Will Brazilian City Dwellers Actively Engage in Urban Conservation? A Case Study with the Charismatic Neotropical Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)
Abstract
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Abstract
1. Introduction
Some, rolinha/Anda, andorinha/Te esconde, bem-te-vi/Voa, bicudo/Voa, sanhaço/Vai, juriti/Bico calado/Toma cuidado/Que o homem vem aí/O homem vem aí/O homem vem aí…
Get away, dove/Fly, swallow/Hide yourself, great kiskadee/Fly, great-billed seed finch/Fly, palm tanager/Go, grey-fronted dove/Be quiet/Be careful/‘Cause the man comes here/The man comes there/The man comes there...
(Passaredo, song by Brazilian musician and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda, 1976: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0WuNttlt8Q accessed on 8 November 2021)
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site
2.2. Collected Data
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Angeoletto, F.; Tryjanowski, P.; Santos, J.; Martinez-Miranzo, B.; Leandro, D.; Bohrer, J.; Johann, J.M.; Fellowes, M.D.E. Will Brazilian City Dwellers Actively Engage in Urban Conservation? A Case Study with the Charismatic Neotropical Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna). Birds 2022, 3, 234-244. https://doi.org/10.3390/birds3020015
Angeoletto F, Tryjanowski P, Santos J, Martinez-Miranzo B, Leandro D, Bohrer J, Johann JM, Fellowes MDE. Will Brazilian City Dwellers Actively Engage in Urban Conservation? A Case Study with the Charismatic Neotropical Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna). Birds. 2022; 3(2):234-244. https://doi.org/10.3390/birds3020015
Chicago/Turabian StyleAngeoletto, Fabio, Piotr Tryjanowski, Jeater Santos, Beatriz Martinez-Miranzo, Deleon Leandro, João Bohrer, Juciane Maria Johann, and Mark D. E. Fellowes. 2022. "Will Brazilian City Dwellers Actively Engage in Urban Conservation? A Case Study with the Charismatic Neotropical Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)" Birds 3, no. 2: 234-244. https://doi.org/10.3390/birds3020015
APA StyleAngeoletto, F., Tryjanowski, P., Santos, J., Martinez-Miranzo, B., Leandro, D., Bohrer, J., Johann, J. M., & Fellowes, M. D. E. (2022). Will Brazilian City Dwellers Actively Engage in Urban Conservation? A Case Study with the Charismatic Neotropical Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna). Birds, 3(2), 234-244. https://doi.org/10.3390/birds3020015