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Wood, Mitchell, Scofield, Tennyson, Fidler, Wilmshurst, Llamas & Cooper 2014. An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Zool J Linn Soc 172(1): 185–199. [abstract] [supp info]
  • Nestor chathamensis Wood, Mitchell, Scofield & Tennyson sp. nov.

Nestor chathamensis Wood, Mitchell, Scofield & Tennyson but not Wilmshurst, Llamas & Cooper?
 
Nestor chathamensis Wood, Mitchell, Scofield & Tennyson but not Wilmshurst, Llamas & Cooper?
That's exactly how the name is stated in the paper, citing only the principal authors.

Btw, it'll be interesting to see if the species is accepted as a post-1500 extinction by BirdLife.
 
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Arini

Urantowka (in press). Complete mitochondrial genome of Blue-headed Macaw (Primolius couloni): its comparison with mitogenome of Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis). Mitochondrial DNA. [abstract]

Urantowka (in press). Complete mitochondrial genome of Red-bellied Macaw (Orthopsittaca manilata): its comparison with mitogenome of Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis). Mitochondrial DNA. [abstract]
 
Arini

Urantowka, Mackiewicz, Kroczak & Strzała (in press). Complete mitochondrial genome of Red-throated Conure (Psittacara rubritorquis): its comparison with mitogenome of Socorro Conure (Psittacara brevipes). Mitochondrial DNA. [abstract]

Urantowka, Mackiewicz & Strzała (in press). Complete mitochondrial genome of Mitred Conure (Psittacara mitratus): its comparison with mitogenome of Socorro Conure (Psittacara brevipes). Mitochondrial DNA. [abstract]

Urantowka (in press). Complete mitochondrial genome of Military Macaw (Ara militaris): its comparison with mitogenomes of two other Ara species. Mitochondrial DNA. [abstract]
 
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Published 24 Feb 2012...
  • Joseph, Toon, Schirtzinger, Wright & Schodde 2012. A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes). Zootaxa 3205: 26–40. [preview]

Strigopidae
Nestoridae
Cacatuidae (Nymphicinae, Calyptorhynchinae, Cacatuinae)
Psittacidae (Psittacinae, Arinae)
Psittrichasidae (Psittrichasinae, Coracopseinae)
Psittaculidae (Platycercinae, Psittacellinae, Loriinae, Agapornithinae, Psittaculinae)

A link to the paper is also available here:

http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/twright/publications.html

I wonder if the taxonomy proposed here will be followed by any major taxonomic authorities?

24 Feb 2015: three years on, and not taken up by either IOC or Zoonomen. Does anyone know if this is a deliberate rejection of the proposals, or just awaiting review or implementation?
 
It would make impossible to twitch every bird family on Earth (kakapo), so people may not be interested in it.
 
SACC and Clements recently accepted the split of parrots into Psittacidae and Psittaculidae. Strigopidae has been accepted for awhile I think by most committees, but further splitting of Nestoridae may await action by New Zealand and Aussie researchers. I haven't seen action from anyone yet on Psittrichasidae, but then again they don't inhabit the New World/Europe, so their just might be less interest applied to them yet.
 
Well, there is a photo in the Opus, so someone has seen the species: http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Kakapo

Niels

I understood that all good photos of Kakapo were of 'Sirocco', the tame individual that has been seen on TV with Stephen Fry and David Attenborough among others,

this from the DOC website

'Sirocco caught a respiratory illness at three weeks old. Treating it meant he had to be hand-raised and kept away from other kākāpō and as a result became imprinted on humans - he doesn't know he's a bird, he thinks he's one of us. He's still not interested in other kākāpō; he doesn’t associate with them, and instead he booms in the presence of humans. He now lives on Maud Island in the Marlborough Sounds where he keeps watch on the rangers and any visiting children from local schools.'
 
I have no idea where the photos on OPUS are from, but IIRC there are birdforum members who have seen wild Kakapo. Apparently you can volunteer to do conservation work with the Kakapo and see them that way, although their is a wait list and it requires a substantial time commitment that the idle overseas birder looking for a tick is unlikely to want to invest in.
 
I have no idea where the photos on OPUS are from, but IIRC there are birdforum members who have seen wild Kakapo. Apparently you can volunteer to do conservation work with the Kakapo and see them that way, although their is a wait list and it requires a substantial time commitment that the idle overseas birder looking for a tick is unlikely to want to invest in.

