of the Great Black Hawk Urubitinga urubitinga (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) and report of new prey species. Ornithol. Res. 29, 29–37 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43388-021-00046-1

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