UPDATES: Ranges
A brief description of the range occupied by each species is included in order to clarify the species to which the name refers and to allow for electronic sorting of the list. This range information is broad stroke only. It is not meant to be precise or inclusive of the species’ entire current or historic range. It does not indicate habitat preference or abundance. With a few exceptions, we describe only original ranges, not locations where a species is introduced. Geographical terminology and abbreviations used include the following:
A. General regions
- North America (NA)–includes the Caribbean
- Middle America (MA)—Mexico through Panama
- South America (SA)
- Latin America (LA)—Middle & South America
- Africa (AF)—entire continent rather than south of Sahara
- Eurasia (EU)–Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan.
- Oriental Region (OR)–South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus southeast Asia, the Philippines and Greater Sundas.
- Australasia (AU)–Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace’s Line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
- Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Tropical, Temperate and Southern Oceans (AO, PO, IO, TrO, TO, SO)
- Antarctica (AN)
- Southern Cone (So. Cone) includes Argentina and Chile south of the Tropic of Capricorn, also Falkland Islands.
B. Regional Qualifiers
- Regions of continents or countries by compass (n,e,s,w)
- Formal subregions. The Oriental region, for example, includes South Asia (Pakistan to Taiwan and south to Sri Lanka, i.e all Indian subcontinent, plus southern China and Taiwan, but not Burma) and Southeast Asia (Indochina Peninsula from Burma east to s Vietnam, south to Singapore).
- Country name(s).
- Islands—specific or groups (Gr Sundas = Sumatra, Borneo, and Java).
- Landscape feature-Tepuis, Amazonia, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean, Antarctic Peninsula, Arabian Peninsula, and so on.
The ranges are presented in a two column format. The first column provides the geographical region(s) at the most general level: North America, Australasia, Pacific Ocean, and so on. The second column provides a qualifier from the most general “widespread” to “e, se” referring the region general region specified in the first column to the more specific countries or parts thereof, for example “e, ne China” to “New Caledonia.” The Excel files include a third column for a species’ non-breeding range if it differs substantially from the breeding range.
RANGE UPDATES - IOC Version 2.3 (Dec 2009) |
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Species |
Scientific Name |
Change |
50 |
Bar-shouldered Dove |
Geopelia humeralis |
Range to "sc, se New Guinea, n, e Australia" |
73 |
Wedge-tailed Sabrewing |
Campylopterus curvipennis |
ec Mexico,Yucatan to Guatemala and Belize;ne Honduras |
89 |
Golden-fronted Woopecker |
Melanerpes aurifrons |
Texas to sc Mexico |
94 |
Gurney's Pitta |
Pitta gurneyi |
Range to "Peninsular Thailand, s Burma" |
126 |
Painted Quail-thrush |
Cinclosoma ajax |
Range to "w, s, se New Guinea" |
154 |
Winifred's Warbler |
Scepomycter winifredae |
Range to "ec Tanzania |
154 |
Rodrigues Warbler |
Acrocephalus rodericanus |
Correct spelling to Rodrigues Island |
162 |
Spectacled Fulvetta |
Alcippe ruficapilla |
Range to "c,s China" |
162 |
Grey-cheeked Fulvetta |
Alcippe morrisonia |
Range to "Taiwan" |
166 |
Rufous-naped Wren |
Campylorhynchus rufinucha |
Range to "c Veracruz, Mexico" |
179 |
Green-backed (Chinese) Flycatcher |
Ficedula elisae |
NonBreeding Range to: Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, possibly South Korea |
186 |
