The critically endangered forest owlet Heteroglaux blewitti is nested within the currently recognized Athene clade: A century-old debate addressed

• Pankaj Koparde ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pankajkoparde@gmail.com

  Affiliations Division of Conservation Biology, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka, India, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7418-8814

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• Prachi Mehta,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Wildlife Research and Conservation Society, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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• Sushma Reddy,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Uma Ramakrishnan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliation National Centre for Biological Science, TIFR, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• Shomita Mukherjee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shomita Mukherjee, V. V. Robin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Conservation Biology, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• V. V. Robin

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shomita Mukherjee, V. V. Robin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

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