Dear Ontario birders, Needless to say, 2020 has been a very different year both in the birding world as well as on a much larger scale. Despite many restrictions on where and when birders could go birding and the spring shutdown of Ontbirds, with a strong emphasis on birding locally, birders have discovered and documented a variety of significant birds in Ontario this year. We encourage birders to submit OBRC reports for their sightings if they have not already done so. The review lists for each of the three reporting regions and link to the reporting form can be found at the top of this page: http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/obrc.guidelines Changes to the lists in 2020 include the removal of Willet from the Central Review Zone, and the removal of Arctic Tern from the South Review Zone retroactive to 2015. Willet records prior to 2020 in Central and Arctic Tern records in South between 1990 and 2015 are still requested. Other changes include the addition of Ferruginous Hawk to the Lowlands Review List, and addition of Purple Gallinule and Prairie Falcon to the Central Review List. OFO members will have received the August edition of Ontario Birds with the full OBRC report, but it is also available at the link below. This year OFO has removed access restrictions on recent issues of OFO News and Ontario Birds so that everyone may access recent publications even if they are not a member. Below is also a brief summary. http://www.ofo.ca/library/list/key/ob The 2019 Ontario Bird Records Committee (OBRC) reviewed a total of 148 records of species on the provincial Review Lists, of which 132 (89%) were accepted. A four year streak of adding species to the checklist was broken with no new species added to the Ontario list in 2019, leaving the total at 501 species. The members of the 2019 Committee were Amanda Guercio (chair), Daniel Riley (non-voting secretary), Kenneth Burrell, Mike Burrell (non-voting archivist), Barbara Charlton (voting member and assistant to the secretary), William Lamond, Blake Mann, Reuven Martin, and Donald Sutherland. Mark Peck acted as the ROM liaison. The 3-year terms as voting OBRC members for William Lamond, Blake Mann, and Donald Sutherland ended following the conclusion of this year’s annual meeting. The OBRC elected Mike Burrell, Adam Timpf, and Mark Read to 3-year terms going forward. Amanda Guercio, Daniel Riley, Barbara Charlton, and Mike Burrell were also re-elected to their respective positions for 2020, and Reuven Martin continues as a voting member. I would like to thank all current and former members of the OBRC for their service and dedication to the task of evaluating submitted records. On behalf of the entire Committee, I would also like to thank the many members of the Ontario birding community who take the time and effort to document rare bird sightings in Ontario for consideration by the OBRC. The OBRC would cease to exist without your support. The submission of rare bird reports, data requests, questions, comments, concerns, and all other contact with the Committee may all be done through the email obrc@ofo.ca. Good birding! Amanda Guercio 2020 OBRC Chair