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Our next webinar will feature Dr. Steve Debus, an ornithologist and raptor expert from New South Wales, Australia to discuss the Black Falcon, a widespread but uncommon and little-studied raptor endemic to Australia.
Three avian taxonomy experts from eBird and Birds of the World convened for a discussion of the recent updates to the eBird/Clements checklist. The team provided an in-depth overview of the 2023 taxonomy updates and recent efforts to standardize bird taxonomy across all major global checklists.
The 2023 annual eBird taxonomy update includes 3 newly-described species, 124 species gained because of splits, and 16 species lost through lumps, resulting in a net gain of 111 species and a new total of 11,017 species worldwide. Please visit eBird for a complete summary of the year’s updates.
Mark your calendars for October Big Day—14 October 2023! Big Days are a 24-hour opportunity to celebrate birds near and far.
Join the Bird, Merlin, and Birds of the World teams at the Feria de Aves Sud América/South American BirdFair from Oct 26 – 29, 2023! The twelfth annual Feria de Aves will be held in the famous Mindo Cloudforest region of Ecuador.
Our 2023-2024 webinar season is stacking up nicely. You can look forward to several fascinating discussions on topics related to taxonomy, phylogeny, storm-petrels, Red-tailed Hawks, and Australia's Black Falcons.
Watch this video of John Mittermeier, Director of the Search for Lost Birds Project at American Bird Conservancy. John shared stories from recent Lost Birds expeditions and described how these searches support conservation efforts around the world.
Thanks to a unique publishing partnership with the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund (JVBBF), the entire "Roberts 8" revision project will be published online at Birds of the World.
This BOW Discovery Webinar goes behind the scenes to help users understand how eBird Status & Trends products are made and how they are being applied in research and conservation. Ornithologists and conservation practitioners are especially welcome!
The new “Hybridization” sections on each species account include multimedia of known hybrids along with narrative content about the ecology, evolution, and conservation of the parent species.
