{"id":2558,"date":"2009-08-03T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2018-06-23T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T14:53:24","slug":"aou-check-list-supplement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/aou-check-list-supplement\/","title":{"rendered":"AOU Check-list Supplement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aou.org\/checklist\/suppl\/AOU_checklist_suppl_50.pdf\">Fiftieth Supplement<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aou.org\/checklist\/north\/\">AOU Check-list<\/a> has been posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/aou.org\/\">AOU website<\/a>. The changes will be incorporated soon into the online version of the Check-list.<\/p>\n<p>Summaries have been circulating on the web for a couple of weeks now, but there&#8217;s nothing like the horse&#8217;s mouth. And it&#8217;s always great fun to see one&#8217;s friends and colleagues cited in the Supplement. Jon Dunn, of course, is a greatly valued member of the Committee, and Jake Mohlmann and Paul Lehman are both credited here with recent additions to the North American list: Jake (along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventurebirding.com\/index.php\/johnyerger.html\">John Yerger<\/a>) the astounding first Brown Hawk-Owl for the region, and Paul the 2007 Gambell Sedge Warbler\u00a0 and the nearly as surprising Yellow-browed Bunting from the same location the same year.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more in there, of course, and I&#8217;ll be spending as much time as I can over the next busy days teasing out the fascinating bits of buried material. Who&#8217;d have guessed, for example, that Linnaeus had unknowingly predicted the presence of a wild Graylag Goose in North America when he described the species 251 years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiftieth Supplement to the AOU Check-list has been posted to the AOU website. The changes will be incorporated soon into the online version of the Check-list. Summaries have been circulating on the web for a couple of weeks now, but there&#8217;s nothing like the horse&#8217;s mouth. And it&#8217;s always great fun to see one&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/aou-check-list-supplement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AOU Check-list Supplement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/2558"}],"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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}