his is the 21st published report of the ABA
Checklist Committee (hereafter, ABA CLC), Tcovering the period August 2009–Septem - ber 2010. Since our previous report (Pranty et al.
2009), Heinl, Kratter, and Mactavish cycled off the
committee after having served two consecutive
four-year terms. Those members were replaced by
Gibson, Iliff, and Pittaway. Gibson returns to the
ABA CLC after a 19-year absence, while Iliff and
Pittaway are new to the committee. Pranty was re -
elected to serve as chair for a fifth year, and Lock -
wood was selected to assist Pranty as needed.
During the preceding 1 4 months, the ABA CLC finalized votes on seven species, of which all were accepted and added to the ABA Checklist . Those records come from Alaska, Arizona, Texas (two species each), and Florida (one species). Addition - ally, taxonomic changes made by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (North and Mid - dle America) of the American Ornithologists’ Union (hereafter , AOU) resulted in the addition of two “new” species as the result of taxonomic “splitting” (Chesser et al. 2010). The number of accepted species on the ABA Checklist is increased to 969. An - cillary numbers are provided for all additions to allow for their proper placement on the seventh edi - tion of the ABA Checklist (Pranty et al. 2008). New Species Accepted ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexi - canum ). ABA CLC Record #2010-02. One thought to be in second-basic plumage at Bentsen–Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, from 21 December 2009 to 20 January 2010. Dis -
30 BIRDING • NOVEMBER 2010 covered and photographed by Rick urement data, the “cold” plumage lacking Bill Pranty Nirschl and Rick Snider, and observed by buffy tones, white face and belly, white Bayonet Point, Florida hundreds during its month-long stay “braces” on the mantle, and extensive dark [email protected] (Nirschl and Snider 2010). Distinguished barring on the breast and flanks. Accepted from the extralimital Rufescent Tiger- unanimously by the Alaska Checklist Com - Jon L. Dunn Heron ( T. lineatum ) and Fasciated Tiger- mittee (AKCLC) and by the ABA CLC. A Heron ( T. fasciatum ) by its unfeathered previous report of a Solitary Snipe de - Bishop, California greenish-yellow throat, gray legs and scribed and distantly photographed at [email protected] feet, and black crown contrasting St. Paul Island, Alaska, on 10 Sep - with a gray face. Bare-throated tember 2008 (Bieber and Daniel D. Gibson Tiger-Heron is not known to be Schuette 2009) was relegated Ester, Alaska kept in captivity (ISIS 2010). by the AKCLC to its Unsub - [email protected] Accepted unanimously by the stantiated List because the Texas Bird Records Committee identification was regarded as Steven C. Heinl (TBRC) and by the ABA CLC. probably correct but not satis - The Bare-throated Tiger-Heron factorily substantiated by a photo - Ketchikan, Alaska is resident from northern Mexico graph or specimen. [email protected] (southern Sonora and southern Tamauli - The Solitary Snipe breeds in mountains pas, about 240 kilometers south of from south of Lake Baikal and northwest - Marshall J. Iliff Brownsville) to Panama and northwestern ern Mongolia south and west to north - West Roxbury, Massachusetts Colombia (Howell and Webb 1995, AOU western China and in much of the [email protected] 1998). A small, isolated population was Himalayas from western Kashmir east at discovered in Peru in 1999 (Nirschl and least to Sikkim and probably southern Andrew W. Kratter Snider 2010). Tibet (Vaurie 1965), and has recently Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (173.1) is been detected breeding as far east as the Gainesville, Florida placed on the ABA Checklist as a Code 5 western Chukotski Peninsula (Tomkovich [email protected] species. Following AOU, it 2008). It is mainly an alti - is placed between Least Bit - tudinal migrant, but there Paul E. Lehman tern (173) and Great Blue CHANGES IN BRIEF is some longer migration as San Diego, California Heron (174). New Species Accepted well. The species winters [email protected] Based on Distributional from northeastern Iran and Solitary Snipe (Gallinago Records Pakistan to eastern China, Mark W. Lockwood solitaria ). ABA CLC Record q Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Korea, and Japan (Hayman Alpine, Texas #2010-06. One near Alexai q Solitary Snipe et al. 1986, Tomkovich Point, Attu Island, Alaska, q Amazon Kingfisher 2008). Reports of more [email protected] on 24 May 2010. Discov - q Gray-collared Becard distant vagrant Solitary ered and photographed by q Brown-backed