List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species
List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species is a 1977 book by Karel H. Voous, published by the British Ornithologists' Union. It contains a list of 1,921 bird species recorded from the Holarctic zoogeographic region. It was widely adopted by ornithologists in Europe as a standard baseline list. It was originally published in two parts in the BOU's journal Ibis: that covering the non-passerines in 1973, and the passerine part in 1977. The list has been reprinted twice, in 1980 and 1991. It contains a foreword by Sir Hugh Elliott.
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| Author | Karel H. Voous |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | British Ornithologists' Union |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-907446-13-2 |
| OCLC | 45863099 |
Geographical scope
In the western Palearctic region, the list adopts the same geographical limits as those used by the editors of the handbook The Birds of the Western Palearctic.[1] The whole of the Arabian peninsula and Iran are also included; further east, Voous followed the boundaries used by Hartert (1903–1923) [2] and Vaurie (1959, 1965).[3] In the Nearctic region, the list covers all of the continental U.S. and Canada, the Bahama Islands, plus the non-tropical parts of Mexico (defined as the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Querétaro, México, Distrito Federal, Coahuila and Nuevo León).[4]
Footnotes
- Cramp, Stanley et al. (1977-1994) Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic
- Hartert, Ernst (1903-23) Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna
- Vaurie, Charles (1959, 1965) The birds of the Palearctic fauna
- Voous, K. H. (1977) page 1
Bibliography
Voous, K. H. (1977) List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species British Ornithologists' Union ISBN 0-907446-13-2