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.
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Endemic Bird Areas
Birdlife International has defined the whole of Taiwan as an Endemic Bird Area (EBA 149).
In addition, Orchid Island (Lán Yǔ), c. 75 km off the south-east coast of Taiwan has been designated as a secondary area, as two restricted-range species (whistling green pigeon and elegant scops-owl) occur there.
List of species
The following is a list of species endemic to Taiwan:
Also, whistling green pigeon, although not endemic to Taiwan is a restricted-range species.
In addition the following subspecies may be better treated as full species, according to Collar (2004):
References
List of endemic birds of Taiwan Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA