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
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.
Four newly-split forms of Great Spotted Woodpecker and three darter species are among the headline taxonomic changes in January and...
18/01/2013
A new analysis of the superfamily Sylvioidea, which includes swallows, larks, bulbuls, long-tailed tits, warblers and white-eyes, has...
20/11/2012
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
Vocalisations in Philippine Hawk Owl have revealed that the species should really be treated as eight forms, including seven full species.
20/09/2012
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
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
The island form of a widespread Asian babbler has now been declared a full species, and a Chinese endemic.
10/08/2012
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
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
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
A comprehensive genetic analysis of all the recognised species and many subspecies of the cosmopolitan crow genus Corvus has been performed...
14/06/2012
Grey and Grey-lined Hawks, originally described as separate species, have been confirmed as deeply differentiated and accepted as full...
14/06/2012