Birds of Iran: Annotated Checklist of the Species and Subspecies

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Birds of Iran: Annotated Checklist of the Species and Subspecies

Original language description

After more than a century since the publication of a full list of the birds of Iran and their subspecies by Zarudny (1911), this modern Annotated Checklist updates all bird species recorded in Iran up to the end of 2015. After a preliminary comparison of four current world checklists (IOC, Clements, BirdLife, TiF), we decided to use the IOC World Bird List as our basis. In the compilation of our checklist, we first spent much time gathering literature on Iranian birds, selecting the bird taxa mentioned in each reference, attempting to find current synonyms for superseded scientific names, confirming the type locality of Iranian birds and cross-checking databases of museum specimens before we could begin to include them in our draft checklist. In the main annotated list, we present 550 species (310 non-passerine and 240 passerine). Expert opinion on the status of bird taxa achieves a high level of general consistency, but some anomalous views are inevitable, given incomplete molecular or other research data, or lack of knowledge of factors such as breeding distribution. For example, two taxa, Bubulcus coromandus and Lanius pallidirostris, have been adopted by IOC as full species (as also in our list), but are still widely classified as subspecies in other world checklists. We include in our main systematic list a total of 534 subspecies (238 non-passerine and 296 passerine), of which 158 subspecies and 11 species have been described partly or totally from Iranian bird specimens.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10615 - Ornithology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-600-8351-10-8

Number of pages

351

Publisher name

Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection

Place of publication

Teherán

UT code for WoS book

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