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Cooper, J. and Ryan, P.G. 1994. Management plan for the Gough Island Wildlife Reserve. Government of Tristan da Cunha, Edinburgh, Tristan da Cunha.

Cuthbert, R. and Sommer, S. E. 2004. Gough Island bird monitoring manual. RSPB Research Report.

Cuthbert, R.; Hilton, G. 2004. Introduced house mice Mus musculus: a significant predator of threatened and endemic birds on Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean? Biological Conservation 117: 483-489.

Cuthbert, R.J., Visser, P., Louw, H., Rexer-Huber, K., Parker, G. and Ryan, P.G. 2011. Preparations for the eradication of mice from Gough Island: results of bait acceptance trials above ground and around cave systems. In: C.R. Veitch, M.N. Clout, and D.R. Towns (eds), Island invasives: eradication and management, pp. 47-50. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Holdgate, M.W. 1957. Gough Island - a possible sanctuary. Oryx 4: 168-176.

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Jones, C.W., Risi, M.M., Osborne, A.M., Parker, G.C., Rexer-Huber, K., Le Bouard, F., Cleeland, J.B., Lawrence, K., Kinchin-Smith, D., Witcutt, E., Starnes, T., Bond, A.L., Ryan, P.G. and Oppel, S. 2020. Abundance, distribution and breeding success of the endemic Gough Island Finch Rowettia goughensis between 2009 and 2018. Emu-Austral Ornithology 120(3): 230-238.

Rexer-Huber, K. and Parker, G.C. 2011. Captive husbandry of the Gough Island bunting and moorhen. RSPB Research Report 42.. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK.

Richardson, M. E. 1984. Aspects of the ornithology of the Tristan da Cunha group and Gough Island, 1972-1974. Cormorant 12: 123-201.

Ryan, P. and Sharpe, C.J. 2020. Gough Island Finch (Rowettia goughensis), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D.A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.goifin1.01.

Ryan, P.G. and Cuthbert, R.J. 2008. The biology and conservation status of Gough Bunting Rowettia goughensis. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 128(4): 242-253.

Samaniego, A., Jolley, W. and McClelland, P. 2022. A lesson for planning rodent eradications: interference of invasive slugs during the Gough Island mouse eradication attempt in 2021. Wildlife Research 50(5): 344-355.

Torr, N., Golding, C. and Cuthbert, R.J. 2010. Preliminary operational plan for eradicating House Mice from Gough Island. Version 1.0.

Wace, N.M. 1986. The rat problem on oceanic islands—research is needed. Oryx 20: 79-86.

Wilkins, G.H. 1923. Report on the birds collected during the voyage of the "Quest" (Shackleton-Rowett Expedition) to the southern Atlantic. Ibis: 474-511.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Gough Island Finch Rowettia goughensis. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/gough-island-finch-rowettia-goughensis on 26/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 26/12/2024.