Last week, eBird started their taxonomy update. Though we follow the Clements Checklist for iNat, the only differences between the eBird taxonomy and Clements is polytypic subspecies groupings (ISSFs), hybrids and forms. Regardless, there’s been concern over the past couple of years over the efficie…

I’ve taken care of atlases for splits #2, #15, #33, #41, #43. I will note that there’s overlap between the species split#2 and split#41 , and I think it’d be best if we just let the community reidentify countries of overlap because trying to atlas the erratic borders of Tanzania and Argentina states…

Slight update: Ninox fusca will have to be split now (as there is now an observation of it).

This topic has gone pretty static. I’ve dealt with one of the two remaining splits still needing atlases; split #40. The only one still needing work is split #67 and I started that, but the species’ seem to exhibit high levels of movement in both breeding and wintering grounds so even if we get them…

Is there anything else that needs to be done (save for #67)? I have a bit more time now so might be able to help.

Nope, literally everything is done.

#67 should be a two-way split only. Sylvia subalpina already exists on iNat, though will need updating to Curruca. @loarie . I’ll have a go at atlases, there is a lot of overlap but some areas only have one species

Sorry to be a pester, but we’re starting the month of February and to the best of my knowledge, we have not moved forward in implementing the new changes. Do we have a timeline on when this will happen?

I have gone through the splits and done all the outstanding ‘non-splits’ ie raising subspecies to species, so I think all the splits are now complete. However, I have deleted rather than updated the ranges of the parent species. I also added English names to all splits.

As new subspecies are starting to be added haphazardly, have made a start on the subspecies. Have activated the completely new ones (ie species previously monotypic), and some of the others where there are no subspecies IDs in the range of the new subspecies. Have also inactivated a couple of recent…

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Have also activated all the new species, and added English names

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