Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Lanius. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Lanius excubitor 204532
Northern Shrike Lanius excubitor is split into Northern Shrike L. borealis (North America and eastern/central Asia) and Great Gray Shrike L. excubitor (central/western Asia and Europe).
(See comment below with Clements subspecies ranges; note that Clements recognizes only sspp. excubitor, homeyeri, and leucopterus as belonging to Lanius excubitor, and assigns all other subspecies considered L. excubitor by some to L. meridionalis)
Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Σύνδεσμος)
Range descriptions from Clements:
Great Gray Shrike, Lanius excubitor *L. e. excubitor: W and n Europe to w Siberia
*L. e. homeyeri: Balkan Peninsula to s Ural Mountains and w Siberia
*L. e. leucopterus: W Siberia to Yenisey River
Northern Shrike, Lanius borealis *L. b. sibiricus: E Siberia to n Mongolia and Kamchatka Peninsula
*L. b. bianchii: Sakhalin and s Kuril Islands (n Japan)
*L. b. mollis: Russian Altai and nw Mongolia
*L. b. funereus: W China (Tien Shan Mountains)
*L. b. borealis: breeds Alaska and northern Canada, south to extreme northern British Columbia and Alberta, northern Ontario, and Quebec; winters southern Canada and northern United States.
And for reference:
Southern Gray Shrike, L. meridionalis *L. m. meridionalis: Iberian Peninsula and s France; > to nw Africa
*L. m. koenigi: Canary Islands
*L. m. algeriensis: Morocco (n of Atlas Mountains), coastal n Algeria and Tunisia
*L. m. elegans: N Sahara (Mauritania to Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea)
*L. m. leucopygos: S Sahara (Mali to Nile River valley of the Sudan)
*L. m. aucheri: W coast of Red Sea to s Iran and Arabian Peninsula
*L. m. theresae: Galilee hills of n Israel and s Lebanon
*L. m. buryi: Yemen; vagrant to Djibouti and Ethiopia
*L. m. uncinatus: Socotra
*L. m. jebelmarrae: W Sudan (Darfur)
*L. m. lahtora: E Pakistan and n India
*L. m. pallidirostris: Iran to arid steppes of w China (Xinjiang, Gansu and Ningsia)
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
Range descriptions from Clements:
Great Gray Shrike, Lanius excubitor
*L. e. excubitor: W and n Europe to w Siberia
*L. e. homeyeri: Balkan Peninsula to s Ural Mountains and w Siberia
*L. e. leucopterus: W Siberia to Yenisey River
Northern Shrike, Lanius borealis
*L. b. sibiricus: E Siberia to n Mongolia and Kamchatka Peninsula
*L. b. bianchii: Sakhalin and s Kuril Islands (n Japan)
*L. b. mollis: Russian Altai and nw Mongolia
*L. b. funereus: W China (Tien Shan Mountains)
*L. b. borealis: breeds Alaska and northern Canada, south to extreme northern British Columbia and Alberta, northern Ontario, and Quebec; winters southern Canada and northern United States.
And for reference:
Southern Gray Shrike, L. meridionalis
*L. m. meridionalis: Iberian Peninsula and s France; > to nw Africa
*L. m. koenigi: Canary Islands
*L. m. algeriensis: Morocco (n of Atlas Mountains), coastal n Algeria and Tunisia
*L. m. elegans: N Sahara (Mauritania to Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea)
*L. m. leucopygos: S Sahara (Mali to Nile River valley of the Sudan)
*L. m. aucheri: W coast of Red Sea to s Iran and Arabian Peninsula
*L. m. theresae: Galilee hills of n Israel and s Lebanon
*L. m. buryi: Yemen; vagrant to Djibouti and Ethiopia
*L. m. uncinatus: Socotra
*L. m. jebelmarrae: W Sudan (Darfur)
*L. m. lahtora: E Pakistan and n India
*L. m. pallidirostris: Iran to arid steppes of w China (Xinjiang, Gansu and Ningsia)