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Lord Howe Island
This checklist includes all bird species found in Lord Howe Island , 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: Lord Howe Island [map]
Number of endemics: 3
Number of introduced species: 7
Last modified: 2023-05-15
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| Plumed Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna eytoni | Endemic (country/region) |
| Black Swan | Cygnus atratus | Rare/Accidental |
| Australian Shelduck | Tadorna tadornoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Paradise Shelduck | Tadorna variegata | Rare/Accidental |
| Hardhead | Aythya australis | |
| Australasian Shoveler | Spatula rhynchotis | |
| Pacific Black Duck | Anas superciliosa | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Introduced species |
| Grey Teal | Anas gibberifrons | |
| Chestnut-breasted Teal | Anas castanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Maned Duck | Chenonetta jubata | Rare/Accidental |
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| California Quail | Callipepla californica | Extirpated |
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| Australasian Grebe | Tachybaptus novaehollandiae | Rare/Accidental |
| Hoary-headed Grebe | Poliocephalus poliocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| White-throated Pigeon | Columba vitiensis | Extirpated |
| Spotted-necked Dove | Streptopelia chinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Brush Bronzewing | Phaps elegans | Rare/Accidental |
| Peaceful Dove | Geopelia placida | Rare/Accidental |
| Emerald Dove | Chalcophaps indica | |
| Torresian Imperial Pigeon | Ducula spilorrhoa | |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Fork-tailed Swift | Apus pacificus | |
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| Long-tailed Koel | Urodynamis taitensis | |
| Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo | Chalcites basalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Shining Bronze Cuckoo | Chalcites lucidus | |
| Fan-tailed Cuckoo | Cacomantis flabelliformis | Rare/Accidental |
| Brush Cuckoo | Cacomantis variolosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallid Cuckoo | Heteroscenes pallidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lord Howe Woodhen | Hypotaenidia sylvestris | Endemic |
| Buff-banded Rail | Hypotaenidia philippensis | |
| Australian Crake | Porzana fluminea | Endemic (country/region) |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotless Crake | Zapornia tabuensis | |
| Purple Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | |
| White Swamphen | Porphyrio albus | Endemic |
| Dusky Moorhen | Gallinula tenebrosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Coot | Fulica atra | Rare/Accidental |
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| Southern Rockhopper Penguin | Eudyptes chrysocome | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Penguin | Eudyptula minor | |
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| Wilson's Storm-petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
| White-faced Storm-petrel | Pelagodroma marina | |
| White-bellied Storm-petrel | Fregetta grallaria | |
| Black-bellied Storm-petrel | Fregetta tropica | |
| New Zealand Storm-petrel | Fregetta maoriana | |
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| Wandering Albatross | Diomedea exulans | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | |
| Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | |
| Buller's Albatross | Thalassarche bulleri | |
| White-capped Albatross | Thalassarche cauta | |
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| Madeiran Storm-petrel | Hydrobates castro | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Giant Petrel | Macronectes halli | |
| Southern Giant Petrel | Macronectes giganteus | |
| Cape Petrel | Daption capense | Rare/Accidental |
| Antarctic Prion | Pachyptila desolata | Rare/Accidental |
| Fairy Prion | Pachyptila turtur | Rare/Accidental |
| Gould's Petrel | Pterodroma leucoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Cook's Petrel | Pterodroma cookii | Rare/Accidental |
| Pycroft's Petrel | Pterodroma pycrofti | Extirpated |
| Black-winged Petrel | Pterodroma nigripennis | |
| Providence Petrel | Pterodroma solandri | |
| Kermadec Petrel | Pterodroma neglecta | |
| Mottled Petrel | Pterodroma inexpectata | Rare/Accidental |
| White-necked Petrel | Pterodroma cervicalis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-headed Petrel | Pterodroma lessonii | Rare/Accidental |
| Great-winged Petrel | Pterodroma macroptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Parkinson's Petrel | Procellaria parkinsoni | |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | |
| Buller's Shearwater | Ardenna bulleri | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | Rare/Accidental |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | |
| Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | |
| Fluttering Shearwater | Puffinus gavia | Rare/Accidental |
| Hutton's Shearwater | Puffinus huttoni | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Shearwater | Puffinus assimilis | |
| Common Diving Petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix | |
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| Australasian Bittern | Botaurus poiciloptilus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| Rufous Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| White-necked Heron | Ardea pacifica | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
| White-faced Heron | Egretta novaehollandiae | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
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| Australian Ibis | Threskiornis moluccus | Rare/Accidental |
| Straw-necked Ibis | Threskiornis spinicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-billed Spoonbill | Platalea flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
