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Jan Ove Gjershaug, Heather R. L. Lerner, Sonia Kabra and Rachel Wadleigh. Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (Accipitriformes: Aquilinae). I Worldwide Raptor Conference, October 2013, Bariloche, Argentina.
Abstract:
We present a supermatrix phylogeny of all booted eagles based on an analysis of published sequences from six loci, including all 38 extant species of booted eagles and one extinct species (Haast’s Eagle, Harpagornis moorei). We find molecular support for five major clades within the booted eagles: Nisaetus (10 species), Spizaetus (4 species), Clanga (3 species), Hieraaetus (6 species) and Aquila (11 species), requiring generic changes for 14 taxa. Additionally, we recommend that the Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis) and the Black Eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis) should be kept in their own genera, as they are morphologically very distinct. The clade including the Booted Eagle (H. pennatus), Little Eagle (H. morphnoides), Pygmy Eagle (H. weiskei), Ayres’s Eagle (H. ayresii) and Wahlberg’s Eagle (H. wahlbergi) can be kept in the genus Hieraaetus as it does not result in paraphyly in the genus Aquila any longer if the spotted eagles are placed in the new proposed genus Clanga. The Rufous-bellied Eagle should be placed in the genus Lophotriorchis. To make consistency in the English names, we recommend that “hawk-eagle” should be used only for species in the genera Nisaetus and Spizaetus. We suggest the following new names: Cassin’s Eagle (Aquila africana), Bonaparte’s Eagle (A. spilogaster), Ayres’s Eagle (Hieraaetus ayresii), and Black-and-chestnut Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus isidori).
 
That does not really appear to add anything to what could be learned from Lerner & Mindell, 2005 (on the basis of which I changed the genera in my list). But what are the ten species of Nisaetus?
 
what are the ten species of Nisaetus?

cirrhatus, floris, alboniger, bartelsi, lanceolatus, philippensis, pinskeri, nanus, nipalensis, kelaarti.

But what are the 6 species of Hieraaetus ? I have only 5: morphonoides, weiskei, pennatus, ayresii, wahlbergi. Could the sixth be moorei ?
 
cirrhatus, floris, alboniger, bartelsi, lanceolatus, philippensis, pinskeri, nanus, nipalensis, kelaarti.

But what are the 6 species of Hieraaetus ? I have only 5: morphonoides, weiskei, pennatus, ayresii, wahlbergi. Could the sixth be moorei ?

Daniel :t:
Michael Bunce, Marta Szulkin, Heather R. L Lerner, Ian Barnes, Beth Shapiro, Alan Cooper & Richard N Holdaway, 2005. Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into the Evolutionary History of New Zealand's Extinct Giant Eagle. PLOS Biology 3:1.
Abstract and PDF here
 
An overlooked earlier genus name for the Spotted Eagle

Droppa Ŝercotago, Prvotravanjska Šala (Ludif. Cal. Ap.) 4: 1 (1847).

As this predates Clanga Adamowicz, 1858, the correct name for Spotted Eagle becomes Droppa clanga (Pallas, 1811).

The same text also treats Little Ringed Plover in a separate genus Verri, but the justification for doing so appears very dubious.
 
An overlooked earlier genus name for the Spotted Eagle

Droppa Ŝercotago, Prvotravanjska Šala (Ludif. Cal. Ap.) 4: 1 (1847).

As this predates Clanga Adamowicz, 1858, the correct name for Spotted Eagle becomes Droppa clanga (Pallas, 1811).



Ditto my message 20 of this thread.
 
An overlooked earlier genus name for the Spotted Eagle

Droppa Ŝercotago, Prvotravanjska Šala (Ludif. Cal. Ap.) 4: 1 (1847).

As this predates Clanga Adamowicz, 1858, the correct name for Spotted Eagle becomes Droppa clanga (Pallas, 1811).

The same text also treats Little Ringed Plover in a separate genus Verri, but the justification for doing so appears very dubious.

Published in April Fools' Day Journal?
 
An overlooked earlier genus name for the Spotted Eagle

Droppa Ŝercotago, Prvotravanjska Šala (Ludif. Cal. Ap.) 4: 1 (1847).

As this predates Clanga Adamowicz, 1858, the correct name for Spotted Eagle becomes Droppa clanga (Pallas, 1811).

The same text also treats Little Ringed Plover in a separate genus Verri, but the justification for doing so appears very dubious.

...and it was posted at 0112 on 1 April.... The timing, the exquisite timing!:D
MJB
 
Except when I look at it, it was posted about 4 hours before, on Mar31 at 20:12

Niels
That's the difficulty with a moving 12-hour sector, it can't be the morning of 1 April for everyone at the same time . . . 'joke time' has already finished in Australia, long before it even starts in Alaska . . . but it was posted at 00.12 UTC on 1 April :t:
 
That's the difficulty with a moving 12-hour sector, it can't be the morning of 1 April for everyone at the same time . . . 'joke time' has already finished in Australia, long before it even starts in Alaska . . . but it was posted at 00.12 UTC on 1 April :t:

But if our planet were moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light, all of us would 'get' (as far as our limited senses could discriminate) the joke at the same time...

Relativity is a pre-quantum prerequisite for action at a distance3:)
MJB
 
Lesser Spotted Eagle: pale variant

Corso & Viganò 2015. Pale plumage variant of Lesser Spotted Eagle: a potential pitfall. Brit Birds 108(11): 683–687.
Abstract A poorly known pale variant plumage of the Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina is described and illustrated. This plumage presents a pitfall for observers familiar with juvenile Aquila eagles, particularly the rather similar 'fulvescens' plumage of Greater Spotted Eagle A. clanga, but also juvenile Eastern Imperial A. heliaca and Spanish Imperial Eagles A. adalberti.
 
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