Buttonquails: Shorebirds or not? (1 Viewer)

[SzimiStyle]

Clements listing the buttonquails among the shorebirds/waders. They are between the phalaropes and coursers. IOC separates them and lists just before the stone-curlews.

As an author of The New Shorebirds Handbook (in prep) do I go wrong if I vote for IOC and leave the buttonquails out or I am better to think twice regarding the taxonomy to be followed? Any comment on it? Thanks a lot.

Best, Szimi
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[SteveClark]

And don't forget Plains-wanderer!

 

[Jacana]

They've only been transferred to Charadriiformes fairly recently from Gruiformes and probably after the Shorebirds book was being planned and written which could explain their absence.

 

[chris butterworth]

They are Charadriformes but I wouldn't class them as shorebirds/waders. I'd be tempted to leave them out, never mind the recent taxonomy, and just cover the 'convential' species.

Chris

 

[SzimiStyle]

There have been an argument among us if the Quail-Plover should be included and finally it was accepted just like the Plains-wanderer. It looks quite funny to have the list of shorebirds following a taxonomic sequence and suddenly there is a gap by excluding the buttonquails and then continuing again with the coursers. :-O However we have some time to decode as the artwork creation (colour plates) will be running in the next couple of years. A lot will happen in the taxonomy by then.

Best, Szimi
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