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Aguilar, J. M., Nieto, A., Espinoza, N., Loja, G.,Tinoco, B. A. 2019. Assessing patterns of bird roadkills in a high Andean Ecuadorian national park. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 54(3): 149–156.

Astudillo, P. X., Samaniego, G. M., Machado, P. J., Aguilar, J. M., Tinoco, B. A., Graham, C. H., Latta, S. C., Farwig, N. 2014. The impact of roads on the avifauna of páramo grasslands in Cajas National Park, Ecuador. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 49(3): 204–212.

Astudillo, P. X.; Tinoco, B. A.; Siddons, D. C. 2015. The avifauna of Cajas National Park and Mazán Reserve, southern Ecuador, with notes on new records. Cotinga 37: 2-12.

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.

Carrasco-Ugalde, A., Molina Abril, P., Pacheco, D., Tinoco, B. A. 2022. Nesting biology of an Ecuadorian endemic hummingbird, the endangered Violet-throated Metaltail Metallura baroni. Revista Ecuatoriana de Ornitología 8: 31–40.

Fjeldså, J. and Krabbe, N. 1990. Birds of the High Andes. Apollo Books, Copenhagen.

Fjeldså, J.; Kessler, M. 1996. Conserving the biological diversity of Polylepis woodlands of the highland of Peru and Bolivia. NORDECO, Copenhagen.

GBIF.org. 2022. GBIF Occurrence Download (11 October 2022): Metallura baroni. Available at: https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.a5by28.

Heindl, M., de Juana, E., Boesman, P. F. D., Kirwan, G. M., Sharpe, C. J. 2020. Violet-throated Metaltail (Metallura baroni), version 1.0. Ithaca, NY, USA. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.vitmet1.01.

IUCN. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2023).

Kessler, M.; Herzog, S. K. 1998. Conservation status in Bolivia of timberline habitats, elfin forest and their birds. Cotinga 10: 50-54.

Ridgely, R.S. and Greenfield, P.J. 2001. The birds of Ecuador: status, distribution and taxonomy. Cornell University Press and Christopher Helm, Ithaca and London.

Stattersfield, A.J., Crosby, M.J., Long, A.J. and Wege, D.C. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Tinoco, B. A.; Astudillo, P. X.; Latta, S. C.; Graham, C. H. 2009. Distribution, ecology and conservation of an endangered Andean hummingbird: the Violet-throated Metaltail (Metallura baroni). Bird Conservation International 19(1): 63-76.

Detailed species account from the Threatened birds of the Americas: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 1992). Please note, taxonomic treatment and IUCN Red List category may have changed since publication.

Recuento detallado de la especie tomado del libro Aves Amenazadas de las Americas, Libro Rojo de BirdLife International (BirdLife International 1992). Nota: la taxonomoía y la categoría de la Lista Roja de la UICN pudo haber cambiado desde esta publicación.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Violet-throated Metaltail Metallura baroni. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/violet-throated-metaltail-metallura-baroni on 22/12/2024.
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 22/12/2024.