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[tim.birdboy]

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[tim.birdboy]

Isn't Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes? May I edit it?

 

[delia todd]

hmm... I thought that too, Tim, but look at the 'Current SM Taxonomy' at the bottom of the page for the explanation.

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[tim.birdboy]

Ah, so is the entire Opus database based on Sibley and Monroe? According to the ITIS, it is still Troglodytes troglodytes.

 

[Andy Bright]

Yep, it's annyoing. When putting the gallery search in, I used the good old Troglodytes troglodytes otherwise nothing would show from the hundreds of photos of it in the gallery.
I'll have to do the same with some others that have had a sudden reclassification..recent parus changesprings to mind.

 

[njlarsen]

In a couple of entries, I have made two searches, either for two different scientific names, or one for that and one for the common name. Sometimes rules have to be bent because the results are better.

Niels

 

[Andy Bright]

In a couple of entries, I have made two searches, either for two different scientific names, or one for that and one for the common name. Sometimes rules have to be bent because the results are better.

Niels

Precisely. In fact I have even mixed part of the common name with parts of the scientific name to filter out spurious results in the gallery search string.

cheers,
Andy

 

[delia todd]

I did a Re-direct from 'Common Wren' to Winter Wren back in May.

Is this OK? Or should the Re-direct be deleted.

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[njlarsen]

I think it is OK, because there does not seem to be anything else that is called common wren

Niels