Solitaire Snipes from eastern India Bruce Mactavish a group from Zugunruhe q Rufous-tailed Robin and from Hong Kong cited St. John’s, Newfoundland q Red-legged Thrush Birding Tours led by John by Bieber and Schuette [email protected] Puschock, then collected by New Species Accepted (2009) were questioned by Jack J. Withrow and David Based on Taxonomic Rasmussen and Anderton Ron Pittaway W. Sonneborn (Withrow “Splits” (2005) and not accepted Minden, Ontario and Sonneborn in prepara - q Eastern Whip-poor-will by Carey et al. (2001), re - and Mexican Whip-poor-will [email protected] tion) and determined to be (split from Whip-poor-will) spectively. an adult male and thought q Winter Wren and Solitary Snipe (337.1) is to be of the subspecies Pacific Wren placed on the ABA Checklist Kevin J. Zimmer G. s. japonica . Distinguished (split from Winter Wren) as a Code 5 species. Fol - Atascadero, California from other snipes by meas - lowing Dickinson (2003), [email protected]
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Record #2010-03. One female along the Rio Grande at Laredo, Webb County, Texas, from 24 January to 3 February 2010. Although the bird was stated in the 3 documentation submitted to the TBRC to be an adult, we are not aware of the characters that were used to age the bird. Discovered and photographed by Robert Epstein and Alan Wormington, and observed by hundreds dur - ing its stay (Wormington and Epstein 2010). Distinguished from Green Kingfisher by its larger size, heavy bill, and minimal white spotting on the wings. Accepted unanimously by the TBRC and by the ABA CLC. A report of two Amazon Kingfishers near Rangerville, Cameron County, Texas, 21 October–23 No - vember 1996 (Lasley et al. 1997) was rejected by the TBRC (Lockwood 1998). The Amazon Kingfisher is resident from northern Mexico (southern Sinaloa and southern Tamaulipas) to northern Argentina and Uruguay; it ranges to northern Sinaloa during the winter (AOU 1998). The first of two species recently added to the ABA Checklist from Texas was this Amazon Kingfisher (526.1) is placed on the Bare-throated Tiger-Heron that lingered one month after its discovery. Resident ABA Checklist as a Code 5 species. Following north to southern Tamaulipas, Mexico, about 240 kilometers south of Brownsville, this species had been expected to stray to the ABA Area. Bentsen–Rio Grande Valley AOU, it is placed between Belted Kingfisher State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas; 21 December 2009. Photo by © Rick Snider. (526) and Green Kingfisher (527). it is provisionally placed first in Gallinago , thus between Jack Gray-collared Becard (Pachyramphus major ). ABA CLC Snipe (337) and Wilson’s Snipe (338), pending acceptance Record #2010-05. One second-calendar-year male attaining and placement by the AOU. adult plumage at Cave Creek Canyon, Cochise County, Ari - zona, on 5 June 2009. Discovered and photographed by Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona ). ABA CLC Anne Pellegrini, Jillian Johnston, and Ryan Davis, and ob -
New ABA CLC Members Daniel D. Gibson has studied the status, distribution, abundance, and geographic variation of Alaska’s birds for 45 years. Long associ - ated with the University of Alaska Museum at Fairbanks, he recently retired as the bird collection manager and now continues as a re - search associate. He has authored numerous publications, most recently Birds of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska with G. Vernon Byrd. Gibson has been a member of the Alaska Checklist Committee since its inception.
Marshall J. Iliff is a project leader for eBird. Formerly a guide for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, he has actively birded throughout the ABA Area for more than 20 years. Iliff is a past regional editor for the Mid-Atlantic and Baja California regions for North American Birds , and has authored or coauthored a number of articles and book chapters. He has long had a special interest in rare and vagrant birds. Iliff has served on records committees in Maryland and California, and is the current chairman of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.
Ron Pittaway is a life member of both the ABA and Ontario Field Ornithologists. He served on the Ontario Bird Records Committee for 12 years during the period 1984 –2003, including three years as chairman and one as secretary. He was coeditor of the provincial journal Ontario Birds from 1991 to 2006. Pittaway has authored more than 130 articles about birds, focusing on field identification, sub - species, morphs, molts and plumages, and conservation.
