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I asked the question today of why ducks were listed first, when all my life I had loons, grebes, and cormorants heading up my checklists. Tony states the case in detail here below, but the answer is "things changed". Good Birding. =20 Mark Alt MOU President =20 ________________________________ From: Anthony Hertzel [mailto:[email protected]]=20 Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:36 PM To: Alt, Mark Subject: checklist =20 The MOU Records Committee (and by extension the MOU) has always followed the avian taxonomic sequence as determined by the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). Changes made by the AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature on the order, acceptability, and names of North American birds are immediately adopted by the MOU Records Committee without a vote.=20 =20 Almost three years ago in July 2003, the AOU published the 44th supplement (Auk 120:923-931) to their Check-List of North American Birds (7th edition published in 1998) which included the statement "move the species in Anseriformes and Galliformes to a position immediately following those in the Tinamiformes."=20 =20 There are six species of tinamou on the AOU checklist, and since none have been recorded in Minnesota, this re-sequencing made the first species on our checklist an anseriforme. =20 Anseriformes are waterfowl -- on the Minnesota checklist these are whistling-ducks through Ruddy Duck. Galliformes are game birds -- on the Minnesota checklist these are partridge through bobwhite. The first anseriforme on the AOU checklist is White-faced Whistling-Duck -- a bird not on the Minnesota checklist. The next is Black-bellied Whistling-Duck which has been recorded in Minnesota seven times, making this species first on our checklist.=20 =20 These two groups -- waterfowl and game birds -- are then followed by loons and grebes =20 See the AOU checklist web page at http://www.aou.org/checklist/index.php3 for further details and PDF versions of the most recent Supplements to their checklist. =20 - - - =20 Anthony Hertzel -- [email protected] =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C66245.F07CD9DB Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"State"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"place"/> <!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Helvetica; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle18 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:Arial; color:navy;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </head> <body lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dblue style=3D'word-wrap: = break-word;-khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=3DSection1> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I asked the question today of why = ducks were listed first, when all my life I had loons, grebes, and cormorants = heading up my checklists. Tony states the case in detail here below, but the = answer is “things changed”. Good Birding.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Mark = Alt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>MOU = President<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <div class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font = size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=3D2 width=3D"100%" align=3Dcenter tabindex=3D-1> </span></font></div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D2 face=3DTahoma><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font = size=3D2 face=3DTahoma><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> = Anthony Hertzel [mailto:[email protected]] <br> <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 17, = 2006 12:36 PM<br> <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Alt, Mark<br> <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> = checklist</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'>The MOU Records Committee (and by extension the MOU) has = always followed the avian taxonomic sequence as determined by the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). Changes made by the AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature on the order, acceptability, and = names of North American birds are immediately adopted by the MOU Records Committee without a vote. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div style=3D'min-height: 14px'> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'>Almost three years ago in July 2003, the AOU published the 44th supplement (Auk 120:923-931) to their Check-List of North American = Birds (7th edition published in 1998) which included the = statement "move the species in Anseriformes and Galliformes to a position = immediately following those in = the Tinamiformes." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div style=3D'min-height: 14px'> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'>There are six species of tinamou on the AOU checklist, and = since none have been recorded in <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place = w:st=3D"on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State>, this re-sequencing made the first species on our checklist an = anseriforme.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div style=3D'min-height: 14px'> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'>Anseriformes are waterfowl -- on the <st1:State = w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State> checklist these are whistling-ducks through Ruddy Duck. Galliformes are game birds -- = on the <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State> = checklist these are partridge through bobwhite. The first anseriforme on the AOU checklist is White-faced Whistling-Duck -- a bird not on the <st1:State = w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State> checklist. The next is Black-bellied Whistling-Duck which has been recorded in = <st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State> = seven times, making this species first on our = checklist. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div style=3D'min-height: 14px'> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'>These two groups -- waterfowl and game birds -- are then = followed by loons and grebes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'>See the AOU checklist web page at </span></font><font face=3DHelvetica><span style=3D'font-family:Helvetica'><a href=3D"http://www.aou.org/checklist/index.php3";>http://www.aou.org/check= list/index.php3</a> for further details and PDF versions of the most recent Supplements to = their checklist.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div><span style=3D'border-spacing: 0px = 0px;text-align:auto;-khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto;orphans: 2;widows: = 2;word-spacing:0px'><span style=3D'border-spacing: 0px = 0px;text-align:auto;-khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto;orphans: 2;widows: 2;word-spacing:0px'> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3Dapple-style-span><font size=3D1 = color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>- - = -</span></font></span><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3Dapple-style-span><font size=3D1 = color=3D"#004080" face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#004080'>Anthony Hertzel -- <i><span style=3D'font-style:italic'><a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a></span></i><= /span></font></span><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span = style=3D'font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br> <br> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </span></span> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span = style=3D'font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C66245.F07CD9DB--
