From Ararajuba to Ornithology Research : an historical overview of bird journals published by the Brazilian Ornithologic
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From Ararajuba to Ornithology Research: an historical overview of bird journals published by the Brazilian Ornithological Society Leandro Bugoni 1
# Sociedade Brasileira de Ornitologia 2020
The recently launched Ornithology Research (ISSN 2662673X), owned by the Brazilian Ornithological Society and co-published by Springer Nature, is a “new” journal dedicated to general bird biology, focused, but not exclusively, on the biodiversity-rich Neotropical region. However, it is not a justhatched outlet for ornithologists. With an about 30-year-old history, thousands of pages published in 78 issues, under other names, formats, and scope, it has a solid history, now a leading bird journal in the Neotropics. This editorial aims to unbury and describe this trajectory to our ever supporting readers and authors, as well as the new global-wide audience. The Brazilian Society of Ornithology (Sociedade Brasileira de Ornitologia), formally founded in 1987 (Höfling et al. 2017), had early established its intention to launch an ornithological journal dedicated to Neotropical birds. The first issue of Ararajuba (ISSN 0103-5657), the common name of the endemic golden parakeet (Guaruba guarouba) showing the green and yellow colors of the Brazilian flag, edited by Dr. Luiz P. Gonzaga, had the first issue published in 1990. In its 124 pages, icons of the Neotropical ornithology such as J. Vielliard, E.O. Willis, H. Sick, and D.C. Oren authored 20 full papers and notes, which included the description of the Cipó Canastero, Asthenes luizae (Vielliard 1990). Up to 1995, and despite some temporal gaps, it was published as a single issue annually, predominantly in Portuguese, but accepting manuscripts in English and Spanish. In times of snail-mail communication among authors, the editor, and reviewers, many of which in North America and Europe, building a solid and regular journal had been a remarkable feat. Since 1996, under the guidance of Dr. Miguel Â. Marini as Editor-in-chief, Ararajuba started publishing two issues per year, which lasted up to vol. 13, in 2005, with Editors-in-chief Drs. Regina H. F. Macedo, Luiz * Leandro Bugoni [email protected] 1
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG, Waterbirds and Sea Turtles Lab, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
dos Anjos, and Augusto Piratelli during this period. At this phase, the journal associated with the recently created Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee (CBRO) from vol. 10 (2002) onwards, for publication of taxonomic and nomenclatural notes, is substitution to the ephemeral Nattereria journal published by the Committee, as well as records or documentation of species new to the country. Since the second issue of 2005, under the leadership of the Editor-in-chief Dr. Marco A. Pizo, and after an extensive discussion by the Society members in successive meetings at the Brazilian Ornithological Congresses, it changed to be a quarterly released journal, under the name Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia (ISSN 2178-7875, online version). Also, in 2005 occur
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