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Clements Update 2022 |
Oct. 30, 2022 23:35:21 +0000 | maxkirsch |
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Comments
@rjq Can you please hold off on any changes until I get a list compiled? Thanks.
Here's a list of splits, let's make group numbers to compile all taxon changes needed to completely revise the taxonomy (Ex. for split #1 we need to; 1. split the current Blue-throated Piping-Guan taxon, and 2. lump nominate subspecies with new Blue-throated Piping-Guan taxon and 3. lump old White-throated Piping-Guan subspecies taxon with new species-level taxon)
1 Blue-throated Piping-Guan
2 Crested Guineafowl
3 Ring-necked Pheasant
4 Crestless Fireback
5 Crested Fireback
6 Chestnut-necklaced Partridge
7 Moorland Francolin
8 Shelley's Francolin
9 Eurasian Collared-Dove
10 Gray-green Fruit-Dove
11 Yellow-bibbed Fruit-Dove
12 Green Imperial-Dove
13 Spice Imperial-Dove
14 Mountain Imperial-Dove
15 Greater Antillean Nightjar
16 Antillean Mango
17 Amethyst-throated Sunangel
18 Collared Inca
19 Golden-bellied Starfrontlet
20 Booted Racket-tail
21 Broad-billed Hummingbird
22 Streamertail
23 Green-bellied Hummingbird
24 Painted Buttonquail
25 Salvin's Prion
26 Woolly-necked Stork
27 Hook-billed Kite
28 Bicolored Hawk
29 Moluccan Scops-Owl
30 Sulawesi Scops-Owl
31 Great Horned Owl
32 Solomons Boobook
33 Morepork
34 Blue-banded Kingfisher
35 Sulawesi Dwarf-Kingfisher
36 Lilac-cheeked Kingfisher
37 Blue-breasted Bee-eater
38 Green Bee-eater
39 Russet-throated Puffbird
40 Scarlet-banded Barbet
41 Chestnut-belted Gnateater
42 Buffy Tuftedcheek
43 Green Manakin
44 Blue-crowned Manakin
45 Olive-striped Flycatcher
46 Yellow-margined Flycatcher
47 Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
48 Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
49 Gray Elaenia
50 Rough-legged Tyrannulet
51 Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant
52 Bran-colored Tyrannulet
53 Tropical Pewee
54 Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant
55 Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant
56 White-browed Scrubwren
57 Fan-tailed Gerygone
58 Crested Shrike-tit
59 Cape Batis
60 Blue Vanga
61 Rufous-naped Lark
62 Black-throated Prinia
63 Mountain Leaf Warbler
64 Sulawesi Leaf Warbler
65 Meratus White-eye
66 Gray-cheeked Tit-babbler
67 Chestnut-winged Babbler
68 Coral-billed Scimitar-Babbler
69 Chestnut-backed Scimitar-Babbler
70 Common Hill Myna
71 Asian Pied Starling
72 Vinous-breasted Starling
73 Groundscraper Thrush
74 White-rumped Shama
75 Blue-breasted Flycatcher
76 Meratus Blue Flycatcher
77 Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher
78 Vivid Niltava
79 Flores Jungle-Flycatcher
80 Forest Robin
81 Bocage's Akalat
82 White-browed Shortwing
83 Japanese Robin
84 Ryukyu Robin
85 White-crowned Forktail
86 Forest Rock-Thrush
87 Northern Wheatear
88 Red-breasted Wheatear
89 Red-headed Weaver
90 Black-necked Weaver
91 Vieillot's Weaver
92 Red-collared Widowbird
93 Australian Pipit
94 Short-billed Pipit
95 Black-faced Bunting
96 Eastern Meadowlark
97 Masked Yellowthroat
98 Three-striped Warbler
99 Golden-bellied Warbler
Lumps:
1 Forsten's Scrubfowl --> Dusky Scrubfowl
2 Black-fronted Francolin --> Chestnut-naped Francolin
3 Reunion Pigeon --> Pink Pigeon
4 Black-shouldered Nightjar --> Fiery-necked Nightjar
5 Rwenzori Nightjar --> Abyssinian Nightjar
6 Archbold Owlet-nightjar --> Mountain Owlet-nightjar
7 Long-tailed Sabrewing --> Wedge-tailed Sabrewing
8 Red-chested Goshawk --> African Goshawk
9 Cape Verde Buzzard --> Common Buzzard
10 Archer's Buzzard --> Augur Buzzard
11 Torotoroka Scops-Owl --> Madagascar Scops-Owl
12 Usambara Eagle-Owl --> Fraser's Eagle-Owl
13 Chestnut Owlet --> African Barred Owlet
14 Pere David's Owl --> Ural Owl
15 North Moluccan Dwarf-Kingfisher --> Seram Dwarf-Kingfisher
16 Bougainville Dwarf-Kingfisher --> North Solomons Dwarf-Kingfisher
17 Malaita Dwarf-Kingfisher --> Guadalcanal Dwarf-Kingfisher
18 Niau Kingfisher --> Mangareva Kingfisher
19 Thick-billed Honeyguide --> Lesser Honeyguide
20 White-bellied Tyrannulet --> White-crested Tyrannulet
21 Indonesian Honeyeater --> Brown Honeyeater
22 Perplexing Scrubwren --> Large Scrubwren
23 Himalayan and Dalat Shrike-Babbler --> White-browed (Blyth's) Shrike-Babbler
24 Beesley's Lark --> Spike-heeled Lark
25 Benguela Lark --> Karoo Long-billed Lark
26 Agulhas Lark --> Cape Lark
27 Foxy Lark --> Fawn-colored Lark
