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Birding synonyms (1 Viewer)

dvilhena

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I'm building a free web app to explore North American bird geographic ranges over time and am running into some trouble with bird synonyms. For example, are these all the same bird?

American Three-toed Woodpecker,Three-toed Woodpecker,Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker

The project is a visualization that will accompany an academic publication. I've gone through and got a lot of obvious ones, but I'm hoping that wise eyes can glance at it and point out things I'm missing, especially the more subtle synonyms. I will gladly acknowledge anyone that helps on the visualization website!

Thank you so much!!! Any suggestions for how to do this more efficiently is also sincerely appreciated.

Abert's Towhee
Acadian Flycatcher
Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Acorn Woodpecker
African Cordonbleu
African Fire-Finch
African Grey Parrot
Akekee,Kauai Akepa
Akepa,Hawaii Akepa
Akiapolaau
Akikiki,Kauai Creeper
Akohekohe,Crested Honeycreeper
Alabama Towhee
Alaskan Gray Jay,Gray Jay
(Aleutian) Canada Goose
Allen's Hummingbird
alpestris Horned Lark
Altamira Oriole
American Avocet
American Bald Eagle,Bald Eagle
American Bittern
American Brant
American Cardinal,North American Cardinal
American Coot
American Crow
American Eared Grebe,Eared Grebe
American Egret
American Eider
American Flamingo
American Goldeneye
American Golden-Plover
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Knot
American Magpie
American Merganser
American Osprey,Osprey
American Oystercatcher
American Pintail
American Pipit
American Redstart
American Rough-legged Hawk,Rough-legged Hawk
American Scoter
American Three-toed Woodpecker,Three-toed Woodpecker (also refers to Eurasian),Northern Three-toed Woodpecker
American Wigeon
Ancient Murrelet
Anhinga
Anianiau
Anna's Hummingbird
Apapane
Aplomado Falcon
Arctic Loon
Arctic Tern
Arizona Jay
Arizona Junco
Arizona Woodpecker
Arkansas Goldfinch
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Ashy Petrel
Ashy Storm-Petrel
Atlantic Puffin
Attwater's Greater Prairie-Chicken,Greater Prairie-Chicken
Attwater's Prairie-Chicken
Audubon's Caracara
Audubon's Oriole
Audubon's Shearwater
Bachman's Sparrow
Bahama Mockingbird
Baikal Teal
Baird's Cormorant
Baird's Sandpiper
Baird's Sparrow
Baird's Wren
Baldpate
Baltimore Oriole
Bananaquit
Band-tailed Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Bank Swallow
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
Bar-headed Goose
Barnacle Goose
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Barred Dove
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bar-tailed Godwit
Batchelder's Woodpecker
Bay-breasted Warbler
Beardless Flycatcher
Bell's Sparrow
Bell's Vireo
Belted Kingfisher
Bendire's Thrasher
Bermuda Petrel
Berylline Hummingbird
Bewick's Swan
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker,Black-backed Woodpecker,Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Wagtail
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Black-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Magpie
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Gnatcatcher
Black-capped Petrel
Black-capped Vireo
Black-capped Warbler
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Black-chinned Sparrow
Black-crested Titmouse
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Black Duck,American Black Duck
Black-eared Bushtit
Black-footed Albatross
Black Francolin
Black Guillemot
Black Gyrfalcon
Black-headed Grosbeak
Black-headed Gull,Common Black-headed Gull
Black-headed Munia
Black-headed Oriole
Black-hooded Parakeet
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black Noddy
Black Oystercatcher
Black Petrel
Black Phoebe
Blackpoll Warbler
Black Rail
Black Rosy-Finch
Black-rumped Waxbill
Black Scoter
Black-shouldered Kite
Black Skimmer
Black Storm-Petrel
Black Swan
Black Swift
Black-tailed Godwit
Black-tailed Gull
Black Tern
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Magpie-Jay
Black Turnstone
Black-vented Oriole
Black-vented Shearwater
Black Vulture
Black-whiskered Vireo
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Blue Bunting
Blue-capped Cordonbleu
Blue-crowned Parakeet
Blue-faced Booby
