2013 in birding and ornithology


 * See also 2012 in birding and ornithology, main events of 2013 and 2014 in birding and ornithology

The year 2013 in birding and ornithology.

New species

 * See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s


 * São Miguel scops owl, a small extinct owl that once inhabited the island of São Miguel, in the Macaronesian archipelago of the Azores, in the North Atlantic Ocean.


 * Rinjani scops owl, Otus jolandae:
 * Pincoya storm petrel, Oceanites pincoyae:
 * Delta Amacuro softtail, Thripophaga amacurensis:
 * Bermuda flicker, Colaptes oceanicus:
 * Sao Miguel scops owl, Otus frutuosoi :
 * Seram masked owl, Tyto almae:
 * Junin tapaculo, Scytalopus gettyae:
 * Cambodian tailorbird Orthotomus chaktomuk:
 * Tropeiro seedeater, Sporophila beltoni:

The following fifteen Brazilian species are described in the 17th volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World:
 * Western striolated-puffbird, Nystalus obamai
 * Xingu woodcreeper, Dendrocolaptes retentus
 * Inambari woodcreeper, Lepidocolaptes fatimalimae
 * Tupana scythebill, Campylorhamphus gyldenstolpei
 * Tapajós scythebill, Campylorhamphus cardosoi
 * Roosevelt stipple-throated antwren, Epinecrophylla dentei
 * Bamboo antwren, Myrmotherula oreni
 * Predicted antwren, Herpsilochmus praedictus
 * Aripuana antwren, Herpsilochmus stotzi
 * Manicoré warbling antbird, Hypocnemis rondoni
 * Chico's tyrannulet, Zimmerius chicomendesi
 * Acre tody-tyrant, Hemitriccus cohnhafti
 * Sucunduri yellow-margined flycatcher, Tolmomyias sucunduri
 * Inambari gnatcatcher, Polioptila attenboroughi
 * Campina jay, Cyanocorax hafferi
 * Sierra Madre ground warbler Robsonius thompsoni:
 * Guerrero brush-finch Arremon kuehnerii:
 * Omani owl Strix omanensis:
 * New Caledonia snipe, Coenocorypha neocaledonica:

North America
To be completed

Oceania

 * An estimated 3 million short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) died along the Australian coast, as well as unknown numbers at Lord Howe Island and New Zealand. Necropsies on 172 birds found that 96.7% had eaten pumice with some having thirty small pieces in their stomachs. They were underweight and had poor muscle mass, indicating they were unable to feed properly in the Bering Sea. Starvation may have resulted from a pumice raft from a 2012 underwater volcano north-east of New Zealand and a three-year, marine heatwave in the Bering Sea known as The Blob.