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ABA Birders's Guide magazine (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Richard Klim
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How odd. Taxonomy for birders, what can that be about? And listing? Surely "here's one, there's another one" pretty much covers the subject???
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Paul Clapham
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With a budget of 64 pages I expect they'll be able to fit in a bit more than that, even with the advertising. I'm going to be interested to see what they come up with.
Richard Klim
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Listing & Taxonomy
Michael Retter, aba blog, 21 Nov 2013: Read it now! Birder's Guide to Listing and Taxonomy.
Birder's Guide to Listing & Taxonomy. Birder's Guide 25(3).
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ptickner
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I received my issue yesterday, and there is some interesting information in it, although mostly relevant to the ABA area. In particular there is a good article about the ABA Checklist Committee and some of their thought processes and challenges they face with changes in technology.
Richard Klim
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Thanks, Mark. I'd already forgotten about that publication that's winged it into history...
Mysticete
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As suspected, a good chunk of the information was general stuff we knew. A big article on nine-primaried oscine relationships, importance of bird calls and bird recording to taxonomy, and an overview of AOU checklist changes were some of the major articles. I did enjoy the discussion of future checklist challenges in the context of the recent additions. I don't envy the checklist committee having to tackle the Hooded Crane records.
There were a couple of random notes that were interesting:
Apparently there looks to be a proposal this year to AOU to change the common name of Nutmeg Mannikin, and there will probably be another proposal to split White-breasted Nuthatch
The recording committee is back in existence and is performing an overhaul of existing recording rules.
The above committee may also be involved with the proposal to add Hawaii to the ABA, which we haven't heard anything about for over a year.
Listing Central has added more features
There were a couple of random notes that were interesting:
Apparently there looks to be a proposal this year to AOU to change the common name of Nutmeg Mannikin, and there will probably be another proposal to split White-breasted Nuthatch
The recording committee is back in existence and is performing an overhaul of existing recording rules.
The above committee may also be involved with the proposal to add Hawaii to the ABA, which we haven't heard anything about for over a year.
Listing Central has added more features
MichaelRetter
Michael L. P. Retter
Did you click on the wrong link, perhaps? One links to a blog post that doesn't cover that topic at all. The other to the entire issue of the magazine, which has a large portion of an article ("Check-list Redux") devoted to it, including three range maps.
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MichaelRetter
Michael L. P. Retter
Be sure to read pages 4 and 6, as well as the article by Pranty and Floyd for another perspective on how the two are related. You can access the entire issue here: http://bg.aba.org/i/205710
Maybe I was a little harsh in my statement. I agree that for a large part of the range, the range maps are probably ok. Where I am missing some detail is in California, where a range map superimposed on a map showing mountain ranges and other similar physical features would have helped a lot compared to the rather featureless base for these maps.
To put my complaint in context: I have birded in CA a couple of times but I do not live there, so maybe some of the statements made in the article would make more sense to those who do.
Niels
To put my complaint in context: I have birded in CA a couple of times but I do not live there, so maybe some of the statements made in the article would make more sense to those who do.
Niels
Richard Klim
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Mysticete
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2016 issue is up:
http://blog.aba.org/2016/10/bg-lt-2016.html
Of note, there is summary article of future splits/lumps in ABA area birds, with a pretty exhausting chart at the end (I think I maybe only noticed a fews things that were missed), a guide to getting all the bird families of the world, and the annual AOU checklist update summary.
The big chart of splits should be especially of interest to folks on this forum.
http://blog.aba.org/2016/10/bg-lt-2016.html
Of note, there is summary article of future splits/lumps in ABA area birds, with a pretty exhausting chart at the end (I think I maybe only noticed a fews things that were missed), a guide to getting all the bird families of the world, and the annual AOU checklist update summary.
The big chart of splits should be especially of interest to folks on this forum.
Acanthis
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Thanks for posting!
Very interesting reading. Spent some time checking to see how these might affect my list, of course
One or two surprises, well for me at least.
Nutcracker
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Many of them already accepted by IOC; a pity the list didn't have a column saying which are / aren't accepted by IOC.
Mysticete
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The whole article was written from the standpoint of splits that would add birds to the ABA checklist, which in turn derives their taxonomy from the AOU. Whether or not IOC or other checklists recognize a species doesn't actually impact the article
