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WINGS Birding Tours – Bird List

Hawaii: The Albatrosses of Midway Atoll

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Prospective Birdlist

with Narca Moore-Craig as leader

  • Column B = we should see (at least a 90% chance)
  • Column C = may see (about a 50%-90% chance)
  • Column D = possible, but unlikely (20%-50% chance)
NC B C D
Laysan Duck 2 Anas laysanensis
Northern Pintail 3 Anas acuta
Green-winged Teal 3 Anas crecca
Laysan Albatross 1 Phoebastria immutabilis
Black-footed Albatross 1 Phoebastria nigripes
Short-tailed Albatross 3 Phoebastria albatrus
Bonin Petrel 1 Pterodroma hypoleuca
Bulwer's Petrel 3 Bulweria bulwerii
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2 Puffinus pacificus
Buller's Shearwater 3 Puffinus bulleri
Christmas Shearwater 3 Puffinus nativitatis
Townsend's (Newel's) Shearwater 3 Puffinus auricularis newelli
Tristram's Storm-Petrel 3 Oceanodroma tristrami
White-tailed Tropicbird 3 Phaethon lepturus
Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 Phaethon rubricauda
Masked Booby 3 Sula dactylatra
Brown Booby 3 Sula leucogaster
Red-footed Booby 1 Sula sula
Great Frigatebird 1 Fregata minor
Black-bellied Plover 2 Pluvialis squatarola
Pacific Golden-Plover 1 Pluvialis fulva
Lesser Sand-Plover 3 Charadrius mongolus
Black-necked (Hawaiian) Stilt 3 Himantopus mexicanus
Wandering Tattler 2 Tringa incana
Bristle-thighed Curlew 2 Numenius tahitiensis
Bar-tailed Godwit 3 Limosa lapponica
Ruddy Turnstone 2 Arenaria interpres
Sanderling 3 Calidris alba
Pectoral Sandpiper 3 Calidris melanotos
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 3 Calidris acuminata
Brown Noddy 1 Anous stolidu
Black Noddy 1 Anous minutus
White (Fairy) Tern 1 Gygis alba rothchildi
Sooty Tern 1 Onychoprion fuscatus
Gray-backed Tern 1 Onychoprion lunatus
Short-eared Owl 3 Asio flammeus
Common Myna 1 Acridotheres tristis
Common Canary 1 Serinus canaria

Mammals

Spinner Dolphin 1 Stenella longirostris

Amphibians and Reptiles

Green Sea Turtle 2 Chelonia mydas