World Checklists, Grass wrens, Official list of Oz birds etc...

[David Kowalick <>]

Hi everyone,

This is all very confusing. What constitutes an accepted split? Where 
does the Myall subspecies of the Thick-belled Grasswren fall? Western or 
what? And what of the the C&B list? What do we take as the official 
list? The world list or C&B? These days I always try to tick every 
sub-species just in case it ends up being split later on. It seems 
splitting very much back in fashion but it seems impossible to keep 
abreast of all the developments. Surely there could be a committee set 
up by Birds Australia to review the official Australian list on an 
annual basis that takes into account all the latest developments? I have 
always lived and died by C&B but recently that seems to no longer be the 
case.In the meantime I will try not to drown in the data.
Cheers

David Kowalick
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