Species
lists of birds for South American countries and territories
South American
Classification Committee
American Ornithologists' Union
Version 18 March 2013
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Therefore, unpublished records of any kind do not constitute acceptable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.
Records documented only on web sites are not considered published
because web sites are ephemeral.
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 Mark Pearman and Nacho Areta 18 Mar
2013
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 19 Feb 2013
Birds of Chile by Alvaro Jaramillo and Rodrigo Barros 26
July 2012
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 F. Freile, R.
Ahlman, R. S. Ridgely, A. Solano-Ugalde, D. Brinkhuizen, L. Navarrete, & P.
J. Greenfield 11 Feb 2013
Birds of the Falkland Islands/Islas
Malvinas by Robin Woods 9 Oct 2012
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 Manuel A. Plenge, Thomas S. Schulenberg, and Thomas Valqui 6 Feb 2013
Birds of Suriname by Otte Ottema, Jan Hein Ribot, and Arie Spaans 15 Jan 2013
Birds of Trinidad and Tobago by Martyn Kenefick 1 Jan 2011
Birds of Uruguay by Santiago Claramunt 9 Oct 2012
Birds of Venezuela by David Ascanio, Jhonathan Miranda, Jose
Gustavo Len, Curtis A. Marantz, Tony Crease, John Kvarnbck, and Gustavo
Rodriguez
14 Jun 2012
|
|
TOTAL |
Breeding |
endemics |
NB |
V |
IN |
EX |
|
Argentina |
989 |
878 |
16 |
64 |
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 |
1769 |
1583 |
212 |
109 |
69 |
4 |
4 |
|
Chile |
465 |
315 |
11 |
72 |
73 |
4 |
1 |
|
Colombia |
1829 |
1647 |
74 |
126 |
51 |
4 |
1 |
|
Curaao |
214 |
51 |
0 |
76 |
78 |
9 |
0 |
|
Ecuador |
1586 |
1438 |
33 |
100 |
42 |
3 |
3 |
|
Falkland Islands |
225 |
60 |
2 |
21 |
139 |
2 |
3 |
|
French Guiana |
663 |
559 |
1 |
59 |
43 |
2 |
0 |
|
Guyana |
779 |
708 |
0 |
68 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Paraguay |
681 |
589 |
1 |
56 |
29 |
2 |
5 |
|
Peru |
1761 |
1597 |
104 |
136 |
26 |
2 |
0 |
|
Suriname |
708 |
615 |
1 |
78 |
13 |
1 |
1 |
|
Trinidad & Tobago |
462 |
269 |
2 |
129 |
52 |
5 |
7 |
|
Uruguay |
434 |
319 |
0 |
73 |
31 |
5 |
6 |
|
Venezuela |
1372 |
1237 |
43 |
102 |
26 |
6 |
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
Mark Mulhollams site for
generating checklists using SACC classification
South American
Classification Committee