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Bertram, B.C.R., Boesman, P.F.D. and Kirwan, G.M. 2020. Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personatus), version 1.0. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana (eds), Birds of the World, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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.
Chowdhury, S. U., Neumann-Denzau, G., and Muzaffar, S. B. 2017. Nesting Ecology and Habitat Preference of the Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personatus) in Sundarbans, Bangladesh. Waterbirds 40(4): 410-416.
Chowdhury, S.U., Yong, D.L., Round, P.D., Mahood, S., Tizard, R., Eames, J.C. 2020. The status and distribution of the Masked Finfoot Heliopais personatus - Asia's next avian extinction? Forktail 36: 16-24.
Fowlie, M. 2013. Threat to last stronghold of Asian Finfoot. Available at: http://www.birdlife.org/asia/news/threat-last-stronghold-asian-finfoot.
Gani, M.O. 2005. Distribution of Masked Finfoot Heliopais personata in the Sundarbans Reserved Forest of Bangladesh. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 102: 112-114.
IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 21 July 2022).
Khan, M.M.H. 2005. Species diversity, relative abundance and habitat use of the birds in the Sundarbans East Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh. Forktail 2: 79-86.
Neumann-Denzau, G., Mansur, E.F. and Mansur, R. 2008. Nests, eggs, hatchlings and behaviour of the Masked Finfoot Heliopais personatus from the Sundarbans in Bangladesh, with first nesting observations. Forktail: 92-99.
Rous, V. and Mahood, S.P. 2017. A breeding record of Masked Finfoot Heliopais personatus from Cambodia. BirdingASIA 28: 45-46.
Shepherd, C. R. 2006. Some recent behavioural observations of Masked Finfoot Heliopais personata (Gray 1849) in Selangor Darul Ehsan, Peninsular Malaysia. BirdingASIA: 69-71.
Thompson, P.M. and Johnson, D.L. 2003. Further notable bird records from Bangladesh. Forktail 19: 85–102.
Tordoff, A. W.; Appleton, T.; Eames, J. C.; Eberhardt, K.; Htin Hla; Khin Ma Ma Thwin; Sao Myo Zaw; Sein Myo Aung. 2007. Avifaunal surveys in the lowlands of Kachin State, Myanmar, 2003-2005. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 55(2): 235-306.
Zockler, C., Ngwe Lwin, Thant Zin Tun, Pfutzke, S., Momberg, F., van der Ven, J. and Delany, S. 2020. Surveys of riverine birds along the Ayeyarwady River in 2017-2019 and conservation implications. Forktail 36: 1-15.
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