28 Singing Bushlark --> Australasian Bushlark
29 Maghreb Lark --> Crested Lark
30 Anjouan Brush-Warbler --> Malagasy Brush-Warbler
31 African Reed Warbler --> Common (Eurasian) Reed Warbler
32 Chinese Cupwing --> Scaly-breasted Cupwing
33 Alpine Leaf Warbler --> Tickell's Leaf Warbler
34 Sunda Bush Warbler --> Aberrant Bush Warbler
35 Ruaha Chat --> Arnot's Chat
36 Royal Parrotfinch --> Red-headed Parrotfinch
37 Pale-billed Firefinch --> African Firefinch
38 Yemen Accentor --> Radde's Accentor
39 Barlow's Lark --> Dune Lark
Thanks for adding the list. I’ll pause and update with changes I’ve made later today
English Name Changes:
1 Megapodius need all members to be revised to "megapode" instead of "scrub-fowl"
2 Nahan's Francolin --> Nahan's Partridge
3 Pternistis species to be renamed as "spurfowl" instead of "francolin"
4 Green-spectacled Green-Pigeon --> Sumatran Green-Pigeon
5 Remove hyphen in "Palm Swift" in Cypsiurus and Tachornis
6 Paraguayan Snipe --> Pantanal Snipe
7 Minahassa Masked-Owl --> Minahasa Masked-Owl
8 Euscarthmus species to be renamed as "scrub-tyrant" instead of "pygmy-tyrant"
9 Woodward's Batis --> Woodwards' Batis
10 Common Grasshopper-Warbler --> Common Grasshopper Warbler
11 Black-winged Starling --> Black-winged Myna
12 Remove hyphen in "jungle-flycatcher" in Cyornis, Eumyias and Vauriella
13 Ryuku Flycatcher --> Ryukyu Flycatcher
14 Olivaceous Saltator --> Olive-gray Saltator
15 Congo Bay-Owl --> Itombwe Owl
16 Palau Owl --> Palau Scops-Owl
17 Forest Woodhoopoe --> Forest Scimitarbill
18 Tumbes Tyrant --> Tumbes Chat-Tyrant
19 Cameroon Francolin --> Mount Cameroon Spurfowl
20 Dusky Friarbird --> Morotai Friarbird
Scientific Name Changes:
1 Phodilus prigoginei --> Tyto prigoginei
2 Pyrroglaux podargina --> Otus podargina
3 Phoeniculus castaneiceps --> Rhinopomastus castaneiceps
4 Tumbezia salvini --> Ochthoeca salvini
5 Columba larvata --> Aplopelia larvata
6 Correct Nesoenas picturata names but changing species/subspecies suffixes from "a" to "us"
7 Streptopelia chinensis --> Spilopelia chinensis
8 Streptopelia senegalensis --> Spilopelia senegalensis
9 Caprimulgus binotatus --> Veles binotatus
10 Hydrobates macrodactyla --> Hydrobates macrodactylus
11 Bubo species Akun Eagle-Owl, Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Shelley's Eagle-Owl, Dusky Eagle-Owl, Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl, Barred Eagle-Owl and Philippine Eagle-Owl --> Ketupa (remember to feminize names, though Clements doesn't; they acknowledge they made this mistake, and they intend on fixing it in 2023)
12 Ciccaba -- Strix
13 Merops cyanophrys najdanus --> Merops cyanophrys muscatensis
14 Milvago chimachima cordata --> Daptrius chimachima cordatus
15 Phalcoboenus and Milvago --> Daptrius
16 Yellow-tailed, Carnaby's and Baudin's Black-Cockatoo --> Zanda
17 Vini solitarius --> Vini solitaria
18 Glossoptila goldiei --> Glossoptilus goldiei
19 Caatinga Antwren --> Herpsilochmus
20 Crowned, Jelski's, Golden-browed and Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant --> Silvicultrix
21 Lesser Kiskadee --> Philohydor
22 Striated Grassbird genus change (Clements said this was a mistake, let's not commit this one)
23 Pygmy Tit --> Aegithalos
24 Heleia javanica elongatus --> Heleia javanica elongata
25 Laticilla burnesii nepalicola --> Laticilla burnesii nipalensis
26 Rufous and Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush --> Stizorhina
27 Chinese Thrush --> Turdus
28 Sharpe's Longclaw --> Macronyx
29 Gray-headed Warbler --> Myiothlypis
30 Clytolaema --> Heliodaxa
31 Carduelis carduelis loudoni --> Carduelis carduelis brevirostris
32 Malagasy Turtle-Dove --> Nesoenas
33 Rufous Potoo --> Phyllaemulor
34 Tiny and Semicollared Hawk --> Microspizias
35 Silvery-cheeked Antshrike --> Sakesphoroides
36 Serra do Mar, Sao Paulo Tyrannulet, and Southern, Marbled-faced, Antioquia, Variegated, Venezuelan, Spectacled and Chapman's Bristle-Tyrant --> Pogonotriccus
37 Golden-Bulbuls --> Hypsipetes
38 Matinan, Blue-fronted and Timor Blue Flycatcher --> Eumyias
39 Gray-winged Robin-Chat --> Sheppardia
40 Madanga --> Anthus
Splits - I have done 7,8,12,24,27,29,30,32,57,61,65,70,75,76,77,86,87,89 and an additional split of Guadalcanal Thicketbird that was omitted from the updates but is included in the spreadsheet. Most of these splits didn't require a split as there were no observations of the taxon being split, so just needed a subspecies swap to the new species.
