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RAMOS, J.A. (1998) Biometrics, weights, breeding and moulting seasons of passerines in an Azores cloud forest. Ringing & Migration 19: 17-22.

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RAMOS, J.A. & M. NUNES (2001): Red Data Bird. Azores Bullfinch. World Birdwatch 23 (4) [December 2001 pp 14-15.

RAMOS, J.A. & M. NUNES (2002) Priôlo em perigo. Pardela 16 pp 12-13.

RAMOS, J.A., Z. MONIZ, E. SOLA & L.R. MONTEIRO (2003) Reproductive measures and chick provisioning of Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea borealis in the Azores. Bird Study 50 pp 47-54.

RAMOS, J.A., L.R. MONTEIRO, E. SOLA & Z. MONIZ (1997) Characteristics and competition for nest cavities in burrowing Procellariiformes. The Condor 99 pp 634-641.

RAMOS, J.A., E. SOLA, F.M. PORTEIRO & L.R. MONTEIRO (1998 a) Prey of Yellow-Legged Gull, Roseate Tern and Common Tern in the Azores. Seabird 20 pp 31-40.

RAMOS, J.A., E. SOLA, L.R. MONTEIRO & N. RATCLIFFE (1998 b) Prey delivered to Roseate Terns chicks in the Azores. J. Field Ornithol., 69 (3) pp 419-429.

RODRIGUES, P., MICAEL, J., RODRIGO, R.K. & CUNHA, R.T. (2009) A CONSERVATIONAL APPROACH ON THE SEABIRD POPULATIONS OF ILHÉU
DE VILA FRANCA DO CAMPO, AZORES, PORTUGAL. AÇOREANA, Suplemento 6, pp 217-225. Download this paper*

ROSCALES, J.L., E. GÓMEZ-DÍAZ, V. NEVES & J. GONZÁLEZ-SOLÍS (2011): Trophic versus geographic structure in stable isotope signatures of pelagic seabirds breeding in the northeast Atlantic. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 434: 1-13.

SCHÄFER, H. & H. FRAGA (2002) Inselform eines weit verbreiteten Greifvogels: Der Azorenbussard. Der Falke 49 pp 240-243.

WOOLFENDEN, G.E., L.R. MONTEIRO & R.A. DUNCAN (2001) Recovery from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico of a Band-rumped Storm-petrel banded in the Azores. J. Field Ornithol., 72 (1) pp 62-65.

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