Hi David
Thank you for providing the link.
A couple of overall positives, IMO, are that the subspecies tend to be
named according to their distribution. The second is that you get a
better overall sense of Australia's avifaunal relationships with
avifauna to our north.
While I appreciate the reasons for the conventions and the general
naming approach, the results can be interesting, particularly when
naming subspecies. One example suffices:
'Southern Queensland Orange-footed Scrubfowl'
Will KPs will be joined by SQOfSs?
regards
Con
On 9/07/2016 5:42 PM, David McDonald (personal) wrote:
> Greetings. In case you have not yet caught up with it, last month
> Birdlife Australia released v. 2 of its Working List. It contains many
> changes from v. 1.2 and is now very different from C&B 2008. See
> http://www.birdlife.org.au/conservation/science/taxonomy .
>
> Among the changes are
> • 98 changes to order names
> • 180 changes to family scientific names
> • 43 changes to family common names
> • 139 changes to genus names
>
> Some of the changes affect the names of birds in COG's area of
> interest, incl such favourites as the Australian Magpie!
>
> This has implications for COG's annotated list of the birds of the
> ACT, website and Annual Bird Report.
>
> For info - David
>
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