Newly discovered / described species 2013

in case anyone overlooked this part of the article:
Currently, scientists haven't released the scientific names and ranges of all of the new birds species. Descriptions of the new species are expected later this month and in July in a special series in the Handbook of the Birds of the World. Some of the species lack photographs, but will appear in illustrations instead.

"If you publish [...] each paper separately in different magazines, impact would not be the same," Silveira told Capa Aves.
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As one can imagine, having the original descriptions of these 15 new species published in a very expensive and rather limited edition book, rather than in scientific journals available to everybody, has not gone down well in some quarters. It is almost a step back to the nineteenth century days of zoological discovery.
 
Not quite aggree with you Chlidonias. IMO the Handbook of the Birds of the World is avaible for every birdlover/scientist/any person intrested in birds ! If they would publish all or part of the species in some Brazilian university-publications, a much less amount of people would be able to get it or even to har about it and when they do, only a few would be able to read it ( oke, there would be an english sumary but the real 'thing' in Portuges ).
 
I wouldn't call a book that is priced 145 euro available for everyone. You are going to exclude a lot of people including a part of the Academic world. In my view the wrong decision.
 
Wow! When somebody does get their hands on the common and scientific names and ranges please post!

~Thylo:cool:
 
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