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Lumping the swamphens back to the Peters checklist state would make sense to me, given the very widespread hybridisation in many areas. Philippine P. pulverulentus is worth retaining separate as it seems to maintain some ecological differences and on the evidence so far to have limited if any hybridisation.
Amur and Siberian Stonechats are also not obviously 'good species'.

[QUOTE="dnsallen, post: 4659439, member: 1511"] Lumping the swamphens back to the Peters checklist state would make sense to me, given the very widespread hybridisation in many areas. Philippine P. pulverulentus is worth retaining separate as it seems to maintain some ecological differences and on the evidence so far to have limited if any hybridisation. Amur and Siberian Stonechats are also not obviously 'good species'. [/QUOTE]

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