have to wonder what was wrong with the name "Mew" that neither side of the
split continues with that name.

Chris Kessler
Seattle

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:07 AM Steve Hampton <stevechampton at gmail.com>
wrote:


> eBird's taxonomic updates finally rolled out this morning. Two things:

>

> 1) Mew Gull is now split into Short-billed Gull (North America) and Common

> Gull (Eurasia). 99.999% of the time, the correct entry will be Short-billed

> Gull. I assume county reviewers will be removing Common Gull if there are

> no prior records in their area (such as for "Kamchatka" Common Gull, the

> most likely Common Gull to reach the PNW).

>

> 2) Northwestern Crow is no more; it was lumped with American Crow last

> summer after a study showed a vast intragration zone between the two.

>

> Note the splitting and lumping is done by the American Ornithological

> Society each summer. It takes eBird a while to update their software.

>

> --

> Steve Hampton

> Port Townsend, WA

> *Qatay, S'Klallam territory*

>

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