Tag: warbler
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In defence of splitters: ‘taxonomy gone crazy’ or exciting advances in scientific understanding?
After reading two papers providing compelling evidence for a three-way dunnock split, satisfied with the methods and conclusions reached, I sat down, downloaded the PDFs of each of the papers and got ready to annotate them, ready to draft a new post on the blog. However, a quick google search later, and I quickly became…
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Taxonomy of the Lesser Whitethroat complex: a review of the current literature
Desert Whitethroat (Curruca minula), Hume’s Whitethroat (C. althaea) and Lesser Whitethroat (C. curruca) have been lumped by the IOC just years after their initial split. What new research, if any, supports this decision? And what research justified their initial split in the first place? This time last year, a sleep deprived me found himself in…