Seabird splits
Having speculated about transatlantic, Macaronesian and Mediterranean splits, David Callahan turns to the tricky subject of potential new...
07/03/2011
Analysis of avian DNA, biometrics and vocalisations add to our understanding of bird species all the time. We cover all the 'splits', lumps and discoveries.
Having speculated about transatlantic, Macaronesian and Mediterranean splits, David Callahan turns to the tricky subject of potential new...
07/03/2011
Examination of two new specimens of wood rail from western Madagascar has resulted in a new species being named.
25/02/2011
In the final part of his examination of possible new species that could make the British, Irish and Western Palearctic lists, David...
23/02/2011
Museum work, a 10-day pelagic expedition and a net-gun confirm a new seabird species.
22/02/2011
A cross-island assessment of the biometrics of introduced species has found potential evolutionary change occurring on the different...
17/02/2011
A prospective comprehensive reshuffle of the bush warbler tribe Megalurinae has simplified its structure and indicated future lumps and...
16/02/2011
Continuing his occasional series on avian taxonomy, David Callahan looks at possible landbird splits on the Atlantic islands and in the...
15/02/2011
A new study has now highlighted the presence of cryptic treecreeper Certhia forms by identifying deep divisions among the clades and...
26/01/2011
The desert-living Scrub Warbler has been show to be more closely related to Cetti's Warbler rather than the cisticolas, as previously...
18/01/2011
BirdingASIA has just published a summary of suggestions for taxonomic changes in Asia. The paper not only discusses splits at species...
11/01/2011
Criteria for identifying Greenland Wheatear have been further refined in a new study.
23/12/2010
A new gadfly petrel subspecies has been described from North Vanuatu, after specimens lay unanalysed in a museum draw for over 80 years,...
17/12/2010