Birds of Samoa

Endemic to Samoa

Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.

• Flat-billed KingfisherTodiramphus recurvirostris
• Samoan WhistlerPachycephala flavifrons
• Samoan FantailRhipidura nebulosa
• Samoan FlycatcherMyiagra albiventris
• MaoGymnomyza samoensis
• Samoan TrillerLalage sharpei
• Samoan White-eyeZosterops samoensis
• Tooth-billed PigeonDidunculus strigirostris

All regular species

• Cloven-feathered DovePtilinopus holosericea
• Samoan StarlingAplonis atrifusca
• Polynesian Wattled HoneyeaterFoulehaio carunculatus
• Cardinal MyzomelaMyzomela cardinalis
• Samoan MyzomelaMyzomela nigriventris
• Polynesian TrillerLalage maculosa
• Crimson-crowned Fruit DovePtilinopus porphyraceus
• White-rumped SwiftletAerodramus spodiopygius
• Red-vented BulbulPycnonotus cafer
• Buff-banded RailGallirallus philippensis
• Pacific Imperial PigeonDucula pacifica
• Atlantic White TernGygis alba
• Flat-billed KingfisherTodiramphus recurvirostris
• Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
• Polynesian StarlingAplonis tabuensis
• Duchess LorikeetVini margarethae
• Samoan WhistlerPachycephala flavifrons
• Jungle MynaAcridotheres fuscus
• Samoan FantailRhipidura nebulosa
• Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
• Blue-crowned LorikeetVini australis
• White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
• Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
• Metallic PigeonColumba vitiensis
• Pacific Reef HeronEgretta sacra
• Many-colored Fruit DovePtilinopus perousii
• Samoan FlycatcherMyiagra albiventris
• Cocos BoobySula brewsteri
• Rock DoveColumba livia
• MaoGymnomyza samoensis
• Wandering TattlerTringa incana
• Samoan TrillerLalage sharpei
• Pacific RobinPetroica pusilla
• Royal ParrotfinchErythrura cyaneovirens
• Black-naped TernSterna sumatrana
• Red JunglefowlGallus gallus
• Brown BoobySula leucogaster
• Red-footed BoobySula sula
• Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
• Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
• Black NoddyAnous minutus
• Pacific Black DuckAnas superciliosa
• Eastern Barn OwlTyto javanica
• Angola White-eyeZosterops kasaicus
• Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii
• Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
• Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
• Lesser FrigatebirdFregata ariel
• Wedge-tailed ShearwaterArdenna pacifica
• Samoan White-eyeZosterops samoensis
• Long-tailed KoelUrodynamis taitensis
• Norfolk RobinPetroica multicolor
• Shy Ground DovePampusana stairi
• Blue NoddyAnous ceruleus
• Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensis
• Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
• Tooth-billed PigeonDidunculus strigirostris
• White-browed CrakePoliolimnas cinereus
• American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
• Tropical ShearwaterPuffinus bailloni
• Masked BoobySula dactylatra
• Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
• Sooty ShearwaterArdenna grisea
• Western Barn OwlTyto alba
• Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrio
• Taiwan ThrushTurdus niveiceps
• Little TernSternula albifrons
• Short-tailed ShearwaterArdenna tenuirostris
• SanderlingCalidris alba
• Red KnotCalidris canutus
• Far Eastern CurlewNumenius madagascariensis
• Spectacled TernOnychoprion lunatus
• Spotless CrakeZapornia tabuensis
• Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
• Lesser NoddyAnous tenuirostris
• Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
• Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
• White-necked PetrelPterodroma cervicalis
• Collared PetrelPterodroma brevipes
• Polynesian Storm PetrelNesofregetta fuliginosa

Rare visitors

Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.

• Buller's ShearwaterArdenna bulleri
• Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
• Red-necked StintCalidris ruficollis
• Collared KingfisherTodiramphus chloris
• Pacific KingfisherTodiramphus sacer
• Mottled PetrelPterodroma inexpectata
• Fiji ShrikebillClytorhynchus vitiensis
• Blue-billed White TernGygis candida