2019-09-03: I have added 161 new species country records to Avibase over the past month (among a whooping 133,000 new distribution records from 11,129 regions!). I have also created 38 new regions, most of them islands in the Philippines and Iceland. There are now a total of 17,646 checklists available in Avibase, representing almost 11 million distribution records.
2019-09-01: I have updated the checklist for
Belarus and
Luxemburg (thanks to Patrick Lorgé), among others.
2019-09-01: I have reviewed the checklist for North Korea, one of the least well known regions in the world. Most of my changes were based on a publication by Teresa Tomek published 2 decades ago, (Tomek, T. 1999-2002. The birds of North Korea. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 42: 1-217; 45:1-235) and available as PDF's here:
Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. Several species have been added as a result.
2019-08-18: I have updated the Clements and eBird checklists to the newly released 2019 versions. The list of changes are available in the taxonomic comparison tool for
Clements and
eBird. Both can be downloaded from
Cornell's web site.
2019-07-10: I have added a new features to checklists, to include a list of hypothetical and other records that are not currently appearing on the main list. This includes non-established exotics, plausible hypothetical records without sufficient documentation, possible vagrants for which the origin is doubtul, ship-assisted records, etc. Simply for the "Hypotheticals" tab in any of the checklists. You can see this example for
Western Australia.