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Message: <blockquote data-quote="heuglini" data-source="post: 3320278" data-attributes="member: 40865">Dear all,nice to see some interest in the subject! As Andrea stated we are preparing an ID paper for Dutch Birding with plates from Lorenzo Starnini. Regarding the english name issue: Balearic Flycatcher would be a very misleading name, especially so because balearica and tyrrhenica can be distinguished in the field and it will be "handy" to have the name Balearic free to refer only to true balearica birds. Island Flycatcher would be misleading too as both we (with morphology and song) and Pons (with genetics) found breeding tyrrhenica birds in continental Italy. Mediterranean could be quite ok to me, but Med is huge and at least two other taxa of Spotted Fly breed on Med coasts. Tyrrhenian is the most appropriate in my opinion as it refers to the presence of the species in the Tyrrhenian area (not only the islands), is where 90% of the species breeds, is almost the same as the scientific name, comprises the type locality and so on....anyway, anything but Balearic please ;-)I really look forward to see a Northern Europe record of Tyrrhenian Fly, there is some evidence that the species reaches the french and spanish coasts, so overshooting is already happening, it just needs to be a little more over <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />all the bestMichele Viganò</blockquote>

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