Species lists of birds for South American countries and territories

South American Classification Committee

American Ornithologists' Union

 

 

Version 8 February 2012

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 Andrs 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, and its existence is published. Therefore, unpublished records of any kind do not constitute acceptable evidence; further, evidence that is privately held also does not constitute acceptable evidence; and finally, sight records are not considered acceptable evidence, published or not.

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.  Published reports that have been officially excluded from a countrys list by that countrys formal list committee are not included.

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 25 Aug 2011

Birds of Aruba by Tineke Prins and Vincent Nijman 19 Jan 10 2010

Birds of Bolivia by Sebastian Herzog and Oswaldo Maillard 27 May 2010

Birds of Bonaire by Tineke Prins and Vincent Nijman 19 Jan 2010

Birds of Brazil by Jos Fernando Pacheco and Carlos Eduardo Quevedo Agne 18 Mar 2010

Birds of Chile by Alvaro Jaramillo and Rodrigo Barros 4 Oct 2010

Birds of Colombia by El Listero Clandestino until official version available from Asociacin Colombiana de Ornitologa checklist committee (F. Gary Stiles, Andrs M. Cuervo, Loreta Rosselli, Clara I. Bohrquez, Felipe Estela, and Diana Arzuza) 25 Oct 2011

Bird of Curaao
by Tineke Prins and Vincent Nijman 19 Jan 2010

Birds of Ecuador by Juan Freile 31 Aug 2010

Birds of the Falkland Islands by Robin Woods 8 Aug 2008

Birds of French Guiana by Alexandre Renaudier 31 Aug 2011

Birds of Guyana by Mark B. Robbins 23 Jul 2008

Birds of Paraguay by Hugo Del Castillo and Rob Clay 14 Feb 2010

Birds of Peru by Thomas Valqui, Thomas S. Schulenberg, and Manuel A. Plenge 8 Nov 2010

Birds of Suriname by Otte Ottema, Jan Hein Ribot, and Arie Spaans 1 July 2011

Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Martyn Kenefick 1 Jan 2011

Birds of Uruguay by Santiago Claramunt 13 June 2011

Birds of Venezuela by David Ascanio 1 Jun 2009

 

 

 TOTAL

Breeding

 endemics

NB

V

IN

 EX

 Argentina

984

875

15

62

35

7

5

 Aruba

209

54

0

78

70

5

2

 Bolivia

1381

1289

15

71

19

2

0

 Bonaire

209

52

0

92

63

2

0

 Brazil

1757

1575

211

110

64

4

4

 Chile

462

315

11

71

71

4

1

Colombia 

1819

1638

72

126

50

4

1

 Curaao

214

51

0

76

78

9

0

 Ecuador

1594

1433

34

101

52

4

4

 Falkland Islands

223

59

1

21

138

2

3

 French Guiana

662

559

1

58

43

2

0

 Guyana

775

707

0

65

0

1

2

 Paraguay

681

589

1

56

29

2

5

 Peru

1744

1584

103

136

21

2

1

 Suriname

701

615

1

75

9

1

1

 Trinidad & Tobago

462

270

2

129

52

4

7

 Uruguay

421

314

0

71

25

5

6

 Venezuela

1358

1233

49

97

20

7

1

 

Suggested citation for individual lists:

[Compiler names]. [year of most recent update]. Species lists of birds for South American countries and territories: [country]. [Version Day/Month/Year]. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.html

 

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