Zelenkov, N.V. & Arkhangelsky, M.S. (2023) New data on hesperornithids (Aves: Ornithurae) from the Campanian of the Lower Volga Region (Late Cretaceous, Russia).
Boev, Z.N. & Bozukov, V. (2021) Satovcha (Blagoevgrad District, SW Bulgaria), a new middle Miocene avian locality.
Boev, Z.N. & Milošević, S. (2020) Late Pleistocene Avifauna of the Pešturina Cave (Nišava District, SE Serbia) and its Implications for Late Pleistocene Refugia in the Central Balkans.
Duhamel, A. & Louchart, A. (2021) A look at the Oligocene fossil avifauna of the Parc du Luberon and its paleobiological implications, incorporating new fossil data.
Acosta-Hospitaleche, C. & Reguero, M. (2020) Additional Pelagornithidae remains from Seymour Island, Antarctica.
Alarcón-Muñoz, J. et al. (2020) The late Pleistocene-early Holocene rails (Gruiformes: Rallidae) of Laguna de Tagua Tagua Formation, central Chile, with the description of a new extinct giant coot.
Alström, P. et al. (2020) Multiple species delimitation approaches applied to the avian lark genus Alaudala.
Bailleul, A.M. et al. (2020) Confirmation of ovarian follicles in an enantiornithine (Aves) from the Jehol biota using soft tissue analyses.
Bell, A. & Chiappe, L.M. (2020) Anatomy of Parahesperornis: Evolutionary Mosaicism in the Cretaceous Hesperornithiformes (Aves).
Boev, Z.N. (2020) First European Neogene record of true pheasants from Gorna Sushitsa (SW Bulgaria).
Boev, Z.N. (2020) Fossil and subfossil records and recent status of shrikes (Passeriformes: Laniidae) in Bulgaria.
Cadena, C.D. et al. (2020) Systematics, biogeography, and diversification of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), an enigmatic radiation of Neotropical montane birds.
Cai, T. et al. (2020) The role of evolutionary time, diversification rates and dispersal in determining the global diversity of a large radiation of passerine birds.
Carney, R.M. et al. (2020) Evidence corroborates identity of isolated fossil feather as a wing covert of Archaeopteryx.
Chávez-Hoffmeister, M. et al. (2020) Bill disparity and feeding strategies among fossil and modern penguins.
Chen, A. & Field, D.J. (2020) Phylogenetic definitions for Caprimulgimorphae (Aves) and major constituent clades under the International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature.
De Mendoza, R.S. et al. (2020) The lacrimal/ectethmoid region of waterfowl (Aves, Anseriformes): Phylogenetic signal and major evolutionary patterns
De Pietri, V.L. et al. (2020) A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia.
De Pietri, V.L. et al. (2020) The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae.
Diederle, J.M. & Ignacio Noriega, J.I. (2020) New Records Of Birds In The Santa Cruz Formation (Early-Middle Miocene) At The Río Santa Cruz Valley, Patagonia, Argentina.
Dos Santos, M. et al. (2020) Chromosomal evolution and phylogenetic considerations in cuckoos (Aves, Cuculiformes, Cuculidae).
Du Toit, C.J. et al. (2020) Cretaceous origins of the vibrotactile bill-tip organ in birds.
Duchene, D.A. et al. (2020) Wing shape and environmental energy are associated with molecular evolutionary rates in a large avian radiation.
Duhamel, A. et al. (2020) An early Oligocene stem Galbulae (jacamars and puffbirds) from southern France, and the position of the Paleogene family Sylphornithidae.
Duhamel, A. et al. (2020) Cranial evolution in the extinct Rodrigues Island owl Otus murivorus (Strigidae), associated with unexpected ecological adaptations.
Feng, S. et al. (2020) Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.
Field, D.J. et al. (2020) Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction.
Field, D.J. et al. (2020) Late Cretaceous neornithine from Europe illuminates the origins of crown birds.
