Spectacled Flowerpecker (2 Viewers)

[lewis20126]

Whoopee, another dead bird in a museum drawer. Go science.

I think one type is acceptable given the widespread distribution. I would prefer to avoid, but the conservation status is unlikely to be affected.

cheers, a

 

[DMW]

I think one type is acceptable given the widespread distribution. I would prefer to avoid, but the conservation status is unlikely to be affected.

cheers, a

It's not the effect on the conservation status of this species, which I agree is probably negligible, but the principle. This species wasn't undescribed in anything other than the narrow and increasingly meaningless sense used by taxonomists. All that has changed is there is a dead one in a drawer somewhere, and another notch on a few academic CVs. The abstract is factually incorrect to state that the lack of a holotype prevented earlier description. All that was required was to designate a photograph or even a painting as depicting the holotype, both of which have been available for years.

And lf course, it probably won't be just one specimen. If other individuals are mist netted, they will get potted too. Got to have a decent series, preferably from multiple locations.

 

[birdboybowley]

Yep pathetically backward still....

 

[jurek]

In case of Spectacled Flowerpecker, there was a strong suspicion this is a morph of some other species. Although I agree, that in principle it could be clarified by DNA from a sample of feathers of blood without harming the bird.

 

[Peter Kovalik]

It has been officially described now.

A distinctive new species of flowerpecker (Passeriformes: Dicaeidae) from Borneo
JACOB R. SAUCIER, CHRISTOPHER M. MILENSKY, MARCOS A. CARABALLO-ORTIZ, ROSLINA RAGAI, N. FARIDAH DAHLAN, DAVID P. EDWARDS Zootaxa Vol 4686, No 4 17 Oct. 2019



Dicaeum dayakorum, species novum

free availabe

https://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4686.4.1

IOC Updates Diary

Oct 29 Post proposed new species Spectacled Flowerpecker

 

[Peter Kovalik]

IOC Updates Diary

Oct 29 Post proposed new species Spectacled Flowerpecker

IOC Updates Diary

Dec 30 Accept new species Spectacled Flowerpecker