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Water Rail added to Paul Frost's Britain 2023 year list (UK400 Club), 6 Dec 2023. 148 species

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Polynesia IOC

The IOC Polynesia 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 include the islands and island groups of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna. Note that we do not include Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, Norfolk Island and Rotuma.

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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].
NB: Scientific should also be updated, using '[lumped]' or brackets for the old specific name, e.g. Genus specific [lumped] or Genus [specific] subspecific.
NB: Notes only allow up to 255 characters, but there is no enforcement of this. Anything longer will be truncated without warning.