Guilherme, E. et al. (2020) New material of Anhingidae (Aves: Suliformes) from the upper Miocene of the Amazon, Brazil.
Harvey, M.G. et al. (2020) The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot.
Helm, C.W. et al. (2020) Large Pleistocene avian tracks on the Cape south coast of South Africa.
Hernández-Baños, B.E. et al. (2020) Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of a subclade of Mesoamerican emerald hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Trochilini).
Hosner, P.A. et al. (2020) Phylogeny and diversification of the gallopheasants (Aves: Galliformes): Testing roles of sexual selection and environmental niche divergence.
Kaye, T.G. et al. (2020) Detection of lost calamus challenges identity of isolated Archaeopteryx feather.
Kearns, A.M.et al. (2020) Nuclear introns help unravel the diversification history of the Australo-Pacific Petroica robins.
Kennedy, J.D. et al. (2020) Peripheral eco‐morphology predicts restricted lineage diversification and endemism among corvoid passerine birds.
Kenshu Shimada, K. & Hanks, H.D. (2020) Shark-Bitten Hesperornithiform Bird Bone from a Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) Marine Deposit of Northeastern South Dakota, U.S.A.
Kessler, E. (2020) Evolution of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their presence in the Neogene and the Quaternary in the Carpathian Basin.
Khosla, A. et al. (2020) Comparative morphotaxonomical affinities, palaeoecological implications and cladistic analyses of ornithoid eggshells (oofamily Laevisoolithidae) from the Late Cretaceous intertrappean beds of Anjar, District Kachchh, Gujarat, India.
Kloess, P.A. et al. (2020) Earliest fossils of giant-sized bony-toothed birds (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica.
Krabbe, N.K. et al. (2020) Untangling cryptic diversity in the High Andes: Revision of the Scytalopus [magellanicus] complex (Rhinocryptidae) in Peru reveals three new species.
Ksepka, D.T. et al. (2020) Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution.
Li, Z. et al. (2020) Evidence of Late Miocene Peri-Tibetan Aridification From the Oldest Asian Species of Sandgrouse (Aves: Pteroclidae)
Machac, A. (2020) The Dynamics of Bird Diversity in the New World.
Mariadassou, M. et al. (2020) Unraveling the history of the genus Gallus through whole genome sequencing.
Matloff, L.Y. et al. (2020) How flight feathers stick together to form a continuous morphing wing.
Mayr, G. (2020) An updated review of the middle Eocene avifauna from the Geiseltal (Germany), with comments on the unusual taphonomy of some bird remains.
Mayr, G. & Hurum, J.H. (2020) A tiny, long-legged raptor from the early Oligocene of Poland may be the earliest bird-eating diurnal bird of prey.
Mayr, G. & Manegold, A. (2020) On the comparative morphology of the juvenile avian skull: An assessment of squamosal shape across avian higher‐level taxa.
Mayr, G. & Perner, T. (2020) A new species of diurnal birds of prey from the late Eocene of Wyoming (USA) â one of the earliest New World records of the Accipitridae (hawks, eagles, and allies).
Mayr, G. et al. (2020) A skull of a very large crane from the late Miocene of Southern Germany, with notes on the phylogenetic interrelationships of extant Gruinae.
Mayr, G. et al. (2020) A well-preserved pelvis from the Maastrichtian of Romania suggests that the enigmatic Gargantuavis is neither an ornithurine bird nor an insular endemic.
Mayr, G. et al. (2020) Comparative osteology of the penguin‐like mid‐Cenozoic Plotopteridae and the earliest true fossil penguins, with comments on the origins of wing‐propelled diving.
Mayr, G. et al. (2020) First Complete Wing of a Stem Group Sphenisciform from the Paleocene of New Zealand Sheds Light on the Evolution of the Penguin Flipper
Mayr, G. et al. (2020) Reanalysis of putative ovarian follicles suggests that Early Cretaceous birds were feeding not breeding.
