Talk:List of birds of the Aleutian Islands
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July 6, 2020 revisions
[edit]Because of the large number of changes necessitated by the update to the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds which the American Ornithological Society published on June 30, 2020, the revisions to this article are presented here rather than in a long series of edit summaries. Changes are per the AOS unless otherwise noted.
- Revise the references, counts, and text in the introduction.
- Add 15 species per eBird.
- Revise 2 English names.
- Revise 1 specific epithet.
- Revise notes per AOS and Alaska Checklist Committee.
- Revise multiple families' common names per Clements.
- Revise the sequence of species in family Rallidae (Rails, gallinules, and coots).
- Revise the sequence of families in order Suliformes.
- Revise the sequence of species in family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and shags).
Craigthebirder (talk) 23:04, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
December 26, 2020 revision
[edit]This revision replaces eBird with Avibase as the secondary source:
- Add new entries or confirm previous eBird entries per Avibase (101 species).
- Delete eight previous eBird entries not confirmed by Avibase.
- Revise the references, counts, and text to reflect the above.
Craigthebirder (talk) 17:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
August 2021 revision
[edit]These are the changes made to update this list to the 2021 Check-list of North and Middle American Birds published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS) on June 29, 2021. In addition, two species were added per Lepage and one per the AOS.
- Revise the sequence of families in Order Passeriformes.
- Add Pallas's gull to the list.
- Split mew gull into common gull and short-billed gull and revise entries accordingly.
- Revise the binomials of cormorant species.
- Revise the genus and English name of Middendorf's grasshopper-warbler.
- Revise the genus and position of ruby-crowned kinglet.
- Revise text, counts, and references as appropriate.