AOU-NACC proposals 2013 (1 Viewer)

[Mysticete]

Well it's almost a week since the hardcopy has come out...and still no electronic access anywhere (including sites such as Jstor or Bioone). I am not sure if I have ever seen a delay of this scale for a major journal between the print and electronic. Not just the supplement, but the whole volume

 

[Richard Klim]

Well it's almost a week since the hardcopy has come out...and still no electronic access anywhere (including sites such as Jstor or Bioone). I am not sure if I have ever seen a delay of this scale for a major journal between the print and electronic. Not just the supplement, but the whole volume

As Mark has indicated, AOU seems to be devoting lots of energy to planning wonderful things for the future, but evidently at the expense of more immediate responsibilities over the last two years. And NACC clearly has the proposal comments and outcomes – why not post them (as soon as each batch is available, as before)?

Bring back the good old days...

 

[mb1848]

For those of us not attached to a University JStor has some free stuff.
http://about.jstor.org/individuals . We should use this since it was bought by Aaron's blood. I understand Bioone is non profit also? Waiting breathlessly for my online Auk check-list update.

 

[Kratter]

As Mark has indicated, AOU seems to be devoting lots of energy to planning wonderful things for the future, but evidently at the expense of more immediate responsibilities over the last two years. And NACC clearly has the proposal comments and outcomes – why not post them (as soon as each batch is available, as before)?

Bring back the good old days...

AOU meetings are coming up next week and it is the middle of field season for many in the NACC. It might be another week or two for comments to be posted. Hold your horses!
Andy

 

[Richard Klim]

AOU meetings are coming up next week and it is the middle of field season for many in the NACC. It might be another week or two for comments to be posted. Hold your horses!

OK, thanks, Andy. I thought it might just be taking a while to redact the comments on proposal 2013-A-13.

 

[mb1848]

Richard wrote Recognised by the BOU only:
5. Sterna (sandvicensis) acuflavida – Cabot's Tern.
Looking at the BOU taxonomy report.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01155.x/pdf .
And the AOU proposal .
http://www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2013-A.pdf .
The one obvious difference is the citation by the B.O.U. to the Dutch Birding article Identification of American Sandwich Tern by Garner, Lewington & Crook. (Fantastic pictures of all the ages and a great plate by Lewington)
http://www.dutchbirding.nl/journal.php?show_summary=true&journalid=212&contentid=1 .
The AOU proposal fails to mention it. Quoting the taxonomy recomendation of the BOU.
"Garner et al. (2007) reported several differences between S. s. sandvicensis and S. s. acuflavida in juvenile plumage, first winter plumage, first summer plumage, adult winter plumage and adult summer plumage, and some of these may be diagnostic"
Dr. Remsen describes the BOU decision as being based on flimsy evidence. If you look carefully you can perceive at least two of Thomas Donegan's multiple personalities also!
http://blog.aba.org/2013/08/2013-aou-check-list-changes.html .

 

[Richard Klim]

Cabot's Tern

The one obvious difference is the citation by the B.O.U. to the Dutch Birding article Identification of American Sandwich Tern by Garner, Lewington & Crook. (Fantastic pictures of all the ages and a great plate by Lewington)
http://www.dutchbirding.nl/journal.php?show_summary=true&journalid=212&contentid=1.

Garner et al 2007.

 

[mb1848]

I missed that Dr. Remsen mentioned Garner et al 2007.
Sangster et al. (2011) cited a paper that outlined plumage differences between sandvicensis and acuflavidus, but these are presumably already part of the basis for designation as separate subspecies.

 

[Richard Klim]

54th supplement

Well it's almost a week since the hardcopy has come out...and still no electronic access anywhere (including sites such as Jstor or Bioone). I am not sure if I have ever seen a delay of this scale for a major journal between the print and electronic. Not just the supplement, but the whole volume

The July 2013 Auk is now available on JSTOR (but not BioOne), but there isn't open access to the supplement via the AOU website yet...

• Chesser et al 2013. Fifty-Fourth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 130(3): 558–571. [preview]

PS. Interesting to read that Adolfo Navarro has joined NACC. Perhaps we can look forward to more progress on the taxonomy of Mexican birds...

 

[mb1848]

The July Auk is now available on Bioone and only $15 for five days use. The JStor is only $12 forever use? No free version anywhere I can find. The British beat us here.

 

[Richard Klim]

The July Auk is now available on Bioone and only $15 for five days use. The JStor is only $12 forever use? No free version anywhere I can find. The British beat us here.

AOU and BOU have the same policy wrt checklist updates – ie, to provide free and open access to the annual AOU Check-list supplement (published in The Auk) and to the annual BOURC Report (published in Ibis), respectively.

But sometimes it just seems to take a while for the right buttons to be pressed...

 

[Richard Klim]

Future North American splits?

Felonious Jive, 10,000 Birds, 27 Aug 2013: Do The Splits.

 

[Richard Klim]

54th supplement

The July 2013 Auk is now available on JSTOR, but there isn't open access to the supplement via the AOU website yet...

• Chesser et al 2013. Fifty-Fourth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 130(3): 558–571. [preview]

Now posted on the AOU website: [pdf]

 

[MarcelHaas]

Now posted on the AOU website: [pdf]

So, when's the eighth edition of the Checklist being published? It's been ages now! Surely, it cannot be too hard to add/correct the manuscript of the seventh edition with all these supplements? Although I do remember having read somewhere that the eigth edition will include all US taxa as well? Richard: you'll probably know more, I reckon?

