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.

The contents of this eBook have been incorporated into a compendium eBook. For the impact of IOC bird list updates from 2021 edition onwards, click here.

2019 edition -> 2020 edition     IOC bird list v 8.2 -> IOC bird list v 9.2

The following families have modified English names:

Family: Eurylaimidae – Typical Broadbills

Family: Vangidae – Vangas & Allies

Family: Artamidae – Woodswallows, Butcherbirds & Allies

Family: Pachycephalidae – Whistlers & Allies

Family: Vireonidae – Vireos, Greenlets, Shrike-babblers

Family: Oriolidae – Figbirds, Orioles, Turnagra

Family: Cettiidae – Cettia Bush Warblers & Allies

Family: Phylloscopidae – Leaf Warblers & Allies

Family: Acrocephalidae – Reed Warblers & Allies

Family: Locustellidae – Grassbirds & Allies

Family: Cisticolidae – Cisticolas & Allies

Family: Leiothrichidae – Laughingthrushes & Allies

Family: Estrildidae – Waxbills, Munias & Allies

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660/589F    Steppe Grey Shrike    Lanius pallidirostris

(winters/on passage NW, nw NC)

has been lumped with and is now represented by a subspecies of:

660/5898    Great Grey Shrike    Lanius excubitor

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832/7399    Wynaad Laughingthrush    (wc, sw India)

has a new English name:

832/7399    Wayanad Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus delesserti

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Family Leiothrichidae – Laughingthrushes & Allies has been revised and resequenced. As part of this review the following species have been ascribed to a new or different genus:

832/7408    Striated Laughingthrush    Grammatoptila striata

832/742Y    Bar-throated Minla    Actinodura strigula

832/742F    Blue-winged Minla    Actinodura cyanouroptera

832/7445    Rufous-backed Sibia    Leioptila annectens

832/734Y    Large Grey Babbler    Argya malcolmi

832/7387    Ashy-headed Laughingthrush    Argya cinereifrons

832/7348    Striated Babbler    Argya earlei

832/7346    Common Babbler    Argya caudata

832/7347    Afghan Babbler    Argya huttoni

832/7357    Yellow-billed Babbler    Argya affinis

832/7355    Jungle Babbler    Argya striata

832/7356    Orange-billed Babbler    Argya rufescens

832/734F    Slender-billed Babbler    Argya longirostris

832/7354    Rufous Babbler    Argya subrufa

832/7386    Spotted Laughingthrush    Ianthocincla ocellata

832/7380    Moustached Laughingthrush    Ianthocincla cineracea

832/7381    Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush    Ianthocincla rufogularis

832/7396    Rufous-necked Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus ruficollis

832/7393    Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus nuchalis

832/7397    Yellow-throated Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus galbanus

832/739F    Rufous-vented Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus gularis

832/7399    Wayanad Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus delesserti

832/738Y    White-throated Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus albogularis

832/7392    Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus pectoralis

832/7400    Grey-sided Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus caerulatus

832/736Y    Mount Victoria Babax    Pterorhinus woodi

832/7403    White-browed Laughingthrush    Pterorhinus sannio

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840/756Y    Oriental White-eye

has a new English name:

840/756Y    Indian White-eye    Zosterops palpebrosus

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Four subspecies of:

907/8173    Hill Blue Flycatcher    Cyornis banyumas

have been split to form a species that has been allocated the same English name:

907/817E    Hill Blue Flycatcher    Cyornis whitei    (ne India)

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907/82F0    Himalayan Shortwing    Brachypteryx cruralis

(ne India, e, locally c Himalayas)

has been split from:

907/8239    White-browed Shortwing    (Philippines, w, sc Indonesia)

 

2018 edition -> 2019 edition     IOC bird list v 7.3 -> IOC bird list v 8.2

The following families have a modified English name:

