The Records Committee operates according to documented Goals and Procedures and meets annually; reports and other reference materials are given below. Committee review of documentation is carried out via email communication throughout the year.
Annual Meeting Minutes and Business Reports
Archived MD/DCRC Annual Meeting Minutes and Business Reports:
Click here to see all the reports listed on Google Drive
View the current Records Committee Annual Report here.
Study Skins Workshop
The full set of minutes of the MD/DCRC Skins Study Workshops, held at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), are archived and available here.
You may wish to see the specimens studied in either chronological order and taxomomic order but please note the embedded links are not valid. Instead refer to the list below to view individual minutes or find the desired document in the archive.
- Study Skins Workshop - 1990
- Study Skins Workshop - 1991
- Study Skins Workshop - 1992
- Study Skins Workshop - 1997
- Study Skins Workshop - 1998
- Study Skins Workshop - 2001
- Study Skins Workshop - 2002
- Study Skins Workshop - 2003
- Study Skins Workshop - 2004
- Study Skins Workshop - 2005
- Study Skins Workshop - 2006
- Study Skins Workshop - 2007
- Study Skins Workshop - 2008
- Study Skins Workshop - 2009
- Study Skins Workshop - 2010
- Study Skins Workshop - 2011
- Study Skins Workshop - 2012
- Study Skins Workshop - 2013
Decision Reports
The following are archives of the first two MD/DCRC Decision Reports from the MOS journal, Maryland Birdlife and the 2003 MD/DCCRC Kelp Gull Decision Report. [Note: subsequent MD/DCRC decision reports were published in the MOS newsletter, The Maryland Yellowthroat.]
- Peterjohn, Bruce, and Phil Davis. 1996. First report of the Maryland/DC Records Committee. Maryland Birdlife 52(1):3-43.
- Hoffman, Mark L., and Phil Davis. 1998. Second report of the Maryland/DC Records Committee. Maryland Birdlife 54(1):1-26.
- O’Brien, Paul, and Phil Davis. 2003. Decision Summary: Sandgates, Saint Mary’s County, Maryland Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein, 1823; January 25, 1998 – present (November 28, 2003).
Current Review Packages
A summary of the contents and status of recent MD/DC Records Committee review packages.
Index of Identification Articles
This document provides an index of the MD/DC Records Committee identification and reference articles. [Note: This is a large PDF document!]