The Andean condor is the national bird of Colombia.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Colombia. According to the South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the avifauna of Colombia has 1905 confirmed species. Of them, 84 are endemic, four have been introduced by humans, and 77 are rare or vagrants. Two of the endemic species are believed to be extinct. An additional 39 species are hypothetical (see below).[1]
The Colombian province of San Andrés and Providencia is much closer to Nicaragua than to the South American mainland, so the SACC does not address records there. A 2015 publication adds 16 species whose only Colombian records are from that province and also five species to the mainland list. Three of the 16 are also considered hypothetical.[2] A 2020 publication adds two more species (one offshore vagrant and a vagrant to the mainland).[3] (The SACC does not address records from more than 200 miles offshore.)
The total number of species presented here is 1965. Of them, 87 are endemic and 79 are vagrants.
Unless noted otherwise, the list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families, and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) are those of the SACC.[4]
The following tags have been used to highlight several categories.
(V) Vagrant - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Colombia
(E) Endemic - a species endemic to Colombia
(I) Introduced - a species introduced to Colombia as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions
(H) Hypothetical - a species recorded but with "no tangible evidence" according to the SACC
(SA) San Andrés - a species whose only Colombian records are from the province of San Andrés and Providencia
Population status symbols are those of the Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).[5] The symbols apply to the species' worldwide status, not their status solely in Colombia. The symbols and their meanings, in increasing order of peril, are:
Conservation status codes
LC = least concern
NT = near threatened
VU = vulnerable
EN = endangered
CR = critically endangered
EW = extinct in the wild
EX = extinct
^Echeverry-Galvis, María Ángela; Acevedo-Charry, Orlando; Avendaño, Jorge E.; Gómez, Camila; Stiles, F. Gary; Estela, Felipe A.; Cuervo, Andrés M. (January 16, 2024). "Species lists of birds for South American countries and territories: Colombia". Comité Colombiano de Registros Ornitológicos and the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
^Donegan, Thomas, Juan Carlos Verhelst, Paul Salaman, Oswaldo Cortes, David Caro, and Alonso Quevedo. Checklist of the Birds of Colombia 2015 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308015655_Checklist_of_the_Birds_of_Colombia_2015_-_with_footnotes_to_all_differing_taxonomic_treatments_of_IOC_AOU-SACC_and_BirdLifeHBW2014_and_all_ProAves_papers_on_occurrencestatus_Listado_de_Aves_de_Colombia
^Donegan, Thomas (2020). "Revision of the status of bird species occurring or reported in Colombia 2019 / Revisión del estatado de las especies de aves que han sido reportadas para Colombia 2019" (PDF). Conservacion Colombiana. 26: 4–26.
^Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 4 March 2024. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithological Society. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm retrieved March 5, 2024
^IUCN 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2020-1. http://www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on July 30, 2020.
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