Bulletin of TOS
The Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society (TOS) just came out. It includes the annual report by the Texas Birds Records Committee (TBRC) which includes the following:
“The TBRC accepted 4 first state records in 2024: Tufted Duck, Yellow-footed Gull, Gray-collared Becard, and Southern Lapwing. In addition, Cory’s Shearwater was split into Cory’s Shearwater and Scopoli’s Shearwater. The three state additions plus the one split bring the official Texas State List to 671 species in good standing”.
Many of us saw the Cattle Tyrant in Corpus last year. As anticipated, the TBRC has decided that the Cattle Tyrant will not be included in the official list of Texas bird species due to “provenance questionable”.
