Scrub Warbler changes position
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
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.
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
The three subspecies of Least Tern in North America have been determined to be invalid, according to new research.
10/12/2010
An attempt to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of a few of the large white-headed gull species has been performed by the same team that...
10/12/2010
Further light has been thrown onto the relationships between various members of the paraphlyetic warbler family Sylviidae by a new Chinese...
10/12/2010
The first systematic study of the avifauna of a palaeontological dig at Ahl al Oughlam, just outside Casablanca, Morocco, has now been...
10/12/2010
DNA sequencing reveals that Asthenes comprises two groups that are not sister taxa.
09/12/2010
An attempt to clarify pheasant taxonomic status looks at 15 genera in China.
09/12/2010
Anatomical and molecular analyses of Crab Plover look at how the species is related to other waders.
09/12/2010
Genetic studies have looked at the long-tailed tit family.
09/12/2010