ALL THE WORLD’S BIRDS PART SEVEN 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
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)
