Hope no one minds this post, but I have recently been updating my life list and found a little conflict between ebird & the American Birding Association list rules. I was curious to see what others consider "countable" when it comes to their life lists. The ABA seems to make numerous changes to species, names, taxonomy several times each year. We have lost Thayer's Gull (now a subspecies of Iceland) as well as others. Purple Swamphen is now Gray-headed Swamphen per ebird, but not on ABA list. Magnificent Hummer is now Rivoli's Hummingbird (on both lists). Graylag Goose is countable on ABA, but not ebird. I understand the reason and science behind many of these changes, but I wonder how this affects those who keep life lists. Please feel free to comment to me by facebook or my email below, thanks.
Mark Miller mmiller...@hotmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
