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Vol. 54 No. 2 (2023)

THE FIFTH REPORT OF THE ALASKA CHECKLIST COMMITTEE ADDS 21 SPECIES TO THE CHECKLIST OF ALASKA BIRDS FROM THE FIVE YEARS 2018–2022

  • DANIEL D. GIBSON
  • THEODORE G. TOBISH
  • AARON J. LANG
  • JACK J. WITHROW
  • LUCAS H. DeCICCO
  • NICHOLAS R. HAJDUKOVICH
  • ROBERT L. SCHER
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB54.2.1
Submitted
September 11, 2025
Published
April 1, 2023

Abstract

 The fifth report of the Alaska Checklist Committee adds 21 species to the Checklist of Alaska Birds from the five years 2018–2022, a net total that includes the addition of two species formerly maintained as subspecies—Stejneger’s Scoter (Melanitta stejnegeri) and the Short-billed Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus)—and the deletion of one species (Northwestern Crow) currently maintained as a subspecies of the American Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos caurinus. At the close of 2022 we recognize 541 species and 118 additional subspecies as occurring, or having occurred, naturally in Alaska.

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