Blue-footed Booby
Blue-fronted Parrot
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-gray Noddy
Blue-gray Tanager
Blue Grosbeak
Blue Grouse
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
Blue Mockingbird
blue morph Ross's Goose,Ross's Goose
Blue Noddy
Blue Pheasant
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Warbler
Boat-tailed Grackle
Bobolink
Bobwhite,Northern Bobwhite
Bohemian Waxwing
Bonaparte's Gull
Bonin Petrel
Boreal Chickadee
Boreal Owl
Botteri's Sparrow
Brambling
Brandt's Cormorant
Brant,Black Brant
Brant (hrota)
Brant (nigricans)
Brazilian Cardinal
Brewer's Blackbird
Brewer's Sparrow
(Brewster's) Brown Booby,Brown Booby
Bridled Tern
Bridled Titmouse
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Broad-winged Hawk
Bronzed Cowbird
Bronzed Grackle
Brown-capped Chickadee
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
Brown Creeper
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown Jay
Brown Noddy
Brown Shrike
Brown Thrasher
Brown-throated Wren
Brown Towhee
Bruennich's Murre
Budgerigar
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Bufflehead
Buller's Shearwater
Bullock's Oriole
Burrowing Owl
Cabot's Tern
Cackling Canada Goose,Canada Goose,Canada Goose (small races)
Cackling Goose
Cactus Woodpecker
Cactus Wren
California Condor
California Gnatcatcher
California Gull
California Jay
California Quail
California Thrasher
California Towhee
California Woodpecker
Calliope Hummingbird
Canada Jay
Canada Warbler
Canary-winged Parakeet
Canvasback
Canyon Towhee
Canyon Wren
Cape May Warbler
Caracara,Crested Caracara
Cardinal,Northern Cardinal
Caribbean Coot
Carolina Junco
Carolina Wren
Caspian Tern
Cassin's Auklet
Cassin's Finch
Cassin's Kingbird
Cassin's Sparrow
Cassin's Vireo
Catbird,Gray Catbird
Cattle Egret
Cave Swallow
Cedar Waxwing
Cerulean Warbler
Chachalaca,Plain Chachalaca
Chestnut-backed Bluebird
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Chestnut-fronted Macaw
Chestnut Mannikin
Chestnut Munia
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chihuahuan Raven
Chimney Swift
Chinese Spotted Dove,Spotted Dove
Chinese Thrush
Chipping Sparrow
Chuck-will's-widow
Chukar
Cinnamon Teal
Clark's Grebe
Clark's Nutcracker
Clay-colored Sparrow
Clay-colored Thrush
Cliff Swallow
Cockatiel
Common Barn-Owl
Common Black-Hawk
Common Bushtit,Bushtit,Lead-colored Bushtit
Common Canada Goose
Common Canary
Common Chaffinch
Common Crane
Common Crow
Common Cuckoo
Common Egret
Common Eider
Common Gallinule
Common Goldeneye
Common Grackle
Common Ground-Dove
Common Loon
Common Moorhen
Common Murre
Common Myna
Common Nighthawk
Common Noddy
Common Peafowl
Common Raven
Common Ringed Plover,Ringed Plover
Common Scoter
Common Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Common Shelduck
Common Starling
Common Teal
Common Tern
Common Waxbill
Common Yellowthroat
Connecticut Warbler
Cooper's Hawk
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Cory's Shearwater
Costa's Hummingbird
Couch's Kingbird
Coues' Flycatcher
Crane Hawk
Craveri's Murrelet
Crescent-chested Warbler
Crested Auklet
Crested Flycatcher,Great Crested Flycatcher
Crested Tern,Great Crested Tern
Crimson-collared Grosbeak
Crimson-fronted Parakeet
Crissal Thrasher
Cuban Snowy Plover,Snowy Plover
Curlew Sandpiper
Dark-eyed Cassiar Junco,Cassiar Junco
Dark-eyed (Gray-headed caniceps) Junco,Dark-eyed (Gray-headed) Junco,Dark-eyed (Gray-headed dorsalis) Junco,Dark-eyed (Pink-sided) Junco,Dark-eyed (Red-backed) Junco,Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco,Dark-eyed Junco,Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco,Dark-eyed (White-winged) Junco
Dark-rumped Petrel
Derby Flycatcher
Desert Black-throated Sparrow,Black-throated Sparrow
Desert Horned Lark
Desert Song Sparrow,Song Sparrow,Mountain Song Sparrow
Desert Sparrow
Diamond Firetail
Dickcissel
Dipper,American Dipper
Double-crested Cormorant
Dovekie
Downy Woodpecker
Duck Hawk
Dunlin
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Dusky Grouse
Dusky-headed Parakeet
Dusky Orange-crowned Warbler,Orange-crowned Warbler,Lutescent Orange-crowned Warbler
Dusky Thrush
Eared Quetzal
Eared Trogon
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Brown Pelican,Brown Pelican
Eastern Dowitcher
Eastern Field Sparrow,Field Sparrow
Eastern Fox Sparrow,Fox Sparrow,(Western) Fox Sparrow,(Red) Fox Sparrow,,(Slate-colored) Fox Sparrow,(Sooty) Fox Sparrow,Sooty Fox Sparrow,(Thick-billed) Fox Sparrow
Eastern Goldfinch
Eastern House Wren,House Wren
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Lincoln Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Red-tailed Hawk,Red-tailed Hawk,(Western) Red-tailed Hawk
Eastern Red-winged Blackbird,Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Robin
Eastern Rufous-sided Towhee,Rufous-sided Towhee
Eastern Screech-Owl
Eastern Solitary Vireo,Solitary Vireo
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Whip-poor-will,Whip-poor-will
Eastern Wild Turkey,Wild Turkey
Turkey
Water-Turkey
Merriam's Turkey
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eclectus Parrot
Egyptian Goose
Elegant Quail
Elegant Tern
Elegant Trogon
Elepaio,Oahu Elepaio
Elf Owl
Emperor Goose
English Sparrow
Erckel's Francolin
Eurasian Bullfinch
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Eurasian Green-winged Teal,Green-winged Teal,American Green-winged Teal
Eurasian Jackdaw,Jackdaw
Eurasian Siskin
Eurasian Skylark,Sky Lark
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Eurasian Wigeon
Eurasian Woodcock
(European) Common Merganser,Common Merganser
European Cormorant
European Goldfinch
European Partridge
European Teal
European Whimbrel,Whimbrel
Everglade Kite
Falcated Duck
Ferruginous Hawk
Ferruginous Owl
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Fieldfare
Fish Crow
Five-striped Sparrow
Flamingo,Greater Flamingo
Flammulated Owl
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Flicker,Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
Florida Clapper Rail
Florida Gallinule
Florida Mottled Duck,Mottled Duck
Florida Purple Grackle,Purple Grackle
Florida Scrub-Jay
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Petrel
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
Forster's Tern
Franklin's Grouse
Franklin's Gull
fringillid
Fuertes's Hawk
Fulmar,Northern Fulmar
Fulvous Tree Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Gadwall
Gambel's Quail
Gambel's Sparrow
Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow,White-crowned Sparrow,Western White-crowned Sparrow,(Mountain) White-crowned Sparrow,(oriantha) White-crowned Sparrow,Eastern White-crowned Sparrow
Gannet,Northern Gannet
Garganey
Gila Woodpecker
Gilded Flicker
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glossy Ibis
Golden-cheeked Warbler
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Warbler
Golden Eagle
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Golden-winged Warbler
Goshawk,Northern Goshawk
Grace's Warbler
Grasshopper Sparrow
Gray-backed Tern
Gray-breasted Jay
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
Gray Flycatcher
Gray Francolin
Gray Gull
Gray Gyrfalcon,Gyrfalcon,White Gyrfalcon
Gray Hawk
Gray Kingbird
Gray Partridge
Gray Shrike
Gray-sided Laughing-thrush
Gray Swiftlet
Gray-tailed Tattler
Gray Titmouse
Gray Vireo
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Black-Hawk
Great Blue Heron (White form),Great Blue Heron (Blue form)
Great Blue Heron,(white phase) Great Blue Heron
Great Blue (Wurdemann's) Heron
Great Cormorant
Great Egret
Greater Man-o'-war-bird
Greater Necklaced Laughing-thrush
Greater Pewee
Greater Sage-Grouse
Greater Scaup
Greater Snow Goose
Greater Yellowlegs
Great Frigatebird
Great Gray Owl
Great Kiskadee
Great Shearwater
Great Skua
Great-tailed Grackle
Green-backed Goldfinch
Green-backed Heron
Green-breasted Mango
Green-cheeked Parakeet
Green Jay
Green Kingfisher
Green Parakeet
Green-tailed Towhee
Greylag Goose
Groove-billed Ani
Ground Dove
Guam Swiftlet
Gull-billed Tern
Gunnison Sage-Grouse
Hairy Woodpecker
Hammond's Flycatcher
Harlan's Hawk
Harlequin Duck
Harris's Hawk
Harris's Sparrow
(Hawaii Amakihi,Maui Amakihi),(Common Amakihi,Amakihi),Kauai Amakihi,Oahu Amakihi [split into 3 species]
Hawaiian Coot
Hawaiian Crow,Alala
Hawaiian Duck,Koloa,Koloa Maoli
Hawaiian Gallinule,Hawaiian Moorhen
Hawaiian Goose,Nene
Hawaiian Hawk,Io
Hawaiian Noddy
Hawaiian Stilt,Black-Necked Stilt
Hawaii Elepaio
Hawaii Creeper,Hawaii Hawaiian Creeper,Hawaiian Creeper
Omao,Hawaii Hawaiian Thrush
Hawk Owl,Northern Hawk Owl
Heermann's Gull
Helmeted Guineafowl
Henslow's Sparrow
Hepatic Tanager
Hepburn's Rosy Finch
Hermit Thrush
Hermit Warbler
Herring Gull
