Hi Carl,
There's lots of this sort of stuff with Clements - for starters, all Grey
birds are Gray. Then there's the Rufous Night-heron, Black-breasted Kite
(not Buzzard), Australian (not Black-shouldered) Kite, Thick-knees not
Stone-curlews, Red-headed and Scarlet Myzomela (not Honeyeater) and probably
more.
As you well know there's pros and cons with each global checklist, but
Clements appears to remain the most widely used list despite some of its
peculiarities.
One of the main criticisms of Clements has long been that they seem to have
paid undue respect to nomenclature / taxonomy changes in checklists put
forward by regional authorities (such as BA), and it seems that they've now
finally taken this on board, which should be applauded. We can only hope
that future updates continue this trend.
Nevertheless, note that they state on their website 'where necessary the
final decisions on taxonomy and nomenclature are made by the Clements
Checklist team'.
cheers
Peter
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