Robins are flycatchers? (1 Viewer)

[Nutcracker]

then download spreadsheet.

But the spreadsheet can't be opened, it is in a format not recognised.

 

[Nutcracker]

Here's a sample of what the excel file looks like - corrupted total garbage!

 

[Paul Clapham]

It opens for me using Excel 2010. Perhaps you have an old Excel version which doesn't support .xslx files?

 

[davercox]

Perhaps you have an old Excel version which doesn't support .xslx files?

If so, there is a converter available online for free download (can't remember where now, just Google it). But yes, .xslx files have a completely different (XML-based) format to .xls files.

 

[Richard Klim]

IOC World Bird List

But the spreadsheet can't be opened, it is in a format not recognised.

Here's a copy of the .xlsx file saved in .xls (Excel 97-2003) format...

 

[Frank Gill]

The placement of Red-tailed Wheatear in Pinaromis rather boosts Richard Porter's thought that it may breed sympatrically with Oenanthe xanthoprymna in northern Iraq!

Elsewhere, I'd hoped for IOC acceptance of golzii on priority grounds for hafizi in Common Nightingale (Dickinson 2008, Knox et al 2008), and the adoption of hemprichii for the erroneous part of the distribution of variegatus (Svenson et al 2012). I'm just greedy for more presents this Yuletide!
MJB

A Yuletide present for MJB. Thanks for bringing these to our attention. They totally slipped below the radar. Fixed for Update 4.1.

Greed is good.

 

[Frank Gill]

Here's a copy of the .xlsx file saved in .xls (Excel 97-2003) format...

Changed the link to an xls version of the spreadsheet. Hope that helps

 

[jalid]

The placement of Red-tailed Wheatear in Pinaromis

I was going to ask something about this, but just can't express myself. I am surely missing something. (It is Pinarornis).

 

[Richard Klim]

I was going to ask something about this, but just can't express myself. I am surely missing something. (It is Pinarornis).

Pinaromis gen nov = pine-scented chat...?

 

[MJB]

Pinaromis gen nov = pine-scented chat...?

New Year fingerpigs! Mea culpa.:eek!:
MJB

 

[jalid]

And isn't it also very surprising that Red-tailed Wheatear is listed as congeneric with a very-different looking southern African species, while it has traditionally considered to belong to the same species with (similar looking) xanthroprymna and found also to be very close to xanthroprymna by Aliabadian et al (2012)?

 

[Frank Gill]

And isn't it also very surprising that Red-tailed Wheatear is listed as congeneric with a very-different looking southern African species, while it has traditionally considered to belong to the same species with (similar looking) xanthroprymna and found also to be very close to xanthroprymna by Aliabadian et al (2012)?

Yipes - bad spreadsheet error. Now fixed.
Thanks for catching this one.

 

[Nutcracker]

Changed the link to an xls version of the spreadsheet. Hope that helps

Yep, thanks, that works!

 

[njlarsen]

Nutcracker,
the converter that would allow you to view the new file formats in an older version office program is from microsoft, go to their website and search for file format converter.

Niels

 

[Richard Klim]

Blackthroat

Gang Song, Per Alström, Yongwen Zhang, Xuebin Gao, Huisheng Gong, Paul I. Holt, Qing Quan, Zuohua Yin, Fumin Lei. Rediscovery of an enigmatic Chinese passerine, the Blackthroat Calliope obscura: plumage, vocalizations, distribution, habitat choice, nesting and conservation. Journal of Ornithology. Abstract

Alström, Song, Zhang, Gao, Holt, Olsson & Lei 2013. Taxonomic status of Blackthroat Calliope obscura and Firethroat C. pectardens. Forktail 29: 94–99.

Abstract: The Chinese endemic breeders Blackthroat Calliope obscura and Firethroat C. pectardens are two of the world's rarest and least known 'chats' (Muscicapidae). They have been considered colour morphs of the same species (Firethroat, by priority), although they are nowadays usually treated as separate species. The taxonomic status of these two taxa is here investigated based on analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, vocalisations and reassessed distributions. Phylogenetic analysis confirms that they are sisters. Their genetic divergence (cytochrome b 6.4%, GTR+G+I corrected) is comparable to several other species pairs of 'chats'. Discriminant function analysis of songs correctly classified 88% of the recordings. The breeding ranges appear to be mainly parapatric. Based on congruent differences in morphology, songs and molecular markers, it is concluded that Blackthroat and Firethroat are appropriately treated as separate species.

José Luis Copete, Birding Frontiers, 9 Jan 2014: Blackthroat, an Asian enigma resolved.

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Tarsiger

Site Luo, Yuchun Wu, Qing Chang, Yang Liu, Xiaojun Yang, Zhengwang Zhang, Min Zhang, Qiang Zhang and Fasheng Zou, 2014. Deep phylogeographic divergence of a migratory passerine in Sino-Himalayan and Siberian forests: the Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus) complex. Ecology and Evolution.

[PDF]

 

[Richard Klim]

Song et al 2014

Gang Song, Per Alström, Yongwen Zhang, Xuebin Gao, Huisheng Gong, Paul I. Holt, Qing Quan, Zuohua Yin, Fumin Lei. Rediscovery of an enigmatic Chinese passerine, the Blackthroat Calliope obscura: plumage, vocalizations, distribution, habitat choice, nesting and conservation. Journal of Ornithology. Abstract

BBC Nature, 8 Apr 2014: Rare blackthroated blue robins spotted in China.

 

[Richard Klim]

Blackthroat

Gang Song, Per Alström, Yongwen Zhang, Xuebin Gao, Huisheng Gong, Paul I. Holt, Qing Quan, Zuohua Yin, Fumin Lei. Rediscovery of an enigmatic Chinese passerine, the Blackthroat Calliope obscura: plumage, vocalizations, distribution, habitat choice, nesting and conservation. Journal of Ornithology. Abstract

Zhao, Han, Luo, Zhao & Gao 2014. Breeding habitat survey of blackthroat (Luscinia obscura) in Foping nature reserve of Qinling Mountains. Zool Sci 31(5): 279–282. [abstract]

 

[Richard Klim]

Muscicapdae: cavity nesting

Barve & Mason (in press). Interspecific competition affects evolutionary links between cavity nesting, migration and clutch size in Old World flycatchers (Muscicapdae). Ibis. [abstract] [supp info]

 

[Richard Klim]

Common Redstart x Whinchat hybridisation

Hogner, Burgas Riera, Wold, Lifjeld & Johnsen (in press). Intergeneric hybridization between Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus and Whinchat Saxicola rubetra revealed by molecular analyses. J Ornithol. [abstract & preview]