,
are considered noteworthy species in that there are fewer than 10 known
records for the state.
This webpage is designed to provide links to other webpages which supply online versions of bird checklists (preferrably official lists) for a given state. We'll start with my own officially unofficial checklist for Tennessee. The official list is kept by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Bird Records Committee and has recently been updated so be sure to check it out as well.
My list for Tennessee and many of the others are provided in Portable Document Format (PDF). If your browser does not have a PDF viewer plug-in already installed or you do not own a copy of Adobe Acrobat®, you can download a free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader® from Adobe's website ported to the operating system of your choice (Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac, etc.). Their website has all the instructions you should need.
This checklist has been adapted from ``The Official List of Tennessee Birds
1998 Update'' by the
Tennessee Ornithological Society Bird Records Committee
as published in
The Migrant
, 69(1), and subsequent reports of committee actions. The current
list contains 394 species (370 confirmed, 20 provisional, 2 extirpated,
2 extinct) which are recognized by the committee as having occurred in
Tennessee. Provisional species are listed here in italics and are
defined by the committee as those species for which there are no verified
speciman, photograph or sound recording and for which there are fewer than
three independent sight records. In addition to the committee's notations,
species marked with an asterisk, *, are known to have bred in Tennessee as
indicated by the
Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Tennessee
or post-Atlas records, and species marked with a dagger,
,
are considered noteworthy species in that there are fewer than 10 known
records for the state.
This checklist is intended for private use and is not to be resold. It may be freely distributed in its original form. Species are listed in taxonomical order as defined in The A.O.U. Check-list of North American Birds, 7th edition by The American Ornithologists' Union . Groupings are for convenience and are not intended to indicate order or family divisions.
Send all corrections to Dean Edwards at (kde AT utk.edu) .