However, BirdLife is generally much more conservative than BOURC (eg, not recognising ~30 BOURC splits), and BOURC treats aurea as a ssp of Z dauma...I wonder if BirdLife will revisit the lumping of Zoothera dauma?
(Checker-throated) Woodpecker
James, BirdLife has only stated common names in a few cases (eg, the dwarf kingfishers, and species that were already 'Under Review' in BirdLife Checklist v5). Perhaps BirdLife intends to consult with Lynx Edicions to agree the common names?any idea what the new english names for these would be?
I suspect that this reflects the fact that BirdLife International is a conservation organisation, and therefore probably assigns a low priority to revising the taxonomy of long-extinct taxa.It is somewhat unsatisfied that they still ignore the Marianne white-eye Zosterops semiflavus.
I suspect that this reflects the fact that BirdLife International is a conservation organisation, and therefore probably assigns a low priority to revising the taxonomy of long-extinct taxa.
Nice summary, Mohamed.I have written this blog-post to celebrate our new Maghreb endemic (Algeria + Morocco) in late 2011 before BirdLife split the two taxa.