en – eng – English – English | About 500 million native speakers, in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and several other countries, as well as second language for some milliard people | Avionary Coverage: 100% | The primary English name are those of the IOC World Bird List (Rasmussen and Donsker), version 14.2, August 2024. Where the English names of other major lists are different from the IOC list, these are mentioned under “Other English names” followed by an indication of the source (B,C,H,W,A). These include those of the British Birds list of Western Palaearctic Birds of January 2024 (B), the eBird/Clements checklist (October 2024) (C), Howard and Moore (2018) (H), the Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (2024) (W), and the AOU (American Ornithological Union) checklist (2024) (A). Where the only difference is the spelling of “Grey” (British) vs. “Gray” (American), the latter is not mentioned separately. Differences in hyphenation and secondary capital (Laughing Thrush, vs. Laughing-Thrush vs. Laughing-thrush) are also ignored, the first form (IOC) generally being retained. Where another list recognizes a split species not (yet) adopted by IOC, the English names for the split species of that list is given, the IOC name, if different, being “Other”. The English names and synonyms are listed on the “Species List Synonyms” S. The IOC English names are also listed on the species list A and L, together with some other languages: la/en/ga/cy/br, la/lt/lv/eo/en.
