The ''Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World'' is a book by Richard Howard and Alick Moore which presents a list of the bird species of the world. It was the first single-volume world bird list to include subspecies names, and until the publication of the 5th edition of

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' ''Checklist of Birds of the World'' was the only one to do so. It is currently in its fourth edition (2013), and is published by Aves Press in the UK.

First edition

The first edition was published in 1980.

Second edition

The second edition was published in 1991, and a reprint was issued in 1994, and included an appendix with a further 282 changes. The jacket paintings are by

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Third edition

The third edition was published in 2003. It was edited by Edward C. Dickinson, with the assistance of four other regional compilers: David Pearson (covering

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

James Van Remsen, Jr. James Vanderbeek "Van" Remsen Jr. (born September 21, 1949) is an American ornithologist. His main research field is the Neotropical realm, Neotropical bird, avifauna. In 1999, he founded the South American Classification Committee.J. V. Remsen Jr ...

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The Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America, North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. ...

), Kees Roselaar (the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

region) and

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Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologica ...

); Dickinson himself acted as the regional consultant for Asia. This edition starts with a foreword from Richard Howard (Alick Moore having died prior to this edition being prepared). A seven-page introduction is followed by a six-page chapter entitled "Avian Higher-level Phylogenetics and the Howard and Moore Checklist of Birds" by

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, F. Keith Barker and Alice Cibois, after which is a summary of the family structure used in this edition, in tabular form, giving numbers of genera and species. The bulk of the book, from pages 31 to 826 is the systematic list. A references list from pages 832 to 883 lists 3000 references used in the compilation of the checklist.

Fourth edition

The fourth edition was published in two volumes in 2013 and 2014. The first volume (covering the non-passerines) was edited by Edward C. Dickinson and

while the second volume (

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) was edited by Edward C. Dickinson and

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. The database has been made available for download in 2018

References

{{Reflist Ornithological checklists