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Containing the terrestrial breeding Vertebrate species and subspecies hitherto recorded from Azores with 60 species illustrated, totalling 203 photos (Updated 28th June 2010).
Soon we will add an exhaustive listing of non breeding species and a smaller list of potentially breeding species. The list of non-breeding species follows Rodebrand (2010) and Rodebrand & The Birding Azores team (2010). The potentially breeding species are species reported as introduced and/or escapes from captivity and for which suitable conditions for nesting exist in the Azores, but whose numbers are insufficient to allow the maintenance of self-sustaining populations in the archipelago.
Rodebrand, S. (2010) Checklist of the birds of the Azores including 2009. http://www.birdingazores.com/lists/2009azoresbirdlist.xls (access date 2010-04-14).
Rodebrand, S. & The Birding Azores team (2010) Recent sightings. http://www.birdingazores.com (access date 2010-04-14).
The vertebrates, although not the most numerous group of animal, either in number of individuals or number of taxa, is very diverse ranging from lampreys to man. With such a variety of organisms it is easy to understand the wide geographical distribution that they show, occupying all the major world habitats types.
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