The MacMourning Warbler…
By Charlie • October 6, 2009 • 3 comments…Sponsorship gone absurd, or a very unexpected Scottish population of Oporornis warbler? No, instead the inevitable moniker arising from a paper by Darren E. Irwin, Alan Brelsford, David P. L. Toews, Christie MacDonald and Mark Phinney which reports that there exists in British Columbia, “an extensive hybrid zone between MacGillivray’s and mourning warblers. Variation in each of the four traits is explained well by a single sigmoidal cline, with a width of roughly 150 km (or 130 km based only on the molecular markers). This is only the fourth hybrid zone known among North American wood-warblers”.
Sounds interesting but I cannot open the link.
Hi Jochen - Oh, it works fine for me, but just in case here it is again:
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~irwin/PDFs/Irwinetal2009%20MacMourning.pdf
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