A quick look through the IOC 3.1 list for changes from the old C&B2008.
The published splits have been accepted :
Western Ground Parrot and Eastern Ground Parrot split Swan River Honeyeater split from White-naped Honeyeater Western Fieldwren split from Rufous Fieldwren Paperbark Flycatcher split from Restless Flycatcher
I think that many of the the following have already been mentioned but some may not have been :
The extinct King Island Emu and Kangaroo Island Emu lumped into Emu Snares Penguin and Fiordland Penguin split Northern Rockhopper Penguin and Southern Rockhopper Penguin split Northern Royal Albatross and Southern Albatross split Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross and Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross split Black-browed Albatross and Campbell’s Albatross split Chatham Albatross and Salvin’s Albatross split from Shy Albatross Antipodean Albatross (including Gibson’s), Amsterdam Albatross and Tristan Albatross split from Wandering Albatross Tricolored Grebe split from Little Grebe Eastern Great Egret lumped into Great Egret Macquarie Shag and Heard Shag split from Imperial Shag Crested Honey Buzzard split from Oriental Honey Buzzard “Christmas Island Goshawk” moved from Variable Goshawk to Brown Goshawk White-headed Stilt split from Black-winged Stilt Common Emerald Dove and Pacific Emerald Dove split Black-banded Fruit Dove split from Banded Fruit Dove Torresian Imperial Pigeon split from Pied Imperial Pigeon Red-collared Lorikeet split from Rainbow Lorikeet Norfolk Parakeet split from Tasman Parakeet? Brown Hawk-Owl is split to Northern Boobook Morepork split from Southern Boobook “Christmas Island Swiftlet” moved from Linchi Swiftlet to Glossy Swiftlet Western Grasswren has been split from Thick-billed Grasswren Western Quail-thrush has been split from Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush Nullarbor Quail-thrush has been split from Cinnamon Quail-thrush Hornbill Friarbird split from Helmeted Friarbird Ashy-bellied White-eye split from Pale White-eye? Green-headed Yellow Wagtail lumped into Eastern Yellow Wagtail
Some name changes :
Australian Wood Duck becomes Maned Duck Australian Little Bittern becomes Black-backed Bittern Australian Spotted Crake becomes Australian Crake Australian Pied Oystercatcher becomes Pied Oystercatcher South Island Pied Oystercatcher becomes South Island Oystercatcher “Reef Egret” becomes “Reef Heron” Hooded Plover becomes Hooded Dotterel Grey Phalarope becomes Red Phalarope Common Noddy becomes Brown Noddy Grey Ternlet becomes Grey Noddy Crested Tern becomes Greater Crested Tern White-winged Black Tern becomes White-winged Tern Arctic Jaeger becomes Parasitic Jaeger Barbary Dove becomes African Collared Dove Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo becomes Short-billed Black Cockatoo Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo becomes Long-billed Black Cockatoo Red Collared Dove becomes Red Turtle Dove Christmas Island Imperial-Pigeon becomes Christmas Imperial Pigeon Eastern Koel becomes Pacific Koel Masked Owl becomes Australian Masked Owl Christmas Island Hawk-Owl becomes Christmas Boobook Fork-tailed Swift becomes Pacific Swift Dollarbird becomes Oriental Dollarbird Red-headed Honeyeater becomes Red-headed Myzomela Dusky Honeyeater becomes Dusky Myzomela Scarlet Honeyeater becomes Scarlet Myzomela Chestnut Quail-thrush becomes Chestnut-backed Quail-thrush Cicadabird becomes Common Cicadabird Yellow Oriole becomes Green Oriole Mangrove Grey Fantail becomes Mangrove Fantail Frilled Monarch becomes Frill-necked Monarch Yellow-legged Flycatcher becomes Yellow-legged Flyrobin Lemon-bellied Flycatcher becomes Lemon-bellied Flyrobin Horsfield’s Bushlark becomes Horsfield’s Bush Lark Yellow White-eye becomes Canary White-eye Christmas Island White-eye becomes Christmas White-eye Purple-backed Starling becomes Daurian Starling? Nutmeg Mannikin becomes Scaly-breasted Munia Australian Pipit split from Australasian Pipit (now New Zealand Pipit)
And some trivial spelling changes :
No hyphen in “Brushturkey” Raja Shelduck No hyphens in “Whistling Duck” No hyphens in “Giant Petrel” No hyphens in “Storm Petrel” No hyphens in “Diving Petrel” No hyphens in “Night Heron” No hyphen in “Sea Eagle” No hyphens in “Nativehen” No hyphens in “Buttonquail” Plains-wanderer becomes Plains-Wanderer No hyphens in “Rock Pigeon” No hyphens in “Fruit Dove” No hyphens in “Imperial Pigeon” No hyphens in “Black Cockatoo” No hyphen in “King Parrot” No hyphens in “Bronze Cuckoo” No hyphens in “Paradise Kingfisher” No hyphens in “Scrubbird” No hyphens in “Fairywren” No hyphen in “Cuckooshrike” No hyphen in “Shriketit” No hyphen in “Shrikethrush” “Scrub-robin” becomes “Scrub Robin” No hyphens in “Reed Warbler” No hyphen in “Parrotfinch”
But why is it still “Cuckoo-Dove”, “Emu-wren” and “Quail-thrush”? I understand “Bee-eater” and “White-eye” because of the resulting double “e” if the hyphen is removed.
I am sure I have missed a few. Paul Dodd is going to publish them all more thoroughly.
_________________________________________________________________ Frank O’Connor Birding WA http://birdingwa.iinet.net.au Phone : (08) 9386 5694 Email : foconnor@iinet.net.au
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