Family: Vireonidae – Vireos, Greenlets & Shrike-babblers

Family: Oriolidae – Figbirds, Orioles & Turnagra

Family Pnoepygidae – Cupwings

Family: Timaliidae – Babblers, Scimitar Babblers

Family: Leiothrichidae – Laughingthrushes and Allies

Family: Elachuridae – Elachura

Family: Fringillidae – Finches, Euphonias

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All species that were formerly members of Tephrodornithidae – Woodshrikes and Allies (Family code ‘600’) have been transferred to another, expanded family (Family code ‘616’):

Family: Vangidae – Vangas and Allies

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Family Campephagidae – Cuckooshrikes has been revised and resequenced. As part of this review, the following species have been ascribed to a different genus:

636/5776    Black-winged Cuckooshrike    Lalage melaschistos

636/5778    Black-headed Cuckooshrike    Lalage melanoptera

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The subspecies of the following two species of Shrike have been reassessed:

660/5898    Great Grey Shrike    Lanius excubitor

660/5899    Southern Grey Shrike    Lanius meridionalis

The birds that are resident throughout much of the Indian Subcontintent region, wintering in the south, and earlier thought to be subspecies lahtora of Southern Grey Shrike, have now been identified as being a subspecies of Great Grey Shrike. [Also as part of this review, Lanius meridionalis now has the English name Iberian Grey Shrike.]

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672/601Y    Crow-billed Drongo

has had its species epithet amended. Its scientific name is now:

Dicrurus annectens

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The Eurasian Magpie Pica pica species complex in Family Corvidae – Crows, Jays has been revised. As part of this revision, the birds that are resident in the eastern Himalayas have been split to a newly defined species:

684/62F2    Black-rumped Magpie    Pica bottanensis

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Family Pnoepygidae – Wren-babblers has had its English name changed to Pnoepygidae – Cupwings, with the former Wren-babbler species in the family now having new English names:

772/6807    Scaly-breasted Cupwing    Pnoepyga albiventer

772/680F    Nepal Cupwing    Pnoepyga immaculata

772/680Y    Pygmy Cupwing    Pnoepyga pusilla

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780/6833    Mountain Tailorbird

has had its species epithet amended. Its scientific name is now:

Phyllergates cucullatus

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804/6996    Thick-billed Warbler   

has been ascribed to a new genus and has the new scientific name:

Arundinax aedon

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Family Phylloscopidae – Leaf Warblers and Allies has been revised and resequenced. As part of this review, the following species formerly in genus Seicercus have been merged into Phylloscopus:

800/6946    White-spectacled Warbler    Phylloscopus intermedius

800/6951    Grey-cheeked Warbler    Phylloscopus poliogenys

800/6947    Green-crowned Warbler    Phylloscopus burkii

800/6948    Grey-crowned Warbler    Phylloscopus tephrocephalus

800/6949    Whistler’s Warbler    Phylloscopus whistleri

800/6952    Chestnut-crowned Warbler    Phylloscopus castaniceps

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Family Locustellidae – Grassbirds and Allies has been revised and resequenced. As part of this review, the following species have been ascribed to a new or different genus:

808/702F    Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler    Helopsaltes certhiola

808/7060    Bristled Grassbird    Schoenicola striatus

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828/7270    Rufous-vented Prinia    (Pakistan, nw India, Nepal)

has a new English name:

828/7270    Rufous-vented Grass Babbler    Laticilla burnesii

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828/7271    Swamp Prinia    (ne India, n Bangladesh)

has a new English name:

828/7271    Swamp Grass Babbler    Laticilla cinerascens

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832/7445    Rufous-backed Sibia

has had its species epithet amended. Its scientific name is now:

Heterophasia annectens

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832/741E    Ashambu Laughingthrush

has had its species epithet amended. Its scientific name is now:

Montecincla meridionalis

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907/8171    White-bellied Blue Flycatcher

has had its species epithet amended. Its scientific name is now:

Cyornis pallidipes

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929/8613    Russet Sparrow

has had its species epithet amended. Its scientific name is now:

Passer cinnamomeus

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The families in Part 12 of the IOC bird list have been revised and resequenced. The 15 Emberiza species regularly present in the Indian Subcontinent region have been ascribed to the re-defined family Emberizidae – Buntings.