the paper birds, montane forest, state of rio de janeiro, southeastern brazil by maria alice s. alves, clinton n. jenkins, stuart l. pimm, alline storni, marcos a. raposo, m. de l. brooke, grant harris, and andy foster relates surveys done in montane atlantic forest of rio de janeiro state, brazil, and provides a list of 82 bird species in four sites - the birds recorded include 40 atlantic forest endemics, three globally and two nationally vulnerable species, and two regionally endangered species.

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published by the instituto chico mendes de conservação da biodiversidade, the 276-page atlas da fauna brasileira ameaçada de extinção em unidades de conservação federais (atlas of brazilian fauna threatened with extinction in federal conservation units), makes a detailed account of threatened species, and shows that with 12.3 % of the total, and second only to the state of bahia, rio de janeiro is home to the largest percentage of threatened species in brazil.