Date: 7/10/25 12:20 pm From: Matthew Bell via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: [texbirds] AviList/Warbling Vireo/Amur Stonechat
To give some more precise info for those interested, I’ll summarize the splits/lumps that affect Connecticut and the USA as a whole:
CT:
Whimbrel split into Eurasian and Hudsonian whimbrels
Yellow Warbler split into American Yellow and Mangrove warblers
USA:
Fea’s Petrel split into Cape Verde and Desertas petrels
Elegant Trogon split into Coppery-tailed and Elegant trogons
Red-legged Thrush split into Western and Eastern red-legged thrushes
Siberian and Amur stonechats lumped into Siberan Stonechat
Overall, nothing too major to the USA, except for the Whimbrel and Yellow Warbler splits. There are some lumps that have occured outside the USA that affect nomenclature here (namely the swamphen lump, returning the name Purple Swamphen to the invasive species in FL). I may have also missed some, but those are the ones I could recall off the top of my head
-Matt Bell
Vernon
> On Jul 10, 2025, at 12:01, C. S. Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> Forwarding some new info about AviList for those interested in the
> latest updated world list.
>
> Chris Wood
> Woodbury, CT
> [1]203 558-0654
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> View my photography here: [2]C.S. Wood Photo Sampler
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Philip Rostron <dmarc-noreply...>
> Date: July 10, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM EDT
> To: <texbirds...>
> Subject: [texbirds] AviList/Warbling Vireo/Amur Stonechat
> Reply-To: <philiprostron57...>
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>
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> AviList ([3]https://www.avilist.org/) has recently been adopted as
> the standard world taxonomy and will be followed by eBird/Cornell
> ([4]https://ebird.org/news/avilist-a-unified-global-checklist-of-the > -worlds-birds-is-now-available)
> Warbling Vireo is still lumped in the recently-released 2025 AviList
> so I would not expect a split this year but it may happen in the
> future based on AOU proposal 2025-C-3
> AviList also lumps Amur Stonechat into Siberian Stonechat (either
> way still a good bird for Texas!)
> Phil - Smithville.
>
> References
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> 1. tel:203 558-0654
> 2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/cswood-photos/albums/72157710313935571/ > 3. https://www.avilist.org/ > 4. https://ebird.org/news/avilist-a-unified-global-checklist-of-the-worlds-birds-is-now-available >
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