Will parrots and falcons soon be moved around in your field guide?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2011
Here’s a prediction: Parrots , falcons , and seriemas are on their way to new positions in your checklists and, eventually, field guides. Oh yes, change is a-comin’ Crimson-fronted Parakeet ( Aratinga finschi ), Moravia, Costa Rica © David J. Ringer Proposition 491, recently submitted to the American Ornithologists’ Union South American Classification Committee (SACC), bears the esoteric title “ Change linear sequence of orders for Falconiformes, Psittaciformes, and Cariam
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