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Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 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: 5,064,142 - Last update: 2010-03-09

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2010-03-10: As promised earlier, all Avibase checklists are now available with Slovak bird names.

2010-02-13: Ricardo Gagliardi, from Rio de Janeiro, kindly provided an updated copy of the checklist of the birds of this state of Brazil. I have now updated the checklist (here. The checklist was previously largely based on range maps, as is still the case for most other South American state or province lists. Any help is always welcome to improve those lists. The complete checklist, and other local lists for the state, are available on Ricardo's web site.

2010-02-06: Thanks to Theo de Kok for pointing out that the list of bird names in Slovak were now available for all bird species. The full list can be download from the Birdlife Slovakia web site. I will work on making the checklist available for all regions in that language shortly. If anyone is interested in providing a translation of Avibase in Slovak in addition (or any languages not already available), do not hesitate to contact me.

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