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Falconidae: Polyborinae (1 Viewer)
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Richard Klim
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TiF
John Boyd (TiF):
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html [9 Mar 2012]
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/List12.html#falconidae
John Boyd (TiF):
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html [9 Mar 2012]
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/List12.html#falconidae
Richard Klim
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SACC proposal
AOU-SACC Proposal #561 (Remsen, Oct 2012): Transfer Milvago chimango to Phalcoboenus.
Fuchs et al 2012 pdf.
AOU-SACC Proposal #561 (Remsen, Oct 2012): Transfer Milvago chimango to Phalcoboenus.
Fuchs et al 2012 pdf.
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Richard Klim
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Peter Kovalik
Well-known member
Caracara cheriway, C. plancus
Proposal (878) to SACC
Treat Caracara cheriway as conspecific with Caracara plancus
Proposal (878) to SACC
Treat Caracara cheriway as conspecific with Caracara plancus
thomasdonegan
Former amateur ornithologist
This one is quite funny to annoying.
In Colombia, "Polyborus plancus" featured in the Country's only field guide for almost 25 years (Hilty & Brown 1986, p115). During most of those two and a half decades, it was mostly known as "Caracara cheriway" by other ornithologists - but a large body of publications built up in Colombian ornithology using P plancus nonetheless, as do historical works. The field guides since 2010 all used C. cheriway, following SACC. Now this one will be called "Caracara plancus", a combination of the two previous versions. The birds, now moving on to their third Latin name, still look the same to me as they did when I first went to Colombia in the mid 1990s.
The separation of these two "species" at unspecified localities somewhere in the middle of Amazonia never made much sense and I suppose this change must be right. But taxonomists here have caused much confusion - it's a poster child for unjustified tinkering with taxonomy or an advertisement for using English names and abandoning binomial nomenclature!!
In Colombia, "Polyborus plancus" featured in the Country's only field guide for almost 25 years (Hilty & Brown 1986, p115). During most of those two and a half decades, it was mostly known as "Caracara cheriway" by other ornithologists - but a large body of publications built up in Colombian ornithology using P plancus nonetheless, as do historical works. The field guides since 2010 all used C. cheriway, following SACC. Now this one will be called "Caracara plancus", a combination of the two previous versions. The birds, now moving on to their third Latin name, still look the same to me as they did when I first went to Colombia in the mid 1990s.
The separation of these two "species" at unspecified localities somewhere in the middle of Amazonia never made much sense and I suppose this change must be right. But taxonomists here have caused much confusion - it's a poster child for unjustified tinkering with taxonomy or an advertisement for using English names and abandoning binomial nomenclature!!
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
But you've missed, both generic names are invalid, the new name will be Thickastwoshort plancus :king:
Peter Kovalik
Well-known member
PASSED (13 Dec 2020)
Peter Kovalik
Well-known member
IOC Updates Diary Dec 24
Accept lump of Northern Crested Caracara with Southern Crested Caracara with English name change of combined species to Crested Caracara.
