Anna Kearns, University of Maryland Baltimore County (IMAGE)

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Anna Kearns, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Anna Kearns led a new study that reveals robins living on Australia and its outlying islands are actually four distinct species, not one as previously believed. The birds in this image are specimens collected almost 100 years ago by famed ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. Kearns proposes naming one of the new species "Mayr's Robin" to honor the important work he did to learn more about the birds on these isolated islands.

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courtesy of Anna Kearns

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