New articles in African Birdlife and The Conversation Africa: parasitism, mimicry and speciation in Africa’s parasitic finches

Feb 25, 2021

Front page image of the article for African Birdlife.

Dr Gabriel Jamie has written an article on parasitism, mimicry and speciation in the parasitic finches of Africa for the magazine African Birdlife. You can read the full article open access via the FitzPatrick Institute for African Ornithology website. You can also read a popular account of the research in an article written for The Conversation Africa

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