03-12: 2019 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It's taxonomy time again, bird nerds! The 2019 proposals to the American Ornithological Society's Classification Committee are chock full of splits, name changes, and a couple proposals that may or may not set some interesting precedents in the way we interact with bird common names. As we have before, we lean again on Dr. Nick Block, professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, and Secretary of the ABA’s Recording Standards and Ethics Committee, to break it all down. He joins me to talk about some of those 2019’s taxonomy proposals and what they might mean for birders in the US and Canada.

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0:52.1	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:57.0	I am your host, Nate Swick. I hope you guys are having a good ratty bird season. I don't know what it's like where you are.
1:07.0	And depending on your latitude, I guess spring migration may not even be entirely over, but down here where I am, we are well into the Malt season, which means ugly birds, bald cardinals, missing flight feathers, all that stuff.
1:22.2	It's one of the joys of summer that is humid and hot and sticky as birding this time of year can be across much of the
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