Hill Myna
Hispaniolan Parakeet
Hoary Redpoll
Holboell's Grebe
Hooded Merganser
Hooded Warbler
Hook-billed Kite
Horned Grebe
Horned Owl,Great Horned Owl
Horned Puffin
House Finch
House Sparrow
Hudsonian Curlew
Hudsonian Godwit
Hungarian Partridge
Hutchins's Goose,Hutchins's Canada Goose
Hutton's Vireo
Hwamei,Chinese Hwamei,Melodious Laughingthrush
Iceland (glaucoides) Gull,Iceland Gull
Iiwi
Inca Dove
Indigo Bunting
Island Canary
Island Scrub-Jay
Ivory Gull
Jacana,Northern Jacana
Jack Snipe
Japanese Bush-Warbler,Uguisu
Japanese Green Pheasant,Green Pheasant
Japanese Nun
Japanese Quail
Japanese Varied Tit,Japanese Tit
Java Sparrow
Juniper Titmouse
Kalij Pheasant
Kamao
Kauai Akepa
Kauai Creeper
Kauai Elepaio
Kauai Oo,Oo Aa
Kelp Gull
Kentucky Cardinal
Kentucky Warbler
Killdeer
King Eider
King Rail
Kiskadee Flycatcher
Kittlitz's Murrelet
Knot,Red Knot
Krider's Hawk
Kumlien's Gull
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Lapland Longspur
(large forms) Canada Goose
Lark Bunting
Lark Sparrow
La Sagra's Flycatcher
Laughing Gull
Lavender Waxbill
Lawrence's Goldfinch
Laysan Albatross
Laysan Duck
Laysan Finch
Lazuli Bunting
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Least Auklet
Least Bittern
Least Flycatcher
Least Grebe
Least Sandpiper
Least Tern
Le Conte's Sparrow
Le Conte's Thrasher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Canada Goose
Lesser Frigatebird
Lesser Goldfinch
Lesser Nighthawk
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Lesser Scaup
Lesser White-fronted Goose
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lewis's Woodpecker
Lichtenstein's Oriole
(Light-footed) Clapper Rail
Lilac-crowned Parrot
Limpkin
Lincoln's Sparrow
Little Blue Heron
Little Brown Sandhill Crane,Sandhill Crane,Florida Sandhill Crane
Little Bunting
Little Green Heron,Green Heron
Little Gull
Loggerhead Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Marsh Wren,Marsh Wren
Long-billed Murrelet
Long-billed Thrasher
Long-crested Jay
Long-eared Owl
Long-tailed Duck
Long-tailed Jaeger
Louisiana Heron
Louisiana Waterthrush
Lucy's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Magnificent Frigatebird
Magnificent Hummingbird
Magnolia Warbler
Mallard
Mandarin Duck
Mangrove Cuckoo
Man-o'-War-Bird
Manx Shearwater
Marbled Godwit
Marbled Murrelet
Mariana Swiftlet
Maroon-bellied Conure
Maroon-bellied Parakeet
Marsh Hawk
Masked Booby
Masked Duck
Maui Alauahio,Maui Creeper
Maui Parrotbill
McCown's Longspur
McKay's Bunting
Mealy Parrot
(melanura) Black-tailed Gnatcatcher,Black-tailed Gnatcatcher,Californica Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Merlin
Merrill's Pauraque
Mew Gull
Mexican Black Hawk
Mexican Chickadee
Mexican Cormorant
Mexican Crested Flycatcher
Mexican Crow
Mexican Goshawk
Mexican Ground-Dove
Mexican Jay
Mexican Junco
Migrant Shrike
Military Macaw
Millerbird
Mississippi Kite
Mitred Conure
Mitred Parakeet
Mockingbird,Northern Mockingbird
Molokai Amakihi
Monk Parakeet
Montana Junco
Montezuma Quail
Mountain Bluebird
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Owl
Mountain Plover
Mountain Quail
Mourning Dove
Mourning Warbler
Muscovy Duck,Muscovy
Mute Swan
Myna,Crested Myna
Mynah,House Mynah
Nashville Warbler
Nelson's Sparrow
Nelson's Woodpecker
Neotropic Cormorant
Nevada Savannah Sparrow
Newell's Shearwater
New Mexican Duck,Mexican Duck
Northern (alpestris) Horned Lark,Horned Lark,Prairie (practicola) Horned Lark
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Northern Flicker,Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker
Northern Harrier
Northern Lapwing
Northern Oriole
Northern Parula
Northern Phalarope
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Northern Red-shouldered Hawk,Red-shouldered Hawk,Insular Red-shouldered Hawk
Northern Shrike
Northern Slate-colored Junco
Northern Waterthrush
Northern Wheatear
Northern White-breasted Nuthatch,White-breasted Nuthatch
Northwestern Crow
Nutmeg Mannikin,Scaly-Breasted Munia
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Nutting's Flycatcher
Oahu Alauahio,Oahu Creeper
Oak Titmouse
Oldsquaw
Olivaceous Cormorant
Olive-backed Thrush
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Olive Sparrow
Olive Warbler
Orange Bishop
Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Orange-winged Parrot
Orchard Oriole
Oregon (mearnsi) Junco