Lumps - I have done 12,14,22,24,25,26,27,28,30,32,33,35,38
For splits the original taxon can now be kept ie only one new taxon needed (unless it makes sense to create both for other reasons). The splits I have done so far were all straightforward - for the remainder I agree makes sense to draft first in case of any comments
@rjq Wow! You've been busy. I've striked out those changes accordingly. Here's some more changes:
New Species:
1 New Caledonian Storm-Petrel
2 Meratus White-eye
3 Meratus Blue Flycatcher
4 Ruvu Weaver
5 Inti Tanager
New Subspecies:
1 Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos hymenolaimus
2 Spatula rhynchotis rhynchotis
3 Lophophorus sclateri orientalis
4 Ptilinopus leclancheri taiwanus
5 Batrachostomus hodgsoni indochinae
6 Coeligena lutetiae albimaculata
7 Rallus limicola meyerdeschauenseei
8 Numenius arquata suschkini
9 Limosa lapponica yamalensis
10 Limosa lapponica taymyrensis
11 Limosa lapponica anadyrensis
12 Calidris alba rubida
13 Loriculus vernalis phileticus
14 Scytalopus superciliaris ambatensis
15 Vireo plumbeus gravis
16 Pachycephala cinerea plateni
17 Tesia olivea chiangmaiensis
18 Horornis flavolivaceus kolichisi
19 Erithacus rubecula marionae
20 Erithacus rubecula caucasicus
21 Stiphrornis mabirae sanghensis
22 Cinnyris ludovicensis skye
23 Chloropsis cochinchinensis chlorocephala
24 Carduelis carduelis volgensis
25 Carduelis carduelis ultima
26 Emberiza calandra buturlini
27 Chlorospingus semifuscus xanthothorax
28 Limosa limosa bohaii
29 Gracula religiosa miotera
30 Copsychus malabaricus ngae
31 Tarsiger cyanurus albocoeruleus
Subspecies Reassignments:
1 Anthracothorax prevostii iridescens --> Black-throated Mango
2 Accipiter cirrocephalus rosselianus --> Brown Goshawk
3 Otus manadensis kalidupae --> Moluccan Scops-Owl
4 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus minor/cinerascens --> Golden-bellied Flycatcher
5 Sericornis beccarii imitator/idenburgi/boreonesioticus/pontifex --> Large Scrubwren
6 Prinia lepida hufufae --> Graceful Prinia
Reinstated subspecies
1 Stiphrornis mabirae mabirae
Deleted subspecies
1 Riccordia bracei elegans
2 Todiramphus cinnamominus cinnamominus/miyakoensis --> cinnamominus
3 Tyto alba affinis --> poensis
4 Megascops albogularis aequatoralis --> albogularis
5 Vireo plumbeus pinicolus -- > plumbeus
6 Terpsiphone affinis madzoedi/australis --> affinis
7 Horornis flavolivaceus alexandri --> weberi
8 Cyanoderma ruficeps rufipectus --> ruficeps
9 Erithacus rubecula balcanicus --> rubecula
10 Chloropsis cochinchinensis icterophala --> moluccensis
11 Passer montanus iubilaeus --> saturatus
12 Emberiza cirlus nigrostriata --> cirlus
13 Chaetura spinicaudus latriostris --> spinicaudus
14 Caracara plancus pallidus/auduboni --> cheriway
15 Horornis diphone viridis --> riukiuensis
16 Dactylortyx thoracicus taylori --> salvadoranus
New species have all been added. Also deleted subspecies 3 and 14. And new subspecies 12 and 26. And sci name change 5. A few of the sci name changes will be too large to commit eg Spotted Dove, though not sure where the cut-off is
@loarie what is the cut-off for number of observations for which we should not commit a change, in order to avoid slowing down iNat? Related to this, there are still a few 2021 changes waiting to be made eg Ruby-crowned Kinglet and Double-crested Cormorant genus changes
@rjq I know that @loarie added the kinglet and cormorant as deviations to the checklist in September, so I'm under the impression it's not going to happen, even though I've closed out several flags throughout the year from users demanding why we haven't changed them yet. I'm not a super technical guy but there's got to be something we can do to easily make the change and not slow down iNat. This is also keeping in my mind we're going to run into the same problem this year. If 40,000 obs is too much to commit a change, how are we going to split the Eurasian Collared-Dove?
