Endler, John A., and Pruett-Jones, Stephen (2025) Intriguing bowerbirds special issue: conclusions and questions. Emu: austral ornithology, 125 (4). pp. 452-459.

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[Extract] The development and sophistication of new technologies (e.g. tracking individual movements, studying perception) as well as an influx of young researchers at all stages in their careers with a great variety of questions and methods, makes this an exciting time for bowerbird research. This special issue is dedicated to Dawn Frith, whose pioneering and life-long research on bowerbirds, along with that of Cliff Frith, laid the foundation for much of all subsequent work, and it has been and is a major encouragement to us all. We believe that Dawn would have been excited to see and participate in this wonderful collection of bowerbird papers.

Rather than summarising each paper in this issue individually, here we attempt to briefly mention the most interesting and novel conclusions of all of the papers combined, and then we present a number of questions about subjects which have not been thoroughly studied. In keeping with the journal standard, our notation follows the taxonomy of the International Ornithological Congress (IOC; Gill et al. Citation2025). This is relevant to bowerbird research because the genus Chlamydera was merged with Ptilinorhynchus (Christidis and Boles Citation2008), but use of these two names is variable. Authors of articles in this special issue use Chlamydera, but the general taxonomic convention in literature for Chlamydera is ’Ptilinorhynchus (= Chlamydera)’.

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