Peter Kovalik
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HBW-BirdLife Version 4.0 (December 2019) - current version
Excel or PDF version of the current list here
Excel or PDF version of the current list here
HBW-BirdLife Version 4.0 (December 2019) - current version
Excel or PDF version of the current list here
But seemingly nothing about what they actually did change?
Niels
Grab http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v4_Dec19.zip , expand it, and you'll find a spreadsheet with a list of changes. A quick summary below.
Besides that, there's several groups whose sequence has been radically shuffled since the previous version. (One of which is the white-eyes.) That won't be of much interest to most listers.
However there's a group of four South Indian laughingthrushes which have been moved into the genus Montecincla and their English names have been changed to "Chilappan". And there's two South Indian flycatchers which have been moved from Myiomela to Sholicola and their English names have been changed to "Sholakili".
Sholakili was introduced by one of the other lists last year I think but Chilappan is a new one. As Andy says, madness. We are talking about English language names.
Steve
Chilippan was the recommended name in the taxonomic paper that split them, I'm glad to hear they are using it, authors put so much effort into writing the paper, nice to see the names used as well as the splits.
Sholakili is a lovely name, especially given they are not robins, nor shortenings but unique in their own right.
James
It's one thing to dream up names such as 'Shade Dweller' or 'Cup-wing' but these are not ENGLISH names, Chilappan is Malay and Shola is Indian.
Capercaillie, Ptarmigan anyone?