Authors
José Fernando Pacheco, Luís Fábio Silveira, Alexandre Aleixo, Carlos Eduardo Agne, Glayson A Bencke, Gustavo A Bravo, Guilherme RR Brito, Mario Cohn-Haft, Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício, Luciano N Naka, Fabio Olmos, Sérgio R Posso, Alexander C Lees, Luiz Fernando A Figueiredo, Eduardo Carrano, Reinaldo C Guedes, Evaldo Cesari, Ismael Franz, Fabio Schunck, Vitor de Q. Piacentini
Publication date
2021/6
Journal
Ornithology Research
Volume
29
Issue
2
Pages
94-105
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Description
An updated version of the checklist of birds of Brazil is presented, along with a summary of the changes approved by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee’s Taxonomy Subcommittee since the first edition, published in 2015. In total, 1971 bird species occurring in Brazil are supported by documentary evidence and are admitted to the Primary List, 4.3% more than in the previous edition. Eleven additional species are known only from undocumented records (Secondary List). For each species on the Primary List, status of occurrence in the country is provided and, in the case of polytypic species, the respective subspecies present in Brazilian territory are listed. Explanatory notes cover taxonomic changes, nomenclatural corrections, new occurrences, and other changes implemented since the last edition. Ninety species are added to the Primary List as a result of species descriptions, new occurrences …
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