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Somali Ostrich (1 Viewer)
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If you believe in Denis doing a good job with avibase, then this one can easily be solved with looking on this page: http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/species.jsp?lang=EN&id=4BD6A84329149B9D&ts=1214418953093&sec=summary. Only Sibley and Monroe has recognized this as a split, all others including H&M and the latest Clements has it as a subspecies. This is similar to others we have lumped in opus, of course with appropriate mention in the text of both the Ostrich entry and the genus entry.
Niels
Niels
I agree on that. If you do it, please mention the fact in this thread http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=96517 which we keep as a log for that kind of changes.
Niels
Niels
There's a lot of information in both the Ostrich article and the Somali Ostrich article. I've put in a "Merge" Template to make people aware of this discussion - and perhaps someone who knows more about the two species can help merge the information. I myself don't know enough about these two species to plug in the necessary and remove the unnecessary.
I have seen a few entries where two possible split were treated almost as two species within on entry. One example is http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brent_Goose, but I have seen some that are even more separated, I just cannot remember which.
Niels
Niels
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