Hein van Grouw, Germán Hernández-Alonso, Emily L. Cavill, M. Gilbert
{"title":"The Founding Feathers: the true ancestry of the domestic Barbary Dove","authors":"Hein van Grouw, Germán Hernández-Alonso, Emily L. Cavill, M. Gilbert","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a3","url":null,"abstract":"Summary. In 2008 the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) ruled that the name Streptopelia risoria (Linnaeus, 1758) should have priority for both African Collared Dove and its domestic form, Barbary Dove, as it is senior to S. roseogrisea (Sundevall, 1857). Many ignored the ruling in the belief that the ancestry of Barbary Dove is still unproven. Given the lack of a name-bearing specimen and in anticipation of the ICZN decision, in 2008 a neotype was designated for S. risoria. To clarify the taxonomic status of roseogrisea, as its original type series was mixed, in 2018 a neotype was also designated for this junior synonym of African Collared Dove. As the species was assumed to be polytypic, synonymisation of roseogrisea with risoria at species level was questioned thereafter. The results of a whole genome-resequencing study now show that African Collared Dove is the principal ancestor of Barbary Dove, and that the species is monotypic.","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"50 1","pages":"153 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73795968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taxonomic status of Bay-winged Hawk Parabuteo (unicinctus) unicinctus and Harris's Hawk P. (u.) harrisi, with documentation of delayed plumage maturation in Bay-winged Hawk","authors":"W. S. Clark, S. Seipke","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a2","url":null,"abstract":"Summary. The two main populations of Parabuteo unicinctus have long been treated as subspecies of the same species: Harris's Hawk P. u. harrisi in the southern USA to Costa Rica, and Bay-winged Hawk P. u. unicinctus in South America. However, they differ considerably in their morphology, number of plumages, and behavioural ecology. Adult Harris's Hawk differs in multiple plumage characters from adult Bay-winged Hawk, and differences are even more marked in juvenile plumage. Harris's Hawk has two age-related plumages but Bay-winged Hawk shows delayed plumage maturation and has four such plumages. Harris's Hawk breeds and hunts cooperatively, whereas Bay-winged Hawk nests only in pairs, and hunts individually. There are no valid records of Harris's Hawk in South America. We believe that the differences in adult and juvenile plumages, the number of immature plumages, and differences in breeding and hunting mean that Harris's Hawk and Bay-winged Hawk are best treated as separate species.","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"55 1","pages":"142 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86261754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Full Issue","authors":"","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135409713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A critical response to Halley's (2022) ‘Audubon’s diary transcripts were doctored to support his false claim of personally discovering Lincoln’s Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)’","authors":"P. Logan","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a8","url":null,"abstract":"Summary. In a recent article (Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. 142: 329–342), Matthew Halley contended that John James Audubon (1785–1851) lied about his discovery of Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834) during his 1833 Labrador expedition. Extracts from the naturalist's journal, published after his death in a biography prepared by his widow, Lucy (1787–1874), states that he was aboard ship ‘Drawing all day’ when the specimen was collected by one of his assistants. Consequently, Halley submitted that Audubon’s claim in the Ornithological biography to having first sighted the bird was fabricated and that his granddaughter Maria R. Audubon (1843–1925) doctored her alternate version of the journal to be consistent before she destroyed the original. However, Halley overlooked critical facts, including evidence that Lucy’s manuscript was compiled and edited by others; the published work contained numerous errors; and the journal entries for the previous two weeks were misdated and sometimes conjoined from multiple days, proving that her journal was not a faithful transcription of the original.","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"6 1","pages":"244 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82675526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What's so special about New Guinea birds?","authors":"J. Diamond, K. Bishop","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a6","url":null,"abstract":"Summary. 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 geography and peoples. New Guinea birds include: the famous birds of paradise, bowerbirds, and megapodes, which evolved in New Guinea (or New Guinea plus Australia) and are still concentrated there; pigeons, parrots, and kingfishers, which are especially species-rich and diverse in New Guinea and radiated there, whether or not they originally evolved there; and many groups that are morphologically and ecologically similar to European groups, such as ‘wrens’, ‘creepers’, and ‘nuthatches’, but that proved to be ‘lookalikes’ that evolved independently in New Guinea / Australia, just as numerous marsupial mammals and placental mammals converged on similar morphologies. Finally, the poisonous pitohuis and ifrit independently acquired the same neurotoxin as did South American poison-dart frogs; and a melampitta roosts and nests underground. The advantages offered by the island itself include: its equatorial location and its high mountains, so that New Guinea offers the entire range of habitats from coral reefs and rainforests through