42 species · 1 endemic · 11 rare visitors · ordered by how often reported
Endemic to Kiribati
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
All regular species
Cocos BoobySula brewsteri
Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
Red-footed BoobySula sula
Atlantic White TernGygis alba
Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
Black NoddyAnous minutus
Phoenix PetrelPterodroma alba
Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
Masked BoobySula dactylatra
Christmas ShearwaterPuffinus nativitatis
Lesser FrigatebirdFregata ariel
Brown BoobySula leucogaster
Blue NoddyAnous ceruleus
Spectacled TernOnychoprion lunatus
Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii
Wedge-tailed ShearwaterArdenna pacifica
Wandering TattlerTringa incana
Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
Tropical ShearwaterPuffinus bailloni
Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensis
Polynesian Storm PetrelNesofregetta fuliginosa- BokikokikoAcrocephalus aequinoctialis
Pacific Reef HeronEgretta sacra
Tahiti PetrelPseudobulweria rostrata
White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres- Duchess LorikeetVini margarethae
Rock DoveColumba livia
Pacific Imperial PigeonDucula pacifica
Sooty ShearwaterArdenna grisea
Black-naped TernSterna sumatrana
Leach's Storm PetrelHydrobates leucorhous
Bulwer's PetrelBulweria bulwerii
Kuhl's LorikeetVini kuhlii
Cook's PetrelPterodroma cookii
Black-winged PetrelPterodroma nigripennis
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
Grey-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes
Buller's ShearwaterArdenna bulleri
Juan Fernandez PetrelPterodroma externa
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
SanderlingCalidris alba
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
Little TernSternula albifrons
Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminata
Short-tailed ShearwaterArdenna tenuirostris
Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
Nazca BoobySula granti
White-faced Storm PetrelPelagodroma marina
White-necked PetrelPterodroma cervicalis
Mongolian GullLarus mongolicus
Little HeronButorides atricapilla