Defintely three sand plover species: Siberian Sand-Plover C. mongolus, Tibetan Sand-Plover C. atrifrons, and Greater Sand Plover C. leschenaultii! Our paper in "Ornithology" shows that the lesser sand-plovers are not closest relatives according to enome-wide data Yang Liu

New paper out in Ibis today: Deep genome-wide phylogeographic structure indicates cryptic diversity in the Middle Spotted Woodpecker onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… Reto Burri Vogelwarte_Science BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈

I didn't expect this to synchronise with breakout of war and economic collapse, but some positive news for bird people: the global dataset many of you helped to collect is now finally released - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el… - as part of a special issue onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14610248/2… #T10K

See how genomic data reveal cryptic species and how migration patterns maintain genetic divergence in birds: buff.ly/3sHDhgI #populationstructure #crypticspecies #sandmartin Manuel Schweizer Yang Liu Photo: Manuel Schweizer

guiding for #birdnumbers2022 #ebcc2022 nasty conditions, but big fun with people from 14 different countries

New on #theBOUblog: Phylogenetic structure in an arboreal bird bou.org.uk/blog-schweizer… Read the open access BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #ornithology | Manuel Schweizer

Please RT: Ich suche eine neue Kolleg*in für die Redaktion der wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift «Ornithologischer Beobachter», im Rahmen einer 40%-Anstellung an der Schweizerischen Vogelwarte Sempach vogelwarte.ch. Siehe ala-schweiz.ch/index.php/ala-…

New paper on the status of the Common Redstart on the Indian Subcontinent: vagrant, passage migrant, or breeder? researchgate.net/publication/36… GMKirwan

Isabelline Wheatear the days are getting short, more time for painting..

The report of the Swiss Rarities Committe for 2021 is available online! No less than three first records for the country were obtained: Western Sandpiper, Steppe Eagle and Bonelli’s Eagle. #birdwatching ala-schweiz.ch/images/stories…

Genomic data reveals complex diversification history of wheatears indicating involvment of diverse processes in abundant convergent evolution (introgression, ILS, novel mutation) academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… Reto Burri Niloofar Alaei Dave Lutgen Alexander Suh 서상재 Molecular Biology and Evolution

Another wheatear... Rusty-breasted Wheatear Oenanthe frenata in fresh autumn plumage. A species endemic to the Horn of Africa, usually treated as conspecific with Arabian bottae, but nowadays sometimes split... pending analyses of genetic data of bottae

First encounter with a cichlid SUPERFLOCK. We witnessed 2 speciation events in 5 minutes!

Just published: framework for species delimitation for the Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. It explains the guidelines for species delimitation applied in the process of gradually updating this list. aviansystematics.org/uploads/texted… David Marques