Cuban Bullfinch Melopyrrha nigra
Version: 1.0 — Published April 19, 2013
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
We thank the Ministry of Science Technology and Environment (CITMA) of Cuba, the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba (MNHNCu), Environmetal Studies and Services Center (CESAM) and Environmental Protection Group at Gaviota Centro on Villa Clara Province, and the Oriental Center of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (BIOECO) and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y. for their support and guidance in the natural history and monitoring of Melopyrrha nigra in Cuba. Thanks also to Dr. Nicasio Viña Davila from BIOECO for his enthusiastic support for the research and collaboration of this project as well as Dr. Joel Reyes also from BIOECO for identifying the botanical material. We would like especially to thank Dr. Freddy Santana and M.S. Yasit Segovia for the morphometric data provided for live birds measured at the Johann Christoph Gundlach Cuban Bird Banding Centre (CBBC) located at the Siboney-Jutici Ecological Reserve and managed by BIOECO. This is also a project and publication sponsored by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cuba project in collaboration with the Ministry of Science Technology and Environment (CITMA) of Cuba. We would like to thank the following museums that provide historical specimens to study and measured including Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates-Bird Collection, Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science-Bird Collection, University of California Los Angeles Donald R. Dickey Bird and Mammal Collection, Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History and the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.