>Dear Rick, > >> Yellow-bellied Woodpecker Sphyrapicus varius > >Thanks for the posting of the MD Checklist. I scanned the list to check >for changes in bird names. Have I missed something urgent? Have they >decided to take the name "Sapsucker" away? Does this change apply to all >former-sapsuckers (since the West has several species)? Nope, it is sapsucker. Just the inevitable mistake of typing so many names so fast. Sorry. Rick "Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive." Josephine Tey Rick Blom rblom@blazie.com Bel Air, Maryland