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Antarctic Islands
This checklist includes all bird species found in Antarctic 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 Clements, version 2024. 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: Antarctic Islands [map]
Other names: South Polar, Antarctica
Description: includes Antarctica, Antarctic British Islands, Tristan da Cunha Islands, Goudh, Bouvet, Prince Edward Islands, French Southern Territory, Heard & McDonald
Number of endemics: 4
Number of breeding endemics: 1
Number of globally threatened species: 37
Number of extinct species: 2
Number of introduced species: 3
Last modified: 2024-11-27
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| Upland Goose | Chloephaga picta | Introduced species |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Chiloe Wigeon | Mareca sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
| Amsterdam Duck | Mareca marecula | Endemic Extinct |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Eaton's Pintail | Anas eatoni | Vulnerable |
| Yellow-billed Pintail | Anas georgica | |
| Yellow-billed Teal | Anas flavirostris | |
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| Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola | |
| Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis | |
| Eared Dove | Zenaida auriculata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Dark-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus melacoryphus | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| African Cuckoo | Cuculus gularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | |
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| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
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| Paint-billed Crake | Mustelirallus erythrops | |
| Tristan Moorhen | Gallinula nesiotis | Endemic Extinct |
| Gough Moorhen | Gallinula comeri | Vulnerable |
| Red-gartered Coot | Fulica armillata | |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotless Crake | Zapornia tabuensis | |
| Inaccessible Island Rail | Laterallus rogersi | Vulnerable |
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| Black-faced Sheathbill | Chionis minor | Endemic |
| Snowy Sheathbill | Chionis albus | |
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| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-chested Dotterel | Zonibyx modestus | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Three-banded Plover | Thinornis tricollaris | |
| Blacksmith Lapwing | Vanellus armatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Vulnerable |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
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| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Chilean Skua | Stercorarius chilensis | |
| Brown Skua | Stercorarius antarcticus | |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | |
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| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | |
| Brown-hooded Gull | Chroicocephalus maculipennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Dolphin Gull | Leucophaeus scoresbii | Rare/Accidental |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Olrog's Gull | Larus atlanticus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Kelp Gull | Larus dominicanus | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
| Antarctic Tern | Sterna vittata | |
| Kerguelen Tern | Sterna virgata | Near-threatened |
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| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | Rare/Accidental |
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| King Penguin | Aptenodytes patagonicus | |
| Emperor Penguin | Aptenodytes forsteri | Near-threatened |
| Adelie Penguin | Pygoscelis adeliae | |
| Gentoo Penguin | Pygoscelis papua | |
| Chinstrap Penguin | Pygoscelis antarcticus | |
| African Penguin | Spheniscus demersus | Critically endangered |
| Magellanic Penguin | Spheniscus magellanicus | |
| Macaroni Penguin | Eudyptes chrysolophus | Vulnerable |
| Royal Penguin | Eudyptes schlegeli | Rare/Accidental |
| Southern Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes chrysocome | Vulnerable |
| Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes moseleyi | Endangered |
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| Northern Royal Albatross | Diomedea sanfordi | Endangered |
| Southern Royal Albatross | Diomedea epomophora | Vulnerable |
| Snowy Albatross | Diomedea exulans | Vulnerable |
| Tristan Albatross | Diomedea dabbenena | Critically endangered |
| Antipodean Albatross | Diomedea antipodensis | Endangered |
| Amsterdam Albatross | Diomedea amsterdamensis | Endangered |
| Sooty Albatross | Phoebetria fusca | Endangered |
| Light-mantled Albatross | Phoebetria palpebrata | Near-threatened |
| Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | Endangered |
| Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche carteri | Endangered |
| Gray-headed Albatross | Thalassarche chrysostoma | Endangered |
| Buller's Albatross | Thalassarche bulleri | Near-threatened |
