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Species lists of birds for South American countries and territories
South American Classification Committee
American
Ornithologists' Union
Version 5/10/08
This page provides a link to the Excel spreadsheet that compares the lists of bird species documented for each South American country and territory. Note that these lists may not be the official national lists because criteria for inclusion on those lists may vary from SACC criteria -- see below:
Geographic boundaries
They do not include areas outside the South American Classification Committee's official boundaries. For example, Easter Island is a Chilean territory and Isla San Andrés is a Colombian territory, yet neither area is within the SACC area; thus, species found only there are not included in the lists given for those countries. Offshore boundaries extend 200 nautical miles from coastlines, including islands, within the SACC area.
Criteria for inclusion
Criteria for inclusion are the same as for the SACC list as a whole. Only those species documented by tangible, independently verifiable evidence are included on each list. Such evidence may consist of a specimen, a photograph or video, or an audio-recording, as long as the evidence is archived in an institutional collection. Therefore, unpublished photographs or privately held recordings do not constitute acceptable evidence, nor do sight records.
Status
Each species is accorded a status code that conforms to SACC status codes for the main SACC list:
X = species known or assumed to breed in the country or territory [and X(e) = endemic; a species is considered endemic to a country until a record from outside its boundaries supported by tangible evidence is published].
NB = species that occur regularly but only during their nonbreeding season.
V = species that occur only as vagrants and are not part of the area's core avifauna.
IN = species introduced by humans (or have colonized from introduced populations elsewhere) and have established, self-sustaining breeding populations.
EX = species that are extinct or extirpated from the region are marked [and EX(e) = endemic].
Also:
H = hypothetical (sight-only records,
specimens of dubious origin); not counted in total number of species
recorded for the country.
Taxonomy
The list uses the most recent SACC classification and is updated whenever the overall classification is changed. This allows comparisons among countries and territories using the same species-level taxonomy.
List Coordinators
Each country or territory has one or more individuals responsible for determining each initial list and for updating the list with new distributional information and, with help from SACC, changes in species limits. Dates indicate when the most recent version of the list was compiled.
Birds of Argentina by Juan Mazar Barnett and Mark Pearman 2 May 2008
Birds of Aruba by Tineke Prins and Vincent Nijman
Birds of Bolivia by Sebastian Herzog and Oswaldo Maillard 10 May 2008
Birds of Bonaire by Tineke Prins and Vincent Nijman
Birds of Brazil by José Fernando Pacheco and Carlos Eduardo Quevedo Agne 24 Apr. 2008
Birds of Chile by Alvaro Jaramillo 1 May 2008
Birds of Colombia by Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología
checklist committee (F. Gary Stiles, Andrés M. Cuervo,
Loreta Rosselli, Clara I. Bohórquez, Felipe Estela, and
Diana Arzuza)
Bird of Curaçao by Tineke
Prins and Vincent Nijman
Birds of Ecuador by Juan Freile 1 May 2008
Birds of the Falkland Islands by Robin Woods 18 Feb. 2008
Birds of French Guiana by Alexandre Renaudier 27 Jan. 2008
Birds of Guyana by Michael J. Braun, Davis Finch, and Mark B. Robbins
Birds of Paraguay by Hugo Del Castillo and Rob Clay
Birds of Peru by Thomas Valqui, Thomas S. Schulenberg, and Manuel A. Plenge 17 Apr. 2008
Birds of Suriname by Otte Ottema, Jan Hein Ribot, and Arie Spaans 24 Jan. 2008
Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Martyn Kenefick 12 Nov. 2007
Birds of Uruguay by Santiago Claramunt 1 May 2008
Birds of Venezuela by David Ascanio, Miguel Lentino, and Robin Restall
|
TOTAL |
Breeding |
endemics |
NB |
V |
IN |
EX |
|
| Argentina |
970 |
863 |
16 |
62 |
35 |
5 |
5 |
| Aruba |
0 |
||||||
| Bolivia |
1378 |
1286 |
15 |
71 |
19 |
2 |
0 |
| Bonaire |
0 |
||||||
| Brazil |
1735 |
1558 |
201 |
109 |
60 |
4 |
4 |
| Chile |
455 |
307 |
11 |
76 |
67 |
4 |
1 |
| Colombia | |||||||
| Curaçao |
0 |
||||||
| Ecuador |
1583 |
1424 |
32 |
101 |
49 |
4 |
4 |
|
Falkland Islands |
223 |
59 |
1 |
21 |
139 |
1 |
3 |
|
French Guiana |
628 |
548 |
0 |
52 |
25 |
2 |
1 |
| Guyana |
0 |
||||||
| Paraguay |
0 |
||||||
| Peru |
1720 |
1566 |
105 |
137 |
14 |
2 |
1 |
| Suriname |
681 |
596 |
0 |
73 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
|
Trinidad & Tobago |
467 |
278 |
1 |
129 |
51 |
2 |
7 |
| Uruguay |
408 |
308 |
0 |
68 |
22 |
4 |
6 |
| Venezuela |
South American Classification Committee
start date = 24 Jan. 08