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Birds which can be seen throughout the year on the island

Fairy Tern

Common Brown Noddy Tern

Lesser Black Noddy Tern

Saunders Little Tern

Crested Tern

Bridled Tern

Wedge-tailed Shearwater

White-tailed Tropicbird

Greater Frigatebird

Lesser Frigatebird

Barred Ground Dove

Madagascar Fody

Indian Mynah

Seychelles/Madagascar Turtle Dove

Turnstone

Curlew Sandpiper

Sanderling

Crab Plover

Greater Sandplover

Lesser Sandplover

Grey Plover

Whimbrel

 

 

Turnstone on Bird Island Seychelles

Migrants/Vagrants    

Sooty Tern

Roseate Tern

Black-naped Tern

Lesser Crested Tern

White-winged Black Tern

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Black-headed Gull

Arctic Skua

Audubon's Shearwater

Wilson's Storm Petrel

Red-billed Tropicbird

Red-tailed Tropicbird

Masked Booby

Brown Booby

Red-footed Booby

Cattle Egret

Purple Heron

Little Green Heron

Madagascar Squacco Heron

Squacco Heron

Indian Pond Heron

White Stork

Garganey

Northern Shoveller

Black-winged Stilt

Ringed Plover

Little Ringed Plover

Caspian Plover

Asiatic Golden Plover

Rufous-necked Stint

Temminck's Stint

Long-toed Stint

Ruff

Greenshank

Common Redshank

Common Redstart

Wood Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Terek Sandpiper

Bar-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit

Curlew

Little Curlew

Little Whimbrel

Great Snipe

Snipe

Jack Snipe

Black-winged Pratincole

Collared Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Jacobin Cuckoo

Rose-coloured Starling

Wattled Starling

Grey-tailed Tattler

White-throated Needletail

Black Kite

Eurasian Hobby

Lesser Kestrel

Red-footed Falcon

Amur Falcon

Barn Owl

Eurasian Scops Owl

Corncrake

European Turtle Dove

Moorhen

European Nightjar

Common Swift

Pacific Swift

Bimaculated Lark

Red-backed Shrike

Lesser Grey Shrike

Common House Martin

Mascarene Martin

Sand martin

Barn Swallow

Whinchat

Blue-cheeked Bee Eater

European Roller

Broad-billed Roller

Spotted Flycatcher

Northern Wheatear

Isabelline Wheatear

Pied Wheatear

Tree Pipit

Red-throated Pipit

Grey Wagtail

Yellow Wagtail

White Wagtail

Ortolan Bunting

Golden Oriole

Indian House Crow

 

 


For further information about the birds of Seychelles and to submit a record of any unusual sighting please visit:

www.stokecoll.ac.uk/sbrc/index.htm
 

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