Oriental Greenfinch
Oriental White-eye
Ou
Ovenbird
Pacific Golden-Plover
(Pacific) Lesser Golden-Plover,Lesser Golden-Plover
Pacific Loon
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Pacific Wren
Painted Bunting
Painted Buttonquail
Painted Redstart
Palmer's Curve-billed Thrasher,Curve-billed Thrasher
Parakeet Auklet
Parasitic Jaeger
Parula Warbler
Pauraque,Common Pauraque
Peach-faced Lovebird
Peale's Falcon
Pectoral Sandpiper
Pelagic Cormorant
Peregrine Falcon
Phainopepla
Pheasant,Ring-necked Pheasant
Philadelphia Vireo
Pied-billed Grebe
Pigeon Guillemot
Pigeon Hawk
Pigmy Nuthatch
Pigmy Owl
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Grosbeak
Pine Siskin
Pine Warbler
Pine-woods Sparrow
Pink-footed Goose
Pink-footed Shearwater
Pin-tailed Whydah
Pintail,Northern Pintail
Pinyon Jay
Piping Plover
Plain Titmouse
Plumbeous Carolina Chickadee,Carolina Chickadee
Plumbeous Vireo
Pomarine Jaeger
Poor-will,Common Poorwill
Poo-uli,Poouli,Black-Faced Honeycreeper
Prairie Chicken
Prairie Falcon
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Puaiohi,Kauai Small Thrush
Purple Finch
Purple Gallinule
Purple Martin
Purple Sandpiper
Purple Swamphen
Pygmy Nuthatch
Pygmy Owl
Pyrrhuloxia
Razorbill
Razor-billed Auk
Red Avadavat
Red-backed Sandpiper
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-billed Fire-Finch
Red-billed Leiothrix
Red-billed Pigeon
Red-billed Tropicbird
Red Bishop
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu,Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Red-crested Cardinal
Red-crested Pochard
Red Crossbill
Red-crowned Parrot
Red-eyed Cowbird
Red-eyed Towhee
Red-eyed Vireo
Red-faced Cormorant
Red-footed Booby
Redhead
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red Junglefowl
Red-lored Parrot
Red-masked Parakeet
Red-naped Sapsucker
Red-necked Grebe
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Red-tailed Tropicbird
Red-throated Loon
Red-throated Pipit
Red-vented Bulbul
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Redwing
Rhinoceros Auklet
Ricebird (This refers to several birds!)
Richardson's Canada Goose
Richardson's Owl
Ring-billed Gull
Ringed Kingfisher
Ringed Turtle-Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Ring-necked Duck
Ring-necked Parakeet
Roadrunner,Greater Roadrunner
Roadside Hawk
Robin,American Robin
Rock Dove
Rock Partridge
Rock Pigeon
Rock Ptarmigan
Rock Sandpiper
Rock Wren
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Tern
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Rose-throated Becard
Ross's Gull
(rostrata) Common Redpoll,Common Redpoll,(flammea) Common Redpoll
Rough-winged Swallow,Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Royal Tern
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Ground-Dove
Ruddy Shelduck
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Ruffed Grouse
Rufous-backed Robin
Rufous-capped Warbler
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Rufous Hummingbird
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Russet-backed Thrush
Rustic Bunting
Rusty Blackbird
Sabine's Gull
Sacred Ibis
Saffron Finch
Sage Hen
Sage Sparrow
Sage Thrasher
Salmon-crested Cockatoo
Saltmarsh Sparrow
San Blas Jay
Sanderling
Sandwich Tern
Savannah (Ipswich) Sparrow,Savannah Sparrow,Savannah (Belding's) Sparrow,(Savannah) Savannah Sparrow,Savannah (Large-billed) Sparrow
Saw-whet Owl,Northern Saw-whet Owl
Say's Phoebe
Scaled Quail
Scaly-headed Parrot
Scarlet-fronted Parakeet
Scarlet-headed Oriole
Scarlet Ibis
Scarlet Tanager
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Scott's Oriole
Sedge Wren,Short-billed Marsh Wren
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Senegal Parrot
Sennett's Hooded Oriole,Hooded Oriole
Sennett's Oriole
Sennett's Thrasher
Sennett's Warbler
Shama Thrush
Shama,White-rumped Shama
Sharpe's Seedeater
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Shiny Cowbird
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Gull
Short-eared Owl,Pueo
Short-tailed Albatross
Short-tailed Hawk
Short-tailed Shearwater
Shoveler,Northern Shoveler
Shufeldt's Junco
Siberian Tit
Silver Pheasant
Sinaloa Wren
Slate-colored Sparrow
Slaty-backed Gull
Slender-billed Shearwater
Smew
Smith's Longspur
Smooth-billed Ani
Snail Kite
Snipe,Common Snipe
Snow Bunting
Snow Goose (blue form),Snow Goose,Snow Goose (white form)
Snow Goose (blue-white intergrade)
Snowy Egret
