Authorship for Museum Collections?
A recent paper in Zootaxa by Rouhan and colleagues (here, though paywalled) advocates that collections make such important contributions to published science that they should be recognized as...
View ArticleThe 2018 Checklist of Alaska Birds
Changes in the 24th edition—2018 (downloadable at right) ADDITIONS TO THE CHECKLIST in 2017 (in taxonomic order) Nazca Booby Sula granti: Ad, 30 Aug 2017, 13.5 mi/21 km off East Amatuli Island, Barren...
View ArticleThe 2019 Checklist of Alaska Birds
Changes in the 25th edition—2019 (downloadable at right) ADDITIONS TO THE CHECKLIST in 2018 (in taxonomic order) Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus: Light-morph ad, 15 Nov 2018–2+ Jan 2019, St. Paul...
View ArticleThe 2020 Checklist of Alaska Birds
The following changes to the Checklist of Alaska Birds primarily reflect systematic changes imposed by the Sixtieth Supplement to the Check-list of North American Birds (2019;...
View ArticleThoughts on changing the name of the Auk and Condor
(Our discipline’s flagship journals are considering a name change after more than a century of success and global recognition. I am opposed, because the potential gains are illusory. A survey on this...
View ArticleComments on the 2021 Checklist of Alaska Birds
ADD Hooded Crane Grus monacha, based on one collected in Sep 2020 at Delta Junction (UAM specimen). Insert following Common Crane G. grus. ADD Pallas’s Grasshopper-Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola, based...
View ArticleComments on 2022 Checklist of Alaska Birds
ADD Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus, based on the taxonomic decision to recognize this taxon as a separate, North American species (Chesser et al. 2021) – as originally described – instead of as...
View ArticleComments on 2023 Checklist of Alaska birds
ADD Least Tern Sternula antillarum, based on a second-year bird in first alternate plumage observed 21 July-4 August 2022 at Anchorage (B. J. Lagassé, R. L. Scher+; photos AKCLC). ADD Wedge-tailed...
View ArticleWinker resigns from the American Ornithological Society
Dear friends and colleagues, I am resigning from the American Ornithological Society and its committees on which I served. The decision by AOS to change all eponymous English bird names in its...
View ArticleComments on the 2024 Checklist of Alaska Birds
ADD Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus, based on one bird observed at Shemya Island, Aleutians, on 29 May 2023 (Z. M. Pohlen, photos AKCLC). ADD Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus, based on a partial...
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