Coral Sea Islands bird checklist
39 bird species in 13 families have been recorded in the Coral Sea Islands, according to eBird; about 33 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 the Coral Sea Islands right now
1Brown Booby
2Great Crested Tern
3Flesh-footed Shearwater
4Masked Booby
5Wedge-tailed Shearwater
6Brown Noddy
7Red-footed Booby
8Sooty Tern
9Long-tailed Jaeger
10Tahiti Petrel
Coral Sea Islands bird checklist
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Rails, Gallinules, and Coots
- Buff-banded Rail
Plovers and Lapwings
- Pacific Golden-Plover
Sandpipers and Allies
- Ruddy Turnstone
Skuas and Jaegers
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Parasitic Jaeger
Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Blue-billed White-Tern
- Brown Noddy
- Black Noddy
- Sooty Tern
- Bridled Tern
- Australian Fairy Tern
- Caspian Tern
- Black-naped Tern
- Great Crested Tern
Tropicbirds
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Red-tailed Tropicbird
Southern Storm-Petrels
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel
- White-faced Storm-Petrel
- Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
Shearwaters and Petrels
- Great-winged Petrel
- Kermadec Petrel
- Providence Petrel
- Black-winged Petrel
- Gould's Petrel
- Tahiti Petrel
- Parkinson's Petrel
- Flesh-footed Shearwater
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Sooty Shearwater
- Short-tailed Shearwater
Frigatebirds
- Lesser Frigatebird
- Great Frigatebird
Boobies and Gannets
- Australasian Gannet
- Red-footed Booby
- Brown Booby
- Masked Booby
Kingfishers
- Sacred Kingfisher
Cuckooshrikes
- Black-faced Cuckooshrike
Swallows
- Welcome Swallow
Most common birds in Coral Sea Islands
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 Coral Sea Islands’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Great Crested TernThalasseus bergii
- Flesh-footed ShearwaterArdenna carneipes
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- Wedge-tailed ShearwaterArdenna pacifica
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Red-footed BoobySula sula
- Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
- Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudus
- Tahiti PetrelPseudobulweria rostrata
- Black-bellied Storm-PetrelFregetta tropica
- Black NoddyAnous minutus
- Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulva
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Lesser FrigatebirdFregata ariel
- Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
- Black-naped TernSterna sumatrana
- White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
- Red-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon rubricauda
- Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
Largest bird families in Coral Sea Islands
Among its regular birds.
- Shearwaters and Petrels10
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers7
- Boobies and Gannets4
- Southern Storm-Petrels3
- Skuas and Jaegers2
- Frigatebirds2
- Tropicbirds2
- Plovers and Lapwings1
Reported in the last 30 days
12 species reported to eBird in Coral Sea Islands in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, most recent first:
Brown Booby, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Great Crested Tern, Long-tailed Jaeger, Masked Booby, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Black-bellied Storm-Petrel, Brown Noddy, Red-footed Booby, Sooty Tern, Tahiti Petrel, White-faced Storm-Petrel.