Snowy Owl
Solitary Sandpiper
Sooty Grouse
Sooty Shearwater
Sooty Song Sparrow
Sooty Storm-Petrel
Sooty Tern
Sora
South Polar Skua
Sparrow Dusky Seaside,Seaside Sparrow
Sparrow Hawk
Spectacled Eider
Spot-breasted Oriole
Spotted Owl
Spotted Redshank
Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Towhee
Sprague's Pipit
Spruce Grouse
Spurred Towhee
Starling,European Starling
Steller's Eider
Steller's Jay
Stilt Sandpiper
Streak-backed Oriole
Strickland's Woodpecker
Stripe-headed Tanager
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo,Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Summer Tanager
Surfbird
Surf Scoter
Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's Thrush
Swainson's Warbler
Swallow-tailed Kite,American Swallow-tailed Kite
Swamp Sparrow
Swan Goose
Taiga Bean-Goose
Tanimbar Cockatoo
Tennessee Warbler
Texas Sparrow
Thayer's Gull
Thick-billed Kingbird
Thick-billed Murre
Thick-billed Parrot
Thick-billed Vireo
Townsend's Solitaire
Townsend's Warbler
Traill's Flycatcher
Tree Sparrow,American Tree Sparrow
Tree Swallow
Tricolored Blackbird
Tricolored Heron
Tristram's Storm-Petrel
Tropical Kingbird
Tropical Parula
Trumpeter Swan
Tufted Duck
Tufted Flycatcher
Tufted Puffin
Tufted (Tufted) Titmouse,Tufted Titmouse
Tundra Swan
Turkey Vulture
Upland Sandpiper
Varied Bunting
Varied Thrush
Varied Tit
Vaux's Swift
Veery
Verdin
Vermilion Flycatcher
Vesper Sparrow
Village Indigobird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Violet-green Swallow
Virginia Rail
Virginia's Warbler
Wandering Tattler
Warbling Silverbill,African Silverbill,Indian Silverbill (species split)
Warbling Vireo
Ward's Heron
Water Pipit
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Western Barred Owl,Barred Owl,Florida Barred Owl
Western Bewick's Wren,Bewick's Wren
Western Bluebird
Western Evening Grosbeak,Evening Grosbeak
Western Flycatcher
Western Gull
Western Kingbird
Western Meadowlark
Western Palm Warbler,Palm Warbler
Western Sandpiper
Western Savannah Sparrow
Western Screech-Owl
Western Scrub-Jay
Western Spindalis
Western Tanager
Western (Western) Grebe,Western Grebe
Western Wood-Pewee
Whiskered Auklet
Whiskered Owl
Whiskered Screech-Owl
Whistling Swan
White-bellied Booby
White-bellied Brant
White-cheeked Pintail
White-collared Seedeater
White-collared Swift
White-crowned Parrot
White-crowned Pigeon
White-eared Hummingbird
white egret
White-eyed Parakeet
White-eyed Towhee
White-eyed Vireo
Japanese White-eye
White-faced Ibis
White-fronted Dove
White-fronted Goose,Greater White-fronted Goose
White-fronted Parrot
White-headed Woodpecker
white heron
White Ibis
white morph Reddish Egret,Reddish Egret
White-necked Raven
White Pelican,American White Pelican
White-rumped Sandpiper
White-rumped Seedeater
White-rumped Shrike
White-tailed Hawk
White-tailed Kite
White-tailed Ptarmigan
White-tailed Tropicbird
White Tern
White-throated Sparrow
White-throated Swift
White-throated Thrush
White-tipped Dove
White Wagtail
White-winged Crossbill
White-winged Dove
White-winged Parakeet
White-winged Pheasant
White-winged Scoter
Whooper Swan
Whooping Crane
Willet
Williamson's Sapsucker
Willow Flycatcher
Willow Ptarmigan
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Warbler
Winter Wren
Woodcock,American Woodcock
Wood Duck
Woodhouse's Jay
Wood Ibis
Wood Stork
Wood Thrush
Worm-eating Warbler
Wrentit
Wright's Flycatcher
Xantus's Hummingbird
Xantus's Murrelet
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
(Yellow-bellied) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-billed Cardinal
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Loon
Yellow-billed Magpie
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Yellow-collared Lovebird
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Parrot
Yellow-eyed Junco
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Yellow-footed Gull
Yellow-fronted Canary
Yellow-green Vireo
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-headed Parrot
Yellow-legged Gull
Yellow-naped Parrot
(Yellow) Palm Warbler,Yellow Warbler
Yellow Rail
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's-Myrtle Intergrade) Warbler
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler,Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
Yellow-throated Vireo
Yellow-throated Warbler
(Yuma) Clapper Rail,Clapper Rail,(Western) Clapper Rail
Zebra Dove
Zenaida Dove
Zone-tailed Hawk
 
