Hi Mke,

The author of that taxonomic list decided to include those 9 subspecies as he felt they were due to be split soon.

The Clements tax list should contain all of the birds (specific or subspecific) that you might see down under.

Please specify which are causing you problems and I will see if I can't resolve them to their entry in Clements.

Jeff

p.s. gone camping/birding for the next 4 days.

Mike and Jeff,

I am the one who put together that list for Jeff. This is something I did in my spare time after I did my own birding trip to Australia a few years ago. So trying to include subspecies was a too daunting of a task unless I were to simply copy from Clements. In that case what is the point as anyone can filter Clements. So what I source I used what the published list produced by the RAOU. The few subspecies that were included were ones that were previous species that had been lumped in recents years. These have seperate common names and many Australian birders record them as such. For example many birders I know here in the states record Yellow-shafted flicker or Oregon Junco.

By the way I am currently revising this list. Birds Australia published major new checklist this summer. This is equivalent to the AOU publishing a whole new checklist every 10 to 20 years not just the annual updates. There are dozens of name changes, splits, new species documented and introductions since their last revision. They have also rearranged the order of the list as well making it consistent with similiar checjlists by the AOU and the British. Just to make it even more interesing the RAOU is no more. Since their checklist was published in the mid 90s they have seperated into Birds Australia and the Ornitholical Society of New Zealand. Each of these now publishes thier own checklist for their repsective countries. I am in the process of reconciling the 2 new checkllists. While not a complete listing of subspecies it will include every subspecies for which they publish a common name. Jeff I assume you will be interested in the updated list when I finish, hopefully sometime next week.

Hi Mike,

1. You can create a new location under World that contains Australasia, New Zealand, etc as children. Then export that location.
2. Or - use the "Append on export of existing file" feature at the bottom of the Import/Export window, and then export each location in turn with that option checked. Screen shot below. But I don't remember if that is in v3.6.49. If you don't see it there, then it is a v3.7 feature.

Jeff