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  1. Paul Clapham

    Convergence of IOC, Clements and BirdLife Taxonomies?

    I don't have a base taxonomy. I have a collection of taxons which can be used to build taxonomy trees for anybody's checklist. One of them is Birds/Aves which goes at the top of all of the trees, for example. Yes, every taxon has a base name which is just the name used by the taxonomy where I...
  2. Paul Clapham

    Convergence of IOC, Clements and BirdLife Taxonomies?

    In my system I have Aegotheles albertisi archboldi as a taxon. In BLI it's marked as a species, but in IOC and Clements it's marked as a synonym of Mountain Owlet-nightjar. So a sighting of that taxon would appear as Archbold's in BLI and it would appear as Mountain in IOC and Clements.
  3. Paul Clapham

    Convergence of IOC, Clements and BirdLife Taxonomies?

    One of my goals when I started this project is that I would have one database for sightings and many taxonomies to interpret them. For example if (in some imagined world) I went to Kalidupa Island in 2019 and saw a scops owl, I would attach that sighting specifically to a kalidupae taxon and it...
  4. Paul Clapham

    Convergence of IOC, Clements and BirdLife Taxonomies?

    I have found that quite often those "necessary groups" are the Clements subspecies groups. So I make them "first-class citizens" in my database, although they aren't species. Yes, they sometimes change over time and they sometimes differ from the actual way that e.g. IOC has made the split; in...
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