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RE: [canberrabirds] Release of version 2.0 of the Working List of Austra

To: 'Con Boekel' <>, "" <>
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Release of version 2.0 of the Working List of Australian Birds | BirdLife
From: ken black <>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:26:10 +0000
Thanks Con, will be very interesting to see the Passerine changes when released.

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From: Con Boekel 
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 9:37 AM
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Subject: Release of version 2.0 of the Working List of Australian Birds | 
BirdLife

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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