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Angehr, G. R. 1984. A bird in the hand: Andreas Reischek and the Stitchbird. Notornis 31: 300-311.
Armstrong, D. 1996. Mokoia Island stichbirds. Ornithological Society of New Zealand News 78: 1-2.
Armstrong, D. P.; Castro, I.; Alley, J. C.; Feenstra, B.; Perrot, J. K. 1999. Mortality and behaviour of hihi, an endangered New Zealand honeyeater, in the establishment phase following translocation. Biological Conservation 89: 329-339.
Armstrong, D. P.; Davidson, R. S.; Dimond, W. J.; Perrott, J. K.; Castro, I.; Ewen, J. G.; Griffiths, R.; Taylor, J. 2002. Population dynamics of reintroduced forest birds on New Zealand islands. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1-13.
Armstrong, D. P.; Ewen, J. G. 2001. Testing food limitation in reintroduced hihi populations: contrasting results for two islands. Pacific Conservation Biology 7: 87-92.
Armstrong, D. P.; Perrott, J. K. 2000. An experiment testing whether condition and survival are limited by food supply in a reintroduced Hihi population. Conservation Biology 14: 1171-1181.
Brekke, P.; Bennett, P. M.; Jianliang Wang; Pettorelli, N.; Ewen, J. G. 2010. Sensitive males: inbreeding depression in an endangered bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 277(1700): 3677-3684.
Brekke, P.; Bennett, P.; Santure, A.; Ewen, J. G. 2011. High genetic diversity in the remnant island population of hihi and the genetic consequences of re-introduction. Molecular Ecology 20: 29-5.
Castro, I. 2020. Stitchbird. In Miskelly, C.M. (ed.) New Zealand Birds Online. Available at: https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz.
Castro, I.; Brunton, D. H.; Mason, K. M.; Ebert, B.; Griffiths, R. 2003. Life history traits and food supplementation affect productivity in a translocated population of the endangered Hihi (Stitchbird, Notiomystis cincta). Biological Conservation 114: 271-280.
Castro, I.; Minot, E. O.; Alley, J. C. 1994. Feeding and breeding behaviour of Hihi or Stitchbirds Notiomystis cincta recently transferred to Kapiti Island, New Zealand, and possible management alternatives. In: Serena, M. (ed.), Reintroduction biology of Australian and New Zealand fauna, pp. 121-128. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, Australia.
Castro, I.; Minot, E. O.; Fordham, R. A.; Birdhead, T. R. 1996. Polyandry, face-to-face copulation and sperm competition in the Hihi Notiomystis cincta (Aves: Meliphagidae). Ibis 138: 765-771.
Chauvenet, A. L. M.; Ewen, J. G.; Armstrong, D. P.; Coulson, T.; Blackburn, T. M.; Adams, L.; Walker, L. K.; Pettorelli, N. 2012. Does supplemental feeding affect the viability of translocated populations? The example of the hihi. Animal Conservation 15(4): 337-350.
Department of Conservation. 2005. Hihi/Stitchbird (Notiomystis cicta) recovery plan 2004-09. Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand.
Ewen, J. G.; Parker, K. A.; Richardson, K.; Armstrong, D. P.; Smuts-Kennedy, C. 2011. Translocation of hihi Notiomystis cincta to Maungatautari, a New Zealand mainland reserve protected by a predator-exclusion fence. Conservation Evidence 8: 58-65.
Ewen, J. G.; Thorogood, R.; Nicol, C.; Armstrong, D. P. Alley, M. 2007. Salmonella Typhimurium in hihi, New Zealand [letter]. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13(5).
IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 08 December 2022).
Low, M. 2005. Sex on the brain. Wingspan 15(4): 26-29.
Parlato, E.H., Ewen, J.G., McCready, M., Parker, K.A., Armstrong, D.P. 2021. A modelling framework for integrating reproduction, survival and count data when projecting the fates of threatened populations. Oecologia 195(3): 627-640.
Rasch, G.; Boyd, S.; Clegg, S. 1996. Stitchbird (Hihi) Notiomystis cincta recovery plan. Department of Conservation, Wellington.
Robertson, H. A., Baird, K., Dowding, J. E., Elliott, G. P., Hitchmough, R. A., Miskelly, C. M., McArthur, N., O’Donnell, C. F. J., Sagar, P. M., Scofield, R. P. & Taylor, G. A. 2017. Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2016. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 19. Department of Conservation, Wellington.
Robertson, H.A., Baird, K.A., Elliott, G.P., Rodney, A., Hitchmough, N.J., Makan, T.D., Miskelly, C.M., O'Donnell, C.F.J., Sagar, P.M., Scofield, R.P., Taylor, G.A., Michel, P. 2021. Conservation status of birds in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021. Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand.
Robertson, H.A.; Dowding, J.E.; Elliott, G.P.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Miskelly, C.M.; O’Donnell, C.F.J.; Powlesland, R.G.; Sagar, P.M.; Scofield, R.P.; Taylor, G.A. 2013. Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 4. Department of Conservation, Wellington. Available at http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/nztcs4entire.pdf.
Toy, R., Greene, T.C., Greene, B.S., Warren, A., Griffiths, R. 2018. Changes in density of hihi (Notiomystis cincta), t?eke (Philesturnus rufusater) and t?? (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) on Little Barrier Island (Te Hauturu-o-Toi), Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, 2005–2013. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 42(2): 149-157.
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Stitchbird Notiomystis cincta. Downloaded from
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Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
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