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Santa Maria (Açores)
This checklist includes all bird species found in Santa Maria (Açores) , 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: Santa Maria (Açores) [map]
Number of globally threatened species: 7
Number of introduced species: 3
Date last reviewed: 2013-08-10
Last modified: 2023-05-23
See also: http://www.birdingazores.com/?page=2011checklist
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| Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pink-footed Goose | Anser brachyrhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greylag Goose | Anser anser | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | |
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| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Red-legged Partridge | Alectoris rufa | Introduced species |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | 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 | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Corncrake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
| Sora | Porzana carolina | 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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| Black-throated Diver | Gavia arctica | 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 | Rare/Accidental |
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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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| Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bermuda Petrel | Pterodroma cahow | Rare/Accidental |
| Cape Verde Petrel | Pterodroma feae | Rare/Accidental |
| 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 |
| Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
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| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | Rare/Accidental |
| 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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| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | Rare/Accidental |
| 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 |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| 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 | Rare/Accidental |
| 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 | |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| 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 | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
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| Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | |
| 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 |
| Audouin's Gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | Rare/Accidental |
| Mew Gull | Larus canus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
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| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Kite | Milvus milvus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | Rare/Accidental |
| 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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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | Rare/Accidental |
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rook | Corvus frugilegus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Sudan Golden Sparrow | Passer luteus | Introduced species |
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| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| 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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| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | |
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| Northern House Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Plain Martin | Riparia paludicola | Rare/Accidental |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
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| 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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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | Rare/Accidental |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | Rare/Accidental |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | Rare/Accidental |
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