Mayr, G. et al. (2020) The large-sized darter Anhinga pannonica (Aves, Anhingidae) from the late Miocene hominid Hammerschmiede locality in Southern Germany.
Mejías, M.A. et al. (2020) Relationships of song structure to phylogenetic history, habitat, and morphology in the vireos, greenlets, and allies (Passeriformes: Vireonidae).
Melchor, R.N. et al. (2020) Avian diversity and behavior in an Eocene coastal plain, Svalbard: the ichnological evidence.
Meza-Vélez, I. (2020) Swimming capacity of the fossil penguin Inkayacu paracasensis Clarke, 2010 (Aves: Spheniscidae) with the basal or standard metabolic rate.
Meza-Vélez, I. (2020) Allometric reconstruction of the flight capacity of Pelagornis chilensis Mayr & Rubilar-Rogers, 2010 (Aves: Pelagornithidae).
Mikhailov, K.E. & Zelenkov, N. (2020) The late Cenozoic history of the ostriches (Aves: Struthionidae), as revealed by fossil eggshell and bone remains.
Miller, C.S. et al. (2020) Disassociated rhamphotheca of fossil bird Confuciusornis informs early beak reconstruction, stress regime, and developmental patterns.
Mohr, S.R. et al. (2020) An ornithurine bird coracoid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada.
Mori, H. & Miyata, K. (2020) Early Plotopteridae specimens (Aves) from the Itanoura and Kakinoura Formations (latest Eocene to early Oligocene), Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture, western Japan.
Musser, G. et al. (2020) A new species of Eogruidae (Aves: Gruiformes) from the Miocene of the Linxia Basin, Gansu, China: Evolutionary and climatic implications.
Nagy, J. (2020) Biologia Futura: rapid diversification and behavioural adaptation of birds in response to Oligocene–Miocene climatic conditions.
O'Connor, J.K. et al. (2020) First report of immature feathers in juvenile enantiornithines from the Early Cretaceous Jehol avifauna.
O'Connor, J.K. et al. (2020) New information on the plumage of Protopteryx (Aves: Enantiornithes) from a new specimen.
Ohashi, T. & Hasegawa, Y. (2020) New Species of Plotopteridae (Aves) from the Oligocene Ashiya Group of Northern Kyushu, Japan.
Ohlson, J.I. et al. (2020) (2020) A revised classification of the fluvicoline tyrant flycatchers (Passeriformes, Tyrannidae, Fluvicolinae).
Oliver, P.M. et al. (2020) Oligocene divergence of frogmouth birds (Podargidae) across Wallace's Line.
Olsson, U. & Alström, P. (2020 A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae).
Pei, R. et al. (2020) Powered flight potential approached by wide range of close avian relatives but achieved selectively.
Perktaş, U. et al. (2020) Phylogeography, Species Limits, Phylogeny, and Classification of the Turacos (Aves: Musophagidae) Based on Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences.
Phillips, A.G. (2020) Rates of ecomorphological trait evolution in passerine bird clades are independent of age.
Pigot, A.L. et al. (2020) Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds.
Plateau, O. & Foth, C. (2020) Birds have peramorphic skulls, too: anatomical network analyses reveal oppositional heterochronies in avian skull evolution.
Posso, S.R. et al. (2020) Phylogeny and classification of the Bucconidae (Aves, Galbuliformes) based on osteological characters.
Provini, P. & Höfling, E. (2020) To Hop or Not to Hop? The Answer Is in the Bird Trees.
Rashid, D.J. et al. (2020) Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups.
Rezende, E.L. et al. (2020) Shrinking dinosaurs and the evolution of endothermy in birds.
Riamon, S. et al. (2020) Bucerotidae from the early Miocene of Napak, Uganda (East Africa): The earliest hornbill with a modern‐type beak.
Riamon, S. et al. (2020) The earliest Tyrannida (Aves, Passeriformes), from the Oligocene of France.
Roy, A. et al. (2020) Three-dimensionally preserved ‘Stage IIIb’ fossil down feather supports developmental modularity in feather evolution.
