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Aldabra group
This checklist includes all bird species found in Aldabra group , 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 .
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Country or region: Aldabra group [map]
Number of endemics: 4
Number of globally threatened species: 11
Number of extinct species: 1
Number of introduced species: 7
Date last reviewed: 2016-07-01
Last modified: 2025-10-12
See also: https://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/checklists/download
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| White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | Rare/Accidental |
| Knob-billed Duck | Sarkidiornis melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-billed Duck | Anas erythrorhyncha | Rare/Accidental |
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| Gray Francolin | Ortygornis pondicerianus | Introduced species |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Extirpated |
| Malagasy Turtle-Dove | Nesoenas picturatus | |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Zebra Dove | Geopelia striata | Introduced species |
| Comoro Blue-Pigeon | Alectroenas sganzini | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
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| Malagasy Coucal | Centropus toulou | |
| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Madagascar Nightjar | Caprimulgus madagascariensis | |
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| White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Seychelles Swiftlet | Aerodramus elaphrus | Endemic (country/region) Vulnerable |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| African Palm Swift | Cypsiurus parvus | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-throated Rail | Dryolimnas cuvieri | |
| Lesser Moorhen | Paragallinula angulata | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | Rare/Accidental |
| Striped Crake | Aenigmatolimnas marginalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Tibetan Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus atrifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus leschenaultii | |
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| Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Pin-tailed Snipe | Gallinago stenura | Rare/Accidental |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | Rare/Accidental |
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| Crab-Plover | Dromas ardeola | |
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| Madagascar Pratincole | Glareola ocularis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Brown Skua | Stercorarius antarcticus | |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-billed White-Tern | Gygis candida | |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Lesser Noddy | Anous tenuirostris | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Saunders's Tern | Sternula saundersi | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| White-cheeked Tern | Sterna repressa | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | |
| Great Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
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| Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Pintado Petrel | Daption capense | Rare/Accidental |
| Jouanin's Petrel | Bulweria fallax | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | Rare/Accidental |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
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| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
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| Abbott's Booby | Papasula abbotti | Extirpated Endangered |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
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| Reed Cormorant | Microcarbo africanus | Rare/Accidental |
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| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Malagasy Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis bernieri | Endangered |
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| Yellow Bittern | Botaurus sinensis | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Little Heron | Butorides atricapilla | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Malagasy Pond-Heron | Ardeola idae | Endangered |
| Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Medium Egret | Ardea intermedia | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | Rare/Accidental |
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| Western Barn Owl | Tyto alba | Extirpated |
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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | Rare/Accidental |
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| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Olive Bee-eater | Merops superciliosus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| Malagasy Kingfisher | Corythornis vintsioides | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus | |
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| Malagasy Kestrel | Falco newtoni | |
| Seychelles Kestrel | Falco araeus | Endemic (country/region) Vulnerable |
| Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Falcon | Falco concolor | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Gray-headed Lovebird | Agapornis canus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rufous Vanga | Schetba rufa | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Aldabra Drongo | Dicrurus aldabranus | Endemic Near-threatened |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Gray Shrike | Lanius minor | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | |
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| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Madagascar Cisticola | Cisticola cherina | |
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| Aldabra Brush-Warbler | Nesillas aldabrana | Endemic Extinct |
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | Rare/Accidental |
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| Mascarene Martin | Phedina borbonica | Rare/Accidental |
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Wire-tailed Swallow | Hirundo smithii | Rare/Accidental |
| Western House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Malagasy Bulbul | Hypsipetes madagascariensis | |
| Seychelles Bulbul | Hypsipetes crassirostris | Endemic (country/region) |
| Red-whiskered Bulbul | Pycnonotus jocosus | Introduced species |
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| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Whitethroat | Curruca communis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Seychelles White-eye | Zosterops modestus | Endemic (country/region) Vulnerable |
| Malagasy White-eye | Zosterops maderaspatanus | |
| Aldabra White-eye | Zosterops aldabrensis | Endemic |
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| Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | Introduced species |
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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Rare/Accidental |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | Rare/Accidental |
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| Souimanga Sunbird | Cinnyris sovimanga | |
| Seychelles Sunbird | Cinnyris dussumieri | Endemic (country/region) |
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| Red Fody | Foudia madagascariensis | Introduced species |
| Aldabra Fody | Foudia aldabrana | Endemic Endangered |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | Rare/Accidental |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Yellow-fronted Canary | Crithagra mozambica | Introduced species |
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| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | Rare/Accidental |
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