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Latest IOC Diary Updates
WGAC update on the IOU website: "Work is continuing on the Checklist and it expected that the final draft will be completed by late 2024. There will be a period of cross-checking before it is made public in early 2025. As part of the release the summary statements on the decisions made will...- baldviking
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- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Latest IOC Diary Updates
These totals do include two species designated as Extinct in Version 14.1 that were still considered Extant in Version 13.2. As far as I can tell these changes from Extant to Extinct were not listed in the Updates Diary. Alagoas Foliage-gleaner Cryptic Treehunter Thanks, Knut- baldviking
- Post #2,336
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Latest IOC Diary Updates
mabirae has been added on the Subspecies Updates page. Yellow-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis mabirae Add...- baldviking
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- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Latest IOC Diary Updates
I suspect that maybe David Donsker or somebody else associated with IOC added the Cockatoo to the Species Updates page this afternoon. It is now listed on the 13.2 Species Updates and total additions listed are now 30 (still with the same 11 lumps). So I am sticking with the West African Pied...- baldviking
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Latest IOC Diary Updates
I believe that the West African Pied Hornbill split makes for extant species number 10,999. The Species Updates Version 13.2 page currently includes 29 additions and 11 lumps. In addition, the Orange-crested Cockatoo split is missing from the Species Updates page, so the actual number of...- baldviking
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Latest IOC Diary Updates
The “Species Updates IOC Version 13.1” page includes 61 entries for extant adds plus one extinct add. However, that includes five entries for the five-way Shortwing split. Since a five-way split results in only four additional species, I believe the correct number of extant adds should be 60...- baldviking
- Post #1,490
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature