Taxonomy
January and February Listcheck updates
Four newly-split forms of Great Spotted Woodpecker and three darter species are among the headline taxonomic changes in January and...
18/01/2013
Taxonomy
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.
Taxonomy
Warblers get three new families
A new analysis of the superfamily Sylvioidea, which includes swallows, larks, bulbuls, long-tailed tits, warblers and white-eyes, has...
20/11/2012
Taxonomy
Brazilian spinetails lumped
Brazil's Bahia Spinetail has been found to be invalid and – unusually for South America – lumped with the more widespread Rufous-tailed...
20/11/2012
Taxonomy
Hawk owl split asunder
Vocalisations in Philippine Hawk Owl have revealed that the species should really be treated as eight forms, including seven full species.
20/09/2012
Taxonomy
New barbet species in Peru
The eastern Andean region of Peru has given up a new species of barbet, a sister species to Scarlet-banded Barbet, a previously-known...
20/09/2012
Taxonomy
Albatross splits feel the heat
The growing acceptance of the large number of species splits recently made in the albatross family has been called into question by a new...
13/08/2012
Taxonomy
Last laugh
The island form of a widespread Asian babbler has now been declared a full species, and a Chinese endemic.
10/08/2012
Taxonomy
At their 'wits end?
Further evidence for a putative three-way split in Black-tailed Godwit has been discovered by a team of pan-European workers.
26/06/2012
Taxonomy
New wren from Colombia
A new species of wren has been named from north-western Colombia, which had remained undiscovered despite being present in a fairly popular...
20/06/2012
Taxonomy
Libyan orpheans get description
An isolated population of Western Orphean Warbler in Libya has been described as a new subspecies, and new criteria for separating the...
15/06/2012
Taxonomy
Rooks, ravens and relations
A comprehensive genetic analysis of all the recognised species and many subspecies of the cosmopolitan crow genus Corvus has been performed...
14/06/2012
Taxonomy
Shades of Grey Hawk
Grey and Grey-lined Hawks, originally described as separate species, have been confirmed as deeply differentiated and accepted as full...
14/06/2012
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