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Clark's Grebe Aechmophorus clarkii added to Tony Crilley's World life list (IOC), 11 Sep 2024. 4,560 species

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Africa IOC

The IOC Africa list uses a subset of species from the complete world taxonomy maintained by the IOC and which is updated regularly at www.worldbirdnames.org.

The geographical limits of this list are the continent of Africa up to the border between Egypt/Israel, as well as associated islands including Cape Verde but not the Canaries. Note that, unlike ABC, the Azores are not included.

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NB: Species name for the old taxon should be updated to differentiate it from the split taxa using '[lumped]', e.g. Species A [lumped].
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NB: Notes only allow up to 255 characters, but there is no enforcement of this. Anything longer will be truncated without warning.