An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Syria Species Diversity, Subspecies, Distribution, and Conservation Status
Author Name
Ahmad E. Aidek, David Murdouch, Fares Khoury, and Tomas Axén Haraldsson
This manuscript presents a comprehensive
and updated checklist of the birds of
Syria, the first since the publication of the
previous checklist in 2008. Twenty-one new
species have been added, and 16 species
have been confirmed as breeding for the
f
irst time. The taxonomy, as well as the
status and distribution of many species, has
been updated. The proposed checklist was
developed through a combination of field
observations and a comprehensive review
of all available published articles, research
papers, and reports. It includes 415 species
belonging to 25 orders and 74 families, of
which 194 are breeding, 114 are residents, 82
are summer visitors, 132 are winter visitors,
210 are passage migrants, 15 formerly bred,
46 are vagrants, four are extinct, one is
introduced, and 13 have uncertain or unclear
status. We report up-to-date information
on taxonomic revisions to the Global
Avian Checklist, v2025, together with the
conservation status recently assessed by the
IUCN Red List.
