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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 ...
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 ...
First nest record of the White-winged crossbill in Hispaniola
(1975)
On 2 April 1971, while we were camping in southwestern Dominican Republic above El Aguacate in the Sierra de Baoruco (the eastern extension of the Massif de la Selle, the only known crossbill location in Haiti), one of us ...
Endangered and endemic birds of the Dominican Republic
(1992)
[Este recurso no está disponible en formato electrónico para consulta en línea o descarga]. Tercera obra (y única en idioma inglés) sobre la avifauna de la República Dominicana de la autora Annabelle (Tudy) Stockton, una ...