done the subspecies rearrangements except for Golden-bellied Flycatcher, which may be more complicated. And split #9
Updated list:
Splits:
1 Blue-throated Piping-Guan
2 Crested Guineafowl
3 Ring-necked Pheasant
4 Crestless Fireback
5 Crested Fireback
6 Chestnut-necklaced Partridge
10 Gray-green Fruit-Dove
11 Yellow-bibbed Fruit-Dove
13 Spice Imperial-Dove
14 Mountain Imperial-Dove
15 Greater Antillean Nightjar
16 Antillean Mango
17 Amethyst-throated Sunangel
18 Collared Inca
19 Golden-bellied Starfrontlet
20 Booted Racket-tail
21 Broad-billed Hummingbird
22 Streamertail
23 Green-bellied Hummingbird
25 Salvin's Prion
26 Woolly-necked Stork
28 Bicolored Hawk
31 Great Horned Owl
33 Morepork
34 Blue-banded Kingfisher
35 Sulawesi Dwarf-Kingfisher
36 Lilac-cheeked Kingfisher
37 Blue-breasted Bee-eater
38 Green Bee-eater
39 Russet-throated Puffbird
40 Scarlet-banded Barbet
41 Chestnut-belted Gnateater
42 Buffy Tuftedcheek
43 Green Manakin
44 Blue-crowned Manakin
45 Olive-striped Flycatcher
46 Yellow-margined Flycatcher
47 Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
48 Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
49 Gray Elaenia
50 Rough-legged Tyrannulet
51 Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant
52 Bran-colored Tyrannulet
53 Tropical Pewee
54 Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant
55 Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant
56 White-browed Scrubwren
58 Crested Shrike-tit
59 Cape Batis
60 Blue Vanga
62 Black-throated Prinia
63 Mountain Leaf Warbler
64 Sulawesi Leaf Warbler
66 Gray-cheeked Tit-babbler
67 Chestnut-winged Babbler
68 Coral-billed Scimitar-Babbler
69 Chestnut-backed Scimitar-Babbler
71 Asian Pied Starling
72 Vinous-breasted Starling
73 Groundscraper Thrush
74 White-rumped Shama
75 Blue-breasted Flycatcher
78 Vivid Niltava
79 Flores Jungle-Flycatcher
80 Forest Robin
81 Bocage's Akalat
82 White-browed Shortwing
85 White-crowned Forktail
88 Red-breasted Wheatear
90 Black-necked Weaver
91 Vieillot's Weaver
92 Red-collared Widowbird
93 Australian Pipit
94 Short-billed Pipit
95 Black-faced Bunting
96 Eastern Meadowlark
97 Masked Yellowthroat
98 Three-striped Warbler
99 Golden-bellied Warbler
Lumps:
29 Maghreb Lark --> Crested Lark
34 Sunda Bush Warbler --> Aberrant Bush Warbler
English Name Changes:
2 Nahan's Francolin --> Nahan's Partridge
3 Pternistis species to be renamed as "spurfowl" instead of "francolin"
4 Green-spectacled Green-Pigeon --> Sumatran Green-Pigeon
5 Remove hyphen in "Palm Swift" in Cypsiurus and Tachornis
6 Paraguayan Snipe --> Pantanal Snipe
7 Minahassa Masked-Owl --> Minahasa Masked-Owl
8 Euscarthmus species to be renamed as "scrub-tyrant" instead of "pygmy-tyrant"
9 Woodward's Batis --> Woodwards' Batis
10 Common Grasshopper-Warbler --> Common Grasshopper Warbler
11 Black-winged Starling --> Black-winged Myna
12 Remove hyphen in "jungle-flycatcher" in Cyornis, Eumyias and Vauriella
13 Ryuku Flycatcher --> Ryukyu Flycatcher
14 Olivaceous Saltator --> Olive-gray Saltator
17 Forest Woodhoopoe --> Forest Scimitarbill
18 Tumbes Tyrant --> Tumbes Chat-Tyrant
19 Cameroon Francolin --> Mount Cameroon Spurfowl
20 Dusky Friarbird --> Morotai Friarbird
Scientific Name Changes:
3 Phoeniculus castaneiceps --> Rhinopomastus castaneiceps
4 Tumbezia salvini --> Ochthoeca salvini
6 Correct Nesoenas picturata names but changing species/subspecies suffixes from "a" to "us"
7 Streptopelia chinensis --> Spilopelia chinensis
8 Streptopelia senegalensis --> Spilopelia senegalensis
9 Caprimulgus binotatus --> Veles binotatus
10 Hydrobates macrodactyla --> Hydrobates macrodactylus
11 Bubo species Akun Eagle-Owl, Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Shelley's Eagle-Owl, Dusky Eagle-Owl, Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl, Barred Eagle-Owl and Philippine Eagle-Owl --> Ketupa (remember to feminize names, though Clements doesn't; they acknowledge they made this mistake, and they intend on fixing it in 2023)
12 Ciccaba -- Strix
13 Merops cyanophrys najdanus --> Merops cyanophrys muscatensis
14 Milvago chimachima cordata --> Daptrius chimachima cordatus
15 Phalcoboenus and Milvago --> Daptrius
16 Yellow-tailed, Carnaby's and Baudin's Black-Cockatoo --> Zanda
17 Vini solitarius --> Vini solitaria
18 Glossoptila goldiei --> Glossoptilus goldiei
19 Caatinga Antwren --> Herpsilochmus
20 Crowned, Jelski's, Golden-browed and Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant --> Silvicultrix
21 Lesser Kiskadee --> Philohydor
22 Striated Grassbird genus change (Clements said this was a mistake, let's not commit this one)
23 Pygmy Tit --> Aegithalos
24 Heleia javanica elongatus --> Heleia javanica elongata
25 Laticilla burnesii nepalicola --> Laticilla burnesii nipalensis
26 Rufous and Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush --> Stizorhina
27 Chinese Thrush --> Turdus
28 Sharpe's Longclaw --> Macronyx
29 Gray-headed Warbler --> Myiothlypis
30 Clytolaema --> Heliodaxa
31 Carduelis carduelis loudoni --> Carduelis carduelis brevirostris
32 Malagasy Turtle-Dove --> Nesoenas
33 Rufous Potoo --> Phyllaemulor
35 Silvery-cheeked Antshrike --> Sakesphoroides
36 Serra do Mar, Sao Paulo Tyrannulet, and Southern, Marbled-faced, Antioquia, Variegated, Venezuelan, Spectacled and Chapman's Bristle-Tyrant --> Pogonotriccus
37 Golden-Bulbuls --> Hypsipetes
38 Matinan, Blue-fronted and Timor Blue Flycatcher --> Eumyias
39 Gray-winged Robin-Chat --> Sheppardia
40 Madanga --> Anthus
New Subspecies:
21 Stiphrornis mabirae sanghensis
Subspecies Reassignments:
4 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus minor/cinerascens --> Golden-bellied Flycatcher
Reinstated subspecies:
1 Stiphrornis mabirae mabirae
Deleted subspecies:
1 Riccordia bracei elegans
2 Todiramphus cinnamominus cinnamominus/miyakoensis --> cinnamominus
4 Megascops albogularis aequatoralis --> albogularis
5 Vireo plumbeus pinicolus -- > plumbeus
6 Terpsiphone affinis madzoedi/australis --> affinis
7 Horornis flavolivaceus alexandri --> weberi
8 Cyanoderma ruficeps rufipectus --> ruficeps
9 Erithacus rubecula balcanicus --> rubecula
10 Chloropsis cochinchinensis icterophala --> moluccensis
11 Passer montanus iubilaeus --> saturatus
12 Emberiza cirlus nigrostriata --> cirlus
14 Caracara plancus pallidus/auduboni --> cheriway
15 Horornis diphone viridis --> riukiuensis
16 Dactylortyx thoracicus taylori --> salvadoranus
Thanks for your help with the Clements update.
