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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.
Cheke, A.S. 1987. An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates. In: A.W. Diamond (ed.), Studies of Mascarene Island Birds, pp. 5–89. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Cheke, A.S. and Hume, J.P. 2008. Lost Land of the Dodo: An ecological history of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues. Bloomsbury / A&C Black & Yale University Press.
Cowles, G. S. 1987. The fossil record. In: Diamond, A.W. (ed.), Studies of Mascarene Island birds, pp. 90-100. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Hume, J. 2017. Extinct Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Hume, J.P., and Winters, R. 2016. Captive birds on Dutch Mauritius: bad-tempered parrots, warty pigeons and notes on other native animals. Historical biology 28(6): 812-822.
IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).
Newton, E.; Gadow, H. 1893. On additional bones of the dodo and other extinct birds of Mauritius. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 8: 281-302.
IUCN SSC Duck Specialist Group
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Mauritius Shelduck Alopochen mauritiana. Downloaded from
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