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  1. Paul Chapman

    2024 ABA Checklist update

    I do find this eBird/listing tie up all a bit odd. Hedging bets rather than having clear criteria and just maintaining a list on the basis of that criteria. "The CLC also opted not to add Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) to the ABA Checklist, on a split vote (3–5), based on a record...
  2. Paul Chapman

    2024 ABA Checklist update

    Being reversed by the WGAC I understand? All the best Paul
  3. Paul Chapman

    2024 ABA Checklist update

    🙄 All the best Paul
  4. Paul Chapman

    2024 ABA Checklist update

    Isn't all of this just a timing issue and the Working Group for Avian Checklists is going to harmonise all of this next year? (We will just be left with arguments and individual action over vernacular names then. :) ) All the best Paul
  5. Paul Chapman

    2024 ABA Checklist update

    Yes. I recall reading the rationale. I was a reviewer at the time. It does not stand up to analysis in my view and simply adds a different bias line even if it is correct. It also adds the capability for individual records of species to be treated arbitrarily. Anyone who is tempted to keep a...
  6. Paul Chapman

    2024 ABA Checklist update

    I have to say that I find this all rather bizarre. The merging of the eBird and the official approach to me is nonsensical. eBird went from a database which made no real judgment. It was a repository of sightings. To one in which they started applying some judgements with their exotic...
  7. Paul Chapman

    2024 ABA Checklist update

    I have found the use of Provisionals to be at best eclectic in various countries. In Britain, my UK List is I think 9 higher than an official list due to provisional status for:- Great-tailed Grackle Bearded Vulture Paddyfield Pipit Marbled Duck Booted Eagle White-headed Duck Red-headed Bunting...
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