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Clipperton Island bird checklist

51 bird species in 18 families have been recorded in Clipperton Island, according to eBird; about 29 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

Common birds in Clipperton Island

  1. 1Sooty Tern
  2. 2Great Frigatebird
  3. 3Ruddy Turnstone
  4. 4Red-footed Booby
  5. 5Pacific Golden-Plover
  6. 6Black-bellied Plover
  7. 7Nazca Booby
  8. 8Purple Martin
  9. 9American Coot
  10. 10Red-tailed Tropicbird
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Clipperton Island bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • American Wigeon
  • Northern Pintail
  • Canvasback

Cuckoos

  • Dark-billed Cuckoo

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Common Gallinule
  • American Coot

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Semipalmated Plover

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red Phalarope
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Wandering Tattler
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Least Sandpiper

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Pomarine Jaeger

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Laughing Gull
  • Blue-billed White-Tern
  • Brown Noddy
  • Black Noddy
  • Sooty Tern
  • Black Tern

Tropicbirds

  • Red-billed Tropicbird
  • Red-tailed Tropicbird

Northern Storm-Petrels

  • Leach's Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Tahiti Petrel
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  • Sooty Shearwater

Frigatebirds

  • Great Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Red-footed Booby
  • Cocos Booby
  • Masked Booby
  • Nazca Booby

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • White-faced Ibis

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • American Bittern
  • Least Bittern
  • Snowy Egret
  • Western Cattle-Egret

Osprey

  • Osprey

Swallows

  • Purple Martin

New World Warblers

  • Tennessee Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Bay-breasted Warbler
  • Northern Yellow Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler

Cardinals and Allies

  • Summer Tanager

Most common birds in Clipperton Island

Clipperton Island’s regular birds, ranked by how widespread they are. Recent sightings for Clipperton Island aren’t in our data yet.

  1. Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
  2. Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
  3. Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
  4. Red-footed BoobySula sula
  5. Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulva
  6. Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
  7. Nazca BoobySula granti
  8. Purple MartinProgne subis
  9. American CootFulica americana
  10. Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
  11. CanvasbackAythya valisineria
  12. Dark-billed CuckooCoccyzus melacoryphus
  13. Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolor
  14. Black TernChlidonias niger
  15. Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
  16. Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
  17. OspreyPandion haliaetus
  18. Black NoddyAnous minutus
  19. Least BitternBotaurus exilis
  20. Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrina

Largest bird families in Clipperton Island

Among its regular birds.

  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl5
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers4
  • Sandpipers and Allies4
  • New World Warblers4
  • Boobies and Gannets2
  • Plovers and Lapwings2
  • Frigatebirds1
  • Swallows1

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