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 As created and subsequently revised before then it had a unique format, a list derived from an out-of-date source, and an outdated and unreferenced taxonomy.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the External Links section because one entry is a secondary, redundant, source and the other is the original, now out-of-date, source of the list.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)