Note also that the website provides a comparison against Clements as a
separate download so you can easily see the changes and decide if you want
to move your life list to it.
2008/12/20 Phil & Sue Gregory <>
> While on the subject of World Checklists, i can recommend this World
> Checklist from the IOC, which adopts a much more progressive line than the
> Clements Checklist ,which is still way out-of-date for all Old World and
> Australian species and has a new and very contentious, conservative line on
> New World species. They seem to be trying to align all the major American
> checklists (AOU and SACC), with many lumps of species as a consequence.
>
> The IOC one is in Excel, so you can change it as you see fit, and it's
> updated very regularly, with version 1.8 due shortly. It follows the IOC
> Recommended English names of birds as per the book by Frank Gill and Minturn
> Wright.
>
> I should point out that they are quite receptive to changes, many of the
> newly coined names are trial versions, so it is by no means set in stone yet
> cf. previous threads on vernacular names, another bone of contention with
> Clements which imposed many novelties on us.
> The IOC one can be found as listed below, with good background data about
> the names project of which this is a spin-off.
> Hope it may prove of interest
>
> the website http://www.worldbirdnames.org has the latest version They're
> working up version 1.8 (or maybe jump to 2.0) to be released in January.
> Will upgrade family classifications and genera.
>
>
> Phil Gregory
> Cassowary House
> P.O. Box 387
> Kuranda
> QLD, 4881
> Australia
>
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