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  1. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    As a starting point - https://www.birdwatch.co.uk/userfiles/file/Birdwatch/Birds%20of%20Britain%20-%20subspecies%20checklist%20v1_1.pdf B
  2. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    American Barn Swallow - erythrogaster -Iceland - https://notendur.hi.is/yannk/myndir/rarity/gth_hirrus121011_1.jpg https://notendur.hi.is/yannk/myndir/rarity/sa_hirrus121012.jpg B
  3. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    Common (sorry Mew|) Gull subsp - see http://kerrybirding.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/kamchatka-gull-in-kerry-potential-first.html B
  4. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    Paddyfield Warbler - 'capistrata' is a dubious subspecies and appears (like 'brevipennis') to have been named by Severtsov from worn and faded specimens; agricola is really the form that occurs in the northern part of the Caspian Sea and then east across Asia. cf Reed & Bush Warblers, Kennerley...
  5. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    Could Amur Wagtail M. A. leucopsis be added to White Wagtail? cf http://www.birdingworld.co.uk/images/AmurWagtail.pdf B
  6. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    Hi Mathieu This may have been answered before, but could you please give me an idea of what you are using as the limits of the WP in the Middle East? Is there a map I could look at? Thanks B
  7. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    Hi Maffong (I wish I knew your real name) It is a great effort and I do not want to come across overly pedantic. If you are happy I will continue to point a few things out...? E.g. Nightingale - hafizi should really be golzii, which has been shown to have taxonomic precedence B
  8. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    Surprised you did not change syenitica Black Wheatear - 'Shirihai et al 2014 demonstrate that Western Sahara taxon of Black Wheatear should properly be O.l. riggenbachi , not syenitica as previously assumed, the lone type specimen of taxon syenitica being better treated pro tem as belonging to...
  9. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    Tristram's Warbler is ticehursti valid? Sardinian Warbler - valverdei recently described subspecies - Cabot, J & Urdiales, 2005 Lesser Whitethroat is a tough one, but one quick comment - caucasica is not part of the althaea group, but within curruca; likewise jaxartica is within halimodendri -...
  10. Brian J Small

    Western Palearctic Master list with all recorded taxa

    I realise now that you are following Netfugl, but here are some comments on Reed and Bush Warblers use or discard Locustella amnicola now generally treated as Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler - cf Locustella tree http://jboyd.net/Taxo/Locustellidae.pdf and alstrom et al Lanceolated Warbler form...
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