List of endemic bird areas of the world explained

The following is a list of endemic bird areas of the world, as defined by Birdlife International - see main article (Endemic Bird Area).

North and Central America

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
001A01California
002A03Baja California
003A02Guadalupe Island
004A10Socorro Island
005A05North-west Mexican Pacific slope
006A04Sierra Madre Occidental and trans-Mexican range
007A08Central Mexican marshes
008A11 (part), A27Balsas region and interior Oaxaca
009A12Sierra Madre del Sur
010A06Northern Sierra Madre Oriental
011A07North-east Mexican Gulf slope
012A11 (part)Southern Sierra Madre Oriental
013A30Los Tuxtlas and Uxpanapa
014A13Isthmus of Tehuantepec
015A09 (part)Yucatán Peninsula coastal scrub
016A09 (part), A29Cozumel Island
017A15North Central American Pacific slope
018A14North Central American highlands
019A16Central American Caribbean slope
020A18Costa Rica and Panama highlands
021A17South Central American Pacific slope
022A21Cocos Island
023A19Darién lowlands
024A20Darién highlands
025A22 (part)Cuba
026A22 (part), A28Bahamas
027A23Jamaica
028A24Hispaniola
029A25Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
030A26Lesser Antilles

South America

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
031B16Galápagos Islands
032B03Caripe - Paria region
033B04Cordillera de la Costa Central
034B06Cordillera de Mérida
035B07Caribbean Colombia and Venezuela
036B08Santa Marta mountains
037B09Nechí lowlands
038B10Colombia East Andes
039B13Colombian inter-Andean valleys
040B12Colombian inter-Andean slopes
041B14, B15Chocó
042B17 (part)Northern Central Andes
043B17 (part), B21 (part), B60Central Andean páramo
044B18Ecuador-Peru East Andes
045B20, B26Tumbesian region
046B21 (part)Southern Central Andes
047B24Andean ridge-top forests
048B22Marañón valley
049B25Northeast Peruvian cordilleras
050B28Junín puna
051B27, B31Peruvian high Andes
052B32Peru-Chile Pacific slope
053B29Peruvian East Andean foothills
054B34 (part)Bolivian and Peruvian lower yungas
055B33Bolivian and Peruvian upper yungas
056B35, B37High Andes of Bolivia and Argentina
057B34 (part), B57Argentine and south Bolivian yungas
058B39Sierras Centrales of Argentina
059B40Juan Fernández Islands
060B41 (part)Central Chile (Chilean matorral)
061B41 (part), B58Chilean temperate forests (Valdivian temperate forests)
062B42Southern Patagonia
063B56Rio Branco gallery forest
064B02Tepuis
065B11Orinoco-Negro white-sand forests (Rio Negro campinarana)
066B19, B23Upper Amazon-Napo forests
067B43Amazon flooded forests
068B30South-east Peruvian lowlands
069B45Fernando de Noronha
070B46North-east Brazilian caatinga
071B47Atlantic slope of Alagoas and Pernambuco (Pernambuco coastal forests)
072B48Deciduous forests of Bahia
073B50Central Brazilian hills and tablelands
074B49Deciduous forests of Minas Gerais and Goiás
075B51, B52Atlantic forest lowlands
076B53, B54Atlantic forest mountains
077B55Argentine Mesopotamian grasslands

Africa, Europe and the Middle East

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
078C02Cape Verde Islands
079C09 (part)Tristan Islands
080C09 (part), C47Gough Island
081C48Annobón
082C07São Tomé
083C06Príncipe
084C03Upper Guinea forests
085C05Cameroon and Gabon lowlands
086C04Cameroon mountains
087C08Western Angola
088C29Cape fynbos
089C46South African forests
090C44Lesotho Highlands
091C28South African grasslands
092C27South-east African coast
093C34West Malagasy dry forests
094C35East Malagasy wet forests
095C36East Malagasy wetlands
096C37West Malagasy wetlands
097C38South Malagasy spiny forests
098C32, C33Comoro Islands
099C31Aldabra
100C30Granitic Seychelles
101C39Réunion
102C40Mauritius
103C41Rodrigues
104C26Eastern Zimbabwe mountains
105C24Tanzania - Malawi mountains
106C20Albertine Rift Mountains
107C19Eastern Zaïre lowlands
108C22Serengeti plains
109C21Kenyan mountains
110C45Pemba
111C23East African coastal forests
112C18Central Somali coast
113C43Jubba and Shabeelle valleys
114C17South Ethiopian highlands
115C16Central Ethiopian highlands
116C15North Somali mountains
117C14Socotra
118C13South-west Arabian mountains
119C12Mesopotamian marshes
120C01Madeira and the Canary Islands
121C11Cyprus
122C10Caucasus

Continental Asia

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
123Western Ghats
124 c2Sri Lanka
125Andaman Islands
126Nicobar Islands
127Taklimakan Desert
128Western Himalayas
129Central Himalayas
130Eastern Himalayas
131Assam plains
132Irrawaddy plains
133Southern Tibet
134Eastern Tibet
135Qinghai mountains
136Shanxi mountains
137Central Sichuan mountains
138West Sichuan mountains
139Yunnan mountains
140Chinese subtropical forests
141South-east Chinese mountains
142Hainan
143Annamese lowlands
144South Vietnamese lowlands
145Da Lat Plateau
146Izu Islands
147Ogasawara Islands
148Nansei Shoto
149Taiwan

South-east Asian islands, New Guinea and Australia

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
150Mindoro
151Luzon
152Negros and Panay
153Cebu
154Mindanao and the Eastern Visayas
155Sulu archipelago
156Palawan
157Bornean mountains
158Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia
159Enggano
160Java and Bali forests
161Javan coastal zone
162Northern Nusa Tenggara
163Sumba
164Timor and Wetar
165Banda Sea islands
166Sulawesi
167Sangihe and Talaud
168Banggai and Sula Islands
169Buru
170Seram
171Northern Maluku
172West Papuan lowlands
173West Papuan highlands
174Geelvink Islands
175North Papuan mountains
176Northern Papuan lowlands
177Adelbert and Huon ranges
178Central Papuan mountains
179South Papuan lowlands
180Trans-Fly
181Cape York
182Queensland wet tropics
183Eastern Australia
184South-east Australia
185Tasmania
186Southwest Australia
187North West Australia
188Christmas Island

Pacific Ocean islands

EBA NumberEarlier unique code(s)Name
189Mariana Islands
190Palau
191Yap Islands
192East Caroline Islands
193Admiralty Islands
194St Matthias Islands
195New Britain and New Ireland
196D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands
197Louisiade archipelago
198Solomon group
199Rennell and Bellona
200Vanuatu and Temotu
201New Caledonia
202Fiji
203Samoan Islands
204Lord Howe Island
205Norfolk Island
206North Island of New Zealand
207South Island of New Zealand
208Auckland Islands
209Chatham Islands
210Southern Cook Islands
211Rimatara
212Marquesas Islands
213Society Islands
214Tuamotu archipelago
215Henderson Island
216Laysan Island
217Central Hawaiian Islands
218Hawai'i

See also

References

The lists of EBAs above, and all associated data, are sourced from information presented in this work