Swedish Taxonomic Committee decisions (1 Viewer)

[Markus Lagerqvist]

Hi,

The latest decisions from the BirdLife Sweden's Taxonomic Committee were published today.

The following splits were implemented:

Common Moorhen is split into:
• Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
• Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)

Little Tern is split into:
• Little Tern (Sternula albifrons)
• Saunders’s Tern (Sternula saundersi)

African Scops Owl is split into:
• African Scops Owl (Otus senegalensis)
• Socotra Scops Owl (Otus socotranus)
• Arabian Scops Owl (Otus pamelae)

Three-toed Woodpecker is split into:
• Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus)
• American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis)

Mourning Wheatear is split into:
• Mourning Wheatear (Oenanthe lugens)
• Maghreb Wheatear (O. halophila)
• Arabian Wheatear (O. lugentoides)

White’s Thrush is split into:
• White’s Thrush (Zoothera aurea)
• Scaly Thrush (Zoothera dauma)

Subalpine Warbler is split into:
• Eastern Subalpine Warbler (Sylvia cantillans)
• Western Subalpine Warbler (Sylvia inornata)

Arctic Warbler is split into:
• Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis)
• Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (P. examinandus)
• Japanese Leaf Warbler (P. xanthodryas)

Sombre Tit is split into:
• Sombre Tit (Poecile lugubris)
• Caspian Tit (Poecile hyrcanus)

Eurasian Nuthatch is split into:
• Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
• Siberian Nuthatch (Sitta arctica)

Penduline Tit is split into:
• Eurasian Penduline Tit (Remiz pendulinus)
• Black-headed Penduline Tit (R. macronyx)
• White-crowned Penduline Tit (R. coronatus)
• Chinese Penduline Tit (R. consobrinus)

Golden Oriole is split into:
• Eurasian Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus)
• Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus kundoo)

Isabelline Shrike is slit into:
• Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus)
• Turkestan Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)

Southern Grey Shrike is split into:
• Southern Grey Shrike (Lanius elegans)
• Iberian Grey Shrike (Lanius meridionalis)

 

[Ian Lewis]

Hi,


Subalpine Warbler is split into:
• Eastern Subalpine Warbler (Sylvia cantillans)
• Western Subalpine Warbler (Sylvia inornata)

No mention of Moltoni's Warbler (S subalpina)?

Ian

 

[Markus Lagerqvist]

No mention of Moltoni's Warbler (S subalpina)?

Ian

Moltoni's Warbler was already split from Subalpine Warbler in an earlier report.

 

[Ian Lewis]

Moltoni's Warbler was already split from Subalpine Warbler in an earlier report.

Thanks for the speedy reply

ian

 

[Richard Klim]

For those who want to practise their Swedish, Reports 1–5 are online here: www.sofnet.org/tk/rapporter-dokument/

 

[aegithalos]

Hi,

The latest decisions from the BidLife Sweden's Taxonomic Committee were published today.

Perhaps worth adding that this is from their Holarctic list ... they are not splitting e.g. the three-toed woodpeckers because of any influx to Sweden of the American form.


Keith

 

[l_raty]

For those who want to practise their Swedish, Reports 1–5 are online here: www.sofnet.org/tk/rapporter-dokument/

Reports 1-8 are now online at http://www.birdlife.se/tk/rapporter-dokument/. (The domain www.sofnet.org appears to be expired.)

Perhaps worth adding that this is from their Holarctic list ..

But they switched from maintaining a Holarctic list to maintaining a WP list in 2014, albeit using a broader WP than that of BWP:

Lagerqvist, Jirle. 2014. Från Holarktis to Västpalearktis. Rapport från SOF:s Taxonomikommitté. Vår Fågelvärld 2014(3):42-44.
[direct link to pdf]​

From Vår Skådarvärld Facebook Page:

Birdlife Swedish Taxonomikommitté (TK) Merge (old army) Arctic Redpoll and common redpoll in his new report, which is available at www.birdlife.se/tk.

Eight report:

Lagerqvist, Jirle, Tyrberg, Fromholtz. 2017. Nya arter i Tk:s lista. Vår Fågelvärld 2017(1):1-15.
(Alt., on the Tk page: "2017: Taxonomiska förändringar som berör Västpalearktislistan – Rapport 8 från Tk. Fullständiga rapporten för nerladdning.")
[direct link to pdf]​

Decisions:

