[Birdtalk] New Crossbill species in Idaho

[Ryan O'Donnell]

This was just posted on the Idaho listserv by Cliff Weisse, and I
thought some Utah birders might be interested as well.  A new species of
Red Crossbill has just been described in southern Idaho.  Details are in
the pdf, available here:
http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1525/cond.2009.080042
 
There have been murmurs in the ornithological community about further
splits of the Red Crossbill for a while now.  This may be only the first
of several new species in the Red Crossbill lineage.
 
-Ryan
 
Ryan P. O'Donnell
Department of Biology and the Ecology Center
Utah State University
5305 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-5305
 
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