Order
Cuculiformes
Family
Cuculidae
Genus
Coccyzus
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo Coccyzus vieilloti

Sarah W. Kendrick
Version: 1.0 — Published November 4, 2010

References

Introduction

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BirdLife International 2009. Species factsheet: Coccyzus vieilloti. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded 30 August 2010.


Bond, J. 1971. Birds of the West Indies. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts.


Cruz, A. 1988. Avian resource use in a Caribbean pine plantation. Journal of Wildlife Management 52: 274-279.


Danforth, S. T. 1931. Puerto Rican ornithological records. The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico 15: 33-106.


Faaborg, J. and W. J. Arendt. 1989. Longevity estimates of Puerto Rican birds. North American Bird Bander 14: 11-13.


Kepler, C., and A. Kepler. 1970. Preliminary comparison of bird species diversity and density in Luquillo and Guania Forests. Pages E-183 to E-186 in H. T. Odum and R. F. Piegeon (editors), A tropical rain forest. Volume 2, Chapter E-14. US Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.


Leck, C. F. 1972. Observations of birds at Cecropia trees in Puerto Rico. Wilson Bulletin 84: 498-500.


Miranda-Castro, L., A. R. Puente-Rolón, and S. Vega-Castillo. 2000. First list of the vertebrates of the Los Tres Picachos State Forest, Puerto Rico, with data on relative abundance and altitudinal distribution. Caribbean Journal of Science 36: 117-126.

Mowbray, A. 2010. Wildlife facts Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo. USDA Forest Service. <http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/wildlife-facts/2002/wildlife-facts-july-2002.shtml>. Retrieved 30 August 2010.


Newton, A., and E. Newton. 1859. Observations on the birds of St. Croix, West Indies. Ibis 1: 377-378.


Perez-Rivera, R. A. 1997. The importance of vertebrates in the diet of tanagers. Journal of Field Ornithology 68: 178-182.


Raffaele, H. W. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.


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.


Schönwetter, M. 1964. Handbuch der Oologie Lieferung 10. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin.

Sorenson, M. D., and R. B. Payne. 2005. A molecular genetic analysis of cuckoo phylogeny. Pages 68–94 in R. B. Payne, The cuckoos . Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Wetmore, A. 1916. Birds of Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Auk 33: 403-419.

Wetmore, A. 1922. Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46: 297-333.


Wetmore, A. 1927. The Birds of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York Academy of Sciences, New York.


Wiley, J. W. 1988. Host selection by the Shiny Cowbird. Condor 90:289-303.

Recommended Citation

Kendrick, S. W. (2010). Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo (Coccyzus vieilloti), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.purlic1.01