Subject: List of Hong Kong Birds 香港鳥類名錄 (2024-11-15) [Print This Page] Author: HKBWS Tung Time: 15/11/2024 14:44 Subject: List of Hong Kong Birds 香港鳥類名錄 (2024-11-15)
Category I: species that have been recorded in an apparently wild state in HK.
Category IIA: southeast China breeding species, the currently established HK breeding population of which is considered to derive from captive stock, but which probably occurred in HK prior to habitat changes.
Category IIB: extralimital species that, although originally introduced to HK by man, maintain a regular feral breeding stock without necessary recourse to further introduction.
Category IIC: previously established feral species.
Category III: species for which all published HK records are considered likely to relate to birds that have escaped or have been released from captivity.
[*Category III species do not form part of the official HK List which is only Category I and II species.]
I note there is now a world bird list/taxonomy that brings together previous lists, particularly Clements and the IOC, that latter of which is the basis for the current HK List. I assume that the RC will agree to adopt the new 'AviList: A Unified Global Checklist of the World’s Birds' (https://www.avilist.org/checklist/v2025/), which I think is a good thing.
However, I would urge the RC to adopt this new AviList in its entirety, both taxonomy and nomenclature, including English and Scientific names. Given that we now have broad agreement worldwide on a way forward regarding bird names and species, to my mind it makes little sense for HK to go out on a limb in respect of species about which the Records Committee votes to adopt something different. As far as I'm aware, fundamentally the reason for adopting different names is emotional, which seems to be an insufficient reason to ignore science and international agreement.
Geoff Carey
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