Looking at Avilist, I find I need to clarify something. This first edition of Avilist (2025) is at an interim stage as regards English names. Later editions will give a selected
Avilist name. See attachments. ‘Australian Tern’ is the interim (IOC) Avilist name and ‘Australian Gull-billed Tern’ is given as the Birdlife International name. A similar situation with Australian Little Bittern. I see we have ‘Pacific Koel’ with no ‘Eastern
Koel’ as an alternative. As in eBird, there was no ‘Eastern Koel’ because of a taxonomic non-match. Procedures are to be established internationally to bring all this into line so far as possible. Same are needed within Australia.
From: Canberrabirds <>
On Behalf Of Andrew Cockburn via Canberrabirds
Sent: Monday, 30 June 2025 10:47 AM
To: Mark Clayton <>;
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] FW: A colossal achievement: from the June newsletter of BirdLife International
All of the previous list committees (IOC, Birdlife, Clements/eBird, NACC, SACC etc) were part of the Avilist team. I think the first three have agreed to use Avilist in future –
IOC and Birdlife have done their final revisions, and I expect Clements/eBird to stop revising theirs after the annual update in November. After that Avilist will be updated annually.
Andrew
Be interested to see how long it all lasts given there will undoubtedly be some bruised egos among the former groups!!
Mark
On 30/06/2025 9:49 am, Andrew Cockburn via Canberrabirds wrote:
The list is already available
https://www.avilist.org
Poor Peter Kaestner has fallen below 10,000 species with many more species lumped than there are splits. Four families have been lumped
- Icteriidae with Icteridae (about time)
- Alcippeidae with Leiothricidae
- Scotocercidae (but not Erythrocercidae) with Cettidae
- Bucorvidae with the rest of the hornbills
Cheers, Andrew Cockburn
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Canberrabirds on behalf of Geoffrey Dabb via Canberrabirds
Date: Monday, 30 June 2025 at 9:42 am
To: Canberrabirds
Subject: [Canberrabirds] FW: A colossal achievement: from the June newsletter of BirdLife International
The below might or might not simplify matters. Some people prefer pictures. These are slides from a talk on the subject to a COG meeting last year. The issue of a unified taxonomic list is different from
the issue of a unified English names list. It is possible that English names, particularly the spelling of them (Black-Cockatoo v Black Cockatoo), will become more confused over the next few years. I have not yet checked Avilist to see whether it reflects
the differences listed in the last slide.
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Sent: Sunday, 29 June 2025 8:49 PM
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Subject: [Canberrabirds] A colossal achievement: from the June newsletter of BirdLife International
A world-first for conservation: we’ve created a single, unified list of every bird species on earth.
After four years of dedicated, global collaboration, we’ve created what many have dreamt of; the world’s first single, unified list of all bird species.
It’s called AviList and it unifies the world’s three most widely used checklists (IOC World Bird List, eBird's Clements Checklist, and the Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International Checklist) into a single agreed list.
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