Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Sigh. :-C
All the best decisions trumped? Time to start investigating election fraud . . . 3
Sigh. :-C
Also people were uncomfortable with the degree of morphological and genetic differentiation between the two forms compared to other shorebirds.
I think my issue with these votes is that those reasonings could probably apply to Hen Harrier vs Northern Harrier, which also really overall doesn't have a lot of data, and certainly Redpoll which don't seem to have much consistent differentiation.
I think my issue with these votes is that those reasonings could probably apply to Hen Harrier vs Northern Harrier, which also really overall doesn't have a lot of data.
While not published online yet, at least Rick Wright has seen the results
http://birdaz.com/blog/2017/07/01/the-fifty-eighth-supplement-to-the-aou-check-list/
I have to say I am perplexed quite a bit at some of the results. Thayers is lumped...understandable. Brown Creeper, Bell's Vireo, and Nashville splits not going through...not surprising.
But Yellow-rumped Warbler and Willet proposals failing to pass, while redpolls continue to be maintained as three species and the Cassia Crossbill gets split? that does not compute at ALL for me.
(P.S. I'm not sure if this one or parts of it passed, given the voting data presented.)
I believe the toucanet change did not pass - 4 yes votes, 5 no and 1 abstention.
Has the supplement actually been published yet?
Thanks.
Yes, there are leaked copies floating around, but they are always subject to last-minute changes. Remember "American Magpie?" I think it wise to wait until the supplement is actually published.
Alas... :-CAndy, any chance to have the agrammatical gibberish "sinesciurus" corrected to the original spelling before it irreversibly enters the realms of official checklists...?
Andy, any chance to have the agrammatical gibberish "sinesciurus" corrected to the original spelling before it irreversibly enters the realms of official checklists...?
Or was this corrected already? It's all over the place in the proposal comments, but I just noted that Rick uses the correct spelling.
Van Remsen just released the "just published" version on his Research Gate site:
https://www.researchgate.net/public..._Society's_Check-list_of_North_American_Birds