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I should clarify that I would like to group by species, so merging subspecies together. Not sure what to do with the hybrids...
 
The hawaiian spellings are anglicised, and because of that are frequently pronounced very incorrectly, but I won't comment on that further.

Akekee is what used to be called Kauai Akepa

Akepa,Hawaii Akepa - just Akepa, as Hawaii Akepa would refer to a subspecies

Akikiki used to be called Kauai Creeper

Akohekohe used to be Crested Honeycreeper

Common Amakihi - this name was used before the species split into Kauai Amahiki, Oahu Amahihi and Hawaii Amakihi

Eurasian Skylark == Sky Lark

Hawaiian Crow - Alala is more commonly used
Hawaiian Duck - frequently called Koloa or Koloa Maoli
Hawaiian Gallinule - Hawaiian Moorhen
Hawaiian Goose - Nene is the more commonly used name
Hawaiian Hawk - Io is the more commonly used name
Hawaiian Stilt - Black-Necked Stilt

Hawaii Creeper - Hawaii Creeper is the only name - "Hawaiian Creeper" is incorrect

Hawaii Hawaiian Thrush - don't use that. its name is Omao

Hwamei - Chinese Hwamei or Melodious Laughingthrush

Japanese Bush-Warbler - Uguisu

Kauai Oo - proper name 'O'o 'A'a is sometimes angilcised to Oo Aa

Maui Alauahio - was once called Maui Creeper, which is still frequently heard

Maui Amakihi - no, this is the same species as Hawaii Amakihi

Maui Parrotbill - note that some people have advanced their own invented alternative names for this bird, but they have no official standing so avoid them

Molokai Amakihi - no, this is the same species as Hawaii Amakihi

Nutmeg Mannikin - Scaly-Breasted Munia

Oahu Creeper - now called Oahu Alauahio

Poo-uli - more often written Poouli, and after discovery briefly referred to as Black-Faced Honeycreeper

Puaiohi - at one time often called Kauai Small Thrush

Ricebird - this name is given to various birds that are believed to eat rice crops

Short-eared Owl - commonly called Pueo here

Warbling Silverbill - species split into African Silverbill and Indian Silverbill

White-eye,Japanese White-eye - there are many "white-eyes", Japanese White-Eye is also commonly known as Mejiro
 
I'm building a free web app to explore North American bird geographic ranges over time and am running into some trouble with bird synonyms. For example, are these all the same bird?

