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Do nine-primaried oscines represent 16 different families?

January 20, 2013 by David 11 Comments

Roughly 10 percent of the world’s birds — about a thousand species — are songbirds belong to a group called “nine-primaried oscines,” so named...

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What do you get a bird-lover who has everything?

November 20, 2012 by David 2 Comments

I looked over at the calendar the other day and literally almost jumped halfway across the room. The end of 2012 – and the...

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Sandpiper family reorganization on the way

November 18, 2012 by David 7 Comments

A recent proposal (555) to the AOU’s South American Classification Committee deals with newly published information about relationships within the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae, and...

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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 the ratites and tinamous (the paleognaths) and all other living birds (the neognaths). The...

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Hang your hammock in the hummingbird family tree

September 16, 2012 by David 10 Comments

Many of us in North America are facing the imminent departure of “our” hummingbirds for the next few months, though across the Gulf Coastal...

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Who belongs in the Evening Grosbeak’s family tree?

August 16, 2012 by David 3 Comments

We humans often understand things by exploring their relationships. Ourselves, for instance; just consider how many sweet or gritty stories you’ve seen about Olympic...

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AOU 53rd supplement: Highlights and near misses

July 26, 2012 by David 4 Comments

The American Ornithologists’ Union published the 53rd supplement (PDF) to its North American list last week, making official many long-speculated changes and rejecting others,...

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Controversy brewing over Inca Doves

June 14, 2012 by David 17 Comments

Emotion. Drama. Intrigue. Philosophy. Yes, I’m talking about scientific proposals to ornithological taxonomic authorities. Take, for example, the gem I found in the latest...

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