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Tinamou bibliography provided by David Bender. Many thanks to David. If you have additions please email the reference to me.

Below are links to several tinamou specific papers. Other papers listed in the above bibliography from the Auk, Condor, Wilson Bullettin or Studies in Avian Biology are available from Searchable Ornithological Research Archives (SORA). Additionally, a search of the archive will produce several avian community studies that include tinamous.

I have also included papers and links to free software related to proper field techniques, survey design, and data analysis for population estimation studies.

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A mystery solved: the identity and distribution of Kalinowski's Tinamou Nothoprocta kalinowskii

A phylogeny of the tinamous (Aves: Palaeognathiformes) based on integumentary characters

A study of the Spotted tinamous and the Pale spotted tinamous of Argentina

A study of the Crested tinamou of Argentina

Body mass and habitat correlates of song structure in a primitive group of birds

Biology of the Brushland Tinamou, Nothoprocta cinerascens

Diet of the Chilean Tinamou Nothoprocta perdicaria in south central Chile

Distinctive song of highland form maculicollis of the Red-winged Tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens): Evidence for species rank

Female-biased sexual size dimorphism in tinamous: acomparative test fails to support Rensch's rule

Life history of the Boucard Tinamou in British Honduras Part I: Distribution and general behavior

Life history of the Boucard Tinamou in British Honduras Part II: Breeding behavior

Life history of the Little Tinamou

Metabolic,water and thermal relations of the Chilean Tinamou

Molecular sex identification of tinamous with PCR using primers derived from the spindling gene

Mortalidad de Perdiz Chilena (Nothoprocta perdicaria) a causa de maquinaria agricola en Chillan, Chile

Natural history and breeding behavior of the tinamou, Nothoprocta ornata

Nest and young of the Highland Tinamou in southern Columbia

Relaciones de los tinamidos Venozolanos del grupo Crypturellus noctivagus indicadas por su voz

Status of the Magdalena Tinamou Crypturellus saltuarius in the type locality and adjacent lower Magdalena Valley

The Dwarf Tinamou (Taoniscus nanus) of central Brazil

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Proceedings from the symposium Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of the Tinamiformes, VIIth Neotropical Ornithology Congress, Termas de Puyehe, Chile 2003.

Bertelli 2004. Pigmentation characters: an example of Sankoff characters from tinamou phylogeny

Bertelli and Porzecanski 2004. Tinamou (Tinamidae) systematics: a preliminary combined analysis of morphology and molecules

Brennan 2004. Techniques for studying the behavioral ecology of forest-dwelling tinamous (Tinamidae)

Brooks et al. 2004. Resources separation of a Napo-Amozonian tinamou community

Garitano-Zavala et al. 2004. Los primeros resultados de la crianza experimental en cautiverio de la Pisacca (Nothoprocta ornata) en dos comunidades rurales del Altiplano Boliviano

Mosa 2004. Impact of agriculture and grazing on the Pale-spotted (Nothura darwinii) and Andean (Nothoprocta pentlandii) Tinamous in the Lerma Valley, Salta Province, Argentina

Schelsky 2004. Research and conservation of forest-dependent tinamou species in Amazonian Peru

Thompson 2004. Tinamous and agriculture: lessons learned from the Galliformes

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Below are some papers related to proper study design and data analysis in population estimation surveys.

Also here are links for Program MARK for analysis of population paramters using marked individuals, the program Distance used for the design and analysis of distance sampling surveys, and Program PRESENCE for estimating occupancy and abundance from repeated counts. These and many other ecological software packages are available from the Patuxent Wildife Research Center Software Archive.

A double observer-approach for estimating detection probability and abundance from point counts

A removal model for estimating detection probabilities from point-count surveys

Alternatives to statistical hypothesis testing in ecology: a guide to self teaching

Designing large-scale surveys of wildlife abundance and diversity using statistical sampling principles

Designing occupancy studies: general advice and allocating survey effort

Distance Sampling

Distance sampling: estimating abundance of biological populations

Estimating abundance from repeated prescence-abscence data or point counts

Estimating abundance of Galliformes: tools and application

Estimating nest detection probabilities for White-winged dove nest transects in Tamaulipas, Mexico

Estimating site occupancy rates when detection probabilities are less than one

Estimating site occupancy, colonization, and local extinction when a species is detected imperfectly

Hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence

Improving inferences in population studies of rare species that are detected imperfectly

Improving methods for regional landbird monitoring: a reply to Hutto and Young

Landbird counting techniques: current practices and an alternative

Large scale wildlife monitoring studies: statistical methods for design and analysis

Metodos cuantitativos contemporaneos para entender y manejar poblaciones y comunidades animales

Monitoring of biological diversity in space and time

Modelling occurrence and abundance of species when detection is imperfect

N-mixture Models for Estimating Population Size from Spatially Replicated Counts

Occupancy as a surrogate for abundance estimation

On the use of the robust design with transient capture-recapture models

Site occupacny models with heterogeneous detection probabilities

The need to get the basics right in wildife field studies

Towards reliable bird surveys: accounting for individuals present but not detected

Was it there? Dealing with imperfect detection for species presence/absence data

What are the issues with presence-absence data for wildlife managers?

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