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cheshirebirder

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• Nov 19, 2010

• #1

Just got back from a trip to Goa where I saw spangled drongo . Compiling my list since I got home I noticed I'd seen spangled drongo in Australia last year,but closer inspection of the Latin names revealed they are different birds !(the tails are very different anyway ) .Now ,obviously different countries have their own names for some birds, but how confusing is it when 2 different species go under the same name ? Are there any other examples?

 

delia todd

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• Nov 19, 2010

• #2

cheshirebirder said:

Just got back from a trip to Goa where I saw spangled drongo . Compiling my list since I got home I noticed I'd seen spangled drongo in Australia last year,but closer inspection of the Latin names revealed they are different birds !(the tails are very different anyway ) .Now ,obviously different countries have their own names for some birds, but how confusing is it when 2 different species go under the same name ? Are there any other examples?

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Very!

A "Disambig" search in Opus will find you some more... here's one - Black Duck which is THREE different species!

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wintibird

André Weiss

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• Nov 19, 2010

• #3

The Spangled Drongo usued to be one species and was split later. Most lists now use Spangled Drongo for the eastern form (Australia and parts of Indonesia and the Philippines) and Hair-crested Drongo for the western form. New Indian Field Guides don't use the name Spangled Drongo anymore.

André

 

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cheshirebirder

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• Nov 19, 2010

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Wintibird, that's interesting. My Indian field guide (which is not very old )still uses spangled drongo . More interestingly, my local guide on the day also still used the name spangled drongo !

 

Richard Klim

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• Nov 19, 2010

• #5

As André notes, most authorities/authors (eg, IOC, BLI, Clements, HBW, Dickinson 2003, Monroe & Sibley 1993, Rasmussen & Anderton 2005, Christidis & Boles 2008) now split Australasian Dicrurus bracteatus as Spangled Drongo, leaving Asian D hottentotus as Hair-crested Drongo.

Unsurprisingly, Grimmett, Inskipp & Inskipp 1998 (Birds of the Indian Subcontinent) and all its well-known derivative regional field guides follow Inskipp et al 1996 (Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region), which didn't recognise this split.

Richard

 

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birdboybowley

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• Nov 19, 2010

• #6

Brown-backed/Sharp-billed/Wahlberg's Honeybird is another.....Village/Black-headed Weaver is another especially when there's already a separate Black-headed Weaver (which is often called Golden-backed though......) !!