The annual supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds has been published for 2019, and the American Birding Association (ABA) has a helpful and easier-to-read summary of it on their blog (http://blog.aba.org/2019/06/aos2019.html <http://blog.aba.org/2019/06/aos2019.html>).
According to the ABA’s summary, there are no lumps or splits affecting the Minnesota checklist. (Although there was a three-way split in White-winged Scoter, the only one which normally occurs in Minnesota and most of North America is still the White-winged.) And only one English name was changed: Common Ground-Dove loses its hyphen to become Common Ground Dove. But there are now changes in the sequence of some species groups on the Minnesota list: • Groove-billed Ani now precedes Yellow-billed and Black-billed cuckoos; • The sequence of plovers becomes Black-bellied, American Golden-, Killdeer, Semipalmated, Piping, Wilson’s, and Snowy; • The swallows sequence becomes Bank, Tree, Violet-green, Northern Rough-winged, Purple Martin, Barn, and Cliff; • And the sparrows sequence changes to Grasshopper, Black-throated, Lark, Lark Bunting, Chipping, Clay-colored, Field, Brewer’s, Fox, American Tree, Dark-eyed Junco, White-crowned, Golden-crowned, Harris’s, White-throated, Vesper, LeConte’s, Nelson’s, Baird’s, Henslow’s, Savannah, Song, Lincoln’s, Swamp, Green-tailed Towhee, Spotted Towhee, and Eastern Towhee. In addition, Tennessee, Orange-crowned, and Nashville warblers have been moved from the genus Oreothlypis to the new genus Leiothlypis. Kim Eckert Duluth MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
