I am following the IOC Taxa and at this stage I have have 891 species recorded in my Birder’s Diary for Australia.
However, missing from my Taxa list is Eurasian Hobby or Eurasian Hoopoe which would increase my Taxa list by 2 …. 893 Australian species.
Can someone please confirm out Aussie total now stands at 893 ? following the IOC
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4 responses to “IOC 891 or 893”
I have a spreadsheet based on IOC 3.3 that I can send to anyone who is interested (or indeed happy for anyone to put on a website with acknowledgements of source). It is probably not 100% up to date (has not got the latest few BARC records in it) and it is hard to decide which ssp of migrants we get, but I am reasonably happy it is OK for at least the residents. Having said that there are a few ssp (such as Pilotbird) where IOC’s ranges differ from those generally accepted!
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Hi Tom, I don’t think so, but it would be a fairly simple process to make one up utilizing content from the IOC website http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
Cheers, Tony
Tony thanks for posting this link – very useful to see what I’m missing(!) To your point about taxonomy changes, is there anything out there like this sheet that has not only species but races as well – so we can be ready for the next round of splitting/lumping? Cheers Tom Wilson
Jude, It is a constant moving target these days – taxonomy is constantly changing and new species are still being added regularly. I make the list 891 plus 3 newly added species accepted by BARC within the last couple of months namely: Japanese Sparrowhawk, Chinese Sparrowhawk and Mugimaki Flycatcher to make the total 894. No doubt there will be more added in the not too distant future also.
Here is a link to a list prepared by David James which was updated recently:
http://www.tonypalliser.com/barc/australian_checklist.xls
Cheers, Tony