Birds of the Northern Mariana Islands
The Northern Mariana Islands hosts 103 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 Northern Mariana Islands
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
All regular species
- Atlantic White TernGygis alba
- Micronesian StarlingAplonis opaca
- Mariana KingfisherTodiramphus albicilla
- Micronesian MyzomelaMyzomela rubratra
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Mariana Fruit DovePtilinopus roseicapilla
- Sunda Collared DoveStreptopelia bitorquata
- White-throated Ground DovePampusana xanthonura
- Bridled White-eyeZosterops conspicillatus
- Red JunglefowlGallus gallus
- Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Pacific Reef HeronEgretta sacra
- Black DrongoDicrurus macrocercus
- Black NoddyAnous minutus
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Golden White-eyeCleptornis marchei
- Red-footed BoobySula sula
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Grey-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes
- Mariana SwiftletAerodramus bartschi
- Mariana CrowCorvus kubaryi
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
- Saipan Reed WarblerAcrocephalus hiwae
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Rota White-eyeZosterops rotensis
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminata
- Tinian MonarchMonarcha takatsukasae
- Micronesian MegapodeMegapodius laperouse
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Wandering TattlerTringa incana
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Bulwer's PetrelBulweria bulwerii
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Red-necked StintCalidris ruficollis
- Little TernSternula albifrons
- Common RedshankTringa totanus
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Black-naped TernSterna sumatrana
- Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudus
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Terek SandpiperXenus cinereus
- Abbott's BoobyPapasula abbotti
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
- Bannerman's ShearwaterPuffinus bannermani
- Long-toed StintCalidris subminuta
- Green-winged TealAnas crecca
- Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensis
- Bonin PetrelPterodroma hypoleuca
- Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Spectacled TernOnychoprion lunatus
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinus
- Muscovy DuckCairina moschata
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Swinhoe's SnipeGallinago megala
- GarganeySpatula querquedula
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Great KnotCalidris tenuirostris
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- South Polar SkuaStercorarius maccormicki
- Baer's PochardAythya baeri
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Common PochardAythya ferina
- Eastern Yellow WagtailMotacilla tschutschensis
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Oriental PratincoleGlareola maldivarum
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
- Lesser FrigatebirdFregata ariel
- Tropical ShearwaterPuffinus bailloni
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- Far Eastern CurlewNumenius madagascariensis
- Fork-tailed SwiftApus pacificus
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii
- Pheasant-tailed JacanaHydrophasianus chirurgus
- Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollis
- Slaty-backed GullLarus schistisagus
- Oriental CuckooCuculus optatus
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Collared KingfisherTodiramphus chloris
- Broad-billed SandpiperCalidris falcinellus