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BirdLife Checklist V4 (2011) (1 Viewer)

Richard Klim

Richard Klim

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As Guy noted recently wrt Socotra Buzzard, BirdLife's Globally Theatened Bird Forums give an insight into species set for recognition in the next update of the BirdLife Checklist (presumably V4, 2011). Those currently discussed include:

  • Buteo socotraensis Socotra Buzzard
  • Psittacus [erithacus] timneh Timneh Grey Parrot
  • Phaethornis aethopyga Tapajós Hermit
  • Pitta [guajana] irena Malayan Banded Pitta
  • Pitta [guajana] schwaneri Bornean Banded Pitta
  • Pseudocolopteryx [flaviventris] citreola Ticking Doradito
  • Formicivora grantsaui Sincorá Antwren
  • Scytalopus diamantinensis Diamantina Tapaculo
  • Scytalopus [canus] opacus Paramo Tapaculo
  • Grallaria fenwickorum Antioquia Antpitta
  • Grallaricula [nana] cumanensis Sucre Antpitta
  • Synallaxis beverlyae Rio Orinoco Spinetail
  • Automolus [rubiginosus] rufipectus Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner
  • Dicrurus [hottentotus] menagei Tablas Drongo
  • Chasiempis [sandwichensis] sclateri Kauai Elepaio
  • Chasiempis [sandwichensis] ibidis Oahu Elepaio
  • Prinia [burnesii] cinerascens Swamp Prinia
  • Turdus [olivaceofuscus] xanthorhynchus Principe Thrush
  • Passer [simplex] zarudnyi Asian Desert Sparrow
[Some of these were UR (Under Review) in V3, 2010.]

Richard
 
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off topic slightly, i don't seem able to download the v3 checklist, when i try it says something like "can't open, not a valid archive".
has anyone else had a similar problem??
cheers,
James
 
Blue-moustached Bee-eater

Merops muelleri has been split into M. muelleri and M. mentalis by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group on the basis of significant morphological differences, and genetic analysis in Marks et al. (2007).

Marks et al. Full PDF here
 
Bahama Oriole

Richard Klim said:
Further species evidently set for recognition by BLI (already recognised by AOU, IOC, Clements):
  • Icterus northropi Bahama Oriole
www.birdlife.org/globally-threatene...split-and-critically-endangered-or-endangered
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Price, Lee & Hayes 2011. Population status, habitat dependence, and reproductive ecology of Bahama Orioles: a critically endangered synanthropic species. J Field Ornithol 82(4): 366-378. [abstract]
[With thanks to Jorge A. Tomasevic for posting on NEOORN.]
 
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