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Brian W. Finch, Auteur ; R. Stratton Hatfield, Auteur ; Silvia Colombo, Auteur ; Adam S. Kennedy, Auteur ; Marije te Raa, Auteur ; Martin Irestedt, Auteur ; Dawid H. de Swardt, Auteur ; Joe Grosel, Auteur ; Derek Engelbrecht, Auteur ; Callan Cohen, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Peter Njoroge, Auteur ; Sylke Frahnert, Auteur ; Peter de Knijf, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurWe describe the discovery of a previously unknown population of Melodious Lark Mirafra cheniana from northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, some 2000 km north of what was previously thought to be its northern limit in central Zimbabwe. The identi[...]
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Fatemeh Ghorbani, Auteur ; Mansour Aliabadian, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Aleem A. Khan, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurPhylogeographic analyses of the genus Eremophila (Horned Lark E. alpestris and Temminck’s Lark E. bilopha) were carried out based on the mitochondrial cytochrome b and ND2 genes. Four primary lineages with para-/allopatric distributions were ide[...]
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Chentao Wei, Auteur ; Trevor D. Price, Auteur ; Jiayu Liu, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Yanyun Zhang, AuteurAspects of bird song have been shown to correlate with morphological and ecological features, including beak and body size, and habitat. Here we study evolution of song length and song frequency among 30 species belonging to the Cettiidae. Frequ[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Derek Engelbrecht, Auteur
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Min Zhao, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Yanhua Qu, Auteur ; Fumin Lei, Auteur
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Min Zhao, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Ruocheng Hu, Auteur ; Chao Zhao, Auteur ; Yan Hao, Auteur ; Fumin Lei, Auteur ; Yanhua Qu, AuteurThe Rufous-headed Robin Larvivora ruficeps is one of the world's rarest and least known birds. We summarize the known records since it was first described in 1905 from Shaanxi Province, central China. All subsequent Chinese records are from seve[...]
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Lu Dong, Auteur ; Min Wei, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Xi Huang, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Auteur ; Yanyun Zhang, Auteur ; Guangmei Zheng, AuteurThe taxonomy of the Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina–Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia complex from East Asia has long been debated. Most authors recognize two species: F. narcissina, with the subspecies narcissina (most of J[...]
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Min Zhao, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Yanhua Qu, Auteur ; Fumin Lei, AuteurThe Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is usually placed in a monotypic family or subfamily within the superfamily Certhioidea, with assumed close relationships to Certhia (treecreepers), Sitta (nuthatches) and Salpornis (spotted creepers). Previous[...]
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Per Alström, Auteur ; Min Zhao, Auteur ; Peng He, Auteur ; Fumin Lei, AuteurThis study provides new distributional and morphological data for one of the world’s most poorly known species, the Blackthroat Calliope obscura, which, until recently, was only known from fewer than ten museum specimens and a few field observat[...]
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Per Alström, Auteur ; Jon Fjeldså, Auteur ; Silke Fregin, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, AuteurThe Scrub Warbler, which inhabits arid areas from North Africa to western Asia, has long been thought to be closely related to cisticolid warblers. However, analyses based on two mitochondrial and four nuclear loci place this species sister to t[...]
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Martin Irestedt, Auteur ; Magnus Gelang, Auteur ; George Sangster, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Per G. P. Ericson, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurWe present molecular evidence that Neumann's Warbler Hemitesia neumanni is deeply nested within the Cettiidae. The species' distribution in the Albertine Rift of East Africa is intriguing, as the family Cettiidae is principally an Asian radiatio[...]
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Per Alström, Auteur ; Takema Saitoh, Auteur ; Dawn Williams, Auteur ; Isao Nishiumi, Auteur ; Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Auteur ; Keisuke Ueda, Auteur ; Martin Irestedt, Auteur ; Mats Björklund, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, AuteurThe Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis breeds across the northern Palaearctic and northwestern-most Nearctic, from northern Scandinavia to Alaska, extending south to southern Japan, and winters in Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia.[...]
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Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Reuven Yosef, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurWe estimated a phylogeny for 10 taxa currently placed in four polytypic species that collectively encompass the African brown buntings': Cape Bunting Emberiza capensis, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi, Lark-like Bunting Emberiza impe[...]
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Yang Liu, Auteur ; Guoling Chen, Auteur ; Qin Huang, Auteur ; Chenxi Jia, Auteur ; Geoff Carey, Auteur ; Paul Leader, Auteur ; Yun Li, Auteur ; Fasheng Zou, Auteur ; Xiaojun Yang, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurOur knowledge of the systematics and taxonomy of Asian birds has improved much in the last two decades, and the number of recognised species has increased significantly as a result of in-depth studies using an integrative taxonomic approach. The[...]
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Per Alström, Auteur ; Pete Davidson, Auteur ; J. W. Duckworth, Auteur ; Jonathan C. Eames, Auteur ; Trai Trong Le, Auteur ; Cu Nguyen, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Craig Robson, Auteur ; Rob Timmins, AuteurA new species of Phylloscopus warbler, which we name Phylloscopus calciatilis Limestone Leaf Warbler, is described from central and northern Vietnam and central and northern Laos; it probably also breeds in southernmost China. In morphology, the[...]
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Gang Song, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Yongwen Zhang, Auteur ; Xuebin Gao, Auteur ; Huisheng Gong, Auteur ; Paul I. Holt, Auteur ; Qing Quan, Auteur ; Zuohua Yin, Auteur ; Fumin Lei, AuteurThe Blackthroat (or Blackthroated Blue Robin) Calliope obscura (previously Luscinia obscura) is one of the world's rarest "robins". It is extremely poorly known, with only a handful of records since it was firstly described in the 1890s. In 2011[...]
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Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Callan Cohen, Auteur ; Julian E. Francis, Auteur ; Negussie Toye, Auteur ; David Hoddinott, Auteur ; Abiy Dagne, Auteur ; Chris Wood, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurThe African lark genus Heteromirafra is thought to consist of three threatened species inhabiting mid-altitude grasslands, one in South Africa and two in the Horn of Africa. One of the latter, Archer's Lark H. archeri of Somaliland, has not been[...]
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Xinlei Li, Auteur ; Feng Dong, Auteur ; Fumin Lei, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Ruiying Zhang, Auteur ; Anders Odeen, Auteur ; Jon Fjeldså, Auteur ; Per G. P. Ericson, Auteur ; Fasheng Zou, Auteur ; Xiaojun Yang, AuteurWe studied the phylogeography and population history of the white wagtail Motacilla alba, which has a vast breeding range, covering areas with different Pleistocene climatic histories. The mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit II gene (ND2) a[...]