32 BIRDING • NOVEMBER 2010 served by others later that ers, and audio-recorded by Chris Benesh day (Johnston et al. 2010). and Dave Stejskal. Distinguished from other Distinguished from other Myadestes solitaires by its brown upperparts becards by its combination and unique song. Accepted 7 –1 in second- of brown cap and mantle, round voting by the ABC, with the dissenting broad white collar (gray in vote concerning provenance; accepted unani - adults), black wings with mously by the ABA CLC. A previous ABA Area broad white feather edg - photographic record, at Madera Canyon, Pima ings, and very pale under - 3 County, Arizona, on 4 October 1996 was re - parts. Determined to be of jected by the ABC on the grounds of uncertain the western subspecies P. m. This Solitary Snipe was discovered, photographed, provenance (Rosenberg et al. 2007). However, uropygialis by the pale col - and then collected at Attu Island, Alaska. An Asian the ABC is reevaluating this record (G. Rosen - oration of the nape and un - species, Solitary Snipe was recently discovered to berg, personal communication). Brown- breed on the western Chukotski Peninsula of the derparts, along with the Russian Far East. Alexai Point, Attu Island, Aleutian Is - backed Solitaire is frequently found caged in brown cap bordered by lands, Alaska; 24 May 2010. Photo by © John Puschock . Mexico because of its striking song, which is black. Accepted unani - sung year round. Nonetheless, the ABA CLC mously (after second-round voting) by the Arizona Bird was satisfied that the records pertained to a wild individual Committee (ABC), and unanimously by the ABA CLC. The due to their rather remote locations and the seasonality of the noticeable abrasion to the remiges and the molt in the rec - occurrences. trices caused minor concern among some ABC and ABA The Brown-backed Solitaire is resident from northern CLC members that the bird may have been kept captive. Mexico (southern Sonora and Nuevo Leon, and from the The Gray-collared Becard is resident from northwestern central interior) to northern El Salvador and central Hon - Mexico (eastern Sonora) to El Salvador and central Nica- duras (Howell and Webb 1995, AOU 1998), generally re - ragua, and it is a pronounced altitudinal migrant (Howell maining in highland breeding areas. More recently, breeding and Webb 1995, AOU 1998, Johnston et al. 2010). A report was observed in the Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, in 2006, 130 from El Tabacote, Sonora (256 kilometers south of Arizona) kilometers south of the U.S. border and 192 kilometers from on 17 March 1984 (Monson 1986) previously suggested this Miller Canyon (Van Doren 2010). There is one report from species’ potential to reach the ABA Area. Belize (Howell and Webb 1995). Gray-collared Becard (597.1) is placed on the ABA Check - Brown-backed Solitaire (718.1) is placed on the ABA list as a Code 5 species. Following AOU, it is placed between Checklist as a Code 5 species. Following AOU, it is placed Fork-tailed Flycatcher (597) and Rose-throated Becard between Townsend’s Solitaire (718) and Orange-billed (598). Nightingale-Thrush (719).
Brown-backed Solitaire (Myadestes Rufous-tailed Robin (Lus - occidentalis ). ABA CLC Record cinia sibilans ). ABA CLC #2010-04. Two records thought to Record #2009-04. Two sin - refer to the same individual. One gles. One second-year female male at Miller Canyon, Cochise at West Massacre Valley, Attu County, Arizona, was discovered Island, Alaska, on 4 June and photographed by Benjamin Van 2008. Discovered and col - Doren, Dave Jasper, and other partic - lected by David Sonneborn ipants in Camp Chiricahua on 16 and Jack Withrow, the speci - July 2009 (Van Doren 2010). Pre - men was deposited in the col - sumably the same individual then 3 lection at the University of traveled 2.7 miles to Ramsey Canyon, Alaska Museum of the North Cochise County, Arizona, where it Looking like a large Green Kingfisher with a massive bill, this (UAM 24600), where the was present 18 July–1 August 20 09 Amazon Kingfisher was the second species recently added identification was confirmed to the ABA Checklist from Texas. Like the Bare-throated (Van Doren 2010). Discovered by Tiger-Heron found five weeks earlier, this kingfisher was by Daniel Gibson (DeCicco et Sandy Kunzer and Rick Romea, pho - observed by hundreds during its stay. Laredo, Webb County, al. 2009). Another second- tographed by Joe Woodley and oth - Texas; 24 January 2010. Photo by © Alan Wormington . year bird was found four days
