List Of Birds Of South Africa
South Africa is a large country, ranked 25th by size in the world, and is situated in the temperate latitudes and subtropics. Due to a range of climate types present, a patchwork of unique habitat types occur, which contribute to its biodiversity and level of endemism. Offshore, South Africa's territory includes the Prince Edward Islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean, while the submerged though ecologically important Agulhas Bank is for most part inside its territorial waters.
858 species have been recorded including 31 endemics and nine species introduced by man.
The taxonomy of this list adheres to James Clements' Birds of the World: A Checklist, and reflects all changes to that work until January, 2006. Taxonomic changes are on-going. As more research is gathered from studies of distribution, behavior and DNA, the order and number of families and species may change. Furthermore, different approaches to ornithological nomenclature have led to concurrent systems of classification (see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy).
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