Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Amaurospiza. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Amaurospiza concolor 9890
Ecuadorian Seedeater Amaurospiza aequatorialis is split from Blue Seedeater Amaurospiza concolor (Clements 2007:672)
Summary: The distribution of the Blue Seedeater is now limited to Middle America, while the scarce Ecuadorian Seedeater is found mainly in western Ecuador; it barely reaches southern Colombia and northern Peru.
Details: Each of the three taxa considered part of A. concolor in Paynter (1970) were originally described as a full species. However, the treatment of these widely disjunct taxa has varied since then. All are fairly similar in plumage and vocalizations. Recent molecular and integrative analyses (Scott 1922, Areta et al. 2023) support the treatment of A. aequatorialis as a separate species, while relicta is retained within A. concolor, the treatment now agreed upon by NACC (Chesser et al. 2023), WGAC, Gill and Donsker (2015; IOC v.5.2), and Clements et al. (2023); the SACC decision is pending.
English names: The English name Ecuadorian Seedeater aligns with Gill and Donsker (2015; IOC v.5.2) and Areta et al. (2023).
Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Ligação)
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.