I updated the framework to talk to Clements v2022 so you can see the relationship unknowns here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_frameworks/2/relationship_unknown
please create, swap, and split taxa as needed, following the tutorials (Section A, B, D) here:
https://inaturalist.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/folders/151000147064
Please hold off on any swaps/splits where the input taxon has more than 10k obs. If you can make a note here I can schedule those to run spaced out and at off hours so we don't put too much load on the site
@loarie Here's a list of 10k+ changes.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet genus swap (2021 change)
Double-crested Cormorant genus swap (2021 change)
Splits:
Ring-necked Pheasant
31 Great Horned Owl
96 Eastern Meadowlark
Genus Swaps:
7 Spotted Dove
Thanksgiving Updated List
Splits:
1 Blue-throated Piping-Guan
2 Crested Guineafowl
3 Ring-necked Pheasant
5 Crested Fireback
6 Chestnut-necklaced Partridge
15 Greater Antillean Nightjar
17 Amethyst-throated Sunangel
18 Collared Inca
19 Golden-bellied Starfrontlet
20 Booted Racket-tail
22 Streamertail
23 Green-bellied Hummingbird
25 Salvin's Prion
26 Woolly-necked Stork
28 Bicolored Hawk
31 Great Horned Owl
33 Morepork
34 Blue-banded Kingfisher
35 Sulawesi Dwarf-Kingfisher
36 Lilac-cheeked Kingfisher
37 Blue-breasted Bee-eater
38 Green Bee-eater
39 Russet-throated Puffbird
40 Scarlet-banded Barbet
41 Chestnut-belted Gnateater
42 Buffy Tuftedcheek
43 Green Manakin
44 Blue-crowned Manakin
45 Olive-striped Flycatcher
46 Yellow-margined Flycatcher
47 Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
48 Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
49 Gray Elaenia
50 Rough-legged Tyrannulet
51 Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant
52 Bran-colored Tyrannulet
53 Tropical Pewee
54 Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant
55 Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant
56 White-browed Scrubwren
58 Crested Shrike-tit
59 Cape Batis
60 Blue Vanga
62 Black-throated Prinia
63 Mountain Leaf Warbler
64 Sulawesi Leaf Warbler
66 Gray-cheeked Tit-babbler
67 Chestnut-winged Babbler
68 Coral-billed Scimitar-Babbler
69 Chestnut-backed Scimitar-Babbler
71 Asian Pied Starling
72 Vinous-breasted Starling
73 Groundscraper Thrush
74 White-rumped Shama
75 Blue-breasted Flycatcher
78 Vivid Niltava
79 Flores Jungle-Flycatcher
81 Bocage's Akalat
82 White-browed Shortwing
85 White-crowned Forktail
88 Red-breasted Wheatear
90 Black-necked Weaver
91 Vieillot's Weaver
92 Red-collared Widowbird
93 Australian Pipit
94 Short-billed Pipit
95 Black-faced Bunting
96 Eastern Meadowlark
97 Masked Yellowthroat
98 Three-striped Warbler
99 Golden-bellied Warbler
Lumps:
29 Maghreb Lark --> Crested Lark
Scientific Name Changes:
6 Correct Nesoenas picturata names but changing species/subspecies suffixes from "a" to "us"
7 Streptopelia chinensis --> Spilopelia chinensis
8 Streptopelia senegalensis --> Spilopelia senegalensis
9 Caprimulgus binotatus --> Veles binotatus
10 Hydrobates macrodactyla --> Hydrobates macrodactylus
11 Bubo species Akun Eagle-Owl, Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Shelley's Eagle-Owl, Dusky Eagle-Owl, Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl, Barred Eagle-Owl and Philippine Eagle-Owl --> Ketupa (remember to feminize names, though Clements doesn't; they acknowledge they made this mistake, and they intend on fixing it in 2023)
13 Merops cyanophrys najdanus --> Merops cyanophrys muscatensis
14 Milvago chimachima cordata --> Daptrius chimachima cordatus
15 Phalcoboenus and Milvago --> Daptrius
16 Yellow-tailed, Carnaby's and Baudin's Black-Cockatoo --> Zanda
17 Vini solitarius --> Vini solitaria
18 Glossoptila goldiei --> Glossoptilus goldiei
19 Caatinga Antwren --> Herpsilochmus
20 Crowned, Jelski's, Golden-browed and Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant --> Silvicultrix
25 Laticilla burnesii nepalicola --> Laticilla burnesii nipalensis
26 Rufous and Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush --> Stizorhina
27 Chinese Thrush --> Turdus
28 Sharpe's Longclaw --> Macronyx
29 Gray-headed Warbler --> Myiothlypis
30 Clytolaema --> Heliodaxa
31 Carduelis carduelis loudoni --> Carduelis carduelis brevirostris
32 Malagasy Turtle-Dove --> Nesoenas
33 Rufous Potoo --> Phyllaemulor
35 Silvery-cheeked Antshrike --> Sakesphoroides
36 Serra do Mar, Sao Paulo Tyrannulet, and Southern, Marbled-faced, Antioquia, Variegated, Venezuelan, Spectacled and Chapman's Bristle-Tyrant --> Pogonotriccus
37 Golden-Bulbuls --> Hypsipetes
38 Matinan, Blue-fronted and Timor Blue Flycatcher --> Eumyias
39 Gray-winged Robin-Chat --> Sheppardia
Subspecies Reassignments:
4 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus minor/cinerascens --> Golden-bellied Flycatcher
Christmas Updated List; not a lot left guys!
