Order
Cuculiformes
Family
Cuculidae
Genus
Coccyzus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
This is a historic version of this account.   Current version

Dark-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus melacoryphus

Adam Damon
Version: 1.0 — Published September 27, 2012

References

Introduction

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BirdLife International. 2012. Species factsheet: Coccyzus melacoryphus. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 19 April 2012.

Couve, E. and Vidal, C. 2003. Birds of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego & Antarctic Peninsula, The Falkland Islands & South Georgia. Punta Arenas, Fantastico Sur, Chile.

Curry, R.L., and S.H. Stoleson. 1988. New bird records from the Galapagos associated with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Condor 90: 505-507.

De Schauensee, R.M. 1964. The Birds of Colombia and adjacent areas of South and Central America. Livingston Publishing Company, Naberth, Pennsylvania.

De Schauensee, R.M. 1970. The Birds of South America. The Pan American Section, International Council for Bird Preservation, Washington D.C.

Dubs, Balthasar. 1992. Birds of Southwestern Brazil. Betrona-Verlag, Küsnacht, Switzerland.

Ervin, Stephen. 1989. The Nesting of the Dark-billed Cuckoo in the Galapagos. Noticias de Galapagos 4: 8-10.

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

Gifford, E.W. 1919. Field notes on the land birds of the Galapagos Islands and of Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 2:189-258.

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The Internet Bird Collection. 2012. Dark-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzusmelacoryphus).
Downoaded from http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/dark-billed-cuckoo-coccyzus-melacoryphus on 19/4/2012.

Johnson, A.W. 1972. Supplement to The Birds of Chile and Adjacent Regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.

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Payne, R.B. (1997) Dark-billed Cuckoo. P. 597 in del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J., eds. Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 4. Sandgrouse to Cuckoos. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.

Payne, R. B. 2005. The cuckoos. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.

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Sick, H. 1993. Birds in Brazil. A natural history. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Sorenson, M.D. & R.B. Payne. 2005. Molecular systematics: cuckoo phylogeny inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Pp. 68-94 in R.B. Payne. Bird Families of the World: Cuckoos. Oxford University Press.

Steadman, D.W. 1986. Holocene Vertebrate Fossils from Isla Floreana, Galapagos. 1986. Smithosonian Contributions to Zoology. Number 413. Smithsonian Institute Press, City of Washington.

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Recommended Citation

Damon, A. (2012). Dark-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.dabcuc1.01
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