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The ABA Checklist Committee (hereafter, CLC) recently voted 8–0 to accept the Rufous-necked Wood-Rail to the ABA Checklist as a natural vagrant. As is well known, the wood-rail was observed by hundreds of observers at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, 7–18 July 2013. photo by Jeff Gordon In October [read more…] If you’re an ABA member, life is good. Even though many organizations are cutting way back on traditional print publications, the ABA is offering more full-color print periodical content than ever before. We’re expanding online, enthusiastically and unapologetically so. Here at the ABA, it’s have your cake and eat it too. A substantial chunk of [read more…] The Rufous-necked Wood-Rail, immortalized in verse by Tom Crawford [read more…] Here it is, the next batch of proposed taxonomic updates to the AOU North American Check-list, which in turn are incorporated into the ABA Checklist. We’re doing something a little different this time, as the second batch of proposals for 2016 refers almost entirely to species that are not found in the ABA Area, so [read more…] It’s not too late to do end of the year countdowns, right? I sure hope not. I want to publicly thank all of those tho contributed to the blog this year, from regular contributors to guest writers to those who work behind the scenes keeping the whole thing functioning. The following are the 10 most [read more…] Happy Holidays birders, and thanks for the extra day to put this post together. Thursday holidays are always a real drag. This is the last weekly rarity roundup of 2014, and while this year hasn’t seen the mind-blowing vagrants of 2013 (no Rufous-necked Wood-Rail equivalent this year), it was a pretty exciting 12 months. George [read more…] Once again winter weather ruled the eastern side of the ABA Area, but despite that, birders still got out in the field and found a good number of noteworthy birds. Dry conditions persisted in the western U.S., and Alaska experienced unseasonably warm weather. And in North Carolina, Nate had some family obligations, so I’m filling [read more…] |
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How to Know the Birds: No. 17, Grackles in the Blink of an Eye
What: Great-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus mexicanus When: Friday, September 13, 2019 Where: Limon, Lincoln County, Colorado
On a sunny afternoon a couple of weeks ago, we were at a truck stop on I-70 in eastern Colorado. It was a solid two hours from home, what with the Friday evening rush in the Denver metro region [read more…]