Elanoides forficatus (MPR): occurs from the southeast coast of the USA to eastern Bolivia,Paraguay and northern Argentina, and two subspecies are recognized: E. f. forficatus and E. f. yetapa, both which occurs in Brazil (Bierregaard & Kirwan, 2016a). There are records of breeding activity in the Brazilian territory for MT,TO, SP, PR, SC and RS between November and February (WikiAves, 2016).In the Amazon, where it also breeds, only one nest was recorded in the Upper Negro River (Thiollay, 1994). It is relatively common in most of its distribution and migratory in the extreme north and south of its global occurrence: chicks banded in Florida in June were recovered in PR in December and in MT in October and November (Sick, 1997). There are also records for RS between September and March (Belton, 1984). There is no doubt about its migratory behavior, but tracking studies should be performed due to the presence of both subspecies in Brazil sharing geographical areas for at least part of the year (B. Whitney, pers. obs.).

Published as part of Somenzari, Marina, Amaral, Priscilla Prudente do, Cueto, Víctor R., Guaraldo, André de Camargo, Jahn, Alex E., Lima, Diego Mendes, Lima, Pedro Cerqueira, Lugarini, Camile, Machado, Caio Graco, Martinez, Jaime, Nascimento, João Luiz Xavier do, Pacheco, José Fernando, Paludo, Danielle, Prestes, Nêmora Pauletti, Serafini, Patrícia Pereira, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Sousa, Antônio Emanuel Barreto Alves de, Sousa, Nathália Alves de, Souza, Manuella Andrade de, Telino-Júnior, Wallace Rodrigues & Whitne, Bret Myers, 2018, An overview of migratory birds in Brazil, pp. 1-66 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 25, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.03, http://zenodo.org/record/5234679