Date: 8/14/25 7:51 am From: Kimball Garrett via groups.io <cyanolyca818...> Subject: [CALBIRDS] California Bird Records Committee News
Birders,.
The California Bird Records Committee has accepted the record of a Song Thrush (*Turdus philomelos*) from Southeast Farallon Island, San Francisco Co 11-12 November 2024. Joe Morlan has updated the CBRC website to reflect this addition, placed between Eyebrowed Thrush and Rufous-backed Robin the list sequence. Addition of this species brings the California bird list to 690 species.
With the publication of the 66th Supplement to the AOS Check-list of North American Birds (Ornithology, v.142, "July" 2025 -- though publication delayed to mid-August), some other changes have been made to the state list. These include (1) Species sequence changes within families Columbidae, Laridae, and Accipitridae (2) Family sequence changes with Gruiformes and Pelecaniformes (3) Change of Spotted Dove scientific name to *Spilopelia chinensis* (4) Transfer of Cooper's Hawk and American Goshawk to the genus *Astur* (5) Restoration of Bluethroat to the genus *Luscinia* (6) Change of English names for species in the genus *Amazona* from "Parrot" to "Amazon"
Also, (1) The split of Herring Gull (*Larus argentatus*) into three species results in the new name American Herring Gull (*L. smithsonianus*) for our regular California birds, and the addition of Vega Gull (*L. vegae*) to the California state list PENDING ACCEPTANCE OF ONE OR MORE EXISTING RECORDS BY THE C.B.R.C. (2) The split of Warbling Vireo (*Vireo gilvus*) into two species results in the new name Western Warbling-Vireo (*V. swainsoni*) for our regular California birds, and the addition of Eastern Warbling-Vireo (*V. gilvus*) to the California state list PENDING ACCEPTANCE OF ONE OR MORE EXISTING RECORDS BY THE C.B.R.C.
