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Article: First record of shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) in Yucatan, Mexico.
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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The Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) has rapidly expanded its range since the turn of the century, island hopping from Trinidad and Tobago north through the Lesser Antilles, and west through the Greater Antilles (Post and Wiley 1977, Post et al. 1993). The species was first recorded in Cuba in 1982 (Garrido 1984) and in Florida in 1985 (Smith and Sprunt 1987). From the Greater Antilles, the Shiny Cowbird has been expected to invade into Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico (Post and Wiley 1977, Howell and Webb 1995).
On 27 May 1996, I observed a single male Shiny Cowbird in an area of burned mangroves adjacent to an intact mangrove forest at the eastern ...