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Mark,
As a novice in this area, it appears to me that you
have just opened Pandora's box. While I realise that slow-coaches like myself
might still be relying on James Clements list of several years ago, couple of
decades actually, in an attempt to keep some kind of record of the bird
species we have seen over time, what is considered the definitive list
nowadays?
When I worked at Urriarra Forest in the early
seventies, splitters were something you used to pry logs apart. Having just read
Dan Koeppel's tribute to his Big Lister father "to see EVERY BIRD on earth"
(ibid) am aware that splitters are big in the ornithological world and keep
enhancing the numbers on listers lists. Sounds like that is what you are talking
about?
I would really like to know what I am missing as I
suspect would others.
Cheers
Shaun Bagley
P.S. Am also in the midst of George Seddon's "the
Old Country" (ibid too!) which I recommend for a challenge to the status quo in
the natural history world.
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