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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Clapham" data-source="post: 3279293" data-attributes="member: 101256">Short answer: No, here's a link to the latest (August 2015) ABA checklist with Budgerigar still on it with code 3: <a href="http://listing.aba.org/aba-checklist/" target="_blank">http://listing.aba.org/aba-checklist/</a>Long answer: When the Crested Myna became extirpated, back in 2003, the ABA was very quick to strike it completely from the checklist, as if it had never existed. A decade later they reconsidered that decision:<a href="http://blog.aba.org/2014/10/news-from-the-aba-reording-standards-and-ethics-committee-supplemental.html" target="_blank">http://blog.aba.org/2014/10/news-from-the-aba-reording-standards-and-ethics-committee-supplemental.html</a>and the Crested Myna was back. Only not really; it's in "Appendix Part 1: Extirpated Exotics" which isn't in the version of the checklist which you can download. Perhaps it's in the paper version which you can buy, but I haven't tried to verify that.So presumably that will be the fate of Budgerigar when (or if) it becomes extirpated in Florida.</blockquote>