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Praia da Vitória
This checklist includes all bird species found in Praia da Vitória , 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: Praia da Vitória [map]
Number of globally threatened species: 9
Number of introduced species: 2
Date last reviewed: 2015-06-13
Last modified: 2023-04-10
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| Brent Goose | Branta bernicla | Rare/Accidental |
| Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | Rare/Accidental |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | |
| Pink-footed Goose | Anser brachyrhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greylag Goose | Anser anser | |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Eider | Somateria mollissima | Rare/Accidental |
| Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | |
| Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | |
| Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Goosander | Mergus merganser | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | 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 | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| American Black Duck | Anas rubripes | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| 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 |
| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Slavonian Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | |
| Wood Pigeon | Columba palumbus | |
| European Turtle Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica | Rare/Accidental |
| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
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| Western Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Crane | Grus grus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-throated Diver | Gavia arctica | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Northern Diver | Gavia immer | |
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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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| American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
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| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | Rare/Accidental |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Phalacrocorax auritus | 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 | |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| American Golden Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Rare/Accidental |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | Rare/Accidental |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Steganopus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
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| Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Auk | Alle alle | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | |
| 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 |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Eurasian Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
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| Northern Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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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 | |
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| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | Rare/Accidental |
| 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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| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | |
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| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern House Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | |
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| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | 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 | |
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| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
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| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
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