Dear All,
This thread certainly demonstrates what a morass Avian Nomenclature
can be. I am making a couple of spreadsheet based annotated
checklists for Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo for a forthcoming trip.
I am basing them on a checklist downloaded from
www.printablebirdchecklists.homestead.com/. I am annotating them with
resident status, and page numbers from Robsons "Birds of South-East
Asia", Jeyarajasingam & Pearsons " and MacKinnon & Phillips' Birds of
Borneo etc" . And also dipping into Smythies "The Birds of Borneo". I
am cross-checking the downloaded checklist with the Malaysian Nture
Society's "Checklist of the Birds of Malaysia.
I am slowly going (even more) insane. The discrepancies between the 6
references have been amazing, verging on the diabolical. I have had
my web browser tabbed onto Zoonomen and ZOOBANK nearly continuously,
trying to work out the latest nomenclature and they don't always agee!.
It is enough to make you want to give up birding and take up
something like collecting "The Simpsons" ephemera.
Does anyone think that we will ever have a simple definitive source
for bird names? Or am I being just a bit hopeful?
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
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