Samenvatting

Tropical dry forests (TDF) are subject to intense human intervention leading to an increase of secondary forests and changes in habitat suitability for birds. Despite the increasing research on secondary forests, we have little understanding of how such changes intropical dry forests have affected animal communities. The main goal of this research was to investigate the influence of successional age, vegetation structure, and landscape characteristics on tropical bird species or functional groups (i.e. feeding guilds, forestdependent birds, and individual species of conservation interest) in a TDF.