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Posted by Andy Kratter on 14:36:16 09/01/08
Birders -
The Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC) met on Saturday 30 August at Archbold Biological Station. The highlight our meeting, was the acceptance a record of Townsend's Solitaire that was photographed in March 2008 on private property in Orange County. This is the first record of Townsend's Solitaire in Florida, and ups the Official State List to 503 species. Unfortunately, there was no public access to this site, so it was not "chasable". Details will be published in an upcoming issue of the Florida Field Naturalist.
In other news, we are now accepting submissions of Alder and Willow Flycatchers that include descriptions of vocalizations. Before, we were only accepting submissions with recorded vocalizations. We hope that this will spur more submissions, as the status of both species in Florida is murky at best. As everyone knows, it's a tricky field identification problem, but vocal birds can be separated with knowledge of their range of vocalizations.
Our website (http://www.fosbirds.org/RecordCommittee/FOSRC.php) will be updated shortly to include these changes and also to include the latest changes in Supplements of the AOU Check-list Committee.
Thanks to all those who submitted records and reports. I will write each submitter individually with the results of our deliberations.
Good birding!
Andy Kratter
Secretary, FOSRC
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