Western Palearctic Bird List. All our rare bird stories from the Western Palearctic. The 2017 January bird was the first alleged Pale Martin for Kuwait and for WP.
The following is a list of the restricted-range endemic bird species found in the Western Palearctic region. Hopefully the KORC will review our bird again once the new paper by Svensson Shirihai and Schweizer on the Martin complex is published and. This checklist includes all bird species found in Western Palearctic based on the best information available at this time.
These boundaries were defined by Cramp 1977 and published in the Birds of the Western Palearctic series BWP The Western Palearctic sensu Cramp 1977.
The list is showing now some taxa on subspecies level upgrade to species level possible too. The definition used for this map stems from Mitchell 2017 from Birds of Europe North Africa and the Middle East. A Birdwatchers Guide to Morocco. Ticks of one or more of these species on the WP ranking must be provided with country location and date.