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Living Endemic Birds
The extant endemic birds that make Puerto Rico one of the Caribbean's most distinctive birding destinations.
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The Birds
of Puerto Rico
402 documented birds—endemic icons, ocean wanderers, accidental arrivals, and the habitats and histories that connect them.
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402reconciled records
19living endemics
283licensed photographs
64bird families
24taxonomic orders
Found nowhere else
Puerto Rico’s
living originals
From the tiny San Pedrito to the comeback story of the Iguaca, these species carry millions of years of island evolution.
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Every bird belongs
to more than one story.
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Globally Threatened Birds
Birds classified as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable in the reconciled IUCN data.
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Resident Birds
Birds documented as year-round residents or resident breeders in the source catalog and Puerto Rico context records.
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Migrants & Vagrants
Passage migrants, winter visitors, seasonal movers, offshore visitors and rare vagrants recorded from Puerto Rico.
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Introduced Birds
Birds brought to Puerto Rico by people, including established species and free-flying populations whose status may vary.
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Historical Birds
Birds included through historical records, including extirpated and extinct taxa that shaped Puerto Rico's avifauna.
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Follow the connections.
A bird is never an isolated fact. Each profile opens paths to its family, habitat, movement, conservation story, and closest island neighbors.
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Species to know
Field notes from the atlas
Built from evidence, honest about uncertainty
One compilation.
Every source kept visible.
Puerto Rico’s bird total changes with taxonomy, rare records, introductions, and fossil evidence. This atlas preserves the 380-bird inferred current core, the 384 rows rendered by Avibase, 389 live Wikipedia records, and a 402-record source union—without pretending they mean the same thing.