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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Towards a unified publicly accessible database of avian type specimens | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Guy M. Kirwan, Till Töpfer, Jiří Mlíkovský, Sylke Frahnert, Hein van Grouw, Mark P. Adams, Alexander L. Bond | #ornithology 🪶
⏰ EARLY BIRD DEADLINE APPROACHING
#BOUasm26 | 29 September 2026 | York, UK
Avian futures: predicting and preparing for the future of avian biodiversity
📅 Early-bird deadline: 28 August
Check out the programme and register now
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E.g. the 12 syntypes of an Oriental Greenfinch subspecies described in 1923 are split across 5 institutions & 2 continents — 1 specimen is lost. This scatter is common, and 400+ living bird taxa are known only from their type material, some with real conservation stakes (📸 F Veronesi CC-BY-SA 2.0)