Country Guide MYANMAR Updates
This ATWB eBook incorporates and expands on the contents of former Interactive Checklist: NON-PENINSULAR MYANMAR.
The remainder of this page details how changes to the IOC bird list impacted on the contents of this compendium eBook for its first annual edition. Only changes affecting species that are regularly present in NON-PENINSULAR Myanmar are listed.
2021 edition IOC bird list v 9.2 -> IOC bird list v 10.2
065/0448 Green-legged Partridge Tropicoperdix chloropus
has been ascribed to a new genus and has a new scientific name.
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303/1794 Red Turtle Dove
has a new English name:
303/1794 Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
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Family: Rallidae – Rails, Crakes & Coots has been revised and resequenced.
The following species have been ascribed to a new or different genus:
201/1239 Slaty-breasted Rail Lewinia striata
201/1281 Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca
201/1275 Black-tailed Crake Zapornia bicolor
201/1269 Brown Crake Zapornia akool
201/1277 Baillon’s Crake Zapornia pusilla
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274/1530 Whimbrel
has a new English name:
274/1530 Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
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Within Order Suliformes, Family: Anhingidae – Anhingas, Darters has been resequenced to precede Family: Phalacrocoracidae – Cormorants, Shags
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120/076F Black Bittern Ixobrychus flavicollis
has been ascribed to a different genus and has a new scientific name.
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Family: Eurylaimidae – Typical Broadbills has been resequenced.
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Family: Pittidae – Pittas has been resequenced.
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Genus Oriolus within Family: Oriolidae – Figbirds, Orioles & Turnagra has been resequenced.
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Genus Dicrurus within single genus Family: Dicruridae – Drongos has been revised and resequenced.
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Family: Pycnonotidae – Bulbuls has been revised and resequenced.
764/6608 Black-headed Bulbul
has been ascribed to a new genus and has a new species epithet. Its scientific name is now:
Brachypodius melanocephalos
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The following species have been ascribed to a new or different genus:
764/6603 Striated Bulbul Alcurus striatus
764/6724 White-headed Bulbul Hypsipetes thompsoni
764/660Y Black-crested Bulbul Rubigula flaviventris
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820/7127 Striated Prinia
has a new English name:
820/7127 Himalayan Prinia Prinia crinigera
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820/7128 Brown Prinia Prinia polychroa
has been split into three species. The species regularly present in Myanmar is:
820/712P Burmese Prinia Prinia cooki
(e Myanmar, nw Thailand, sc China)
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Parrotbills, Fulvettas, Asian Babblers and Myzornis, all formerly in Sylviidae (identifier number ‘836’),
have been moved to new family:
Family: Paradoxornithidae – Parrotbills and allies (identifier number ‘838’)),
which has been sequenced to follow Family: Cisticolidae – Cisticolas & Allies.
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Family: Zosteropidae – White-eyes has been revised and resequenced and has been moved from Part 10 to Part 9 of the IOC bird list.
The following species have been ascribed to a new genus:
840/7537 White-collared Yuhina Parayuhina diademata
840/7530 Striated Yuhina Staphida castaniceps
840/7531 Indochinese Yuhina Staphida torqueola
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Family: Timaliidae – Babblers, Scimitar Babblers has been revised and resequenced.
The following species have been ascribed to a new genus:
824/725F Pin-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis gularis
824/7257 Golden Babbler Cyanoderma chrysaeum
824/7253 Rufous-fronted Babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons
824/7255 Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps
824/7254 Buff-chested Babbler Cyanoderma ambiguum
824/7220 Large Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys hypoleucos
824/7221 Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys erythrogenys
824/7224 Spot-breasted Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys mcclellandi
824/7223 Black-streaked Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys gravivox
824/7240 Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler Stachyris roberti
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Family: Pellorneidae – Ground Babblers has a modified English name and has been revised and resequenced.
The following species have been ascribed to a new or different genus:
828/7273 Yellow-throated Fulvetta Schoeniparus cinereus
828/7274 Rufous-winged Fulvetta Schoeniparus castaneceps
828/7276 Rufous-throated Fulvetta Schoeniparus rufogularis
828/7277 Rusty-capped Fulvetta Schoeniparus dubius
828/7293 Streaked Wren-Babbler Gypsophila brevicaudata
828/7292 Limestone Wren-Babbler Gypsophila crispifrons
828/7306 Long-billed Wren-Babbler Napothera malacoptila
828/7305 Naung Mung Scimitar Babbler Napothera naungmungensis
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Genus Alcippe within Pellorneidae (identifier number ‘828’)
has been moved to new family:
Family: Alcippeidae – Alcippe Fulvettas (identifier number ‘830’)
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Family: Leiothrichidae – Laughingthrushes & Allies has been resequenced.
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Genus Sitta within single genus Family: Sittidae – Nuthatches has been resequenced.
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Genus Ficedula within Family: Muscicapidae – Chats, Old World Flycatchers has been resequenced.
907/8285 Slaty-backed Flycatcher
has had its species epithet changed. Its scientific name is now:
Ficedula erithacus
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907/8305 Pygmy Flycatcher Ficedula hodgsoni
has been ascribed to genus Ficedula, and now has the scientific name which was formerly that of 907/8285 Slaty-backed Flycatcher.
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921/8430 Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker Dicaeum melanozanthum
has a modified scientific name.
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Family: Estrildidae – Waxbills, Munias & Allies has been revised and resequenced.