Tag: splitting

Conservation

A Guide to Some Possible Bird Species Splits in Costa Rica

March 21, 2015 by Patrick O'Donnell 4 Comments

Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal, Three-wattled Bellbird, Orange-collared Manakin, fancy hummingbirds , tanagers, and literally hundreds of other...

Birding

15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

October 22, 2013 by Felonious Jive 12 Comments

Hello my birding sons and daughters. Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in between. A large portion of...

Birds

Do The Splits

August 27, 2013 by Felonious Jive No Comments

The recent American Ornithological Union (AOU) decisions to split Sage Sparrow (RIP) into Sagebrush Sparrow and Bell’s Sparrow has the Birdosphere buzzing on everything from...

Birds

Say Hello To…Pacific Fulmar?

May 28, 2013 by Felonious Jive 1 Comment

Splits, splits, splits. Birders, for the most part, love them. While many of us anxiously await the AOU’s decisions on some recently proposed splits...

Birds

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 ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down along limbs. The family has...

Birds

Moorhen Mania: The splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen

January 11, 2011 by David 30 Comments

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to split Old World and New...

Birds