Research stories 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 Genetics, geographies and good looks: unravelling the taxonomy of the glossy swiftlets
