The following is a list of avifaunas for countries and regions of the world, including authoritative field guides.

Europe

• Birds in England, by Andy Brown and Phil Grice, T. & A. D. Poyser, 2005

• Birds in Ireland, by Clive D. Hutchinson, T. & A. D. Poyser, 1989

• Birds of Europe, by Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterstroem, and Peter J. Grant, Princeton University Press, 1999

• Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe, by Roger Tory Peterson, G. Mountfort, and P.A.D. Hollom, Houghton Mifflin, 1993 (5th Edition)

• Birds in Scotland, by Valerie Thom, T. & A. D. Poyser, 1986

• Birds in Wales, by Iolo Williams, Graham Williams, and Roger Lovegrove, T. & A. D. Poyser, 1994

Asia

• Birds of India, by Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, and Tim Inskipp, Princeton University Press, 1999

• A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea, by Woo-Shin Lee, Tae-Hoe Koo, and Jin-Young Park, L.G. Evergreen Foundation, 2000

• A Field Guide to the Birds of China, by John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps (illustrator), Oxford University Press, 2000
  • The first comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide for the region

• A Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia, by Craig Robson, Princeton University Press, 2000

• A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan, text by Wild Bird Society of Japan, illustrations by Shinji Takano, 1982
  • Classic fully-illustrated field guide; out of print

Africa and the Middle East

• A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa, by Nik Borrow and Ron Demey, Princeton University Press, 2002

• Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East, by R. F. Porter, S. Christensen, P. Schiermacker-Hansen, T. & A. D. Poyser, 1996

• The Birds of Israel, by Hadoram Shirihai, Princeton University Press, 1996

• Birds of Southern Africa, by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, and Warwick Tarboton, Princeton University Press, 2002

• The Birds of East Africa, by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe, Academic Press, 2001

• Field Guide to the Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, by Dale A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, and David J. Pearson, Princeton University Press, 1999

North America

• Birds of North America, by Kenn Kaufman, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
  • Innovative field guide employing digitally-enhanced photographs

• Field Guide to the Birds of North America, National Geographic Society, 2002 (4th Edition)
  • First field guide (in 1983) to cover all of North America; considered by many to have been the most authoritative guide until Sibley

• A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson (editor), Houghton Mifflin, revised 2002
  A Field Guide to Western Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson (editor), Houghton Mifflin, revised 1990
  • The current incarnations of the seminal A Field Guide to the Birds, the first modern field guide published by Peterson in 1934

• The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley, Alfred A.Knopf, 2000
  • The current standard in identification guides; exhaustively illustrated and oversized for a field guide (although there are field-sized Eastern and Western editions)

Central America and the Caribbean

• Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond, Houghton Mifflin, 1985 (5th Edition)

• A Guide to Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America, by Steve N.G. Howell and Sophie Webb, Oxford University Press, 1995

• A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies, by Herbert Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando Garrido, Allan Keith, and Janis Raffaele, Princeton University Press, 1998

• A Guide to the Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, by Robert S. Ridgely and John A. Gwynne, Jr., Princeton University Press, 1989 (2nd Edition)

• A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica, by F. Gary Stiles and Alexander F. Skutch, Cornell University Press, 1989

South America

• A Guide to the Birds of the Galapagos Islands, by Isabel Castro and Antonia Phillips, Princeton University Press, 1997

• A Guide to the Birds of Peru, by James F. Clements, Ibis Publishing, 2001

• A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, by Steven L. Hilty and William L. Brown, Princeton University Press, 1986

• Birds of Venezuela, by Steven L. Hilty, Princeton University Press, 2003

• Birds of Chile, by Alvaro Jaramillo, Princeton University Press, 2003

• The Birds of Ecuador, by Robert S. Ridgely and Paul J. Greenfield, Cornell University Press, 2001

• The Birds of South America, by Robert S. Ridgely and Guy Tudor, University of Texas Press, 1994

Australasia

• The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, by Graham Pizzey and Frank Knight (illustrator), HarperCollins, 1997

• Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, by Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day, Princeton University Press, 1999 (6th Edition)

Antarctica

• Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica, by Martin R. de la Peña and Maurice Rumboll, Princeton University Press, 2001

Oceania

• A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific, by H. Douglas Pratt, Phillip L. Bruner, and Delwyn G. Berrett, Princeton University Press, 1987

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