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natureali Calothorax Sheartails (Genus Calothorax)

please add Calypte costae x Calothorax lucifer. Natureali observation of this hybrid from Ash Canyon B&B as identified by Sheri Williamson

Feb. 16, 2020 16:28:03 +0000 birdwhisperer

Hybrid added.

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@loarie I've created inactive taxa for both the genushybrid and hybrid. All you need to do is activate them. Also linked is the photo of this well known hybrid.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1289182-Calothorax---Calypte
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1289183-Calothorax-lucifer---calypte-costae

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4582804

Posted by birdwhisperer over 2 years ago

I'm pretty swamped with the Clements update at the moment - would be good to get a better system for bird hybrid observations in place - I'm not convinced adding new hybrid taxa to the taxonomy for every combination of closely related birds is the right path

something like "ID to genus and fill out the hybrid observation field" or something might be a better approach. We just had to modify the computer vision training flow to ignore bird hybrids because it was causing lots of weird behavior in the training process and model prediction output

Posted by loarie over 2 years ago

Sorry for you being overwhelmed. These birds are not in the same genus, which creates the problem with just leaving it at genus. They can only be listed at family level now. Thanks for all your work.

Posted by natureali over 2 years ago

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