Taxonomic change history
Changes from supplements to the 7th edition (1998) of the AOU Check-list of North American Birds that affected the lists of North Carolina or South Carolina birds.
- 42nd Supplement, July 2000
- Rename Oldsquaw to Long-tailed Duck
- Split; remove Crested Caracara Caracara plancus and replace with Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
- Lump genus Catharacta (Skuas) into Stercorarius
- Split; remove Black-billed Magpie Pica pica and replace with Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
- Change scientific name of Black-capped Chickadee from Poecile atricapillus to Poecile atricapilla
- Move Bullock's Oriole before Baltimore Oriole
- 43rd Supplement, July 2002
- Lump genus Ajaia (Spoonbills) into Platalea
- Lump genus Porphyrula (Purple Gallinule) into Porphyrio
- Split; remove Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago and replace with Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Change scientific name of Red Phalarope from Phalaropus fulicaria to Phalaropus fulicarius
- Lump genus Guiraca (Blue Grosbeak) into Passerina
- 44th Supplement, July 2003
- Rename Rock Dove to Rock Pigeon
- Genus Columba is split up; Band-tailed Pigeon Columba fasciata becomes Patagioenas fasciata
- Genus Otus is split up; Eastern Screech-Owl Otus asio becomes Megascops asio
- Lump genus Nyctea (Snowy Owl) into Bubo
- Change scientific name of Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapilla back to Poecile atricapillus (see Supplement 42)
- Change scientific name of Ovenbird from Seiurus aurocapillus to Seiurus aurocapilla
- Move the entire orders Anseriformes and Galliformes to the beginning of the list
- 45th Supplement, July 2004
- Split; insert Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii after Barnacle Goose
- Move Canada Goose to follow Cackling Goose
- Change scientific name of Spotted Sandpiper from Actitis macularia to Actitis macularius
- Change scientific name of Worm-eating Warbler from Helmitheros vermivorus to Helmitheros vermivorum
- 46th Supplement, July 2005
- Lump; delete Black-backed Wagtail (merged with White Wagtail)
- 47th Supplement, July 2006
- Cape Verde Shearwater Calonectris edwardsii recognized by AOU (was already on NC list)
- Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica recognized by AOU (was already on NC list)
- Lump genus Catoptrophorus (Willet) into Tringa
- Change specific name of Willet; was Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, now
Tringa semipalmata
The sequence of species of Tringa and Actitis becomes
Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca Willet Tringa semipalmata Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes - Create new family Stercorariidae containing the skuas and jaegers
- Move Stercorariidae to follow the Laridae (preceding Alcidae)
- Genus Sterna is split up: Gull-billed Tern goes to Gelochelidon,
Caspian to Hydroprogne, Royal and Sandwich to Thalasseus, Least to
Sternula,
Bridled and Sooty to Onychoprion. Specific name of Royal Tern changes from
maxima to maximus; Sooty Tern from fuscata to fuscatus. The sequence of
tern species becomes
Brown Noddy Anous stolidus Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus Least Tern Sternula antillarum Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia Black Tern Chlidonias niger White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Common Tern Sterna hirundo Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis - Rename Ringed Turtle-Dove Streptopelia risoria to African Collared-Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea
- Move Black-billed Cuckoo before Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- 48th Supplement, July 2007
- Move family Cathartidae (Vultures) from Ciconiiformes back to Falconiformes as the first family in that order
- Split; remove Yellow-legged Gull Larus cachinnans and replace with Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis
- Genus Ceryle is split; Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon becomes Megaceryle alcyon
- 49th Supplement, July 2008
- Move the order Phoenicopteriformes to follow Podicipediformes
- Split; remove Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber and replace with American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber
- "black-headed" gulls are split from genus Larus:
Bonaparte's and Black-headed move to genus Chroicocephalus; Little to Hydrocoloeus;
Laughing and Franklin's to Leucophaeus
The sequence of gull species becomes
Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla Sabine's Gull Xema sabini Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan followed by the remaining species of Larus in the same sequence as before.
- Change the common name of Green Violet-ear to Green Violetear
- 50th Supplement, July 2009
- Move the family Odontophoridae to precede (instead of follow) the family Phasianidae (i.e., move Northern Bobwhite to precede Ring-necked Pheasant and Ruffed Grouse)
- Move the genus Piranga to the beginning of the family Cardinalidae, eliminating the family Thraupidae (i.e., move Summer, Scarlet and Western Tanagers to precede Northern Cardinal)
- Change the common name of Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow to Nelson's Sparrow
- Change the common name of Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow to Saltmarsh Sparrow
- Change the genus of Common Redpoll from Carduelis to Acanthis
- Change the genus of Pine Siskin and the goldfinches from Carduelis to Spinus