The ABA has distilled the new AOU Checklist into a simple format. Most of the additions are splits; one exotic passes muster, and another is removed (budgerigar, once EZ2C, seems to be winking out, largely because of another introduced species, the starling). There is more tuning of scientific nomenclature. The ABA has several formats of the list at http://listing.aba.org/aba-checklist/ to choose from. I was hoping that the hoary redpoll would finally be banished, but more scrutiny continues--last I heard the genetics of the redpolls are identical--so, the records committee folks will have to flip coins for another winter...Gloger rules! Bill Whan ______________________________________________________________________ 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]