Collared Sparrowhawk - specific name

["Peter Ewin" <>]

Nope.
While ever there are taxonomists (and names described in the 18th and 19th 
centuries) there will always be arguments.
My suggestion is pick a reference (I use Howard and Moore) and stick with it 
(unless you of course disagree on some of their listings). Otherwise list 
taxa (subspecies as well) and the it generally doesn't matter.
Just be thankful you are not a Botanist - now there is a nightmare
Cheers.
Peter


> From: Carl Clifford <>
> To: Birding-Aus messages <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Collared Sparrowhawk - specific name Date: Wed, 
> 13 Dec 2006 19:28:32 +1100
> Dear All,
>
> This thread certainly demonstrates what a morass Avian Nomenclature  can 
> be. I am making a couple of spreadsheet based annotated  checklists for 
> Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo for a forthcoming trip.  I am basing them on 
> a checklist downloaded from  www.printablebirdchecklists.homestead.com/. I 
> am annotating them with  resident status, and page numbers from Robsons 
> "Birds of South-East  Asia", Jeyarajasingam & Pearsons " and MacKinnon & 
> Phillips' Birds of  Borneo etc" . And also dipping into Smythies "The Birds 
> of Borneo". I  am cross-checking the downloaded checklist with the 
> Malaysian Nture  Society's "Checklist of the Birds of Malaysia.
> I am slowly going (even more) insane. The discrepancies between the 6  
> references have been amazing, verging on the diabolical. I have had  my web 
> browser tabbed onto Zoonomen and ZOOBANK nearly continuously,  trying to 
> work out the latest nomenclature and they don't always agee!.
> It is enough to make you want to give up  birding and take up  something 
> like collecting "The Simpsons" ephemera.
> Does anyone think that we will ever have a simple definitive source  for 
> bird names? Or am I being just a bit hopeful?
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
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