Welcome to Avibase

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.

© Denis Lepage 2008

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Number of records currently in Avibase: 4,256,547 - Last update: 2008-05-06

Avibase blog

2008-05-05: I've just posted a number of updates done in recent weeks. Among other things, I have just updated the checklist from the South American Classification Committee to the most recent version (1 May 2008). A summary of all changes affecting the SACC list is available from the SACC website. I have also done a number of updates to various checklists.

2008-04-19: I'm happy to report that more bird sounds are now accessible from the species pages. Thanks to a collaboration with xeno-canto.org, visitors to Avibase can now search for bird songs among some 17400 recordings of some 3153 species, primarily from Central and South America, but increasingly also from elsewhere around the world. For example, from this page for the Yellow-rumped Marshbird, you can click on the link "xeno-canto" at the top of the page and see which recordings are available for this species on the xeno-canto site. With xeno-canto's plan to expand to Africa and elsewhere, this should become a great resource.

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