See also parent article Bird species new to science

This page details the bird species described as new to science in the years 2010 to 2019:

Summary statistics

Number of species described per year

Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Number of new species described 5 3 7 28 5 3 5 8 6 5

Countries with high numbers of newly described species

The birds, year-by-year

2010

  • Limestone leaf warbler, Phylloscopus calciatilis: Alström, P.; Davidson, P.; Duckworth, J.W.; Eames, J.C.; Le, T.T.; Nguyen, C.; Olsson, U.; Robson, C.; Timmins, R. (2010). "Description of a new species of Phylloscopus warbler from Vietnam and Laos". Ibis. 152 (1): 145–168. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00990.x.
  • Fenwick's antpitta or Urrao antpitta, Grallaria fenwickorum: Barrera, L.F.; Bartels, A.; Fundación ProAves de Colombia (2010). "A new species of Antpitta (family Grallariidae) from the Colibrí del Sol Bird Reserve, Colombia". Conservación Colombiana. 13: 8–24.
  • Socotra buzzard, Buteo socotraensis: Porter, R.F.; Kirwan, G.M. (2010). "Studies of Socotran birds VI. The taxonomic status of the Socotra Buzzard". Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. 130 (2): 116–131.
  • Willard's sooty boubou, Laniarius willardi: Voelker, G.; Outlaw, R.K.; Reddy, S.; Tobler, M.; Bates, J.M.; Hackett, S.J.; Kahindo, C.; Marks, B.D.; Kerbis Peterhans, J.C.; Gnoske, T.P. (2010). "A New Species of Boubou (Malaconotidae: Laniarius) from the Albertine Rift". Auk. 127 (3): 678–689. doi:10.1525/auk.2010.09014. S2CID 15031325.
  • Rock tapaculo, Scytalopus petrophilus: Whitney, B.M.; Vasconcelos, M.F.; Silveira, L.F.; Pacheco, J.F. (2010). "Scytalopus petrophilus (Rock Tapaculo): a new species from Minas Gerais, Brazil". Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia. 18 (2): 73–88.

2011

2012

2013

The following 15 Brazilian species are described in the 17th volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World:

2014

  • São Paulo marsh antwren Formicivora paludicola: Dante Renato Corrêa Buzzetti; Ricardo Belmonte Lopes; Bianca Luiza Reinert; Luíz Fábio Silveira; Marcos Ricardo Bornschein (December 2013). "A new species of Formicivora Swainson, 1824 (Thamnophilidae) from the state of São Paulo, Brazil". Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia. 21 (4): 269–291.

[the last issue of RBO 21, from "Dec 2013", was released only in March 2014]

2015

2016

2017

  • Tatama tapaculo Scytalopus alvarezlopezi: Stiles, F. Gary; Laverde-R., Oscar; Cadena, Carlos Daniel (2017). "A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Western Andes of Colombia". The Auk. 134 (2): 377–392. doi:10.1642/AUK-16-205.1.
  • Ashambu blue robin Sholicola ashambuensis: Robin, V., Vishnudas, C.K., Gupta, P. et al. Two new genera of songbirds represent endemic radiations from the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India. BMC Evol Biol 17, 31 (2017) doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0882-6
  • Blue-winged amazon Amazona gomezgarzai: Silva, Tony; Guzmán, Antonio; Urantówka, Adam D.; Mackiewicz, Paweł (2017). "A new parrot taxon from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico—its position within genus Amazona based on morphology and molecular phylogeny". PeerJ. 5: e3475. doi:10.7717/peerj.3475
  • Painted manakin Machaeropterus eckelberryi: Daniel F. Lane, Andrew W. Kratter, John P. O'Neill. A new species of manakin (Aves: Pipridae; Machaeropterus) from Peru with a taxonomic reassessment of the Striped Manakin (M. regulus) complex . Zootaxa, 2017; 4320 (2): 379 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.2.11
  • Dry-forest sabrewing Campylopterus calcirupicola: Lopes, Leonardo; Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Marcelo; Gonzaga, Luiz (2017-05-15). "A cryptic new species of hummingbird of the Campylopterus largipennis complex (Aves: Trochilidae)". Zootaxa. 4268: 1–33. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4268.1.1
  • Greater Azores bullfinch Pyrrhula crassa: J. C. Rando, H. Pieper, Storrs L. Olson, F. Pereira and J. A. Alcover. 2017. A New Extinct Species of Large Bullfinch (Aves: Fringillidae: Pyrrhula) from Graciosa Island (Azores, North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa. 4282(3); 567–583.  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.3.9
  • Rote myzomela Myzomela irianawidodoae: Dewi Malia Prawiradilaga, Pratibha Baveja, Suparno, Hidayat Ashari, Nathaniel Sheng Rong Ng, Chyi Yin Gwee, Philippe Verbelen and Frank Erwin Rheindt (2017). A colorful new species of Myzomela Honeyeater from Rote Island in Eastern Indonesia. Treubia. Number: 44. Pages: 77-100. December. http://e-journal.biologi.lipi.go.id/index.php/treubia/article/view/3414
  • Santa Marta screech owl Megascops gilesi: Krabbe, N. K. (2017). "A new species of Megascops (Strigidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, with notes on voices of New World screech-owls". Ornitología Colombiana. 16: 1–27.