Rodrigues Fody |
Foudia flavicans |
Correct spelling to Rodrigues Island |
198 |
Hispaniolan (Greater Antillean) Oriole |
Icterus dominicensis |
Hispaniola |
RANGE UPDATES - IOC Version 2.2 (Aug 2009) |
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Species |
Scientific Name |
Change |
46 |
Sandwich Tern |
Thalasseus sandvicensis |
Restrict range to EU, AF with split of New World Cabot's Tern |
64 |
Himalayan Cuckoo |
Cuculus saturatus |
Ranges to (Breeding) Himalayas to Taiwan w split of C.optatus, (Nonbreeding) Indonesia, Philippines |
84 |
Tickell's Brown Hornbill |
Anorrhinus tickelli |
Range to "s Burma, sw Thailand" |
139 |
Collared Crow |
Corvus pectoralis |
Range to "EU, OR" |
139 |
Violet Crow |
Corvus violaceus |
Range from "s Moluccas" to Seram only |
163 |
White-breasted (Greater Rufous-headed) Parrotbill |
Paradoxornis ruficepts |
Range to "ne India, Bhutan and adjacent s China" |
173 |
Olive Thrush |
Turdus olivaceus |
Range to "se AF", with split of Abyssinian Thrush |
RANGE UPDATES - IOC Version 2.1 (May 2009) |
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Species |
Scientific Name |
Change |
23 |
Waved Albatross |
Phoebastria irrorata |
Range to "Galápagos Is, coastal Ecuador" |
23 |
Southern Royal Albatross |
Diomedea epomophora |
Ranges to (Breeding) "Campbell and Auckland Is., NZ; (Nonbreeding) "widespread SO" |
23 |
Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross |
Thalassarche chlororhynchos |
Ranges to "AO, (Breeding) Tristan da Cunha group", (Nonbreeding) widespread in SO" |
36 |
Crested Hawk-Eagle |
Nisaetus cirrhatus |
Range to "Himalayas, c,s India & Sri Lanka to Greater Sundas & Philippines" |
90 |
Golden-olive Woodpecker |
Colaptes rubiginosus |
Range to "Mexico to Guyana, nw Peru & nw Argentina" |
58 |
Olive-throated Parakeet |
Aratinga nana |
Range to "Mexico to w Panama, also Jamaica" |
52 |
Banded Fruit Dove |
Ptilinopis cinctus |
Range to "Bali, Lesser Sundas, n Australia". [Not on Java, range extension to n Australia with addition of P.c. alligator.] |
46 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
Larus fuscus |
Ranges to Breeding "w Europe to c Northern Siberia; also Greenland and Iceland", Nonbreeding to "n AF, sw Europe to nw India; also e NA" |
46 |
Caspian Gull |
Larus cacchinans |
Ranges to Breeding "c Eurasia to ne China", Nonbreeding to "sw, e Asia" |
18 |
Scaly-breasted (=Chesnut-necklaced) Partridge |
Arborophila charltonii |
Range to "Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo" with allocation of ssp tonkiensis to Green-legged Partridge. |
67 |
Northern Pygmy Owl |
Glaucidium californicum |
Range to "w NA from se Alaska to s Baja" |
67 |
Mountain Pygmy Owl |
Glaucidium gnoma |
Range to "se Arizona to c Honduras" |
69 |
Greater Antillean Nightjar |
Caprimulgus cubanensis |
Range to "Cuba, Hispaniola" |
19 |
Malayan Peacock-Pheasant |
Polyplectron malacense |
Range to "sw Thailand, w Malaysia"; records from Sumatra not valid (BLI) |
31 |
Spotted Kestrel |
Falco moluccensis |
Range to "Moluccas, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, Java & Bali" |
68 |
Large Frogmouth |
Batrachostomus auritus |
Range to "Malay Penin., Sumatra, Borneo" |
161 |
Himalayan Cutia |
Cutia nipalensis |
Range to "e,c Himalayas to sw Sichuan" |
184 |
Grey-breasted Spiderhunter |
Arachnothera modesta |
Range to "s Burma to s Vietnam, Malay Penin., Borneo & Sumatra" |
142 |
Black-bibbed Tit |
Poecile hypermelaenus |
Range to "OR" |
174 |
White-tailed Alethe |
Alethe diademata |
w Africa from Senegambia to Togo. |
174 |
Fire-crested Alethe |
Alethe castanea |
w,c Africa from Nigeria to Uganda. |
156 |
Dusky Warbler |
Phylloscopus fuscatus |
