May I present you with BirdFiles?

Can we please put Eurasian Wigeon as the second name for this bird?

It does not come up when you search under Eurasian Wigeon which is the North American name. Thank You.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/194/

Can we also put Eurasian Tree Sparrow down as a second name for the
Tree Sparrow?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/20/

Need a hyphen here Eurasian Collared-Dove.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/175/

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Eurasian_Collared-Dove.html

Thank you.

I have entered a page for the Australian Fan-tailed Cuckoo: http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/215/
. I entered the name as Cuculus pyrrhophanus, but I have now discovered that that name is out of date and both Genus and Species have changed so that it is now: Cacomantis flabelliformis.

Could the name please be changed,

Ken

Yay bird files! Thanks Dave! It would be neat to see bird songs and region maps added if possible. Can't wait till I have some free time to start browsing the files!

Apologies, but I have made another mistake. I entered the Pheasant Coucal: http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/201/
but I entered the family as Cuculidae and it seems that it is now placed in a different family, the Centropodidae (still in the Order Cuculiformes)

Could the family name please be changed,

Ken

There are 2 different pages for Cooper's Hawk.

Could we eliminate one? Thank you.

This just shows how much work this all take...whew!! Thank you ALL!

Two different pages for Carolina Chickadee. Genus is incorrect on one.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/adv_search.php?searcher[common]=Carolina+Chickadee&searcher[birdorder]=&searcher[family]=&searcher[genus]=&searcher[species]=&Search=Search

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Carolina_Chickadee.html

Need a hyphen and not a capital on middle name here please.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/151/

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Brown-headed_Nuthatch.html

Need a hyphen between Blue and throated. No capital in throated either.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/28/

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Blue-throated_Hummingbird.html

Thank You

Need a second hyphen between Night and Heron here.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/560/

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Black-crowned_Night-Heron.html

Have a question about the Black-billed Magpie.

I see it's lumped in here with the European Magpie but the species seems wrong.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/185/

Here it is at Cornell.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Black-billed_Magpie.html

Need 2 hyphens here please.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/606/

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Black-and-white_Warbler.html

I would agree with the query on Black-billed Magpie pelle, I hadn't checked it as the other names seemed correct but I had not heard of that name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Magpie

Editing to add that I have now checked the ITIS site for Common names of Pica pica and the Black-billed Magpie is included there. It is also a common name for the American species which is similar.

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=all&search_value=Pica+pica&search_kingdom=every&search_span=exactly_for&categories=All&source=html&search_credRating=All

Pica hudsonia is also called the Black-billed Magpie on ITIS.


This message was edited Dec 29, 2008 4:13 PM

We have duplicate entries for the Cassowary Casuarius casuarius: http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/673/

bonitin has created an entry with the wrong genus name here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/195/

Can they please be merged under the correct name?

Ken

pelle, I checked wiki for Nycticorax nycticorax, it is without a second hyphen there.

Black-crowned Night Heron, Night Heron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-crowned_Night_Heron

On ITIS is has both with and without the hyphen,

Black-crowned Night Heron [English]

Black-crowned Night-Heron [English]

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=all&search_value=Nycticorax+nycticorax&search_kingdom=every&search_span=exactly_for&categories=All&source=html&search_credRating=All

I just want to thank all of you working so hard to keep everything right.

A big round of applause!!

pelle, the Florida Scrub Jay on ITIS has both with and without hyphen.

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=all&search_value=Aphelocoma+coerulescens&search_kingdom=every&search_span=exactly_for&categories=All&source=html&search_credRating=All

Yes, there is disagreement on the use of hyphens for some species. The A.O.U. rejected the I.O.C. name revisions some time ago. Hopefully, somehow Birdfiles user's searches will be able to work with or without hyphens?

This message was edited Dec 28, 2008 6:54 PM

I just tried a search for "black crowned night heron" without hyphens, and it showed up with a "Did you mean Black-crowned Night Heron?", which is great!

pelle, Eurasian Collared Dove is with or without a hyphen on itis,

Eurasian Collared Dove [English]
Eurasian Collared-Dove [English]

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=all&search_value=Streptopelia+decaocto&search_kingdom=every&search_span=exactly_for&categories=All&source=html&search_credRating=All

I have started to google the species name with the word 'itis' in the google too, as it doesn't always come up on the first page but with that it does so can be more easily checked.

The Tree Sparrow on itis is listed as

Eurasian Sparrow
Eurasian Tree Sparrow

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=all&search_value=Passer+montanus&search_kingdom=every&search_span=exactly_for&categories=All&source=html&search_credRating=All

Also on Wiki as Tree Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow and German Sparrow which sounds better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_Sparrow

North American Birds are DONE!!!

