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  1. J

    Birding Asia Taxonomy

    How about Medium Egret for a horrid name... I think Intermediate is far more descriptive. Why did Clements have to change the previous name, just because they split off Plumed and Yellow-billed?
  2. J

    Birding Asia Taxonomy

    Perhaps.... but I don't think we should get too worked up about English names. With 11,000 ish species there are bound to be some interesting choices, and Latin is meant to be the common thread (although many Latin names also vary between different taxonomies). I am also not that sure that...
  3. J

    Birding Asia Taxonomy

    I think this should be Maroon Oriole split, which is a tentative assessment at present (not backed up by morphology, vocal analysis etc.). Perhaps this is why there are no proposed names. Not sure why the Great Eared Nightjar split, which is possibly determined on a wider range of data, had no...
  4. J

    Birding Asia Taxonomy

    I presume that it is this island off Indonesia). Image courtesy of Google Maps.
  5. J

    Birding Asia Taxonomy

    I forgot to mention that in the same study as Olive-backed Sunbird, a 9.1% genetic divergence was discovered in Black Sunbird L.aspasia, suggesting that this species probably also comprises multiple species.
  6. J

    Birding Asia Taxonomy

    The article describes differences between taxa, but does not describe the range for Maratua - this does however appear to be an Indonesian Island. The range of Larwo Shama is stated to be Java. Yes you are tight 2022b!
  7. J

    Birding Asia Taxonomy

    Just received Birding Asia Number 39 June 2023, which includes their Taxonomic Update. The interesting points include the following New Species 'Six years after the expedition that discovered and documented them (see Eaton et al. 2016a), Irtham et al. (2022) describe two birds species new to...
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