| Royal Spoonbill | Platalea regia | Rare/Accidental |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
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| Australasian Gannet | Morus serrator | |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
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| Little Pied Cormorant | Microcarbo melanoleucos | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Black Cormorant | Phalacrocorax sulcirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Pied Cormorant | Phalacrocorax varius | Rare/Accidental |
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| South Island Oystercatcher | Haematopus finschi | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Oystercatcher | Haematopus longirostris | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Double-banded Plover | Charadrius bicinctus | |
| Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | Rare/Accidental |
| Oriental Plover | Charadrius veredus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Dotterel | Thinornis cucullatus | Endemic (country/region) |
| Black-breasted Lapwing | Vanellus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Lapwing | Vanellus miles | |
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| Australian Painted-snipe | Rostratula australis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Rare/Accidental |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Latham's Snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | Rare/Accidental |
| Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | |
| Wandering Tattler | Tringa incana | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Australian Pratincole | Stiltia isabella | Rare/Accidental |
| Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| Brown Skua | Stercorarius antarcticus | |
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| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | |
| Grey Noddy | Procelsterna albivitta | |
| Atoll Tern | Gygis alba | |
| Silver Gull | Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae | |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Kelp Gull | Larus dominicanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| White-fronted Tern | Sterna striata | |
| Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-shouldered Kite | Elanus axillaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Swamp Harrier | Circus approximans | Rare/Accidental |
| White-bellied Sea Eagle | Haliaeetus leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| Australian Masked Owl | Tyto novaehollandiae | |
| Pearly Owl | Tyto delicatula | |
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| Morepork | Ninox novaeseelandiae | |
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| Rainbow Bee-eater | Merops ornatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Sacred Kingfisher | Todiramphus sanctus | |
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| Nankeen Kestrel | Falco cenchroides | |
| Australian Hobby | Falco longipennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Falcon | Falco berigora | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Red-fronted Parakeet | Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae | Extirpated |
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| Noisy Friarbird | Philemon corniculatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown Gerygone | Gerygone mouki | Endemic (country/region) |
| Grey Warbler | Gerygone igata | |
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| Black-faced Cuckooshrike | Coracina novaehollandiae | Rare/Accidental |
| White-bellied Cuckooshrike | Coracina papuensis | |
| White-winged Triller | Lalage tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
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| Australian Golden Whistler | Pachycephala pectoralis | |
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| Olive-backed Oriole | Oriolus sagittatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pied Currawong | Strepera graculina | Endemic (country/region) |
| Masked Woodswallow | Artamus personatus | Rare/Accidental |
| White-browed Woodswallow | Artamus superciliosus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Willie-wagtail | Rhipidura leucophrys | Rare/Accidental |
| New Zealand Fantail | Rhipidura fuliginosa | Extirpated |
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| Australian Raven | Corvus coronoides | Rare/Accidental |
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| Leaden Myiagra | Myiagra rubecula | Rare/Accidental |
| Magpie-lark | Grallina cyanoleuca | Introduced species |
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| Australian Pipit | Anthus australis | Rare/Accidental |
| New Zealand Pipit | Anthus novaeseelandiae | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | Rare/Accidental |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | Introduced species |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown Songlark | Cincloramphus cruralis | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Grassbird | Poodytes gramineus | |
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| Fairy Martin | Petrochelidon ariel | Rare/Accidental |
| Tree Martin | Petrochelidon nigricans | |
| Welcome Swallow | Hirundo neoxena | |
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| Silver-eye | Zosterops lateralis | |
| Robust White-eye | Zosterops strenuus | Endemic |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Introduced species |
| Tasman Starling | Aplonis fusca | Endemic (country/region) |
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| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | Introduced species |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | Introduced species |
| Island Thrush | Turdus poliocephalus | |
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