WWW.ABA.ORG 33 ABA CHECKLIST 3 later, at Northeast Point, St. Paul Island, Alaska, on 8–9 June 2008. Discovered by Lucas DeCicco, and observed and pho - tographed by several others the following day (DeCicco et al. 2009). Distinguished from other thrushes by the combina - tion of whitish underparts with scaly gray breast and flanks, and brown upperparts contrasting with the rusty tail and up - pertail coverts. Both records were accepted unanimously by the AKCLC and the ABA CLC. An earlier report (ABA CLC Record #2002-05), relegated by the AKCLC to the Alaska Unsubstantiated List and not accepted by the ABA CLC (Rob - bins et al. 2003), was a bird distantly photographed at Attu Island on 4 June 2000 (DeCicco et al. 2009). The Rufous-tailed Robin breeds in eastern Russia, north - eastern China, and northern Korea. It winters mostly in southern China, with some also in Vietnam, Laos, and cen - tral-eastern Thailand. It is a rare and irregular migrant to Except for last year’s Sinaloa Wrens, no species had been added to Japan (Brazil 1991, DeCicco et al. 2009). the ABA Checklist from Arizona since Blue Mockingbird in 1996— Rufous-tailed Robin (708.1) is placed on the ABA Check - based on records in 1991–1992 and 1995. As if to compensate, two species are added to the ABA Checklist from that state in this report. list as a Code 5 species. Following AOU, it is placed first in The first of these, Gray-collared Becard , was a one-day wonder. The Luscinia , thus appearing between Spotted Flycatcher (708) species ranges north to eastern Sonora. Cave Creek Canyon, Cochise and Siberian Rubythroat (709). The species is widely con - County, Arizona; 5 June 2009. Photo by © Jillian Johnston . sidered to be monotypic (e.g., Dickinson 2003). unanimously by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Red-legged Thrush (Turdus plumbeus ). ABA CLC Record Committee and by the ABA CLC. #2010-07. One adult at Maritime The Red-legged Thrush is resident in Hammock Sanctuary, Melbourne the northern Bahamas, Cuba, the Isle of Beach, Brevard County, Florida, on Youth, the Cayman Islands, Hispaniola, 31 May 2010. Discovered and pho - Puerto Rico, and Dominica (Raffaele et al. tographed by Marcus Ponce and 1998, Hallett 2006). It is absent from Ja - not observed again (Anderson and maica and from the Lesser Antilles other Ponce in preparation). Distin - than Dominica. guished from other thrushes by its Red-legged Thrush (736.1) is placed on uniform slate-gray body with no the ABA Checklist as a Code 5 species. Fol - buffy tones on the belly, white chin, lowing AOU, it is placed last in Turdus , black throat, red orbital ring, and thus falling between American Robin orange-red legs and feet. More (736) and Varied Thrush (737). specifically, the unicolored under - parts and restricted white on the Votes in Progress face identify the individual as be - –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– longing to the nominate subspecies The ABA CLC voted on one other species T. p. plumbeus , which is restricted to 3 during the period but did not reach con - the northern Bahamas (Clement Two records of Brown-backed Solitaire sensus. Members did not agree on the 2000, Dickinson 2003) and is the less than three miles and two days apart are identity of a putative Solander’s Petrel subspecies most likely to reach thought to pertain to the same individual. (Pterodroma solandri ) photographed ap - east-central Florida. Red-legged The bird was first found at Miller Canyon, proximately 59 kilometers west-southwest Arizona , for one day; then it reappeared at Thrushes are not known to be kept Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, where it remained of Tofino, British Columbia, on 6 October captive (ISIS 2010, Anderson and for two weeks. Ramsey Canyon, Arizona; 2009. The ABA CLC voted 5–3 on the Ponce in preparation). Accepted 30 July 2009. Photo by © Christopher H. Taylor. record, which will undergo external re -
34 BIRDING • NOVEMBER 2010 view and then a second round of 3 Votes Anticipated voting. There is currently no British ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Columbia bird records committee Within the next 12 months, the ABA CLC will vote to assist the ABA CLC with review on the following records if they pass local-commit - of this record. tee review: Common Shelduck ( Tadorna tadorna ) Two species mentioned in our in Massachusetts (a recent record from Newfound - previous report (Pranty et al. 2009) land will not be reviewed because of questions of are still under consideration. First, provenance), Sungrebe ( Heliornis fulica ) in New with regard to reports of Fea’s Pe - Mexico (Williams et al. 2009), Cuban Black-Hawk trels photographed off North Car - (Buteogallus gundlachii ) in Georgia, Purple olina, the ABA CLC was awaiting Swamphen ( Porphyrio porphyrio ) in Florida (estab - publication of a major paper (Shir - lished exotic), and Rosy-faced Lovebird ( Agapornis ihai