Bird species News
When two parental species mate to produce a hybrid population, which then stops being able to freely interbreed with the parental species, a hybrid species is formed.
The researchers said that the newcomer belonging to one species mated with a member of another species resident on the island, giving rise to a new species that today consists of roughly 30 individuals.
A study on about 9000 bird species' plumage coloration was conducted to answer that question.
The hen harrier, an iconic bird of prey known for its majestic sky-dancing ritual, is under severe threat of extinction in the UK due to the illegal killing of the species.
The Great Backyard Bird Count is the first online citizen-science project aimed at collecting data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.
Birds are traditionally thought of as a well-studied group, with more than 95 per cent of their global species diversity estimated to have been described.
Scientists named the new bird species as Zoothera salimalii.
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