 

[Richard Klim]

AOU Checklist 8th edition?

So, when's the eighth edition of the Checklist being published? It's been ages now! Surely, it cannot be too hard to add/correct the manuscript of the seventh edition with all these supplements? Although I do remember having read somewhere that the eigth edition will include all US taxa as well? Richard: you'll probably know more, I reckon?

Marcel, I've absolutely no idea what's planned. I similarly speculated earlier this year: post #55.

I agree that it would surely be much easier (and much more more useful/usable for everyone) to annually publish a fully updated online checklist (7.1, 7.2, ....), rather than continue to publish laborious page-by-page revision instructions. I doubt that any of us are still actually marking up a print version of the 1998 7th edition!

PS. Incidentally, it's notable that this year Cornell has finally abandoned the pre-internet age approach of providing page-by-page updates to the Clements Checklist 6th edition (2007). As with the AOU Checklist, regular wholesale reclassification and resequencing had made it completely unrealistic to mark revisions on the print version in recent years.

 

[Richard Klim]

Proposals 2013-A: comments & votes

At last, the first batch of proposals for 2012/2013...
www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2013-A.pdf

• 2013-A-1: Make seven nomenclatural revisions based on Gregory and Dickinson (2012)
• 2013-A-2: Split Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium cobanense from Northern Pygmy-Owl G. gnoma
• 2013-A-3: Recognize Cabot's Tern Thalasseus acuflavidus as distinct from Sandwich Tern T. sandvicensis
• 2013-A-4: Change the scientific name of the Common Bush-Tanager from Chlorospingus ophthalmicus to C. flavopectus (SACC #521)
• 2013-A-5: Move the Hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidinae) to subfamily Carduelinae
• 2013-A-6: Split Barolo Shearwater Puffinus baroli
• 2013-A-7: Revise the classification of sandpipers and turnstones
• 2013-A-8: Split Sage Sparrow Artemisiospiza belli into two species
• 2013-A-9: Make changes to generic allocation and linear sequence in family Pipridae
• 2013-A-10: Change the generic placement of Otus flammeolus
• 2013-A-11: Recognize a new generic name for Gymnoglaux lawrencii
• 2013-A-12: Split Melanerpes santacruzi from M. aurifrons
• 2013-A-13: Recognize Hanson's new species of White-cheeked Geese, Branta spp.

www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2013_A_votes_web.php

 

[mb1848]

" Are we sure that Calidris has priority over Philomachus?"
Answered I think by us here:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=229663 .
Or here:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=179310 .
Although who is the first revisor for Calidris?
Possibly Cuvier Anat. Comp. (in chart) 1805?

 

[Richard Klim]

Proposals 2013-B: comments & votes

www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2013-B.pdf

• 2013-B-1: Make changes to the linear sequence in the family Mimidae
• 2013-B-2: Split Nutting's Flycatcher into two species: Myiarchus nuttingi and M. flavidior
• 2013-B-3: Add Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus to the AOU Checklist
• 2013-B-4: Merge all North American rosy-finches into Leucosticte tephrocotis
• 2013-B-5: Change the linear sequence of Haemorhous finches
• 2013-B-6: Change the citations for nine species described by Thomas Say
• 2013-B-7: Transfer Terenura callinota to the genus Euchrepomis (SACC 557)
• 2013-B-8a: Split South American endemic Automolus rufipectus from A. rubiginosus (SACC 394)
• 2013-B-8b: Split South American endemic Dendrocincla turdina from D. fuliginosa (SACC 540)
• 2013-B-8c: Split South American endemic Troglodytes cobbi from T. aedon (SACC 526)
• 2013-B-9: Change the English name of Thamnophilus atrinucha (SACC 570)
• 2013-B-10a: Split Schiffornis veraepacis from S. turdina (SACC 505, SACC 543)
• 2013-B-10b: Split Schiffornis stenorhyncha from S. turdina (SACC 505, SACC 543)
• 2013-B-11: Split Myrmeciza zeledoni from M. immaculata (SACC 541)
• 2013-B-12: Treat Thalurania fannyi and Thalurania colombica as conspecific (SACC 558)

www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2013_B_votes_web.php

 

[Richard Klim]

Proposals 2013-C: comments & votes

PDF
2013-C-1: Return Hawaii Creeper Oreomystis mana to the genus Loxops
2013-C-2: Split White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis into 2, 3, or 4 species
2013-C-3: Adopt new English names for Artemisiospiza belli and A. nevadensis
2013-C-4: Change the linear sequence of families in the Charadriiformes
2013-C-5: Transfer Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri from Appendix to main list
2013-C-6: Transfer Fea’s Petrel Pterodroma feae from Appendix to main list
2013-C-7: Add Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus to the U.S. List
2013-C-8: Add Rosy-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis to the main list
2013-C-9: Transfer Nandayus nenday from Appendix to main list and change English name to Nanday Parakeet
2013-C-10: Add Asian Rosy-Finch Leucosticte arctoa to the main list
2013-C-11: Update the classification of siskins and goldfinches

www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2013_C_votes_web.php

 

[Mysticete]

I snorted when I read the comment about the Providence petrels, bemoaning the lack of collecting. I am doubtful that Gail remembered to pack a shotgun on her Alaskan birding trip, or that the cruise ship would have been cool with swinging around to pick up a dead petrel.