Updates to the Ohio Bird Checklist

The American Ornithologists' Union recently published its Fifty-Fourth Supplement to its Check-list of North American Birds. There are no lumps or splits that affect the Ohio list, but there are several changes to scientific names, and to the order that species appear in the list.

The actual supplement is not yet available online, but a summary of the changes is available at http://blog.aba.org/2013/08/2013-aou-check-list-changes.html.

The new official Ohio list, reflecting those changes, is now online at http://ohiobirds.org/site/library/checklist/official.php.