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Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

Charles Darwin Foundation. 2014. Philornis downsi: Buscando Una Solución. Available at: https://youtu.be/38QmSV6WAVY. (Accessed: 07/08/2015).

Cooke, S. C.; Haskell, L. E.; van Rees, C. B.; Fessl, B. 2019. A review of the introduced smooth-billed ani Crotophaga ani in Galápagos. Biological Conservation 229(2019): 38-49.

Cunninghame, F.; Fessl, B.; Sevilla, C.; Young, H. G.; La Greco, N. 2017. Long term conservation management to conserve the Critically Endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Galapagos Report 2015-2016. GNPS, GCREG, CDF and GC. Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador., pp. 163-170.

Cunninghame, F.; Switzer, R.; Parks, B.; Young, G.; Carrion, A.; Medranda, P.; Sevilla, C. 2015. Conserving the critically endangered mangrove finch: Head-starting to increase population size. Galapagos Report 2013-2014. Galapagos National Park Directorate, Governing Council of Galapagos, Charles Darwing Foundation, Galapagos Conservancy, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Cunninghame, F.; Young, H. G.; Fessl, B. 2011. A trial conservation translocation of the Mangrove Finch in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. In: Soorae, P.S. (ed.), Global reintroduction perspectives 3, pp. 151-156. Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi.

Dvorak, M.; Tebbich, S.; Fessl, B. 1997. Mangrove Finch Survey 1997 on the south-eastern coast of Isabela, Galápagos Islands.

Dvorak, M.; Vargas, H.; Fessel, B.; Tebbich, S. 2004. On the verge of extinction: a survey of the mangrove finch Cactospiza heliobates and its habitat on the Galápagos Islands. Oryx 38: 171-179.

Fessl, B., Young, H.G., Young, R.P., Rodríguez-Matamoros, J., Dvorak, M., Tebbich, S. and Fa, J.E. 2010. How to save the rarest Darwin's finch from extinction: the Mangrove Finch on Isabela Island. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365: 1019-1030.

Fessl, B.; Dvorak, M.; Vargas, F. H.; Young, H. G. 2011. Recent conservation efforts and identification of the Critically Endangered Mangrove Finch Camarhynchus heliobates in Galápagos. Cotinga 33: 27-33.

Fessl, B.; Loaiza, A. D.; Tebbich, S.; Young, H. G. 2011. Feeding and nesting requirements of the Critically Endangered Mangrove Finch Camarhynchus heliobates. Journal of Ornithology 152: 453-460.

Fessl, B.; Tebbich, S. 2002. Philornis downsi - a recently discovered parasite on the Galápagos archipelago - a threat for Darwin's finches? Ibis 144: 445-451.

Grant, P.R. and Grant, R. 1997. The rarest of Darwin's Finches. Conservation Biology 11: 119-216.

IUCN. 2021. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-3. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 09 December 2021).

Jaramillo, A.; de Juana, E. 2016. Mangrove Finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. and de Juana, E. (eds), Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Lawson, L.P.; Fessl, B.; Vargas, H. F.; Farrington, H.L.; Cunninghame, H.F.; Mueller, J.C.; Nemeth, E.; Sevilla, P.C.; Petren, K. 2017. Slow motion extinction: Inbreeding, introgression, and loss in the critically endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Conservation Genetics 18(1): 159-170.

Vargas, H. 1997. Mangrove Finch conservation project.

Vargas, H. 1999. Mangrove Finch conservation project.

Young, H.G., Cunninghame, F., Fessl, B. and Vargas, F.H. 2013. Mangrove Finch Camarhynchus heliobates: An Obligate Mangrove Specialist from the Galápagos Islands. In: G. Gleason and T.R. Victor (eds), Mangrove Ecosystems: Biogeography, Genetic Diversity and Conservation Strategies, Nova, New York.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Mangrove Finch Geospiza heliobates. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/mangrove-finch-geospiza-heliobates on 23/12/2024.
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 23/12/2024.