Comments on the 2023 Checklist of Alaska birds

ADD Least Tern Sternula antillarum, based on a second-year bird in first alternate plumage observed 21 July-4 August 2022 at Anchorage (B. J. Lagassé, R. L. Scher+; photos AKCLC).

ADD Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica, based on a lone light-morph bird observed 23 July 2022, 4 miles west of Cape Edgecumbe, Kruzof Island, Alexander Archipelago (C. Goff, photos AKCLC).

ADD Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina, based on one bird observed 22 September 2022 at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island (R. Ungwiluk Jr., photos AKCLC).

ADD Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citrina, based on one bird observed 15 September 2022 at Seward (J. Maniscalco, R. B. Benter; photos AKCLC).

ADD Chestnut-collared Longspur Calcarius ornatus, based on an adult male that flew aboard a vessel on 4 July 2022 in Warren Channel, between Warren and Kosciusko islands, Alexander Archipelago (A. Montgomery photos AKCLC, via G. B. vanVliet, W. S. Gibson).

ADD Lucy’s Warbler Leiothlypis luciae, based on one bird observed 27 July 2022 at Chena Hot Springs (M. Sopoliga, photo AKCLC).

ADD Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca, based on an immature female observed 28-29 October 2022 at Ketchikan (S. C. Heinl, R. L. Scher, B. Limle; photos AKCLC).

Asian Stonechat Saxicola maurus was split from Saxicola torquatus (Linnaeus, 1766) {Cape of Good Hope} [African Stonechat] and from S. rubicola (Linnaeus, 1766) {France = Seine Inférieure} [European Stonechat] by Chesser et al. (2022). Thus S. maurus simply replaces S. torquatus on the Alaska list.

Literature Cited

Chesser, R. T., Billerman, S. M., Burns, K. J., Cicero, C., Dunn, J. L., Hernández-Baños, B. E., Jiménez, R. A., Kratter, A. W., Mason, N. A., Rasmussen, P. C., Remsen, J. V. Jr., Stotz, D. F., and Winker, K. 2022. Sixty-third supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds. Ornithology 139:1–13; doi.org/10.1093/ ornithology/ukac020.