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  1. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    British Birds Riddington 2016. Editorial. Brit Birds 109(4): 191.
  2. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    AERC website Back online today... www.aerc.eu www.aerc.eu/tac.html
  3. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    BOURC TSC 11th report Birdwatch, 4 Jan 2016: BOU splits Northern Harrier.
  4. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Rüppell's Warbler AERC TAC 2012 mistakenly cites Peterson 2002, but the relevant reference is actually: Peterson, A.P. (2012): Zoonomen Nomenclatural data. http://www.zoonomen.net ". Downloaded on 14/08/2012.
  5. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Rüppell's Warbler Provides a reminder that BOURC retains the spelling rueppelli (cf BirdLife, HBW, eBird/Clements), rather than ruppeli (H&M4, IOC, AERC TAC, DB). H&M4... AERC TAC 2012...
  6. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Reed Bunting has become a common winter visitor to village gardens here (in mid-Somerset) in recent years, with parties of up to a dozen birds sometimes present at our feeders.
  7. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    And perhaps a sensible compromise with Sylvia and Emberiza - recognising H&M4's genera only as subgenera to avoid nomenclatural destabilisation...
  8. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    BOURC TSC 11th report Presumably the last... :-C Sangster, Collinson, Crochet, Kirwan, Knox, Parkin & Votier 2016. Taxonomic recommendations for Western Palearctic birds: 11th report. Ibis 158(1): 206–212. [pdf] Also... BOURC 2016. British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee: 45th Report...
  9. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Unless it's just a temporary glitch, the AERC TAC website now seems to have disappeared... www.aerc.eu/tac.html
  10. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Yes, it's rather ironic that most of Europe/WP will be left following a taxonomy heavily influenced by BOURC TSC, whilst BOU walks away and adopts something else entirely... :smoke:
  11. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    European/WP national records committees often follow AERC TAC, whose WP List is based upon Voous 1973/1977 as modified as a result of subsequent voting by the five member taxonomic committees (France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and, previously, GB).
  12. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    BOURC will presumably continue to be the gatekeeper of the British List (responsible for the acceptance of species/subspecies into Categories A–C), but in future will be required to use an off-the-shelf global taxonomy to be chosen/imposed by the BOU Council (motives still very unclear), rather...
  13. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    IOC and eBird/Clements both seem close to the general ethos of BOURC TSC – essentially 'BSC lite' (and, importantly, take due account of molecular studies!). There appears to be an increasing convergence in approach between IOC and eBird/Clements: after a period when eBird/Clements followed...
  14. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    BirdLife is based in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (not Cambridge, Massachusetts). ;)
  15. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    John Boyd's (excellent) TiF usually leads the way, rapidly prototyping the taxonomic implications of new studies, and giving us all a well-considered preview of the probable shape of things to come. But, as you suggest, perhaps unlikely to be adopted as the taxonomic baseline for a national...
  16. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Mark, re the IOU list of lists... Peters, and Sibley & Monroe are 'historical' lists. Alan Peterson's Zoonomen project is primarily concerned with nomenclature, rather than following developments in systematics/classification. Denis Lepage's Avibase is essentially a database of other major...
  17. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    It's also worth emphasising that these very simplistic comparisons take absolutely no account of numerous differences between taxonomies in the geographical scope of individual species on the British List (as a consequence of extralimital splits)... [Given that most widely-distributed Holarctic...
  18. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    IOC's split of Pterodroma deserta downgrades all British records of P feae to 'species undetermined'.
  19. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    ...also Lanius meridionalis to L pallidirostris.
  20. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Just for you... :t: BOURC vs IOC: Tundra Bean Goose Anser (fabalis) serrirostris - I Desertas Petrel Pterodroma (feae) deserta - I Northern Harrier Circus (cyaneus) hudsonius - I Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius (phaeopus) hudsonicus - B Least Tern Sternula (albifrons) antillarum - I Thayer's Gull...
  21. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Marthinsen et al 2008 Mason & Taylor 2015
  22. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    See post #11...
  23. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    Thanks, corrected. :t:
  24. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    BOURC vs BirdLife: Green-winged Teal Anas (crecca) carolinensis - B Desertas Petrel Pterodroma (feae) deserta - L Macaronesian Shearwater Puffinus (lherminieri) baroli - B Green Heron Butorides (striata) virescens - B Northern Harrier Circus (cyaneus) hudsonius - L Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius...
  25. Richard Klim

    BOU TSC disbanded

    BOURC vs H&M4: Green-winged Teal Anas (crecca) carolinensis - B White-winged Scoter Melanitta (fusca) deglandi - B Balearic Shearwater Puffinus (yelkouan) mauretanicus - B Macaronesian Shearwater Puffinus (lherminieri) baroli - B Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius (phaeopus) hudsonicus - B Least Tern...
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