2013 in birding and ornithology


The year 2013 in birding and ornithology.

Years in birding and ornithology: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Centuries: 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades: 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s
Years: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
See also 2012 in birding and ornithology, main events of 2013 and 2014 in birding and ornithology

Worldwide

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New species

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See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s
  • Rinjani scops owl, Otus jolandae:George Sangster; Ben F. King; Philippe Verbelen & Colin R. Trainor (2013). "A New Owl Species of the Genus Otus (Aves: Strigidae) from Lombok, Indonesia". PLOS ONE. 8 (2): e53712. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...853712S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053712. PMC 3572129. PMID 23418422.
  • Pincoya storm petrel, Oceanites pincoyae:Peter Harrison; Michel Sallaberry; Chris P Gaskin; Karen A Baird; Alvaro Jamarillo; Shirley Maria Metz; Mark Pearman; Michael O'Keeffe; Jim Dowdall; Seamus Enright; Kieran Fahy; Jeff Gilligan; Gerard Lillie (2013). "A new storm-petrel species from Chile". The Auk. 130 (1): 180–191. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.12071. S2CID 85987531.
  • Delta Amacuro softtail, Thripophaga amacurensis:Steven Leon Hilty; David Ascanio & Andrew W. Whittaker (2013). "A New Species of Softtail (Furnariidae: Thripophaga) from the Delta of the Orinoco River in Venezuela". The Condor. 115 (1): 143–154. doi:10.1525/cond.2012.110212. S2CID 84646597.
  • Bermuda flicker, Colaptes oceanicus:Storrs L. Olson (2013). "Fossil woodpeckers from Bermuda with the description of a new species of Colaptes (Aves: Picidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 126 (1): 17–24. doi:10.2988/0006-324X-126.1.17. S2CID 84248107.
  • Sao Miguel scops owl, Otus frutuosoi : Juan Carlos Rando; Josep Antoni Alcover; Storrs L. Olson; Harald Pieper (2013). "A new species of extinct scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean)". Zootaxa. 3647 (2): 343–357. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.6. hdl:10261/85708. PMID 26295111.
  • Seram masked owl, Tyto almae:Knud Andreas Jønsson; Michael Køie Poulsen; Tri Haryoko; Andrew Hart Reeve; Pierre-Henri Fabre (2013). "A new species of masked-owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae) from Seram, Indonesia". Zootaxa. 3635 (1): 51–61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.5. PMID 26097930.
  • Junin tapaculo, Scytalopus gettyae:Peter A. Hosner; Mark B. Robbins; Thomas Valqui & A. Townsend Peterson (2013). "A New Species of Scytalopus Tapaculo (Aves: Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) from the Andes of Central Peru". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 125 (2): 233–242. doi:10.1676/12-055.1. S2CID 85756230.
  • Cambodian tailorbird Orthotomus chaktomuk:Simon Mahood; Ashish John; Hong Chamnan & Colin Poole (2013). "A new species of lowland tailorbird (Passeriformes: Cisticolidae: Orthotomus) from the Mekong floodplain of Cambodia". Forktail. 29: 1–14.
  • Tropeiro seedeater, Sporophila beltoni: Márcio Repenning & Carla Suertegaray Fontana (2013). "A new species of gray seedeater (Emberizidae: Sporophila) from upland grasslands of southern Brazil". The Auk. 130 (4): 791–803. doi:10.1525/auk.2013.12167. S2CID 85942537.

The following fifteen Brazilian species are described in the 17th volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World:

Taxonomic developments

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Ornithologists

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Deaths

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World listing

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Europe

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North America

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To be completed

Oceania

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  • An estimated 3 million short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) died along the Australian coast, as well as unknown numbers at Lord Howe Island and New Zealand. Necropsies on 172 birds found that 96.7% had eaten pumice with some having thirty small pieces in their stomachs. They were underweight and had poor muscle mass, indicating they were unable to feed properly in the Bering Sea. Starvation may have resulted from a pumice raft from a 2012 underwater volcano north-east of New Zealand and a three-year, marine heatwave in the Bering Sea known as The Blob.[2]

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