Philip,
No, it's not that simple. Kearns et al. 2013 clearly shows that Australian
Magpie is more closely related to Black Butcherbird than Black Butcherbird to
all other butcherbirds. So, following your 'opinion idea', there are two
options: (1) AM is a butcherbird and all butcherbirds including AM are lumped
into one genus [as proposed by Kearns et al. 2013 and earlier by Christidis &
Boles 2008] or (2) Black Butcherbird is a 'magpie' and consequently lumped with
it in Gymnorhina and the remaining butcherbirds in Cracticus.
Also very interesting is that some Silver-backed BBs appeared to be closely
related to Grey BB but others to Black-backed BB. It looks like that another
manuscript discussing this more into detail is in preparation.
Cheers,
Nikolas
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Nikolas Haass
Brisbane, QLD
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From: Philip Veerman <>
To: 'John Graff' <>; 'John Penhallurick'
<>; 'Birding-Aus' <>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:31 PM
Subject: Australian Magpie
It is a formality of moving from being in the same family to being in the
same genus. As all taxa are really expressions of opinion as to where the
dividing line lies, it is not such a big change. Even casually, the
similarity is suggestive.
Philip
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Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013 2:49 PM To: John Penhallurick; Birding-Aus
Subject: Australian Magpie
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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> 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.
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