Weary amateurs will find more advances in the scientific study of birds
in what will soon be a new AOU (oops, sorry, AOS) checklist, based
mostly on popular cheaper new studies made possible by analyses of DNA.
        The Audubon site
http://www.audubon.org/news/here-are-biggest-changes-aou-checklist-north-american-birds
   has a helpful essay from Kenn Kaufmann explaining this yearly
shake-up of the understood list. You can read more about it on the AOU
site, as the votes have not yet been collected on these changes.  KK
does not mention the earth-shaking (or at least annoying) name change of
the AOU to the AOS (American Ornithological Society); maybe "aou" has
been found to be a curse word in some obscure language, who knows...
Rejoice,
Bill Whan

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