If you are upgrading from the 2017 taxonomy to 2018, you will have only these simple one-to-one name changes that don't involve a split or lump. If you are upgrading from an earlier year, your set of simple renames will be larger
This list is just for your information; you don't have to do anything about these changes. AviSys will make them for you automatically.
| Old name | New name |
|---|---|
| White-eyed Duck | Hardhead |
| Australian Kite | Black-shouldered Kite |
| Great Philippine Eagle | Philippine Eagle |
| Frances's Goshawk | Frances's Sparrowhawk |
| Zoe Imperial-Pigeon | Zoe's Imperial-Pigeon |
| Ruwenzori Turaco | Rwenzori Turaco |
| Madagascar Red Owl | Red Owl |
| European Scops-Owl | Eurasian Scops-Owl |
| African Long-eared Owl | Abyssinian Owl |
| Madagascar Long-eared Owl | Madagascar Owl |
| Montane Nightjar | Rwenzori Nightjar |
| Cuckoo-Roller | Cuckoo-roller |
| Greater Vasa-Parrot | Greater Vasa Parrot |
| Lesser Vasa-Parrot | Lesser Vasa Parrot |
| Sunbird Asity | Common Sunbird-Asity |
| Yellow-bellied Asity | Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity |
| Tooth-billed Catbird | Tooth-billed Bowerbird |
| Macgregor's Bowerbird | MacGregor's Bowerbird |
| Ruwenzori Batis | Rwenzori Batis |
| Mountain Sooty Boubou | Western Boubou |
| Southern Gray Shrike | Iberian Gray Shrike |
| Pygmy Drongo-Fantail | Drongo Fantail |
| Fantailed Monarch | Fan-tailed Monarch |
| Kolombangra Monarch | Kolombangara Monarch |
| Crested Jay | Crested Shrikejay |
| Gray Jay | Canada Jay |
| Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise | Vogelkop Lophorina |
| Greater Superb Bird-of-Paradise | Greater Lophorina |
| Lesser Superb Bird-of-Paradise | Lesser Lophorina |
| Greater Striped-Swallow | Greater Striped Swallow |
| Lesser Striped-Swallow | Lesser Striped Swallow |
| Yellow Tit | Taiwan Yellow Tit |
| Black-lored Tit | Himalayan Black-lored Tit |
| Indian Tit | Indian Yellow Tit |
| African Spotted-Creeper | African Spotted Creeper |
| Indian Spotted-Creeper | Indian Spotted Creeper |
| Kolombangra Leaf Warbler | Kolombangara Leaf Warbler |
| Plain-tailed Warbler | Alström's Warbler |
| Ruwenzori Apalis | Rwenzori Apalis |
| Red-fronted Warbler | Red-fronted Prinia |
| Namaqua Prinia | Namaqua Warbler |
| Roberts's Prinia | Roberts's Warbler |
| Banded Warbler | Banded Parisoma |
| Brown Warbler | Brown Parisoma |
| White-breasted White-eye | Abyssinian White-eye |
| Kolombangra White-eye | Kolombangara White-eye |
| Sukatschev's Laughingthrush | Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush |
| Nilgiri Blue Robin | Nilgiri Sholakili |
| White-bellied Blue Robin | White-bellied Sholakili |
| Black-throated Blue Robin | Blackthroat |
| Korean Flycatcher | Yellow-rumped Flycatcher |
| Black-and-rufous Flycatcher | Black-and-orange Flycatcher |
| Oberlaender's Ground-Thrush | Oberländer's Ground-Thrush |
| Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird | Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird |
| Seimund's Sunbird | Little Green Sunbird |
| Nightingale Finch | Inaccessible Island Finch |
| Española Cactus-Finch | Española Ground-Finch |
| Rock Petronia | Rock Sparrow |
| Social Weaver | Sociable Weaver |
| Black-shouldered Kite | Black-winged Kite |