IOC World Bird List, version 3.4

The initial goal of the IOC World Bird List project was to compile a set of unique English-language names for the extant species of the birds of the world. Launched initially in 1990 and restarted in 1994 after the loss of our colleague Burt L. Monroe Jr, the project took 15 years to complete. All participants gave freely and generously of their valuable time and resources. This was a volunteer effort of the ornithological community on behalf of the International Ornithological Congress (IOC). The first product – a list of English names in Birds of the World, Recommended English Names (Princeton University Press, 2006) – was based on a consensus of leading ornithologists worldwide and conformed to standard rules of construction, namely based on explicit guidelines and spelling rules selected to involve minimal use of hyphens for group names anglicized without glottal stops, accents, and the like based on interregional agreement and global consensus, with compromises selected with deference to long-established names aligned with current species taxonomy available for general adoption sponsored and endorsed by the IOC and by committee members The project continues as a work in progress that compiles the taxonomy of world birds as well as their English names Frank Gill, David Donsker & Minturn Wright, April 2007, 2012 Co-chairs, IOC Standing Committee on English Names

国际鸟类学大会（International Ornithological Congress, IOC）世界鸟类名录项目的初始目标，是为全球现存鸟类物种收录一套专属无二的英文名称。该项目最初于1990年启动，后因同事小伯特·L·门罗（Burt L. Monroe Jr.）离世，于1994年重启，历时15年方才完成。所有参与者均无偿且慷慨地投入了宝贵的时间与资源。本项目是鸟类学界以IOC名义开展的志愿工作。该项目的首个成果——《世界鸟类：推荐英文名称》（Birds of the World, Recommended English Names，普林斯顿大学出版社2006年出版）所附的英文名称列表，系基于全球顶尖鸟类学家的共识制定，符合标准化构词规则：其依托明确的指南与拼写规范，力求在群组名称的英文转写中尽可能减少连字符的使用，摒弃喉塞音、重音符号等非标准拼写元素；相关规则基于跨区域共识与全球统一意见制定，同时为兼顾长期沿用的通用名称，项目组在契合当前物种分类学框架的前提下做出合理妥协。该成果由IOC及委员会成员发起并背书，可供全球广泛采用。目前，该项目仍处于持续迭代更新阶段，负责整理全球鸟类的分类系统及其英文名称。——IOC英文名称常设委员会联合主席：弗兰克·吉尔（Frank Gill）、戴维·唐斯克（David Donsker）与明特恩·赖特（Minturn Wright），2007年4月、2012年