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Copete, J. L. 2017. Santa Marta Screech-owl. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Available at: https://www.hbw.com/new-species/santa-marta-screech-owl. (Accessed: 07 August 2019).

Dantas, S.M., Weckstein, J.D., Bates, J.M., Krabbe, N.K., Cadena, C.D., Robbins, M.B., Valderrama, E. and Aleixo, A. 2016. Molecular systematics of the new world screech-owls (Megascops: Aves, Strigidae): biogeographic and taxonomic implications. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 94: 626-634.

Dinerstein, E., Olson, D.M., Graham, D.J., Webster, A.L., Primm, S.A., Bookbinder, M.P. and Ledec, G. 1995. A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington, D.C.

eBird. 2019. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A. Available at: https://ebird.org.

IUCN. 2019. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2019-3. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 10 December 2019).

Krabbe, N. K. 2017. A new species of Megascops (Strigidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, with notes on voices of New World screech-owls. Ornitología Colombiana, 16: 1-27.

Santini, L.; Isaac, N. J. B.; Ficetola, G. F. 2018. TetraDENSITY: A database of population density estimates in terrestrial vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 787-791.

Snyder, N.; McGowan, P.; Gilardi, J.; Grajal, A. 2000. Parrots: status survey and conservation action plan 2000-2004. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Todd, W. E. C.; Carriker, M. A. 1922. The birds of the Santa Marta Region of Colombia: a study in altitudinal distribution. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 14.

Tracewski, L.; Butchart, S. H. M.; Di Marco, M.; Ficetola, G. F.; Rondinini, C.; Symes, A.; Wheatley, H.; Beresford, A. E.; Buchanan, G. M. 2016. Toward quantification of the impact of 21st-century deforestation on the extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates. Conservation Biology 30(5): 1070-1079.

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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Santa Marta Screech-owl Megascops gilesi. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/santa-marta-screech-owl-megascops-gilesi on 23/11/2024.
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 23/11/2024.