Species lists of birds for South American countries and territories

South American Classification Committee

American Ornithologists' Union

Version 7/23/08

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 Therefore, unpublished photographs or privately held recordings do not constitute acceptable evidence, nor do sight records.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 29 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 20 May 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 Mark B. Robbins 23 July 2008

Birds of Paraguay by Hugo Del Castillo and Rob Clay

Birds of Peru by Thomas Valqui, Thomas S. Schulenberg, and Manuel A. Plenge 22 July 2008

Birds of Suriname by Otte Ottema, Jan Hein Ribot, and Arie Spaans 22 July 2008

Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Martyn Kenefick 12 Nov. 2007

Birds of Uruguay by Santiago Claramunt 26 June 2008

Birds of Venezuela by David Ascanio, Miguel Lentino, and Robin Restall

 

 

 TOTAL

Breeding

 endemics

NB

V

IN

 EX

 Argentina

 968

 861

 15

  62

   35

 5

 5

 Aruba    

 0

       
 Bolivia

 1377

 1285

 15

 71

 19

 2

 0

 Bonaire    

  0

       
 Brazil

 1735

 1558

 202

 109

 60

 4

 4

 Chile

 454

 306

 11

 76

 67

 4

 1

Colombia               
 Curaçao    

 0

       
 Ecuador

 1582

 1424

 32

 101

 49

 4

 4

 Falkland Islands

 223

 59

  1

 21

 139

 1

 3

 French Guiana

 628

 545

 0

 55

 25

 2

 1

 Guyana

 775

 707

 0

 65

 0

 1

 2

 Paraguay    

 0

       
 Peru

 1720

 1565

 105

 138

 14

  2

 1

 Suriname

 688

 601

 0

 73

 12

 1

 1

 Trinidad & Tobago

 467

278

 1

 129

 51

 2

 7

 Uruguay

 415

312

 0

70

23

4

6

 Venezuela              

 

South American Classification Committee

 

start date = 24 Jan. 08

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