Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Picidae. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Picoides 17637
Most species formerly in Picoides are now in Dryobates (along with a couple former Dendrocopos and all former Veniliornis); only the three-toed woodpeckers remain in Picoides.
Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Link)
OK I atlased Picoides (sensu stricto) - essentially US Canada and Eurasia. I didn't atlas Dryobates because doing so won't really help with IDs. I also moved the Picoides species from Picoides (sensu lato) to Picoides (sensu stricto) - now committing.
Very interesting - I didn't know that had happened. Do you have a reference as to why this split was made? Just for my own understanding. I find vertebrate taxonomy often hard to penetrate.
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.
OK I atlased Picoides (sensu stricto) - essentially US Canada and Eurasia. I didn't atlas Dryobates because doing so won't really help with IDs. I also moved the Picoides species from Picoides (sensu lato) to Picoides (sensu stricto) - now committing.