Dear all, this comes from Andrew Ley:
The “rules” for the formation of the recommended English names for Oz species are clearly laid out in the Supplement to Emu volume 77 of 1977 but published in 1978 “Recommended English Names for Australian Birds”; they are further discussed in Christidis and Boles 1994 and 2008. The subject was debated at length in Wingspan in the lead up to the publication of the first Christidis & Boles. The C&B volumes are followed for taxonomy and nomenclature by most Oz bird journals and newsletters. For some reason the authors of some field guides have seen fit to deviate from these standards in some cases.
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Unfortunately of course some international lists use different names – which may be reasonable for birds with a wide distribution and different names in different countries but is not for endemics!
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