G’day all Since it seems that it was me that opened this can of worms about these owls being different, I thought it best to add a little more to try to clarify my point … Firstly, I am not technically qualified to question the science behind C&B’s (& other taxonomists’) decisions as far as … Read more
Hi Tony Some problems with using mtDNA, and the methodology used by Cohen, were picked up in a discussion that stemmed from Cohen’s skua paper that you referenced see Braun & Brumfield, and it would appear the 0.44% divergence does not stand up to scrutiny : http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689160/pdf/ 9RJY8JW6PRM46DBQ_265_995.pdf Most recently Chu, Eisenschenk & Zhu … Read more
Hey all, if someone could put me in touch with Ted it’d be much appreciated. Cheers. Max Breckenridge, Gladesville, Sydney. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
John, I don’t think the IOC have split the rainforest subspecies of boobook. Confusingly, the IOC list calls Rufous Owl Ninox rufa “Rufous Boobook”. Incidently, I think there are two rainforest forms of Southern Boobook in the rainforests of NQ. N. b. lurida is the widely known dark form in the upland rainforests of the … Read more
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