Well, the AOU isn't finished yrt. Go to the checklist (not the full/correct
name) web site and, gander (pun intended) at the changes already passed
since publication of the last supplement!
Keith Arnold
Bryan/TAMU
On Aug 19, 2016 5:36 PM, "Jim Sinclair" <jim.sinclair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are always going to be differences among ABA, AOU, SACC, Clement's,
IOC, etc.
Many of the AOU changes were an extension of SACC changes.
Second guessing whether to accept changes to one's senior reference does a
disservice to the overall community, IMO. Comments regarding proposed
changes are published well in advance of any decisions. That is the time
for 'the rest of the world' to weigh in - not after the changes are
accepted.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Gailon Brehm <gailon.brehm@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Anthony, the discussion on the eBird website says that eBird will notimplies
adopt those extensive changes to family tax order UNTIL 2017. This
that they are waiting for the organizations in the rest of the world toto
weigh in first.
EBird has users around the world so they have to strike a balance.
Gailon
On Aug 19, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Greetings All:
As a person who compiles for the ABA and as a person who submits as many
reports as possible to eBird, the growing disconnect between the taxonomy
used by the two is frustrating - particularly as there is little, even
on-line, information available about the discrepancies. I attempt to
prepare my field notes in ABA order (which follows the AOU) and then try
enter the data into eBird (which follows Clements) and find myselfhopping
all over the place - as the two lists have become, increasingly, out of-
synch.
The last set of AOU-based changes to the ABA list has really brought this
into play. The lists are not even close - in terms of family placement!
and one can't help but wonder, with eBird playing an increasing role inABA
listing, when and if the ABA is going to shift from using the AOUchecklist
to using the eBird checklist?lists
This may not be entirely appropriate as a topic on texbirds but I was
interested in what other texbirders, particularly those who keep ABA
and submit records to eBird, think of the situation?permission
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson
By the by, the recent discussion of the need for new field guides,
following the recent rearrangement of taxa by the AOU, missed one point.
Nobody could write a field guide that would be followable, taxonomically
speaking, by a resident in the ABA region AND a resident in the non-ABA
region.
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