by The update of the Guide to Birds of Spain by SEO/BirdLifecorresponding to 2022, incorporates 88 new species (18 of them habitual and 70 occasional)out of a total of 632 species of birds, and a taxonomic review by which families appear and disappear and some genera and species are modified, as reported by the organization.
540 species of birds
Currently, the guide shows updated information on the distribution, biology and phenology of more than 540 bird species that can be seen regularly or occasionally in Spain with audio recordings of their songs, photographs, videos and maps.
The guide can be consulted on the web or in the SEO/BirdLife mobile application, which allows for easy updating.
As the technician from the communication area of the entity Carlos Hernáez explains, the guide can be consulted on the web or in the SEO/BirdLife mobile application, which allows it to be easily updated. Thus, according to Hernáez, modifications such as the inclusion of new species, the updating of distribution maps, the publication of a new monograph or changes in conservation status will be “perceived in real time by users, without the need for new versions”.
English avifauna
“After the first step in 2008 with the publication of the Digital encyclopedia of birds in Spainwhich would give rise to the first App in 2014we can affirm that we now have a product available to all citizens on the English avifauna, improved and revised, in a continuous process of updating” has stated CEO of SEO/BirdLife, Asunción Ruiz.
The Guide to the Birds of Spain is an informative tool suitable for all audiences that aims, according to SEO/BirdLife, “to improve, update and complement the knowledge of ornithologists and ornithologists on the birds of Spain” and manage to introduce the less specialized public to the world of birds.
Thus, this last edition has been prepared, in order to incorporate all the ornithological information available, taking as reference the III Atlas of birds in breeding season in Spain, the species monographs published to date, the LiRed bro of the Birds of Spain of 2021and the European Red List of Birds. In addition, as a novelty, they have also incorporated the legal status of birds as stated in the English Catalog of Threatened Species.
Each file has up-to-date information on the bird’s reproductive or wintering condition, its breeding period, latest data on the species’ habitat, distribution, area of occupation, population size and its evolution.
