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Socotra Archipelago
This checklist includes all bird species found in Socotra Archipelago , 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: Socotra Archipelago [map]
Other names: Socotra
Description: Includes Abd al Kuri, Samhah, and Darsa
Number of endemics: 10
Number of breeding endemics: 1
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2021-07-13
Last modified: 2024-08-03
See also: http://www.friendsofsoqotra.org/docs/rporter/2009_birdlist.doc
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| White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Cotton Pygmy-Goose | Nettapus coromandelianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Harlequin Quail | Coturnix delegorguei | Rare/Accidental |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
| Lesser Flamingo | Phoeniconaias minor | Near-threatened |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Vulnerable |
| Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis | |
| Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bruce's Green-Pigeon | Treron waalia | |
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| Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse | Pterocles lichtensteinii | |
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| Macqueen's Bustard | Chlamydotis macqueenii | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| White-browed Coucal | Centropus superciliosus | |
| Pied Cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Asian Koel | Eudynamys scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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| Eurasian Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
| Egyptian Nightjar | Caprimulgus aegyptius | Rare/Accidental |
| Nubian Nightjar | Caprimulgus nubicus | |
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| Himalayan Swiftlet | Aerodramus brevirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | Rare/Accidental |
| Forbes-Watson's Swift | Apus berliozi | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-knobbed Coot | Fulica cristata | Rare/Accidental |
| Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| White-breasted Waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Crake | Zapornia parva | Rare/Accidental |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Crane | Grus grus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Caspian Plover | Anarhynchus asiaticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Tibetan Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus atrifrons | |
| Greater Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus leschenaultii | |
| Kentish Plover | Anarhynchus alexandrinus | |
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| Pheasant-tailed Jacana | Hydrophasianus chirurgus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pin-tailed Snipe | Gallinago stenura | |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Near-threatened |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
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| Crab-Plover | Dromas ardeola | Rare/Accidental |
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| Cream-colored Courser | Cursorius cursor | |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | Rare/Accidental |
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| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
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| Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Pallas's Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Gull | Ichthyaetus hemprichii | |
| White-eyed Gull | Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus | |
| Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Lesser Noddy | Anous tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Saunders's Tern | Sternula saundersi | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| White-cheeked Tern | Sterna repressa | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | |
| Great Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
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| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
| White-bellied Storm-Petrel | Fregetta grallaria | |
| Black-bellied Storm-Petrel | Fregetta tropica | |
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| Jouanin's Petrel | Bulweria fallax | Breeding endemic Near-threatened |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | Near-threatened |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | |
| Persian Shearwater | Puffinus persicus | |
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| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
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| African Darter | Anhinga rufa | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Cormorant | Microcarbo africanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | Rare/Accidental |
| Socotra Cormorant | Phalacrocorax nigrogularis | Vulnerable |
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| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens | |
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| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Western Reef-Heron | Egretta gularis | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Malagasy Pond-Heron | Ardeola idae | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Indian Pond-Heron | Ardeola grayii | |
| Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Yellow-billed Egret | Ardea brachyrhyncha | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | Rare/Accidental |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | Endangered |
| Oriental Honey-buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Socotra Buzzard | Buteo socotraensis | Endemic Vulnerable |
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| Socotra Scops-Owl | Otus socotranus | Endemic |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
| Abyssinian Roller | Coracias abyssinicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Indian Roller | Coracias benghalensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides | |
| Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | |
| Great Gray Shrike | Lanius excubitor | |
| Somali Fiscal | Lanius somalicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| House Crow | Corvus splendens | Extirpated |
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-necked Raven | Corvus ruficollis | |
| Fan-tailed Raven | Corvus rhipidurus | |
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| Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix nigriceps | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
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| Socotra Warbler | Incana incana | Endemic |
| Socotra Cisticola | Cisticola haesitatus | Endemic |
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| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | Rare/Accidental |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Rock Martin | Ptyonoprogne fuligula | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Western House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Barred Warbler | Curruca nisoria | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | |
| Menetries's Warbler | Curruca mystacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Whitethroat | Curruca communis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Socotra White-eye | Zosterops socotranus | |
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| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Somali Starling | Onychognathus blythii | |
| Socotra Starling | Onychognathus frater | Endemic |
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| Black-throated Thrush | Turdus atrogularis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
| Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Rare/Accidental |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | |
| Arabian Wheatear | Oenanthe lugentoides | Rare/Accidental |
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| Socotra Sunbird | Chalcomitra balfouri | Endemic |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Abd al Kuri Sparrow | Passer hemileucus | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Socotra Sparrow | Passer insularis | Endemic |
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| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Long-billed Pipit | Anthus similis | |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Socotra Grosbeak | Rhynchostruthus socotranus | Endemic |
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| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | Rare/Accidental |
| Socotra Bunting | Emberiza socotrana | Endemic Near-threatened |
| Cinnamon-breasted Bunting | Emberiza tahapisi | |
| Striolated Bunting | Emberiza striolata | |
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