The Cerrado biome is the third on birds diversity, a total of 837 species (SILVA 1995). Recent studies have increased this figure to 856 species (SILVA & SANTOS, 2005) and, more recently, Pinheiro & Dorn (2009) in addition eight species, numbering a total of 864 birds species for Cerrado. 90.7% breed in the biome, 51.8% from this amount dependent on forest environment; 27.4% dependent on open areas and 20.8% live both in forests and in open areas, the remaining 3.1 % are visitors from North America and 12.5% of visitors from southern South America Despite the low rate of endemism, only 3.4% are referred to as Cerrado endemic species (MARN & GARCIA, 2005).
Some places where different groups of endemic species have restricted occurrence along the biome, were recognized as centers of endemism: the plain of the Araguaia River, the valley of the Paranã River and the Chain of the Espinhaço Mountain (SILVA 1997, SILVA & BATES, 2002).
