My personnal thoughts are to adopt one list wholesale, for consistency and if people still want to refer to Cuckoo-pheasants or Wren-warblers then that's their choice. In my relatively short time in Hong Kong, I've only known Sturnus sericeus as Red-billed Starling, so I'm not particularly fussed what it's called formally.I do enjoy the etymology and history also associated though with bird names, and these aspects will never go away for those that are interested.
I think I'll skip the formal debate though, that looks like bloody hard work if you ask me!
The IOC list is up to date taxonomically and appears to work well for this part of the world.
That said, I will still be using spadgers, kessies, peewits and sea pies in my own everyday terminology though!