• Struthio molybdophanes split from S. camelus.
• Phasianus versicolor split from Ph. colchicus.
• Ardenna split from Puffinus.
• Hydrobates pelagicus melitensis split from H. p. pelagicus (i.e., H. p. now has two sspp, rather than being monotypic).
• Phoeniconaias split from Phoenicopterus (Phoenicoparrus retained for the extralimital S American species only).
• Nyctanassa split from Nycticorax.
• Microcarbo split from Phalacrocorax.
• Threskiornis bernieri split from T. aethiopicus.
• Clanga and Hieraaetus (re)split from Aquila (Tk had previously lumped Hieraaetus into Aquila).
• Circus hudsonius split from C. cyaneus.
• Buteo socotraensis and B. bannermani split from B. buteo.
• Rallus indicus split from R. aquaticus.
• Ichthyaetus and Leucophaeus split from Larus.
• Larus vegae and L. mongolicus split from L. argentatus (assuming I'm understanding it correctly, Tk had already split a monotypic L. smithsonianus).
• L. heuglini split from L. fuscus.
• Thalasseus split from Sterna.
• Strix nivicolum split from S. aluco.
• S. hadorami split from S. butleri.
• Todiramphus sacer, T. colonus, T. sordidus, T. albicilla and T. tristrami split from T. chloris.
• Picus sharpei split from P. viridis
• Falco pelegrinoides lumped into F. peregrinus.
• Myiopsitta luchi split from M. monachus.
• Periparus melanolophus lumped into P. ater.
• Poecile weigoldicus split from P. montanus.
• Alaudala split from Calandrella.
• Galerida macrorhyncha split from G. cristata.
• Locustella amnicola split from L. fasciolata.
• Turdus simillimus, T. maximus and T. mandarinus split from T. merula.
• Cercomela melanura transferred to Oenanthe.
• Pica pica fennorum split from P. p. pica (i.e., P. p. now has two sspp in Scandinavia, rather than one).
• Terpsiphone incei and T. affinis split from T. paradisi.
• Cyanoptila cumatilis split from C. cyanomelana.
• Anthreptes platurus and A. metallicus moved to Hedydipna; Nectarinia asiatica and N. habessinica moved to Cinnyris.
• Carpospiza and Gymnoris split from Petronia.
• Uragus lumped into Carpodacus.
• Serinus citrinella moved to Carduelis; Serinus rothschildi and S. menachensis moved to Crithagra; Carduelis chloris moved to Chloris; Carduelis spinus moved to Spinus; Carduelis cannabina, C. yemenensis and C. flavirostris moved to Linaria; C. flammea moved to Acanthis.
• Carduelis hornemanni lumped into Acanthis flammea.
• Fringilla polatzeki split from F. teydea.
• Carpodacus stoliczkae split from C. synoicus.
• Rhynchostruthus percivali and R. louisae split from R. socotranus.
• Vermivora celata and V. ruficapilla moved to Leiothlypis; Parula americana moved to Setophaga; Dendroica petechia, D. pensylvanica, D. caerulescens, D. pinus, D. dominica, D. virens, D. fusca, D. tigrina, D. magnolia, D. coronata, D. palmarum, D. striata and D. castanea moved to Setophaga; Seiurus motacilla and S. noveboracensis moved to Parkesia; Oporornis philadelphia moved to Geothlypis; Wilsonia citrina moved to Setophaga, Wilsonia pusilla moved to Cardinella.
• Emberiza goslingi split from E. tahapisi.

Issues left pending: species limits in Cory's Shearwater, Cattle Egret, Osprey, Stone Curlew, Barn Owl, Ural Owl, Pacific Swift, Shore Lark, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Lesser Whitethroat, Siberian Stonechat.

 

[lewis20126]

Are Birdlife Sweden aligned with Birdlife global(Tobias et al. Etc)? I assume not.

Cheers, a

 

[Nutcracker]

Haven't checked all of them, but several bring it into line with IOC, though not all.

 

[l_raty]

Are Birdlife Sweden aligned with Birdlife global(Tobias et al. Etc)? I assume not.

There is no suggestion that they are. (For now, at least...)
The paper builds on earlier Tk decisions, which date back from before the Sveriges Ornitologiska Förening started being called 'BirdLife Sweden'. The HBW/BL list is cited (e.g., first page, box in the lower left corner) along with the other 'global taxonomies' (IOC, eBird/Clements, H&M), without being given more importance than the other three. In a couple of cases, the decisions depart from the treatment adopted by HBW/BL. The Tobias et al criterion is not cited a single time.

BTW, if anyone wants to download the Swedish WP list itself, updated with the above decisions, this can be done from [here].

 

[Markus Lagerqvist]

Are Birdlife Sweden aligned with Birdlife global(Tobias et al. Etc)? I assume not.

Cheers, a

Hi,

No, the Swedish Western Palearctic list is not aligned to any of the global lists.

(However, for the global list of Swedish bird names the IOC taxonomy is followed.)

Cheers!
Markus