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Yorkshire Bird Checklist (1 Viewer)

Sorry to take such a long time to reply but I've only just noticed this post since the forum reshuffle.
List looks good Mal, only omission I can see is the Pacific Diver that was by Knaresborough in 2007.
 
Mal92 said:
Hi
I've recently posted the Yorkshire Checklist on my free, non-commercial website www.printablebirdchecklists.homestead.com

If anyone would like to take a look and let me know if there are any omissions, discrepancies or errors, I would be most grateful.

Thanks

Mal :t:
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A quick look through, apologies if these were there but I missed them.

Omissions:
Red-flanked Bluetail
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
Brown Shrike
Song Sparrow

Hooded Merganser - escape
Bufflehead - accepted as a wild bird

I don't quite unserstand your escape category, some odd ones on there like Lady A's Pheasant and California Quail have no place on the Yorks list for eg.
 
Ingsbirder said:
A quick look through, apologies if these were there but I missed them.

Omissions:
Red-flanked Bluetail
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
Brown Shrike
Song Sparrow

Hooded Merganser - escape
Bufflehead - accepted as a wild bird

I don't quite unserstand your escape category, some odd ones on there like Lady A's Pheasant and California Quail have no place on the Yorks list for eg.
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.....and Dark-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis now treated as Red-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis and Black-throated Thrush Turdus atrogularis of which only Black-throated has been accepted for Yorkshire.
 
Thanks to all that have replied. I'll get the missing species added tonight.
As to the Dark-throated Thrush; I follow Clements for taxonomy (as stated on my home page) this species has not been split (yet).
Lady Amhersts Pheasant; a bird was recorded in Yeadon, West Yorkshire on the 27/10/08, and as I can't find any record of the species being introduced, I have to assume it's an escaped bird. I'm still looking for the California Quail info.

regards
 
Mal92 said:
Thanks to all that have replied. I'll get the missing species added tonight.
As to the Dark-throated Thrush; I follow Clements for taxonomy (as stated on my home page) this species has not been split (yet).
Lady Amhersts Pheasant; a bird was recorded in Yeadon, West Yorkshire on the 27/10/08, and as I can't find any record of the species being introduced, I have to assume it's an escaped bird. I'm still looking for the California Quail info.
regards
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Sorry didn't read your home page for your taxo notes.

By the Lady Ams example you could also add:

Silver Pheasant
Reeve's Pheasant

etc, etc (and all the numerous other cat E species documented as escapes in the county) though I'm nost sure that you'd want them as part of a 'Yorkshire List' ?

If I'm wrong then I suggest that you get hold of all the YNU reports which list these escapes as there are a large number missing from your Yorkshire List.
 
The idea of the checklists are not as "official lists" but a list of all birds recorded in a county or country. The lists are for anyone to use, especially so for those not familiar with the local birds.

As they are created using Excel feel free to remove / add anything that you're not happy with.

Thanks again for the feedback.
Regards
 
Mal92 said:
The idea of the checklists are not as "official lists" but a list of all birds recorded in a county or country. The lists are for anyone to use, especially so for those not familiar with the local birds.

As they are created using Excel feel free to remove / add anything that you're not happy with.

Thanks again for the feedback.
Regards
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Mal

I will e-mail the official list to you from the YNU and you can check for any omissions
the Pacific Diver and Brown Flycatcher still await BOURC ratification I believe, and neither are yet on the British list (January 2009).


Perhaps 80 species of escapes have been recorded in Yorkshire in the last 10 years, from White-backed Vulture to Budgerigar and Red and Green Macaw, and Lady Amherst's Pheasant has no better claim to be on the Yorkshire list than any of these


Geoff
 
Mal92 said:
The idea of the checklists are not as "official lists" but a list of all birds recorded in a county or country. The lists are for anyone to use, especially so for those not familiar with the local birds.

As they are created using Excel feel free to remove / add anything that you're not happy with.

Thanks again for the feedback.
Regards
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Tawny Pipit missing

Golden Pheasant "introduced" seems misleading, as no self-sustaining population, so all records are treated as escapes

As Ingsbirder suggests, I would remove all escapes from your list, as the ones included are so arbitrary and incomplete

Geoff

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