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NATURE WORLDWIDE: BIRDS WORLD INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION & ENVIRONMENT, WICE
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We have composed what the University of California and WICE consider to be the complete lists of species of the world of birds and mammals. You may find other lists with different numbers. The problem is that there are several "species concepts" and those who adhere to one typically fight vigorously against those who adhere to another, and there is no real end in sight to the argument. In this issue there is no real right of wrong. After all, we're trying to fit millions of years of evolution into a series of nice, tidy compartments, and the world is not now nor has it ever been nice nor tidy. There are numerous international initiatives which focus in biodiversity/taxonomic issues. Species 2000 and ITIS are now working closely together, with collaboration from GBIF and All Species Foundation, to accelerate the process of assembling a "Catalogue of Life", i.e. a database of all known organisms, with complete synonymies. Among them: GBIF: http://www.gbif.org/ They recently hosted a taxonomic workshop in Sydney Species 2000: www.sp2000.org. ITIS: http://www.itis.usda.gov/ All Species Foundation www.all-species.org Severak conceptual discussions you may find at: The species concept is reviewed by a U.C. Davis geologist at: http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu:8000/~gel3/speciesconcept.html Another discussion is at: http://research.amnh.org/ornithology/crossbills/species.html A third is at: http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~thompson/course/Speciesconceptwd.html And a really nice one from the Tulane University at: http://www.tulane.edu/~eeob/Courses/Heins/Evolution/lecture6.html
NON-ENGLISH BIRD NAMES We are providing non-English bird names for 20 languages. For lists that by far exceed national bird names, we offer lists in this section:
For your convenience and rapid page loading, they are cut up into ten pages each. National names lists exist for:
Non-english birdnames are found on several European websites, usually only for European birds. The best one is : http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/bird_names.htm. None of those site however have more names than we currently are showing in this website. We intend to list more and if you want the names of your country on your country's web page, just send us the list and we will put it up.
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