Handbook of the Birds of the World

By J. D. Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. Christie. 2010

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Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution (2018, background): “Mellisuga helenae (bee hummingbird), the smallest living dinosaur, weighs 2 g (del Hoyo et al. 1999) and extends the range of body sizes achieved by dinosaurs to 20 million-fold, underscoring the evolutionary versatility of dinosaurs, and of the vertebrate bauplan in general.”
Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation (2014, background): “Although extensive primeval forest in the Nearctic region has lost at least two bird species through habitat loss and hunting (Fuller, 2002), these extinctions affect different functional groups and are too rare to explain general patterns.”
Winners and losers in human‐made habitats: interspecific competition outcomes in two Neotropical vultures (2010, background): “…in the Southern Cone (i.e. Argentina and Chile), these species did not coexist until recently (o100 years; Darwin, 1839; Houston, 1985; Tonni & Noriega, 1988), when black vultures expanded their geographic range following human development and associated resources (del Hoyo et al., 1994).”
Global patterns of specialization and coexistence in bird assemblages (2012, methodology): “Diet specialization was estimated from a comprehensive literature survey, but based primarily on del Hoyo et al. (2008) (see Wilman, 2011).”