[TN-Bird] Pending AOU changes

From: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:10:36 -0400 (EDT)
Nothing is finalized until published in July but the AOU has updated
its website with preliminary results from taxonomy changes under
consideration.  

http://www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/pending.php

A few items of note (see link for more):

Passed (as it stands):
-- Snowy Plover split from Kentish Plover of Old World
-- Common Gallinule (including Hawaiian form) split from Common Moorhen
of Old World (Yay, new life bird) unclear yet what the new common name 
will be
-- reshuffling of warbler taxonomy based on DNA studies.  So long to
the genus Dendroica which all now become Setophaga.  Lots of scientific
name changes here, see the link for more.  Not clear where Yellow-breasted
Chat will end up
-- Split Bahama Warbler from Yellow-throated Warbler
-- Split Mexican Jay (I think still only one species in US though)


Failed (as it stands):
-- resplit Yellow-rumped Warbler into 2, 3, or 4 species.  Dang it.  
This may be revisited in the future after results from ongoing studies 
are published.  I really wanted Myrtle and Audubon's Warblers back.
-- resplit Mexican Duck from Mallard
-- split Mountain Chickadee into 2 species
-- re-rename the just-split winter wrens (still Winter Wren for us and
Pacific Wren out west)


Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN


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