Splits:
1 Blue-throated Piping-Guan
2 Crested Guineafowl
3 Ring-necked Pheasant
31 Great Horned Owl
33 Morepork
41 Chestnut-belted Gnateater
44 Blue-crowned Manakin
45 Olive-striped Flycatcher
46 Yellow-margined Flycatcher
47 Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
48 Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
49 Gray Elaenia
50 Rough-legged Tyrannulet
51 Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant
52 Bran-colored Tyrannulet
53 Tropical Pewee
54 Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant
55 Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant
56 White-browed Scrubwren
58 Crested Shrike-tit
59 Cape Batis
60 Blue Vanga
62 Black-throated Prinia
63 Mountain Leaf Warbler
64 Sulawesi Leaf Warbler
66 Gray-cheeked Tit-babbler
67 Chestnut-winged Babbler
68 Coral-billed Scimitar-Babbler
69 Chestnut-backed Scimitar-Babbler
71 Asian Pied Starling
72 Vinous-breasted Starling
73 Groundscraper Thrush
74 White-rumped Shama
75 Blue-breasted Flycatcher
78 Vivid Niltava
79 Flores Jungle-Flycatcher
81 Bocage's Akalat
82 White-browed Shortwing
85 White-crowned Forktail
88 Red-breasted Wheatear
90 Black-necked Weaver
91 Vieillot's Weaver
92 Red-collared Widowbird
93 Australian Pipit
94 Short-billed Pipit
95 Black-faced Bunting
96 Eastern Meadowlark
97 Masked Yellowthroat
98 Three-striped Warbler
99 Golden-bellied Warbler
Lumps:
29 Maghreb Lark --> Crested Lark
Scientific Name Changes:
7 Streptopelia chinensis --> Spilopelia chinensis
8 Streptopelia senegalensis --> Spilopelia senegalensis
11 Bubo species Akun Eagle-Owl, Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Shelley's Eagle-Owl, Dusky Eagle-Owl, Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl, Barred Eagle-Owl and Philippine Eagle-Owl --> Ketupa (remember to feminize names, though Clements doesn't; they acknowledge they made this mistake, and they intend on fixing it in 2023)
20 Crowned, Jelski's, Golden-browed and Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant --> Silvicultrix
25 Laticilla burnesii nepalicola --> Laticilla burnesii nipalensis
26 Rufous and Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush --> Stizorhina
36 Serra do Mar, Sao Paulo Tyrannulet, and Southern, Marbled-faced, Antioquia, Variegated, Venezuelan, Spectacled and Chapman's Bristle-Tyrant --> Pogonotriccus
37 Golden-Bulbuls --> Hypsipetes
38 Matinan, Blue-fronted and Timor Blue Flycatcher --> Eumyias
39 Gray-winged Robin-Chat --> Sheppardia
Subspecies Reassignments:
4 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus minor/cinerascens --> Golden-bellied Flycatcher
Here are a couple errors introduced in this Clements update that'll be fixed in 2023:
1) as mentioned above, Ketupa is feminine, so (despite Clements not changing the spelling of any of these this year) all variable specific/subspecific epithets among the species transferred from Bubo should end up as follows:
Bubo leucostictus -> Ketupa leucosticta
Bubo lacteus -> Ketupa lactea
Bubo coromandus -> Ketupa coromanda (and B. c. coromandus -> K. c. coromanda)
Bubo sumatranus -> Ketupa sumatrana (and B. s. sumatranus -> K. s. sumatrana)
(all other specific/subspecific epithets among taxa transferred to Ketupa - poensis, vosseleri, shelleyi, klossii, nipalensis, blighi, strepitans, philippensis, and mindanensis - are either invariable or would only change between masculine+feminine vs neuter genera)
2) Nesotriccus is masculine, so (despite Clements not changing the spelling of any of these this year) all variable specific/subspecific epithets among the taxa moved from (feminine) Phaeomyias (with the four-way split of Phaeomyias murina + merging of Phaeomyias into Nesotriccus) should end up as follows:
Phaeomyias murina split into Nesotriccus murinus, Nesotriccus incomtus, Nesotriccus maranonicus, and Nesotriccus tumbezanus
Phaeomyias murina tumbezana -> Nesotriccus tumbezanus tumbezanus
Phaeomyias murina inflava -> Nesotriccus tumbezanus inflavus
Phaeomyias murina maranonica -> Nesotriccus maranonicus
Phaeomyias murina eremonoma -> Nesotriccus incomtus eremonomus
Phaeomyias murina incomta -> Nesotriccus incomtus incomtus
Phaeomyias murina murina -> Nesotriccus murinus murinus
(ssp. wagae of P. murina/N. murinus is invariable)
3) Megalurus palustris (and thus the genus Megalurus) was erroneously moved into Cincloramphus, which contradicts both the phylogeny of Locustellidae (the two genera aren't closely related, and merging them creates a polyphyletic genus) and the rules of zoological nomenclature (as Megalurus Horsfield 1821 has priority over Cincloramphus Gould 1838 should the genera be synonymized - regardless, I suppose for stability reasons it's better that they only changed the one scientific name rather than the scientific names of every species in the latter genus, but it'd be much better still if they hadn't changed anything here at all). Megalurus palustris should be left as is.
