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Tiny Asian bird discovered as sole member of ancient family. Who’s next?

March 23, 2014 by David 4 Comments
Big news about a small bird broke earlier this month...
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Mitochondrial mysteries and splitting-lumping Yellow-rumped Warblers

January 26, 2014 by David 1 Comment
The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) complex is one of the...
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James's Flamingos (by Pedro Szekely) and Horned Grebe (by winnu).
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Exploring the relationship between flamingos and grebes: The wonderful birds

August 18, 2013 by David 3 Comments
That flamingos (Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae) are probably each others’...
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The mousebird mystery

July 21, 2013 by David 2 Comments
Mousebirds (order Coliiformes) are one of the perennial puzzles in...
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Waxwings and their kin: Meet the bombycillids

February 17, 2013 by David 5 Comments
Waxwings and their relatives are a small, interesting group of...
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Tropicbird-Sunbittern relationship hypothesized in new paper

October 21, 2012 by David 2 Comments
The oldest division in the great avian tree lies between...
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White-breasted Nuthatch is four species, study says

April 12, 2012 by David 13 Comments
Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their...
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Birding, Conservation

New Zealand Storm-petrels; Back from the Dead

September 28, 2011 by Duncan 3 Comments
There are few stories in ornithology I enjoy more than...
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Latest high-level bird taxonomy summarized in recent paper

July 14, 2011 by David 4 Comments
And so it’s July, which for this North American birder...
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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

March 12, 2011 by David 7 Comments
There I was (I’ve been reading Thurber) on board a...
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