07-45: Talking Lumps - Western Flycatchers with Alec Hopping

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest taxonomic changes of this year was the long-anticipated lump of the species formerly known as Pacific-slope and Cordilleran Flycatcher back into Western Flycatcher. It’s a story with all the taxonomic highs and lows packed into a slightly confusing and cryptic package. Alec Hopping is a birder and researcher whose article in North American Birds called Unraveling Western Flycatchers; A Case Against the Split played a large role in making the case to the relavant authorities. He joins us to talk about how to get a species lumped.

Also, the AOS makes a huge announcement regarding birds named specifically for people.

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1:13.5	Nate Swick. New news on the bird name front. I know that some of you out there are excited and some are
1:19.8	undoubtedly rolling your eyes, but it's arguably one of the biggest stories in North American ornithology
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1:34.8	Ornithological Society, has accepted the recommendation by the ad hoc English bird name committee
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