Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker (1 Viewer)

[jthoppes]

Three-toed Woodpecker

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[jthoppes]

This entry says: "North American races, dorsalis from the Rocky Mts, fasciatus from Alaska to Oregon and bacatus in the east are smaller and darker than Palearctic races and are considered a separate species by some."

Said split also has its own opus entry. Gill and Wright and Clements accept the split. Howard and Moore do not. We should either 1.delete the American entry or 2.rename the existing entry to Eurasian.

 

[jthoppes]

A quick search of the gallery revealed no images of the Eurasian form.

 

[njlarsen]

I went with the second option: the split exists in Opus already, there is not agreement that it is wrong, so I felt that it would be best to maintain what we had. I of course had to do a bit of editing, actually on both entries.

Niels

 

[Marmot]

Know it a bit late to add this but I have sorted them all in the gallery so all the American ones are now correct and the same with the European ones.

NB

We have since had two European ones uploaded since this thread.

 

[njlarsen]

Know it a bit late to add this but I have sorted them all in the gallery so all the American ones are now correct and the same with the European ones.

NB

We have since had two European ones uploaded since this thread.

Good Job :t:

Niels