Birds of the Cook Islands

Endemic to the Cook Islands

Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit DovePtilinopus rarotongensis
• Rarotonga MonarchPomarea dimidiata
• Rarotonga StarlingAplonis cinerascens
• Atiu SwiftletAerodramus sawtelli
• Cook Reed WarblerAcrocephalus kerearako
• Mewing KingfisherTodiramphus ruficollaris

All regular species

• Atlantic White TernGygis alba
• Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
• Pacific Reef HeronEgretta sacra
• Red JunglefowlGallus gallus
• Pacific Imperial PigeonDucula pacifica
• Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
• Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
• Wandering TattlerTringa incana
• White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
• Cloven-feathered DovePtilinopus holosericea
• Cocos BoobySula brewsteri
• Lilac-crowned Fruit DovePtilinopus rarotongensis
• Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
• Rarotonga MonarchPomarea dimidiata
• Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
• Duchess LorikeetVini margarethae
• Black NoddyAnous minutus
• Red-footed BoobySula sula
• Rarotonga StarlingAplonis cinerascens
• Long-tailed KoelUrodynamis taitensis
• Atiu SwiftletAerodramus sawtelli
• Blue LorikeetVini peruviana
• Brown BoobySula leucogaster
• Chattering KingfisherTodiramphus tutus
• Lesser FrigatebirdFregata ariel
• Herald PetrelPterodroma heraldica
• Pacific Black DuckAnas superciliosa
• Kuhl's LorikeetVini kuhlii
• Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensis
• Sooty ShearwaterArdenna grisea
• Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii
• Cook Reed WarblerAcrocephalus kerearako
• Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
• Wedge-tailed ShearwaterArdenna pacifica
• Rock DoveColumba livia
• Eastern RosellaPlatycercus eximius
• Masked BoobySula dactylatra
• Mewing KingfisherTodiramphus ruficollaris
• Tahiti PetrelPseudobulweria rostrata
• Blue-billed White TernGygis candida
• Black-naped TernSterna sumatrana
• Jungle MynaAcridotheres fuscus
• Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
• Black-winged PetrelPterodroma nigripennis
• Tropical ShearwaterPuffinus bailloni
• Collared PetrelPterodroma brevipes
• Grey-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes
• Chestnut-breasted MannikinLonchura castaneothorax
• Mottled PetrelPterodroma inexpectata
• Pintado PetrelDaption capense
• Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
• SanderlingCalidris alba
• Cook's PetrelPterodroma cookii
• White-necked PetrelPterodroma cervicalis

Rare visitors

Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.

• Spotless CrakeZapornia tabuensis
• Polynesian Storm PetrelNesofregetta fuliginosa
• Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
• Muscovy DuckCairina moschata
• Black-browed AlbatrossThalassarche melanophris
• Buller's ShearwaterArdenna bulleri
• Little HeronButorides atricapilla