Lumpers, rejoice!  Splitters and armchair tickers, cry into your beer.  The Yellow-rumped Warbler will remain the Yellow-rumped Warbler, at least for the foreseeable future, and will not be split into two, three, or even four species.  That is, if you believe in the authority of the American Ornithologists Union, which voted down a proposal to split Dendroica coronata 7-4 (with three of the four in favor voting for a two-way split while only one voted for a four-way split).

Written by Corey
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.