Cornell just published the August 2013 update to what's now known as "The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world". As of today, there's a downloadable spreadsheet, but not yet a summary of the changes involved. (I much prefer this to last year's state of affairs, where the summary was published well before the spreadsheet was made available.)
This is, accordingly, a moderately quick analysis of the species and subspecies of Clements 6.7 versus 6.8.
In addition to the changes included here, there's quite a bit of subspecific cleanup - many subspecies have been removed due to synonymization, and several have moved from one species or group to another (e.g.: Golden Parrotbill ssp. beaulieu from n Laos is now in Black-throated Parrotbill, Painted Parakeet ssp. microtera is synonymized with Santarem Parakeet ssp. amazonum, and so forth).
Splits
- Speckled Chachalaca to Speckled/East Brazilian/Scaled Chachalaca
- Horned Curassow to Sira/Horned Curassow
- Changeable Hawk-Eagle to Changeable/Crested Hawk-Eagle
- Mountain Hawk-Eagle to Mountain/Legge's Hawk-Eagle
- Sapphire Quail-Dove to Purple/Sapphire Quail-Dove
- Green Imperial-Pigeon to Green/Nicobar Imperial-Pigeon
- Plaintive Cuckoo to Plaintive/Gray-bellied Cuckoo
- Asian Drongo-Cuckoo to Square-tailed/Fork-tailed/Moluccan Drongo-Cuckoo
- Barn Owl to Barn Owl/Andaman Masked-Owl
- Brown Hawk-Owl to Brown/Hume's Boobook
- Philippine Hawk-Owl to Luzon/Mindanao/Mindoro/Cebu/Sulu Boobook
- Barred Owlet-Nightjar to Vogelkop/Barred Owlet-Nightjar
- Blue-headed Bee-eater to Blue-moustached/Blue-headed Bee-eater
- Crimson-fronted Barbet to Malabar/Crimson-fronted Barbet
- Chestnut-tipped Toucanet to Chestnut-tipped/Tepui Toucanet
- Philippine Woodpecker to Philippine/Sulu Woodpecker
- Brown-capped Woodpecker to Brown-capped/Sunda Woodpecker
- Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker to Fulvous-breasted/Freckle-breasted Woodpecker
- Long-tailed Antbird to East Andean/Klages's/Santa Marta/Streak-headed Antbird
- Immaculate Antbird to Zeledon's/Blue-lored Antbird
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper to Plain-brown/Plain-winged Woodcreeper
- Curve-billed Scythebill to Red-billed/Curve-billed Scythebill
- Chestnut Wattle-eye to Chestnut/West African Wattle-eye
- Scarlet Minivet to Orange/Scarlet Minivet
- Rufous-tailed Shrike to Red-tailed/Isabelline Shrike
- Pied Fantail to Malaysian/Philippine Pied-Fantail
- Azure-winged Magpie to Iberian/Azure-winged Magpie
- Short-tailed Magpie to Javan/Bornean Green-Magpie
- Torresian Crow to Torresian/Bismarck Crow
- Pacific Swallow to Hill/Pacific Swallow
- Great Tit to Great/Cinereous/Japanese Tit
- Long-tailed Tit to Long-tailed/Silver-throated Tit
- Eurasian Treecreeper to Eurasian/Hodgson's Treecreeper
- Brown-throated Treecreeper to Sikkim/Hume's Treecreeper
- Spotted Creeper to African/Indian Spotted-Creeper
- House Wren to House/Cobb's Wren
- Yellowish-bellied Bush-Warbler to Hume's/Yellowish-bellied Bush-Warbler
- Nightingale Reed-Warbler to Nightingale/Aguiguan/Pagan Reed-Warbler
- Tahiti Reed-Warbler to Society Islands/Tahiti Reed-Warbler
- Marquesan Reed-Warbler to Southern/Northern Marquesan Reed-Warbler
- Spotted Bush-Warbler to Baikal/West Himalayan/Spotted Bush-Warbler
- Philippine Tailorbird to Philippine/Green-backed Tailorbird
- Rufous-headed Parrotbill to White-breasted/Rufous-headed Parrotbill
