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Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I am your host, Nate Swick.

Big news in the ABA area as the North American Classification Committee has finally released

their annual checklist supplement a little bit later than normal, but better late than never.

Basically, it's the splits and lumps and taxonomic changes that make their way into the ABA checklist.

It's the science that informs the playing field for ABA area listing birders. And as such,

as always, highly anticipated. There was one big split this year. Warbling Vario is now Eastern

and Western Warbling Vario with the hyphen between warbling and Vario. That's a change we've

been expecting for some time. In fact,

back when Nick Block and I did our annual taxonomy preview last spring, it was a change that

both of us expected, not Leastovich, because we kind of knew it was coming even then. Most of the

other splits affect birds south of the U.S., though Nuttings Flycatcher is a

semi-regular vagrant.

Our version is still called Nuttings Flycatcher.

They didn't take the opportunity to change the name, sadly, even though the rules

tactically say they should, but neither here nor there.

Squalcuckoo also split for those of you who have seen them in the tropics.

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