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Research stories

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

The first national records of Piping Plover Charadrius melodus draw attention to the vital importance of coastal northwestern Venezuela for conservation of western hemisphere shorebirds



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View the table of contents, selected abstracts, full text or PDFs of individual papers from the latest BOC Bulletin.



View videos of talks presented by Dr Nigel Collar, Justin Jansen, Dr Bård Stokke, Dr Huw Lloyd, Dr Joe Tobias, Dr Julia Day, Dr Julian Hume, Dr Pat Morris, Prof Tim Birkhead, Prof Beth Okamura, Prof Jon Fjeldså, Dr Ron Summers, Dr Steve Portugal, Dr Alexander Lees, Dr Ken Smith, Kathryn Rooke, Dr Martin Stervander, Prof Jared Diamond and Dr Michael Cherry at recent BOC regular meetings.


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