I like Denis Lepage's Avibase
<http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=aus&list=ioc>tilt, you can
use Ebird, Clements, IOC, Howard & Moore, Sibley & Monroe etc and get 1632,
2037, 1679, 1587, 1636 'lifers'!
Plenty of scope.....
Tom
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Tony Palliser <> wrote:
> Out of curiosity I just looked up what some of the birding taxonomies are
> calling "Australasia". What a mess! - thought some of you with interests
> in birding the Australasia region might be interested. So this begs the
> question for us birders what constitutes Australasia exactly?
>
>
>
> I think I have this right?
>
>
>
> HBW
> Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Fiji, Bismarcks, Cook Islands,
> Micronesia, Easter Island, Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands,
> Nauru & New Caledonia
>
> (Excludes Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Moluccas)
>
>
>
> CLEMENTS & SURFBIRDS
> Australia, New Guinea & Bismarcks, Moluccas Islands)
>
> (Excludes Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Christmas Island & Cocos (Keeling)
> Islands, Bougainville, & Solomon Islands)
>
> IOC
> Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Bismarcks, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi,
> Moluccas, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Norfolk Island,
>
> (Excludes Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
>
>
>
> WIKIPEDIA (Under the heading Ecological Geography)
> Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Lombok, Timor, Sulawesi
> (Wallacea) and East Melanesian Islands and I think Christmas Island and
> Cocos (Keeling) Islands is included.
>
> (Excludes Vanuatu, Fiji and Polynesia)
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
>
>
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