I would like to add my thoughts on this situation as I personally see it The Ontario, Canada Records Committee has recognized the reintroduced Trumpeter Swan as an established breeding bird and as such is countable by Canadian birders in this new location. A vagrant from the population has been verified as being seen in NY. As such, by our rules, it becomes countable in NY as soon as the record is added to the NY list. This ought to be a mere formality. (Those who have seen the bird, please submit NYSARC reports).
However, this will only happen if NYSARC accepts the Ontario findings or agrees with their logic. If they are going to second guess Ontario and apply NY "rules" to another Records Committee findings, then we may have a long wait. Let's hope not. To be fair, at a somewhat higher level, the AOU has declined to follow the British OU on certain taxonomy matters, so these jurisdictional things are not without president. Sy Schiff -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
