Northern Shoveler

Descrizione

This list of birds of Corsica includes the 367 bird species that have been recorded on Corsica. Corsica is a French island in the Mediterranean Sea west of the Italian Peninsula, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the Italian island of Sardinia. Mountains make up two-thirds of the island, forming a single chain. The island has an area of 8,722 km2 (3,368 mi2) and measures 183 km (114 mi) in length (north to south) and 83 km (52 mi) east to west. The status of each species is based on the annotated list by Jean-Claude Thibault and Gilles Bonaccorsi published in 1999 with supplemental additions from Avibase. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Accidental species are included in the total species count for Corsica. As with its parent List of birds of Metropolitan France, this list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (English and scientific names) are those of the IOC World Bird List, Version 14.2 (2024).