{"id":1142,"date":"2007-07-27T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/aou-check-list-48th-supplement\/"},"modified":"2018-06-23T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T14:55:06","slug":"aou-check-list-48th-supplement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/aou-check-list-48th-supplement\/","title":{"rendered":"AOU Check-list: 48th Supplement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here, it&#8217;s here, the newest <a href=\"http:\/\/aou.org\/checklist\/suppl\/AOU_checklist_suppl_48.pdf\">Supplement to the AOU Check-list<\/a>. No great earth-shattering surprises this time, but a few changes of note to us amateurs.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BJ Rose, Bean Goose, Nebraska\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/26172322356\/in\/photolist-FSKZBb-EnXFF5-pqGYcn-7m9epg-7md84m-75TwdK-75Tw4k-75Xr1S\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1562\/26172322356_f9584de638.jpg\" alt=\"BJ Rose, Bean Goose, Nebraska\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First, the Bean Geese have been split; the species that has occurred in the 48 contiguous US states is <em>Anser fabalis<\/em>, the Taiga Bean-Goose (hyphen copyright 2007, AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature). I was fortunate enough to be half of the CBC team that discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9900E4D81F38F935A35752C0A963948260\">Nebraska&#8217;s first occurrence <\/a>of this species in 1984, and was proud (I hope not prideful) to see that exciting record cited in the Supplement.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow-legged Gull <em>Larus michahellis <\/em>has been split from <em>Larus cachinnans<\/em>, Caspian Gull; the only records for Yellow-legged Gull <em>sensu novo <\/em>accepted in the Supplement are from Quebec, Newfoundland, Maryland, and DC.<\/p>\n<p>I was startled to read that Sacred Ibis &#8220;seems to be on the way to establishment&#8221; in Florida after individuals escaped from zoos after Hurricane Andrew. If poor Florida continues on this path, it will be more like escaping <em>into <\/em>a zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The really big news, though, for those of us who like to collect odd facts for those cocktail parties I seem never to get invited to (wonder why) is the repositioning of the New World vultures. Remember how much fun it was to point out to new birders that &#8220;vultures are really storks&#8221;? Well, it turns out that vultures are really vultures, and the family Cathartidae has been returned to the order Falconiformes, though with one of those ominous asterisks indicating &#8220;uncertainty as to exact placement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My sentiments exactly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here, it&#8217;s here, the newest Supplement to the AOU Check-list. No great earth-shattering surprises this time, but a few changes of note to us amateurs. First, the Bean Geese have been split; the species that has occurred in the 48 contiguous US states is Anser fabalis, the Taiga Bean-Goose (hyphen copyright 2007, AOU Committee &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/aou-check-list-48th-supplement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AOU Check-list: 48th Supplement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[676,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11051,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/11051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}