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The Least Pauraque in the Dominican Republic
(1979)
The Least Pauraque (Siphonorhis brewsteri) of Hispaniola has been known to science for 62 years. Rollo H. Beck collected the first specimen at Túbano (now known as Padre Las Casas) near Azua in the Dominican Republic ...
Hispaniola's first Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)
(1986)
On December 30, 1984, F. Soriamo, an educator at the Zoological Park in Santo Domingo, brought to me a tiny live rail for identification. It had been caught by a campesino in a field
under plow between Monte Plata and ...
Ecological relationships of two todies in Hispaniola : effects of habitat and flocking
(1996)
We studied microhabitat use, foraging and social behavior of Broad-billed (Todus subulatus) and Narrow-billed (T. angustirostris) Todies in two areas o f sympatry in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic. Solitary ...
The composition and foraging ecology of mixed-species flocks in pine forests of Hispaniola
(1996)
[English] We determined the flocking propensity of 48 species of birds occurring in native pine forest in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic, and the species composition of 180 mixed-species flocks.
Observations on the abundance, site persistence, home range, foraging, and nesting of the Pine Warbler on Hispaniola, and first record of ground nesting for this species
(1999)
[English] We studied the permanent resident Pine Warbler (Dendroica pinus) from October-April 1996–1997 and 1997–1998 in high-elevation Hispaniolan pine (Pinus occidentalis) forests of the Sierra de Bahoruco in the Dominican ...
A new intrageneric Dendroica hybrid from Hispaniola
(1998)
On 7 November 1993, while Latta (SCL) and Wunderle (JMW) were mist-netting in a shade coffee plantation 2 km northwest of Jumunucu, La Vega Province, Dominican Republic (elevation 600 m), an unusual-appearing warbler was ...
First records of the Spotted Rail (Pardirallus Maculatus) on the Island of Hispaniola
(1980)
On 17 April 1978, a bird watcher from San Francisco de Macorís brought a live rail to me for identification. He had purchased the individual from some boys who had captured it in a patch of grass in the center of a freshly ...
Speciation, heterochrony, and genetic variation in Hispaniolan Palm-Tanagers
(1990)
We documented levels of genetic variability for two species of Hispaniolan palm-tanagers. Significant differences between age classes in levels of genetic heterozygosity were concordant with an age dimorphism in foraging ...
Notes on the birds of Hispaniola
(1929)
During the summer of 1927 the author spent the period from June 14 to August 10 on the island of Hispaniola….......From July 4 to 7 we collected at Higüey, Seybo and Hato Mayor in the eastern part of the island, and from ...
Behavioral and morphological correlates of heterochrony in Hispaniolan Palm-Tanagers
(1994)
We documented the occurrence of heterochrony for morphological and behavioral characters in two species of Hispaniolan Palm-Tanager.