Species Lists of Birds for South
American Countries and Territories
South American
Classification Committee
Version 21 June 2025
Mark
Pearman, Juan Freile, Jhonathan Miranda, and Van Remsen (coordinators)
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, and its existence can be verified. On-line records on stable, long-term initiatives (e.g.,
Macaulay Library records from eBird, iNaturalist, Wikiaves, Xeno-Canto, and
similar sources) that provide precise details on date and geographic
coordinates and whose validity can be publicly assessed will be considered
archived. Therefore, evidence
that is privately held also does not constitute acceptable evidence. Records documented only on web sites are not
considered published because web sites are ephemeral. 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.
X(e) = Endemic: a species
is considered endemic to a country until a record (exclusive of V records – see
below) from outside its boundaries supported by tangible evidence is published.
X(eb) = Endemic
breeders: a species whose breeding population is restricted to one country, but
nonbreeding populations are part of the regular avifauna of other countries.
NB = species that occur regularly and are detected every
year, but do not breed.
V = species that occur only as vagrants, i.e., not recorded
every year and thus 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 country.
EX(e) = extinct species endemic
to that country.
Also:
U = unconfirmed.
These include sight-only records, and specimens or records of dubious
origin); they are not counted in total number of species recorded for the
country. This category does not include
published reports that have been officially removed from a country’s list by
that country’s formal review list committee or by its SACC country compilers. This category was called “Hypothetical” and
coded “H” in previous SACC country lists.
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 major update of the list was
undertaken (not just minor updates due to recent taxonomy and range extensions,
which are incorporated when they are made to the SACC classification itself).
Birds of Argentina
by Mark Pearman and Juan I. Areta 20 Apr 2025
Birds of Aruba by
Steve Mlodinow 6 Mar 2020
Birds of Bolivia
by Sebastian Herzog 2 June 2020
Birds of Bonaire by
Eric C. Newton 14 Jul 2015
Birds of Brazil by
José Fernando Pacheco and Carlos Eduardo Quevedo Agne 25 September 2023
Birds of Chile
by Alvaro Jaramillo and Rodrigo Barros 22 Jun 2023
Birds of Colombia
by Comité Colombiano de Registros Ornitológicos - CCRO (María
Ángela Echeverry-Galvis, Orlando Acevedo-Charry, Jorge Enrique Avendaño, Camila
Gómez, F. Gary Stiles, Felipe A. Estela, and Andrés M. Cuervo) 16 Jan 2024
Bird of Curaçao by
Eric C. Newton 14 Jul 2015
Birds of Ecuador
by Juan F. Freile 21 Apr 2025
Birds of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas
by Robin Woods
and Santiago Imberti 23 June 2023
Birds of French Guiana
by Olivier Claessens and Hugo Foxonet 13 Apr 2025
Birds of Guyana
by Brian J. O’Shea and Mark B. Robbins 4 April 2025
Birds of Paraguay
by Hugo Del Castillo, Rob Clay, Arne Lesterhuis, Paul Smith
2 Sep 2015
Birds of Peru
by Manuel A. Plenge, Thomas S. Schulenberg, Thomas Valqui, and Fernando
Angulo 21 June 2023
Birds of Suriname
by Otte Ottema, Jan Hein Ribot, and Arie Spaans 25
Mar 2025
Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
by Martyn Kenefick 25 Dec 2022
Birds of Uruguay
by Santiago Claramunt and Joaquín Aldabe 1 Jun
2023
Birds of Venezuela by Jhonathan Miranda, Jose Gustavo León, Gianco Angelozzi, David Ascanio, John Kvarnbäck, Miguel Lentino, Curtis A. Marantz, Gustavo Rodríguez † 20 Sep 2024
|
TOTAL |
Breeding |
Endemics |
Endemic
Breeders |
NB |
V |
IN |
EX |
Argentina |
1047 |
886 |
19 |
7 |
75 |
71 |
9 |
6 |
Aruba |
245 |
60 |
0 |
0 |
66 |
111 |
6 |
2 |
Bolivia |
1408 |
1312 |
16 |
1 |
80 |
14 |
2 |
0 |
Bonaire |
209 |
51 |
0 |
0 |
91 |
63 |
4 |
0 |
Brazil |
1861 |
1640 |
239 |
|
116 |
93 |
5 |
7 |
Chile |
525 |
323 |
12 |
6 |
67 |
128 |
6 |
1 |
Colombia |
1912 |
1688 |
83 |
|
141 |
78 |
4 |
1 |
Curaçao |
217 |
53 |
0 |
0 |
76 |
75 |
13 |
0 |
Ecuador |
1670 |
1479 |
37 |
4 |
108 |
78 |
4 |
1 |
Falkland Islands |
219 |
60 |
2 |
|
33 |
122 |
2 |
2 |
French Guiana |
737 |
565 |
1 |
0 |
86 |
84 |
2 |
0 |
Guyana |
828 |
726 |
0 |
|
87 |
12 |
2 |
1 |
Paraguay |
694 |
589 |
0 |
|
60 |
38 |
2 |
5 |
Peru |
1889 |
1663 |
119 |
|
139 |
84 |
3 |
0 |
Suriname |
746 |
624 |
1 |
|
86 |
35 |
1 |
0 |
Trinidad & Tobago |
489 |
265 |
2 |
0 |
75 |
131 |
7 |
11 |
Uruguay |
500 |
328 |
0 |
0 |
84 |
75 |
9 |
4 |
Venezuela |
1413 |
1259 |
48 |
|
99 |
33 |
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.htm
Mark Mulhollam’s site for generating checklists using SACC
classification