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APPENDIX. Belize plants important to the Black Catbird, or Black Catbird and White-crowned Pigeon. Key to 
references: 1 = Scott and Martin (1984), 2 = Miller and Miller (1991), 3 = Bradley and Rey-Millet (1995), 4 = Burton and 
Gifford (1997), 5 = Bancroft and Bowman (2001), 6 = Morgenthaler (2003). 
Nesting 
Feeding 
Plants 
BLCA* 
wepr 
BLCA" 
WCPF 
Red mangrove* Rhizophora mangle 
6 
5 
Black mangrove* Avicennia germinans 
6 
5 
3 
Buttonwood* Conocarpus erectus 
6 
5 
Sapodilla, sapote Manilkara zapota 
6 
6 
Gumbo limbo, red birch Bur sera simaruba 
5 
1 
3,4,5 
Seagrape' Coccoloba uvifera 
5 
6 
5 
Black torch f Erithalis fruticosa 
5 
2,6 
5 
Poison wood Met opium spp. 
5 
6 
5 
Mango Mangifera iruiica 
6 
5 
Hemsiey wild fig Ficus hemsleyana 
6 
Wild fig* Ficus spp. 
1 
3,5 
Thatch palm, chit palm* Thrinax radiata 
6 
Nightshade 11 Solatium spp. 
6 
5 
Firebush Hamelia patens 
6 
“ Species on Northern Two Cayes (after Fosberg ct al. 1982). 
Trees in which nests are placed. 
1 Plants in nesting ecosystem. 
a Fruits eaten and places of feeding (Morgenthaler 2003:18). 
' Fruits eaten. 
On Half Moon Caye but not Northern Two Cayes. 
8 On Half Moon Caye and some other islands of Lighthouse Reef but not Northern Two Cayes. 
" Sulaniun bind genii on Half Moon Caye but no Solatium on Northern Two Cayes. 
