Members of the ABA Checklist Committee (CLC) recently added Red-legged Honeycreeper to the ABA Checklist based on a juvenile photographed at Estero Llano Grande State Park, Texas, 27–29 November 2014. Seven members voted that the honeycreeper presumably represented a presumed natural vagrant from Mexico, while the dissenting member was concerned that the bird may have been an escaped captive.
This young Red-legged Honeycreeper, discovered in Hidalgo Co, Texas, in 2014, is the most recent addition to the ABA Checklist. Photo: Dorian Anderson
A full account of the honeycreeper vote and other decisions of the CLC since October 2015 will be featured in our next annual report, to be published in the November 2016 issue of Birding.
The number of species on the ABA Checklist is increased to 991.