new AOS changes
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Stan DeOrsey
Jul 7, 2019, 10:14:04 AM7/7/19
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Last week the new American Ornithological Society (AOS, formerly AOU)
list of changes to bird names and sequence was published for 2019. The
good news is there are no English name changes relative to the
Northeast. There were a number of scientific name changes and more
sequence changes.
The sequence changes are mostly within Plovers, Swallows, and Sparrows.
These families did not change the family locations, just within the
family. The scientific name changes reflect a split of the White-winged
Scoter into its European and Asian counterparts, plus genus changes to
Storm-Petrels and some Warblers (Tennessee, Orange-crowned, and
Nashville for us).
There is more but mostly for Latin American birds and foreign accidental
species.
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Stan DeOrsey js...@att.net
list of changes to bird names and sequence was published for 2019. The
good news is there are no English name changes relative to the
Northeast. There were a number of scientific name changes and more
sequence changes.
The sequence changes are mostly within Plovers, Swallows, and Sparrows.
These families did not change the family locations, just within the
family. The scientific name changes reflect a split of the White-winged
Scoter into its European and Asian counterparts, plus genus changes to
Storm-Petrels and some Warblers (Tennessee, Orange-crowned, and
Nashville for us).
There is more but mostly for Latin American birds and foreign accidental
species.
--
Stan DeOrsey js...@att.net
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