Talk:List of birds of Pennsylvania

Images

I see that you have chosen a range of excellent images. Would it be better to use photographs of birds taken in Pennsylvania? On occasion a particular subspecies is found in a locality and sometimes a different subspecies from a different location is shown in error on a page about a location. I have not checked the images for this sort of problem. Snowman (talk) 10:37, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

It would certainly be ideal for the photos to have been taken in Pennsylvania, but it is highly improbable that I could find a wide enough range of pictures to satisfy this. Other bird lists, including Featured Lists, have images taken other locations (even other countries). I have generally tried to select featured pictures on enwiki or commons. However, if you notice an picture of a particular subspecies which does not occur in this region, please feel free to change it. —focus 20:56, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I do not know much about American birds, so I will not be able to check to see subspecies in the selected photographs are correct for this region. At least one list had to change images during FL nomination, because inappropriate subspecies were shown. Snowman (talk) 11:50, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Photos on a state bird list should represent birds one could expect to see in Pennsylvania. An accidental species such as the Magnificent Frigatebird should not have a photo. (I just marked that species as (A), you may need to double check this list against accidental species in the source). Any rare species found almost exclusively in Pennsylvania might also rate a photo. --Footwarrior (talk) 21:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that, that was a mistake, and I've removed the frigatebird image. If you find anymore like that please don't hesitate to change it or altert me on the talk page. Hopefully there aren't too many. :-) Focus (talk) 21:15, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology

An article on the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology would be very desirable. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:35, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

July 5, 2020 revisions

Because of the large number of changes necessitated by the update to the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds which the American Ornithological Society published on June 30, 2020, the revisions to this article are presented here rather than in a long series of edit summaries. Changes are per the AOS unless otherwise noted.

• Revise the references, counts, and text in the introduction.
• Add a family and 2 species per eBird. (Text is derived from the family's article; see it for original sources.)
• Revise multiple families' common names per Clements.
• Revise the sequence of species in family Phasiannidae (Pheasants, grouse, and allies).
• Revise the sequence of species in genus Selasphorus (Hummingbirds).
• Revise the sequence of species in family Rallidae (Rails, gallinules, and coots).
• Revise the sequence of families in order Suliformes.
• Revise the sequence of species in family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and shags).

Craigthebirder (talk) 20:22, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

August 2021 revision

These are the changes made to update this list to the 2021 Check-list of North and Middle American Birds published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS) on June 29, 2021.

• Revise the sequence of families in Order Passeriformes.
• Split mew gull into common gull and short-billed gull and revise entries accordingly.
• Revise the binomial of a cormorant species.
• Revise the specific epithet of crested caracara.
• Revise the genus and position of ruby-crowned kinglet.
• Revise text, counts, and references as appropriate.

Craigthebirder (talk) 11:31, 12 August 2021 (UTC)