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Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:50:00 -0500
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Re: AOU checklist proposals on crossbills and coots
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Bill, did you mean to say lump our local redpolls? Don't think it would be logical to lump our crossbills. :)

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Changes are formally proposed yearly to the official list of North
> American bird species, and the most recent may be found at
> http://www.gizard.org/nacc/proposals/PDF/2016-A.pdf  . At least two of
> these proposals may influence Ohio birders if accepted: lumping of our
> two local crossbills, and new species status among four Ohio
> woodpeckers, which would be kind of the opposite, though no splits are
> involved.
>       There is also an argument for lumping the American and Caribbean coots!
> I can remember hours spent staring at coots in Florida hoping to find
> "Caribbeans" years ago, without any conclusive result, and--just as for
> the crossbills--I am relieved to see a proposal to lump them...just too
> much ambiguity. I'm glad to see rigorous scientific work that confirms
> impressions of field observations. Listers may rankle at these
> proposals, but it's the birds that really 'count"!
> Bill Whan
> Columbus
> 
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