OSME Region List 5.1 The OSME Region List has recently been updated and is now available on our website: https://osme.org/ORL IOC World Bird List v9.2 presents the difficult resequencing of the Non-passerine Orders, and the resequencing of many...
This update incorporates, inter alia, intriguing conclusions from several heavyweight papers on: The Common/Long-legged/Upland/Mountain Buzzard superspecies. Divergence between Middle Spotted Woodpecker populations between Asian Turkey and continental Europe. (I have illustrated my blog post with images of the...
Matters came to a head when at an OSME Council Meeting in 2004 the question was raised as to which taxonomic authority OSME should follow in correspondence and publications. This came as a mild surprise because many...