Research stories Introducing Sam Thompson Is the Crimson-crested Turaco a species in its own right? Beneath the feet of the dodo – a new ground thrush from Mauritius Poo in paradise: a week of fieldwork on Heron Island A new bird species, the New Caledonian Storm-Petrel How to name a white bird Serendipity and sound analysis – the discovery of Forbes-Watson’s Swift Apus berliozi in southern Africa Is there an undescribed martin in Ethiopia? A reassessment of issues surrounding the Hastings Rarities, with particular reference to supposed fraud by George Bristow New Guinea’s Islands in the Sky