Hi friends: I'm a bit overwhelmed by the outpouring of comments and support from all of you. Thank you all. After all it's only a number. You just have to be out there enjoying the hobby and looking for a very long time.
But, with the state of Taxonomy, I can't just rest. They may lump Thayer's Gull, Nelson's Sparrow and who knows what. After all, in the past, I lost Audubon's Warbler, Bronze Grackle and others. Then again, Common Teal, Oregon Junco, Western Willet may (or may not) split. As an aside, a proposal to split the PAINTED BUNTING (that a bunch of us saw) into two species failed in the latest AOU proposal. It seems that both proposed new species could not be separated in the field. If it passed, we wouldn't know what we had. Shades of the recent Western Flycatcher. Sy Schiff -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
