Birds of the Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands hosts 33 regularly occurring species in this directory, 4 of them found nowhere else. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
Endemic to the Pitcairn Islands
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
All regular species
- Atlantic White TernGygis alba
- Murphy's PetrelPterodroma ultima
- Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
- Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- Red-footed BoobySula sula
- Kermadec PetrelPterodroma neglecta
- Henderson PetrelPterodroma atrata
- Herald PetrelPterodroma heraldica
- Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensis
- Henderson Reed WarblerAcrocephalus taiti
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Stephen's LorikeetVini stepheni
- Pitcairn Reed WarblerAcrocephalus vaughani
- Wandering TattlerTringa incana
- Grey NoddyAnous albivitta
- Black NoddyAnous minutus
- Henderson Fruit DovePtilinopus insularis
- Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
- Phoenix PetrelPterodroma alba
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Lesser FrigatebirdFregata ariel
- Christmas ShearwaterPuffinus nativitatis
- White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
- Juan Fernandez PetrelPterodroma externa
- White-faced Storm PetrelPelagodroma marina
- Black PetrelProcellaria parkinsoni
- Pacific Reef HeronEgretta sacra
- Cook's PetrelPterodroma cookii
- Soft-plumaged PetrelPterodroma mollis
- Tahiti PetrelPseudobulweria rostrata
- Polynesian Storm PetrelNesofregetta fuliginosa
- Black-winged PetrelPterodroma nigripennis
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.