Thirty-First Report of the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 2022-2023

This thirty-first report of the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC) summarizes decisions made by the committee at meetings held in 2023 and 2024.Committee activity and operations are guided by our "Rules and Procedures," available from the author.The FOSRC routinely evaluates reports of bird species on the FOSRC Review List (those species with 20 or fewer accepted records or reports over the previous ten years) and reports of species occurring for the first (known) time in the state.On occasion, when we receive a recommendation, we also consider whether an exotic species meets our criteria for establishment in Florida.Reference here to "the Committee" refers to FOSRC.This report covers submissions received in the period roughly from December 2021 to December 2023.In total we assessed 148 submissions.Three of these submissions were tabled to gather more data, and three others had votes that were unresolved (fewer than six votes to either accept or not accept).Of the 142 resolved submissions, 120 (84.5%) were accepted, and 22 (15.5%) were not accepted.Of these 142 submissions, 130 (91.5%) had verifiable documentation, such as photographs, audio-recordings, or specimens, and 12 (8.5%)were sight reports with written descriptions.Of the 130 submissions with verifiable documentation, 114 (87.7%) were accepted and 16 (12.3%)were not accepted.Of the 12 sight reports, only six (50%) were accepted.New records for the State included Red-legged Honeycreeper and Gundlach's Hawk (accepted at the 2023 meeting) and Black Guillemot, Couch's Kingbird, Gray Gull, Great White Pelican, Greattailed Grackle, House Crow, Large-billed Tern, Little Bunting, and Yellow-headed Caracara (all accepted at the 2024 meeting).These 11 new additions to the State list increase the total to 549 species.The unresolved/tabled submissions also include four species that would be new to the State list (Whooper Swan, Red-masked Parakeet, Cassin's Vireo, and Brewer's Sparrow).Taxonomic changes by the AOS NACC affected one species on the List: the Pacific-slope Flycatcher was