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Bonin Islands
This checklist includes all bird species found in Bonin Islands , 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 Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). 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: Bonin Islands [map]
Other names: Ogasawara Islands, 小笠原群島
Number of species: 268
Number of endemics: 4
Number of breeding endemics: 2
Number of globally threatened species: 15
Number of extinct species: 3
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2023-05-28
Last modified: 2024-08-03
See also: http://www.ogasawara.or.jp/ibo/fauna/bird/
Number of endemics: 4
Number of breeding endemics: 2
Number of globally threatened species: 15
Number of extinct species: 3
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2023-05-28
Last modified: 2024-08-03
See also: http://www.ogasawara.or.jp/ibo/fauna/bird/
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| Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brent Goose | Branta bernicla | |
| Cackling Goose | Branta hutchinsii | Rare/Accidental |
| Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Goosander | Mergus merganser | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Vulnerable |
| Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | Rare/Accidental |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| Baikal Teal | Sibirionetta formosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Falcated Duck | Mareca falcata | Near-threatened |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | Rare/Accidental |
| Chinese Spot-billed Duck | Anas zonorhyncha | Rare/Accidental |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Mandarin Duck | Aix galericulata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Chinese Bamboo Partridge | Bambusicola thoracicus | Introduced species |
| Green Pheasant | Phasianus versicolor | Endemic (country/region) |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
| Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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| Japanese Pigeon | Columba janthina | |
| Bonin Pigeon | Columba versicolor | Endemic Extinct |
| Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |
| White-bellied Green Pigeon | Treron sieboldii | |
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| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grey Nightjar | Caprimulgus indicus | |
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| White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | |
| Fork-tailed Swift | Apus pacificus | |
| House Swift | Apus nipalensis | |
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| Northern Hawk Cuckoo | Hierococcyx hyperythrus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
| Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | |
| Lesser Cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus | |
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| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
| White-breasted Waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | |
| White-browed Crake | Amaurornis cinerea | |
| Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
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| White-naped Crane | Antigone vipio | Vulnerable |
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| Wilson's Storm-petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-bellied Storm-petrel | Fregetta tropica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Laysan Albatross | Phoebastria immutabilis | Near-threatened |
| Black-footed Albatross | Phoebastria nigripes | Near-threatened |
| Short-tailed Albatross | Phoebastria albatrus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Madeiran Storm-petrel | Hydrobates castro | |
| Matsudaira's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates matsudairae | Breeding endemic Vulnerable |
| Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | |
| Tristram's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates tristrami | |
| Fork-tailed Storm-petrel | Hydrobates furcatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | |
| Bonin Petrel | Pterodroma hypoleuca | |
| Black-winged Petrel | Pterodroma nigripennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Kermadec Petrel | Pterodroma neglecta | Rare/Accidental |
| Hawaiian Petrel | Pterodroma sandwichensis | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| White-necked Petrel | Pterodroma cervicalis | Vulnerable |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | |
| Buller's Shearwater | Ardenna bulleri | Vulnerable |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Near-threatened |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | Near-threatened |
| Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | Near-threatened |
| Christmas Shearwater | Puffinus nativitatis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bryan's Shearwater | Puffinus bryani | Breeding endemic Critically endangered |
| Townsend's Shearwater | Puffinus auricularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | |
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| Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | |
| Schrenck's Bittern | Ixobrychus eurhythmus | |
| Cinnamon Bittern | Ixobrychus cinnamomeus | Rare/Accidental |
| Japanese Night Heron | Gorsachius goisagi | Vulnerable |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Chinese Pond Heron | Ardeola bacchus | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Pacific Reef Egret | Egretta sacra | |
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| Black-headed Ibis | Threskiornis melanocephalus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
| Nazca Booby | Sula granti | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| Japanese Cormorant | Phalacrocorax capillatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-billed Plover | Charadrius placidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | |
| Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Grey-headed Lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | |
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| Bristle-thighed Curlew | Numenius tahitiensis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Vulnerable |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Near-threatened |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | Near-threatened |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Solitary Snipe | Gallinago solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Pintail Snipe | Gallinago stenura | Rare/Accidental |
| Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | Rare/Accidental |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | Near-threatened |
| Wandering Tattler | Tringa incana | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ancient Murrelet | Synthliboramphus antiquus | |
| Japanese Murrelet | Synthliboramphus wumizusume | Vulnerable |
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| Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | |
| Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | |
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| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Noddy | Procelsterna cerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Atoll Tern | Gygis alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-tailed Gull | Larus crassirostris | |
| Mew Gull | Larus canus | Rare/Accidental |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Slaty-backed Gull | Larus schistisagus | Rare/Accidental |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey-backed Tern | Onychoprion lunatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Greater Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Oriental Honey Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |
| Eastern Marsh Harrier | Circus spilonotus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | Rare/Accidental |
| Chinese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter soloensis | |
| Japanese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter gularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Besra | Accipiter virgatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Northern Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
| White-tailed Sea Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Grey-faced Buzzard | Butastur indicus | |
| Japanese Buzzard | Buteo japonicus | |
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| Northern Boobook | Ninox japonica | |
| Northern Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Ashy Minivet | Pericrocotus divaricatus | |
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| Bull-headed Shrike | Lanius bucephalus | |
| Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | |
| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rook | Corvus frugilegus | |
| Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | |
| Large-billed Crow | Corvus macrorhynchos | |
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| Forest Wagtail | Dendronanthus indicus | |
| Pechora Pipit | Anthus gustavi | Rare/Accidental |
| Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Green-headed Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
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| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| Yellow-billed Grosbeak | Eophona migratoria | Rare/Accidental |
| Japanese Grosbeak | Eophona personata | |
| Common Rosefinch | Erythrina erythrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonin Grosbeak | Chaunoproctus ferreorostris | Endemic Extinct |
| Grey-capped Greenfinch | Chloris sinica | |
| Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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| Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rustic Bunting | Schoeniclus rusticus | Vulnerable |
| Little Bunting | Schoeniclus pusillus | |
| Yellow-breasted Bunting | Schoeniclus aureolus | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
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| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | |
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| Styan's Warbler | Locustella pleskei | Vulnerable |
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| Oriental Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus orientalis | |
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| Asian House Martin | Delichon dasypus | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | |
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| Brown-eared Bulbul | Hypsipetes amaurotis | |
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| Yellow-browed Warbler | Abrornis inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Asian Stubtail | Urosphena squameiceps | |
| Japanese Bush Warbler | Horornis diphone | |
| Manchurian Bush Warbler | Horornis canturians | |
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| Japanese White-eye | Zosterops japonicus | |
| Bonin White-eye | Apalopteron familiare | Endemic Near-threatened |
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| Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | |
| Japanese Waxwing | Bombycilla japonica | Near-threatened |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Purple-backed Starling | Agropsar sturninus | Rare/Accidental |
| Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | |
| White-shouldered Starling | Sturnia sinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | |
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| Grey-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | |
| Blue-and-white Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | |
| Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | |
| Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | |
| Narcissus Flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | |
| Daurian Redstart | Phoenicurus auroreus | |
| Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Rare/Accidental |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Rare/Accidental |
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| White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
| Scaly Thrush | Zoothera dauma | |
| Bonin Thrush | Zoothera terrestris | Endemic Extinct |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey-backed Thrush | Turdus hortulorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-headed Thrush | Turdus chrysolaus | |
| Pale Thrush | Turdus pallidus | |
| Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | |
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