Talk:Spilopelia

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Merge with Streptopelia? edit

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Maybe merge with Streptopelia (since the most renowned bird taxonomy, eBird/Clements 2021, accept it as congeneric with Streptopelia. Maybe we can merge them? Vihaking277 (talk) 11:39, 27 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Vihaking277: As far as I am aware Wikipedia always used the IOC for bird taxonomy Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds/Archive_72#Is the IOC considered the supreme authority on Wikipedia for bird taxonomy?, So it depends on what the IOC position is. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:56, 27 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

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