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Recent content by AlexJB497

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    HBW / BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9

    The two occur simultaneously. I.e. we don't/can't change anything on the BirdLife pages/list without also changing the IUCN Red List pages (they both pull data from the same database).
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    HBW / BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9

    We can make genus changes (and English common name changes) without completing a new IUCN Red List assessment, yes. But we can't make species-level changes (i.e. splits, lumps and moving subspecies from one species to another) without completing a new assesment, no. We are currently...
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    HBW / BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9

    No (not yet).
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    HBW / BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9

    Not many of them, but e.g., Phodilus prigoginei to Tyto, Ninox granti (etc.) to Athene.
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    HBW / BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9

    We made no species-level changes this year, just some generic changes and English name changes (along with Red List status updates according to the 2024 IUCN Red List update). But see: Data Zone - BirdLife International "Over the next few years, BirdLife, along with Cornell and others, will be...
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    Sumatran Mesia

    Only BL split it. Not sure I follow your second paragraph; OBC haven't published a list since 1996, so the split of Sumatran Mesia by BirdLife was done two decades later. A.
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    Sumatran Mesia

    It's just that the BirdLife International account hasn't been updated since 2016...incidentally, I did update it last week for publication/update next year.
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    The identification of these in winter is ably covered in the latest BirdingASIA: Bakewell D. (2022) Identification of Siberian Charadrius [mongolus] mongolus and Tibetan C. [m.] atrifrons Sand Plovers. BirdingASIA 38: 23-35. Available to all OBC members (£15 a year): Join OBC — Oriental Bird Club
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    HBW-BirdLife Version 6.0b (July 2022)

    To be clear on why this was done: 2022 is somewhat unique in its comprising of two IUCN Red List change updates. The update published (version 6b) here is made up almost solely of Red List changes and a handful of 'inconsequential' (from the Red List perspective) nomenclature changes we chose to...
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    HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (December 2021)

    Not sure what has happened with that pdf(!) -- will fix it on Monday.
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Well Eaton et al. doesn't even remotely follow 'IOC' taxonomy, so I don't see how it is relevant?
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    Anatidae

    Could someone send this over to me too, please. Cheers,
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Written by yours truly... https://www.birdguides.com/articles/taxonomy/a-birders-guide-to-the-new-look-rufous-antpitta-complex/
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    Black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata)

    There is a follow up paper with more detail in the next Forktail/Journal of Asian Ornithology (summer 2021), which will include (approximate) locality, habitat etc.
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Some new genera being created here! :ROFLMAO:
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