Yup, been there (Whenua Hou), done that...if two weeks carrying a car battery up and down the island to the nest minding tent to power the cameras at Nora's nest plus helping swap fertile eggs from Cyndy (my Kakapo gal) to Nora doesn't get me a tick then nobody's having it :)

My knees have never fully recovered...

Cheers
McM
 
Australian parrots

Campbell-Tennant, Gardner, Kearney & Symonds (in press). Climate-related spatial and temporal variation in bill morphology over the past century in Australian parrots. J Biogeogr. [abstract]
 
Puerto Rican Parakeet†

Olson 2015. History, morphology, and fossil record of the extinct Puerto Rican Parakeet Psittacara maugei Souancé. Wilson J Ornithol 127(1): 1–12. [abstract]

Hume & Walters 2012 (Extinct Birds): 'Mona Island Conure' Aratinga chloroptera maugei.

Collar, Boesman & Sharpe 2014 (HBW Alive).
 
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Olson 2015. History, morphology, and fossil record of the extinct Puerto Rican Parakeet Psittacara maugei Souancé. Wilson J Ornithol 127(1): 1–12. [abstract]

Hume & Walters 2012 (Extinct Birds): 'Mona Island Conure' Aratinga chloroptera maugei.

Collar, Boesman & Sharpe 2014 (HBW Alive).

I must say, I am somewhat sceptical on Olson's assessment. Several authors have state hat this taxon might be doubtfully distinct but Olson's result that this one is a species of its own is rather surprising.
 
Pearly Parakeet complex

Marina Somenzari, 2011. Taxonomia do complexo Pyrrhura lepida (Aves: Psittacidae). Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade de São Paulo. [PDF]

Somenzari & Silveira (in press). Taxonomy of the Pyrrhura perlata-coerulescens complex (Psittaciformes: Psittacidae) with description of a hybrid zone. J Ornithol. [abstract & preview] [supp material]
  1. Pyrrhura perlata – Crimson-bellied Conure – tiriba-de-barriga-vermelha
  2. Pyrrhura anerythra – Scaled-bellied Conure – tiriba-pérola-do-Xingu
  3. Pyrrhura coerulescens – Pearly Conure – tiriba-pérola
    ['lepida' = coerulescens x anerythra hybrid]
Collar et al 2013 (HBW Alive):
AOU-SACC...
12a. Pyrrhura perlata and P. lepida form a superspecies (Haffer 1987, Collar 1997).

12b. Nomenclature of Pyrrhura perlata and P. lepida is confusing and complex. Arndt (1983) showed that the original types of perlata were actually referable to the name rhodogaster; thus, rhodogaster, long used as a species name (e.g., Peters 1937, Meyer de Schauensee 1970), becomes a junior synonym of perlata; the transfer of rhodogaster to the synonymy of perlata thus left the former in need of a name, the next oldest of which is lepida. Adding further confusion, Collar (1997) retained the English name "Pearly Parakeet" for lepida. proposal needed?
 
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Loriini

Schweizer, M., Wright, T.F., Peñalba, J.V., Schirtzinger, E.E., Joseph, L., Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.021
Abstract
... We recognize Parvipsitta Mathews, 1916 for two species usually placed in Glossopsitta and we advocate transfer of Chalcopsitta cardinalis into Pseudeos Peters, 1935. ...
As usual, Laurent's helpful trick: [Fig 1] [Fig 2] [Fig 3] [Fig 4]. Fig 2: Parvipsitta pusilla, P porphyrocephala.

PS. Rainbow Lorikeet...
Concerning species-level systematics, we again stress that our taxon sampling has not been designed to address species limits within the highly polytypic Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus complex. del Hoyo and Collar (2014) divided the complex into seven species based on the scoring system of Tobias et al. (2010). We laud their pioneering effort to address what has clearly been a questionable and unsatisfactory classification. We consider their conclusions entirely premature, however, until phylogenetic relationships have been robustly determined within the group so that patterns of plumage evolution can be addressed in a phylogenetic framework. ...
 
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Loriini

Schweizer, M., Wright, T.F., Peñalba, J.V., Schirtzinger, E.E., Joseph, L., Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.021
Schweizer et al 2015. Mol Phylogenet Evol 90: 34–48. [pdf]
 
Platycercus

Ashlee Shipham, Daniel Schmidt, Leo Joseph, Jane Hughes. Phylogenetic Analysis of the Australian Rosella Parrots (Platycercus) Reveals Discordance among Molecules and Plumage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 May 2015.

[Abstract]
 

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