One more note re: an already-committed change: just a heads-up that since Otus is masculine, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1424399 should be changed to Otus podarginus, as it is in Clements.
(I'll get going on a couple splits, starting with the shrike-tits)
(edit: Falcunculus frontatus and Ninox novaeseelandiae splits done)
New Year's Update: I've got a lot of it done including fixing @maxkirsch mention of Otus podarginus
Splits
1 Blue-throated Piping-Guan
2 Crested Guineafowl
3 Ring-necked Pheasant
31 Great Horned Owl
41 Chestnut-belted Gnateater
44 Blue-crowned Manakin
45 Olive-striped Flycatcher
48 Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
49 Gray Elaenia
52 Bran-colored Tyrannulet
53 Tropical Pewee
54 Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant
55 Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant
56 White-browed Scrubwren
62 Black-throated Prinia
63 Mountain Leaf Warbler
64 Sulawesi Leaf Warbler
66 Gray-cheeked Tit-babbler
67 Chestnut-winged Babbler
68 Coral-billed Scimitar-Babbler
69 Chestnut-backed Scimitar-Babbler
71 Asian Pied Starling
72 Vinous-breasted Starling
73 Groundscraper Thrush
74 White-rumped Shama
85 White-crowned Forktail
90 Black-necked Weaver
91 Vieillot's Weaver
92 Red-collared Widowbird
96 Eastern Meadowlark
98 Three-striped Warbler
Lumps:
29 Maghreb Lark --> Crested Lark (note: taxon change created but both species were polytypic and there was discussion about moving Maghreb Lark reports to its appropriate subspecies)
Latin Name Changes:
7 Streptopelia chinensis --> Spilopelia chinensis
8 Streptopelia senegalensis --> Spilopelia senegalensis
11 Bubo species Akun Eagle-Owl, Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Shelley's Eagle-Owl, Dusky Eagle-Owl, Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl, Barred Eagle-Owl and Philippine Eagle-Owl --> Ketupa (remember to feminize names, though Clements doesn't; they acknowledge they made this mistake, and they intend on fixing it in 2023)
20 Crowned, Jelski's, Golden-browed and Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant --> Silvicultrix
36 Serra do Mar, Sao Paulo Tyrannulet, and Southern, Marbled-faced, Antioquia, Variegated, Venezuelan, Spectacled and Chapman's Bristle-Tyrant --> Pogonotriccus
Subspecies Reassignments:
4 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus minor/cinerascens --> Golden-bellied Flycatcher
Should finally have some time over the next 2 weeks
Everything is done except for taxon changes with high obs counts. @loarie
Ruby-crowned Kinglet genus swap (2021 change)
Double-crested Cormorant genus swap (2021 change)
Ring-necked Pheasant split
Great Horned Owl split
Eastern Meadowlark split
Spotted Dove genus swap
Laughing Dove genus swap
A split for Ring-necked Pheasant would be complicated, as although the vast majority of observations from Japan are of Green Pheasant, there are also genuine Ring-necked Pheasant observations from Japan. I have swapped the subspecies into Green Pheasant, which leaves only a few misIDs that could be moved over by hand - of the 9 remaining Ring-necked IDs on Japan, at least 3 are genuine Ring-necked and a couple more may be hybrids https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?locale=en-GB&place_id=6737&preferred_place_id=11461&taxon_id=981
Alternatively, the split could be done and the genuine Ring-neckeds could be moved back by hand...
@birdwhisperer thanks for all your efforts with these. There were a few subspecies that hadn't changed their name, have corrected these, a couple of genus changes still needed doing (Scaly Ground Roller and White-rumped Falcon). There was also one split outstanding - Blue-crowned Manakin - have done the split but I haven't updated the ranges, if you could do these that would be great.
Also, Clements had actually made 4 more genus changes that weren't listed as a change in the spreadsheet: Neosericornis, Arizelopsar, Bocagia and Clytoceyx>Dacelo, so put these through as well
@loarie would you like the >10k changes to be drafted as taxon changes? So far this has only been done for the Spilopelia genus changes. Or should they be left undrafted - which avoids the risk of someone committing them without realising the consequences
Thanks so much for all your help on this -amazing amount of work you did and hugely appreciated.
