Printable checklists! Avibase checklists can now be downloaded and printed as PDF documents that include columns for using during your birding trips or excursions. You can enter up to 10 visits or sites per checklist, and I strongly encourage you to submit your observations to eBird to help increase our knowledge on birds.

To download a checklist as PDF, simply click on the PDF Version at the top of any regional checklist, in the language and authority of your choice. I hope you will find this tool useful.

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New taxonomic tool I have now expanded the taxonomic comparison tool to include many more authorities. Using this tool, you can easily compare different versions of a same checklist and see how the differ, both in term of names (scientific or common names) and in term of species concepts. For instance, you can see all changes that have occured in the most recent update to the Clements checklist compared to the year before or to the version 6 as originally published.

I hope to be able to offer comparisons among different taxonomies in a near future. Stay tuned!

With Jo Warnier's help, I have now incorporated the latest taxonomy from the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), vol. 15 (the greatest book series ever produced, in my view!). This list is again a reflection of the rapid taxonomic flux in which we find ourselves. When compared with other recent checklists, there are many splits and genus reassignments, for instance. Below is a list of the some of the highlights

Eurasia

• Lesser and Common Redpoll are considered as distinct species again.
• Corsican Finch is considered distinct from Citril Finch
• Azores Bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina) is split from Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
• Tricoloured, Chestnut and White-capped Munia (Lonchura malacca, L. atricapilla and L. ferruginosa) are split from the L. malacca sensu lato

Africa

• Kipengere Seedeater is split from Thick-billed Seedeater (Serinus burtoni)
• Red-fronted Antpecker and Jameson's Antpecker (Parmoptila rubrifrons and P. jamesoni) are considered distinct species
• Angola Swee (Coccopygia bocagei) is considered distinct from Swee Waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis)
• Kandt's Waxbill (Estrilda kandti) is distinct from Black-headed Waxbill (Estrilda atricapilla)
• Somali, Arabian and Socotra Grosbeaks are moved to the genus Rhynchostruthus and considered as distinct species from each other.
• Lesser Seedcracker (Pyrenestes minor), Black-bellied Seedcracker (P. ostrinus) and Crimson Seedcracker (P. sanguineus) are considered distinct species.
• Yellow-crowned and Cape Canary (Serinus flavivertex and S. canicollis) are considered as distinct species
• Reichenow's Seedeater (Serinus reichenowi) is split from Black-throated Canary (S. atrogularis)
• Yellow-rumped Seedeater (Serinus xanthopygius) is considered as a distinct species from Yellow-throated Seedeater (S. flavigula)

Australasia and Pacific

• The Australian form of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia castanotis) is considered distint from the nominal form in the Lesser Sundas (Taeniopygia guttata)
• The Hawaii and Maui Akepa (Loxops coccineus and L. ochraceus) are considered distinct species.
• Kauai and Maui Nukupuu (Hemignathus hanapepe and H. affinis) are elevated to full species rank.

Neotropics

• Hispaniolan Crossbill is split from White-winged (Two-barred) Crossbill
• Tepui Whitestart (Myioborus castaneocapilla) is split from the Brown-capped Whitestart (Myioborus brunniceps)