[SBB] FW: [MBB] Break-Up of Old World Warblers

["Kris Olson" <[[email protected]]>]

Thought this may be of interest to local birders.

Kris Olson


-----Original Message-----
From: [[email protected]] [mailto:[[email protected]]] On
Behalf Of Don Roberson
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:02 PM
To: Calbirds; MBB
Subject: [MBB] Break-Up of Old World Warblers

This is of only tangential interest to most readers of these discussion
groups, but for those among you interested in systematics or taxonomy on
a world scale, the Break-Up of the Old World Warblers ["Syvliidae"] has
begun this year with the publication of Alstrom et al. (2006) and
Jonsson & Fjeldsa (2006). For world birders this has major implications
about bird families. It even applies (barely) to California birders: the
"Old World Warblers" that have reached California actually belong to two
different families: the Phylloscopidae (Dusky Warbler, Arctic Warbler)
and the Megaluridae (Lanceolated Warbler). If you have any interest in
this, please see a three-page web discussion that has just been posted,
beginning at
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/sylvid-intro.html


and a rather new look at the Bird Families of the World at
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/list.html


More details of other updates are at
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/new.html


Don Roberson
"I'm not a ornithologist, but I play one on the internet"  ; - )




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