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rwkno1

Member

• Aug 8, 2005

• #1

Please could someone help this confused birder..........

Which of the following are now considered full species or still considered subspecies.

1)Little Tern/ Least Tern
2)Tufted Titmouse/ Black crested Titmouse
3) Eurasian Teal/ Green Winged Teal

As I saw all bar Little Tern and Eurasian Teal in the US I'm particulary interested in the ABA list and thoughts from our US friends or those European birders who have been stateside recently

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm going round in circles

Thanks
Rob

 

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Steve Lister

Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.

• Aug 8, 2005

• #2

Black-crested titmouse definitely yes. The other two I think no, but I do not have the latest ABA checklist. Is it on their website?
From an English perspective all three are good species.

Steve

 

Nightjar61

David Daniels

• Aug 8, 2005

• #3

rwkno1 said:

Please could someone help this confused birder..........

Which of the following are now considered full species or still considered subspecies.

1)Little Tern/ Least Tern
2)Tufted Titmouse/ Black crested Titmouse
3) Eurasian Teal/ Green Winged Teal

As I saw all bar Little Tern and Eurasian Teal in the US I'm particulary interested in the ABA list and thoughts from our US friends or those European birders who have been stateside recently

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm going round in circles

Thanks
Rob

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Little Tern has never been seen in the ABA Area, so it's not on the checklist (and I'm not even sure whether the ABA considers it a separate species or not).

Black-crested Titmouse is definitely on the ABA checklist. It was split from Tufted Titmouse a couple of years ago.

The ABA does not yet recognize the split of Eurasian Teal and Green-winged Teal. So anyone seeing the Eurasian Teal in the ABA Area has to count it as a Green-winged Teal on an ABA Area List, but can count is as a Eurasian Teal on a World List. This listing thing can sure get confusing.

Dave

 

robinm

Registered User

• Aug 8, 2005

• #4

Here's a link to the ABA checklist http://americanbirding.org/resources/abachecklist.pdf

 

Grousemore

Senior Member

• Aug 8, 2005

• #5

As far as the first query is concerned,
my AOU list contains Least Tern (Sterna antillarum)and Little Tern (Sterna albifrons), the latter with the designation "H", where


"H" = recorded in AOU area only from Hawaii;

 

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rwkno1

Member

• Aug 10, 2005

• #6

Thanks for all these replies guys, very useful. It sounds as if on a world list basis I can count all three. Trevor have you got a link to the AOU list that shows the "H" against Little Tern please?

Cheers

Rob

 

robinm

Registered User

• Aug 10, 2005

• #7

Not Trevor but here is a link http://www.aou.org/checklist/birdlist46.pdf

 

Grousemore

Senior Member

• Aug 10, 2005

• #8

robinm said:

Not Trevor but here is a link http://www.aou.org/checklist/birdlist46.pdf

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Thanks, Robin...only difference is mine is in Excel format.