Ruaux, G. et al. (2020) The development of flight behaviours in birds.
Salter, J.F. et al. (2020) Extensive paraphyly in the typical owl family (Strigidae).
Serrano, F.J. et al. (2020) Morphological Disparity of the Humerus in Modern Birds.
Settlecowski, A.E. et al. (2020) Investigating the utility of traditional and genomic multi-locus datasets to resolve relationships in Lipaugus and Tijuca (Cotingidae).
Santana, A. et al. (2020) Molecular systematics, species limits, and diversification of the genus Dendrocolaptes (Aves: Furnariidae): Insights on biotic exchanges between dry and humid forest types in the Neotropics.
Shimada, K. & Hanks, H.D. (2020) Shark-Bitten Hesperornithiform Bird Bone from a Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) Marine Deposit of Northeastern South Dakota, U.S.A.
Skawiński, T. et al. (2020) Postnatal ossification sequences in Acrocephalus scirpaceus and Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Aves: Neognathae): The precocial–altricial spectrum and evolution of compound bones in birds.
Smith, N.A. et al. (2020) The First Fossil Owl (Aves, Strigiformes) From the Paleogene of Africa.
Stanchak, K.E. et al. (2020) The balance hypothesis for the avian lumbosacral organ and an exploration of its morphological variation.
Steadman, D.W. and O.M. Takano (2020) A new genus and species of pigeon (Aves, Columbidae) from the Kingdom of Tonga, with an evaluation of hindlimb osteology of columbids from Oceania.
Stidham, T.A. et al. (2020) Evidence for Wide Dispersal in a Stem Galliform Clade from a New Small-Sized Middle Eocene Pangalliform (Aves: Paraortygidae) from the Uinta Basin of Utah (USA).
Suárez, W. (2020) Remarks on extinct giant owls (Strigidae) from Cuba, with description of a new species of Ornimegalonyx Arredondo.
Suárez, W. & Olson, S.L. (2020) Systematics and distribution of the living and fossil small barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae).
Tanaka, T. et al. (2020) A marine hesperornithiform (Avialae: Ornithuromorpha) from the Maastrichtian of Japan: Implications for the paleoecological diversity of the earliest diving birds in the end of the Cretaceous.
Tambussi, C.P. et al. (2020) Avian remains from the Toro Negro Formation (Neogene), Central Andes of Argentina.
Thomas, D.B. et al. (2020) Ancient crested penguin constrains timing of recruitment into seabird hotspot.
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2020) Avian Diversity: Speciation, Macroevolution, and Ecological Function.
Wang, X. et al. (2020) A new advanced ornithuromorph bird from Inner Mongolia documents the northernmost geographic distribution of the Jehol paleornithofauna in China.
Wang, X. et al. (2020) A new jeholornithiform exhibits the earliest appearance of the fused sternum and pelvis in the evolution of avialan dinosaurs.
Watanabe, J. et al. (2020) Seabirds (Aves) from the Pleistocene Kazusa and Shimosa groups, central Japan.
Watanabe, J. et al. (2020) Wing musculature reconstruction in extinct flightless auks (Pinguinus and Mancalla) reveals incomplete convergence with penguins (Spheniscidae) due to differing ancestral states .
Worthy, T.H. et al (2020) An annotated checklist of the fossil birds of Australia.
Wu, Q. et al. (2020) Cartilage on the furculae of living birds and the extinct bird Confuciusornis: a preliminary analysis and implications for flight style inferences in Mesozoic birds.
Xing, L. et al. (2020) A New Enantiornithine (Aves) Preserved in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber Contributes to Growing Diversity of Cretaceous Plumage Patterns.
Xing, L. et al. (2020) A newly discovered enantiornithine foot preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.
Xing, L. et al. (2020) An unusually large bird wing in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.
Zelenkov, N. (2020) Cenozoic Evolution of Eurasian Anatids (Aves: Anatidae s. l.).
