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 ...

"El orden de exposición será de cuatro capítulos. El primero se refiere a la definición de lo que hoy se entiende por "geográfico" y sus implicaciones. En el segundo hablaré sobre las relaciones entre la naturaleza y la ...

The modern West Indian island of Hispaniola is in actuality a fusion of two formerly separate islands, each of which presumably supported a distinctive herpetofauna. With the union of these two paleoislands, there has been ...

If anyone could be called the 20th-century doyen of American ornithology, it was Alexander Wetmore. From his very youth, the study of birds was his passion. He trained himself as a biologist and never wavered from his ...