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Ponta Delgada
This checklist includes all bird species found in Ponta Delgada , 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: Ponta Delgada [map]
Number of endemics: 1
Number of introduced species: 2
Date last reviewed: 2015-06-13
Last modified: 2023-06-22
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| Brent Goose | Branta bernicla | Rare/Accidental |
| Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | Rare/Accidental |
| Greylag Goose | Anser anser | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | |
| Redhead | Aythya americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| American Black Duck | Anas rubripes | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Red-legged Partridge | Alectoris rufa | |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | |
| Wood Pigeon | Columba palumbus | |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | Rare/Accidental |
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| Sora | Porzana carolina | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-throated Diver | Gavia stellata | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Northern Diver | Gavia immer | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wilson's Storm-petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
| White-faced Storm-petrel | Pelagodroma marina | |
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| Madeiran Storm-petrel | Hydrobates castro | |
| Monteiro's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates monteiroi | |
| Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | |
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| Cape Verde Petrel | Pterodroma feae | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | |
| Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | |
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| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
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| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Phalacrocorax auritus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Eurasian Golden Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | Rare/Accidental |
| American Golden Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Steganopus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
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| Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | |
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| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Mew Gull | Larus canus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
| Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red Kite | Milvus milvus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
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| Northern Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
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| Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Eurasian Rock Sparrow | Petronia petronia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| Azores Bullfinch | Pyrrhula murina | Endemic |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| Atlantic Canary | Serinus canaria | |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | |
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| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern House Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wood Warbler | Rhadina sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Abrornis inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
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| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | |
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| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
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| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius | Rare/Accidental |
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