No man is an island and the internet already knows (almost) everything. Whilst there is a lot of concise, consolidated information available for many species, I personally found a lack a consistency in this material and lots of stubs and dead-ends. For my own benefit I’ve tried to collate much of this material into a single summary per species, which I will happily share. Of course in collating this I may be propagating out of date information, so if there are any errors please let me know.
The categorisation of species is based on version 6.2 of the IOC World Bird List (Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2016. IOC World Bird List (v 6.2). http://www.worldbirdnames.org/)
In addition to the IOC source I would also like to officially acknowledge the following references, from where base information was also obtained:
Distribution maps are copyright of Handbook of Birds of the World
Sound files are reproduced from Xeno Canto
Other Web Sources:
wikipedia.org
Literature References:
The Handbook of Bird Photography, Varesvuo et al
Birds of South-East Asia, Robson C
A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil, van Perlo B
A Naturalists Guide to the Birds of Singapore, Li, Lim, Kim et al
Birds of Hong Kong and South China, Viney C
Slater Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Slater P & Slater R
Helm Field Guide Birds of East Africa, Stevenson T, Fanshawe J
Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere, Chandler R
Birds of South Africa, Sinclair et al
All photo images are copyrighted by myself and may be reproduced under permission.
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