Yes, if you could create inactive output taxa, atlases/taxon_ranges, and draft changes for any of these remaining changes that would be great. Assuming we handle Ring-necked Pheasant without a split, they are:
Ruby-crowned Kinglet genus swap (2021 change)
Regulus -> Regulus, Corthylio
..Regulus calendula -> Corthylio calendula
....Regulus calendula calendula -> Corthylio calendula calendula
....Regulus calendula grinnelli -> Corthylio calendula grinnelli
....Regulus calendula obscurus -> Corthylio calendula obscurus
Double-crested Cormorant genus swap (2021 change)
Phalacrocorax -> Phalacrocorax, Nannopterum
..Phalacrocorax auritus -> Nannopterum auritum
....Phalacrocorax auritus albociliatus -> Nannopterum auritum albociliatum
....Phalacrocorax auritus auritus -> Nannopterum auritum auritum
....Phalacrocorax auritus cincinatus -> Nannopterum auritum cincinatum
....Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus -> Nannopterum auritum floridanum
....Phalacrocorax auritus heuretum -> Nannopterum auritum heuretum
Spotted Dove & Laughing Dove genus swap
Streptopelia -> Streptopelia, Spilopelia
..Streptopelia chinensis -> Spilopelia chinensis
....Streptopelia chinensis chinensis -> Spilopelia chinensis chinensis
....Streptopelia chinensis suratensis -> Spilopelia chinensis suratensis
....Streptopelia chinensis tigrina -> Spilopelia chinensis tigrina
..Streptopelia senegalensis -> Spilopelia senegalensis
....Streptopelia senegalensis aegyptiaca -> Spilopelia senegalensis aegyptiaca
....Streptopelia senegalensis cambayensis -> Spilopelia senegalensis cambayensis
....Streptopelia senegalensis ermanni -> Spilopelia senegalensis ermanni
....Streptopelia senegalensis phoenicophila -> Spilopelia senegalensis phoenicophila
....Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis -> Spilopelia senegalensis senegalensis
....Streptopelia senegalensis sokotrae -> Spilopelia senegalensis sokotrae
Great Horned Owl split
Bubo virginianus -> Bubo virginianus, Bubo magellanicus
..Bubo virginianus magellanicus -> Bubo magellanicus
Eastern Meadowlark split
Sturnella magna -> Sturnella magna, Sturnella lilianae
..Sturnella magna auropectoralis -> Sturnella lilianae auropectoralis
..Sturnella magna lilianae -> Sturnella lilianae lilianae
I'm going to start (from the top) committing each of these now, but it might take a while - I starting running the Ruby crowned split on a test server today to get a sense of how it will go, but last time I tried that it took about a week to process so it might take a while to get through these remaining 5. I'll report back as they are committed in production
Thanks again
Ruby-crowned Kinglet genus swap (2021 change)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_swaps/106980
committed - should take about a day to process
draft Phalacrocorax split (with all genera atlased): https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_splits/122565
Note that rather than just splitting Nannopterum from Phalacrocorax, this should be a full 6- (or 7-) way genus split, since Phalacrocorax wasn't split back in 2021 when all other currently-recognized cormorant genera (besides Microcarbo * ) were carved off. Accordingly, most if not all Phalacrocorax IDs older than a year or so (plus some more recent) may refer to other genera than Phalacrocorax and Nannopterum. Perhaps the most notable example in terms of number of IDs affected is genus-level Phalacrocorax IDs along the Pacific coast of North America (where Urile and Nannopterum co-occur), all of which correspond post-split to either Urile (if double-crested can be ruled out, leaving only Brandt's and pelagic [plus red-faced in Alaska]) or Phalacrocoracidae (if double-crested can't be ruled out) and thus should all be shifted up to Phalacrocoracidae, but in the event of a Phalacrocorax-Nannopterum-only split would be erroneously swapped to Nannopterum.
* (nor did I split it back in 2016 when I moved the relevant species to Microcarbo, so there's a chance some pre-2016 Phalacrocorax IDs in Africa, Eurasia, and/or Australasia refer to species now in that genus, so it's probably not a bad idea to include Microcarbo in the split as well)
Thanks - FWIW, Ruby crowned kinglet may be experiencing some memory issues so I'm going to get that sorted before proceeding - its still processing/may need to be killed
We fixed a few bugs and I think https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_swaps/106980 is sorted let me know if you see anything else. I'll move on to Double-crested Cormorant next
Double-crested Cormorant genus swap is done
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/123569
moving on to Streptopelia -> Streptopelia, Spilopelia
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/124013
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/124017
Had already drafted the senegalensis swap https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/121565 and the genus split (atlassed) https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/121567
I'll go ahead and commit the cormorant genus split in a bit - thanks!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144549/edit
This Father ID should be changed back to Streptopelia instead of Spilopelia, right?
thanks I committed https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/121567
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144549 is inactive so it doesn't really matter
I'm now working on
Bubo virginianus -> Bubo virginianus, Bubo magellanicus
..Bubo virginianus magellanicus -> Bubo magellanicus
@winifred_byrd done
@loarie apologies, Max pointed out that I had forgotten to include Nesoenas, so will need to repeat the split - see new draft https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/124210
I reverted https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/121567 and and recommitted adding Nesoenas like this https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/124210
Can folks look at the taxon ranges I made and make atlases here https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/124233 ?
@loarie, just in a first pass, the Sturnella lilianae / magna ranges could be expanded outward in a few directions but they look good overall. There is one error, though. The Oaxaca birds should be S. magna, not S. lilianae
Thanks for everyone's help, I'm waiting on atlases for this one S. magna/S. lilianae https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/124233
@loarie, I just put together draft atlases for S. magna and lilianae
Aweseome thanks - I think they're a bit too complex, when I click 'Analyze IDs' here https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/124233 it times out
can you unexplode a few places to the point where the Analyze ID tool works?
Its ok to roll back some IDs in places where they overlap
Ok, done. There is now one observation in overlapping atlases, but it's misidentified so it's fine if that identification goes up to genus level
looks great thank you - I'll commit
@loarie, just checking if you were going to commit the Sturnella change or if you would like me to do it
I can do it
Clements v2022 was released October 25, 2022 and I've noticed some curators have already jumped on a couple of changes. I think the path we took last year was the most affective, so let's instead of doing the changes we want in effect immediately, let's compile all the changes and checked them off when they're done. I'm currently in the process of doing this.