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The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World is a book by Jim Clements which presents a list of the bird species of the world. The most recent printed version is the sixth edition (2007), but has been updated yearly, the last version in 2022, and is published by Cornell University Press .
Current status. Active. Avibase is an online taxonomic database that organizes bird taxonomic and distribution data globally. The database relies on the notion of taxonomic concepts [1][2] rather than taxonomic names. [3] Avibase incorporates and organizes taxonomic data from the main avian taxonomic publishers (The Clements Checklist of Birds ...
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James Franklin Clements (October 31, 1927 – June 9, 2005) was an American ornithologist, author and businessman. He was born in New York, United States. [citation needed] He married Mary Norton and they had two sons. His second marriage, which lasted 14 years, was to Christina. He married a third time, to Karen. [citation needed]
List of penguins. Penguins are birds in the family Spheniscidae in the monotypic order Sphenisciformes. [1] They inhabit high-productivity marine habitats, almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere; the only species to occur north of the Equator is the Galapagos penguin. [2][3] The only group of birds other than the ratites to be entirely ...
The fawn-throated foliage-gleaner's song is "a descending chortling rattle of 1-1.5 secs duration, often repeated steadily", and is sung mostly at dawn and dusk. [7] It is also described as "a sputtering, nasal trill that slows and drops slightly at the end". [9] Its calls include a "low, gruff shuk, a sharp, nasal pe-duk, and a hard tchehrr ".
List of storks. Ciconiidae is a family of heavy-bodied, large-billed wading birds in the monotypic order Ciconiiformes. Most species in the family are called storks, although some have different common names: two species in the genus Anastomus are known as openbills, two from the genus Leptoptilos are called adjutants, and three species are ...
Description. The rufescent antshrike is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long. The species has a rather stocky body and a heavy bill with a hooked tip. The sexes have almost identical plumage. Adults have a bright ochraceous face with a fainter supercilium. Their forehead, crown, and upperparts are olive-brown.