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    Yes, already split by Birdlife/Lynx. Still extant on Panay-Negros, but no recent records from elsewhere in the West Visayas.
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    Yes. The south Philippine taxa may eventually get split from the nominate too.
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    Average Egret? Middling Egret? Normal Egret? I wonder what the best worst is?:unsure:
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    Checking the songs in Cornell, the 3 stubtails sound like they are likely rather closely related. Neumann's sounds completely different. Pale-footed BW sounds recognisably like a speeded-up Horonis, which is also not surprising based on morphology. On that basis I would want to look again at the...
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    I would be interesting to see a tree of all the various stentoreus sspp - harterti, the Indonesian sspp, etc, based on a basket of genes that have ben registered as the targets before the study.
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    with regard to the tree given in Cibois et al 2011, they state: 'The phylogenetic tree is based on cytochrome b sequences only and estimated using Bayesian inference. '
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    Is there a discussion of this somewhere? While harterti may not belong with australis It doesn't fit well with stentoreus.
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    We now have Visayan (smallish) Babbler, Visayan Pygmy Babbler and Visayan Miniature Babbler all on the same island. One for each bear :)
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    But where does that leave Sierra Madre-Samar-Mindanao(?) Crow(s)?
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    Hi Andy, Looking now at the proposed splits page I can see that I am at least partly to blame, since Allen 2020 crops up regularly in the proposal column. So far though rather few Sulu splits (or other Philippine splits) have been listed. Writing/editing the Lynx guide, even at the manic pace...
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    I see Balicassiao has been lumped with 2 of the other Hair-crested Drongo taxa. Shakya et al wrote ''The Palawan subspecies D. h. palawanensis constitutes Clade 4. Vaurie (1949) distinguished D. hottentottus from D. balicassius based on the appearance and complexity of feather ornaments. Genetic...
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