Dear Ontbirds subscribers,


The annual meeting of the Ontario Bird Records Committee (OBRC) was held on
2 April 2017. At this meeting, the following changes were made (effective 1
January 2017):

1. Grace’s Warbler and Common Ringed Plover have been added to the Ontario
list, bringing the total to 496. Both species are new to the South Review
Zone and thus added to the South Review List.

2. Western Sandpiper and Western Kingbird have been added to the South
Review List, effective 1 January 2017

3. Townsend’s Solitaire, Glossy Ibis (and *Plegadis* Ibis), and Kirtland’s
Warbler have been removed from the South Review List, effective 1 January
2017

4. Lesser Black-backed Gull is removed from the Central Review List,
effective 1 January 2017



This year’s OBRC meeting minutes will be available shortly on the OFO
website, as well as the updated Operating Guidelines, here:
http://ofo.ca/site/Obrc



Past annual reports are available online at
http://ofo.ca/site/page/view/obrc.annualreports



At this meeting the 3 year terms as voting OBRC members for Bill Crins,
Ross Wood ended, as well as Don Sutherland’s interim 1 year. The OBRC has
elected Don Sutherland, Bill Lamond, and Blake Mann to 3 year terms, going
forward. The committee would like to thank all OFO members who took the
time to submit nominations. Josh Vandermeulen was elected to the
chairperson role. The remaining voting members are Tim Lucas, Paul Pratt,
and myself. Mark Peck will continue as the non-voting Royal Ontario Museum
Liaison. On behalf of the rest of the committee, I would like to thank Bill
Crins and Ross Wood for their excellent service on the OBRC. Mike Burrell
will continue as Secretary, alongside Barb Charlton as non-voting Assistant
to the Secretary.



I would also like to take this opportunity to remind the Ontario birding
community to submit your documentation of birds on the OBRC Review Lists as
soon as possible – this facilitates timely voting by the committee and
helps ensure the process goes as smoothly as possible. It also helps ensure
your memory is fresh when writing the reports. Please don't assume others
have documented a bird - the more reports we have on file, the more
complete the record will be now and in the future. An online form is
available at http://ofo.ca/site/Obrcreport but the OBRC accepts submissions
in any form (send them to the OBRC secretary (obrcsecret...@gmail.com).
Guidelines for submitting reports is available at
http://ofo.ca/site/page/view/obrc.guidelines.


If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me or any of the
other OBRC members. Enjoy the spring birding season!


Ken Burrell
2016 OBRC Chair
kenneth.gd.burr...@gmail.com
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