pt – por – Português – Portuguese | Around 215 million speakers in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and other African countries | Avionary Species Coverage: >99% | Names are from the recent work ‘Os Nomes Portugueses das Aves de todo o Mundo’ 6th Ed, September 2023 by Paulo Paixão (http://pdpaixao.blogspot.com/p/os-nomes-portugueses-das-aves-do-mundo.html). Paixão’s list uses a Lusopohonic approach, accommodating both (European) Portuguese and Brazilian names and forms. Previous sources include ‘Nomes Portugueses das Aves do Paleárctico Ocidental’ by Hélder Costa and colleagues (2000) of the Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves (SPEA), with extensions in cooperation with Hélder Costa and Joaquim Muchaxo, and Lista das Aves do Brasil of the Comité Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos (2021). The Portuguese names are also listed on the relevant species list D, together with sister Ibero-Romance languages: la/pt/ga/es/ca.
