Species Lists of Birds for South
American Countries and Territories
South American
Classification Committee
Version 14 October 2024
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 [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 and are detected every
year, but do not breed.
V = species that occur only as vagrants, i.e. not present
continuously during the season every year, 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 country’s list by that country’s 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 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 6 Jun 2023
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 23 Jan 2023
Birds of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas
by Robin Woods
and Santiago Imberti 23 June 2023
Birds of French Guiana
by Olivier Claessens 18 Sep 2024
Birds of Guyana
by Mark B. Robbins 10 Jun 2013
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, and Thomas Valqui 5 Jan 2024
Birds of Suriname
by Otte Ottema, Jan Hein Ribot, and Arie Spaans 15
Nov 2023
Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
by Martyn Kenefick 22 Sep 2020
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 |
NB |
V |
IN |
EX |
Argentina |
1043 |
885 |
18 |
75 |
68 |
9 |
6 |
Aruba |
245 |
60 |
0 |
66 |
111 |
6 |
2 |
Bolivia |
1408 |
1313 |
15 |
79 |
14 |
2 |
0 |
Bonaire |
209 |
51 |
0 |
91 |
63 |
4 |
0 |
Brazil |
1861 |
1639 |
238 |
117 |
93 |
5 |
7 |
Chile |
525 |
323 |
12 |
67 |
128 |
6 |
1 |
Colombia |
1906 |
1683 |
83 |
141 |
77 |
4 |
1 |
Curaçao |
217 |
53 |
0 |
76 |
75 |
13 |
0 |
Ecuador |
1666 |
1476 |
39 |
107 |
78 |
4 |
1 |
Falkland Islands |
218 |
60 |
2 |
33 |
121 |
2 |
2 |
French Guiana |
727 |
568 |
1 |
88 |
69 |
2 |
0 |
Guyana |
785 |
713 |
0 |
69 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
Paraguay |
694 |
590 |
0 |
58 |
39 |
2 |
5 |
Peru |
1869 |
1659 |
117 |
138 |
69 |
3 |
0 |
Suriname |
744 |
622 |
1 |
86 |
35 |
1 |
0 |
Trinidad & Tobago |
489 |
265 |
2 |
75 |
131 |
7 |
11 |
Uruguay |
500 |
328 |
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