Partners
Birds of the World has an ambitious goal: Be the definitive resource for the collected knowledge of every bird species in the world.
This scholarly, expansive resource is made possible by a collective of global ornithology experts that have joined forces to create the world’s leading dynamic and participatory platform for curating and publishing avian life histories and data resources. By consolidating the world’s expertise into a single species account and referencing primary sources, Birds of the World helps advance the field of ornithology and galvanize conservation action.Â
As you might expect, the resources needed to build and maintain Birds of the World – to keep 11,000+ species accounts and 251 family accounts updated with new information, nuanced with real science, reflective of true nature – are enormous. Regional expertise, born via ÂÂdeep observation of birds in their native habitats and strengthened through painstaking research, fuels the content of these pages. And though hosted and published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY, USA, Birds of the World is the work of many.Â
On this page, we will introduce you to the people and partners involved in this project. Expect this partner network to grow, as we are actively engaged in expanding this ornithology collective.Â
Scientific Authors:Â We first acknowledge the expertise of more than 2,100 scientific authors who have contributed to one or more species accounts. Their biographies are listed on each account. We encourage you to get to know them and to follow and cite their work.
Partners:Â
- American Ornithological Society (founding partner, Birds of North America and Neotropical Birds)
- APLORI – A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (Nigeria/western Africa)
- Aves Argentina
- Aves Uruguay
- BCI – Bird Count India
- Birds Caribbean
- BirdLife International
- CORBIDI – Centro de OrnitologÃa y Biodiversidad (Peru)
- GECI – Grupo de EcologÃa y Conservación de Islas
- ESRI – Endemic Species Research Institute (Taiwan)
- Fundación Nankulafkén – El Centro de Aves Rapaces Ñankulafkén (Chile)
- Oikonos – Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge
- OSME – Ornithological Society of the Middle East – The Caucasus and Central Asia
- Roberts Birds of Southern Africa, The John Voelcker Bird Book Fund (Southern Africa)
- ROC Chile – Red de Observadores de Aves y vida Silvestre de Chile
- SAVE Brasil – Sociedade para a Conservação das Aves do Brasil
- Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute (TBRI)
- UNAM – Museo de Zoologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- USFQ – Universidad de San Francisco de Quito
- UVO – Unión Venezolana de Ornitólogos (Venezuela)
Free Access in Partner Countries
Many of our partnership arrangements result in free access to constituents or entire countries. Currently, Birds of the World is freely accessible to anyone in the countries below. To take advantage of this free access, click “Sign In” (not “Subscribe”) to make an account or use your eBird username to sign in with each visit. When you see “Access provided by [partner name]” in the upper right part of the page you know access has begun!
Country | Partner |
Anguilla | BirdsCaribbean |
Antigua and Barbuda | BirdsCaribbean |
Argentina | Aves Argentina |
Aruba | BirdsCaribbean |
Bahamas (the) | BirdsCaribbean |
Barbados | BirdsCaribbean |
Benin | APLORI |
Bermuda | BirdsCaribbean |
Botswana | ROBERTS8 |
Brazil | SAVE Brasil |
Burkina Faso | APLORI |
Cameroon | APLORI |
Cayman Islands (the) | BirdsCaribbean |
Chad | APLORI |
Chile | ROC Chile and Fundación Nankulafkén |
Côte d’Ivoire | APLORI |
Cuba | BirdsCaribbean |
Curaçao | BirdsCaribbean |
Dominica | BirdsCaribbean |
Dominican Republic (the) | BirdsCaribbean |
Ecuador | USFQ |
Eswatini | ROBERTS 8 |
Gambia | APLORI |
Ghana | APLORI |
Grenada | BirdsCaribbean |
Guadeloupe | BirdsCaribbean |
Guinea | APLORI |
Guinea-Bissau | APLORI |
Haiti | BirdsCaribbean |
India | Bird Count India |
Jamaica | BirdsCaribbean |
Lesotho | ROBERTS 8 |
Liberia | APLORI |
Mali | APLORI |
Martinique | BirdsCaribbean |
Mauritania | APLORI |
Montserrat | BirdsCaribbean |
Mozambique | ROBERTS 8 |
Namibia | ROBERTS 8 |
Niger | APLORI |
Nigeria | APLORI |
Peru | CORBIDI |
Puerto Rico | BirdsCaribbean |
Saint Barthélemy | BirdsCaribbean |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | BirdsCaribbean |
Saint Lucia | BirdsCaribbean |
Saint Martin (French part) | BirdsCaribbean |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | BirdsCaribbean |
Senegal | APLORI |
Sierra Leone | APLORI |
Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | BirdsCaribbean |
South Africa | ROBERTS 8 |
Togo | APLORI |
Uruguay | Aves Uruguay |
Trinidad and Tobago | BirdsCaribbean |
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | UVO |
Virgin Islands (British) | BirdsCaribbean |
Virgin Islands (U.S.) | BirdsCaribbean |
Zimbabwe | ROBERTS 8 |