Recommended English Names: Newest Update

The website for the IOC’s Recommended English names of birds of the world offers an Excel concordance by David Matson and Dave Sargeant of the differences between the IOC list and the new Clements.

The taxonomy used has also been updated to accord with the lists of both the North American and South American Committees on Classification of the AOU.

The complete list is also available free of charge in an Excel file and in CSV and XML versions.

And the website also provides links and full texts of recent reviews, including the one posted here when the original list appeared in book form.

Reactions worldwide to the new IOC names have been in general positive, and a large number of ornithological organizations, publishers, and birders have adopted the list at least as a basis for further nomenclatural work.