Range to "ne Asia, wc China"; ssp weigoldi reassgined to P. fuligiventer. |
156 |
Smoky Warbler |
Phylloscopus fuligiventer |
Range to "e Himalayas, c, e Tibetan Plateau" |
156 |
Tickell's Leaf Warbler |
Phylloscopus affinis |
Range to "Himalayas"; range restriciton follows split of P. occisinensis |
107 |
White-streaked Antvireo |
Dysithamnus leucostictus |
Add n Venezuela to Range |
156 |
Mountain Leaf Warbler |
Phylloscopus trivirgatus |
Remove Philippines from range. |
144 |
West African Swallow |
Cecropis domicella |
Range to "w Africa from Senegambia to e Sudan" |
139 |
Large-billed Crow |
Corvus macrorhynchos |
Range to: EU, OR "e Eurasia also c, s Malay Peninsula, Sundas, Philippines". |
139 |
Eastern Jungle Crow |
Corvus levaillantii |
Range to: "n India to n Malay Peninsula". |
132 |
Slaty Vireo |
Vireo brevipennis |
Correct Range to "s Mexico" |
131 |
Melanesian Whistler |
Pachycephala caledonica |
Range to: "Santa Cruz Is., Vanuatu, New Caledonia". |
121 |
Helmeted Friarbird |
Philemon buceroides |
Range to: "Lesser Sundas to n Australia". |
153 |
Melanesian Thicketbird (formerly Vanuatu Thicketbird) |
Megalurulus whitneyi |
Range to "Guadalcanal in the se Solomon Is., n Vanuatu" |
153 |
Bougainville Thicketbird (formerly Melanesian Thicketbird) |
Megalurulus llaneae |
Range to "Bougainville Is. in the c Solomon Islands" |
192 |
Cape Canary |
Serinus canicollis |
Range to "s Africa, e Zimbabwe" |
192 |
Yellow-crowned Canary |
Serinus flavivertex |
Range to "ne, e Africa, c Angola" |
194 |
Red-mantled Rosefinch |
Carpodacus rhodochlamys |
Range to "c, nc Asia" |
194 |
Blyth's Rosefinch |
Carpodacus grandis |
Range to "n Afghanistan to w Himalayas" |
188 |
Cinderella Waxbill |
Estrilda thomensis |
Range to "w Angola, nw Namibia". |
196 |
American Yellow Warbler |
Dendroica aestiva |
Range to "widespread in NA through central plateau of Mexico" |
196 |
Mangrove Warbler |
Dendroica petechia |
Range to "extreme s US through West Indies to coastal MA and SA" |
198 |
Mexican Cacique |
Cacicus melanicterus |
Range to "w Mexico to se Guatemala" |
209 |
Large-billed Seed Finch |
Oryzoborus crassirostris |
Range to "n SA from w Colombia and nw Ecuador to n Brazil" |
209 |
Great-billed Seed Finch |
Oryzoborus maximiliani |
Range to "n SA from e Venezuela to n Brazil and se Brazil" |
RANGE UPDATES - IOC Version 2.0 (January 2009) |
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Species |
Scientific Name |
Change |
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Hottentot Buttonquail |
Turnix hottentatus |
Range to "South Africa" |
56 |
Horned Parakeet |
Eunymphicus cornutus |
Range to "AU, New Caledonia" |
84 |
Northern Red-billed Hornbill |
Tockus erythrorhynchus |
Range to "s Mauritania through Somalia to ne Tanzania" |
123 |
Scarlet Myzomela |
Myzomela sanguinolenta |
Range to "e Australia" |
123 |
Red-headed Myzomela |
Myzomela erythrocephala |
Range to "s New Guinea, n Australia" |
126 |
Fernando Po Batis |
Batis poensis |
Range to "AF; w,wc from Liberia to n Gabon" |
136 |
Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher |
Terpsiphone rufiventer |
Range to "AF; wc" |
145 |
Cape Clapper Lark |
Mirafra apiata |
Range to "sw Namibia, w, sc, S. Africa" |
145 |
Black-browed Bushtit |
Aegithalos bonvaloti |
Range to "ne Burma, sw China" |
164 |
Orange River White-eye |
Zosterops pallidus |
Range to "Namibia, nw South Africa" |
181 |
Brown-throated Sunbird |
Anthreptes malacensis |
Range to "Burma to Java, also Lesser Sundas & Sulawesi" |
209 |
White-collared Seedeater |
Sporophila torqueola |
Range to "NA,MA; s Texas to Panama |
Update 1.7 |
Tanimbar Flycatcher |
Ficedula riedeli |
Range to "AU" |