Abstract
Before I started to produce this Editorial article for the new ornithological open access journal, Birds, of the MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), I read a fascinating book about the history of ornithology by Michael Walters [...]
Highlights
Before I started to produce this Editorial article for the new ornithological open access journal, Birds, of the MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), I read a fascinating book about the history of ornithology by Michael Walters [1]
A lot has happened since the first ornithological journals, the Journal of Ornithology (1853), Ibis, the Auk, Wilson Journal of Ornithology and the Condor, were established (Figure 1 [2])
Most ornithologists were studying the anatomy and taxonomy of birds, while some were interested in the distribution of birds [3]
Summary
Before I started to produce this Editorial article for the new ornithological open access journal, Birds, of the MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), I read a fascinating book about the history of ornithology by Michael Walters [1]. The number of published ornithological articles started to increase [3]. Following the increase in ornithological work, the first sharp increase in the number of published ornithological articles started in the late 1980s and the early 1990s (Figure 2 [3,4]). Many new ornithological journals, such as Revista Brasileira Ornithogia (1987), Hirundo (1988), Ciconia (1989), Alauda (1990), Ornithologia Neotropical (1990), Bird Conservation of International
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