List of endemic bird areas of the world
The following is a list of endemic bird areas of the world, as defined by Birdlife International - see main article (Endemic Bird Area).
North and Central America
[edit]EBA Number | Earlier unique code(s) | Name |
001 | A01 | California |
002 | A03 | Baja California |
003 | A02 | Guadalupe Island |
004 | A10 | Socorro Island |
005 | A05 | North-west Mexican Pacific slope |
006 | A04 | Sierra Madre Occidental and trans-Mexican range |
007 | A08 | Central Mexican marshes |
008 | A11 (part), A27 | Balsas region and interior Oaxaca |
009 | A12 | Sierra Madre del Sur |
010 | A06 | Northern Sierra Madre Oriental |
011 | A07 | North-east Mexican Gulf slope |
012 | A11 (part) | Southern Sierra Madre Oriental |
013 | A30 | Los Tuxtlas and Uxpanapa |
014 | A13 | Isthmus of Tehuantepec |
015 | A09 (part) | Yucatán Peninsula coastal scrub |
016 | A09 (part), A29 | Cozumel Island |
017 | A15 | North Central American Pacific slope |
018 | A14 | North Central American highlands |
019 | A16 | Central American Caribbean slope |
020 | A18 | Costa Rica and Panama highlands |
021 | A17 | South Central American Pacific slope |
022 | A21 | Cocos Island |
023 | A19 | Darién lowlands |
024 | A20 | Darién highlands |
025 | A22 (part) | Cuba |
026 | A22 (part), A28 | Bahamas |
027 | A23 | Jamaica |
028 | A24 | Hispaniola |
029 | A25 | Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands |
030 | A26 | Lesser Antilles |
South America
[edit]EBA Number | Earlier unique code(s) | Name |
031 | B16 | Galápagos Islands |
032 | B03 | Caripe - Paria region |
033 | B04 | Cordillera de la Costa Central |
034 | B06 | Cordillera de Mérida |
035 | B07 | Caribbean Colombia and Venezuela |
036 | B08 | Santa Marta mountains |
037 | B09 | Nechí lowlands |
038 | B10 | Colombia East Andes |
039 | B13 | Colombian inter-Andean valleys |
040 | B12 | Colombian inter-Andean slopes |
041 | B14, B15 | Chocó |
042 | B17 (part) | Northern Central Andes |
043 | B17 (part), B21 (part), B60 | Central Andean páramo |
044 | B18 | Ecuador-Peru East Andes |
045 | B20, B26 | Tumbesian region |
046 | B21 (part) | Southern Central Andes |
047 | B24 | Andean ridge-top forests |
048 | B22 | Marañón valley |
049 | B25 | Northeast Peruvian cordilleras |
050 | B28 | Junín puna |
051 | B27, B31 | Peruvian high Andes |
052 | B32 | Peru-Chile Pacific slope |
053 | B29 | Peruvian East Andean foothills |
054 | B34 (part) | Bolivian and Peruvian lower yungas |
055 | B33 | Bolivian and Peruvian upper yungas |
056 | B35, B37 | High Andes of Bolivia and Argentina |
057 | B34 (part), B57 | Argentine and south Bolivian yungas |
058 | B39 | Sierras Centrales of Argentina |
059 | B40 | Juan Fernández Islands |
060 | B41 (part) | Central Chile (Chilean matorral) |
061 | B41 (part), B58 | Chilean temperate forests (Valdivian temperate forests) |
062 | B42 | Southern Patagonia |
063 | B56 | Rio Branco gallery forest |
064 | B02 | Tepuis |
065 | B11 | Orinoco-Negro white-sand forests (Rio Negro campinarana) |
066 | B19, B23 | Upper Amazon-Napo forests |
067 | B43 | Amazon flooded forests |
068 | B30 | South-east Peruvian lowlands |
069 | B45 | Fernando de Noronha |
070 | B46 | North-east Brazilian caatinga |
071 | B47 | Atlantic slope of Alagoas and Pernambuco (Pernambuco coastal forests) |
072 | B48 | Deciduous forests of Bahia |
073 | B50 | Central Brazilian hills and tablelands |
074 | B49 | Deciduous forests of Minas Gerais and Goiás |
075 | B51, B52 | Atlantic forest lowlands |
076 | B53, B54 | Atlantic forest mountains |
077 | B55 | Argentine Mesopotamian grasslands |
Africa, Europe and the Middle East
[edit]EBA Number | Earlier unique code(s) | Name |
078 | C02 | Cape Verde Islands |
079 | C09 (part) | Tristan Islands |
080 | C09 (part), C47 | Gough Island |
081 | C48 | Annobón |
082 | C07 | São Tomé |
083 | C06 | Príncipe |
084 | C03 | Upper Guinea forests |
085 | C05 | Cameroon and Gabon lowlands |
086 | C04 | Cameroon mountains |
087 | C08 | Western Angola |
088 | C29 | Cape fynbos |
089 | C46 | South African forests |
090 | C44 | Lesotho Highlands |
091 | C28 | South African grasslands |
092 | C27 | South-east African coast |
093 | C34 | West Malagasy dry forests |
