As I am reading Milton Trautman's "Birds of Buckeye Lake, Ohio" right now (courtesy of Bill Whan!), I can't help but notice that some of the bird name changes are actually reversions to earlier names that are used in Trautman's work, such as American Scoter and Eastern Whip-poor-whil.
Andy Sewell
Columbus, Ohio
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Latest AOU changes in N. American bird taxonomy
Apparently, the yearly revisions to the AOU Check-list will very soon be
on the web page http://www.aou.org/checklist/north/ . There are lots
of new scientific name changes, which usually involve the new
recognition of valid previous versions, but other news as well.
Unofficial announcements include these involving Ohio species:
--our "black scoter" becomes "American Scoter," based on being split
from the Old World form.
--some warbler species previously in the genus Vermivora (Tennessee,
Nashville) have been moved into the genus Oreothlypis.
--the blue-winged warbler is now V. cyanoptera.
--the Bachman's sparrow has a new generic name, and is Peucaea aestivalis.
--a new order Suliformes is split from Pelicaniformes, and now includes
frigatebirds and cormorants, as well as others.
--the Ardeidae (herons, bitterns, etc.) move from the order
Ciconiiformes to the order Pelicaniformes.
--the hawks, eagles, kites, etc. are split from Falconiformes into a new
order Accipitriformes.
Thanks to H. Horne for publicizing this early news. These, and other
changes, are official only on the site given above, and should be
available there shortly. This posting is for gossip purposes only. I am
surprised to see how many of these changes aren't covered in the
Proposals pages of the Committee's sites, while many of the issues that
seemed to have been settled there are apparently not.
Bill Whan
Columbus
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