How Many Kinds of Birds Are There (1 Viewer)

[Peter Kovalik]

Barrowclough GF, Cracraft J, Klicka J, Zink RM (2016) How Many Kinds of Birds Are There and Why Does It Matter? PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166307. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166307

[pdf]

 

[Nutcracker]

Odd that there's no reference to the IOC list at all?

 

[njlarsen]

If they state which list is their biological SC comparison, I missed it?

Niels

 

[l_raty]

"Given our sample of 200 exemplars from a universe of 9159 biological species": the comparison is to the list of 9159 spp from which they drew the sample they analyzed, which is their ref. #10:

Wood DS, Schnell GD. 1986. Revised world inventory of avian skeletal specimens. American Ornithologists Union and Oklahoma Biological Survey, Norman, Oklahoma.
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There's a pdf [here], if anyone wants it.

 

[Melanie]

Here is an interesting article by Nigel Collar which covers a similar topic

A species is whatever I say it is

British Birds
106 • March 2013 - 130-142


http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/cns26/njc/Papers/2013 A species is whatever I say it is.pdf

 

[SzimiStyle]

18,000 bird species?

http://phys.org/news/2016-12-bird-species-world.html

 

[Mysticete]

Is this article even published? PLOS One is open access and I can't find this article at all

 

[l_raty]

Is this article even published? PLOS One is open access and I can't find this article at all

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166307

18,000 bird species?
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-bird-species-world.html

The "House finchnigel", in any case, is surely a new one

 

[Nutcracker]

The "House finchnigel", in any case, is surely a new one

:-O

Explained by the source of the photo, it is crediting the photographer, nigel :t: