WORLD REGIONS Companion Guides

ATWB SERIES +++ All the World’s Birds 20XX: A Companion Guide – WORLD REGIONS

The WORLD REGIONS series of ATWB eBooks presents information about all non-extinct bird species that appear in the IOC bird list. To view the structure and generic content of these eBooks click here.

To see all seven titles in this series, search in the Kindle Store section of the Amazon.com site for ATWBWR. Click on the eBook you are interested in, scroll down and copy the ASIN to search for that title on your local Amazon site.

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For the purpose of compiling these Companion Guides, the world has been divided into ten World Regions:

SA/MA – South America/Middle America
NA – North America and Caribbean
WP – Western Palearctic
AF – Africa
ASIA – Middle East to Eastern/South-eastern Asia
(to the south and east of Western Palearctic)
AUS – Australasia
SO/ANT – Southern Ocean/Antarctica
PO – Pacific Ocean (north/east of Australasia)
AO – Atlantic Ocean (north/east of Caribbean)
IO – Indian Ocean (west of Australasia)

The WORLD REGIONS Companion Guides series of ATWB eBooks is being redeveloped to reflect The Global Avian Checklist (AviList). However, owing to to the multiple changes introduced by the publication of the first version of the AviList, this series has been temporarily suspended, and may be reintroduced sometime during 2026.

The AviList changes that have impacted the WORLD REGIONS Companion Guides can be viewed by clicking on the “AviList Updates” links below:

[Note: for information about 2025 WORLD REGIONS Companion Guides, scroll down this page.]

WESTERN PALEARCTIC 659 species AviList Updates

AFRICA 2336 species AviList Updates

ASIA 2720 species AviList Updates

AUSTRALASIA 2039 species AviList Updates

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2025 WORLD REGIONS Companion Guides covering all of these World Regions have been published, as listed below.

For each title, click on the “Updates” link to see how changes to the IOC bird list have impacted on the contents of the eBook since it was first published.