Name ABA
Source Page https://www.aba.org/aba-checklist/
Source Link https://www.aba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ABA_Checklist-8.17-2.csv.zip
Version Number 8.17
Version Date November 2024 (from website) or 2024-11-25 (from taxonomy file)
Entry Count 1,148 species after editing (see notes below)
Citation N/A
Retrieval Date 2025-06-21
Notes 1. The taxonomy includes both eBird-Clements and AOS names if they disagree. When they disagree, the taxonomy lists both and places the AOS name in parentheses. If I did not do anything, then your input would have to exactly match these unconventional names. I've removed the AOS names. Here are the affected birds.
  • Kept Erckel's Spurfowl, removed Erckel's Francolin
  • Kept Common Wood-Pigeon, removed Common Wood Pigeon
  • Kept Pacific Swift, removed Fork-tailed Swift
  • Kept Antillean Palm Swift, removed Antillean Palm-Swift
  • Kept Eurasian Moorhen, removed Common Moorhen
  • Kept Gray-headed Swamphen, removed Purple Swamphen
  • Kept American Herring Gull, removed Herring Gull
  • Kept Vega Gull, removed Herring Gull
  • Kept Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, removed Yellow-nosed Albatross
  • Kept Barn Owl, removed American Barn Owl
  • Kept Red-crowned Amazon, removed Red-crowned Parrot
  • Kept Lillac-crowned Amazon, removed Lillac-crowned Parrot
  • Kept Chinese Hwamei, removed Hwamei
  • Kept House Wren, removed Northern House Wren
  • Kept Blue Rock-Thrush, removed Blue Rock-thrush
  • Kept Amur Stonechat, removed Asian Stonechat
  • Kept Common Redpoll (Redpoll


2. The taxonomy doesn’t generally include spuh species like the eBird taxonomy does, but this release has Wandering Albatross (sp.) to account for the unresolved difficulties with this complex. On this page they talk about the four-way split of the Wandering Albatross that some authorities have accepted. One of the new species is Antipodean Albatross. eBird shows a few records of this bird in Oregon and California. The ABA hasn’t accepted Antipodean Albatross onto its taxonomy and Wandering Albatross remains on the AOS taxonomy.

3. The taxonomy includes several extinct species. I have left them in place. They are: Labrador Duck (extinct 1858), Passenger Pigeon (extinct 1914), Eskimo Curlew (extinct 1962), Great Auk (extinct 1844), Ivory-billed Woodpecker (extinct 1944), Carolina Parakeet (extinct 1939), and Bachman's Warbler (extinct 1937).

4. The taxonomy has year ranges following certain birds. These ranges are the years when these species were countable in the ABA area. I have left these birds out of the taxonomy since they are not currently countable. Leave me feedback if you wish to see them in the taxonomy with the reasoning as to why I should add them back in. Here’s the list of birds I left out: African Collared-Dove (1969-1994), Budgerigar (1975-2015), Yellow-headed Amazon (1975-1982), Crested Myna (1969-2003), and Blue-gray Tanager (1969-1982).

5. It probably seems inconsistent to leave in the extinct birds but remove the date-range birds. I agree, but I’m guided by how the ABA itself sees these two sets of birds. If you look at the count of species the ABA shows with its checklist, it counts the extinct birds but not the date-range birds, so in some way the ABA gives more importance to the extinct birds. My guess is this is due to the extinct birds once had long-lived (millennia), established populations in the ABA area while the date-range birds did not (decades at best).

6. The taxonomy includes a number of provisional species that might be establishing populations such as Swinhoe’s White-eye. I have not included any of these.