et al. 2010) that discusses the Two recent records of Rufous- roseicollis ) in Arizona (established exotic). Addi - identification and distribution of tailed Robin were obtained from tionally, the ABA CLC may re-review the evidence Fea’s, “Desertas,” and Zino’s petrels islands off western Alaska within of potential establishment of Black-hooded Para - before voting to add Fea’s Petrel to four days of each other. The first keets ( Nandayus nenday ) in Florida; it has been five was of a bird collected at Attu Is - the ABA Checklist . Second, with re - land on 4 June 2008. The second years since the previous ABA CLC review. gard to a putative Gray Gull pho - was of a bird at St. Paul Island 8–9 Recent ABA CLC reports had indicated that the tographed in Louisiana in 1987, the June 2008. Northeast Point, St. Paul committee would eventually review on a formal ABA CLC has decided that addi - Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska; 9 June basis recent claims of persistence of Ivory-billed 2008. Photo by © Gary Rosenberg. tional evidence purported to exist Woodpeckers in the southern U.S. (e.g., Fitzpatrick will likely never be located. This record was not accepted by et al. 2005, Hill et al. 2006). In discussing the matter recently, the Louisiana Bird Records Committee (Dittmann and members of the ABA CLC agreed to maintain the status quo Cardiff 2003), because the bird may have been a melanistic (as per the seventh edition of the ABA Checklist ), whereby the Laughing Gull. Ivory-billed Woodpecker is listed as a Code 6 species, mean - ing that it is probably or definitely extinct. This status will be maintained unless a record is ob - tained with less problematic evidence than has been put forth in recent years. AOU Taxonomic and Nomenclatorial Changes Affecting the ABA Checklist –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The 51st supplement to the AOU’s Check-list of North American Birds (Chesser et al. 2010) was published in August 2010, and all changes affecting avian taxonomy and nomenclature within the ABA Area are auto - matically accepted by the ABA CLC. Many changes made by the AOU affect the ABA Checklist , especially in the sequence of some passerine groups (e.g., moving the longspurs to precede the wood-warblers). The changes in sequence are so dramatic that the number - 3 ing sequence of the seventh edition of the ABA Checklist requires rather substantial changes, This Red-legged Thrush represents the only species added to the ABA Checklist from more so than are included here. The 51st sup - east of the Mississippi River in this report. Photographed along the Atlantic coast of Florida, the bird was not seen after its discovery. The species occurs on Grand Bahama plement to the AOU Check-list results in the Island, less than 70 miles east of Florida. Maritime Hammock Sanctuary, Melbourne following changes to the seventh edition of Beach, Brevard County, Florida; 31 May 2010. Photo by © Marcus Ponce. the ABA Checklist :
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This putative Solander’s Petrel off British Columbia • Black Scoter (53) is split into two species, one was first thought to be a Murphy’s Petrel, found in the western Palearctic and the other in and it may yet be the eastern Palearctic and the New World. The determined to be English names of both species published in the that species. British 51st supplement—American Scoter and Black Columbia is one of very few states or Scoter, respectively—are erroneous and have provinces to lack a been corrected in the September/October 2010 local bird records Auk (A. Kratter, personal communication). The committee, and the corrected English names are Black Scoter lack of local review prior to its examina- (Melanitta americana ) for “our” species and Com - tion by the ABA CLC mon Scoter ( M. nigra ) for the western Palearctic resulted in a mixed species. Although currently extralimital, Com - vote. The record will mon Scoter breeds in Iceland and occurs casu - now undergo exter- nal review before the ally in Greenland (Boertmann 1994)—where second round of ABA interestingly it is the only taxon recorded—so it CLC voting. Clayoquot seems a possible stray to the ABA Area. Canyon, off Tofino, • Greater Shearwater (128) becomes Great Shear - British Columbia; 6 October 2009. Photo water. ? by © Sharon Toochin. • Whip-poor-will (488) is split into an east - ? ern North American species and a north - ern Middle American species: Eastern Whip-poor-will ( Caprimulgus vociferus; 488) and Mexican Whip-poor-will ( C. ari - zonae ; 488.1). • Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher (587.1) is changed to Crowned Slaty Flycatcher, without a hyphen. • The genus of Brown Jay (623) is changed