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Article: Neotropical migrants in marginal habitats on a Guatemalan cattle ranch.(Short Communications)
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Recent studies of migratory birds overwintering in Central America and the Caribbean have focused on bird communities in particular types of disturbed habitats, such as citrus orchards (Rogers et al. 1982, Mills and Rogers 1992) or agricultural fields in varying stages of succession after human abandonment (Waide 1980, Kricher and Davis 1989), while others have attempted to discern broader patterns of species occurrence across a wide variety of habitat types (Waide et al. 1980, Leck 1985, Lynch 1989, Robbins et al. 1992, Wunderle and Waide 1995). Although a few in the latter category have included a small amount of data from cattle ranches, Central American cattle ranches ...