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Armchair Splits in the Pacific

10,000 Birds

eBird’s taxonomy was being updated, albeit not with what most desperately needs to be updated, the great albatrosses (c’mon, the Wandering complex has been split for over a decade people), but with a species I had seen in a few places and never suspected needed splitting. It was a split. An armchair split, no less.

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