- Gray-cheeked Fulvetta to Gray-cheeked/Yunnan/David's/Huet's Fulvetta
- Rufous-rumped Grassbird to Indian/Chinese Grassbird
- Gray-breasted Laughingthrush to Black-chinned/Kerala Laughingthrush
- Common Babbler to Afghan/Common Babbler
- Mount Apo Sunbird to Apo/Tboli Sunbird
- Flaming Sunbird to Flaming/Maroon-naped Sunbird
- Metallic-winged Sunbird to Metallic-winged/Mountain/Bohol Sunbird
- Eastern Crimson Sunbird to Crimson/Magnificent Sunbird
- Greenish Yellow-Finch to Greenish/Monte Yellow-Finch
- Sage Sparrow to Bell's/Sagebrush Sparrow
- Royal Parrotfinch to Red-headed/Royal Parrotfinch
Lumps
- Indochinese Swiftlet into Himalayan Swiftlet
- Green-crowned Woodnymph into Crowned Woodnymph
- Sira Barbet into Scarlet-banded Barbet
- Black-crested Tit into Coal Tit
- Turkestan Tit into Great Tit
- Yellow-breasted Tit into Azure Tit
New species
This list largely consists of newly discovered species, 15 of which are from Brazil but have not yet been vetted at all by the SACC (as Cornell did a year ago with "Sira" Barbet, now a group within Scarlet-banded Barbet). One (Kangaroo Island Emu) is a long-extinct form.
- Kangaroo Island Emu
- Pincoya Storm-Petrel
- Seram Masked-Owl
- Rinjani Scops-Owl
- Romblon Boobook
- Camiguin Boobook
- Western Puffbird
- Roosevelt Antwren
- Bamboo Antwren
- Predicted Antwren
- Aripuana Antwren
- Manicore Warbling-Antbird
- Junin Tapaculo
- Xingu Woodcreeper
- Tupana Scythebill
- Tapajos Scythebill
- Inambari Woodcreeper
- Delta Amacuro Softtail
- Chico's Tyrannulet
- Acre Tody-Tyrant
- Sucunduri Flycatcher
- Campina Jay
- Inambari Gnatcatcher
- Saipan Reed-Warbler
- Mangareva Reed-Warbler
- Cambodian Tailorbird
New subspecies
- Wilson's Plover (C.w.crassirostris)
- Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (S.d.stewarti)
- Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo (S.v.chalybaeus)
- Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo (S.v.velutinus)
- Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo (S.v.suluensis)
- Romblon Boobook (N.s.spilonotus)
- Romblon Boobook (N.s.fisheri)
- Black-spotted Barbet (C.n.aurantiicinctus)
- Rose-fronted Parakeet (Wavy-breasted) (P.r.peruviana)
- Rose-fronted Parakeet (Wavy-breasted) (P.r.dilutissima)
- Spot-winged Antshrike (P.s.maculipennis)
- Spot-winged Antshrike (P.s.purusiana)
- Streak-headed Antbird (D.s.striaticeps)
- Streak-headed Antbird (D.s.occidentalis)
- Streak-headed Antbird (D.s.peruviana)
- Streak-headed Antbird (D.s.boliviana)
- Brown-banded Antpitta (G.m.gilesi)
- Brown-banded Antpitta (G.m.milleri)
- Sharp-billed Treehunter (H.c.camargoi)
- Sharp-billed Treehunter (H.c.contaminatus)
- Goldenface (P.f.lecroyae)
- Mountain Mouse-Warbler (C.r.diamondi)
- Green Shrike-Vireo (V.p.ramosi)
- African Blue Tit (C.t.hedwigae)
- Clamorous Reed-Warbler (Clamorous) (A.s.levantinus)
- Clamorous Reed-Warbler (Brown) (A.s.brunnescens)
- Society Islands Reed-Warbler (A.m.musae)
- Western Orphean Warbler (S.h.hortensis)
- Western Orphean Warbler (S.h.cyrenaicae)
- Brown-streaked Flycatcher (M.w.williamsoni)
- Glossy-black Thrush (T.s.continoi)
- Lacrimose Mountain-Tanager (A.l.yariguierum)
- Black-and-yellow Tanager (C.c.titanota)
- Black-striped Sparrow (A.c.pastazae)
- Socotra Sparrow (P.i.hemileucus)
- Socotra Sparrow (P.i.insularis)
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