Focus on SOUTHERN AFRICA Updates
This compendium ATWB eBook expands on the contents of the former ‘Focus On’ guide: SOUTHERN AFRICA Volume 2: PASSERINES to include both Non-Passerine and Passerine species.
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 PASSERINE species are listed.
2021 edition IOC bird list v 9.2 -> IOC bird list v 10.2
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.
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Within Order Passeriformes, Family: Sylviidae – Sylviid Babblers has been revised and resequenced to follow Family: Cisticolidae – Cisticolas & Allies.
The following species have been ascribed to a new or different genus:
836/7489 Layard’s Warbler Curruca layardi
836/7488 Chestnut-vented Warbler Curruca subcoerulea
836/7475 Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
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820/714F Red-winged Warbler
has been ascribed to a different genus and has a new English name:
820/714F Red-winged Prinia Prinia erythroptera
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Family: Zosteropidae – White-eyes has been moved from Part 10 to Part 9 of the IOC bird list.
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Family: Leiothrichidae – Laughingthrushes & Allies has been resequenced.
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Family: Estrildidae – Waxbills, Munias & Allies has been revised and resequenced.
The following species have been ascribed to a new genus:
937/8839 Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
937/8840 Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
937/883Y Red-backed Mannikin Spermestes nigriceps
937/8807 Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos
937/8795 Grey Waxbill Glaucestrilda perreini
937/8796 Cinderella Waxbill Glaucestrilda thomensis
937/878Y Violet-eared Waxbill Granatina granatina
