Endemic birds of the Galápagos Islands

This article is one of a series providing information about endemism among birds in the World's various zoogeographic zones. For an overview of this subject see Endemism in birds.

Patterns of endemism

A single tribe, the Geospizini is endemic to the Galápagos Islands.

Endemic Bird Areas

Birdlife International has defined the following Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs) in the Galápagos Islands:

To be completed later.

In addition the following are classified as Secondary areas (areas with at least one restricted-range bird species, but not meeting the criteria to qualify as EBAs):

To be completed later.

List of species

The following is a list of bird species endemic to the Galápagos Islands:

Endemism in birds

Palaearctic	Western Palearctic Japan

Afrotropic	Western and central Africa Southern Africa Madagascar region

Indomalaya	S Asia Himalayas Andamans and Nicobars Borneo Philippines Taiwan

Australasia ecozone	Australia New Zealand New Caledonia

Oceania ecozone	Hawaii

Nearctic	Eastern North America Western North America Mexico and northern Central America

Neotropic	Galápagos Islands West Indies

The World	Endemic Bird Area Lists of endemic birds List of endemic bird areas of the world List of secondary areas Endemic Bird Areas of the World (book)

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