What's Changed
Patch to correct some missing American Crow data.
- Combining Northwestern Crow data into American Crow data to match the species list file in the data release.
In the 2024 data release the species/taxon formerly known as Northwestern Crow was partly merged back into American Crow.
In the species list file, the Northwestern Crow and the unidentified Northwestern/American Crow, were removed.
However, in the database, these two taxonomic units were (accidentally) retained.
This version of the package automatically combines the observations of Northwestern Crow (former aou code 4890) and unidentified Northwestern/American Crow (former aou code 4882) into American Crow (aou 4880). This merging is done in the background as soon as the bird observation data are downloaded from Science Base within the fetch_bbs_data() function. So the observations coded to 4890 and 4882 cannot be extracted.
Important:
When updating to this version, the user must re-download the data for this change to take effect.
fetch_bbs_data(force = TRUE)
Full Changelog: v1.1.2.1...v.1.1.2.2