Museum specimens play a crucial role in addressing key questions in systematics,
evolution, ecology, and conservation. With the advent of high‐throughput sequencing …

De-extinction projects for species such as the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon have
greatly stimulated public and scientific interest, producing a large body of literature and …

For 150 years or more, specimens were routinely collected and deposited in natural history
collections without preserving fresh tissue samples for genetic analysis. In the case of most …

Rationale In the last two taxonomic updates to our Checklist (Praveen et al. 2018; Praveen
et al. 2019b), we followed the limited consensusmodel, based upon the data in HBW/BLI …

Abstract Background Pigeons and doves (Columbiformes) are one of the oldest and most
diverse extant lineages of birds. However, the nature and timing of the group's evolutionary …

The decline of passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) during the late nineteenth
century continues to draw substantial public and scientific attention as perhaps the most (in-) …

Assessing the relative contributions of immigration and diversification into the buildup of
species diversity is key to understanding the role of historical processes in driving …

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Winner of the 2023 National
Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa …

ABSTRACT Gunabopicobia Skoracki and Hromada, 2013, the only genus of the subfamily
Picobiinae Johnston and Kethley, 1973, associated exclusively with birds of the order …

Veritable identification and differentiation of avian species is a vital step in conservative,
taxonomic, forensic, legal and other ornithological interventions. Therefore, this study …