Atividades cinegéticas com aves em zonas rurais do município de Sousa, estado da Paraíba.

Abstract

Since the Agricultural Revolution, humans have been exploiting animals for the most appropriate purposes: food, clothing, medicines. The domestication of wild species is also common and dates back to remote times when less developed communities raised animals for leisure. The Caatinga is a relevant place for this activity because it shelters a population of low socioeconomic class and that practices the hunting for its subsistence. This research therefore had the objective of obtaining information about the hunting activity with birds in the Cadeado, Mãe D'água, Matumbo and Várzea da Novena sites, in the city of Sousa, Paraíba, and used a semi-structured questionnaire applied to 19 hunters. After the data collection, with the identification of the birds mentioned and their respective conservation status, it was observed that birds of the family Thraupidae received the greatest number of mentions, that eared dove is a highly explored species, although its state is of little concern to according to the IUCN and that the "chaprão" and the manual method are the preferential ones of the inhabitants of these rural areas. It was also understood that hunting is not done with the immediate objective of nutritional support, but as a cultural activity.