ALL THE WORLD’S BIRDS PART TWO Updates
On this page you can view how changes to the IOC bird list have impacted on the contents of this ATWB eBook since its first annual edition.
2019 edition -> 2020 edition IOC bird list v 8.2 -> IOC bird list v 9.2
Non-Passerine Orders have been resequenced.
The following families have been moved from elsewhere to Part 2 of the IOC birdlist:
Family: Musophagidae – Turacos from Part 3
Family: Cuculidae – Cuckoos from Part 3
Family: Pteroclidae – Sandgrouse from Part 3
Family: Columbidae – Pigeons, Doves from Part 3
Family: Podicipedidae – Grebes from Part 1
Family: Phoenicopteridae – Flamingos from Part 1
The following families have been moved from Part 2 to elsewhere in the IOC birdlist:
19 Charadriiformes families to Part 3
Family: Rhynochetidae – Kagu to Part 3
Family: Eurypygidae – Sunbittern to Part 3
Family: Cathartidae – New World Vultures to Part 4
Family: Sagittariidae – Secretarybird to Part 4
Family: Pandionidae – Ospreys to Part 4
Family: Accipitridae – Kites, Hawks, Eagles to Part 4
Family: Cariamidae – Seriemas to Part 5
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The following family has a modified English name:
Family: Rallidae – Rails, Crakes & Coots
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Genus Alopecoenas of ground doves has been renamed:
Pampusana
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The Canirallus genus within Family: Sarothruridae – Flufftails has been reassessed and transferred to Family: Rallidae – Rails, Crakes & Coots:
193/1190 Grey-throated Rail
now has the family identifier:
201/1190 Grey-throated Rail Canirallus oculeus
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The following species have been ascribed to a new genus within Family: Sarothruridae – Flufftails:
193/1191 Madagascan Wood Rail Mentocrex kioloides
193/1192 Tsingy Wood Rail Mentocrex beankaensis
2018 edition -> 2019 edition IOC bird list v 7.3 -> IOC bird list v 8.2
201/1299 Black-backed Swamphen Porphyrio indicus
Subspecies viridis resident in s Myanmar to the Malay Peninsula and Vietnam has been re-ascribed to Grey-headed Swamphen, confining the range of Black-backed Swamphen to:
(eastern se Asia, sw Sulawesi)
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245/1405 White-headed Stilt (se ASIA, AUS)
has a new English name:
245/1405 Pied Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus
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286/1598 Grey Noddy
has had its species epithet amended. Its scientific name is now:
Anous albivitta
