Maffong
Well-known member
Hello,
the portuguese rarities commitee has recently adopted IOC as their taxonomic authority and while pondering whether the german authorities should also consider such a thing, I wondered what authorities are being followed by other countries.
The German rarities committee (Deutsche Avifaunistische Kommission) and the german ornithologists union (Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft) follow the 'List of Birds of Germany' by Barthel & Helbig (2005), but I couldn't find out yet if this is close to any of the worldwide checklist. If anybody knows this, or owns the article about it in Limicola 19, 2 from 2005 I'd be grateful to be contacted!
The other 'authority' in Germany is the Club300.de, which follows Clements checklist.
Whether you prefer one checklist or the other is of course a matter of personal taste and not what I hope to discuss in this thread, rather I'd like to compare the approaches used in other countries.
Cheers Maffong
the portuguese rarities commitee has recently adopted IOC as their taxonomic authority and while pondering whether the german authorities should also consider such a thing, I wondered what authorities are being followed by other countries.
The German rarities committee (Deutsche Avifaunistische Kommission) and the german ornithologists union (Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft) follow the 'List of Birds of Germany' by Barthel & Helbig (2005), but I couldn't find out yet if this is close to any of the worldwide checklist. If anybody knows this, or owns the article about it in Limicola 19, 2 from 2005 I'd be grateful to be contacted!
The other 'authority' in Germany is the Club300.de, which follows Clements checklist.
Whether you prefer one checklist or the other is of course a matter of personal taste and not what I hope to discuss in this thread, rather I'd like to compare the approaches used in other countries.
Cheers Maffong