[Tweeters] Goodbye Cordilleran Fly!

[Kim Thorburn]

Gosh! As a Spokane birder, I always thought that they were 2 species that recognized political boundaries: Pac-slope was Washingtonian and cordilleran was Idahoan:)


Kim



Kim Marie Thorburn, MD, MPH

Spokane, WA

(509) 465-3025



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From: Tweeters <tweeters-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Bob Flores <rflores_2 at msn.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 1:59 PM
To: Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney <festuca at comcast.net>
Cc: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Goodbye Cordilleran Fly!

And the wheel goes round and round!

Bob Flores
Duluth, WA

On Jul 6, 2023, at 13:31, Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney <festuca at comcast.net> wrote:


It was long anticipated, and there goes a "species" from my (and many others') Life List.  For me, the Cordilleran was akin to the old "Northwestern" Crow; not a 'real' species, so I will not miss having to listen to all those Blue & Rocky Mountain Empidonax birds and make a subjective 'guess' as to which species to put down on my eBird checklists.

In its 23rd supplement since publication of the 7th edition of the Check-list of North American Birds (AOU 1998) are summarized decisions made between 15 April 2022 and 25 April 2023 by the American Ornithological Society’s (formerly American Ornithologists’ Union) Committee on Classification and Nomenclature - North and Middle America.

The publication went online today, resulting in "... 1 species (Empidonax occidentalis) is lost by merger with a species already on the list"...
https://academic.oup.com/auk/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ornithology/ukad023/7220602

So, RIP to the Cordilleran, and Welcome Back to the Western Flycatcher!!

Best,
 - Jon. Anderson
 Olympia
 festuca at comcast dot net
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