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  1. The decline of Z. auriculata populations in the Northeast can be compared to the migratory dove Ectopistes migratorius, whose population in the order of millions was completely wiped out in the United States (Sick 1997; Hume 2015).

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Acknowledgments

We thank our informants in Itabaiana Municipality who were willing to grant the interviews and allow the research to be carried out. And to the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for the PhD scholarship granted to the first author. Finally, we thank Ivana Schork, from the University of Salford (Manchester, UK) for English revision of the manuscript.

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  2. Núcleo em Educação em Ciências Agrárias e da Terra, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Nossa Senhora da Glória, Sergipe, Brazil

    Juan Ruiz-Esparza

  3. Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Evolução e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo

  4. Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil

    Adauto de Souza Ribeiro

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da Silva, C., Ruiz-Esparza, J., de Azevedo, C.S. et al. Hunting and Trade of Columbidae in Northeast Brazil. Hum Ecol 49, 91–98 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00216-1

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