While exploring the internet for information on our Juncos I found the
following site.

http://juncoproject.org/videos/chapter-3/

This is a general introduction to our Dark-eyed Juncos, but other videos
are available (see chapter headings on left side of the video).

Roger Troutman


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Roger Troutman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> The AOU's annual supplement (the 55th) was published on July 30th.  See
> http://aoucospubs.org/doi/pdf/10.1642/AUK-14-124.1 to study the whole
> thing, especially if you are interested in non-Ohio species..
>
> In short, no changes were made (lumps, splits, resequencing) in regard to
> our Ohio taxa, so our Ohio checklist is safe for another year - at least
> from a taxonomic or nomenclatorial standpoint.  This (lack of change)
> doesn't happen very often as the "norm" is to at least rearrange the
> supposed phylogeny or have at least split or lump somewhere.
>
> The closest thing to change was the raising of a Mexican subspecies of the
> King Rail to a full species.  The King Rail taxa thus lost a subspecies,
> but gained the Aztec Rail.
>
> Ditto, an endemic subspecies (again Mexican) of our Dark-eyed Junco was
> also elevated to a full species. The Guadalupe Junco is thus no longer a
> Dark-eyed Junco.
>
> It was however mentioned in the Notes for the Dark-eyed Junco* "Hyemalis *groups"
> that various taxa may merit recognition with further study. Thus there is a
> possibility that our various junco subspecies may again (they once were)
> become full species.
>
> Lastly, the "doves" sequence of species was changed slightly, but this did
> not impact our strictly Ohio "dove" order.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Roger Troutman
> Mansfield
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