Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation

The book has six introductory sections:

• "Biodiversity and Priority setting"
• "Identifying Endemic Bird Areas"
• "Global Analyses"
• "The Prioritization of Endemic Bird Areas"
• "The Conservation Relevance of Endemic Bird Areas"
• "Endemic Bird Areas as Targets for Conservation Action"

These are then followed by six Regional Introductions, in which Endemic Bird Areas are grouped into six major regions:

• North and Central America
• South America
• Africa, Europe, and the Middle East
• Continental Asia
• South-east Asian Islands, New Guinea and Australia
• Pacific Islands

The bulk of the book consists of accounts of each of the 218 Endemic Bird Areas. Each account contains the following information:

• summary statistics about the EBA
• A "General Characteristics" section
• A section giving an overview of the restricted-range endemic bird species found in the EBA
• A Threats and Conservation section describing the threats posed to the EBA's biodiversity interest, and any significant measure in which are in place to counter these
• An annotated list of the restricted-range endemics found in the EBA

The book concludes with a short section giving brief details of 138 secondary areas, again grouped into the six regions.

Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation follows on from work presented in the 1992 publication Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation.

• Endemic Bird Area
  • List of endemic bird areas of the world
  • List of secondary endemic bird areas of the world
• List of birds
  • Lists of endemic birds
  • Lists of birds by region
• Category: Lists of endemic birds by region
• Category: Lists of birds
• Endemism
• Biodiversity