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Only literature published within the last 25 years or so has been checked, and literature that only uses scientific names (e.g., most books specifically dealing with genetics and biochemistry of birds) is not included at all. Literature without caps is near the bottom of the page. With well over 100 sources, among them the most important in ornithology, it should provide an overall picture, but this is not a complete search, especially when looking at literature with less impact. This is bird specific literature – publications that cover multiple orders aren't included. The only exception is Zootaxa. Explanation of why it deserves a special mention is within the list.

Bird specific literature where caps are used (House Wren; not house wren)

In a few cases, a full caps English name is used the very first time for species entry layout, but *everywhere* else the name is written with only first letter of each word in caps. There is a level of overlap between the sections Taxonomic sources and Ornithological organisations & their journals, but not elsewhere. For example, Neotropical Migratory Birds is only listed for South America, and The Birds of the Western Palearctic is only listed for Europe.

Taxonomic sources (incl. checklists):

World

• The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World (Clements, 2007 - 7th edition; earlier use the same format) - together with the next two, this is the main worldwide taxonomic resource for birds.
• The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World (Dickinson, 2003 - 3rd edition; earlier use the same format).
• IOC's Birds of the World: Recommended English Names (Gill & Wright, 2006 w. regular updates online)
• Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World and A World Checklist of Birds (Sibley & Monroe, 1991 & 1997) - was the main source but now very outdated; included here for completion.

North America

• Check-list of North American Birds (American Ornithologists' Union, updated regularly)
• ABA Checklist (American Birding Association, updated regularly).

South America

• A classification of the bird species of South America (South American Classification Committee, updated regularly)

Europe

• Association of European Records and Rarities Committees (updated irregularly)
• The British List (British Ornithologists' Union, updated regularly).

Africa

• List of African Birds (African Bird Club, updated irregularly).
• Southern Africa Bird List (Sinclair et al., updated regularly).

Asia

• An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region (Inskipp, Lindsey & Duckworth, 1996; 2001 update is available on OBC's page).

Australia

• Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds (Christidis & Boles, 2008).

Taxonomy, ecology, appearance, behavior, etc.

World

• Handbook of the Birds of the World (del Hoyo et al., 1992 and onward) - arguably the single most important bird publication.
• Speciation and Biogeography of Birds (Newton, 2003).
• The Migration Ecology of Birds (Newton, 2007).
• Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds (Stutchbury & Morton, 2001).
• The Minds of Birds (Skutch, 1999).
• Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function (Proctor & Lynch, 1998).

Families/groups

• Ratites and Tinamous (Davies, 2002).
• The Megapodes (Jones, Dekker & Roselaar, 1995).
• Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse (Madge & McGowan, 2002).
• Seabirds: An Identification Guide (Harrison, 1991).
• Albatrosses, Petrels & Shearwaters of the World (Onley & Scofield, 2007).
• Albatrosses and Petrels across the World (Brooke, 2004).
• Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Olsen & Larsson, 2004).
• Terns of Europe and North America (Olsen, 1995).
• Rails (Taylor & van Perlo, 1998).
• Waders of Europe, Asia and North America (Message & Taylor, 2005).
• Shorebirds (Hayman, Marchant & Prater, 1991).
• Photographic Guide to Waders of the World (Rosair & Cottridge, 1995).
• Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere (Chandler, 2009).
• Raptors of the World (Ferguson-Lees & Christie, 2001).
• Raptors: A Field Guide for Surveys and Monitoring (Hardey et al., 2009).
• Nightjars and their allies (Holyoak, 2001).
• Nightjars of the World (Cleere, 2010).
• Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats (Davies, 2000).
• Parrots, A Guide to the Parrots of the World (Juniper & Parr, 1998).
• Pigeons and Doves (Gibbs, Barnes & Cox, 2000).
• Swifts (Chantler & Driessens, 1999).
• Pittas of the World (Erritzoe & Erritzoe, 1998).
• Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America (Alström et al., 2003).
• Warblers of Europe, Asia, and North Africa (Baker, 1997).
• The Birds of Paradise (Clifford & Beehler, 1998).
• Sunbirds (Cheke & Mann, 2001).
• Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches (Grant, 1999).

North America

• National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (2002).
• The Sibley Guide to Birds aka The North American Bird Guide (Sibley, 2000).
• Advanced Birding (Kaufman, 1990).
• Molt in North American Birds (Howell, 2010).
• Birds of North America (Cornell Lab of Ornithology, updated regularly).
• A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America (Howell & Webb, 1995).
• Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (Stiles & Skutch, 1989).
• Birds of Costa Rica (Garrigues & Dean, 2007).
• Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras (Ridgely & Gwynne, 1989).
• The Birds of Panama (Angehr & Dean, 2011).
• Birds of the West Indies (Arlott, 2010).
• Birds of the West Indies (Raffaele et al., 1998).
• Birds of Cuba (Garrido & Kirkconnell, 2000).

South America

• Birds of South America (Ridgely & Tudor, 1989 , 1994 , 2009 ).
• Neotropical Migratory Birds: Natural History, Distribution, and Population Change (DeGraaf & Rappole, 1995).
• Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation (Stotz et al., 1996).
• Birds of the High Andes (Fjeldså & Krabbe, 1990).
• Birds of Chile (Jaramillo, Burke & Beadle, 2003).
• Birds of Brazil, A Natural History (Sick, 1993).
• Birds of Peru (Schulenberg et al., 2007).
• Birds of Ecuador (Ridgely & Greenfield, 2001).
• Birds of Colombia (Hilty & Brown, 1986).
• Birds of Venezuela (Hilty, 2003).
• Birds of Northern South America (Restall, Rodner & Lentino, 2006).
• A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (ffrench, 1992).
• Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (Kenefick, Restall & Hayes, 2011).
• Birds of the Galapagos (Harris, 1982).

Europe

• The Birds of the Western Palearctic (several authors, 1978-1994 + concise edition 1998).
• Collins Bird Guide aka Birds of Europe (Svensson, Zetterström & Mullarney, 1999 & 2010).
• European Bird Guide (Barthel & Dougalis, 2008).
• Birds of Britain and Europe (Mountfort, Hollum & Peterson, 2001).
• Advanced Bird ID Guide: The Western Palearctic (Duivendijk, 2010).
• Moult and Ageing of European Passerines (Jenni & Winkler, 1994).

Africa

• The Birds of Africa (Fry et al., 1982-2004).
• Birds of Africa south of the Sahara (Sinclair & Ryan, 2003 + 2011).
• Birds of East Africa (Williams & Arlott, 1980).
• Birds of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Socotra (Redman, Stevenson & Fanshawe, 2009).
• Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Ash & Atkins, 2009).
• Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania (Zimmerman et al., 1996).
• Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (Stevenson & Fanshawe, 2004).
• Birds of The Gambia and Senegal (Barlow, Wacher & Disley, 2005).
• Birds of Southern Africa (Sinclair, 1997)
• SASOL Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa (Sinclair & Phil Hockey, 2005).
• Roberts Birds of Southern Africa (Hockey, Dean & Ryan, 2005 + online version).
• Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands (Sinclair & Langrand, 1998).
• Birds of Seychelles (Skerrett, Bullock & Disley, 2001).
• Birds of Madagascar, a photographic guide (Morris & Hawkins, 1998).
• Birds of Madagascar (Langrand, 1990).
• Birds of the Middle East and North Africa (Hollom, Porter & Christensen, 1988).

Asia

• Birds of the Middle East (Hollom, Porter & Christensen, 1988).
• The Birds of the United Arab Emirates (Richardson, 1990).
• Birds of the USSR (Flint et al., 1984).
• Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Grimmett, Inskipp & Inskipp, 1998).
• Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (Rasmussen & Anderton, 2005).
• Birds of India, including Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Bhutan (Grewal, Harvey & Pfister, 2002).
• Birds of Nepal (Grimmett, Inskipp & Inskipp, 2000).
• Birds of China (MacKinnon & Phillipps, 2000).
• Birds of East Asia: Eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Eastern Russia (Brazil, 2009).
• Birds of South-East Asia (Robson, 2011).
• Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula (Wells, 2007).
• Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali (MacKinnon & Phillipps, 1993).
• Phillipps' Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo (Phillipps, 2009).
• Bird of Borneo (Myers, 2009).
• Birds of the Philippines (Kennedy et al., 2000).
• Birds of Wallacea (Coates & Bishop, 1997).