Zelenkov, N. (2020) The First Fossil Tody (Aves: Todidae) from Cuba.
Zelenkov, N. (2020) The oldest diving anseriform bird from the late Eocene of Kazakhstan and the evolution of aquatic adaptations in the intertarsal joint of waterfowl.
Zheng, X. et al. (2020) New information on the keratinous beak of Confuciusornis (Aves: Pygostylia) from two new specimens.
Zheng, X. et al. (2020) Structure and possible ventilatory function of unusual, expanded sternal ribs in the Early Cretaceous bird Jeholornis.
Agnolin, F.L. et al. (2019) Paravian Phylogeny and the Dinosaur-Bird Transition: An Overview.
Azuaje‐Rodríguez, R.A. et al. (2019) Molecular systematics of the Amazonian endemic genus Hylexetastes (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae): taxonomic and conservation implications.
Bell, A. et al. (2019) Morphometric comparison of the Hesperornithiformes and modern diving birds.
Bishop, P.J. et al. (2019) The architecture of cancellous bone in the hindlimb of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes), with implications for stance and gait.
Boast, A.P. et al. (2019) Mitochondrial Genomes from New Zealand’s Extinct Adzebills (Aves: Aptornithidae: Aptornis) Support a Sister-Taxon Relationship with the Afro-Madagascan Sarothruridae.
Bohmer, C. et al. (2019) Correlated evolution of neck length and leg length in birds.
Babarovic, F. et al. (2019) Characterization of melanosomes involved in the production of non-iridescent structural feather colours and their detection in the fossil record.
Blokland, J.C. et al. (2019) Chatham Island Paleocene fossils provide insight into the palaeobiology, evolution, and diversity of early penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes).
Bright, J.A. et al. (2019) The multifactorial nature of beak and skull shape evolution in parrots and cockatoos (Psittaciformes).
Buffetaut, E. & Angst, D. (2019) A femur of the Late Cretaceous giant bird Gargantuavis from Cruzy (southern France) and its systematic implications.
Cai, T. et al. (2019) Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world’s babblers (Aves: Passeriformes)
Camens, A.B. & Worthy, T.H. (2019) Pliocene Avian Footprints from the Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia.
Campagna, L. et al. (2019) Gradual evolution towards flightlessness in steamer ducks.
Chiappe, L.M. et al. (2019) Anatomy and Flight Performance of the Early Enantiornithine Bird Protopteryx fengningensis: Information from New Specimens of the Early Cretaceous Huajiying Formation of China.
Cobb, S.E. & Sellers, W.I. (2019) Inferring lifestyle for Aves and Theropoda: a model based on curvatures of extant avian ungual bones.
Cole, T.L. et al. (2019) Ancient DNA of crested penguins: Testing for temporal genetic shifts in the world’s most diverse penguin clade.
Crouch, N.M.A. et al. (2019) Tip-dating and the origin of Telluraves.
Crouch, N.M.A. & Clarke, J.A. (2020) Body size evolution in palaeognath birds is consistent with Neogene cooling-linked gigantism.
DaCosta, J.M. et al. (2019) Phylogenomics clarifies biogeographic and evolutionary history, and conservation status of West Indian tremblers and thrashers (Aves: Mimidae).
Degrange, F.J. et al. (2019) New skull remains of Phorusrhacos longissimus (Aves, Cariamiformes) from the Miocene of Argentina: implications for the morphology of Phorusrhacidae.
Dos Remedios, N. et al. (2019) Genetic structure among Charadrius plovers on the African mainland and islands of Madagascar and St Helena.
Field, D.J. (2019) Bird Evolution: Convergence Fits the Bill.
Franz, N.M. et al. (2019) Verbalizing phylogenomic conflict: Representation of node congruence across competing reconstructions of the neoavian explosion.
Lim, B.T.M. et al. (2019) Molecular evidence suggests radical revision of species limits in the great speciator white-eye genus Zosterops.
