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“This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species. And that provides us a better lens to understand the changes that are happening with bird populations,” said Amanda Rodewald, faculty director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology alongside Professor Emily Jane McTavish at the University of California, Merced have mapped the evolution of every known bird species.The resulting database can easily be shared and updated as additional studies are published. The researchers detailed how they created this novel evolutionary map in a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS).
We recently wrapped up season three of the BOW Discovery Webinars. Thanks to all our distinguished speakers as well as the staff here at the Cornell Lab who makes them possible.
Learn more about the Masked Finfoot, one of Asia’s most threatened waterbirds. This species has faced alarming population declines due to habitat loss and disturbance in low-lying, forested wetlands.
Join us for the February Birds of the World (BOW) Discovery webinar on Integrative Taxonomy featuring Per Alström on Thursday, 20 February 2025
Presentation by Suresh Kumar, Senior Scientist in the Department of Endangered Species Management at the Wildlife Institute of India on the result of his studies tracking fine-scale movements and migration of the Amur Falcon.
26 Nov 2024 / Slender-billed Curlew (BOW; Search for Lost Birds), There have recently been some incredible stories of lost birds being rediscovered. The Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon was photographed after 126 years, the Santa Marta Sabrewing was found after 76 years, the New Britain Goshawk was documented for the first time in 55 years, to name a […]
En este webinar, TOMÁS RIVAS FUENZALIDA, presidente e investigador principal de la Fundación Ñankulafkén presenta un resumen sobre los nuevos hallazgos para este particular grupo de aves.
The latest eBird/Clements avian taxonomy has been released, though things are still settling out. This year’s update involved 141 species gained through splits, 16 lumps, and three newly recognized species along with hundreds of updates to nomenclature, subspecies revisions, and other changes.
The 2024 taxonomy updates will be available in Birds of the World, eBird, Merlin, and Macaulay Library in November, 2024. Join Shawn, Pam, and Marshall as they discuss these changes in depth.
