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The birds of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic : an annotated checklist
(2003)
[Este recurso no está disponible en formato electrónico para consulta en línea o descarga]. Hispaniola, the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, boasts 145 breeding species including three endemics. The ...
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 ...
¿Quién es el misterioso Diablotín?
(2022)
El petrel de cabeza negra o Diablotín, ave endémica del Caribe, enfrenta muchas amenazas potenciales para su existencia continua, incluida la invasión humana, deforestación, modificación agrícola, exploración y el desarrollo ...
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 ...