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

The following families have modified English names:

Family: Psophodidae – Whipbirds

Family: Vangidae – Vangas & Allies

Family: Artamidae – Woodswallows, Butcherbirds & Allies

Family: Pachycephalidae – Whistlers & Allies

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Part of Family Acanthizidae – Australasian Warblers has been revised and resequenced.

560/5471    Bicolored Mouse-warbler    (highlands of New Guinea)

has been ascribed to a new genus and has a new English name:

560/5471    Bicolored Scrubwren    Aethomyias nigrorufus

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The following species have been ascribed to a new or different genus:

560/5465    Chestnut-rumped Heathwren    Hylacola pyrrhopygia

560/5466    Shy Heathwren    Hylacola cauta

560/5470    Rusty Mouse-warbler    Origma murina

560/5472    Mountain Mouse-warbler    Origma robusta

560/5478    Yellow-throated Scrubwren    Neosericornis citreogularis

560/5473    Pale-billed Scrubwren    Aethomyias spilodera

560/5482    Vogelkop Scrubwren    Aethomyias rufescens

560/5481    Buff-faced Scrubwren    Aethomyias perspicillatus

560/5474    Papuan Scrubwren    Aethomyias papuensis

560/5483    Grey-green Scrubwren    Aethomyias arfakianus

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560/547E    Spotted Scrubwren    Sericornis maculatus    (sc, sw, wc Australia)

has been split from:

560/5476    White-browed Scrubwren    Sericornis frontalis    (e, se, sc Australia)

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The Psophodidae family has been divided into two:

Family: Psophodidae – Whipbirds  (identifier number ‘592’)

and new family:

Family: Cinclosomatidae – Jewel-babblers, Quail-thrushes  (identifier number ‘593’)

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608/564E    Albertine Sooty Boubou    Laniarius holomelas    (n, c Albertine Rift)

has been split from:

608/5644    Mountain Sooty Boubou    Laniarius poensis

(Bioko Island, wc Cameroon, se Nigeria)

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654/5830    Crested Shriketit    Falcunculus frontatus    (Australia)

has been moved from:

Family: Pachycephalidae – Whistlers & Allies  (identifier number ‘656’)

to new monotypic family:

Family: Falcunculidae – Shriketit  (identifier number ‘654’)

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The 7 species listed below have been split from Little Shrikethrush, which has a new English name:

656/5875    Arafura Shrikethrush    Colluricincla megarhyncha

(w, sc New Guinea, Aru Islands, n Australia)

The split species are:

656/583T    Biak Whistler    Pachycephala melanorhyncha

(Biak Island off nw New Guinea)

656/58F0    Variable Shrikethrush    Colluricincla fortis    (c, se New Guinea)

656/58F1    Waigeo Shrikethrush    Colluricincla affinis

(Waigeo Island off w New Guinea)

656/58F2    Mamberamo Shrikethrush   Colluricincla obscura    (nc New Guinea)

656/58F3    Tagula Shrikethrush    Colluricincla discolor

(Tagula Island off se New Guinea)

656/58F4    Sepik-Ramu Shrikethrush    Colluricincla tappenbecki

(ne, ec New Guinea)

656/58F5    Rufous Shrikethrush    Colluricincla rufogaster

(coastal ec, ne Australia, sc New Guinea)

 

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