Hi John,
Interesting, though this was surely this has been on the cards for a while
before this study. It was already listed as Cracticus tibicen by Christidis &
Boles 2008, though I note IOC currently still has it in Gymnorhina (see
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/n-batises.html). Not too surprising given quite a
few similarities in morphology and voice. Ron Johnstone from the WA museum also
mentioned that there are records of Pied Butcherbirds hybridising with
Australian Magpie in central Aus.
Cheers,
John
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Australian Magpie
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> Hi Friends,
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> How many people are aware that the Australian Magpie has been transferred
> from Gymnorhina to Cracticus, as a result of Kearns, A.M., L. Joseph, and
> L.G. Cook (2013), A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational
> history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies, Mol.
> Phylogenet. Evol. 66, 941-952.
>
> So it's a Butcherbird!
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