List of endemic bird areas of the world

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The following is a list of endemic bird areas of the world, as defined by Birdlife International - see main article (Endemic Bird Area).

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North and Central America

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
001A01 California
002A03 Baja California
003A02 Guadalupe Island
004A10 Socorro Island
005A05North-west Mexican Pacific slope
006A04 Sierra Madre Occidental and trans-Mexican range
007A08 Central Mexican marshes
008A11 (part), A27 Balsas region and interior Oaxaca
009A12 Sierra Madre del Sur
010A06Northern Sierra Madre Oriental
011A07North-east Mexican Gulf slope
012A11 (part)Southern Sierra Madre Oriental
013A30 Los Tuxtlas and Uxpanapa
014A13 Isthmus of Tehuantepec
015A09 (part) Yucatán Peninsula coastal scrub
016A09 (part), A29 Cozumel Island
017A15North Central American Pacific slope
018A14North Central American highlands
019A16Central American Caribbean slope
020A18 Costa Rica and Panama highlands
021A17South Central American Pacific slope
022A21 Cocos Island
023A19 Darién lowlands
024A20Darién highlands
025A22 (part) Cuba
026A22 (part), A28 Bahamas
027A23 Jamaica
028A24 Hispaniola
029A25 Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
030A26 Lesser Antilles

South America

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
031B16 Galápagos Islands
032B03 Caripe - Paria region
033B04 Cordillera de la Costa Central
034B06 Cordillera de Mérida
035B07Caribbean Colombia and Venezuela
036B08 Santa Marta mountains
037B09 Nechí lowlands
038B10Colombia East Andes
039B13Colombian inter-Andean valleys
040B12Colombian inter-Andean slopes
041B14, B15 Chocó
042B17 (part)Northern Central Andes
043B17 (part), B21 (part), B60 Central Andean páramo
044B18 Ecuador-Peru East Andes
045B20, B26 Tumbesian region
046B21 (part)Southern Central Andes
047B24Andean ridge-top forests
048B22 Marañón valley
049B25Northeast Peruvian cordilleras
050B28 Junín puna
051B27, B31Peruvian high Andes
052B32Peru-Chile Pacific slope
053B29Peruvian East Andean foothills
054B34 (part) Bolivian and Peruvian lower yungas
055B33 Bolivian and Peruvian upper yungas
056B35, B37High Andes of Bolivia and Argentina
057B34 (part), B57Argentine and south Bolivian yungas
058B39 Sierras Centrales of Argentina
059B40 Juan Fernández Islands
060B41 (part)Central Chile (Chilean matorral)
061B41 (part), B58Chilean temperate forests (Valdivian temperate forests)
062B42Southern Patagonia
063B56 Rio Branco gallery forest
064B02 Tepuis
065B11 Orinoco-Negro white-sand forests (Rio Negro campinarana)
066B19, B23Upper Amazon-Napo forests
067B43Amazon flooded forests
068B30South-east Peruvian lowlands
069B45 Fernando de Noronha
070B46North-east Brazilian caatinga
071B47 Atlantic slope of Alagoas and Pernambuco (Pernambuco coastal forests)
072B48Deciduous forests of Bahia
073B50Central Brazilian hills and tablelands
074B49Deciduous forests of Minas Gerais and Goiás
075B51, B52Atlantic forest lowlands
076B53, B54Atlantic forest mountains
077B55 Argentine Mesopotamian grasslands

Africa, Europe and the Middle East

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
078C02 Cape Verde Islands
079C09 (part) Tristan Islands
080C09 (part), C47 Gough Island
081C48 Annobón
082C07 São Tomé
083C06 Príncipe
084C03 Upper Guinea forests
085C05 Cameroon and Gabon lowlands
086C04 Cameroon mountains
087C08Western Angola
088C29 Cape fynbos
089C46 South African forests
090C44 Lesotho Highlands
091C28South African grasslands
092C27South-east African coast
093C34 West Malagasy dry forests
094C35 East Malagasy wet forests
095C36East Malagasy wetlands
096C37West Malagasy wetlands
097C38South Malagasy spiny forests
098C32, C33 Comoro Islands
099C31 Aldabra
100C30 Granitic Seychelles
101C39 Réunion
102C40 Mauritius
103C41 Rodrigues
104C26 Eastern Zimbabwe mountains
105C24 Tanzania - Malawi mountains
106C20 Albertine Rift Mountains
107C19Eastern Zaïre lowlands
108C22 Serengeti plains
109C21 Kenyan mountains
110C45 Pemba
111C23 East African coastal forests
112C18 Central Somali coast
113C43 Jubba and Shabeelle valleys
114C17South Ethiopian highlands
115C16Central Ethiopian highlands
116C15 North Somali mountains
117C14 Socotra
118C13South-west Arabian mountains
119C12 Mesopotamian marshes
120C01 Madeira and the Canary Islands
121C11 Cyprus
122C10 Caucasus

Continental Asia

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
123 Western Ghats
124 c2 Sri Lanka
125 Andaman Islands
126 Nicobar Islands
127 Taklimakan Desert
128Western Himalayas
129Central Himalayas
130Eastern Himalayas
131 Assam plains
132 Irrawaddy plains
133Southern Tibet
134Eastern Tibet
135 Qinghai mountains
136 Shanxi mountains
137 Central Sichuan mountains
138 West Sichuan mountains
139 Yunnan mountains
140 Chinese subtropical forests
141 South-east Chinese mountains
142 Hainan
143 Annamese lowlands
144 South Vietnamese lowlands
145 Da Lat Plateau
146 Izu Islands
147 Ogasawara Islands
148 Nansei Shoto
149 Taiwan

South-east Asian islands, New Guinea and Australia

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
150 Mindoro
151 Luzon
152 Negros and Panay
153 Cebu
154 Mindanao and the Eastern Visayas
155 Sulu archipelago
156 Palawan
157 Bornean mountains
158 Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia
159 Enggano
160 Java and Bali forests
161Javan coastal zone
162 Northern Nusa Tenggara
163 Sumba
164 Timor and Wetar
165 Banda Sea islands
166 Sulawesi
167 Sangihe and Talaud
168 Banggai and Sula Islands
169 Buru
170 Seram
171 Northern Maluku
172 West Papuan lowlands
173 West Papuan highlands
174 Geelvink Islands
175 North Papuan mountains
176 Northern Papuan lowlands
177 Adelbert and Huon ranges
178 Central Papuan mountains
179South Papuan lowlands
180 Trans-Fly
181 Cape York
182 Queensland wet tropics
183Eastern Australia
184South-east Australia
185 Tasmania
186 Southwest Australia
187 North West Australia
188 Christmas Island

Pacific Ocean islands

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
189 Mariana Islands
190 Palau
191 Yap Islands
192East Caroline Islands
193 Admiralty Islands
194 St Matthias Islands
195 New Britain and New Ireland
196 D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands
197 Louisiade archipelago
198 Solomon group
199 Rennell and Bellona
200 Vanuatu and Temotu
201 New Caledonia
202 Fiji
203 Samoan Islands
204 Lord Howe Island
205 Norfolk Island
206 North Island of New Zealand
207 South Island of New Zealand
208 Auckland Islands
209 Chatham Islands
210 Southern Cook Islands
211 Rimatara
212 Marquesas Islands
213 Society Islands
214 Tuamotu archipelago
215 Henderson Island
216 Laysan Island
217Central Hawaiian Islands
218 Hawai'i

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References

The lists of EBAs above, and all associated data, are sourced from information presented in this work