Pombos: distribuição espaço-temporal dos problemas registrados no Distrito Federal, Brasil

Abstract

Synanthropic animals, including pigeons, are a source of nuisance and public health problems in the urban environment. Finding themselves dispersed throughout the Brazilian territory due to their domestication and distribution, domestic pigeons (Columba livia) of the Columbiformes class lead to complaints of mite infestation, nesting and notification of human diseases. In view of this, a documentary survey of the claims records for the population of the Environmental Surveillance Board (DIVAL) of the Federal District was carried out in the period from 2014-2016 to map out areas with environmental risk and vulnerability problem of their own and solutions To reduce the incidence of the diseases caused by these synanthropic animals. Food, shelter and water are essential elements for an approximation and permanence with man. The distribution of complaints presents the greater part of the urban area, where there are places where the problem persisted and others where it notifies the notification, and the number of notifications to private establishments has shown to be greater than in public. Population control is complex and as control services activities and difficulties.