Ha! Just posted the same link in the thread about the changes for North American wood warblers.
David Sibley's perspective...
Agreed! :t:What good is it?
Why bother with all of these confusing changes? Personally, I like the reshuffling. It forces me to look at the species in a different way and to find new shared features that group them together.
Based on both genetic and phenotypic divergence, we believe that E. r. melanauris (clade 3 lineage) may represent a separate species as suggested previously (Navarro-Sigüenza and Peterson, 2004) but additional samples from SMO [= Sierra Madre Occidental] will be needed to confirm this.
Yes, Niels. Of the three lineages identified within E ruber, clade 3 = Ergaticus (ruber) melanauris 'Black-eared Warbler' = Clements's Cardellina rubra melanauris Red Warbler (Gray-cheeked).For those with full access, does the two lineages within ruber that are mentioned by the abstract correspond to the grey-cheeked vs white-cheeked groups mentioned in Clements?
"Percent divergence values among populations (corrected for intrapopulation polymorphism) ranged from 0.5% between clades 1 and 2, and 1.9% between clades 3 and 4... E. r. melanauris (clade 3) diverged from other E. ruber subspecies by an average 1.0%, and average percent divergence between E. versicolor (clade 4) and all E. ruber clades was 1.7%.What were the estimates of divergence date &/or genetic distance like?
AOU-SACC Proposal #571 (Banks & Remsen, Feb 2013): Adopt a new generic classification for the Parulidae.Irby J. Lovette, Jorge L. Pérez-Emán, John Sullivan, Richard C. Banks, Isabella Fiorentino, Sergio Córdoba-Córdoba, María Echeverry-Galvis, F. Keith Barker, Kevin J. Burns, John Klicka, Scott M. Lanyon, Eldredge Bermingham, 2010? A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, In press. Abstract
Proposal passed, 30 Jul 2013: RECENT CHANGES.AOU-SACC Proposal #571 (Banks & Remsen, Feb 2013): Adopt a new generic classification for the Parulidae.
Ref. Lovette et al 2010. A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Mol Phylogenet Evol 57(2): 753–770. [pdf]2014: May 6: Post proposed split of Roraiman Warbler on Updates/PS
AOU-SACC Proposal #630 (Robbins, May 2014): Treat Myiothlypis roraimae as separate species from M. bivittata (revisited).
IOC World Bird List:
2014: May 6: Post proposed split of Roraiman Warbler on Updates/PS
Ref. Lovette et al 2010. A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Mol Phylogenet Evol 57(2): 753–770. [pdf]
Curson 2010 (HBW 15).
Did not pass, 20 Jan 2015: RECENT CHANGES.AOU-SACC Proposal #630 (Robbins, May 2014): Treat Myiothlypis roraimae as separate species from M. bivittata (revisited).
Curson 2010 (HBW 15: Cape May Warbler (Dendroica tigrina))...Audubon described and illustrated 2 birds taken near Henderson, KY, in May 1811 as "Carbonated" Warbler (D. carbonata), thought to be hybrids between Blackpoll and Cape May warblers by Cockrum (1952), but later convincingly shown to be first-year male Cape May Warblers by Parkes (1985).
David Sibley, Sibley Guides, 28 Mar 2008: Audubon’s mysteries: Carbonated Swamp-Warbler....bird described in early 19th century as Helinaia carbonata ("Carbonated Warbler") may have been a hybrid of this species with D. striata, but generally considered to be a first-summer male of present species.