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

I am your host, Nate Swick. We've got an update to the

ABA checklist in the last week. I know, I know it's not quite as exciting as the eBird

checklist updates. That's where you keep all your lists. That's where I keep all my lists.

But the ABA checklist is still important because it informs the

way that we talk about birds at this organization, and I'd still like to think that that's

reasonably influential. Anyway, the big news and the update, well, relatively speaking, of course,

is that we have finally started to move away from the AOS North American Classification Committee and align more

with Ebert, at least partially. We accepted to the ABA checklist two splits that have not yet,

yet's important. I think they probably will be approved eventually by the AOS.

Those are two splits that Ebert brought to us this summer, two splits that birders have had on their radar for a while. That is Wimbril split now into Hudsonian Wimbril in the Americas and Eurasian Wimbril in, well, Eurasia.

Borders in the U.S. and Canada and elsewhere have been keeping track of old world

wimbrils for quite a while now.

It's a pretty straightforward identification.

The second is the yellow warbler split, which was recently made into the very familiar

nominate birds that will now be known as northern yellow warbler

and the Texas and Florida subspecies, the range-restricted subspecies, now called

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