Birds of a feather: Two new species discovered by Trinity zoologists
Darren O'Connell, Nicola Marples, David Kelly and Fionn Ó Marcaigh recently published the paper "A sympatric pair of undescribed white-eye species (Aves: Zosteropidae: Zosterops) with different origins" in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society link here
This paper highlighted two new bird species for the islands off Sulawesi and described their contrasting evolutionary origin. The paper has generated significant media attention including; an RTE news segment click here to see more about it
RTE radio segment click here and articles with a wide variety of international news outlets such as:
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-zoologists-bird-species-indonesia
https://www.sciencealert.com/look-at-these-two-adorable-birb-species-newly-discovered-in-indonesia
Read more about the paper on the TCD SNS EcoEvo blog here