World Bird Index

How to search birds

Wild-card characters

You can use 2 wild-card characters: underscore(_) and percent sign (%).

If a search pattern does not contain both wild-card characters, then the pattern only represents the pattern string itself.

An underscore:(_) in pattern matches any single character; a percent sign:(%) matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

Example:

• pattern: 'bird' returns 'bird'
• pattern: 'bird%' returns names which start with 'bird'.
• pattern: 'bird_' returns names which start with 'bird' and one more character.
• pattern: '%bird' returns names which end with 'bird'.
• pattern: '_bird' returns names which end with 'bird' and starts any single character .
• pattern: '%bird%' returns names which include 'bird' string.

Small & capital letters

A search result of scientific order name is indicated by capital letters. Even if small and capital letters are mixed in a search key, you can get a result of the search.

A search result of scientific family name is indicated by letters start with a capital letter. Even if small and capital letters are mixed in a search pattern, you can get a result of the search.

A search result of scientific or English species name is indicated by letters start with a capital letter. Even if small and capital letters are mixed in a search pattern you can get a result of the search. Special caracters: space, hyphen, comma... are effective.

Export to CSV file

You can export a search result to csv files