Between December 1975 and July 1976 and on 4-5 October 1977 we visited several sites of historical occurrence of the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus tuber) in the Dominican Republic. Here we report on the status of the ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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.

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...