Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Buteoninae. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Haliaeetus 5303
The two main sea- and fish-eagle clades often all treated as Haliaeetus (Mindell et al. 2018) divide into the mostly larger high-latitude Haliaeetus and the mostly smaller tropical Icthyophaga group, with associated plumage and vocal differences, and are now recognized as two genera by WGAC and now aligned in Clements et al. (2023) and Gill et al. (2023, IOC v.13.2). The spelling is Icthyophaga, not Ichthyophaga, as case 3603 to ICZN (Williams and Bunkley-Williams 2017, ICZN 2017).
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/ (Link)
@loarie this split has 132446 observations, but only 872 IDs - which number is most important when deciding whether to commit? Does the low number of IDs mean we are OK to commit without staff approval?
The actual number to worry about is IDs, not obs.
if you click Analyze IDs you'll see there only 872 IDs on Haliaeetus that have to be assessed
the 132446 are all the downstream observations which are mostly being driven by species level IDs that won't be impacted
so fine to commit this split
Thanks for confirming, that was what I thought. Will commit. There are a few species splits from the Clements update that have a lot of IDs, which we'll tag you on
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.
@loarie this split has 132446 observations, but only 872 IDs - which number is most important when deciding whether to commit? Does the low number of IDs mean we are OK to commit without staff approval?