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Just a quick question for anyone who knows. Why does the AOU recognize Nyctanassa as a genus when most others include it in Nycticorax

Moltoni's Warbler Sylvia moltonii has recently been split from Subalpine Warbler. reference: Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2008 May 16 A molecular phylogeny of the Sylvia cantillans complex: Cryptic species within the Mediterranean basin. Mattia Brambilla, Severino Vitulano, Fernando Spina, Nicola Baccetti, Gabriel Gargallo, Elena Fabbri, Franca Guidali, Ettore Randi. In A Birdwatcher'...

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Just a question for birders here, but what checklist do you usually follow to compile your world checklist? In particular, how do you decide to arrange them, or what families do you recognize? Alternatively, do you cobble together your own taxonomy from the literature? I just recently created a family/order level outline based on the new Hackett study, a variety of phylogenetic papers, ...

Please have a look at : http://www.worldtwitch.com/new_species_hornbuckle. htm Do you know of any new data on some of these “as yet undescribed species” ? Daniel

According to several recent phylogenetic analysis, some birds need to get new genus names. I mentioned earlier the paraphyletic genus Myrmeciza , but there are others, for instance: Myrmotherula gularis Upucerthia serrana Saltator rufiventris (Klicka & al. 2007 say that Saltator rufiventris is not a saltator, but it is close to representatives of the genera Delothraupis...

Could any German-speaking birders help out with a small problem regarding two Shearwaters? What's the correct name for Cory's Shearwater ( Puffinus diomedea ) and for the Little / Macaronesian Shearwater split ( P. assimilis and baroli ). I get two names for Cory's: Barthel and Liebig give Sepiastrumtaucher [1-2], while most other sources give Schwarzschnabel-Sturmtaucher . Bathel and ...

Dear All, On a recent Florida holiday I added Black Tern ( Chlidonias niger , Sibley 2003) to my US list. I have since been told that the American BT is now a split from the European species I'm more used to seeing. Please could someone confirm and explain this split? Also, are there recognisable phenotype differences between the two? many thanks Kevin

It seems that its taxonomic status needs a revision: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.025

see: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01850p042. pdf

Moltoni's Warbler Sylvia moltonii has recently been split from Subalpine Warbler. reference: Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2008 May 16 A molecular phylogeny of the Sylvia cantillans complex: Cryptic species within the Mediterranean basin. Mattia Brambilla, Severino Vitulano, Fernando Spina, Nicola Baccetti, Gabriel Gargallo, Elena Fabbri, Franca Guidali, Ettore Randi. In A Birdwatcher'...

T-Rex is closely related to chicken? open this link

Please have a look at : http://www.worldtwitch.com/new_species_hornbuckle. htm Do you know of any new data on some of these “as yet undescribed species” ? Daniel

Just a question for birders here, but what checklist do you usually follow to compile your world checklist? In particular, how do you decide to arrange them, or what families do you recognize? Alternatively, do you cobble together your own taxonomy from the literature? I just recently created a family/order level outline based on the new Hackett study, a variety of phylogenetic papers, ...

Just a quick question for anyone who knows. Why does the AOU recognize Nyctanassa as a genus when most others include it in Nycticorax