Click on the species names below for additional information. Note that this online supplement does not repeat the bibliographic attributions given in the printed book. Buy the book here. Errata Striped Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Lincoln Sparrow Sierra Madre Sparrow Baird Sparrow Henslow Sparrow Large-billed Sparrow Belding Sparrow San Benito Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Ipswich Sparrow …
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In 1896, Robert Ridgway proposed to make of the green-tailed towhee the type of a new genus, Oreospiza, whose characters are intermediate between, or rather a combination of, those of Pipilo and Zonotrichia. Sensible enough, given the bird’s wing structure and head pattern, and the AOU adopted the new name in the next year’s Supplement to the Check-list. Thereupon roared …
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It’s that season, and the new Supplement to the AOU Check-list (still so quaintly spelled a century and a quarter after the first edition!) appeared at BioOne yesterday. The news of a few species “splits” affecting birders in the US and Canada was not unexpected–the only thing surprising, and perhaps a little disappointing to a …
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Species Observed, with notes on status from Russell and Monson, The Birds of Sonora (1998) Greater White-fronted Goose: 9 at Rodriguez Reservoir; Russell lists only 3 previous records from the interior of Sonora. Snow Goose: ca. 200 at Rodriguez Reservoir, among them at least 2 Blue Geese. Ross’s Goose: at least 2 at Rodriguez Reservoir; …
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