Incorrect assignment to checklist based on range map of a different species

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This species has been assigned to the checklist for Poland
https://www.inaturalist.org/listed_taxa/229477

However, when you look at the source information on the page, it says that it is listed here due to the taxon range for a different species alltogether. The species used to be classed as a subspecies of the Eurasian Stone Curlew which is the range that it is listing, but that split took place I believe in 2005 well before iNat launched, and I don’t think I can see any evidence of a taxon swap.

There are a couple of closed flags related to ranges, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144482/flags
But I can’t figure out why it would assign a species to a checklist based on the range for a different species.

https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/388894

2nd instance just found : https://www.inaturalist.org/listed_taxa/229642

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@loarie added a flag here: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/389575

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I made and curated an atlas which involved getting rid of the Poland listing
https://www.inaturalist.org/atlases/21277
the todo is to replace the misspecified range map on https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4923-Burhinus-oedicnemus as described in the flag (I don’t think its worth a split since both taxa are active and there’s not alot of ‘sensu lato’ obs ob 4923-Burhinus-oedicnemus)

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@cmcheatle, is this resolved?

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The specific taxa is fixed, no idea if the root cause was determined or fixed.

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Without screenshots I’m not 100% sure what happened here since the listed_taxa are now deleted, but it looks like this is now resolved.

If a listed_taxon for Burhinus indicus was linking to information about Burhinus oedicnemus, that probably would have been due to this taxon change in 2014: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/4053