Birds of the World Discovery Webinar: 2023 eBird/Clements Taxonomy Update
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- čas přidán 20. 11. 2023
- Recorded: THURSDAY, 16 November, 2023 Length: 1 hr, 30 min
A Birds of the World Discovery Webinar (birdsoftheworld.org).
The webinar focuses on higher level details regarding avian taxonomy is of special interest to ornithologists, taxonomists, NGOs, conservationists, agencies, and birders. #birds #ornithology #science #taxonomy #birdnames #eBird #birdsoftheworld
Please join avian taxonomy experts from eBird and Birds of the World for a discussion of recent updates to the eBird/Clements checklist. The checklist is now showing across all Lab projects including eBird, Macaulay Library, Merlin, and Birds of the World.
The team will provide a brief overview of the 2023 taxonomy updates and recent efforts to standardize bird taxonomy across all major global checklists. They will also present interesting taxonomic shifts and discuss what changes are most likely to affect your life list. REFERENCE: ebird.org/news/2023-taxonomy-...
SPECIAL GUESTS:
SHAWN BILLERMAN, Science Editor for Birds of the World, co-author of Bird Families of the World.
PAMELA RASMUSSEN, Senior Research Associate-Avian Systematist for Birds of the World, Managing Editor of the IOC World Bird List, member of NACC and IOU’s Working Group Avian Checklist.
MARSHALL ILIFF, Project Lead, eBird. A zen master of Excel, Marshall coordinates the annual taxonomy updates for eBird and is a member of the IOU’s Working Group Avian Checklist technical committee. He also manages the Lab’s ever-growing list of global bird names, a project that ensures that projects like eBird, Birds of the World, and Merlin are relevant and useful to people all over the world.
Birds of the World is the world’s leading scholarly, digital platform featuring avian life histories and data resources for every bird in the world. This global ornithology resource powers scientific research, education, and biodiversity conservation worldwide. Learn more: birdsoftheworld.org
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I welcome the name changes! I can handle it. I started birding with the rufous-sided towhee, oldsquaw, and black-shouldered kite in my Golden guide. I don't feel the need to be all sentimental about those names.
Thank you for the detail! It's the right direction, for all kinds of reasons.
A nature enthusiast or a scientist must understand that an organism's name is and always will be a scientific hypothesis. That is the essence of how science works. Bird or plant names are not written in stone as scientific law.
13:57 You claim you want people to keep seeing the names they want to see yet you changed a lot of French names and now you have 7 different versions of French but I could find only 2 small differences between "français", "français(AOU)", "français(Canada)", "français(France)" and "français(Guyane)". What's the point of having 5 different versions that end up with the same names? (the only differences was for the Black-faced Grassquit and Lesser Antillean Bullfinch).
I know there's a whole effort to have the French names accross the world but why change all the variants?
Money talks.
I'm going to have to hire a detective to look into James Clements. I'd hate for anyone to be harmed and excluded by hearing the phrase "Clements checklist" should he not be a perfect person.
Not necessary. The great moralizers at the AOS have decided that no one should ever have anything named in their honor, so "Clements checklist" is out.
Please stop messing with bird names!
Especially the English ones, because these are by far more stable than the scientific ones.
The scientific names are as unstable as the weather is and are totally unreliable.