Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist (Link)
Hi @loarie, just to understand: I would have added these taxa as ssp of thoracica (since they are recognized as such in Clements), and then swapped the respective species as subspecies rather then merging them into thoracica. Is the merge preferable to a swap?
The IUCN Red Lists still has them as distinct species, so swapping the species-level taxa with the corresponding subspecies taxon would transfer the IUCN status plus the range maps.
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
Hi @loarie, just to understand: I would have added these taxa as ssp of thoracica (since they are recognized as such in Clements), and then swapped the respective species as subspecies rather then merging them into thoracica. Is the merge preferable to a swap?
The IUCN Red Lists still has them as distinct species, so swapping the species-level taxa with the corresponding subspecies taxon would transfer the IUCN status plus the range maps.