AviList Global Avian Checklist v2025 (Short Version) — avilist_2025

The essential fields from the AviList dataset containing core taxonomic information for all bird species and subspecies as of June 2025. This is the official short version provided by the AviList team, optimized for faster loading and basic taxonomic operations.

Usage

avilist_2025_short

Format

A data frame with 33684 rows and 14 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 short dataset (faster loading)
data(avilist_2025_short)

# View summary
str(avilist_2025_short)
#> tibble [33,684 × 14] (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" ...
#>  $ 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" ...
#>  $ AvibaseID                  : chr [1:33684] NA NA NA "avibase-40329BB6" ...