Educational resources on Cocos Finch

Cocos Finch or Pinaroloxias inornata is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to D2. IUCN Profile of the Cocos Finch

Academic web links for the Cocos Finch.

Darwin's Finches
...single genus: the ground finches (Geospiza), the tree finches (Camarhynchus), the warbler finch (Certhidea) and the Cocos finch (Pinaroloxias).
people.rit.edu/rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/DarwinFinch.html

Animal Behavior Lecture Notes
Cocos Finch - uses splinters of wood. North American Gulls, Northwestern Crow - smash clams on sandy beaches. Play Behavior. young animals engage in play, precursors
www.anselm.edu/homepage/jpitocch/genbios/animbeh.html

Ecology Lecture Notes
Cocos Finch - on Cocos Island, eats a wider variety of foods and has greater morphological variation than other Galapagos finches on the Galapagos Islands
www.anselm.edu/homepage/jpitocch/genbios/ecologybi04.html

American Scientist Online - Adaptive Radiation of Darwin's Finches
Alternatively, the warbler finch may have given rise to the Cocos finch (Pinaroloxias) on the Galapagos, with the species colonizing Cocos
chiron.valdosta.edu/jbpascar/Courses/Biol1010/ExtraCreditActivities/American%20Scientist...

Happy 200th, Darwin!
The genetic sequences of the Galapagos finches and the Cocos finch suggest that they form a monophyletic clade — that is, that they represent all the living descendents of a
evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/090201_darwinday

Cocos Island
Cocos Island. We ended up on Cocos by mistake. Within hour we knew that the ... Cocos finch, another endemic. These guys were very common
www.sbs.utexas.edu/sasha/cocos_island.htm

Untitled 1 [biology.unm.edu]
...to 14 species of finch, generally belonging to 4 groups: the ground finches (Geospiza), the tree finches (Camarhynchus), the warbler finch (Certhidea) and the Cocos finch (
biology.unm.edu/ccouncil/Biology_203/Summaries/Natural_Selection.html

Princeton University - Graduate student receives Sigma Xi grant
The $350 will support Spinney's study entitled "Timing of Breeding in the Cocos Finch." She will try to determine why the Cocos finch, a species of Darwin's finch found exclusively
www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/A97/84/31Q20

Parasitism, Mutualism & commensalism: lecture content
Melastome fruits (see arrow) eaten by, and seeds dispersed by, Cocos Finch, Pinaroloxias inornata (Photo by T.W. Sherry & T.K. Werner)
www.tulane.edu/~ggentry/ECOL/Lex/GenEcol03_Mutualism.ppt

RECONSTRUCTING EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY : 8 Dec 2009 (15 points )
The origins of Pinaroloxias (Cocos Finch) has puzzled biologists for years. Most have suggested that Pinaroloxias may be most closely related to Certhidea (Warbler Finch), which it
webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/r/rmumme/Bio221/Discussion/Dec08/assets/DarwinsFinches...