An almost irrelevant bit of trivia appears in recent news bite:

Bolivian park declared one of most diverse places on Earth

"Madidi holds 1,088 bird species, 200 species of mammals, 300 types of fish and 12,000 plant varieties."

... and later in the article:

"Only 11 countries have more bird species than Madidi, and the entire United States contains less [sic] than 900 types of birds."

(If we've only got 900 kinds, I guess we should recognized them all?)

John