Abstract Since 2005, the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) has published
updated checklists of Brazilian birds almost every year. Herein, we present a completely …

A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the
last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds has …

Diet is commonly assumed to affect the evolution of species, but few studies have directly
tested its effect at macroevolutionary scales. Here we use Bayesian models of trait …

The island syndrome is a widespread biological phenomenon that describes a suite of
morphological, behavioural, demographic and life‐history changes associated with island …

Shorebirds (Charadriiformes) are a globally distributed clade of modern birds and, due to
their ecological and morphological disparity, a frequent subject of comparative studies …

Twenty‐five years ago, it was suggested that current‐day New Zealand, part of the largely
sunken continent of Zealandia, could have been completely inundated during the Oligocene …

(American Ornithologists' Union [AOU] 1998). It summarizes decisions made between April
15, 2019 and April 15, 2020 by the American Ornithological Society's (formerly American …

Cercomacroides, Tunchiornis, and Pachysylvia) are added as a result of splits from other
genera, resulting in changes to 15 scientific names (Ardenna creatopus, A. carneipes, A …

The ability of lineages to disperse over evolutionary timescales may be influenced by the
gain or loss of traits after adaptation to new ecological conditions. For example, rails (Aves …

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …