Thanks, Bill, for posting this. Also exciting is that our checklists have
been completely rewritten. If you had issues with the falcons and parrots
getting moved to after the woodpeckers wait till you get a load of THIS:
waterfowl
grouse
flamingos
grebes
pigeons & doves
cuckoos
nightjars
swifts
hummingbirds
cranes
shorebirds, gulls, & terns
tropicbirds
loons
tubenoses
herons
boobies
pelicans
vultures
hawks
owls
And within the passerines ("perching birds") we now have:
Olive Warbler
House Sparrow and friends
pipits
finches
longspurs
warblers...
The last bird on our checklist is now Scott's Oriole.
Enjoy!
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County
On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 8:52:36 AM UTC-6, Bill Maynard wrote:
>
> COBirders,
>
>
>
> As per the July 2016 update to the A.O.U. Check-list… Fifty-seventh
> Supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North
> American Birds… The Auk: Ornithological Advances 133:544–560…
>
> re: Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay and California Scrub-Jay
>
>
>
> 22. [p. 446] *Aphelocoma woodhouseii* is treated as a species separate
> from *A. californica*. Revise the account for *A. californica* as
> follows: Change the English name to California Scrub-Jay. Restrict the
> Resident part of the distributional statement to that for the
> *californica* group, and change the Casual part of the statement to:
> Casual in southwestern British Columbia and eastern Washington. Replace the
> existing Notes with the following: Notes.—Formerly considered conspecific
> with *A. woodhouseii*, but treated as separate on the basis of
> differences in ecology, morphology, genetics, and vocalizations; although
> the two species do interbreed, the hybrid zone is narrow, and there is
> evidence for selection against hybrids (Gowen et al. 2014). See notes on *A.
> coerulescens*. Following the account for *A. californica*, insert the
> following new species account: *Aphelocoma woodhouseii* (Baird).
> Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay. *Cyanocitta woodhouseii* Baird, 1858, in Baird,
> Cassin, and Lawrence, Rept. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9: 584– 585. (central
> line of Rocky Mountains to table lands of Mexico [¼ Fort Thorn (ten miles
> west of Rincon, Dona Ana County), New Mexico].) Habitat.—Woodland
> (especially pinyon, juniper, oak associations) and scrub; also gardens,
> orchards, riparian woodland, and tropical deciduous forest (southern
> Mexico) (Subtropical and Temperate zones, upper Tropical Zone in southern
> Mexico). Distribution.—Resident [*woodhouseii* group] from southeastern
> Oregon, southern Idaho, southern Wyoming, western and southern Colorado,
> and extreme western Oklahoma south to eastern California (from White
> Mountains to Providence Mountains), southern Arizona, in the Mexican
> highlands to northeastern Sonora, Jalisco, central Guanajuato, Mexico,
> Distrito ´ Federal, and Hidalgo, and east to western and central Texas; and
> [*sumichrasti* group] from Tlaxcala south to Oaxaca (west of the Isthmus
> of Tehuantepec), Puebla, and west-central Veracruz. Casual [*woodhouseii*
> group] in southeastern California, southern Manitoba, northern Wyoming,
> Illinois, Indiana, central Kansas, and the Texas Panhandle. Notes.—Genetic
> and behavioral data (Peterson 1991, 1992; Peterson and Burt 1992; Gowen et
> al. 2014) suggest that *A. sumichrasti* (Baird and Ridgway, 1874)
> [Sumichrast’s Scrub-Jay] may be a separate species. See Notes under *A.
> californica* and *A. coerulescens*.
>
>
>
> Read more here: http://www.aoucospubs.org/doi/pdf/10.1642/AUK-16-77.1
>
>
>
> Bill Maynard
>
> Colorado Springs
>
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