Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Still struggling with my MS text on Paul Coopmans (who died in 2007) and "his" birds ...
So here´s a short question, on the English Common name of Coopmans’s Elaenia Elaenia brachyptera VON BERLEPSCH 1907 (1905?), here (Note: the OD is, naturally, of no importance, for the English Common name ... coined more than a century later)
Does anyone know if Paul Coopmans ever heard/found "his" Elaenia, Elaenia brachyptera, in the Field, in Eastern Ecuador or if he "only" noted is as "vocally distinct" from he recordings of Rheindt and his colleauges ... [like indoors, at the end of his (much too short) life] ... I cannot tell either way, from the Paper, Rheindt et al, 2015*, that caused the "split" ...
Or to re-phrase it: Was it Coopmans personally who established the fact that brachyptera was present on the Ecuadorian (Eastern) side of the Andes contra/versus/like the same bird/taxon found by von Berlepsch, on the opposite side of the Andes, in Southern West Colombia?
Did More et al. Bird Sounds of Ecuador (DVD-ROM, 2013) tell us anything either way?
Grateful for all the help I can get (... on this one as well)!
Björn
PS: Not to confuse with the Foothill Elaenia Myiopagis olallai COOPMANS & KRABBE 2000 (earlier, in 2015/2016 a k a "Coopmanselenia" in Swedish; today gråhuvad elenia, meaning "Grey-headed Elaenia") – a species that Coopmans was even far deeper involved with! That one he heard in 1991, recorded in -92, caught in -94 and described in 2000 (the latter two events together with Niels Krabbe) nor with the subspecies Myiopagis olallai coopmansi CUERVO et al 2014!
And please, please; keep Coopmans's Tyrannulet Zimmerius minimus CHAPMAN 1912 out of this thread. The case of Coopmans and "his birds are already complicated enough. The fact that all of them, all four, are included in Tyrannidae, and that they are all equally, respecitvely hard to recognise (by eye) doesn´t make them easier to keep apart.
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*Rheindt, F. E., N. Krabbe, A. K. S. Wee & L. Christidis. 2015. Cryptic speciation in the Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Zootaxa 4032: 251-263 (here)
So here´s a short question, on the English Common name of Coopmans’s Elaenia Elaenia brachyptera VON BERLEPSCH 1907 (1905?), here (Note: the OD is, naturally, of no importance, for the English Common name ... coined more than a century later)
Does anyone know if Paul Coopmans ever heard/found "his" Elaenia, Elaenia brachyptera, in the Field, in Eastern Ecuador or if he "only" noted is as "vocally distinct" from he recordings of Rheindt and his colleauges ... [like indoors, at the end of his (much too short) life] ... I cannot tell either way, from the Paper, Rheindt et al, 2015*, that caused the "split" ...
Or to re-phrase it: Was it Coopmans personally who established the fact that brachyptera was present on the Ecuadorian (Eastern) side of the Andes contra/versus/like the same bird/taxon found by von Berlepsch, on the opposite side of the Andes, in Southern West Colombia?
Did More et al. Bird Sounds of Ecuador (DVD-ROM, 2013) tell us anything either way?
Grateful for all the help I can get (... on this one as well)!
Björn
PS: Not to confuse with the Foothill Elaenia Myiopagis olallai COOPMANS & KRABBE 2000 (earlier, in 2015/2016 a k a "Coopmanselenia" in Swedish; today gråhuvad elenia, meaning "Grey-headed Elaenia") – a species that Coopmans was even far deeper involved with! That one he heard in 1991, recorded in -92, caught in -94 and described in 2000 (the latter two events together with Niels Krabbe) nor with the subspecies Myiopagis olallai coopmansi CUERVO et al 2014!
And please, please; keep Coopmans's Tyrannulet Zimmerius minimus CHAPMAN 1912 out of this thread. The case of Coopmans and "his birds are already complicated enough. The fact that all of them, all four, are included in Tyrannidae, and that they are all equally, respecitvely hard to recognise (by eye) doesn´t make them easier to keep apart.
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*Rheindt, F. E., N. Krabbe, A. K. S. Wee & L. Christidis. 2015. Cryptic speciation in the Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Zootaxa 4032: 251-263 (here)
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