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Federated States of Micronesia
This checklist includes all bird species found in Federated States of Micronesia , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2025. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Federated States of Micronesia [map]
Other names: Micronesia
Description: include Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae and Pohnpei
Number of species: 243
Number of endemics: 24
Number of globally threatened species: 29
Number of extinct species: 4
Number of introduced species: 13
Date last reviewed: 2013-12-08
Last modified: 2026-01-03
Number of endemics: 24
Number of globally threatened species: 29
Number of extinct species: 4
Number of introduced species: 13
Date last reviewed: 2013-12-08
Last modified: 2026-01-03
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| Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Cackling Goose | Branta hutchinsii | Rare/Accidental |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Black Duck | Anas superciliosa | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | Rare/Accidental |
| Redhead | Aythya americana | |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
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| Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | Introduced species |
| Black Francolin | Francolinus francolinus | Introduced species |
| Blue-breasted Quail | Synoicus chinensis | Introduced species |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Philippine Collared-Dove | Streptopelia dusumieri | Introduced species Vulnerable |
| Shy Ground Dove | Pampusana stairi | Introduced species |
| Caroline Islands Ground Dove | Pampusana kubaryi | Endemic Endangered |
| White-throated Ground Dove | Pampusana xanthonura | Near-threatened |
| Nicobar Pigeon | Caloenas nicobarica | Near-threatened |
| Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus porphyraceus | |
| Mariana Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus roseicapilla | Endemic Near-threatened |
| Purple-capped Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus ponapensis | |
| Kosrae Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus hernsheimi | Endemic |
| Micronesian Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula oceanica | Vulnerable |
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| Chestnut-winged Cuckoo | Clamator coromandus | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-tailed Koel | Urodynamis taitensis | |
| Shining Bronze-Cuckoo | Chalcites lucidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx hyperythrus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx nisicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | Rare/Accidental |
| Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | |
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| Uniform Swiftlet | Aerodramus vanikorensis | |
| Mariana Swiftlet | Aerodramus bartschi | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Caroline Islands Swiftlet | Aerodramus inquietus | Endemic |
| Pacific Swift | Apus pacificus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Buff-banded Rail | Gallirallus philippensis | |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-backed Swamphen | Porphyrio indicus | |
| Australasian Swamphen | Porphyrio melanotus | |
| White-browed Crake | Poliolimnas cinereus | |
| White-breasted Waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | |
| Pale-vented Bush-hen | Amaurornis moluccana | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-legged Crake | Rallina fasciata | Rare/Accidental |
| Slaty-legged Crake | Rallina eurizonoides | |
| Spotless Crake | Zapornia tabuensis | |
| Kosrae Crake | Zapornia monasa | Endemic Extinct |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Pied Stilt | Himantopus leucocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Ringed Plover | Thinornis dubius | Rare/Accidental |
| Oriental Plover | Anarhynchus veredus | Rare/Accidental |
| Siberian Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus mongolus | Endangered |
| Greater Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus leschenaultii | |
| Kentish Plover | Anarhynchus alexandrinus | |
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| Bristle-thighed Curlew | Numenius tahitiensis | Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | Endangered |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
| Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | |
| Latham's Snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | |
| Wandering Tattler | Tringa incana | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Nordmann's Greenshank | Tringa guttifer | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Vulnerable |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Vulnerable |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | Near-threatened |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
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| Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Vega Gull | Larus vegae | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-billed White-Tern | Gygis candida | |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | |
| Blue-gray Noddy | Anous ceruleus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Gray-backed Tern | Onychoprion lunatus | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Australian Tern | Gelochelidon macrotarsa | Rare/Accidental |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
| Great Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
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| Laysan Albatross | Phoebastria immutabilis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Black-footed Albatross | Phoebastria nigripes | Near-threatened |
| Short-tailed Albatross | Phoebastria albatrus | Vulnerable |
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| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Polynesian Storm-Petrel | Nesofregetta fuliginosa | Endangered |
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| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Vulnerable |
| Band-rumped Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates castro | Rare/Accidental |
| Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates matsudairae | Vulnerable |
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| Kermadec Petrel | Pterodroma neglecta | Rare/Accidental |
| Juan Fernandez Petrel | Pterodroma externa | Vulnerable |
| White-necked Petrel | Pterodroma cervicalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonin Petrel | Pterodroma hypoleuca | |
| Black-winged Petrel | Pterodroma nigripennis | |
| Stejneger's Petrel | Pterodroma longirostris | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | Rare/Accidental |
| Tahiti Petrel | Pseudobulweria rostrata | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | |
| Buller's Shearwater | Ardenna bulleri | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | |
| Christmas Shearwater | Puffinus nativitatis | |
| Newell's Shearwater | Puffinus newelli | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
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| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Cocos Booby | Sula brewsteri | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
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| Little Pied Cormorant | Microcarbo melanoleucos | |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Bittern | Botaurus flavicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Cinnamon Bittern | Botaurus cinnamomeus | Rare/Accidental |
| Schrenck's Bittern | Botaurus eurhythmus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Yellow Bittern | Botaurus sinensis | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Nankeen Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | |
| Malayan Night Heron | Gorsachius melanolophus | Rare/Accidental |
| Japanese Night Heron | Gorsachius goisagi | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Pacific Reef-Heron | Egretta sacra | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Little Heron | Butorides atricapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Cattle-Egret | Ardea coromanda | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Medium Egret | Ardea intermedia | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Australian Pelican | Pelecanus conspicillatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Japanese Sparrowhawk | Tachyspiza gularis | |
| Chinese Sparrowhawk | Tachyspiza soloensis | |
| Brahminy Kite | Haliastur indus | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-faced Buzzard | Butastur indicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
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| Rainbow Bee-eater | Merops ornatus | |
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| Guam Kingfisher | Todiramphus cinnamominus | Extinct in the wild |
| Pohnpei Kingfisher | Todiramphus reichenbachii | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Sacred Kingfisher | Todiramphus sanctus | |
| Collared Kingfisher | Todiramphus chloris | |
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| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Cacatua galerita | Introduced species |
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| Papuan Eclectus | Eclectus polychloros | Introduced species |
| Pohnpei Lorikeet | Trichoglossus rubiginosus | Endemic Near-threatened |
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| Micronesian Myzomela | Myzomela rubratra | |
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| Pohnpei Cicadabird | Edolisoma insperatum | Endemic Endangered |
| Palau Cicadabird | Edolisoma monacha | |
| Yap Cicadabird | Edolisoma nesiotis | Endemic Endangered |
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| White-breasted Woodswallow | Artamus leucorynchus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Micronesian Rufous Fantail | Rhipidura versicolor | |
| Pohnpei Fantail | Rhipidura kubaryi | Endemic |
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| Black Drongo | Dicrurus macrocercus | Introduced species |
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| Chuuk Monarch | Metabolus rugensis | Endemic Endangered |
| Yap Monarch | Monarcha godeffroyi | Endemic Near-threatened |
| Pohnpei Flycatcher | Myiagra pluto | Endemic |
| Chuuk Flycatcher | Myiagra oceanica | Endemic |
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| Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Caroline Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus syrinx | Endemic |
| Mangareva Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus astrolabii | Endemic (country/region) Extinct |
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| Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Asian House-Martin | Delichon dasypus | |
| Tree Martin | Petrochelidon nigricans | Rare/Accidental |
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| Teardrop White-eye | Rukia ruki | Endemic Endangered |
| Long-billed White-eye | Rukia longirostra | Endemic Near-threatened |
| Yap White-eye | Zosterops oleagineus | Endemic Near-threatened |
| Pohnpei White-eye | Zosterops ponapensis | Endemic |
| Kosrae White-eye | Zosterops cinereus | Endemic |
| Caroline Islands White-eye | Zosterops semperi | |
| Plain White-eye | Zosterops hypolais | Endemic Near-threatened |
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| Pohnpei Starling | Aplonis pelzelni | Endemic Critically endangered (possibly extinct) |
| Micronesian Starling | Aplonis opaca | |
| Kosrae Starling | Aplonis corvina | Endemic Extinct |
| Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Gray-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | Rare/Accidental |
| Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | Rare/Accidental |
| Narcissus Flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Introduced species |
| Chestnut Munia | Lonchura atricapilla | Introduced species |
| Mottled Munia | Lonchura hunsteini | Introduced species |
| Blue-faced Parrotfinch | Erythrura trichroa | |
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| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | Introduced species |
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| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | Rare/Accidental |
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