Liu, D. et al. (2019) Soft tissue preservation in two new enantiornithine specimens (Aves) from the Lower Cretaceous Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China.
Mayr, G. (2019) A previously unnoticed vascular trait of the middle ear suggests that a cranial heat-exchange structure contributed to the radiation of cold-adapted songbirds.
Mayr, G. et al. (2019) Early Eocene (Ypresian) birds from the Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia (Canada) and Washington State (USA).
Mayr, G. et al. (2019) On the diverse and widely ignored Paleocene avifauna of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France): new taxonomic records and unusual soft tissue preservation.
Mayr, G. et al. (2019) Skeletons from the early Oligocene of Poland fill a significant temporal gap in the fossil record of upupiform birds (hoopoes and allies).
Mayr, G. et al. (2019) A fossil heron from the early Oligocene of Belgium – the earliest temporally well-constrained record of the Ardeidae.
Mayr, G. et al. (2019) Calcardea junnei Gingerich, 1987 from the late Paleocene of North America is not a heron, but resembles the early Eocene Indian taxon Vastanavis Mayr et al., 2007.
Mayr, G. & Smith, T. (2019) A diverse bird assemblage from the Ypresian of Belgium furthers knowledge of early Eocene avifaunas of the North Sea Basin.
Mayr, G. & Smith, T. (2019) New Paleocene bird fossils from the North Sea Basin in Belgium and France.
Mayr, G. & Tennyson, A.J.D. (2019) A small, narrow‐beaked albatross from the Pliocene of New Zealand demonstrates a higher past diversity in the feeding ecology of the Diomedeidae.
Morelli, F. et al. (2019) Measuring avian specialization.
Musser, G. et al. (2019) New Material of Paleocene-Eocene Pellornis (Aves: Gruiformes) Clarifies the Pattern and Timing of the Extant Gruiform Radiation.
Musser, G.M. & Cracraft, J. (2019) A New Morphological Dataset Reveals a Novel Relationship for the Adzebills of New Zealand (Aptornis) and Provides a Foundation for Total Evidence Neoavian Phylogenetics.
Nagu, J. et al. (2019) Phylogeny, migration and life history: filling the gaps in the origin and biogeography of the Turdus thrushes.
Stervander, M. et al. (2019) The origin of the world’s smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae).
Schwarz, D. et al. (2019) Ultraviolet light illuminates the avian nature of the Berlin Archaeopteryx skeleton.
Tamashiro, R.A. et al. (2019) What are the roles of taxon sampling and model fit in tests of cyto-nuclear discordance using avian mitogenomic data?
Tambussi, C.P. et al. (2019) A stem anseriform from the early Palaeocene of Antarctica provides new key evidence in the early evolution of waterfowl.
Torres-Roig, E. et al. (2019) A palaeornithological assemblage from the early Pliocene of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca: Raptorial birds as bioaccumulators at Na Burguesa-1.
Tsai, W.L.E. et al. (2019) Museum genomics reveals the speciation history of Dendrortyx wood-partridges in the Mesoamerican highlands.
Van Els, P. e t al. (2019) From pampa to puna: Biogeography and diversification of a group of Neotropical obligate grassland birds (Anthus: Motacillidae).
Van Wassenberghm, S. & Baeckens, S. (2019) Digest: Evolution of shape and leverage of bird beaks reflects feeding ecology, but not as strongly as expected.
West, A.R. et al. (2019) An avian femur from the Late Cretaceous of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula: removing the record of cursorial landbirds from the Mesozoic of Antarctica.
Zelenkov, N.K. et al. (2019) A giant early Pleistocene bird from eastern Europe: unexpected component of terrestrial faunas at the time of early Homo arrival.
Alstrom, P. et al. (2018) Complete species-level phylogeny of the leaf warbler (Aves: Phylloscopidae) radiation.
Alstrom, P. et al. (2018) Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the grassbirds and allies (Locustellidae) reveals extensive non-monophyly of traditional genera, and a proposal for a new classification.
