American Birding Association (ABA)

ABA The American Birding Association (ABA) is "a non-profit organization that provides leadership to birders by increasing their knowledge, skills and enjoyment of birding." The ABA maintains a checklist for its area which is carefully assessed and regularly updated.

The complete ABA checklist refers to North America north of the Mexican border. It excludes Bermuda, the Bahamas, Hawaii and Greenland. Within BUBO Listing, the ABA authority can be applied to lists for Continental North America (i.e. the "ABA Area") and certain sub-units thereof.

The most recent update of the ABA list was version 7.8 from August 2015. The latest updates have not been fully incorporated: although species additions and deletions have been done, there are still some changes to English and scientific names, and many changes to systematic order and the families to which species were assigned, that have not yet been processed.

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First select authority to copy existing species from, then type species name, or enter a new species directly.

Species name is defaulted from the previous species row and should of course be overwritten!.

Genus is defaulted from the previous species row but may need overwriting; specific needs to be entered in either case.

Delete species

NB: Species name for the old taxon should be updated to differentiate it from the split taxa using a '/' or '[group]', e.g. Species A/Species B or Species A [group].

NB: Scientific should also be updated similarly, e.g. Genus specific A/specific B or Genus specific A [group].

NB: Notes only allow up to 255 characters, but there is no enforcement of this. Anything longer will be truncated without warning.

NB: Species name for the old taxon should be updated to differentiate it from the split taxa using '[lumped]', e.g. Species A [lumped].

NB: Scientific should also be updated, using '[lumped]' or brackets for the old specific name, e.g. Genus specific [lumped] or Genus [specific] subspecific.

NB: Notes only allow up to 255 characters, but there is no enforcement of this. Anything longer will be truncated without warning.