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More on Herring Gull taxonomy

To: Murray Lord <>
Subject: More on Herring Gull taxonomy
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:06:21 +1100
And there is a little item for Bob Inglis there as well, a little bit of Tattler shuffling.

Carl Clifford
On 19/02/2008, at 7:48 PM, Murray Lord wrote:

If anyone's interested, http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/ 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00758.x shows the British Ornithologists' Union's taxonomic committee's latest thinking on Herring-type gulls, published only a few months ago. In short, they treat both Mongolian (mongolicus) and Vega (vegae) gulls as subspecies of the American Herring Gull, Larus smithsonianus.

Murray
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