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Anon. 2020. India plans Rs 10,000 crore transshipment port at Great Nicobar Island: PM Modi. The Times of India August 10 2020: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/india-plans-rs-10000-crore-transshipment-port-at-great-nicobar-island-pm-modi/articleshow/77463895.cms.

Baker, G.C.; Dekker, R.W. R.J.; Keane, A.M. unpublished.. Megapodes: status survey and conservation action plan 2005-2009. IUCN and World Pheasant Association, Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK.

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.

BirdLife International. 2001. Threatened Birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Global Forest Watch. 2021. Tree cover loss in Nicobar Islands, India. Available at: https://www.globalforestwatch.org. (Accessed: 12th January 2021).

Islam, M. Z. & Rahmani, A. R. 2010. Saving globally threatened and endemic birds using the IBAs approach in Andaman and Nicobar islands . Recent Trends in Biodiversity of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, pp. 423-434. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.

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

Radley, P. M., Davis, R. A., Dekker, R. W., Molloy, S. W., Blake, D., & Heinsohn, R. 2018. Vulnerability of megapodes (Megapodiidae, Aves) to climate change and related threats. Environmental Conservation 45(4): 396-406.

Sankaran, R. 1995. The distribution, status and conservation of the Nicobar Megapode Megapodius nicobariensis. Biological Conservation 72: 17-25.

Sivakumar, K. 2007. The Nicobar Megapode: status, ecology and conservation;: aftermath tsunami.

Sivakumar, K. 2010. Impact of the 2004 tsunami on the Vulnerable Nicobar Megapode Megapodius nicobariensis. Oryx 44(1): 71-78.

IUCN SSC Galliformes Specialist Group

Detailed species accounts from the Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2001).

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Nicobar Scrubfowl Megapodius nicobariensis. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/nicobar-scrubfowl-megapodius-nicobariensis on 22/11/2024.
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 22/11/2024.