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Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 3.5 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more. This site is managed by Denis Lepage and hosted by Bird Studies Canada, the Canadian copartner of Birdlife International. Avibase has been a work in progress since 1992 and I am now pleased to offer it as a service to the bird-watching and scientific community.

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Number of records currently in Avibase: 4,438,169 - Last update: 2008-10-02

Avibase blog

2008-10-02: A new species of White-eye, named Zosterops gibbsi, Vanikoro White-eye, has just been described in the journal Ibis by G. Dudson. (2008. 150: 698-706). The new species is endemic to the island of Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz Islands within the Solomon Islands. It differs from the geographically closest white-eye, the Santa Cruz White-eye Zosterops sanctaecrucis, by a number of features including a much longer bill, and different leg- and eye-ring colour. This new species is the second endemic known from the island of Vanikoro.

2008-10-02: We've been having difficulties with our web site for the last couple days. Sorry for those who experienced slow or broken connections! We're looking into the problems now.

2008-09-30: A new species of Storm-Petrel, Oceanodroma monteiroi, Monteiro's Storm-Petrel, has just been formally described in the journal Ibis (Bolton et al. 2008. 150: 717-727). The species breeds in the Azores Islands, off the coast of North-western Africa, and was found to be distinct from the Madeiran Storm-Petrel, Oceanodroma castro. The existence of two seasonally distinct populations of Storm-Petrels in the archipelago was first documented in 1996, but the new study shows that they are also genetically isolated and biologically distinct in several respects. The two sibling species occupy the same breeding area, but have distinct breeding seasons, different diets and can be separated by voice. The Monteiro's Storm-Petrel has an estimated population size of about 250-300 breeding pairs, restricted to 2 small neighbouring islets in the Azores archipelago.

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