FaunaSEA BIRDS - The sea birds are a spectacle in Femando de Noronha; shelter for the biggest colonies of these animals in the Tropical South Atlantic. It apparently has four species of pelicans: mumbebo white-great (Suladactylatra), mumbebo brown (Sula Leucogaster), mumbebo-of-leg-red (Sula sula), and acatraia (Fregata magnificens). The tail-of-rush, of the type "yellow peak" (Phaeton lepturus), and of the type "red peak" (Phaeton aethereus), enchants for its tails extremely prolongated and graciosidade in the flight. Prominence also for the called species "viuvinha", being most common "viuvinha black" (Anous minutus), they construct their nests on trees and holes in scarps, from seaweed collected from the surface of the water.Also, "viuvinha white" or "noivinha" (Gygis Alba), immaculately white bird, whose egg position is made in the pitchfork of a twig. Migratory birds arrive at the Archipelago to rest and if to feed, after long passage from the Hemisphere North. They are twelve species of blowpipes and batuíras, being the "turn-rock" (Arenaria interpress) the most common. DOLPHINS ROTADORES - Common in Fernando De Noronha, the dolphins rotadores (Stenella longirostris), can be seen from the mirante of the cove of the Sheep of the Rock, turisticamente known as Bay of the Dolphins, or during a stroll on a boat next to the area to the Bay. Daily on sunrise, groups of dolphins rotadores are moving into the Bay, a calm and protected water area. SEA TURTLES - Two species of sea turtles frequent the waters of the archipelago. The "green turtle" or "aruanà" (Chelonia mydas), goes up the beaches to lay their eggs between December and May, and the"turtle-of comb" (Eretmochelys imbricata), which is a species highly threatened in other parts of Brazil, which has been fished for the showy use of its carapaça for confection of eyeglasses, combs and knifes, is only found in marine life in Noronha. TERRESTRIAL FAUNA - For its geographic isolation, Femando de Noronha did not have chance to be colonized in its terrestrial part with great mammals, except those that had been taken by the man. Although poor quantitatively, the noronhense fauna has its endemismo, that is, species that only occurs there: lagartixa mabuia (Mabuya maculata), and the "charge-of-two-heads" (ridleyana Amphisbaena), it is not snake, but a type of earthworm and nor has two heads. It also has the sebito (Vireo gracialistostris), one passarinho insetívoro and of great docility, arribaçã or the noronha pigeon (Zenaíde auriculata Noronha), beyond cocuruta (ridleyana Elaenia spetabilis). The iguana “teju-açu” was brought in Noronha by man duriing the 70's. SEA FAUNA - the sea part of the Archipelago of Fernando De Noronha is considered untouch, not disclosing the marks of the action of the man, who as much deprived the characteristics of its terrestrial part. Diving in beaches and bays, vision of the spectacles of colors and movement of seaweed, sponges, chorales, lobsters and fish. In flat waters, as in the swimming pools of the Bay of the Pigs, the Tip of the Carracas, beaches of atalaia and ' the Lion, the colorful fish are abundant (sergeant or saberé, cocoroca or xira, maiden-of-rocas and moréia). Waters a little deeper, have fish as frade, the budião, the mariquita, the surgeon, piraúna and the butterfly, all "residents" of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. Sharks are seen easily, mainly the Pacific lambarú or sandpaper, beyond arraias. Groups of barracudas (bicudas), and tunas, proceeding from other areas of the Atlantic come to hunt sardine |
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