Latest IOC Diary Updates (3 Viewers)

[Jacana]

AFAIK it should be like this:

jugularis		Garden Sunbird
	obscurior		n Luzon and Babuyan Is. (n Philippines)
	jugularis		c, s Luzon group, Mindoro, Visayas and Mindanao group (n to s Philippines)
	woodi		Sulu Arch. (s Philippines)
aurora		Aurora Sunbird	Palawan group (sw Philippines)
ornatus		Ornate Sunbird
	andamanicus		Andaman Is.
	proselius		n Nicobar Is.
	klossi		c, s Nicobar Is.
	flammaxillaris		Myanmar, Thailand, c, s Indochina and n Malay Pen.
	ornatus		c, s Malay Pen., Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Bali and Lesser Sundas (except Sumba and Timor)
	polyclystus		Enggano (w of s Sumatra)
	rhizophorae		s, se China including Hainan, and n Vietnam
infrenatus		Tukangbesi Sunbird	Tukangbesi and other is. off se Sulawesi
frenatus		Sahul Sunbird	Sulawesi to ne Australia, Bismarck Arch. and Solomon Is.
	plateni		Talaud Is. (ne of Sulawesi), Sulawesi and satellites
	robustirostris		Banggai and Sula Is. (e of Sulawesi)
	frenatus		Morotai to Obi (n Moluccas), New Guinea (except n) and satellites (except Trobriand, Woodlark and Louisiade is., se of se New Guinea), Aru Is. (sw of New Guinea) and ne QLD (far ne Australia)
	flavigastra		Bismarck Arch. including Ninigo and Hermit is., and n, sc Solomon Is. to Guadalcanal and Malaita
teysmanni		Flores Sea Sunbird	Flores Sea is. s of Sulawesi
clementiae		Clementia’s Sunbird
	buruensis		Buru (wc Moluccas)
	clementiae		Boano (nw of Seram), Ambon, Seram (ec Moluccas) and Watubela (s Moluccas)
	keiensis		Kai Is. (se Moluccas)
idenburgi		Rand's Sunbird	Mamberamo, Sepik and Ramu basins, n New Guinea

Massively helpful, thank you!

 

[gusasp]

Love Aurora Sunbird instead of Palawan! Hope IOC jumps on that train instead.

 

[Mark Harper]

Hoping for a few lumps, as I was looking forward to hitting a milestone in New Zealand next year, but with all these splits I have added 12 species and passed it already.

 

[Andy Adcock]

What a split then - I saw it in four places, thousands of kms apart, all the same species

ornatus has a very large range.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Love Aurora Sunbird instead of Palawan! Hope IOC jumps on that train instead.

I've got no issue with a name such as 'Palawan' when it is accurate, you glean nothing from 'Aurora'?

 

[Mysticete]

I've got no issue with a name such as 'Palawan' when it is accurate, you glean nothing from 'Aurora'?

There are no real shortages of "Palawan" blank out there, and their probably will be more since the Philippines seem to be an area of heavy taxonomic instability. So I for one appreciate the use of more imaginative and memorable names. After all, its not like its the ONLY sunbird on Palawan I presume?

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Hoping for a few lumps, as I was looking forward to hitting a milestone in New Zealand next year, but with all these splits I have added 12 species and passed it already.

Something similar! I've added 11 from this recent lot (which still means my list has gone down slightly as a percentage), and I too have just gone over a new milestone. There was a point yesterday when I could have belted up to Shetland for the Veery and hit the milestone naturally with an actual bird in the actual field 😆.... but then came the sunbirds

 

[Andy Adcock]

There are no real shortages of "Palawan" blank out there, and their probably will be more since the Philippines seem to be an area of heavy taxonomic instability. So I for one appreciate the use of more imaginative and memorable names. After all, its not like its the ONLY sunbird on Palawan I presume?

But it is the only endemic (to Palawan rather than the Philippines) Sunbird on the island afaik?

 

[TomDerutter]

There are no real shortages of "Palawan" blank out there, and their probably will be more since the Philippines seem to be an area of heavy taxonomic instability. So I for one appreciate the use of more imaginative and memorable names. After all, its not like its the ONLY sunbird on Palawan I presume?

A quick look on ebird tells me there are 5 sp. (+ a spiderhunter), of which only Aethopyga shelleyi (Lovely Sunbird) is also endemic to the Palawan area.
aurora does look like the easiest to encounter

 

[gusasp]

But it is the only endemic (to Palawan rather than the Philippines) Sunbird on the island afaik?

Nope, Lovely Sunbird equally endemic.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Nope, Lovely Sunbird equally endemic.

Which apparently, has the alternative name......wait for it, yep, you got it

 

[Mysticete]

Which apparently, has the alternative name......wait for it, yep, you got it

Yeah so, makes sense to go with something different.

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Yeah so, makes sense to go with something different.

And I think Aurora is a great name given the bird's appearance. It really is a "wow" of colour to the extent that I actually remember seeing it (unlike 2 other Olive-backed Sunbird splits which I had to check my notebooks before knowing I saw them 😆)

 

[Ian Lewis]

Many thanks for this, I've just returned from Angola and checked the IOC website and was really struggling to make out which forms I had seen and hadn't seen until I looked at Bird Forum and saw your post.

Five out of the eight for me, so four armchair ticks. Shame I missed it on Palawan

 

[Andy Adcock]

Many thanks for this, I've just returned from Angola and checked the IOC website and was really struggling to make out which forms I had seen and hadn't seen until I looked at Bird Forum and saw your post.

Five out of the eight for me, so four armchair ticks. Shame I missed it on Palawan

You've done well to see it in Angola

 

[Andy Adcock]

You've done well to see it in Angola

I've touched Angola - from a boat on the Namibian side at Kunene.

 

[Larry Sweetland]

I've touched Angola - from a boat on the Namibian side at Kunene.

I've seen Angola through bins across the river 😂

 

[Andy Adcock]

I've seen Angola through bins across the river 😂

Did you go for the Waxbill?

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Did you go for the Waxbill?

No. We did a bit of a smash and grab up in northern Namibia before driving back down south, all the time feeling a bit nervous about getting malaria cos Nicky was pregnant. Saw some birds I've not seen anywhere else though

 

[Andy Adcock]

No. We did a bit of a smash and grab up in northern Namibia before driving back down south, all the time feeling a bit nervous about getting malaria cos Nicky was pregnant. Saw some birds I've not seen anywhere else though

A bit dry to be worrying about Malaria but I get it, with your wife being pregnant.