Updates and Errata, 1st edition
PUERTO RICO'S BIRDS IN PHOTOGRAPHS
1st edition, 1999 by Mark W.
Oberle
---Page 2: Address for Editorial Humanitas: 2006 23
Ave. East, Seattle, WA 98112.
---Page 9: The Smithsonian website on shade grown coffee has changed
to: http://natzoo.si.edu/smbc/Research/Coffee/coffee.htm.
---Page 15: Puerto Rican Sceech-Owl is now in the genus Megascops.
---Page 23: The Spanish name for Dendroica angelae should be
Reinita de Bosque Enano, and the English spelling has been changed to
Elfin-woods Warbler.
---Page 43: Reddish Egret weight is 700-850 g.
---Page 44: Roseate Spoonbill is now in the genus Platalea.
---Page 48: Population of White-cheeked Pintail is estimated as about
1,000 birds.
---Page 57: Purple Gallinule is now in the genus Porphyrio.
---Page 67: The photo next to the Semipalmated Sandpiper text
is of a Least Sandpiper. The Semipalmated Sandpiper has black legs and
a tubular bill.
---Page 70: The Common Snipe has been split into 2 species. The species
in the West Indies is now called Wilson's Snipe, Gallinago delicata.
---Page 74: The Latin name for the Sandwich Tern should be Sterna
sandvicensis.
---Page 75: The Latin name for the Least Tern should be Sterna
antillarum.
---Page 77: The English name for Rock Dove has changed to Rock Pigeon.
---Page 78-79: White-crowned Pigeon, Scaly-naped Pigeon and Plain
Pigeon are now in the genus Patagioenas.
---Page 82: Mourning Dove weight is 108 g.
---Page 84: Above the Bridled Quail-Dove text is a Key West Quail-Dove
photo. For a Bridled Quail-Dove photo, see: http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/
(Avifauna). ---Page 70: The Common Snipe has been
split into 2 species. The species in the West Indies is now called Wilson's
Snipe, Gallinago delicata.
---Page 88: Antillean Nighthawk weight is 50 g.
---Page 106: Adelaide’s Warbler has been split into 3 species, with
the endemic species on Puerto Rico retaining the original English and
Latin names.
---Page 111. The Latin name for Ovenbird has changed to Seiurus aurocapilla.
---Page 113: The Stripe-headed Tanager has been
split into 4 species, with the "new" endemic species on Puerto
Rico being called the Puerto Rican Spindalis, Spindalis portoricensis.
---Page 116: The Latin name for Grasshopper Sparrow should be Ammodramus
savannarum.
---Page 119: The Black-cowled Oriole has been split into 2 species.
The species in the West Indies is called the Greater Antillean Oriole,
Icterus dominicensis.
---Page 122: The Warbling Silverbill has been split into 2 species.
The form on Puerto Rico is called the Indian Silverbill, Lonchura
malabarica.
---Page 124: The Chestnut Mannikin has been split into 2 species. The
form on Puerto Rico is called the Tricolored Munia, Lonchura malacca.
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---Pages 2 and 52: The photographer of the Sharp-shinned Hawk should
be listed as Carlos Delannoy.
---Page 57: The photographer of the Common Moorhen should be listed
as Bruce Hallett.
---Page 75: The Least Tern photograph should be attributed to Bruce
Hallett.
---Page 76: The Sooty Tern photograph should be
attributed to Jorge Saliva.
---Page 126:
Fideicomiso de Conservación (Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico)
155 Calle Tetuan
Apartado Postal 9023554
San Juan, PR 00901
787-722-5834
Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqeña
P.O. Box 195166
San Juan, PR 00919-5166
https://www.sopipr.org/
---The following photographs should be attributed to
James Parnell:
page 8: Brown Pelican;
page 72: Gull-billed Tern;
page 73: Royal Tern;
page 74: Sandwich Tern.
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On the CD-ROM only:
The Blue Grosbeak is now in the genus
Passerina.
Red Phalaraope is now Phalaropus fulicarius.
The second edition of this book is now available
with improved photos and a Spanish and English CD-ROM containing 1,600
photos, plus 270 audio clips. A Spanish edition of the book
without CD-ROM is also available: Las Aves de Puerto Rico en Fotografías.
ISBN 978-0-9650104-8-1 Internet book sales: https://tinyurl.com/y3telhxk
Updated 1 June 2006
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