Yes, very confusing - especially as there is more than one world list to
choose from! I keep my world list by the IOU/IOC checklist and my Aus one by
C&B, but it gets increasingly difficult.
I tend to agree with you - I think BA/BOCA (or the new hopefully merged
organisation when/if it happens) should agree to adopt one of the world
taxonomies and then we just run with that. BARC (or a variation of it) could
decide which of these birds should be on the Aus list (and hopefully we
could feed back to the organisation that produced the list the preferred Aus
names for the endemics on the list, so we do not have "Swan River
Honeyeater) but there would seem to me at least no role for an Australian
taxonomic list that differs from a generally accepted world list. That is
NOT to say of course that there should be no research done locally - but it
should be left to an international body to review such research and decide
whether or not to accept the research - as clearly is already being done for
a number of species.
On 4 January 2011 11:11, David Kowalick <>wrote:
> 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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