Oceania

• Birds of New Guinea (Beehler, Pratt & Zimmerman, 1986).
• Birds of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago (Coates & Peckover, 2001).
• The Birds of Papua New Guinea (Coates, 1985 , 1990 ).
• Birds and Bird Lore of Bougainville and the North Solomons (Hadden, 2004).
• Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu & New Caledonia (Doughty, Day & Plant, 1999).
• Birds of Vanuatu (Bregulla, 1992)
• Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (several authors, 1990-2006).
• Field guide to Australian Birds (Morcombe, 2003).
• Birds of Australia (Simpson & Day, 2004).
• Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (Flegg, 2002).
• Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand (Heather & Robertson, 1997).
• A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia (Watling, 2004).
• The Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific (Pratt, Bruner & Berrett, 1987).

Conservation

• BirdLife International (), and consequently also IUCN () - arguably the single most important resource for conservation of birds.
• Rare Birds Yearbook 2008 & 2009 (Hirschfeld et. al., 2008 & 2009).
• Journal Bird Conservation International (scien) - mainly about conservation and therefore listed here instead of the following.

Ornithological organisations & their journals
Word in bracket indicates level: "pop" = popular science (some are peer-reviewed) vs. "scien" = hardcore science (all are peer-reviewed).

• American Ornithologists' Union (); journal The Auk (scien) - one of the big five; the five scientific ornithological journals that arguably are most significant (e.g. descriptions of new bird species are usually published in one of them, though in recent years a relatively large number of new Asian species have been described in Forktail). However, in journal rankings, publications that cover all animal classes tend to give more points than journals that only cover one class.
• Wilson Ornithological Society (); journal The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (scien) - one of the big five; see above.
• Cooper Ornithological Society (); journal The Condor (scien) - one of the big five; see above.
• American Birding Association (); journal Birding (pop).
• British Ornithologists' Union (); journal Ibis (scien) - one of the big five; see above.
• British Ornithologists' Club (); journal Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (scien) - one of the big five; see above.
• Netherlands Ornithologists' Union; English language journal Ardea (scien).
• Journal Bird Watching (pop).
• Journal Birding World (pop).
• Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft; English language Journal of Ornithology (scien).
• Neotropical Bird Club (); journal Neotropical Birding (pop) and Cotinga (scien).
• Brazilian Ornithological Society (); journal Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia/Ararajuba (scien) is bilingual with articles in Portuguese and English.
• Neotropical Ornithological Society with journal Ornitologia Neotropical (scien); trilingual with articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English, though the vast majority are in one of the two last languages.
• African Bird Club (); journal Bulletin of African Birds (pop & scien).
• BirdLife South Africa; journal Ostrich (scien).
• Ornithological Society of the Middle East (), journal Sandgrouse (pop & scien).
• Oriental Bird Club (); journal BirdingASIA (pop) and Forktail (scien).
• Birds Australia (); journal Emu (scien).
• Bird Observation & Conservation Australia (); journal Australian Field Ornithology (pop & scien).
• Journal Zootaxa - only partially relevant since this journal covers all orders, but deserves special mention because three bird species described in the last decade were in it: Sincora Antwren, Diamantina Tapaculo, Olive-backed Forest Robin (all with caps in their articles).

Bird specific literature where caps are not used (house wren; not House Wren)

• Avian Flight (Videler, 2005).
• Penguins of the World (Lynch, 2007).
• Journal of Avian Biology (scien).

Mammals

Only indirectly relevant, but since I claimed I could provide as many, if not more, mammal sources with caps: The Mammals of Australia (Strahan, eds., 1998), Mammals of New Guinea + Mammals of the south-west Pacific & Moluccan Islands (both Flannery, 1995), Mammals of Southeast Asia (Francis, 2008), Mammals of North America (Reid, 2006), and Handbook of the Mammals of the World (Mittermeier & Wilson, eds., 2009 and onward).