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Delaware Bird Records Committee (DRC)

Delmarva Ornithological Society

The Delaware Bird Records Committee (DRC) of Delaware Ornithological Society, a birding club serving Delaware and peninsular Maryland and Virginia, maintains the Delaware State Bird List. The following checklist is current through the Committee's decisions as of September 1, 2018.

BUBO Listing uses this, updated to follow the latest AOU taxonomy.

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AOU_DE

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.