Thanks to the CBRC for all their good work.
I was a little disturbed to see Yellow-green Vireo removed from the review list, considering the findings of this major multilocus vireo phylogeny:
http://cjbattey.com/papers/slager2014MPE.pdf
Basically, East Mexican Yellow-greens are poorly differentiated from North American Red-eyeds, while west slope/southern birds are a different beast entirely. Based on current knowledge, if the AOU acts on this, we will not know if we are seeing things that are basically Red-eyed Vireos with yellow-green plumage or the genetically distinct Yellow-greens from the west slope and south.
Thanks to Alvaro Jaramillo for bringing this paper to my attention a few months back.
Tristan McKee
Arcata, CA
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Kimball Garrett kgarrett@... [CALBIRDS] <[email protected]> wrote:
The California Bird Records Committee held its annual meeting at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in Camarillo on 23-24 January. The following items resulting from that
meeting will be of interest to California birders:
Changes to the STATE LIST:
Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) is removed and replaced with Arctic/Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis/examinandus); at
present it is uncertain which of these taxa has occurred in California. The species pair Arctic/Kamchatka Leaf Warbler is also added to the review list.
Tundra Bean-Goose (Anser serrirostris) is added to the state list (and review list) following the acceptance of the bird at the Salton Sea, Imperial
Co. 19 Oct 2013 (CBRC record #2013-181); the species pair Taiga/Tundra Bean-Goose (Anser fabalis/serrirostris) is removed from the state list.
Changes to the REVIEW LIST:
Taiga/Tundra Bean-Goose is moved from the main Review List to the supplemental list of reviewed “species groups and hybrid taxa” at the end of the Review
List
Frigatebird sp. is removed from the “species groups and hybrid taxa” supplemental review list and replaced with Magnificent/Great/Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata
magnificens/minor/ariel)
Blue-footed Booby and Yellow-green Vireo are removed from the Review List
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP:
Voting members Jon Dunn, Peter Pyle and Steve Rottenborn rotated off the Committee
Lauren Harter, Kristie Nelson, and Scott Terrill were elected to the Committee as voting members
Joe Morlan was re-elected as CBRC Chair
Dan Singer was re-elected as CBRC Vice-Chair
Finally, and most importantly, Guy McCaskie retired as Secretary after serving in that role since 2001.
Tom Benson was elected to replace Guy as Secretary; all documentation of CBRC review species should now go to Tom Benson at secretary@...
These changes to the State List, Review List, and Committee membership have been made on the CBRC web site by webmaster Joe Morlan; see:
http://californiabirds.org/
In particular, note the tribute to outgoing secretary Guy McCaskie at:
http://californiabirds.org/GuyMcCaskie015.html
Kimball L. Garrett
[acting as CBRC spokesperson]
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA
(213) 763-3368
kgarrett@... |