Utah Birds Records Committee
Checklist Format Proposals
(20 February 2019)

   Results  
 

Here is a link to the rational and original proposals we are voting on:   Project Page
   

  
  Proposals to change the codes and format of our Official Checklist.

  Vote "Yes" or "No" on the following proposals concerning our Official Checklist:

  Vote Yes No    We should eliminate the "Fairly Common" abundance code.        Y-7, N-2

  Vote Yes No    We should eliminate the "Northern Utah" designation.                 Y-7, N-2

  Vote Yes No    We should eliminate the "Washington County" designation.          Y-4, N-5

  Vote Yes No    We should replace the "A" for "Accidental" species with the number of
                     sightings accepted by the committee for each species.             Y-2, N-7    

  Vote Yes No    We should continue using the species and order of the American
                     Ornithological Union (aka. AOS checklist) for our checklist.    Y-9, N-0

  Vote Yes No    We should change the "Transient" category to "Migrant."              Y-8, N-1

  Vote Yes No    For simplicity, we should Remove the "Provisional." category symbol
                    from the main checklist. (We can still maintain the provisional list
                    on our "Auxiliary List" page that we have now).                       Y-9, N-0

  Vote Yes No    We should remove the "Irregular" category from our checklist.      Y-5, N-4