alpine grassland and glaciers on one short transect; the ‘right size’ (sufficient species to illuminate but not too many species so as to confuse); a simple geographic layout comprising a central mountain chain and its lowland ring; hundreds of islands of three types; virtually complete knowledge of the composition of its resident avifauna at the level of species; and the encyclopedic knowledge of birds among traditional New Guinea peoples. As examples of phenomena of general biological interest that New Guinea birds have illuminated, I discuss elevational sequences of congeners, culture in bowerbirds, evolution of ‘aggressive mimicry’ of larger bird species by smaller birds, brown-and-black mixed-species foraging flocks, and selection for and against overwater dispersal. These birds, landscapes, and topics are illustrated by photographs by K. David Bishop.","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"58 1","pages":"212 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80832241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subspeciation in the Ruby-throated Bulbul Rubigula dispar","authors":"Alex J. Berryman, N. Collar","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a7","url":null,"abstract":"Summary. Ruby-throated Bulbul Rubigula dispar, currently Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List owing to trade pressure, is considered monotypic across its range on three Sundaic islands in Indonesia: Sumatra, Java and Bali. However, examination of photographs and museum specimen labels and measurement of 37 Sumatran and 50 Javan specimens indicate that birds from Sumatra differ from those on Java (type locality) and Bali in exhibiting a variably red (not pale yellow) iris and a slightly longer bill and wing. Consequently, we propose subspecies rank for the Sumatran population. We recommend that the two taxa be maintained pure in captivity and that any releases of confiscated birds take place on the correct island based on eye colour.","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"87 1","pages":"237 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81129281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS","authors":"","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"143 1","pages":"139 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73227949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Results of ornithological inventories in north-west Minas Gerais state, Brazil, with notes on distribution and conservation","authors":"Eduardo França Alteff","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i2.2023.a4","url":null,"abstract":"Summary. Based on 30 days of field surveys in the north-west of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2014, I report notable records of 40 bird species. In total, 293 species were recorded at three sites, including 15 species at risk of extinction (at state, national or global levels) and another four species whose status is insufficiently known to be placed in any threat of extinction category in Minas Gerais or Brazil. Records of three species are new for the São Francisco basin, and 13 are new for north-west Minas Gerais. Among the rarest species reported are Dwarf Tinamou Taoniscus nanus, Jabiru Jabiru mycteria, Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus, Ocellated Crake Micropygia schomburgkii, Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor, Russet-mantled Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla dimidiata, Minas Gerais Tyrannulet Phylloscartes roquettei, Chapada Flycatcher Guyramemua affine, Reiser's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias reiseri, Rufous-tailed Attila Attila phoenicurus, Black-collared Swallow Pygochelidon melanoleuca and Blackish-blue Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta.","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"22 1","pages":"172 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74642417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS","authors":"","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"527 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77065974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy","authors":"K. Bishop, S. V. van Balen","doi":"10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2","url":null,"abstract":"Summary. New Guinea and its satellite islands are justly renowned for their spectacular and highly diverse, endemic avifauna. The oceanic island of Biak and its satellites, in Teluk Cenderawasih (formerly Geelvink Bay), Papua province, Indonesia, has an avifauna of c.159 species including the largest number of endemics of any island in the New Guinea region: seven species are strictly endemic to Biak and another six are shared with other Teluk Cenderawasih islands but not Yapen. Despite Biak attaining an elevation of c.1,034 m there are no species whose range on Biak is known to be entirely montane. We provide a physical description of Biak and its twin Supiori, and discuss the biogeography and conservation of their birds. We present a detailed checklist of all species recorded to date. Since the publication in 1939 of Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee, 66 species have been added to the Biak list, of which Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus and Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus are new for the entire Australo-Papuan region and Grey Heron Ardea cinerea only the second for the region and first for New Guinea; 47 of these additions are also first records for any island in Teluk Cenderawasih. An appendix summarises the distribution and status of birds in Teluk Cenderawasih (excluding mainland New Guinea species only on Yapen).","PeriodicalId":38973,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists'' Club","volume":"64 1","pages":"3 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74153705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}