Post by steve pryor on Oct 25, 2010 7:46:37 GMT
Anyone shooting Kentish Plover photos, please link them here.
In spite of the KG listing taxon dealbatus as commonly occurring in Phils, its status is, nonetheless, not clear.
Of the many avian taxa now involved in the on-going taxonomic upheaval, many of which inappropriately being proposed as splittable good species, dealbatus is likely to be worthy of splitting in final analysis. It has been a sort of lost species treated within a larger alexandrinus for some time, and it is likely to prove to be one of those cryptic species that has not been recognized as such.
In spite of the KG listing taxon dealbatus as commonly occurring in Phils, its status is, nonetheless, not clear.
Of the many avian taxa now involved in the on-going taxonomic upheaval, many of which inappropriately being proposed as splittable good species, dealbatus is likely to be worthy of splitting in final analysis. It has been a sort of lost species treated within a larger alexandrinus for some time, and it is likely to prove to be one of those cryptic species that has not been recognized as such.
