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 > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]