| White-capped Albatross | Thalassarche cauta | |
| Salvin's Albatross | Thalassarche salvini | Vulnerable |
| Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | |
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| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
| Gray-backed Storm-Petrel | Garrodia nereis | |
| White-faced Storm-Petrel | Pelagodroma marina | |
| White-bellied Storm-Petrel | Fregetta grallaria | |
| Black-bellied Storm-Petrel | Fregetta tropica | |
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| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Vulnerable |
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| Southern Giant-Petrel | Macronectes giganteus | |
| Northern Giant-Petrel | Macronectes halli | |
| Southern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialoides | |
| Antarctic Petrel | Thalassoica antarctica | |
| Pintado Petrel | Daption capense | |
| Snow Petrel | Pagodroma nivea | |
| Kerguelen Petrel | Aphrodroma brevirostris | |
| Great-winged Petrel | Pterodroma macroptera | |
| Gray-faced Petrel | Pterodroma gouldi | |
| Trindade Petrel | Pterodroma arminjoniana | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Soft-plumaged Petrel | Pterodroma mollis | |
| Barau's Petrel | Pterodroma baraui | Endangered |
| White-headed Petrel | Pterodroma lessonii | |
| Mottled Petrel | Pterodroma inexpectata | Near-threatened |
| Juan Fernandez Petrel | Pterodroma externa | Vulnerable |
| Atlantic Petrel | Pterodroma incerta | Endangered |
| Blue Petrel | Halobaena caerulea | |
| Fairy Prion | Pachyptila turtur | |
| Broad-billed Prion | Pachyptila vittata | |
| Salvin's Prion | Pachyptila salvini | |
| MacGillivray's Prion | Pachyptila macgillivrayi | Critically endangered |
| Antarctic Prion | Pachyptila desolata | |
| Slender-billed Prion | Pachyptila belcheri | |
| Fulmar Prion | Pachyptila crassirostris | |
| Gray Petrel | Procellaria cinerea | Near-threatened |
| White-chinned Petrel | Procellaria aequinoctialis | Vulnerable |
| Spectacled Petrel | Procellaria conspicillata | Breeding endemic Vulnerable |
| Westland Petrel | Procellaria westlandica | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | Rare/Accidental |
| Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | Rare/Accidental |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | Near-threatened |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Near-threatened |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Rapa Shearwater | Puffinus myrtae | Endemic Critically endangered |
| Little Shearwater | Puffinus assimilis | |
| Subantarctic Shearwater | Puffinus elegans | |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
| Common Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix | |
| South Georgia Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides georgicus | |
| Magellanic Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides magellani | Rare/Accidental |
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| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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| Cape Gannet | Morus capensis | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Australasian Gannet | Morus serrator | |
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| South Georgia Shag | Leucocarbo georgianus | |
| Imperial Cormorant | Leucocarbo atriceps | |
| Antarctic Shag | Leucocarbo bransfieldensis | |
| Crozet Shag | Leucocarbo melanogenis | |
| Kerguelen Shag | Leucocarbo verrucosus | |
| Heard Island Shag | Leucocarbo nivalis | |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Cocoi Heron | Ardea cocoi | Rare/Accidental |
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| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Barn Owl | Tyto furcata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-crested Elaenia | Elaenia albiceps | Rare/Accidental |
| Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant | Muscisaxicola maclovianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
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| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
| Chilean Swallow | Tachycineta leucopyga | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | Rare/Accidental |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
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| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Tristan Thrush | Turdus eremita | Near-threatened |
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| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| South Georgia Pipit | Anthus antarcticus | |
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| Long-tailed Meadowlark | Leistes loyca | Rare/Accidental |
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| Gough Island Finch | Rowettia goughensis | Critically endangered |
| Inaccessible Island Finch | Nesospiza acunhae | Vulnerable |
| Nightingale Island Finch | Nesospiza questi | Vulnerable |
| Wilkins's Finch | Nesospiza wilkinsi | Critically endangered |
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