Birds of the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands hosts 48 regularly occurring species in this directory, 6 of them found nowhere else. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
Endemic to the Cook Islands
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
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
- Lilac-crowned Fruit DovePtilinopus rarotongensis
- Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
- Rarotonga MonarchPomarea dimidiata
- Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
- 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
- Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii
- Cook Reed WarblerAcrocephalus kerearako
- Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Eastern RosellaPlatycercus eximius
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- Mewing KingfisherTodiramphus ruficollaris
- Tahiti PetrelPseudobulweria rostrata
- 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.