Shrike-tit split

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Lumpers and splitters. It often ends badly. Lol. Once upon a time (1950s?) there was a punch-up at an RAOU campout over similar arguments. It's remarkable how early taxonomists such as Mathews got much of it right. I like to look at Cayley's "What Bird is That" for spiritual guidance.

Cheers Ian

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From: Frank O'Connor <>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019, 17:27
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Shrike-tit split

BA follows HBW/BLI which accepts the very obvious split. They should
never have been lumped.

IOC has recently made shriketits a monotypic family, but I guess it
is waiting for someone to publish a paper before they make the split
into three species.


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