from Cyanocorax to Psilorhinus . • Winter Wren (681) is split into three species. The Old World species, thought likely to form four distinct groups, be - comes the Eurasian Wren ( T. troglodytes ) and is extralimital. Of the two newly split North American species, the eastern birds (breeding west to Alberta) remain the Winter Wren (681.1) while the species breeding from Alaska to the Pacific region Populations of exotic birds often appear to fluctuate greatly, which prevents many (some breeding sparingly elsewhere in the exotic species from being added to the ABA Checklist . One species that seems destined for ratification is the Purple Swamphen in Florida, which was discovered around mountain ranges of western North Amer - December 1996. A state-sponsored eradication attempt resulted in the shooting of ica) becomes the Pacific Wren ( T. pacificus ; more than 3 ,100 swamphens between October 2006 and March 2009. The effort was 681). cancelled in April 2009 because an additional 2,000+ swamphens were thought to have • The scientific name of Blue-winged War - survived, they are prolific breeders, and they already occupied millions of acres of wet - lands. In November 2009, a Purple Swamphen photographed at Glennville, Georgia , bler (771) is changed from Vermivora pinus had probably dispersed from the Florida population. Wakodahatchee Wetlands, to Vermivora cyanoptera . Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida; 15 November 2007. Photo by © Bill Pranty. • The genus of Tennessee Warbler (773) is
36 BIRDING • NOVEMBER 2010 changed from Vermivora to Oreothlypis . • The genus of Orange-crowned Warbler ? (774) is changed from Vermivora to Oreo- thlypis . • The genus of Nashville Warbler (775) is changed from Vermivora to Oreothlypis . • The genus of Virginia’s Warbler (776) is changed from Vermivora to Oreothlypis . • The genus of Colima Warbler (777) is changed from Vermivora to Oreothlypis . • The genus of Lucy’s Warbler (778) is changed from Vermivora to Oreothlypis . • The genus of Northern Waterthrush (809) is changed from Seiurus to Parkesia . • The genus of Louisiana Waterthrush (810) is changed from Seiurus to Parkesia . • The scientific name of Canyon Towhee (841) is changed from Pipilo fuscus to Melozone fusca . • The genus of California Towhee (842) is changed from Pipilo to Melozone . • The genus of Abert’s Towhee (843) is changed from Pipilo to Melozone . • The genus of Rufous-winged Sparrow (844) is changed from Aimophila to Peu - caea . • The genus of Cassin’s Sparrow (845) is changed from Aimophila to Peucaea . • The genus of Bachman’s Sparrow (846) is changed from Aimophila to Peucaea . • The genus of Botteri’s Sparrow (847) is changed from Aimophila to Peucaea . • Rufous-crowned Sparrow (848) is retained within Aimophila , which also includes two Another exotic that may be added to the ABA Checklist is the Rosy-faced Middle American species, but the genus is Lovebird (known as Peach-faced Lovebird in North American field guides). now placed in between the Pipilo and Although breeding at Phoenix, Arizona , was first noted in 1987, information on Melozone towhees. population size and status had been lacking. On the morning of 25 February 2010, a lovebird survey was undertaken by 60 observers throughout the greater Phoenix • The sequence of the Peucaea sparrows fol - area. More than 900 birds were found , and thousands of others are thought to have lowing Rufous-winged Sparrow is been overlooked (K. Radamaker, personal communication). A publication of the changed to Botteri’s (845), Cassin’s (846), survey results is in preparation. Phoenix, Arizona; 19 June 2007. Photo by © Bill Pranty. and Bachman’s (847) sparrows. • The genus of Five-striped Sparrow (849) reverts from Literature Cited Aimophila to Amphispiza , and the species is moved to pre - ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– cede Black-throated Sparrow (859). Anderson, B.H. and M.S. Ponce. In preparation. First verified United • The longspurs and Plectrophenax buntings are moved to fol - States record of Red-legged Thrush ( Turdus plumbeus ). Submitted to low Olive Warbler (769), and the sequence is changed to North American Birds . Lapland, Chestnut-collared, Smith’s, and McCown’s AOU [American Ornithologists’ Union]. 1998. Check-list of North Ameri - longspurs, and Snow and McKay’s buntings. can Birds , 7th edition. American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington. • The genus of McCown’s Longspur (formerly 880) reverts Bieber, G. and S. Schuette. 2009. First record of Solitary Snipe ( Gallinago from Calcarius to Rhynchophanes . solitaria ) for North America on Saint Paul Island, Alaska. North Amer -
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