HBW-BirdLife Version 6.0b (July 2022) (1 Viewer)

[Peter Kovalik]

HBW-BirdLife Version 6.0b (July 2022) - current version, with subspecies

Available to download there

 

[Mysticete]

Looks like it's just common name changes?

 

[Paul Clapham]

Looks like it's just common name changes?

There's no new species, but there's a fair amount of resequencing in the rails and parrots and pigeons. They finally changed "cachalote" to "cacholote" to match all of the other world lists, and there's only a few common names being changed.

Actually most of the "resequencing" was a result of Alopeoenas salamonis, Laterallus podarces, and Poicephalus fuscicollis having been put far away from their correct places in the previous version. And many of the name changes were the result of changing "Christmas" to "Christmas Island" and "Norfolk" to "Norfolk Island".

 

[sicklebill]

So pleased to see Island reappearing, I wish IOC would follow suit as they still have the patently ridiculous Chatham Gerygone and Norfolk Gerygone, which make me cringe each time I see them mentioned......Christmas Island also now links to a place and not a calendar holiday,
a minor but crucial difference

 

[jts1882]

I wish they would resequence the Thraupidae. They start with the species in various tribes of Thraupinae (except Thraupini), then list the other subfamilies, and finish with Thraupinae not explicitly assigned to a tribe (which I assume corresponds to Thraupini).

It's been like this for years.

 

[Kirk Roth]

So pleased to see Island reappearing, I wish IOC would follow suit as they still have the patently ridiculous Chatham Gerygone and Norfolk Gerygone, which make me cringe each time I see them mentioned......Christmas Island also now links to a place and not a calendar holiday,
a minor but crucial difference

Agreed - at least to this extent. The problem with "policies" on island names is that some island names make good names for other things, others are very bad. I don't think anyone would seriously welcome renaming Barbados Island Bullfinch or a Maui Island Parrotbill. There are obvious differences between these and things like Christmas Island Shearwater or Inaccessible Island Rail. So why even have a policy if it takes island by island consideration to avoid confusion?

On paper, IOC's Island Names Principle is about as close to this as it can be while still being a policy - they state that "If a name includes an island or islands, the word island or islands will not be included except there the resulting name is misleading." But then, bafflingly, they use two examples which are entirely contrary to that principle - the (Brad?) Pitt (University?) Shag and the (Father?) Christmas (Day?) Frigatebird.

I modestly propose that if there must be a policy or principle to island names in ornithology, it should be thus: if one can type the name of the island (without the word "island") into an English-language search engine and the intended location appears on the first page, then the word "island" will not be included!

I suppose the same rule could apply to vessels for the Steamship Vega Gull or the Regia Marina Magenta Petrel.

 

[gusasp]

What would it take BirdLife to summarize the changes briefly? Now you have to scan long lists to discern the differences.

 

[jts1882]

There's a changes tab in the excel file, with 20 changes listed.

SIS_ID	Species	Previous	Change	Change type	Correction
22691056	Alopecoenas salamonis	Alopecoenas salamonis	Moved to before A. stairi from previous incorrect position within Geopelia	Sequence	Yes
22728754	Laterallus podarces	Laterallus podarces	Moved to after L. rogersi	Sequence	Yes
103681276	Elaenia brachyptera	Elaenia brachyptera	Common name corrected to Coopmans's Elaenia	Common name	Yes
22732670	Poicephalus fuscicollis	Poicephalus fuscicollis	Moved to after P. robustus	Sequence	Yes
22732670_1	Poicephalus fuscicollis fuscicollis	Poicephalus fuscicollis fuscicollis	Moved to after P. robustus	Sequence	Yes
22732670_2	Poicephalus fuscicollis suahelicus	Poicephalus fuscicollis suahelicus	Moved to after P. robustus	Sequence	Yes
22733216	Pseudoseisura unirufa	Pseudoseisura unirufa	Common name corrected to Cacholote	Common name	Yes
22733859	Pseudoseisura cristata	Pseudoseisura cristata	Common name corrected to Cacholote	Common name	Yes
22702740	Pseudoseisura lophotes	Pseudoseisura lophotes	Common name corrected to Cacholote	Common name	Yes
22702743	Pseudoseisura gutturalis	Pseudoseisura gutturalis	Common name corrected to Cacholote	Common name	Yes
22704070_4	Nesoptilotis leucotis depauperata	Nesoptilotis leucotis depauperata	Trailing space deleted	Typo	Yes
na	Fregetta tropica tropica	Fregetta grallaria tropica	Scientific name correction: accidentally entered as F. grallaria tropica	Typo	Yes
na	Fregetta tropica melanoleuca	Fregetta grallaria melanoleuca	Scientific name correction: accidentally entered as F. grallaria melanoleuca	Typo	Yes
22698459_1	Fregetta tropica tropica	Fregetta grallaria tropica	Addition of subspecies ID number	Omission	Yes
22698459_2	Fregetta tropica melanoleuca	Fregetta grallaria melanoleuca	Addition of subspecies ID number	Omission	Yes
22710511	Aplonis fusca	Aplonis fusca	Common name changed to Tasman Starling	Common name	No
22704731	Gerygone modesta	Gerygone modesta	Common name changed to Norfolk Island Gerygone	Common name	No
22684834	Nestor productus	Nestor productus	Common name changed to Norfolk Island Kaka	Common name	No
103734824	Petroica multicolor	Petroica multicolor	Common name changed to Norfolk Island Robin	Common name	No
22714078	Zosterops natalis	Zosterops natalis	Common name changed to Christmas Island White-eye	Common name	No
22691699	Ducula whartoni	Ducula whartoni	Common name changed to Christmas Island Imperial-pigeon	Common name	No
22697742	Fregata andrewsi	Fregata andrewsi	Common name changed to Christmas Island Boobook	Common name	No
22689452	Ninox natalis	Ninox natalis	Common name changed to Christmas Island Frigatebird	Common name	No
22691312	Ptilinopus alligator	Ptilinopus alligator	Common name changed to Black-banded Fruit-dove	Common name	No
22684727	Zanda baudinii	Zanda baudinii	Common name changed to Baudin’s Black-cockatoo	Common name	No
22684733	Zanda latirostris	Zanda latirostris	Common name changed to Carnaby’s Black-cockatoo	Common name	No
155109013	Microptilotis imitatrix	Microptilotis imitatrix	Common name changed to Cryptic Honeyeater	Common name	No
22680243	Spatula rhynchotis	Spatula rhynchotis	Common name changed to Australasian Shoveler	Common name	No

 

[AlexJB497]

To be clear on why this was done: 2022 is somewhat unique in its comprising of two IUCN Red List change updates. The update published (version 6b) here is made up almost solely of Red List changes and a handful of 'inconsequential' (from the Red List perspective) nomenclature changes we chose to ram through. The usual taxonomic update will be published, as usual in December of this year, and also be accompanied by Red List status changes and nomenclature changes (e.g. lots of hummingbird genus changes..!).

Cheers

Alex