Redpolls (1 Viewer)

[Larry Lade]

Seems to me that the current "wisdom" is that there are not "splits", just "variations" of the one species of bird, namely "Redpoll". In other words just a plethora of "sub-species".

 

[mb1848]

Larry my reading of the paper and the AOU proposition is that there are not even any subspecies. The different morphologies are not geographically dependent. They are formed because of mitochlorian counts, fairy-dust or some undefined low tempature and arid conditions.?? Co-author Nick Mason commented on the ABA blog. The powers that be/bird police do not like it if you joke about one redpoll to rule them all. "treating redpolls as a single species actually increases their biological allure." Right. Its too bad because I really respected his drumming with Pink Floyd.
http://britishbirds.co.uk/article/martin-garner/ .

 

[Richard Klim]

Its too bad because I really respected his drumming with Pink Floyd.

Me too. Maybe he should've stuck to the night job...

 

[Larry Lade]

Larry, this thread includes several links to blogposts by Martin Garner, who sadly died on Friday (29 Jan). As always evident from his enthusiasm for the subtleties of redpoll identification, bird forms can be interesting and challenging irrespective of their taxonomic treatment!

I need to go back and read some of Martin Garner's comments!

 

[SzimiStyle]

From Vår Skådarvärld Facebook Page:

Birdlife Swedish Taxonomikommitté (TK) Merge (old army) Arctic Redpoll and common redpoll in his new report, which is available at www.birdlife.se/tk. this means that everyone who marked club300 arctic redpoll according to the rules to get rid of a cross. A shorter version with the most important thing from the report is available in this year's first edition of our fågelvärld who shall be able to make it to all members as from today. Other interesting taxonomic news is that our magpie (Pica Pica) is divided into two races, pica and fennorum, where the latter, which is slightly larger, can be found in Northern Sweden. In addition, Indian and Chinese Blackbird Artstatus. The report is officially published from today.

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