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  1. J

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    The page embeds a portion of a Googlesheets spreadsheet using an iframe. You'd have to edit the googlesheets file to narrow the column width (which could be done as you say if you have access).
  2. J

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    The first few BOW pages, ratites through turacos use the full page width. The pages from pigeon on have the narrow width. This has been the case for several years. You can override this by using Inspect (Q) on your browser. The width is set by .fl-row-fixed-width { max-width: 1100px; } (set...
  3. J

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    I suspect it's only recently that people make a firm distinction between Mac and Mc. Before people had a need to use their surname regularly it was probably interchangeable. All variants derive from the Gaellic Mac. Directories traditionally put Mc/Mac before Ma in alphabetical listings so the...
  4. J

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    The complication is that Oriental has changed meaning. The well-known Oriental Express went to Turkey. Then Orient included South Asia and later referred to East Asia. I don't see a major issue using Occidental/Oriental for western/eastern, but some do. Might as well just use western and...
  5. J

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    Yet Occidental doesn't carry the baggage that Oriental does, Surprised to see a renaming to Oriental. P.S. There are a few uses in English names of species that are not birds, although these example are following the binomial so might not be real common names (as used in real life). Occidental...
  6. J

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    There are no Motacillidae or pipit updates in the IOC Diary or Species Updates since the June 2022 WGAC update had Motacillidae as a family in progress. With the priority on WGAC updates, any 2023 proposals may need to wait.
  7. J

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    Isn't the general idea that a Hooded Pitta (no hyphen) is a Pitta with a hood, while a Banded-Pitta is a group of Pitta-like birds.
  8. J

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    Much earlier than usual. It's usually the second or third week of January.
  9. J

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    The taxonomy section has: Petrochelidon fuliginosa Forest Swallow...
  10. J

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    The linear sequence provides information on the internal relationships within a group. Although the IOC doesn't use infrafamiliar ranks, the genus order aligns with the subfamilies and tribes (e.g. as in H&M). I have a modified IOC list where I've added subfamilies and tribes so this move is...
  11. J

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    Not sure where else to put this question. The IOC list has Cygnus buccinator Richardson, 1931. Other sources have Richardson, 1932: The key in BOW, H&M4, Birdlife. Which is correct?
  12. J

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    When the WGAC checklist is formally published that will be the end of the first stage. It's not an end result. Presumably the process will continue with the other checklists reevaluating their species against the WGAC one, resulting in further convergence. It's not clear to me if a single...
  13. J

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    13.2 will be the summer release, so won't be posted. It's possible their google sheets version is public, but I don't think it is.
  14. J

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    Is the goal a single unified list or a common one built by consensus in addition to the four lists?.
  15. J

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    Which studies? Lerner and Mindell (2005) has Eutriorchis as sister Gypaetus+Neophron in Gypaetinae. Then two more recent reports, Nagy & Tökölyi (2014) and Mindell et al (2018), have it sister to Leptodon+Chondrohierax in Perninae. The IOC doesn't do subfamilies but their sequence seems to...
  16. J

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    Age of divergence based on Alstrom et al (2011) and vocal distinctions.
  17. J

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    Seems a rather nothing change, but could be part of the checklist alignment. BOW uses Crested tit and Gray-crested tit. Birdlife uses Crested tit and Grey-crested tit. H&M uses Crested tit and Fulvous tit
  18. J

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    That's the traditional English usage too, essentially Asian Russia. The Wikipedia article actually says "[t]raditionally, Siberia extends eastwards from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean".
  19. J

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    Seems on track to me, marginally ahead of a year ago. From the diary: Jan 11 Post link to draft (red) 12.1 spreadsheet. Jan 8 Begin conversion to IOC 12.1. Aug 12 Transition to IOC 11.2 complete. July 20 Transition to 11.2 complete except for BOW pages. July 10 11.2 spreadsheets all posted...
  20. J

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    Well, it would look silly if they started changing the names of constants.
  21. J

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    That's far too logical and intuitive.
  22. J

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    The BOW pages have been updated for 11.2. One thing I've noticed is that the pages for ratites through pigeons have the spreadsheet full screenwidth, while the rest have a narrower window.
  23. J

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    Here BOW pages refers to the IOC pages showing parts of their spreadsheet. There are no links to the Birds of the World website that I am aware of. It's unfortunate that BOW is used by both the IOC and Cornell, but the usage on the IOC site predates the Cornell website.
  24. J

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    I like using the website over using the spreadsheets. I agree with Mysticete about the family lists, although I'm now familiar with the BOW (Birds of the World) pages. I think its possible to do both without having to make a number of different pages. One page can do it interactively...
  25. J

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    I think that was a change from 10.2 to 11.1. Meropidae got moved from the jacamar BOW page to the todies BOW page. The family list page still uses the 10.2 sequence. Mohouidae, Neosittidae and a few other families don't link to the correct BOW page.
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