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Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
This checklist includes all bird species found in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha , 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: Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha [map]
Other names: Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
Description: Includes Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Number of endemics: 8
Number of breeding endemics: 1
Number of globally threatened species: 18
Number of introduced species: 34
Date last reviewed: 2013-02-21
Last modified: 2022-12-23
See also: https://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/checklists/download
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| Fulvous Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | |
| Speckled Teal | Anas flavirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| Comb Duck | Sarkidiornis melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
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| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Introduced species |
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| Indian Peafowl | Pavo cristatus | Introduced species |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | Introduced species |
| Rock Partridge | Alectoris graeca | Introduced species |
| Chukar Partridge | Alectoris chukar | Introduced species |
| Cape Francolin | Pternistis capensis | Introduced species |
| Red-necked Spurfowl | Pternistis afer | |
| Grey Francolin | Francolinus pondicerianus | Introduced species |
| Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | Introduced species |
| Common Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Introduced species |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Madagascar Turtle Dove | Streptopelia picturata | Introduced species |
| Zebra Dove | Geopelia striata | Introduced species |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
| European Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| 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 |
| Inaccessible Island Rail | Atlantisia rogersi | Endemic |
| Paint-billed Crake | Neocrex erythrops | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | Rare/Accidental |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Tristan Moorhen | Gallinula nesiotis | Endemic |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | |
| Red-gartered Coot | Fulica armillata | Rare/Accidental |
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| King Penguin | Aptenodytes patagonicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Gentoo Penguin | Pygoscelis papua | Rare/Accidental |
| Chinstrap Penguin | Pygoscelis antarcticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Macaroni Penguin | Eudyptes chrysolophus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes moseleyi | Rare/Accidental |
| Southern Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes chrysocome | |
| Jackass Penguin | Spheniscus demersus | |
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| Wilson's Storm-petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey-backed Storm-petrel | Garrodia nereis | |
| White-faced Storm-petrel | Pelagodroma marina | Rare/Accidental |
| White-bellied Storm-petrel | Fregetta grallaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-bellied Storm-petrel | Fregetta tropica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wandering Albatross | Diomedea exulans | |
| Sooty Albatross | Phoebetria fusca | Rare/Accidental |
| Light-mantled Albatross | Phoebetria palpebrata | |
| Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey-headed Albatross | Thalassarche chrysostoma | |
| Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | Rare/Accidental |
| White-capped Albatross | Thalassarche cauta | |
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| Madeiran Storm-petrel | Hydrobates castro | |
| Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Giant Petrel | Macronectes halli | |
| Southern Giant Petrel | Macronectes giganteus | |
| Southern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Cape Petrel | Daption capense | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Petrel | Halobaena caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-billed Prion | Pachyptila vittata | Rare/Accidental |
| Salvin's Prion | Pachyptila salvini | |
| Antarctic Prion | Pachyptila desolata | |
| Slender-billed Prion | Pachyptila belcheri | |
| Kerguelen Petrel | Aphrodroma brevirostris | |
| Murphy's Petrel | Pterodroma ultima | Rare/Accidental |
| Herald Petrel | Pterodroma arminjoniana | Rare/Accidental |
| Juan Fernandez Petrel | Pterodroma externa | |
| Soft-plumaged Petrel | Pterodroma mollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Atlantic Petrel | Pterodroma incerta | |
| White-headed Petrel | Pterodroma lessonii | |
| Great-winged Petrel | Pterodroma macroptera | |
| Grey Petrel | Procellaria cinerea | |
| White-chinned Petrel | Procellaria aequinoctialis | |
| Spectacled Petrel | Procellaria conspicillata | Breeding endemic |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | Rare/Accidental |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Shearwater | Puffinus assimilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Diving Petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix | |
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| European White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Dwarf Bittern | Ixobrychus sturmii | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Cocoi Heron | Ardea cocoi | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
| Ascension Island Frigatebird | Fregata aquila | Endemic |
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| Cape Gannet | Morus capensis | |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
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| Snowy Sheathbill | Chionis albus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | Rare/Accidental |
| Kittlitz's Plover | Charadrius pecuarius | |
| St. Helena Plover | Charadrius sanctaehelenae | Endemic |
| Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-chested Dotterel | Charadrius modestus | Rare/Accidental |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | Vanellus armatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| African Jacana | Actophilornis africanus | |
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| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | Rare/Accidental |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Skua | Stercorarius antarcticus | |
| Chilean Skua | Stercorarius chilensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Lesser Noddy | Anous tenuirostris | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | |
| Atoll Tern | Gygis alba | |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Kelp Gull | Larus dominicanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
| Antarctic Tern | Sterna vittata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Galah | Eolophus roseicapilla | Introduced species |
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| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Rare/Accidental |
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| Scaly-fronted Weaver | Sporopipes squamifrons | Introduced species |
| Southern Red Bishop | Euplectes orix | Introduced species |
| White-winged Widowbird | Euplectes albonotatus | Introduced species |
| Long-tailed Widowbird | Euplectes progne | Introduced species |
| Madagascar Fody | Foudia madagascariensis | Introduced species |
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| Green-winged Pytilia | Pytilia melba | Introduced species |
| Violet-eared Waxbill | Granatina granatina | Introduced species |
| Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu | Uraeginthus angolensis | |
| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
| Black-faced Waxbill | Estrilda erythronotos | Introduced species |
| Java Sparrow | Lonchura oryzivora | Introduced species |
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| Eastern Paradise Whydah | Vidua paradisaea | Introduced species |
| Shaft-tailed Whydah | Vidua regia | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambica | Introduced species |
| Yellow Canary | Crithagra flaviventris | Introduced species |
| Brimstone Canary | Crithagra sulphurata | Introduced species |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| European Serin | Serinus serinus | Introduced species |
| Atlantic Canary | Serinus canaria | Introduced species |
| Cape Canary | Serinus canicollis | |
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| Nightingale Island Finch | Nesospiza acunhae | Endemic |
| Wilkins's Finch | Nesospiza wilkinsi | Endemic |
| Gough Island Finch | Rowettia goughensis | Endemic |
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| Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | |
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| Northern House Martin | Delichon urbicum | Rare/Accidental |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | Rare/Accidental |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Introduced species |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | Introduced species |
| Hill Myna | Gracula religiosa | Introduced species |
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| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
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| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Tristan da Cunha Thrush | Turdus eremita | Endemic |
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