| RECENT UPDATES TO THIS SITE |
A not necessarily complete list of recent changes carried out, only indicating the highlights.
September 2003
| new | a woodcreeper, seedeater |
| splits | a woodcreeper, thrasher, a wagtail |
| generic changes |
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| various |
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June 2003
| new | |
| splits | a motmot , an antshrike, a woodcreeper |
| generic changes | |
| various |
February 2003
| new | |
| splits | two owls (1 and 2), four gulls (1, 2, 3 and 4) |
| generic changes | |
| various | backstage
work on gender naming consistency checks, following the second BBOC paper
by David & Gosselin resulting in over 180 specific, and approximately
560 subspecific name changes; now a revised full list; picture and sound of São Francisco Sparrow added |
Period of November 2002-January 2003: no administrative activity due to various trips and further obligations.
October 2002
| splits | an eagle, a note on toucanets |
| generic changes | a nightjar |
| various | new specific name for brush-finch |
September 2002
| new | an antbird |
| splits | a kiwi, an antbird, a swift, an extinct hummingbird |
| various | some bibliographic corrections; a new page set on genus changes for species |
August 2002
| new | a pipit, an owl |
| splits | a tit, a quail-dove |
| various | move to new web address; new species list Sept2002 |
May 2002
| new | none |
| splits | two old world cuckoos (1 and 2), four Sylvia warblers (1, 2, 3 and 4) |
| various | continued work at subspecies level |
April 2002
| new | none |
| splits | two hemispinguses (1 and 2), two puffbirds (1 and 2), a piculet |
| various | lots of backstage work on subspecies list; gender naming consistency checks, following the BBOC paper by David & Gosselin resulting in nearly 100 specific name changes |
January 2002
| new | a woodcock, a wagtail |
| splits | a woodcock, a tapaculo |
| various | backlog since last August being worked on |
August 2001
| new | a tyrant flycatcher |
| splits | a tyrant flycatcher |
| various | various rather invisible maintenance jobs to the base data set, including regaining consistency in some vernacular names (an ongoing process); also removal of Hylocharis pyropygia, Amazilia distans (both generally nowadays considered to be of hybrid origin), and Andropadus chlorigula (subsumed in A. fusciceps) |
June 2001
| new | a petrel, two tyrant flycatchers (1 and 2) as well as a piha, an old world flycatcher, and a laughingthrush |
| splits | an old world vulture, two white-eyes from Indonesia (1 and 2) |
February - May 2001
Another spell of no maintenance to this website, due to various trips abroad, as well as a nasty computer crash.
January 2001
| new | a tyrant flycatcher, a typical antbird |
| sounds | a cut for the new antbird above, plus two cuts of related species for comparison (thank you, Juan) |
In the period September-December, 2000, various other obligations (two books
in print, a business trip, moving house) prevented
maintenance to the information in this site. Nevertheless, collection
of information continued, and I am committed to keeping the
information here up-to-date. Over the month of January, various activities
will be undertaken to become up-to-date again.
September 2000
| illustrations | a new world barbet (thank you, Dan) |
August 2000
| overall | a new downloadable list a new set of pages on fossil finds of bird species |
| splits | an old world cuckoo, a long overdue shearwater |
July 2000
| new | a grouse, a new world barbet |
| splits | two scops-owls (1 and 2), a tyrannulet, a finch |
| illustrations | an owlet-nightjar, a pygmy-owl (thank you Joe and Tracy) |
June 2000
| overall | much revised full downloadable list: 1 new species, 16 splits added, 14 genus changes, 5 specific name changes, 317 positional changes, compared to the April 2000 version |
| splits | an african barbet, a hawk-cuckoo, a dove, a white-eye |
| sounds | Caatinga and Grey-crested Cacholote (thank you Tom and Sjoerd) |
May 2000
| overall | a thorough revision of the Parrots on systematic
sequence a number of older references now fully covered |
| new | Taiwan Bush-Warbler |
| splits | an ostrich, a prion, a ground-cuckoo, two parakeets, a hanging-parrot, another parakeet and one more, a tody-tyrant, a thornbird, cacholote and woodcreeper |
| sounds | Rufous-legged Owl and Chaco Owl (thank you Juan and Sjoerd) |
April 2000
| overall | several smaller corrections on full downloadable
list updated list of Non-committed splits |
| splits | a woodpecker, an antwren (from an old citation), three larks |
March 2000
| overall | removed four duplicate entries from downloadable full list, corrected two errors of numbering |
| splits | two ducks, an owlet-nightjar, a hummingbird |
January 2000
| overall | downloadable full list (see Index on main page) |
| new | Cinnabar Hawk-Owl |
| splits | a snake-eagle, a hawk, a new world quail, a gull |
December 1999
| overall | updated list of Non-committed splits |
| new | Sangha Forest Robin |
| splits | one Tyto, twenty-six (!) owls, four hermits, nine other hummingbirds, one antthrush, two antbirds, one tapaculo, three ovenbirds, a shrike-thrush, two old world flycatchers |
November 1999
| overall | some additional details in various places updated list of Non-committed splits |
| new | Jocotoco Antpitta, two Seicercus warblers |
| splits | three owls, a pardalote, two Australasian robins, nine Australasian `crows', a pipit, four old-world warblers |
August 1999
| overall | many smaller corrections and additions updated lists of PSC splits and Non-committed splits, incl. amongst others Sinclair & Langrand's Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands (thank you, Claire!) |
| splits | three yellowthroats, a bulbul, two reed-warblers, a fairywren |
| sounds | Willis's Antbird, Bahia Spinetail, Planalto Slaty-Antshrike (thank you Tom & Juan!) |
July 1999
| overall | numerous additions
of refs to original descriptions, and a number of corrections (spelling,
page numbers etc.) started adding remainder taxa after splits (set in light green) |
| new | Brown-backed Antwren |
| splits | various albatrosses |