Avifauna of the Easternmost Tepui, Tafelberg in central Suriname

Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 153-180

  Zyskowski, Kristof ^a   Mittermeier, John C ^a   Ottema, Otte ^b   Rakovic, Marko ^c   O'Shea, Brian J ^d   Lai, Jonas E ^a,e   Hochgraf, Susan B ^a   De León, Jorge ^a   Au, Kathryn ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Foundation for Nature Conservation in Suriname (STINASU)   (Suriname)

^c NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Serbia)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endemism; Guayana; Guiana shield; Kappel; Roraima; Suriname; Tafelberg; Tepui

Indexed keywords

AERONAUTES MONTIVAGUS; CATHARUS MINIMUS; CHAMAEZA CAMPANISONA; DYSITHAMNUS LEUCOSTICTUS; HELIODOXA XANTHOGONYS; HEMITRICCUS INORNATUS; HYLOPHILUS SCLATERI; PIRANGA RUBRA; TEPUIA; TURDUS; TURDUS OLIVATER;

EID: 79960393146     PISSN: 0079032X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3374/014.052.0105     Document Type: Article

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