The CBR Checklist of Birds of China v3.0 (2013) (1 Viewer)

[metroplex]

Dear everyone,

The latest version (v3.0) of the CBR Checklist of Birds of China is available online now.

In this version, we implemented several changes:

1. Taxonomy and nomenclature was updated based on the IOC World Bird Names List v3.5;

2. Recent new records of birds in China were added into the current version;

3. The IUCN Red List category was updated for each species;

4. Listed the remarks about the differences compared to " A Field Guide to the Birds of China".

We still appreciate for any comment and suggestion anytime.

The list is available at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahb94xisyandb9k/中国鸟类名录v3.0_1231.pdf

or

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwLbmLpGzCPuNVZiSFVpZnR4c1k/edit?usp=sharing



Wei Qian ([email protected])
2013-12-31

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Elachuridae

It will be interesting to know more about the family Elachuridae.

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

It will be interesting to know more about the family Elachuridae.

Google Translate: "(135) Lixing Wren Babbler Elachura formosus by the Babbler as a separate branch Timaliidae Star Wren Babbler single type Cory Division Elachuridae". ???

Collar & Robson 2007 (HBW 12) treats Spelaeornis formosus as Elachura formosa.

John Boyd (TiF) also tentatively moves Spelaeornis caudatus and S badeigularis to Elachura (in Pnoepygidae).

 

[mb1848]

"Elachura formosa" Thanks for posting this Richard I was wondering about this. Bird started out as Troglodytes punctatus Blyth,1845 but their was something wrong with this so Walden/Tweeddale changed it to T. formosus in 1874. Stuart Baker put it in Elachura in 1930 and had it as E. formosa. Elachura dates from 1889 by Oates. Pnoepyga is Hodgson 1844 from Gray's Zoological Miscellany but all these names are nomen nudem . Hodgson properly describes Pnoepyga in 1845 PZS. But is that name available?

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

It will be interesting to know more about the family Elachuridae.

BBC Nature, 5 Mar 2014: New bird family discovered in Asia.

SLU, 5 Mar 2014: Discovery of a new bird family.

Alström, Hooper, Liu, Olsson, Mohan, Gelang, Le Manh, Zhao, Lei & Price 2014. Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds. Biol Lett 10(3): 20131067. [abstract] [data supp]

(data supp includes phylogenies)

 

[James Lowther]

not just a new family by the looks, maybe also a monotypic superfamily (can such a thing exist?) "elachuroidea"! (hope i'm not accused of taxonomic vandalism there!)

does anyone know whether the basal passerida as described by John Boyd (wattlebirds, australasian robins etc.) were included in this analysis as they don't seem to be covered by any of the clades?

James

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

Alström, Hooper, Liu, Olsson, Mohan, Gelang, Le Manh, Zhao, Lei & Price 2014. Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds. Biol Lett 10(3): 20131067. [abstract] [data supp]

John Boyd (TiF):
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html (5 Mar 2014)
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/List241.html#elachuridae

 

[James Lowther]

not just a new family by the looks, maybe also a monotypic superfamily (can such a thing exist?) "elachuroidea"! (hope i'm not accused of taxonomic vandalism there!)

Richard posted:-

John Boyd (TiF):
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html (5 Mar 2014)
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/List241.html#elachuridae

ah well it was worth a try!
James

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

Alström, Hooper, Liu, Olsson, Mohan, Gelang, Le Manh, Zhao, Lei & Price 2014. Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds. Biol Lett 10(3): 20131067. [abstract] [data supp]

There's now free access to Alström et al 2014: [pdf]

 

[James Lowther]

does anyone know whether the basal passerida as described by John Boyd (wattlebirds, australasian robins etc.) were included in this analysis as they don't seem to be covered by any of the clades?

looking at the paper chaetopidae is treated as an outgroup so "passerida" as used is equivalent to "core passerida" as used by John Boyd.

figure 2 also a reminder of just how special crests/kinglets are also..

James

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

GrrlScientist, The Guardian, 6 Mar 2014: What's old is new again: newly discovered songbird family is ancient.

 

[thyoloalethe]

Note that the Muscicapoidea group (Muscicapoidea/Certhioidea/Bombycilloidea/Elachuridae) and the Sylvioidea group (Sylvioidea/Paroidea/Stenostiridae/Hyliotidae) are sisters, with the Reguloidea sister to them and the Passeroidea sister to the whole thing, although none of these relationships are strongly supported. But should additional studies show this to be correct, that would mean that the Passeroidea would no longer be listed last on the checklist (at least for those of us who like to list the smallest clades first).

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

Birdwatch News, 15 Mar 2014: Cryptic new bird family discovered.

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

IOC World Bird List v4.2 (Draft):
www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/update-diary/
www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/taxonomy/

2014 Mar 19: Separate Spotted Wren-Babbler from Timaliidae/Spelaeornis to Elachuridae/Elachura/'Spotted' Elachura

 

[Richard Klim]

Elachuridae

David Ringer, 10,000 Birds, 23 Mar 2014: Tiny Asian bird discovered as sole member of ancient family. Who's next?