AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (North & Middle America)
2010 Proposals,
Proposals must receive a 2/3 positive vote by committee members to pass. Proposals and votes may be subject to change pending further data or discussion. Thus, the outcome of proposals is not final until published in the annual supplement to the
Check-list of North American Birds (July issue of
The Auk).
- 2010-A-1: Separate Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus from C. alexandrinus - PASSED
- 2010-A2: Modify the type locality of Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli - FAILED
- 2010-A-3: Split Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli into two species - FAILED
- 2010-A-4: Split Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroica coronata into two, three, or four species - FAILED
- 2010-A-5: Remove Schiffornis, Laniocera, Pachyramphus, and Tityra from incertae sedis and place in the new family Tityridae - PASSED
- 2010-A-6: Change English name of Turdus nudigenis to Spectacled Thrush - PASSED
- 2010-A-7: Transfer Chlorospingus from Thraupidae to Emberizidae- PASSED
- 2010-A-8: Elevate Chaetura andrei meridionalis to species status - PASSED
- 2010-A-9: Change English names of North American Troglodytes wrens - FAILED
- 2010-A-10: Split Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata from G. chloropus - PASSED
- 2010-A-11: Place Sapayoa aenigma in its own family, Sapayoidae - PASSED
- 2010-B-1: Transfer eight species from the Turdidae to the Muscicapidae - PASSED
- 2010-B-2: Transfer three species of muscicapids to different genera - FAILED
- 2010-B-3: Revise two type localities - PASSED
- 2010-B-4: Change Amazilia chionopectus to Amazilia brevirostris - PASSED
- 2010-B-5: Create a new order, Pteroclidiformes, for the sandgrouse - PASSED
- 2010-B-6: Recognize Anas diazi as a species, again - FAILED
- 2010-B-7: Change the linear sequence of the furnarioid families - PASSED
- 2010-B-8: Recognize the Bahama Warbler Dendroica flavescens as a distinct species - PASSED
- 2010-B-9: Recognize Geothlypis (aequinoctialis) chiriquensis as a distinct species - FAILED
- 2010-B-10: Adopt a new generic classification for the Parulidae - PASSED
- 2010-B-10-Amendment #1: Retain Leucopeza semperi and Oporornis agilis in their current genera (versus lumping into Geothlypis) - PASSED
- 2010-B-10-Amendment #2: Retain Catharopeza bishopi in its current genus (versus lumping into Setophaga) - PASSED
- 2010-B-11: Restore authority for the genus name Peucedramus to Coues - PASSED
- 2010-B-12: Split Mexican Jay Aphelocoma ultramarina into two species - PASSED
- 2010-B-13: Lump Ramphastos swainsonii with R. ambiguus (SACC proposal #440) - PASSED
- 2010-C-1: Add Gray-bellied Hawk Accipiter poliogaster to the Main List - PASSED
- 2010-C-2: Change the distributional status of Christmas Shearwater, Puffinus nativitatis - PASSED
- 2010-C-3: Transfer Tahiti Petrel Pterodroma rostrata from the Appendix to the Main List - PASSED
- 2010-C-4: Transfer Long-winged Harrier Circus buffoni from the Appendix to the Main List - PASSED
- 2010-C-5: Add Large-billed Seed-Finch Oryzoborus crassirostris to the Main List - PASSED
- 2010-C-6: Change the status of Yellow-hooded Blackbird Chrysomus icterocephalus from Accidental to Breeding Resident - PASSED
- 2010-C-7: Add Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum to the U.S. list - PASSED
- 2010-C-8: Add Sungrebe Heliornis fulica to the U.S. list - PASSED
- 2010-C-9: Add Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona to the U.S. list - PASSED
- 2010-C-10: Add Gray-collared Becard Pachyramphus major to the U.S. list - PASSED
- 2010-C-11: Add Brown-backed Solitaire Myadestes occidentalis to the U.S. list - PASSED
- 2010-C-12: Add Red-legged Thrush Turdus plumbeus to the U.S. list - PASSED
- 2010-C-13: Transfer White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis from the Appendix to the Main List - PASSED
- 2010-C-14: Add Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria to the Main List - PASSED
