03-12: 2019 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
It's taxonomy time again, bird nerds! The 2019 proposals to the American Ornithological Society's Classification Committee are chock full of splits, name changes, and a couple proposals that may or may not set some interesting precedents in the way we interact with bird common names. As we have before, we lean again on Dr. Nick Block, professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, and Secretary of the ABA's Recording Standards and Ethics Committee, to break it all down. He joins me to talk about some of those 2019's taxonomy proposals and what they might mean for birders in the US and Canada.
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