2009 (21st) Report of the NOU Records Committee

The functions and methods of the Nebraska Ornithologists\u27 Union (NOU) Records Committee are described in its bylaws (NOU Records Committee 1986). The committee\u27s purpose is to provide a procedure for documenting unusual bird sightings and to establish a list of all documented birds for Nebraska. All records mentioned here are available to interested persons at the NOU archives at the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM), Lincoln, NE. Interested parties should contact the current NOU Librarian, whose address can be found in the latest issue of The Nebraska Bird Review (NBR). The Official List of the Birds of Nebraska\u27 was first published in 1988 (NOU Records Committee 1988) and has been updated three times (NOU Records Committee 1997, 2004, 2009). The Official List has been appended nineteen times: (Mollhoff 1989: Grenon 1990, 1991: Gubanyi I 996a, I 996b, 1996c: Brogie 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. 2009: Jorgensen 2001, 2002, 2003). The American Ornithologists\u27 Union Checklist of North American Birds, Seventh Edition ( 1998) and its following supplements: (AOU: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), contain many taxonomic changes affecting North American birds. The following summarizes all 2009 revisions by the AOU in regards to changes in scientific names and changes in assignments to family and order of species included in the most recently published \u27 Official List of the Birds of Nebraska: 2009 (NOU Records Committee 2009). This report includes all accounts submitted during the 2009 calendar year, covering 48 records with accession numbers 1271–1318