Koel

[COG Lists Manager <>]

One of the many great achievement of Mark Clayton and his colleagues in
producing the volume Clayton, M, Wombey, JC, Mason, IJ, Chesser, RT &
Wells, A 2006, CSIRO list of Australian vertebrates: a reference with
conservation status, 2nd edn, (CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic.)
is updating the species list of birds, and the English name for some
where the species is not changed but an English name change is warranted.
Some of the changes were published a couple of years ago in Shodde &
Mason's Directory - though passerines only there.

Name changes of species that we have in the ACT that I spotted when
Mark's book was published, updating Christidis & Boles 1994, are:

- Pacific Koel - was Common Koel - different species

- Australian Reed Warbler - was Clamorous Reed-Warbler - different species

- Australian Pipit - was Richard's Pipit - different species

- Horsfield's Bushlark - was Singing Bushlark - different English name tho same species

- Eurasian Skylark - was Skylark - different English name tho same species

Any other changes to the ACT birds, Mark?

Also ... I wonder if the mention of the Oriental Skylark as being a
vagrant/accidental in the ACT is a typo, or if there is a local record
not generally known about?

And another also:- I note that Milburn (and many others) refer to the
Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus as Pacific Swift, but HANZAB and
Clayton et al. do not follow suit. Considering that its range includes
not only the Pacific but also India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Mongolia, inland
China, not to mention SE Asia and Western Australia, perhaps Fork-tailed
is preferable? 

David

At 08:55 2/02/2007, Paul Fennell wrote:

Wots a Pacific Koel then?  I thought they were seldom pacified.
 
Paul Fennell
Database Manager
Canberra Ornithologists Group
0407 105 460
02 6254 1804
25 Pickles St Scullin ACT 2614

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From: Mark Clayton
Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2007 8:27 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Koel
 
Evening all,
 
At 20 past 8 this evening a Pacific Koel was calling very close to my Kaleen yard.
 
Cheers, Mark