Vermilion flycatcher  (Pyrocephalus rubinus)

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Glossary

  • Brood parasite: an animal that lays its eggs in the nests of members of its own or other species; the host then raises the young as their own.
  • Incubate: to keep eggs warm so that development is possible.
  • Lichen: A composite organism made up of a fungus in a co-operative partnership with an alga. Owing to this partnership, lichens can thrive in harsh environments such as mountaintops and polar regions. Characteristically forms a crustlike or branching growth on rocks or tree trunks.
  • Parasitise: parasitism is an interaction between species in which one organism derivesits food from, and lives in or on, another living organism at the host’s expense.
  • Riparian: relating to the banks of watercourses.
  • Subspecies: a population usually restricted to a geographical area that differs from other populations of the same species, but not to the extent of being classified as a separate species.

References

  1. IUCN Red List (January, 2009)
    http://www.iucnredlist.org
  2. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (2004) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails.Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
  3. Ridgely, R.S. and Tudor, G. (1994) The Birds of South America: The Suboscine Passerines. Volume II.University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
  4. Wolf, B.O. and Jones, S.L. (2000) The Birds of North America Online: Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus).Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca. Available at: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/484/
  5. Burton, M. and Burton, R. (2002) International Wildlife Encyclopedia. Third Edition.Marshall Cavendish, New York.
  6. Kaufman, K. (2001) Lives of North American Birds.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts.
  7. Taylor, W.K. and Hanson, H. (1970) Observations on the breeding biology of the vermilion flycatcher in Arizona. The Wilson Bulletin, 82 (3): 315 - 319.
  8. Ríos-Chelén, A.A. and Macias-García, C. (2004) Flight display song of the vermilion flycatcher. The Wilson Bulletin, 116 (4): 360 - 362.
  9. Lack, D. (1983) Darwin’s Finches.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  10. U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management, California: Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus (February, 2009)
    http://www.blm.gov/ca/pdfs/cdd_pdfs/verfly1.PDF
  11. BirdLife International (February, 2009)
    http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=4294&m=0
  12. Wiedenfeld, D.A. and Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G.A. (2008) Critical problems for bird conservation in the Galápagos Islands. Cotinga, 29: 22 - 27.
  13. Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List, 2 (2): 1 - 27.
  14. Wikelski, M., Foufopoulos, J., Vargas, H. and Snell, H. (2004) Galápagos birds and diseases: invasive pathogens as threats for island species. Ecology and Society, 9 (1): 5 - .
  15. UNEP-WCMC: Galápagos Islands National Park and Marine Reserve, Ecuador (February, 2009)
    http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/pdf/Galapagos.pdf
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