A complete and dynamic tree of birds

EJ McTavish, JA Gerbracht, MT Holder, MJ Iliff… - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
We present a complete, time-scaled, evolutionary tree of the world's bird species. This tree
unites phylogenetic estimates for 9,239 species from 262 studies published between 1990 …

THE BIRDS OF THE KANGEAN ISLANDS AND AN APPRAISAL OF THEIR CONSERVATION STATUS

AJ Berryman, CL Rutt, M Irham, S van Balen - Treubia, 2024 - biologyjournal.brin.go.id
The Kangean islands are a biologically poorly known archipelago situated in the Java Sea,
Indonesia, approximately 120 km directly north of Bali. These islands host an avifauna …

Species delimitation and phylogenetic analyses of a New Guinean frog genus (Microhylidae: Hylophorbus) reveal many undescribed species and a complex …

F Ferreira, F Kraus, S Richards, P Oliver… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
New Guinea is the largest tropical island in the world and hosts immense endemic
biodiversity. However, our understanding of how the gradual emergence of the terrestrial …

[HTML][HTML]  A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities …

M Melo, B Freitas, P Verbelen, SR da Costa, H Pereira… - ZooKeys, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) is described from
Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea, Africa). This species was …

The New Mitogenome of Erpornis zantholeuca (Aves: Passeriformes): Sequence, Structure, and Phylogenetic Analyses

Q Yuan, J Sha, Y Duan - Cytogenetic and genome research, 2023 - karger.com
Abstract White-bellied Erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) is a group of birds in the order
Passeriformes, but its taxonomic status remains controversial. To understand the …

What's so special about New Guinea birds? 1

J Diamond, KD Bishop - Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 2023 - BioOne
I discuss why the tropical island of New Guinea has long been important in the development
of our understanding of birds. There are two sets of reasons: New Guinea's birds, and its …

Bats can reach 3626 m asl in Papua New Guinea: altitudinal range extensions for six rainforest bat species

PK Amick, K Sam, G Drumo, PS Toko, V Novotny - Mammalia, 2022 - degruyter.com
Bats represent an important, but poorly known component of mammal diversity in Papua
New Guinea (PNG). Our surveys in two altitudinal rainforest gradients recorded 43 bat …

[HTML][HTML] The Black-winged Monarch (Monarcha frater): Geographic variation, taxonomy, a" new" population, and an enduring mystery in migration

L Joseph, J Teh, P Sweet, P Gregory - Avian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Black-winged Monarch (Monarcha frater) inhabits low-mid elevation forests
across New Guinea and far north-eastern Australia. Of its four recognized subspecies, M. f …

[PDF][PDF] Inventaire taxonomique

J Gaudin - 2024 - researchgate.net
L'idée d'une liste taxonomique des oiseaux du monde en langue française a germé il y a
plusieurs années. Elle est ensuite apparue comme une nécessité face à l'abondance …