IOC have the Cryptic Honeyeater as the bird in the Wet Tropics (the Cairns/Atherton area) and Graceful Honeyeater as the one further north on Cape York, in Torres Strait and PNG as Phil stated originally. Another new bird for Australia in this round of IOC splits is Hudsonian Whimbrel. HANZAB says there are several specimen records for Australia. Those of us that have seen this species in Australia should now make our claims to BARC. I first saw this taxon in Australia in 1967 on Mud Islands in Port Phillip Bay in Victoria – see the Bird Observer 438, May 1968. I believe that I’ve also seen it since including multiple birds together (I think 3 in 2009) in Torres Strait. These two ‘arm-chair’ ticks bring my Australian tally to 901! Mike Carter, 03 5977 1262 181/160 Mornington-Tyabb Road Mornington, VIC 3931, Australia From: Birding-Aus [ On Behalf Of Phil Gregory
Sent: 23 January 2020 10:51 PM
To: David Asscherick
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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Cryptic Honeyeater Hi David, You got me to double-check, like I did for my own FNQ guide, and I quote from Lloyd’s paper: Two subspecies of Graceful Honeyeater Meliphaga (Microptilotis) gracilis are recognised in north-eastern Queensland: imitatrix inhabiting the Wet Tropics and gracilis inhabiting northern Cape York Peninsula. These are now split into two species I don’t have the ABG handy so can’t check what they do. ornithological writer/tour leader/tour facilitator Clarification please. The 2017 CSIRO Australian Bird Guide by Menkhorst et.al. has the “imitatrix” sub-species as the northern sub-spieces and “gracilis” as the southern. It seemed to me that your notification described the opposite. Can you please clarify which Honeyeater is the northern and which is the southern? Thank you! Also, can you provide any info on links on the latest split(s) of Variegated Fairywren? Thanks again!
Following a great paper by Lloyd Nielsen last year in AFO, IOC has accepted the split of what is now called Cryptic Honeyeater from Graceful Honeyeater, which occurs further up Cape York from N of Cooktown on and into S. New Guinea. Thus we have a new FNQ endemic, the split also adopted by BirdLife but with the ludicrous name of Imitatress Honeyeater (derived from the scientific name of imitatrix). There was considerable debate on IOC about what to call it, with the placeholder of Quiet Honeyeater initially, which no-one liked, and eventually Cryptic seemed like a good solution. So Graceful Honeyeater from Cooktown south is now this species, as flagged in the Field Guide to Birds of North Queensland by Jun Matsui and I (New Holland 2019) ornithological writer/tour leader/tour facilitator <HR>
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