Taxonomic Swap 116231
(Committed on 2022-10-31)
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Thanks for tagging me before making the swap! In April I went through and corrected some observations, based on: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110369321 and some private conversations, and I was worried that it would be a wasted effort. I think all IDs of O. rutilus should be swapped to O. rutilus rutilus and all IDs of O. madagascariensis to O. rutilus madagascariensis as I think this is how most people intended their IDs (and it would save me the effort of having to reID some observations).
@brennafarrell Thoughts on this?
I'm starting some Clements v2022 updates and one of them is the lumping of the Torotoroka Scops-Owl (O. madagascariensis) with Madagascar Scops-Owl (O. rutilus), both of which you're the top identifier for. Anyway, I can easily implement the new taxonomy into iNat by swapping O. madagascariensis with O. rutilus madagascariensis and then adding O. r. rutilus but that would mean one subspecies would have 86 observations and the other 0. But I'm assuming all O. rutilus sensu stricto observations are identified as that subspecies instead of the complex as a whole, so I was thought we could re-add O. rutilus and transferring the old O. rutilus to O. rutilus rutilus.