Alastair Rae
London birder
My goodness, how is a poor bod to keep up. Need to buy lots of new guides, reappraise all my records, update the database etc etc. I'd much prefer to be birding ... and building my list the old fashioned way!
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Possible Gull Splits (1 Viewer)
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Blackstart
Saxophonus pinus
So, can someone explain the finer points of separating Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls?
Hi Blackstart,
This issue has been dealt with a few times on the forum,check out:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=11786&highlight=caspian+yellow+legged
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=9361&highlight=caspian+gull+identification
Harry H
This issue has been dealt with a few times on the forum,check out:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=11786&highlight=caspian+yellow+legged
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=9361&highlight=caspian+gull+identification
Harry H
cuckooroller said:
Ok, "upset" was probably a bad choise of wording, "frustrated" might have been better. I guess this is the kind of mistakes you do then you write in another language than your native.
Regarding the splits of the three wagtail species M. flava, alba and citreola. From what I understand there is quite far from an unanimous view among the experts. flava and alba splits are in pending state in the AERC TAC recommendations. From what I can see the citreola split havn't even been up for voting yet. The Pavlova paper is mentioned in the M.flava discusions though.
cuckooroller
Registered User
Sven,
Yes, I know people are all over the place on both of the related genera Anthus and Motacilla. With this much confusion I'm sure that all of the major lists will wind up respectfully disagreeing with each other and then it is just a question of having to know all of the different tax treatments again. No one ever said avian taxonomy was easy.
:eek!: :h?:
Yes, I know people are all over the place on both of the related genera Anthus and Motacilla. With this much confusion I'm sure that all of the major lists will wind up respectfully disagreeing with each other and then it is just a question of having to know all of the different tax treatments again. No one ever said avian taxonomy was easy.
:eek!: :h?:
