The complete AviList dataset containing all bird species, subspecies, and taxonomic information as of June 2025. This is the extended version with all available fields including nomenclatural details, bibliographic information, and external database links.
Format
A data frame with 33684 rows and 26 columns. See avilist_metadata for detailed field descriptions.
Source
AviList Core Team. 2025. AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025. doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025
Examples
# Load the full dataset
data(avilist_2025)
# View summary
str(avilist_2025)
#> tibble [33,684 × 26] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
#> $ Sequence : num [1:33684] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
#> $ Taxon_rank : chr [1:33684] "order" "family" "genus" "species" ...
#> $ Order : chr [1:33684] "Struthioniformes" "Struthioniformes" "Struthioniformes" "Struthioniformes" ...
#> $ Family : chr [1:33684] NA "Struthionidae" "Struthionidae" "Struthionidae" ...
#> $ Family_English_name : chr [1:33684] NA "Ostriches" "Ostriches" "Ostriches" ...
#> $ Scientific_name : chr [1:33684] "Struthioniformes" "Struthionidae" "Struthio" "Struthio molybdophanes" ...
#> $ Authority : chr [1:33684] NA NA "Linnaeus, C, 1758" "Reichenow, A, 1883" ...
#> $ Bibliographic_details : chr [1:33684] NA NA "Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differenti"| __truncated__ "Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereines in Wien p.202" ...
#> $ English_name_AviList : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "Somali Ostrich" ...
#> $ English_name_Clements_v2024 : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "Somali Ostrich" ...
#> $ English_name_BirdLife_v9 : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "Somali Ostrich" ...
#> $ Proposal_number : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ Decision_summary : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ Range : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "desert to savanna plains of northeastern Africa, from northern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia southward throug"| __truncated__ ...
#> $ Extinct_or_possibly_extinct : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ IUCN_Red_List_Category : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "VU" ...
#> $ BirdLife_DataZone_URL : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22732795" ...
#> $ Species_code_Cornell_Lab : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "ostric3" ...
#> $ Birds_of_the_World_URL : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/ostric3/" ...
#> $ AvibaseID : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "avibase-40329BB6" ...
#> $ Gender_of_genus : chr [1:33684] NA NA "M" NA ...
#> $ Type_species_of_genus : chr [1:33684] NA NA "Struthio camelus [Linnaeus, 1758]; type by subsequent designation (Gray, GR, 1840, A List of the Genera of Birds, p. 63)." NA ...
#> $ Type_locality : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "Somaliland." ...
#> $ Title_of_original_description: chr [1:33684] NA NA NA NA ...
#> $ Original_description_URL : chr [1:33684] NA NA "https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/174/mode/1up" NA ...
#> $ Protonym : chr [1:33684] NA NA "Struthio" "Struthio molybdophanes" ...