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The Stygian Owl (Asio stygius noctipetens) in the Dominican Republic
(1983)
The Stygian Owl was known on the island of Quisqueya long before Columbus discovered the New World. A carved wooden figure of a bird with ear tufts found in a cave, and an Indian drawing on a cave wall, indicate that it ...
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 ...
Review : The birds of Hispaniola : Haiti and the Dominican Republic
(2005)
The following critiques express the opinions of the individual evaluator regarding the strengths, weaknesses, and value of the book they review. As such, the appraisals are subjective assessments and do not necessarily ...
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 ...
Gavilart 2019 : encuentro de arte y conservación a favor del Gavilán de la Española
(2019)
Por motivo de celebración del Día dedicado al Gavilán de la Española 2019, el 25 de mayo, se organizó un evento donde el arte y la conservación se encuentran para conocer y contribuir a la protección del Gavilán de la ...
SEO/Birdlife intensifica su labor en América Latina
(2010)
Este número de la revista de la Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO), «Aves y naturaleza», incluye un artículo en el que se comenta que el trabajo en América Latina se ha incrementado en los últimos años desde la ...
Forest restoration in the Dominican Republic : how I got the birds to work for me
(2017)
Birds’ ability to fly long distances and visit a variety of habitats in a relatively short period of time makes them great seed dispersers from the perspective of the plant, and these two groups have evolved a mutualism ...
Birdy hear, birdy do : Does playback attract seed dispersers to restoration sites?
(2020)
One aspect of the author's studies has been the community-level analysis at our sites in the central Dominican Republic in an attempt to fully document all feeding/dispersal relationships between all of the bird and plant ...