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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Markus Lagerqvist" data-source="post: 2968538" data-attributes="member: 44884">Hi,The latest decisions from the BirdLife Sweden's Taxonomic Committee were published today.The following splits were implemented:Common Moorhen is split into:•    Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)•    Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)Little Tern is split into:•    Little Tern (Sternula albifrons)•    Saunders’s Tern (Sternula saundersi)African Scops Owl is split into:•    African Scops Owl (Otus senegalensis)•    Socotra Scops Owl (Otus socotranus)•    Arabian Scops Owl (Otus pamelae)Three-toed Woodpecker is split into:•    Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus)•    American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis)Mourning Wheatear is split into:•    Mourning Wheatear (Oenanthe lugens)•    Maghreb Wheatear (O. halophila)•    Arabian Wheatear (O. lugentoides)White’s Thrush is split into:•    White’s Thrush (Zoothera aurea)•    Scaly Thrush (Zoothera dauma)Subalpine Warbler is split into:•    Eastern Subalpine Warbler (Sylvia cantillans)•    Western Subalpine Warbler (Sylvia inornata)Arctic Warbler is split into:•    Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis)•    Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (P. examinandus)•    Japanese Leaf Warbler (P. xanthodryas)Sombre Tit is split into:•    Sombre Tit (Poecile lugubris)•    Caspian Tit (Poecile hyrcanus)Eurasian Nuthatch is split into:•    Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)•    Siberian Nuthatch (Sitta arctica)Penduline Tit is split into:•    Eurasian Penduline Tit (Remiz pendulinus)•    Black-headed Penduline Tit (R. macronyx)•    White-crowned Penduline Tit (R. coronatus)•    Chinese Penduline Tit (R. consobrinus)Golden Oriole is split into:•    Eurasian Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus)•    Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus kundoo)Isabelline Shrike is slit into:•    Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus)•    Turkestan Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)Southern Grey Shrike is split into:•    Southern Grey Shrike (Lanius elegans)•    Iberian Grey Shrike (Lanius meridionalis)</blockquote>

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