21st Century
- 2000 - Harold Lisle Gibbs, Michael D. Sorenson, Karen Marchetti, Nick Davies, M. de L. Brooke and Hiroshi Nakamura provide genetic evidence for female host-specific races of the Common Cuckoo
- 2002 - Peter Bennett and Ian Owens publish Evolutionary Ecology of Birds: Life Histories, Mating systems, and Extinction
- 2003 - Michael D. Sorenson, Elen Oneal, Jaime García-Moreno and David P. Mindell discuss the enigmatic Hoatzin without reaching a conclusion in a paper entitled "More Taxa, More Characters: The Hoatzin Problem Is Still Unresolved."
- 2004 - Thomas J.Hopp and Mark J. discover oviraptorosaur specimens in a nesting position similar to that of modern birds. The arms of these specimens are positioned in such a way that they could perfectly cover their eggs if they had small wings and a substantial covering of feathers.
- 2004 – Proposal to identify bird species through DNA sequence by Hebert PDN et al. using method termed as DNA barcoding.
- 2004 - Sandy Podulka, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh, Jr., and Rick Bonney edit the second edition of Handbook of Bird Biology
- 2005 – reports of sightings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, previously believed extinct.
- 2005 - Douglas Warrick and his research associates publish Aerodynamics of the hovering hummingbird in Nature.
- 2005 - Pamela C. Rasmussen and John C. Anderton publish Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide
- 2011 - Longrich and Olson detail wing modifications in the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis and speculate that the wings were used as weapons
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