Evening all,
A colleague at the Royal Zoological Society emailed me the first page of a paper due out soon on lumping all five Australian crow/raven species into one species. Now, I know that lumps sometime happen, but having to take Australian Raven, Little Raven and Torresian Crow off of my year and life lists seems a bit excessive. The authors state that the morphological differences between the five don’t warrant full species status for each and their DNA work appears to back it up. As B-A doesn’t do attachments, I’ve housed a copy of the first page (all that’s available at the moment) on my website if anyone’s interested: http://www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk/uni/JAvGen-advance-83474.pdf Given that the IOC can often support splits or lumps from the evidence of a single study, I would expect this one to be up for an IOC proposal soon. I thought most research supported splitting everything these days, but I wonder if we’re going to see a reversal of this over the next few years, like they did in the 1960s… Cheers,
Tony
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Tony: you will pleased to hear that a UK birder was also concerned that he would loose a few species: well thought out and great fun rgds Mike UK
Tony, I did enjoy it; just wish I had figured your scam by myself. I was a bit dubious after reading a bit of it but after being alerted to the date I reread it and found lots to smirk about. A more educated person would have found more. Thanks for going to the trouble of creating a little fun. Alan
Shonky, shonky!! I should have read the date first…….. Got more than a few people’s feathers ruffled, so well done!!
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Two hours well-spent on making that ‘paper’- hope a few of you at least enjoyed it! Thanks to Russ for not instantly bowling me out on that one! Cheers,
Tony
What about those of us that have Forest Raven on our lists too! Elizabeth Shaw Phillip Island Victoria
Me too. Have a look at the names of the alleged authors. They are all German crows. Regards, Alan
Got me!! Cheers Jeff.
G’day Tony,
three ssp freely cohabiting in Victoria but without interbreeding and maintaining structural type and distinctive calls eg behaving like species. I would be astounded if the IOC just automatically ran with this one.
Cheers Jeff.
Tony,
Remind me please. What is the date tomorrow?
Cheers,
Bob Gosford Darwin NT