Birds of the World

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Birds of the World
Type of site
Wildlife database
Available inEnglish, with bird names in 96 languages [1]
Created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
URL birdsoftheworld.org
LaunchedMarch 2020
Current statusActive

Birds of the World (BoW) is an online database of ornithological data adapted from the Handbook of the Birds of the World and contemporary reference works, including Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds Online, and Bird Families of the World. [2] The database is published and maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and collects data on bird observations through integration with eBird. [3] The database requires a subscription to access the majority of its entries, but offers institutional access to many libraries and birding-related organizations, participating in the National Information Standards Organization's Shared E-Resource Understanding practice as a publisher. [4]

Contents

The database is frequently cited in regional checklists and distribution map studies, either as a point of comparison [5] or a source of data. [6] [7] [8]

History

Birds of the World was originally developed in the early 1990s through collaboration between the American Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. [9] The goal of the project was to produce an illustrated guide to all of the birds of the world; its first iteration was in the 17-volume Handbook of the Birds of the World, published by Lynx Edicions over the course of 22 years, from 1992 to 2014. After the Cornell Lab of Ornithology acquired the rights to the contents of the Handbook of the Birds of the World, [10] the online database was launched in March of 2020.

A significant portion of the audiovisual content available in Birds of the World is collected through citizen science data collection as provided by eBird, [3] but content is also included from the Macaulay Library, as it was gathered in the Internet Bird Collection by Josep del Hoyo, the initial founder of Lynx Edicions, and his colleagues in 2002. [11]

Description

Birds of the World is a subscription-access database that aims to describe comprehensive life history information on birds. This includes: [1]

Free resources

Birds of the World provides various resources other than those provided with an institutional or individual subscription to the service. James A. Jobling's Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names, which would be published by Lynx Edicions as the HBW Alive Key to Scientific Names In Ornithology, is accessible as a searchable database on the Birds of the World website, allowing for free access to the definitions of the various scientific names of birds. [12] The HBW Alive Key has been the underpinning for developments between the Cornell Lab and BirdLife International to produce a unified checklist of the birds of the world, and is currently used to form the list of bird species on the IUCN Red List. [13]

Related Research Articles

The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International. It is the first handbook to cover every known living species of bird. The series was edited by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal and David A. Christie.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grass wren</span> Species of bird

The grass wren is a species of passerine bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is widely distributed in central and southern America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blackish cinclodes</span> Species of bird

The blackish cinclodes is a Near Threatened passerine bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Argentina, Chile, and on the Falkland Islands, where it is known as the tussac-bird or tussock-bird.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sooty barbthroat</span> Species of hummingbird

The sooty barbthroat is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Brazil and French Guiana.

<i>Polyboroides</i> Genus of birds

Polyboroides is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. This genus has two recognized species found in Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. The two species are allopatric and restricted to the Afrotropical realm. They are generally known as harrier-hawks.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eastern striolated puffbird</span> Species of bird

The eastern striolated puffbird is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in Bolivia and Brazil.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Socorro parakeet</span> Species of bird

The Socorro parakeet, known in aviculture as the Socorro green conure or Socorro conure, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Red-winged wood rail</span> Species of bird

The red-winged wood rail is a species of bird in the subfamily Rallinae of the rail, crake, and coot family Rallidae. It is found in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colombian crake</span> Species of bird

The Colombian crake is a species of bird in the subfamily Rallinae of the rail, crake, and coot family Rallidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Black-capped donacobius</span> Species of bird

The black-capped donacobius is a conspicuous, vocal South American bird. It is distributed across the northern half of South America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rufous-margined antwren</span> Species of bird

The rufous-margined antwren is an insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rio de Janeiro antwren</span> Type of bird

The Rio de Janeiro antwren is a bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ashy-tailed swift</span> Species of bird

The ashy-tailed swift or Andre's swift is a Vulnerable species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae. It is endemic to northern and central Venezuela.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lafresnaye's woodcreeper</span> Subspecies of bird

Lafresnaye's woodcreeper is a resident passerine bird found in tropical South America in the western and southern Amazon and adjacent sections of the Cerrado. It is often considered a subspecies of the buff-throated woodcreeper, but this combined "species" would be polyphyletic. It includes the dusky-billed woodcreeper, which sometimes is considered a separate species.

Lynx Edicions is a Spanish publishing company specializing in ornithology and natural history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aripuana antwren</span> Species of bird

The Aripuana antwren is an insectivorous bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to central Amazonian Brazil.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pale-tailed canastero</span> Species of bird

The pale-tailed canastero, is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to Peru.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tres Marías amazon</span> Species of bird

The Tres Marías amazon is a subspecies of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to the Islas Marías off the Pacific coast of Mexico.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ecuadorian rail</span> Species of bird

The Ecuadorian rail is a species of bird according to the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), but other taxonomic systems treat it as a subspecies of the Virginia rail. It is in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Line-crowned woodcreeper</span> Subspecies of birds

The line-crowned woodcreeper is a subspecies of the ocellated woodcreeper, a species of passerine birds in the family Furnariidae, pertaining to the large genus Xiphorhynchus. It is native to the northwest region of the Amazon basin in South America.

References

  1. 1 2 "About Birds of the World". Birds of the World. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "Indexes & Databases: Birds of the World". University of British Columbia . Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  3. 1 2 "eBird Integration". Birds of the World. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "Institutional Subscriptions". Birds of the World. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
  5. ↑ J, Praveen; Jayapal, Rajah; Pittie, Aasheesh (13 July 2020). "Taxonomic updates to the checklists of birds of India, and the South Asian region—2020" (PDF). Indian Birds . 16 (1): 12–19.
  6. ↑ Rego, Marco Antonio; Del‐Rio, Glaucia; Brumfield, Robb T. (January 2024). "Subspecies‐level distribution maps for birds of the Amazon basin and adjacent areas". Journal of Biogeography. 51 (1): 14–28. doi:10.1111/jbi.14718. ISSN   0305-0270.
  7. ↑ Matthews, Thomas J.; Wayman, Joseph P.; Cardoso, Pedro; Sayol, Ferran; Hume, Julian P.; Ulrich, Werner; Tobias, Joseph A.; Soares, Filipa C.; Thébaud, Christophe; Martin, Thomas E.; Triantis, Kostas A. (November 2022). "Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity". Journal of Biogeography. 49 (11): 1920–1940. doi:10.1111/jbi.14474. ISSN   0305-0270.
  8. ↑ Fritts, Rachel (Summer 2021). "The Quest for 'Lost' Birds Delivers Highs and Lows". Audubon .
  9. ↑ "Publications: Birds of the World". American Ornithological Society . Retrieved March 7, 2024.
  10. ↑ Fitzpatrick, John W. (January 9, 2020). "View from Sapsucker Woods: Birds of the World Is Born". Living Bird.
  11. ↑ Borgmann, Kathi (February 28, 2020). "The Internet Bird Collection joins the Macaulay Library". Macaulay Library.
  12. ↑ Team eBird (January 8, 2022). "2021 Year in Review: eBird, Merlin, Macaulay Library, and Birds of the World". eBird .
  13. ↑ "BirdLife Data Zone: Taxonomy". BirdLife International. January 2024. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
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