The hyphen thing is up to admin,not me.

wallaby,Who is ITIS?

I'm just going with A.O.U. approved books and sites .

Yippeee I'm done!

Congrats pell, that must have been a heavy load!

ITIS is what Admin will use to verify names.

http://www.itis.gov/

Wow, Pelle! Well done!

That was quick! Thanks!

Problems with Pelicans! I have just added the Australian Pelican: http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/825/
but went and mispelled the Genus. I entered it as Pelicanus where it should be Pelecanus.

That is not the only problem however. It seems that according to the ITIS site all the Procellariiformes and Pelecaniformes are now merged into the Ciconiiformes. I find this a very strange decision and can't help feeling that this change will not gain long term acceptance. I think it is an ineffectiveness of the genetic grouping rather than a true relationship between these very different Orders.

More specifically, we now have two Pelicans in the Pelecaniformes and one in the Ciconiiformes and they need stanardising. All the Cormorants entered so far are placed in Pelecaniformes and I think we should do the same with the Pelicans.

Any some change is needed so that the 3 pelicans can all be found in the same family

Ken

A bit more on Pelicans. I see now that the American White Pelican has also been added, but it has the Order, Family and Genus all misspelled: http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/go/585/

They should read: Pelecaniformes, Pelecanidae and Pelecanus respectively

Ken

Oh good I didn't do that one.

Mine were all copy/pasted, it would have taken forever if I had typed them. :-)

Good catch Ken.

I think the dilemma about the scientific name for the Blue Tit is solved!

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/british-birds/23667-cyanistes-caeruleus-parsus-caeruleus.html

So wallaby was right and the new name for it is Cyanistes caeruleus and Parsus Caeruleus is the outdated name.
Could you please move my pictures to the right entry?
Many Thanks! :)

I have a question; I've made an entry for the Canary (Serinus canarius) but haven't yet added my pictures.
I have given this bird shelter and food for some days in the winter of 2005 after I found it in the garden obviously suffering from the cold.
I kept it inside the house as it seemed to be happy until it let me know it wanted to go out again..

Now I think this bird obviously had escaped a sad cage-life and may have been the product of breeders and considered 'domesticated'. Do birds like that belong in Bird Files?

I edited my post above re the Magpie as follows:

Editing to add that I have now checked the ITIS site for Common names of Pica pica and the Black-billed Magpie is included there. It is also a common name for the American species which is similar.

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=all&search_value=Pica+hudsonia&search_kingdom=every&search_span=exactly_for&categories=All&source=html&search_credRating=All

Pica hudsonia is also called the Black-billed Magpie on ITIS.


This message was edited Dec 29, 2008 4:16 PM

An error in the spelling of Eurasian Collared Dove, it needs an 'e' in Collared. Also could you please add 'Collared Dove' as the Eurasian part is not commonly used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Collared_Dove

Thanks.

The entry for Barnacle Goose needs an Order, Anseriformes please.

bonitin I think it is ok to add domesticated birds, because sometimes we see escapees and need help IDing them

I was wondering the same about the Homing Pigeon, called on Wiki Columba livia domestica but ITIS doesn't recognise it. I thought as it was a domesticated bird then wild bird sources don't include them.

There is however already an entry for Columba livia, which ITIS does recognise, but this seems to be for those pigeons which have gone wild. As it has been around for many centuries, and those gone wild could also be the same pigeon, how does one know, other than the bird having a ring on their leg, which it is?

Wiki states:

"The homing pigeon is a variety of domesticated Rock Pigeon (Columba livia domestica) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances"

I have some pics of one which does have a ring on it's leg that stopped off for a drink. I decided it didn't really fit in BirdFiles but does it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeons

'Ruddy Duck' needs to be corrected. There are two listings because the family name 'Anatidae' is included in one of them. That one should be deleted.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/birdfiles/adv_search.php?searcher[common]=ruddy+duck&searcher[birdorder]=&searcher[family]=&searcher[genus]=&searcher[species]=&Search=Search

why is the Genus name of some birds different from those I find in my NG guide? Like that of the Purple Gallinule.

f_chisolm,

unfortunately the scientific names are not fixed, and modern research often based on genetic studies is making many changes.

The Purple Gallinule was recently known as Porphyrula martinica (a net search produces 11200 hits), but has more recently been renamed to Porphyrio martinica, sharing a genus with the Australian Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio.
Porphyrio martinica gives 48400 hits for a net search.

We are mainly using the Integrated Taxonomic Information System web site: http://www.itis.gov/ to determine the current scientific names,

Ken