American Three-toed Woodpecker,Three-toed Woodpecker,Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker
Keep in mind that "Three-toed Woodpecker" also refers to the Eurasian species of that name (closely related to the American one). Might be worth a note to avoid confusion.

As for the Hawaiian names, are they now replacing the official English names with Hawaiian ones? Because that would be rather dim, IMO.
 
If your data sets are using standardized names that were in effect at the time of observation, you'll have to correct for changes to the standard over time. (Example off the top of my head, the "Common Moorhen"s of North America are recently [ca. 2009] split into "Common Gallinule"s - both English and binomial names changed in that case. I'm not sure where the Hawaiian subspecies ended up, but since when is Hawaii part of North America?)

The drop-down box on this page lists eight English-language standards you can choose from :)
http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=NAM
If you slurp that and correlate by binomial name, you may find some synonyms.
(But beware, the binomial names can split and lump over time too, as the moorhen example shows.)


I don't know of a single source for tracking changes over time. Here's a page listing the three most recent changes to one such standard:
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/archives/english-names-v1/

And here's the ABA checklist page, including old versions. You'll have to calculate the diffs yourself.
http://aba.org/checklist/
 
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>Turkey,Turkey Vulture

Two very unrelated birds there.

You have a few subspecies on separate rows due to alphabetization, e.g. (red) fox sparrow.
 
Here's a source that shows an exhaustive list of how the name of a certain woodpecker has changed over time in several standards:
http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=6BDADC9C8CD3FD0C

Really your best bet is Wikipedia (or a site like Cornell's AllAboutBirds.org); you'll find most names right away. Old names ("arctic three-toed woodpecker") won't necessarily show up on those sites, but Google will usually still find the binomial name for you, and you can check a more scholarly site like Avibase to find out when the name changed and whether it was a split, lump, or simple name change.

correction: cornell's site does have an "other names" field (on the Life History tab), and the arctic three-toed woodpecker shows up there.
 
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As for the Hawaiian names, are they now replacing the official English names with Hawaiian ones? Because that would be rather dim, IMO.

Where valid historical hawaiian names exist for endemic birds, yes in many cases they have correctly replaced the old english names. However there is also frequently pressure from some groups to create new fake "hawaiian" names for birds that had no historical hawaiian name. I'm hoping these fakes don't gain acceptance.

This is also a problem with plants, where some of the "official" english names still on the books are just plain silly things that nobody here would ever use. Those oddball names need to be purged from the record.
 
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1998; M. G. Wells, World Bird Species Checklist : with alternative English and scientific names; Worldlist; Bushey, Hertfordshire is an old book, but, if you can get hold of a copy it lists all synonyms used, worldwide, in the last 40+ years.

Chris
 
Thank you all so much for the guidance. I can't express how helpful this is. It seems a recurring theme is that some records are labeled something like "pheasant," which makes sense for the area that the locality was (if there was only one type of pheasant there) - but becomes more difficult for a broader study since now there is a need to distinguish multiple records each labeled with "pheasant." I guess ultimately some sort of protocol may be needed that takes all of this into account (where, year, etc).

@bkrownd - Thank you so much, I've updated the list! I don't know really know what I'm going to do with species like the Common Amakihi that have been more finely delineated - I suppose I'll either need to lump all of them together as a unit or restrict the data to where the (new) species has been referred to by the new name.

@Sangahyando - I see. Here's what I have listed now. I guess I'll be alright grouping Three-toed Woodpecker records with American Three-toed Woodpecker records if I isolate the study to US/CA:

Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker,Black-backed Woodpecker,Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker,Three-toed Woodpecker (also refers to Eurasian),Northern Three-toed Woodpecker

@nartreb - Ah, that is quite a gotcha. These databases seem very promising, I'll try to cross reference.

Hopefully, binomial shifts won't be too much of a problem, provided I can find some website like this (see the taxonomic history tab) : http://www.paleodb.org/?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=94305&is_real_user=1

Turkey and turkey vulture! Wow, embarrassing! The morph differences seem to be quite numerous.. Slow process of tracking them all down.

Thanks again. This is so helpful - I'll work through these databases and see if I can improve the list more.

@Chris - Wow, amazing. That's perfect - I'll try to track a copy down.



Thanks so much guys. Any suggestions for what to do with hybrids? Right now I'm discarding them and hoping for the best...
 
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