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American Samoa bird checklist

68 bird species in 26 families have been recorded in American Samoa, according to eBird; about 65 of them are seen regularly, and the rest are rarities, vagrants and escaped or introduced birds. Download the full list as a PDF, or tick birds off on your phone, with counts and notes, even without signal.

Species data: eBird.org, updated · How these lists are made

The most common birds in American Samoa right now

  1. 1Red-footed Booby
  2. 2Black Noddy
  3. 3Red-tailed Tropicbird
  4. 4Brown Booby
  5. 5Brown Noddy
  6. 6Blue-gray Noddy
  7. 7Great Frigatebird
  8. 8Jungle Myna
  9. 9Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater
  10. 10Wandering Tattler
The top 20, and how they are ranked

American Samoa bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Northern Shoveler
  • Pacific Black Duck

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Red Junglefowl

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Shy Ground Dove
  • Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove
  • Many-colored Fruit-Dove
  • Pacific Imperial-Pigeon

Cuckoos

  • Pacific Koel
  • Long-tailed Koel

Swifts

  • White-rumped Swiftlet

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Buff-banded Rail
  • Australasian Swamphen
  • Spotless Crake

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Masked Lapwing

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Bristle-thighed Curlew
  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Wandering Tattler
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Sanderling

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Parasitic Jaeger

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Blue-billed White-Tern
  • Brown Noddy
  • Black Noddy
  • Blue-gray Noddy
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Gray-backed Tern
  • Black-naped Tern
  • Great Crested Tern

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
  • Red-tailed Tropicbird

Southern Storm-Petrels

  • Polynesian Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Herald Petrel
  • Mottled Petrel
  • White-necked Petrel
  • Black-winged Petrel
  • Cook's Petrel
  • Gould's Petrel
  • Collared Petrel
  • Phoenix Petrel
  • Tahiti Petrel
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Short-tailed Shearwater
  • Tropical Shearwater

Frigatebirds

  • Lesser Frigatebird
  • Great Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby
  • Masked Booby

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Pacific Reef-Heron

Barn-Owls

  • Eastern Barn Owl

Kingfishers

  • Pacific Kingfisher

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Peregrine Falcon

Old World Parrots

  • Blue-crowned Lorikeet

Honeyeaters

  • Samoan Myzomela
  • Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater

Monarch Flycatchers

  • Fiji Shrikebill

Swallows

  • Pacific Swallow

Bulbuls

  • Red-vented Bulbul

Starlings

  • Polynesian Starling
  • Samoan Starling
  • Common Myna
  • Jungle Myna

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Most common birds in American Samoa

Ranked by how recently and how widely each was reported to eBird in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, and whether it is one of American Samoa’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Red-footed BoobySula sula
  2. Black NoddyAnous minutus
  3. Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
  4. Brown BoobySula leucogaster
  5. Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
  6. Blue-gray NoddyAnous ceruleus
  7. Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
  8. Jungle MynaAcridotheres fuscus
  9. Eastern Wattled-HoneyeaterFoulehaio carunculatus
  10. Wandering TattlerTringa incana
  11. White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
  12. Wedge-tailed ShearwaterArdenna pacifica
  13. Pacific KingfisherTodiramphus sacer
  14. White-rumped SwiftletAerodramus spodiopygius
  15. Sooty ShearwaterArdenna grisea
  16. Samoan StarlingAplonis atrifusca
  17. Pacific Imperial-PigeonDucula pacifica
  18. Polynesian StarlingAplonis tabuensis
  19. Crimson-crowned Fruit-DovePtilinopus porphyraceus
  20. Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulva

Largest bird families in American Samoa

Among its regular birds.

  • Shearwaters and Petrels13
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers9
  • Pigeons and Doves5
  • Starlings4
  • Sandpipers and Allies4
  • Boobies and Gannets3
  • Rails, Gallinules, and Coots3
  • Tropicbirds2

Reported in the last 30 days

30 species reported to eBird in American Samoa in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, most recent first:

Red-footed Booby, Red-tailed Tropicbird, Jungle Myna, Blue-gray Noddy, Black Noddy, Brown Booby, Brown Noddy, Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater, Great Frigatebird, Pacific Kingfisher, Samoan Starling, Wandering Tattler, Blue-billed White-Tern, White-rumped Swiftlet, White-tailed Tropicbird, Sooty Shearwater, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Polynesian Starling, Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove, Pacific Imperial-Pigeon, Samoan Myzomela, Red-vented Bulbul, Red Junglefowl, Common Myna, Buff-banded Rail, Many-colored Fruit-Dove, Pacific Golden-Plover, Pacific Reef-Heron, Masked Booby, Bristle-thighed Curlew.

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