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2013 AOU North American checklist proposals

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Proposal 2013-A-6 would split the shearwater taxon baroli , which breeds on several Atlantic island groups (the Azores, Canaries, Selvages, and Madeira) and strays to North American waters, from its current position as part of the Little Shearwater ( Puffinus assimilis ) complex. nevadensis ) and California Sage Sparrow ( A.

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AOU 53rd supplement: Highlights and near misses

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South American seriemas also belong with this newly recognized group, as explained in my earlier post. I wrote about this last year. Last fall, a new study strengthened the case for these sweeping changes. The split is based on evidence of very limited gene flow between the populations despite geographic overlap.

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