094 | C35 | East Malagasy wet forests |
095 | C36 | East Malagasy wetlands |
096 | C37 | West Malagasy wetlands |
097 | C38 | South Malagasy spiny forests |
098 | C32, C33 | Comoro Islands |
099 | C31 | Aldabra |
100 | C30 | Granitic Seychelles |
101 | C39 | Réunion |
102 | C40 | Mauritius |
103 | C41 | Rodrigues |
104 | C26 | Eastern Zimbabwe mountains |
105 | C24 | Tanzania - Malawi mountains |
106 | C20 | Albertine Rift Mountains |
107 | C19 | Eastern Zaïre lowlands |
108 | C22 | Serengeti plains |
109 | C21 | Kenyan mountains |
110 | C45 | Pemba |
111 | C23 | East African coastal forests |
112 | C18 | Central Somali coast |
113 | C43 | Jubba and Shabeelle valleys |
114 | C17 | South Ethiopian highlands |
115 | C16 | Central Ethiopian highlands |
116 | C15 | North Somali mountains |
117 | C14 | Socotra |
118 | C13 | South-west Arabian mountains |
119 | C12 | Mesopotamian marshes |
120 | C01 | Madeira and the Canary Islands |
121 | C11 | Cyprus |
122 | C10 | Caucasus |
Continental Asia
[edit]EBA Number | Earlier unique code(s) | Name |
123 | Western Ghats | |
124 c2 | Sri Lanka | |
125 | Andaman Islands | |
126 | Nicobar Islands | |
127 | Taklimakan Desert | |
128 | Western Himalayas | |
129 | Central Himalayas | |
130 | Eastern Himalayas | |
131 | Assam plains | |
132 | Irrawaddy plains | |
133 | Southern Tibet | |
134 | Eastern Tibet | |
135 | Qinghai mountains | |
136 | Shanxi mountains | |
137 | Central Sichuan mountains | |
138 | West Sichuan mountains | |
139 | Yunnan mountains | |
140 | Chinese subtropical forests | |
141 | South-east Chinese mountains | |
142 | Hainan | |
143 | Annamese lowlands | |
144 | South Vietnamese lowlands | |
145 | Da Lat Plateau | |
146 | Izu Islands | |
147 | Ogasawara Islands | |
148 | Nansei Shoto | |
149 | Taiwan |
South-east Asian islands, New Guinea and Australia
[edit]EBA Number | Earlier unique code(s) | Name |
150 | Mindoro | |
151 | Luzon | |
152 | Negros and Panay | |
153 | Cebu | |
154 | Mindanao and the Eastern Visayas | |
155 | Sulu archipelago | |
156 | Palawan | |
157 | Bornean mountains | |
158 | Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia | |
159 | Enggano | |
160 | Java and Bali forests | |
161 | Javan coastal zone | |
162 | Northern Nusa Tenggara | |
163 | Sumba | |
164 | Timor and Wetar | |
165 | Banda Sea islands | |
166 | Sulawesi | |
167 | Sangihe and Talaud | |
168 | Banggai and Sula Islands | |
169 | Buru | |
170 | Seram | |
171 | Northern Maluku | |
172 | West Papuan lowlands | |
173 | West Papuan highlands | |
174 | Geelvink Islands | |
175 | North Papuan mountains | |
176 | Northern Papuan lowlands | |
177 | Adelbert and Huon ranges | |
178 | Central Papuan mountains | |
179 | South Papuan lowlands | |
180 | Trans-Fly | |
181 | Cape York | |
182 | Queensland wet tropics | |
183 | Eastern Australia | |
184 | South-east Australia | |
185 | Tasmania | |
186 | Southwest Australia | |
187 | North West Australia | |
188 | Christmas Island |
Pacific Ocean islands
[edit]EBA Number | Earlier unique code(s) | Name |
189 | Mariana Islands | |
190 | Palau | |
191 | Yap Islands | |
192 | East Caroline Islands | |
193 | Admiralty Islands | |
194 | St Matthias Islands | |
195 | New Britain and New Ireland | |
196 | D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands | |
197 | Louisiade archipelago | |
198 | Solomon group | |
199 | Rennell and Bellona | |
200 | Vanuatu and Temotu | |
201 | New Caledonia | |
202 | Fiji | |
203 | Samoan Islands | |
204 | Lord Howe Island | |
205 | Norfolk Island | |
206 | North Island of New Zealand | |
207 | South Island of New Zealand | |
208 | Auckland Islands | |
209 | Chatham Islands | |
210 | Southern Cook Islands | |
211 | Rimatara | |
212 | Marquesas Islands | |
213 | Society Islands | |
214 | Tuamotu archipelago | |
215 | Henderson Island | |
216 | Laysan Island | |
217 | Central Hawaiian Islands | |
218 | Hawai'i |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation Alison J. Stattersfield, Michael J. Crosby, Adrian J. Long and David C. Wege (1998) Birdlife International ISBN 0-946888-33-7
- The lists of EBAs above, and all associated data, are sourced from information presented in this work