WESTERN PALEARCTIC 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.
[The 2019 edition of this title will be published in August 2018]
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: Procellariidae – Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels
Family: Oriolidae – Figbirds, Orioles & Turnagra
Family: Leiothrichidae – Laughingthrushes and Allies
Family: Fringillidae – Finches, Euphonias
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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 in the Canary Islands, nw Africa, locally n Libya, nc Egypt and s ME, and earlier thought to be subspecies of Southern Grey Shrike, have now been identified as being subspecies of Great Grey Shrike. Also as part of this review, Lanius meridionalis has a new English name:
660/5899 Iberian Grey Shrike (s France, Iberian Peninsula; winters nw Africa)
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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 north-west Africa have been split to a newly defined species:
684/62F0 Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica
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Family Phylloscopidae – Leaf Warblers and Allies has been re-defined and re-sequenced.
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Family Locustellidae – Grassbirds and Allies has been re-defined and re-sequenced.
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The families in Part 12 of the IOC bird list have been re-defined and re-sequenced. The 18 Emberiza species regularly present in the Western Palearctic world region have been assigned to the re-defined family Emberizidae – Buntings.
