While you are at it you may also like to investigate their split of the
Masked Lapwing into Masked and Black-shouldered. Another perculiar split by
them.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 9:57 AM, casliber0134 <>
wrote:
> Ok - having a look through the list and the links, it is frustrating when
> the birdlife webpages just cite the handbook as the reference (and
> rationale) for splitting the species (?) The shriketit seems reasonable - I
> guess the only reason so far it hasn't been split is that taxonomists would
> be reluctant to put it in writing, with the rationale seemingly anecdotal
> at this stage...
>
> I have been finding articles and doing dumps of info on wikipedia, so will
> try to dig up what I can.
> Cas
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Noel Luff <> wrote:
>
> > Birdlife International (HWB) has recently updated their list (now Version
> > 9), I have been slowly working through the list.
> >
> > Changes that I had previously reported are:
> >
> > a) Non-passarines remain substantially unchanged from Version 8
> > b) Passerines have been completely reordered with at least 25 new genus
> > being added that effect Australia. Most of these are in line with IOC.
> > c) some of the changes that effect Australia are
> > - Blue-faced Honeyeater has been split. The White-quilled Honeyeater (Top
> > End and Kimberley) has been added
> > - Crested Shrike-tit has been split into Northern, Western and Eastern
> > - Spotted Catbird is now Black-eared Catbird, but has not been split.
> > - Quail-thrushs, Papuan Pitta, Tropical Scrubwren, Western Fieldwren,
> > Gilbert's Honeyeater, Western Grasswren now follows IOC
> > - Golden-backed Honeyeater split from Black-chinned
> >
> > Further changes that I have detected are
> >
> > - Silver-backed Butcherbird, Paperbark Flycatcher and Norfolk Robin now
> > follow IOC
> > - Kimberley Flyrobin has been split from Lemon-bellied Flyrobin
> > - Crimson Finch has been split into Black-bellied Crimson Finch and
> > White-Bellied Crimson Finch
> > - Zebra Finch has been split into Australian Zebra Finch and Timor Zebra
> > Finch (extralimitally)
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