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AOU Name Changes
by Adrian Binns 01/22/04
Rock Dove is now Rock Pigeon Columbia livia
New World and Old World Three-toed Woodpecker
(Picoides triactylus) has been split -
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis)
Screech-owls in the genus Otus - Eastern Screech Owl, Western and Whiskered (but not Flammulated) - are now in the genus Megascops
Genus and species name changed…………
Snowy Owl Nyctea scandiaca to Bubo scandiacus
Scientific species name changed back to its original
name………….
Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapilla)
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)
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