Hi Laurie, Mike et al. Yes, you are right, the addition of vagrants to the Australian list is a separate matter from the IOC split/lump issue, but both are part of the generation/maintenance of a dynamic OZ list. I did not want to mix these two issues. However, I used them to explain that it … Read more
Philip, Your friends weren’t toting firearms. Peter Scott =============================== 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 ===============================
Thanks Nikolas, I see there being two conflated issues here. One is the ongoing taxonomic revisions that affect species that regularly occur in Australia – species that either breed in Australia or are regular migrants/visitors to Australia. The other is the official recognition of observations of vagrants in Australian territory. These are often only made … Read more
The idea behind the suggestion by BARC to BirdLife Australia to adopt the IOC checklist is so that it would be a living taxonomy changing over time. So if the decision is made, I am confident that the latest version of the IOC list would be adopted. Of course it isn’t as simple as just … Read more
Hmmm… Thanks Mike (I think!) I actually didn’t intend to act in an executive role, I actually assumed (obviously somewhat naively) that someone had already identified the key differences between C&B and IOC – presumably because I’d seen such analysis provided between Clements 6.6 and IOC 3.1 – and would have such a list handy. … Read more