2015 in birding and ornithology
The year 2015 in birding and ornithology.
Worldwide
New species
- See also Bird species new to science described in the 2010s
- Desert owl Strix hadorami [1]
- Perijá tapaculo Scytalopus perijanus [2]
- Sichuan bush warbler Locustella chengi [3]
Taxonomic developments
Ornithologists
Deaths
World listing
Europe
Britain
Breeding birds
Migrant and wintering birds
Rare birds
Other events
Republic of Cyprus
- More than 2 million birds are illegally killed during the autumn, including 800,000 on British military sovereign base areas. They are trapped by limesticks and mist net, served as ambelopoulia in restaurants and the illegal trade is estimated to be worth €15 million per annum.[4]
Ireland
North America
To be completed
gollark: Sometimes many at once!
gollark: My closed-source things are mostly closed-source because:- they are trivial and I do not care enough to move them to random-stuff- they contain osmarks.net implementation details or personal data I have not bothered to disentangle- the code is too ææææææææ to release
gollark: They also did open *some* things.
gollark: In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, we intend to get more GPU compute and upgrade the neural nets.
gollark: Worse than the helloboi neural nets.
References
- Guy M. Kirwan; Manuel Schweizer; José Luis Copete (2015). "Multiple lines of evidence confirm that Hume's Owl Strix butleri (A. O. Hume, 1878) is two species, with description of an unnamed species (Aves: Non-Passeriformes: Strigidae)". Zootaxa. 3904 (1): 28–50. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.2. PMID 25660770. S2CID 4287913.
- Avendaño, J.E.; Cuervo, A.M.; López-O., J.P.; Gutiérrez-Pinto, N.; Cortés-Diago, A. & Cadena, C.D. (2015). "A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela". The Auk. 132 (2): 450–466. doi:10.1642/AUK-14-166.1.
- Alström, P.; Xia, C.; Rasmussen, P.C.; Olsson, U.; Dai, B.; Zhao, J.; Leader, P.J.; Carey, G.J.; Dong. L., Cai; T., Holt; P.I., Manh; H.L., Song; G., Liu; Y., Zhang; Y. & Lei, F. (2015). "Integrative taxonomy of the Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli complex reveals a new species from central China". Avian Research. 6 (9): 1–32. doi:10.1186/s40657-015-0016-z.
- "Cyprus Bird Killing". Wildlife. Vol. 34 no. 5. 2016. p. 58.
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