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Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus added to Owen Erasmus's Western Palearctic 2024 year list (IOC), 19 Sep 2024. 20 species

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Socotra (ABC)

The Socotra checklist is an appropriate subset of the full African Bird Club list, based on the ABC country checklists.

Note that separate ABC country lists are no longer maintained by ABC, so we instead recommend using Socotra IOC.

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Species name is defaulted from the previous species row and should of course be overwritten!
Genus is defaulted from the previous species row but may need overwriting; specific needs to be entered in either case.



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