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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Klim" data-source="post: 1559397" data-attributes="member: 773">Michael Retter's discussion of possible wider ABA Area definitions in Birding 41/4 (Jul 2009) was thought-provoking.  I've always considered the current ABA Area, excluding Greenland and Mexico, to be rather illogical.  Presumably it was originally based on someone's idea of a relatively safe, mostly English-speaking subset of North America (apologies to Québec and St.-Pierre et Miquelon!).  We would all learn much more about ornithology in Mexico (with a corresponding boost to conservation efforts) if most US/Canadian birders no longer believed that the world ended abruptly at the Rio Grande.Of course, similar criticisms could be made of European birders and the BWP-based Western Palearctic boundaries. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Richard</blockquote>