Re: FW: [canberrabirds] Song birds

[calyptorhynchus <>]

Hi Bill

Your colleague might be able to do this using the Handbook of the Birds of the World online. You can generate lists for countries, but also I believe for continents, islands &c. 

Of course the results would be in HBW taxonomic terms, which differs from other systems like IOC.

cheers

John Leonard

On 4 August 2018 at 08:34, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Should be just a matter of counting Bill.  However you’d need to define ‘New Guinea’.  I would regard that as the single island (which is occupied by Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), excluding the associated islands (New Britain, Bougainville etc) which form part of Papua New Guinea or those being part of Indonesia (Aru, Biak).  Endemic-generating islands boost totals counted on a national basis.

 

Some years ago I counted honeyeater species, largest family in both Australia and New Guinea, and there were about 70 species in each.

 

From: Bill Hall <>
Sent: Friday, 3 August 2018 5:18 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Song birds

 

Dear All, I have had the following request from a colleague at St Louis University in St louis Missouri “.  How many native species passerines are found in New Guinea vs. continental Australia vs. Tasmania?”  Any information would be appreciated. I assume that he is not asking for endemic species in each case , but total per locale.

 

Bill Hall

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