Actually, the name changes are the easy part ... if you haven't already
heard ... the taxonomy has been reordered in a major way. This was a hot
topic on Tweeters and Birdchat a few months ago. Even though it is
"effective" now (with the 41st Supplement), most are waiting for the new
Seventh Edition of the Checklist to be published.

Vultures will follow storks and many, many other changes--major and minor.

Have fun ! <grin>

Phil



At 10:20 AM 11/28/1997 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>>The actual changes to the species names will show up in print when the
>>>Seventh Edition of the Check-list is released in 1998 (hopefully!).
>>
>>Are they going to come relabel my thousands of bird slides for me? For
>>free? (grrr)
>
>Well, I guess there are some advantages to being a beginner with few
>pictures worthy of keeping. :)
>
>Seriously, this seems like a great oppotunity to use our high-tech wonders
>to put out a database (in the format of the most popular products) of old
>and new names. Having written several conversion programs in my time, I
>know this is never as easy as it sounds. In the mean time it sounds like
>we might have to carry another "little book" that cross references new and
>old names. :(
>



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