# Bird cards: Norway and Sápmi ## Downloads and import - `bird-cards-core.json`: 245 core cards; recommended default website deck. - `bird-cards-borderline.json`: 38 optional cards requiring regional/editorial review. - `bird-cards.json`: all 283 cards, with `filter.tier` distinguishing the two groups. - `bird-cards.csv`: the same combined selection in a flat import table. - `filter-audit.csv`: decisions for all 1,224 species/form rows extracted from the 40-page source, including exclusions. Family headings and introductory prose are not species rows. JSON is UTF-8. CSV is comma-separated UTF-8 with BOM, quoted where necessary. Scientific and Norwegian names and all three Sámi name strings are retained from the uploaded 2020 PDF, including capitalisation, diacritics, hyphens and comma-separated alternatives. No translations have been invented. Layout whitespace is reduced to ordinary spaces. The JSON front contains `norwegian_name`, `scientific_name`, and an empty `image_url` placeholder. The back contains `sme`, `smj`, and `sma` objects. Display their names under Northern Sámi / Davvisámegiella, Lule Sámi / Julevsámegiella, and Southern Sámi / Åarjelsaemien gïele. Images were not supplied or selected. Missing names are JSON `null` with `status: "missing_in_source"` and the display text `Navn mangler i kilden`. CSV name cells are empty, accompanied by explicit status columns. Missing in this PDF does not mean that no name exists in the language. The source introduction says that red names are compiler additions by analogy. These have `status: "compiler_proposal"`; black names have `status: "source_name"`. The latter is a statement about the source, not an independent linguistic certification. Show proposals with a label such as `Forslag fra kildeforfatter`, or omit them until reviewed by a speaker/language authority. Across the combined selection there are 1 Northern, 29 Lule and 14 Southern Sámi proposal cells. There are 0 Northern, 21 Lule and 18 Southern Sámi missing cells. ## Filtering criterion Keep species with regular regional breeding, passage, winter occurrence or recurrent irruptive occurrence in Norway and/or Sápmi. A species need not be common, resident all year or present throughout the region. Norway includes coastal waters and Svalbard; Svalbard is outside Sápmi. Sápmi means the northern cultural region spanning Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, not every location in those four countries. The core deck uses a conservative regional selection. The optional deck labels scarce recurring visitors, very local/declining breeders, uncertain eastern range-edge cases, introduced/release-supported birds, specialist offshore birds, Arctic-only relevance and source taxonomy duplicates. Each optional card explains its reason. These should not be advertised as common Norwegian birds. Eastern Sápmi entries are explicitly flagged for a local range check; no country-wide Finnish record alone is treated as proof of occurrence in Sápmi. Exclude merely exceptional/vagrant species, species outside the normal regional range, captive/domestic birds lacking an established regional wild population, and extinct/historical-only taxa from the default deck. A few historically important or introduced birds are retained only in the optional deck and labelled. This is an editorial selection from the uploaded source, not a new official checklist or a complete current inventory. Regional abundance and rare breeding status can change. The audit covers every extracted source species/form row. Its exclusion reason is a broad screening category, not a claim that every excluded bird has never occurred locally. The decisions are expert-style editorial range judgements informed by the sources below; they are not 1,224 independently verified distribution assessments. Borderline notes carry the uncertainty that affects website use. ## Source and taxonomy Name source: Ruurd Jorritsma / Avionary, *SAMI BIRD NAMES*, September 2020, uploaded as `Species-List-SAMI-sv-no-sme-smj-sma.pdf`. Every card carries the PDF page number. The introduction attributes earlier name lists to Magne Husby and collaborators (Northern 2014, Lule 2012, Southern 2013), and distinguishes its own later additions. The PDF uses ä for the Lule spelling variant and ö for the Southern spelling variant; these have not been converted to Norwegian orthographic variants. Preserving this source means preserving its 2020 taxonomic treatment. BirdLife Norway now uses AviList. Brunsisik (`Acanthis cabaret`) and polarsisik (`Acanthis hornemanni`) are optional source-form cards, both now grouped with gråsisik; avoid counting them as additional modern species. Såerle (`Motacilla (flava) thunbergi`) is not a separate species card: its names are retained in the audit explanation for that source row. Several genera also have newer combinations. Use the stable card `id`, not a claim of current accepted taxonomy, as your import key. ## Occurrence references consulted - [BirdLife Norway: Norgeslisten](https://www.birdlife.no/organisasjonen/nskf/norgeslisten.php): recorded birds and geographic scope. Being on this list alone does not establish regular occurrence. - [Artsdatabanken: bird assessment scope](https://artsdatabanken.no/arter/rodlista-arter/om-rodlista/artsgruppene/rodlista-fugler): distinguishes established breeders from sporadic breeding and separates mainland Norway from Svalbard. Our editorial criterion also includes regular nonbreeding visitors and is not identical to Red List eligibility. - [BirdLife Norway: breeding populations, report 2-2015](https://www.birdlife.no/prosjekter/rapporter/2015_02_NOF.pdf): breeding baseline, including very small/peripheral populations; historical baseline, not a 2026 census. - [Utsira bird station: species lists](https://www.utsirafuglestasjon.no/om-utsira?id=19&view=category): recurring coastal autumn occurrence, including gulbrynsanger. - [BirdLife Troms: 2024 report](https://birdlife.no/innhold/bilder/2025/10/12/11711/arsrapport_-_lrsk_troms_2024.pdf): regional records and irruption context. - [BirdLife Nordland: 2024 report](https://www.birdlife.no/innhold/bilder/2025/12/09/11905/lrsk_2024.pdf): regional occurrence and taxonomy changes. - [Artsdatabanken: vierspurv](https://lister.artsdatabanken.no/rodlisteforarter/2021/28882): threatened regional breeder. - [BirdLife Norway: redpoll taxonomy](https://www.birdlife.no/organisasjonen/nyheter/?id=3721): merger of brun-/polarsisik with gråsisik. - [Norwegian Polar Institute: rosenmåke](https://npolar.no/arter/rosenmake/): likely annual offshore Arctic occurrence, without current known Svalbard breeding. The publicly linked NSKF reporting PDF inspected during research is dated 2007 internally. It was not used as a current automatic exclude list: historical reporting requirements would incorrectly exclude several regular species today. ## Suggested website use Start with the core JSON. Add optional cards according to your site's geographic scope, retaining their occurrence labels. Keep scientific names in small type on the front and the three language fields on the back. Render missing/proposed status visibly. Preserve the source credit and page metadata in your database so future corrections can be checked.