The Georgia Ornithological Society Checklist and Records Committee requests that documentation be submitted for the following species. The list is separated into three sections: Regular (species that are listed on the Regular Checklist, not species that are necessarily regular in occurrence), Provisional (species with fewer than 4 accepted sight records), and Hypothetical (species inadequately documented or the wild status is questionable). The Regular and Provisional categories (see both lists below) are amended annually via this web page, Nov 2023 being the most recent.
The Hypothetical category is described as any species not previously recorded in the State of Georgia, or those which appear in the Hypothetical section of the Annotated Checklist of Georgia Birds (Occasional Publication No. 14, Georgia Ornithological Society, 2003).
Taxonomic order for the following lists is based on the American Ornithologists' Society's (formerly the American Ornithologists' Union) The A.O.U. Check-list of North American Birds, 7th Edition (1998), incorporates changes made in the 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, and 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Supplements to the Check-list, as published in The Auk 117: 847-858 (2000); 119:897-906 (2002); 120:923-932 (2003); 121:985-995 (2004); 122:1026-1031 (2005); 123:926-936 (2006); 124:1109–1115 (2007); 125(3):758–768 (2008); 126(3):705−714 (2009); 127(3):726−744 (2010); 128(3):600-613 (2011); 129(3):573-588 (2012); 130(3):558−571 (2013); 131(4):CSi-CSxv (2014); 132:748-764 (2015); 133:544-560 (2016); 134:751-773 (2017); 135:798-813 (2018); 136:1-23 (2019); and 137:1-24 (2020), and incorporates changes made in the 62nd, 63rd, and 64th Supplements to the Check-list, as published in Ornithology 138:1-18 (2021); 139:1-13 (2022); and 140:1-11 (2023)
Note: The Auk renamed to Ornithology after the merger of the American Ornithological Union (AOU) and the Cooper Ornithological Society in 2016)
Regular Review List
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Fulvous Whistling-Duck Brant Cackling Goose Trumpeter Swan Cinnamon Teal Eurasian Wigeon King Eider Common Eider Harlequin Duck Common Merganser Masked Duck Western Grebe Inca Dove Smooth-billed Ani Green-breasted Mango Rivoli's Hummingbird Blue-throated Mountain-gem Anna's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Broad-billed Hummingbird Buff-bellied Hummingbird Yellow Rail Black Rail Whooping Crane Northern Lapwing Snowy Plover Hudsonian Godwit Ruff Curlew Sandpiper South Polar Skua Long-tailed Jaeger |
Dovekie Black-legged Kittiwake Ivory Gull Sabine's Gull Black-headed Gull Little Gull California Gull Iceland Gull Brown Noddy Arctic Tern White-tailed Tropicbird Red-billed Tropicbird Pacific Loon Yellow-billed Loon Leach's Storm-Petrel Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Sooty Shearwater Masked Booby Brown Booby Red-footed Booby Great Cormorant White-faced Ibis American Goshawk Short-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Snowy Owl Burrowing Owl Long-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Ivory-billed Woodpecker Crested Caracara Dusky Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher |
Tropical Kingbird Bell's Vireo Florida Scrub-Jay Cave Swallow Bewick's Wren Sage Thrasher Mountain Bluebird Bicknell's Thrush Varied Thrush Northern Wheatear Sprague's Pipit Evening Grosbeak Common Redpoll White-winged Crossbill Smith's Longspur Thick-billed Longspur Snow Bunting Lark Bunting American Tree Sparrow Harris's Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Western Meadowlark Bullock's Oriole Scott's Oriole Shiny Cowbird Virginia's Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Kirtland's Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Red-faced Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting |
Provisional Review List
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Mexican Violetear Mountain Plover White-winged Tern |
Roseate Tern Northern Fulmar
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Swainson's Hawk Painted Redstart
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