2015 in birding and ornithology
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The year 2015 in birding and ornithology.
Worldwide
New species
- Desert owl Strix hadorami [1]
- Perijá tapaculo Scytalopus perijanus [2]
- Sichuan bush warbler Locustella chengi [3]
Taxonomic developments
Ornithologists
Deaths
World listing
Europe
Britain
Breeding birds
Migrant and wintering birds
Rare birds
Other events
Republic of Cyprus
- More than 2 million birds are illegally killed during the autumn, including 800,000 on British military sovereign base areas. They are trapped by limesticks and mist net and served as ambelopoulia in restaurants. The illegal trade is estimated to be worth €15 million per annum.[4]
Ireland
North America
To be completed
South America
Argentina
- A project to reintroduce the red and green macaw (Ara chloropterus), a nationally extinct species, to Ibera National Park was launched by the Rewilding Argentina Foundation.[5]
References
- ^ Guy M. Kirwan; Manuel Schweizer; José Luis Copete (2015). "Multiple lines of evidence confirm that Hume's Owl Strix butleri (A. O. Hume, 1878) is two species, with description of an unnamed species (Aves: Non-Passeriformes: Strigidae)". Zootaxa. 3904 (1): 28–50. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.2. PMID 25660770. S2CID 4287913.
- ^ Avendaño, J.E.; Cuervo, A.M.; López-O., J.P.; Gutiérrez-Pinto, N.; Cortés-Diago, A. & Cadena, C.D. (2015). "A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela". The Auk. 132 (2): 450–466. doi:10.1642/AUK-14-166.1. S2CID 49354537.
- ^ Alström, P.; Xia, C.; Rasmussen, P.C.; Olsson, U.; Dai, B.; Zhao, J.; Leader, P.J.; Carey, G.J.; Dong. L., Cai; T., Holt; P.I., Manh; H.L., Song; G., Liu; Y., Zhang; Y. & Lei, F. (2015). "Integrative taxonomy of the Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli complex reveals a new species from central China". Avian Research. 6 (9): 1–32. doi:10.1186/s40657-015-0016-z.
- ^ "Cyprus Bird Killing". Wildlife. Vol. 34, no. 5. 2016. p. 58.
- ^ Mcpherson, Sarah (January 2021). "50 reasons to be cheerful in 2021". BBC Wildlife. p. 51.