All Birds Wiki:News/2015

December 22

 * Puerto Rican Screech-Owl has been corrected to Gymnasio.

December 21

 * Puerto Rican Screech-Owl was placed in Psiloscops. Corrected to Gymnasio.

December 10

 * Lesser Moorhen is now in the new monotypic genus name Paragallinula, replacing the temporary "Gallinula" (Sangster, García-R, and Trewick, 2015).


 * Eurylaimides: Smithornithidae is separated from Calyptomenidae, based on time-scaling (Prum et al., 2015).

November 29

 * Based on Collar (2011), Andersen et al. (2013) and Clements et al. (2015), the Silvery Kingfisher, Ceyx argentatus, has been split into Southern Silvery-Kingfisher, Ceyx argentatus, and Northern Silvery-Kingfisher, Ceyx flumenicola.


 * Andersen et al. (2015) examined the Todiramphus kingfishers. The Micronesian Kingfisher, Todiramphus cinnamominus, has been split into Rusty-capped Kingfisher, Todiramphus pelewensis, Guam Kingfisher, Todiramphus cinnamominus (including the extinct miyakoensis), and Pohnpei Kingfisher, Todiramphus reichenbachii (See also Clements, et al. 2015).


 * Tuamotu Kingfisher, Todiramphis gambieri has been split into Mangareva Kingfisher, Todiramphus gambieri, and Niau Kingfisher, Todiramphus gertrudae (Andersen et al. 2015; Clements et al. 2015).


 * Based on Andersen et al. (2015) and Clements et al. 2015, Collared Kingfisher, Todiramphus chloris, has been split into Collared Kingfisher, Todiramphus chloris, Pacific Kingfisher, Todiramphus sacer, Melanesian Kingfisher, Todiramphus tristrami, Mariana Kingfisher, Todiramphus albicilla, Torresian Kingfisher, Todiramphus sordidus, and Islet Kingfisher, Todiramphus colonus.

May 11
Fringillidae: Hooded Siskin, Sporagra magellanica, has been split into Lowland Hooded Siskin, Sporagra magellanica and Andean Hooded Siskin, Sporagra capitalis.

Fringillidae: Redpoll has been merged into one species, the Holarctic Redpoll, Acanthis flammea.

May 10
Meliphagidae: The English names of some of the Foulehaio honeyeaters are changed, based on IOC.
 * Viti Levu Honeyeater, Foulehaio procerior, becomes Kikau Honeyeater
 * Vanua Levu Honeyeater, Foulehaio taviunensis, becomes Lesser Wattled-Honeyeater
 * Polynesian Honeyeater, Foulehaio carunculatus, becomes Greater Wattled-Honeyeater

May 8

 * Rhynchocyclidae: The Tepui Flycatcher, Pipromorpha roraimae has been split from McConnell's Flycatcher, Pipromorpha macconnelli (Hilty and Ascanio, 2014), bringing the Taxonomy in Flux list to 10765.

April 17

 * Paridae: African Blue Tit, Cyanistes teneriffae, is split into Palma Blue Tit, Cyanistes palmensis, Libyan Blue Tit, Cyanistes cyrenaicae, Canary Blue Tit, Cyanistes teneriffae, and Ultramarine Tit, Cyanistes ultramarinus (Stervander et al., 2015), bringing the TiF list to 10764.