Ohio Bird Records Committee Secretary Ned Keller shared with us at our
last meeting a list of birds accepted over the past ten years, thanks to
acceptable documentation prepared and submitted by many Ohio observers.
Since it'll be a while before March 2009 information appears in print, I
thought I'd pass along a brief summary.
        From 1999-2008, the Committee accepted documentations of 161
occurrences of review species (those species requiring good back-up
documentation before they can enter accepted records). Sixty-eight
species were involved. Harris's sparrow led the way with 14 records;
black-necked stilt had 12, Kirtland's warbler 11, and California gull
and ruff 10. Fourteen species were added to the Ohio list during the decade:
        Anna's hummingbird
        black-bellied whistling-duck
        brown-headed nuthatch
        Calliope hummingbird
        cave swallow
        common ground-dove
        Eurasian collared-dove
        garganey
        green violetear
        red-naped sapsucker
        sooty tern
        white-throated swift
         Previously unpublished and added only at the last meeting were dusky
flycatcher (6/3/2005, Ottawa Co.) and reddish egret (6/5 and 6/14/2008,
Ashtabula Co). The official Ohio list stands at 422 species. Further
details will eventually be published.
Bill Whan
Columbus

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