Bochenski, Z.M. et al. (2018) Articulated avian remains from the early Oligocene of Poland adds to our understanding of passerine evolution.
Bruxaux, J. et al. (2018) Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): Implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland bird.
Buckley, L.G. et al. (2018) First report of Ignotornidae (Aves) from the Lower Cretaceous Gates Formation (Albian) of western Canada, with description of a new ichnospecies of Ignotornis, Ignotornis canadensis ichnosp. nov.
Campillo, L.C. et al. (2018) Genomic data resolve gene tree discordance in spiderhunters (Nectariniidae, Arachnothera).
Carneiro, L. et al. (2018) Molecular systematics and biogeography of lowland antpittas (Aves, Grallariidae): The role of vicariance and dispersal in the diversification of a widespread Neotropical lineage.
Carneiro, L. et al. (2018) Phenotypic similarity leads to taxonomic inconsistency: A revision of the lowland's antpittas.
Carrera, L. et al. (2018) Avian fossil assemblages at the onset of the LGM in the eastern Alps: A palaecological contribution from the Rio Secco Cave (Italy).
Cenizo, M. et al. (2018) An unexpected large Crested Tinamou (Eudromia, Tinamidae, Aves) near to Last Glacial Maximum (MIS 2, late Pleistocene) of the Argentine Pampas.
Cibois, A. et al. (2018) Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy.
Cloutier, A. et al. (2018) Whole-genome analyses resolve the phylogeny of flightless birds (Palaeognathae) in the presence of an empirical anomaly zone.
Deeming, D.C. & Mayr, G. (2018) Pelvis morphology suggests that early Mesozoic birds were too heavy to contact incubate their eggs.
Degrange, F.J. et al. (2018) Redescription of the oldest crown clade penguin: cranial osteology, jaw myology, neuroanatomy, and phylogenetic affinities of Madrynornis mirandus.
Dias, C. et al. (2018) Mitochondrial introgression obscures phylogenetic relationships among manakins of the genus Lepidothrix (Aves: Pipridae).
Elzanowski, A. & Mayr, G. (2018) Multiple origins of secondary temporal fenestrae and orbitozygomatic junctions in birds.
Elzanowski, A. et al. (2018) Cranial morphology of the Early Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis.
Felice, R.N. & Goswami, A. et al. (2018) Developmental origins of mosaic evolution in the avian cranium.
Fernández, M.S. & Salgado, L. (2018) The youngest egg of avian affinities from the Cretaceous of Patagonia.
Field, D.J. & Hsiang, A.Y. (2018) A North American stem turaco, and the complex biogeographic history of modern birds.
Field, D.J. et al. (2018) Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head.
Garg, K.M. et al. (2018) Pleistocene land bridges act as semipermeable agents of avian gene flow in Wallacea.
Gilbert, S.P. et al. (2018) Filtering nucleotide sites by phylogenetic signal to noise ratio increases confidence in the Neoaves phylogeny generated from ultraconserved elements.
Gohlich, U.B. & Mayr, G. (2018) The alleged early Miocene Auk Petralca austriaca is a Loon (Aves, Gaviiformes): restudy of a controversial fossil bird.
Harris, R.B. et al. (2018) Discordance between genomic divergence and phenotypic variation in a rapidly evolving avian genus (Motacilla).
Heers, A.M. et al. (2018) Building a Bird: Musculoskeletal Modeling and Simulation of Wing-Assisted Incline Running During Avian Ontogeny.
Hume, J.P. & Martill, D. (2018) Repeated evolution of flightlessness in Dryolimnas rails (Aves: Rallidae) after extinction and recolonization on Aldabra.
Imai, T. et al. (2018) Description of bird tracks from the Kitadani Formation (Aptian), Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan with three-dimensional imaging techniques.
Kingsley, E.P. et al. (2018) Identity and novelty in the avian syrinx.
Knoll, F. et al. (2018) A diminutive perinate European Enantiornithes reveals an asynchronous ossification pattern in early birds.
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