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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birdingcraft" data-source="post: 1574639" data-attributes="member: 55810">Although extending the ABA listing area all the way to Panama might benefit me (I live and guide in Costa Rica), I don't think that Central America should be included in the ABA listing area. Nor do I believe that the boundaries should be extended to include Mexico. The reasons for this are that the ABA area is more or less based on a mix of biogeographical and political boundaries that roughly include the nearctic, or Canada and the United States of America. With that in mind, I think that Greenland should certainly be included Within the ABA. Although Hawaii does not fall within these biogeographic boundaries, since it is a state within the USA, I think that Hawaii should be included as a subset of the ABA listing area.Perhaps a subset could also be devised for Mexico and Central America?Or perhaps folks should just focus more on their world lists and not worry about boundaries that are human constructs rightfully ignored by the birds.</blockquote>