Peter Kovalik
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Peter Kovalik
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Merops apiaster
Raül Ramos, Gang Song, Joan Navarro, Ruiying Zhang, Craig T. Symes, Manuela G. Forero, Fumin Lei. Population genetic structure and long-distance dispersal of a recently expanding migratory bird. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 March 2016.
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Raül Ramos, Gang Song, Joan Navarro, Ruiying Zhang, Craig T. Symes, Manuela G. Forero, Fumin Lei. Population genetic structure and long-distance dispersal of a recently expanding migratory bird. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 March 2016.
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https://www.researchgate.net/public...es_Meropidae_with_its_Taxonomic_Consideration
'Genetic distance shows that the differences between M. v. viridis and M. v. americanus is higher than that M. v. viridis vs M. leschenaulti based on Cyt b gene. Morphology, geographical distribution and genetic data suggest the elevation of M. v. americanus to a full species Rufous-crowned Bee-eater M. americanus, supporting the latest taxonomic arrangement by IUCN'
'Genetic distance shows that the differences between M. v. viridis and M. v. americanus is higher than that M. v. viridis vs M. leschenaulti based on Cyt b gene. Morphology, geographical distribution and genetic data suggest the elevation of M. v. americanus to a full species Rufous-crowned Bee-eater M. americanus, supporting the latest taxonomic arrangement by IUCN'
Nutcracker
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American Bee-eater??
Andy Adcock
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There are no Bee-eaters in the Americas, I asked Des this Q in the Philippine species limits link.
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Nutcracker
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I know! But presumably the person who named it in the first place must have (wrongly) thought so . . .
Looked it up, 'twas Statius Müller, in 1776.
Edit: here. Unfortunately, I'm struggling with the Gothic script!
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Andy Adcock
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See the Philippine thread Nutty where I_raty gives a good explanation.
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l_raty
laurent raty
The OCR program struggled too, it seems.
BHL often have very poor OCRs for Gothic-type scripts. (They appear to run the same OCR programs on texts printed with Gothic and Roman [and sometimes Cyrillic] scripts; which, quite expectedly, doesn't work well. It's a bit pity, but Google books [e.g., here] are typically much better.)
FWIW:
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awiner
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Amazingly, there is a record!
http://www.hbw.com/report/european-bee-eater-saint-lucia
(I know, irrelevant to this particular discussion.)
Peter Boesman
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Another Merops pair which was split by HBW/Birdlife and which hasn't yet gained wider acceptance is Blue-breasted Bee-eater M.variegatus / Ethiopian Bee-eater M.lafresnayii.
A recent vocal analysis fully supports this split, see: http://www.hbw.com/sites/default/files/orni-notes/on451_blue-throated_and_ethiopian_bee-eater.pdf
A recent vocal analysis fully supports this split, see: http://www.hbw.com/sites/default/files/orni-notes/on451_blue-throated_and_ethiopian_bee-eater.pdf
Peter Kovalik
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Merops apiaster
Carneiro de Melo Moura, C., Bastian, H.-V., Bastian, A., Wang, E., Wang, X., and Michael Wink: APliocene origin, ice ages and postglacial population expansion have influenced a panmictic phylogeography of the European Bee-Eater Merops apiaster. Diversity, 11, 12; DOI: 10.3390/d11010012 (2019)
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Carneiro de Melo Moura, C., Bastian, H.-V., Bastian, A., Wang, E., Wang, X., and Michael Wink: APliocene origin, ice ages and postglacial population expansion have influenced a panmictic phylogeography of the European Bee-Eater Merops apiaster. Diversity, 11, 12; DOI: 10.3390/d11010012 (2019)
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