Talk:List of birds of Quebec

July 2017 revision

In July 2017 I updated this article to the most recent available source list and the 2016 American Ornithological Society (AOS) taxonomy. As created and subsequently revised before then it had a unique format, a list derived from an out-of-date source, and an outdated and unreferenced taxonomy. Rather than my usual piecemeal update with an explanation of the changes at each step, I replaced it with a wholesale conversion as described here. The changes are:

• Delete most of the previous introduction as its source is unknown.
• Add an introduction which references the sources of the updated list and taxonomy and is in a similar format to the bird lists of other Canadian provinces and the U.S. states.
• Separate the species into families and move the families to match the AOS sequence.
• Head each family with an English title and the Order and Family names in the most common "List of birds of ___" format.
• Add the standard text to each family section. The texts are derived from each family's article, whose References and History should be consulted for original sources.
• Add and delete species to match the Regroupement QuébecOiseaux checklist and supplemental eBird additions with the net result of adding 33 species.
• Update species names to match AOS.
• Resequence species within each family to match AOS.
• Present each species in the most common format: *English name, Scientific name
• Add tags for categories of occurrence per the Regroupement QuébecOiseaux checklist.
• Delete the External Links section because one entry is a secondary, redundant, source and the other is the original, now out-of-date, source of the list.
• Move the four items currently in References to a new section, Further reading, and use reflist in References.
• Craigthebirder (talk) 16:14, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

July 8, 2020 revisions

Because of the additions to the list and the changes necessitated by the update to the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds which the American Ornithological Society published on June 30, 2020, the revisions to this article are presented here rather than in a long series of edit summaries. Changes are per the AOS unless otherwise noted.

• Revise the references, counts, and text in the introduction.
• Add French names per Regroupement QuébecOiseaux.
• Add 5 species and delete 1 per Regroupement QuébecOiseaux.
• Revise multiple families' common names per Clements.
• Revise the sequence of species in family Phasiannidae (Pheasants, grouse, and allies).
• Revise the sequence of species in family Rallidae (Rails, gallinules, and coots).
• Revise the sequence of species in family Charadriidae (Plovers and lapwings).
• Revise the sequence of species in family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and shags).

Craigthebirder (talk) 18:34, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

August 2021 revision

These are the changes made to update this list to the 2021 Check-list of North and Middle American Birds published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS) on June 29, 2021.

• Revise the sequence of families in Order Passeriformes.
• Revise the genus of spruce grouse.
• Split mew gull into common gull and short-billed gull and revise entries accordingly.
• Revise binomials of cormorant species.
• Revise the specific epithet of crested caracara.
• Revise the genus of ruby-crowned kinglet.
• Revise text, counts, and references as appropriate.

Craigthebirder (talk) 14:03, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

This list is based on the Liste des oiseaux du Québec

A recent change noted that the Steller's jay is not in Quebec. I checked against the stated source for the list and that is correct. The most updated source for the list is a pdf linked from the page https://www.quebecoiseaux.org/fr/liste-oiseaux-quebec. It can be confusing to have the list presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, but for the list to be based on "Liste des oiseaux du Québec" produced by Regroupement QuébecOiseaux, but it's worth the trouble. Any editing help to make that work is appreciated. SchreiberBike | ⌨  11:40, 5 August 2024 (UTC)