Transformer pipits
THE extent to which some passerines can change their appearance to suit their environments and habitats has been revealed in a dramatic way...
11/05/2015
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 extent to which some passerines can change their appearance to suit their environments and habitats has been revealed in a dramatic way...
11/05/2015
The full species status of Northern Harrier from North America – once considered to be a subspecies of Hen Harrier – has received further...
20/04/2015
A new member of a South American songbird genus has been discovered to be a semi-mimic of an unrelated passerine.
14/04/2015
A genetic study of the four recognised subspecies of Stone-curlew has found the current classification inaccurate, and that the two forms...
19/03/2015
A new study has proposed that Bahama Woodstar - a common and familiar sight across the Bahama Archipelago - actually comprises two species.
12/02/2015
A new study recommends that several Atlantic subspecies of Chaffinch are revised with a view to a split.
27/01/2015
Another cryptic Amazonian ant-eating species has been found to conceal more species level forms - in the case one of the antbirds.
27/01/2015
While birders are accustomed to DNA analysis identifying new species, it has now uncovered a whole new family.
22/12/2014
New research has found that there were once, probably are, and almost certainly will be many more species of hummingbird than are known at...
14/04/2014
A new analysis of the confusing Central Asian Lesser Whitethroat subspecies has helped more clearly define the limits of each.
03/03/2014
A widespread but distinctive South American hummingbird has now been split into four full species.
03/03/2014
A genetic survey of corvid museum specimens has revealed that crows readily switched plumage colours during their evolution, suggests new...
27/02/2014