Thanks, James. I am an American who has birded in Australia, and I have
been struggling with the various taxonomies. The four species I am
especially interested in are Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Osprey, and Barn Owl.
I
see that this taxonomy shows the Aussie birds as subspecies, not full
species. Some of the other taxonomies have broken the Aussie birds in these
species out as separate speices.
I'll be interested to see the December 2013 update. It would be great if
you could let us know when it is out, and provide a link to it.
Barry Brugman
USA
In a message dated 11/21/2013 5:42:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
writes:
Hi all,
There has been some recent discussion about the various lists available to
people interested in Australian birds, so I thought it would be useful to
publish a link to the BirdLife Australia 'working list'.
http://www.birdlife.org.au/conservation/science/taxonomy
For those interested, it is worthwhile having a read of the FAQ section,
as this explains why we have developed the list. In a nutshell, as a
conservation organisation we need something that identifies birds at the
finest
taxonomic grain available to us, to allow us to identify, as far as possible,
populations at risk, and to collect and manage our data accordingly.
Acknowledging that there are several checklists in use today, and that
different groups, institutions and individuals use these in line with their
own preferences and taxonomic philosophies (species concepts etc.), we have
included for easy comparison classifications from the Christidis and Boles
2008, IOC and Clements checklists. The list can be also be filtered to
species level.
We intend to publish the first update of the BirdLife Australia list on
our website in December 2013.
All the best,
James O'Connor | Head of Research
BirdLife Australia
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