Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club

Aims & Scope

The Bulletin is an internationally respected journal notable for its very high standard of scientific ornithology.

It contains at least 256 pages annually, published in four quarterly issues with an Index.

The Present (2004) Editor is Guy Kirwan.

It caters for papers ranging from short notes to full papers by authors from many countries on systematics and taxonomy, and all the most important topics in the field of ornithology.

It contains addenda and corrigenda to standard works.

The Bulletin is almost certainly the journal in which most new forms are described and named.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• What's in a name? Nomenclature for colour aberrations in birds reviewed

  Citation: 49

  Authors: Hein

• The dark side of birds: melanism—facts and fiction

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Hein van

• New bird distributional data from Cerro Tacarcuna, with implications for conservation in the Darién highlands of Colombia

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Luis Miguel, Augusto, Juan Miguel, Sergio, Jorge Enrique

• An updated checklist of the birds of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with comments on new, rare, and unconfirmed species

  Citation: 9

  Authors: François, Rafael Dantas, José Fernando, Jorge Bañuelos, Mauro, David Maurice

• Preliminary assessment of community composition and phylogeographic relationships of the birds of the Meratus Mountains, south-east borneo, Indonesia

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Subir B., Tri, Ryan C., Dewi M., Frederick H.

• Taxonomic revision of the Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus (Dumont, 1816) based on molecular and phenotypic analyses

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Alexander N. G., Michaella, Sifiso M., Matteo, Tsyon, Louis, Kim G., Ara, Robert G.

• Origins of the upland avifauna of Yapen Island, New Guinea region

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Jared, K.

• Sixty years on: birds of the Sierra del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico, revisited

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Eliot T., John E., Greg, Bonnie R.

• An update on the inventory, distribution and residency status of bird species in Guatemala

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Knut, Claudia

• Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds

  Citation: 7

  Authors: William