TWENTY-EIGHTH REPORT OF THE FLORIDA ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY RECORDS COMMITTEE: 2017-2018

摘要

The Records Committee of the Florida Ornithological Society met at the Florida Museum of Natural History on 22 July 2018. We reviewed 76 new reports; in addition, two submissions tabled at our previous meeting were reviewed, one submission unresolved from our previous meeting was reviewed, and two previously decided submissions were reopened. Of the 81 total reports we reviewed at the meeting, 62 were documented by still photographs or video (several of these also had audio documentation), three were documented solely by audio recordings, and 11 were documented by specimens deposited in museum collections. The other six were sight reports with varying amounts of written documentation. Of these 81 reports, 66 (80.2%) were accepted (one of them a species triplet), nine were not accepted (11.1%), two were tabled (2.0%), and six were unresolved (7.4%). The submissions include five species that would have been new additions to the Official List of Florida bird species if accepted (Stygian Owl, House Crow, Brown-chested Martin, Caribbean/Sinaloa Martin), but only one of these was accepted: Stygian Owl. The Official State List remains at 525 species, however, because Thayer's Gull was removed following actions of the American Ornithological Society's North American Classification Committee. The submission of a Progne martin was accepted to a three-species group (Caribbean, Sinaloa, or Cuban Martin); Caribbean and Sinaloa have not been recorded previously in Florida, and the only Cuban Martin record dates back to the 1890s.