Cements status as one of the world’s leading ornithological
institutions
An international team of researchers coordinated by
ornithologist Bret Whitney of the LSU Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS,
recently published 15 species of birds previously unknown to science. The
formal description of these birds has been printed in a special volume of the
“Handbook of the Birds of the World” series. Not since 1871 have so many new
species of birds been introduced under a single cover, and all 15 discoveries
involve a current or former LSU researcher or student.