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Avibase was created and is maintained by Denis Lepage, currently senior director, data science and technology at Birds Canada. The data contained in Avibase has been gathered starting around 1991. [8] The Avibase website was launched in June 2003 and has been hosted by Birds Canada (formerly Bird Studies Canada) since its inception.
Its bird total species is second only to New Guinea. This great wealth is due to the large size of Sumatra, its diversity of habitat and also its past link with the Asian mainland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This following list of birds is based on the taxonomic treatment and scientific nomenclature of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World , 6th edition.
In addition to the many resident birds, a considerable number of migratory species winter in the country to escape their northern breeding grounds. The avifauna of Indonesia include a total of 1809 species, of which 786 are endemic, and 3 have been introduced by humans. 150 species are globally threatened.
Avibase – the World Bird Database [4] Birds, distribution, taxonomy X Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 27 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more
Birdlife International, Endemic Bird Areas of the World, ISBN 1-56098-574-7; Morten Strange, A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia, ISBN 0-691-11495-1; Periplus Action Guides, Birding Indonesia, ISBN 962-593-071-X; The Howard and Moore, Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, ISBN 0-691-11701-2
The backbone of this list is provided by Avibase, and all additions that differ from this list have citations. As of November 2024, there are 80 recorded bird species in Fernando de Noronha. [1] The following tags note species in each of those categories: (A) Accidental - species not regularly occurring in Fernando de Noronha
The status of the remaining 42 is not noted by either Gibson and Byrd or Avibase. Several of the vagrants have only a single record. This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the AOS. [3]
It was feared extinct, but was finally rediscovered during surveys on Peleng Island off the southeast coast of Sulawesi by Indonesian ornithologist Mochamad Indrawan in 2007 and 2008. It was sometimes considered a subspecies of the slender-billed crow, but it is actually rather distinct from this bird, resembling an entirely black piping crow ...