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List of works by George Sangster

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Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae)

scientific article

Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

journal article from 'PLOS Biology' published in 2018

The application of species criteria in avian taxonomy and its implications for the debate over species concepts

scientific article published on July 19, 2013

Guidelines for assigning species rank†

scientific article published in 2002

Declining Rates of Species Described per Taxonomist: Slowdown of Progress or a Side-effect of Improved Quality in Taxonomy?

scientific article published on September 3, 2014

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: eighth report

article

Taxonomic recommendations for European birds

scientific article (publication date: 27 February 2002)

The evolution of mimicry of friarbirds by orioles (Aves: Passeriformes) in Australo-Pacific archipelagos

scientific article

Taxonomic Stability and Avian Extinctions

A new owl species of the genus Otus (aves: strigidae) from Lombok, Indonesia

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera

scientific article

Neumann’s Warbler Hemitesia neumanni (Sylvioidea): the sole African member of a Palaeotropic Miocene avifauna

scientific article published in 2010

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds†

scientific article published in 2002

Genetic distance as a test of species boundaries in the Citril Finch Serinus citrinella: a critique and taxonomic reinterpretation

article

Complete subspecies-level phylogeny of the Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes): Out of Australasia and return

scientific article published on 23 March 2019

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: seventh report

article

Taxonomic recommendations for Western Palearctic birds: ninth report

scientific article published in 2013

Integrative taxonomy reveals Europe's rarest songbird species, the Gran Canaria blue chaffinchFringilla polatzeki

article

The taxonomic status of ‘phylogroups’ in the Parus teneriffae complex (Aves): Comments on the paper by Kvist et al. (2005)

article

Sillem's Mountain FinchLeucosticte sillemiis a valid species of rosefinch (Carpodacus, Fringillidae)

article

A name for the flamingo-grebe clade

scientific article published in 2005

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: third report†

scientific article published in 2005

Taxonomic recommendations for Western Palearctic birds: 11th report

article

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: Fourth report

article by GEORGE SANGSTER et al published 8 October 2007 in Ibis

Taxonomic recommendations for Western Palaearctic birds: 10th report

scientific article published in 2014

A new genus for the tiny hawk Accipiter superciliosus and semicollared hawk A. collaris (Aves: Accipitridae), with comments on the generic name for the crested goshawk A. trivirgatus and Sulawesi goshawk A. griseiceps

scholarly article published in 2021

A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities within Otus

scholarly article published in 2022

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: Sixth report

article

Paraclaravis, a new genus for the Purple-winged and Maroon-chested Ground-doves (Aves: Columbidae)

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: Fifth report

article published in 2008

Multiple species within the Striated Prinia Prinia crinigera– Brown Prinia P. polychroa complex revealed through an integrative taxonomic approach

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Correction to 'The evolution of mimicry of friarbirds by orioles (Aves: Passeriformes) in Australo-Pacific archipelagos'.

scientific article

A new genus for the Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata Sundevall, 1850 (Aves, Rallidae)

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Feraequornithes: a name for the clade formed by Procellariiformes, Sphenisciformes, Ciconiiformes, Suliformes and Pelecaniformes (Aves)

scholarly article published in 2021

Dutch Avifaunal List: Taxonomic Changes in 2004–2008

scientific article (publication date: October 2009)

Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: second report

scientific article published in 2003

Integrative Taxonomy of Birds: The Nature and Delimitation of Species

Niltavinae, a new taxon of Old World flycatchers (Aves: Muscicapidae)

scientific article (publication date: 23 November 2016)

The rediscovery of Strix butleri (Hume, 1878) in Oman and Iran, with molecular resolution of the identity of Strix omanensis Robb, van den Berg and Constantine, 2013

Integrative taxonomy documents two additional cryptic Erithacus species on the Canary Islands (Aves)

scientific article published in 2022

­A new genus for the White-tailed Flycatcher Cyornis concretus (Aves: Muscicapidae)

scientific article

Integrative taxonomy of eared nightjars (Aves: Lyncornis ) underscores the complementarity of morphology, vocalizations and DNA evidence

scientific article published on 24 May 2022

Taxonomic revision of the Savanna Nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis) complex based on vocalizations reveals three species

Another case of island gigantism: the extinct Hodgens’ Waterhen (Tribonyx hodgenorum) is a member of Porzana (Aves: Rallidae)

scientific article published on 31 July 2025

The taxonomic status of Palearctic and Nearctic populations of northern goshawk Accipiter gentilis (Aves, Accipitridae): New evidence from vocalisations

scientific article published in 2022

Acoustic Differences between the Scoters Melanitta nigra nigra and m. n. americana

The published complete mitochondrial genome of is a chimera of and (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

The published complete mitochondrial genome of the milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus) is a misidentified Pacific spadenose shark (Scoliodon macrorhynchos) (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes)

Molecular and morphological evidence for the subspecific identity of Bryde's whales in the southern Caribbean

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Phylogenetic definitions for 25 higher-level clade names of birds

scientific article published in 2022