Birds of Britain (1 Viewer)

[Richard Klim]

Mitchell & Vinicombe 2010. Birds of Britain: The Complete Checklist. Third Edition.
[Supplement to Birdwatch 219, Sep 2010.]

Splits recognised (cf BOURC: The British List):

• Anser [fabalis] serrirostris - Tundra Bean Goose
• Puffinus [baroli] baroli - Barolo Shearwater
• Oceanodroma [castro] granti - Grant's Storm-petrel (not named granti by Robb & Mullarney 2008)
• Oceanodroma [castro] monteiroi - Monteiro's Storm-petrel
• Oceanodroma [castro] jabejabe - Cape Verde Storm-petrel
• Circus [cyaneus] hudsonius - Northern Harrier
• Sternula [albifrons] antillarum - Least Tern
• Stercorarius [skua] maccormicki - South Polar Skua
• Stercorarius [skua] antarctica - Brown Skua (correctly antarcticus)
• Lanius [meridionalis] lahtora - Steppe Grey Shrike (English name usually applies only to ssp pallidirostris)
• Phylloscopus [trochiloides] plumbeitarsus - Two-barred Greenish Warbler
• Sylvia [hortensis] hortensis - Western Orphean Warbler
• Sylvia [cantillans] subalpina - Moltoni's Warbler (name follows Baccetti et al 2007, contra IOC)
• Saxicola [torquatus] rubicola - European Stonechat
• Saxicola [torquatus] maurus - Siberian Stonechat
• Motacilla [flava] tschutschensis - Eastern Yellow Wagtail

[British records of Madeiran Petrel and 'southern skua' spp remain unidentified.]

The revised taxonomic sequence of the passerines recommended by BOURC-TSC 6 (2009) hasn't been adopted.

Richard