Status of the globally threatened forest birds of northeast Brazil Author Pereira, Glauco Alves Author Dantas, Sidnei de Melo Author Silveira, Luís Fábio Author Roda, Sônia Aline Author Albano, Ciro Author Sonntag, Frederico Acaz Author Leal, Sergio Author Periquito, Mauricio Cabral Author Malacco, Gustavo Bernardino Author Lees, Alexander Charles text Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 2014 São Paulo 54 14 177 194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.14 journal article 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.14 1807-0205 12641142 Curaeus forbesi (Sclater, 1886) , Forbes Blackbird (IUCN and MMA: EN) This cryptic and thus often overlooked species has two disjunct populations, one found in the PCE and the other in the state of Minas Gerais , south-east Brazil ( Jaramillo & Burke, 1999 ; Fraga, 2011 ; Mazzoni et al., 2012). Here, we report records from a further 13 sites in Pernambuco ( Table 2 , Fig. 11 ). The observation in Escada, Pernambuco involved a flock forag-