Order
Passeriformes
Family
Hirundinidae
Genus
Progne
 
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SPECIES

Caribbean Martin Progne dominicensis

Nathan R. Williams
Version: 1.0 — Published April 15, 2010

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2009. Species factsheet: Progne dominicensis. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 9 March 2010.

Biaggi, V. 1983. Las aves de Puerto Rico. Third edition. Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.

Buden, D. W. 1987. The birds of the southern Bahamas. British Ornithologists' Union Check-list number 8. British Ornithologists' Union, London, United Kingdom.

Danforth, S. T. 1935. The birds of Saint Lucia. Monographs of the University of Puerto Rico, series B, number 3.

ffrench, R. 1991. A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. Second edition. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

Frost, M., and E. Massiah. 2001. Caribbean martins (Progne dominicensis) overwinter at a roost in Bridgetown, Barbados. Pitirre 14: 128-129.

Hellmayr, C. E. 1935. Catalogue of birds of the Americas. Part VIII. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, volume 13, part 8.

Hilty, S. L. 2003. Birds of Venezuela. Second edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Latta, S., C. Rimmer, A. Keith, J. Wiley, H. Raffaele, K. McFarland, and E. Fernandez. 2006. Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Moyle, R., B. Slikas, L. Whittingham, D. Winkler, and F. Sheldon. 2008. DNA sequence assessment of phylogenetic relationships among New World martins (Hirundinidae: Progne). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120: 683-691.

Murphy, W., and F. Hayes. 2001. First records of Caribbean martin (Progne dominicensis) for Trinidad, with comments on its supposed migration to South America. Pitirre 14: 61-62.

Ottema, O. H., J. H. J. M. Ridot, and A. L. Spaans. 2009. Annotated checklist of the birds of Suriname. WWF Guianas-World Wildlife Fund, Paramaribo, Suriname.

Peters, J. L. 1960. Family Hirundinidae. Pages 80-129 in E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors), Check-list of birds of the world. Volume IX. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Phillips, A. R. 1986. The known birds of North and Middle America. Part I. Hirundinidae to Mimidae; Certhiidae. Privately published, Denver, Colorado.

Raffaele, H., J. Wiley, O. Garrido, A. Keith, and J. Raffaele. 1998. A guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Ridgway, R. 1904. The birds of North and Middle America. Part III. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 50, part 3.

Rimmer, C. R., J. Almonte M., E. Garrido G., D. A. Mejia, M. Milagros P., and P. R. Wieczoreckl. 2003. Bird records in a montane forest fragment of western Sierra de Neiba, Dominican Republic. Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 16: 55-60.

Sheldon, F. H., L. A. Whittingham, R. G. Moyle, B. Slikas, and D. W. Winkler. 2005. Phylogeny of swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae) estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 254-270.

Snyder, D. E. 1966. The birds of Guyana. Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

Turner, A. K. 2004. Family Hirundinidae (swallows and martins). Pages 602-685 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 9. Cotingas to pipits and wagtails. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.

Turner, A., and C. Rose. 1989. Swallows & martins: An identification guide and handbook. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts.

Voous, K. H. 1983. Birds of the Netherlands Antilles. Second edition. De Walburg Pers, Zutphen, The Netherlands.

Wetmore, A. 1916. Birds of Porto Rico. United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin number 326.

Wetmore, A., and B. H. Swales. 1931. The birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. United States National Museum Bulletin 155.

Wiley, J. W. 2010. Food habits of the endemic Ashy-faced Owl (Tyto glaucops) and recently arrived Barn Owl (T. alba) in Hispaniola. Journal of Raptor Research 44: 87-100.

Zimmer, J. T. 1955. Studies of Peruvian birds. No. 66. The swallows (Hirundinidae). American Museum Novitates number 1723.

Recommended Citation

Williams, N. R. (2010). Caribbean Martin (Progne dominicensis), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.carmar1.01