As a user of the IOC checklist ( http://worldbirdnames.org/updates-subspp.html) for my bird recording and as the owner of 15 volumes of the Handbook of Birds of the World (hopefully 16 will arrive soon!) I have decided to cross reference the two. Since other people may be interested I have put the resulting spreadsheet on line at http://www.filedropper.com/ioclynxcompare20120130004223 (which I think may be only valid for a week?)
Basically this cross references all species/subspecies with the corresponding entries in the Internet Bird Collection (allowing for species that one authority splits/lumps and the other doesn’t) and provides a reference to the relevant HBW page/volume and the IBC URL
Comments and corrections welcomed – with approx 30,000 subspecies in each list there is no way I have checked them all manually, so it is largely the result of computer matching!
Dave ===============================
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