Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Taphrolesbia
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
This is a historic version of this account.   Current version

Gray-bellied Comet Taphrolesbia griseiventris

Huw Lloyd
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2009

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. (2008). Threatened Birds of the World 2008. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

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Apollo Books, Copenhagen and Stenstrup, Denmark.

Garrigues, R. L. (2001). First nests of Grey-bellied Comet Taprolesbia griseiventris. Cotinga 15: 79-80.

Parker, T. A., Stotz, D. F. and Fitzpatrick, J. W. (1996). Ecological and distributional
databases for Neotropical birds. In: Stotz, D. F., Fitzpatrick, J. W., Parker, T. A. and Moskovits, D. K. Neotropical birds: ecology and conservation. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Remsen, J. V., Jaramillo, A., Nores, M., Pacheco, J. F., Robbins, M. B., Schulenberg,
T. S., Stiles, F. G., da Silva, J. M. C., Stotz, D. F. and Zimmer, K. J. (2009). A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU).

Schulenberg, T. S. Stotz, D. F., Lane, D. F. O’Neill, J. P. and Parker, T. A. (2007). Birds of Peru. Princeton University Press.

Schuchmann, K. L. (1999). Family Trochilidae (Hummingbirds). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Christie, D. A (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world, 5. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.

***Simon (1918) Genus Taphrolesbia (f.) Notice Travaux Scientifiques p.39***

Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. J., Long, A. J. and Wege, D. C. (1998). Endemic Bird Areas of the world: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation. BirdLife International Conservation Series no.7, BirdLife International, Cambridge.

***Taczanowski 1883 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London page 72***

Recommended Citation

Lloyd, H. (2009). Gray-bellied Comet (Taphrolesbia griseiventris), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.gybcom1.01
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