Richard Klim
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Shirihai, Díaz, Huichalaf & Bretagnolle 2015. Endemic breeding birds of Juan Fernández archipelago, Chile. Dutch Birding 37(1): 1–20.
AOU-SACC......on Masafuera, endemic subspecies of Red-backed Hawk Buteo polyosoma exsul and Grey-flanked Cinclodes Cinclodes (oustaleti) baeckstroemii occur... Both are candidates to be split as full species. ...
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Red-backed Hawk
The local subspecies exsul differs from the continental birds in occurring in only one morph, that furthermore only occurs in exsul (Farquhar 1998). ...
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Grey-flanked Cinclodes
... This subspecies is a potential split, because of its differences in morphology and vocalizations form [sic] the continental taxa (Hahn 2006). ...
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De Filippi's Petrel
... Reasons for out-of-season occurrence off Chile (including Juan Fernández archipelago) ...
...raises the question if De Filippi's varies geographically and if perhaps more than one taxon is involved. A complication for future research may be that the type specimen of De Filippi's was collected at sea off northern Chile (Giglioli & Salvadori 1869). It may be impossible to relate this type and its morphological characteristics to any of the known populations without extensive study.
Geranoaetus polyosoma Variable Hawk
24. Ferguson-Lees & Christie (2001) considered the subspecies exsul of the Juan Fernandez Islands as a separate species from Buteo polyosoma based on the sexes being monomorphic and having no rufous in plumage. Genetic data (Riesing et al. 2003), however, indicate very low sequence divergence. Proposal needed?
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