2018

  • Cordillera Azul antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni: Andre E. Moncrieff, Oscar Johnson, Daniel F. Lane, Josh R. Beck, Fernando Angulo and Jesse Fagan. 2018. A New Species of Antbird (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) from the Cordillera Azul, San Martín, Peru [Una nueva especie de hormiguero (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) de la Cordillera Azul, San Martín, Perú]. The Auk. 135(1); 114–126. DOI: 10.1642/AUK-17-97.1
  • Whenua Hou diving petrel Pelecanoides whenuahouensis: Fischer, Johannes H.; Debski, Igor; Miskelly, Colin M.; Bost, Charles A.; Fromant, Aymeric; Tennyson, Alan J. D.; Tessler, Jake; Cole, Rosalind; Hiscock, Johanna H. (2018-06-27). "Analyses of phenotypic differentiations among South Georgian Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) populations reveal an undescribed and highly endangered species from New Zealand". PLOS ONE. 13 (6): e0197766. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197766. ISSN 1932-6203
  • Western square-tailed drongo Dicrurus occidentalis: Fuchs, Jérôme; DOUNO, MORY; Bowie, Rauri; Fjeldså, Jon (2018-06-20). "Taxonomic revision of the Square-tailed Drongo species complex (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) with description of a new species from western Africa". Zootaxa. 4438: 105. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.4
  • Southern dark newtonia Newtonia lavarambo: Younger, Jane & Strozier, Lynika & Maddox, J. Dylan & Nyári, Árpád & Bonfitto, Matthew & Raherilalao, Marie Jeanne & Goodman, Steven & Reddy, Sushma. (2018). Hidden diversity of forest birds in Madagascar revealed using integrative taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 124. [[doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.017|doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.017]].
  • Blue-throated hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus: Francisco Sornoza-Molina, Juan F. Freile, Jonas Nilsson, Niels Krabbe and Elisa Bonaccorso. 2018. A Striking, Critically Endangered, New Species of Hillstar (Trochilidae: Oreotrochilus) from the southwestern Andes of Ecuador [Una sorprendente y críticamente amenazada especie nueva de estrella (Trochilidae: Oreotrochilus) de los Andes suroccidentales de Ecuador]. The Auk. 135(4);1146-1171. doi:10.1642/AUK-18-58.1
  • Rote leaf warbler Phylloscopus rotiensis: Ng, Nathaniel. S. R.; Prawiradilaga, Dewi. M.; Ng, Elize. Y. X.; Suparno; Ashari, Hidayat; Trainor, Colin; Verbelen, Philippe; Rheindt, Frank. E. (2018-10-23). "A striking new species of leaf warbler from the Lesser Sundas as uncovered through morphology and genomics". Scientific Reports. 8 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34101-7. ISSN 2045-2322.

2019

Described in this period, no longer thought to be good species

  • Strix omanensis, described in 2013, is now thought to be identical with Strix butleri.
  • Amazona gomezgarzai, described in 2017, now thought to represent specimens of hybrid origin

Described in this period as a species but may instead be a subspecies

  • Sholicola ashambuensis, described in 2017, tentatively considered a subspecies of S. albiventris by the Clements Checklist.
  • Newtonia lavarambo, described in 2018, tentatively considered a subspecies of N. amphicroa by the Clements Checklist.

References

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