2023 eBird Taxonomy Update

[Michael Szabo]

The IOC and Clements/eBird have accepted the following changes to the Charadriidae waders: Genera and sequence of species within Charadriidae is revised following recent phylogenies (dos Remedios et al. 2015; Černý & Natale 2022). Hooded Dotterel and Shore Dotterel (now Hooded Plover and Shore Plover), formerly included in the genus Thinornis, are embedded in Charadrius in phylogenetic analysis (dos Remedios et al. 2015). Move Caspian Plover, Oriental Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Siberian Sand Plover, Tibetan Sand Plover, New Zealand Plover, Wilson's Plover, Collared Plover, Mountain Plover, Puna Plover, Two-banded Plover, Madagascar Plover, St. Helena Plover, Kittlitz's Plover, Red-capped Plover, Snowy Plover, Chestnut-banded Plover, Malaysian Plover, White-fronted Plover, Kentish Plover, White-faced Plover, Javan Plover to Anarhynchus. Anarhynchus was formerly a monotypic genus associated with Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis. But phylogenetic analysis reveals that, despite its unique bill, it is deeply embedded in a large clade of plovers classically attributed to Charadrius but significantly divergent from that genus (dos Remedios et al. 2015; Eaton et al. 2021). Anarhynchus is the oldest available name for this clade (Eaton et al. 2021; WGAC 882).


See link here: https://ebird.org/news/2023-taxonomy-up ... 5MKiRcLH1I

[paradoxdinokipi]

You mean Clements/eBird right?

https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/compare.jsp ... reg_type=3
here's the comparison of the old and now one (tho i admit i dont too understand where each taxon goes with this formatting, but the basic jist one can get easily), most notable for us is that eBird now recognises the royal and wandering albatross split, nothing on the shag although.