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Living Endemic Birds
The extant endemic birds that make Puerto Rico one of the Caribbean's most distinctive birding destinations.
Enter collection →A living field guide to the archipelago
The Birds
of Puerto Rico
402 documented birds—endemic icons, ocean wanderers, accidental arrivals, and the habitats and histories that connect them.
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402reconciled records
19living endemics
283licensed photographs
64bird families
24taxonomic orders
Five ways in
There is no single way
to know a bird.
Begin with what you have: a silhouette, a voice, a place, a question, or a child’s curiosity. Every department continues into the same connected atlas.
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Identify
Which bird did you see?
Compare shape, size, habitat, and confusing species.Enter ↗02Listen
Recognize a voice.
Play songs and calls beside their spectrograms.Enter ↗03Where to go
Explore the archipelago.
Prepare for forests, wetlands, coasts, islands, and routes.Enter ↗04Learn
Follow a question.
Connect families, seasons, conservation, culture, and sources.Enter ↗05Kids
Notice, play, and create.
Drawings, activities, and printable resources for families and classrooms.Enter ↗Three interactive tools
Find, compare, or plan.
Use the guided finder, place two birds side by side, or design a birding route.Open tools →A playable expedition across the archipelago
Borinquen
Expedition
Travel through seven habitats, study field marks, test your skills in ecology-inspired duels, and complete a virtual collection of Puerto Rico’s birds. Every encounter opens a path into the real atlas.
7habitats to explore
391living birds to discover
402species in the archive
Puerto Rico bird gameBegin the expedition →
Found nowhere else
Puerto Rico’s
living originals
From the tiny San Pedrito to the comeback story of the Iguaca, these species carry millions of years of island evolution.
Explore every endemic →Choose a way in
Every bird belongs
to more than one story.
Explore the atlas by habitat, family, conservation, occurrence, or island history.
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Globally Threatened Birds
Birds classified as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable in the reconciled IUCN data.
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AIOccurrence in Puerto Rico
Resident Birds
Birds documented as year-round residents or resident breeders in the source catalog and Puerto Rico context records.
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Migrants & Vagrants
Passage migrants, winter visitors, seasonal movers, offshore visitors and rare vagrants recorded from Puerto Rico.
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Introduced Birds
Birds brought to Puerto Rico by people, including established species and free-flying populations whose status may vary.
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Historical Birds
Birds included through historical records, including extirpated and extinct taxa that shaped Puerto Rico's avifauna.
Enter collection →Original atlas guides
Search by question,
sound, and place.
Identify a black bird, compare hummingbirds, learn nocturnal calls, or prepare a visit to the archipelago’s major birding landscapes.
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Field language
Puerto Rican names
Green is not enough
Parrots and parakeets
Sound atlas
Songs and calls
Western mountains
Birds of Maricao
Natural calendar
When to watch birds
Voices, sayings, and memory
Birds in Puerto Rican culture
Puerto Rico birds for kids
Notice their shapes.
Bring them to color.
Fifty printable drawings featuring endemics, backyard birds, travelers, and hunters in motion. Every plate includes a fact and links to the complete profile.
An atlas built for discovery
Follow the connections.
A bird is never an isolated fact. Each profile opens paths to its family, habitat, movement, conservation story, and closest island neighbors.
Start anywhere ↗Puerto Rican AmazonCotorra PuertorriqueñaIsland endemics19 birdsRainforest birdsHabitat pathConservation storiesRecovery path
Species to know
Field notes from the atlas
Built from evidence, honest about uncertainty
One compilation.
Every source kept visible.
Puerto Rico’s bird total changes with taxonomy, rare records, introductions, and fossil evidence. This atlas preserves the 380-bird inferred current core, the 384 rows rendered by Avibase, 389 live Wikipedia records, and a 402-record source union—without pretending they mean the same thing.