The AOU Check-list of North American Birds, 7th Edition

This publication is the official source on the taxonomy of birds found in North and Middle America, including adjacent islands.

A searchable online version of the Check-list, including updates, is also available.

The 829-page hardbound volume, published in 1998, may be purchased from Buteo Books or downloaded in PDF format (see list of sections below: file size up to 13 MB):

• Frontmatter
• Tinamiformes - Falconiformes
• Galliformes - Charadriiformes
• Pteroclididae - Apodiformes
• Trogoniformes - Passeriformes
• Passeriformes: Incertae Sedis - Mimidae
• Sturnidae - Estrildidae
• Appendix, French names, Supplement listing, Literature Cited and Index

Note that the documents above do not as yet incorporate changes made in the Supplements to the Check-list. Annotations to the book pdfs are planned for future, but for now, users of the book must check the supplements or the online Check-list to determine whether changes have been made.

Supplements

• 53nd supplement (Auk 2012, vol. 129:573-588)
• 52nd supplement (Auk 2011, vol. 128:600-613)
• 51st supplement (Auk 2010, vol. 127:726-744)
• 50th supplement (Auk 2009, vol. 126:705-714)
• 49th supplement (Auk 2008, vol. 125:758-768)
• 48th supplement (Auk 2007, vol. 124:1109-1115)
• 47th supplement (Auk 2006, vol. 123:926-936)
• 46th supplement
• 45th supplement
• 44th supplement
• 43rd supplement
• 42nd supplement