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To: "Phil & Sue Gregory" <>
Subject: Checklists
From: Dave Torr <>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 08:31:50 +1100
Phil

I have the latest 3.2 IOC list and it does not show the Hooded Robin or
Scrub-robin splits - and they do not appear on their list of potential
splits for 3.3. You say you have based this on recent papers - do you know
if they are being considered by the IOC at all?

Dave

On 2 January 2013 18:38, Phil & Sue Gregory <>wrote:

> I have both Australian and New Guinea Checklists based on IOC 2012, I am
> happy to send out to anyone interested, and both have completely new
> editions with a great deal of re-sequencing to follow recent important
> papers on honeyeaters and Australasian robins. Western Hooded Robin makes
> it, and good to see Papuan Scrub-robin split from Northern Scrub-robin
> which I'd been flagging in several previous versions- always nice when
> field observations of vocalizations, behaviour and plumage get backed up by
> genetic data.
>
> I have been slightly proactive and have split the 3 shrike-tits plus
> Yellow Rosella, Mallee Ringneck and Tasmanian Masked Owl in the new one. I
> have held off on boobooks until I see Frank Rheindt's conclusions in his
> big review of Ninox, I expect to see a few more in the region at least.
> Such decisions are italicized so you can see where these likely pending
> splits are.
>
> The checklists arose out of my frustration at dealing with checklists that
> were nearly 20 years out of date for Australia and worse for New Guinea,
> the first were published in 2008 and i now endeavour to keep them bang up
> to date on-line- these new ones will be on my sicklebillsafaris,com website
> in the next couple of days when i can harass my son into uploading them.
> The versions currently there are the  mid-2012 ones, the new ones are a big
> alteration so please bear with me until I get them uploaded. The statistics
> at the back make interesting reading
> Checklist statistics
>
>
>
> Total from mainland (inc. Tasmania) only
>
> 818 476 non-passerines, 353 passerines
>
>
> Ship assisted vagrants excluded above
>
> 3
>
>
> Non-Passerines endemics
>
> 476 with 118 endemic
>
>
> Passerines
>
> 353 with 235 endemic
>
>
> Total bird species mainland and nearby islands
>
> 829
>
>
> Distant Island Territory Additions
>
> 91
>
>
> Total Bird Species in Checklist
>
> 920 + 3 ship assisted= 923
>
>
> Total mainland and nearby island endemics
>
> 353 + 1 Extinct (Paradise Parrot) 43% endemic
>
>
> Total distant island endemics
>
> 11 (White-chested White-eye ? Extinct)
>
>
> Total endemics in checklist
>
> 364
>
>
> Category AE species on mainland
>
> 172 (with 103 non-passerines, 70 passerines)
>
>
> Category AE species on islands
>
> 4
>
>
> Total AE category in checklist
>
> 176
>
>
> Introduced species
>
> 26 (with 24 on mainland, 2 on distant islands)
>
>
> Endemic families
>
> 5
>
> Endemic families (5)
>
> Pedionomidae (Plains-Wanderer) Menuridae (Lyrebirds) Atrichornithidae
> (Scrub-birds), Dasyornithidae (Bristlebirds) Pardalotidae (Pardalotes)
>
>
> Phil Gregory
>
> Website 1: Http://www.sicklebillsafaris.com
> Website 2: Http://www.cassowary-house.com.au
>
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