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Wallis and Futuna bird checklist

48 bird species in 21 families have been recorded in Wallis and Futuna, according to eBird; about 43 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 Wallis and Futuna

  1. 1Black Noddy
  2. 2Pacific Golden-Plover
  3. 3Red-footed Booby
  4. 4Great Frigatebird
  5. 5Brown Booby
  6. 6Brown Noddy
  7. 7Ruddy Turnstone
  8. 8White-rumped Swiftlet
  9. 9Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater
  10. 10White-tailed Tropicbird
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Wallis and Futuna bird checklist

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Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove
  • Pacific Imperial-Pigeon

Cuckoos

  • Long-tailed Koel

Swifts

  • White-rumped Swiftlet

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Buff-banded Rail
  • Australasian Swamphen

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Pacific Golden-Plover

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Bristle-thighed Curlew
  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Wandering Tattler
  • Ruddy Turnstone

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

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

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
  • Red-tailed Tropicbird

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Herald Petrel
  • Mottled Petrel
  • Black-winged Petrel
  • Gould's Petrel
  • Collared Petrel
  • Tahiti Petrel
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  • Buller's Shearwater
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Newell's Shearwater
  • Tropical Shearwater

Frigatebirds

  • Lesser Frigatebird
  • Great Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Pacific Reef-Heron

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Swamp Harrier

Barn-Owls

  • Eastern Barn Owl

Kingfishers

  • Pacific Kingfisher

Old World Parrots

  • Blue-crowned Lorikeet

Honeyeaters

  • Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater

Cuckooshrikes

  • Polynesian Triller

Monarch Flycatchers

  • Fiji Shrikebill

Starlings

  • Polynesian Starling
  • Common Myna

Waxbills and Allies

  • Chestnut-breasted Munia

Most common birds in Wallis and Futuna

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

  1. Black NoddyAnous minutus
  2. Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulva
  3. Red-footed BoobySula sula
  4. Great FrigatebirdFregata minor
  5. Brown BoobySula leucogaster
  6. Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
  7. Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
  8. White-rumped SwiftletAerodramus spodiopygius
  9. Eastern Wattled-HoneyeaterFoulehaio carunculatus
  10. White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
  11. Polynesian StarlingAplonis tabuensis
  12. Buff-banded RailGallirallus philippensis
  13. Pacific Imperial-PigeonDucula pacifica
  14. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  15. Blue-crowned LorikeetVini australis
  16. Black-naped TernSterna sumatrana
  17. Crimson-crowned Fruit-DovePtilinopus porphyraceus
  18. Wandering TattlerTringa incana
  19. Sooty ShearwaterArdenna grisea
  20. Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus

Largest bird families in Wallis and Futuna

Among its regular birds.

  • Shearwaters and Petrels11
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers6
  • Sandpipers and Allies4
  • Pigeons and Doves3
  • Boobies and Gannets2
  • Frigatebirds2
  • Tropicbirds2
  • Rails, Gallinules, and Coots2

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