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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    If you go to the Species tab and then select "My list of checked species" you will get a list of splits you can tick off. Choose "Manage my checks of Passerines" and you'll be taken to the page to do this. Cheers Liam
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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    They must have been updating the page - there are now some sample plates.
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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2 - due 31 December 2016. Cover now available. I notice that they are recognizing 3 babbler families, but are missing an illustration for Timaliidae sensu stricto. Instead there are 2 representatives for...
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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    Agreed - and I propose to rename the rather unimaginative "Northern Festive Amazon" and "Southern Festive Amazon" with the geographically inspired "Orinoco Amazon" and "Amazon Amazon" (respectively) ;)
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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    I'm hoping that they're waiting a bit for those of us on "the wrong side of the pond" to get our copies, rather than "spoiling the surprise." Or perhaps it's just turning out to be a more mammoth undertaking to rearrange everything on HBW Alive. Better to take the time and do it right. For...
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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    There's a possibility that it will. If you enlarge the sample plate for extinct species, you’ll see that several species of Rails are placed in the genus Hypotaenidia (and the Chatham Rail in Cabalus). This is contra the recommendation of Kirchman (2012), who merged these and several other...
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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    Lynx now has a page for the checklist, with an interesting change to the cover art: http://www.lynxeds.com/product/hbw-and-birdlife-international-illustrated-checklist-birds-world
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    Lynx-BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist

    It will feel incomplete if they don't. They should be consulting with systematists like Jon Fjeldså regarding genera, someone who is familiar with recent research. John Boyd's site is a good place to start too. Although genus-level classification is of little importance to conservationists...
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