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Recent content by Peter Kovalik

  1. Peter Kovalik

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2025

    2025 Proposals Proposals 2025-A (PDF) 2025-A-1: Treat extralimital Pachyramphus salvini as a separate species from Black-and-white Becard P. albogriseus 2025-A-2: Transfer Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant Lophotriccus pilaris to Atalotriccus 2025-A-3a: Revise the taxonomy of the genus Gygis: (a)...
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    Tyrannides

    Manthey, J.D., and Robbins, M.B. (2025) Hybridization and genome-wide introgression in sympatric populations of North American wood-pewees (Contopus sordidulus and Contopus virens). Ibis, posted online 28 February 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13401 Abstract The Great Plains contains many...
  3. Peter Kovalik

    Troglodytidae

    Anderson, W.C., Funk, E.R., Theodosopoulos, A.N., Grabenstein, K.C., Spellman, G. and Taylor, S.A. (2025) Weak population structure in the North American house wren Troglodytes aedon. Journal of Avian Biology: e03401. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03401 Abstract Cryptic genetic differentiation is...
  4. Peter Kovalik

    Owls

    Posso, S.R., and C.C. Salomão (2025) Osteology-based phylogeny and systematics implications of the genus Asio (Strigiformes, Strigidae). Zootaxa 5584: 394-408. Osteology-based phylogeny and systematics implications of the genus Asio (Strigiformes, Strigidae) | Zootaxa Abstract We...
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    Cardinalidae

    DID NOT PASS
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    Thraupidae

    DID NOT PASS
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    Furnariidae

    PASSED (30 January 2025)
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    Passerellidae

    PASSED (30 January 2025)
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    Thraupidae

    PASSED (30 January 2025)
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    Tityra leucura - Valid or not?

    PASSED (30 January 2025)
  11. Peter Kovalik

    Anatidae

    Halligan, S.L., M.L. Schummer, A.M.V. Fournier, P. Lavretsky, J.B. Davis, C.J. Downs, and V. Musni (2025) Morphological differences between wild and game‐farm Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in North America. Ibis, first published 11 January 2025. Abstract Large-scale releases of domesticated...
  12. Peter Kovalik

    Falconidae

    Balza, U., Lois, N.A., Harrington, K.J., León, F., Pütz, K., Raya-Rey, A., and Ceballos, S.G. (2025). Glacial history and ecological restrictions shape island-scale genetic structure and demography in the southernmost bird of prey [Daptrius australis]. Journal of Biogeography, published online...
  13. Peter Kovalik

    Songbird pairs in North America

    Phung L.-N., and Toews, D. P. L. (2024) Comparative bioacoustics of multiple eastern versus western songbird pairs in North America reveals a gradient of song divergence. PLoS ONE 19: e0312706. Comparative bioacoustics of multiple eastern versus western songbird pairs in North America reveals a...
  14. Peter Kovalik

    Anatidae

    Bakner, N.W., Masto, N.M., Lavretsky, P., Highway, C.J., Keever, A.C., Blake-Bradshaw, A.G., Askren, R.J., Hagy, H.M., Feddersen, J.C., Osborne, D.C. and Cohen, B.S. (2025) Mallard hybridization with domesticated lineages alters spring migration behavior and timing. Ecology and Evolution 15...
  15. Peter Kovalik

    Tyrannides

    Proposal (1039) to SACC Split Camptostoma obsoletum into six species
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