Bird Island - Seychelles

BIRD ISLAND Seychelles


	Conservation > Birds > Birds recorded on Bird Island

	Bird Island can claim the highest number of first time records for any single island of the Seychelles. With 112 species recorded in total. Bird Island also became the first island to record 100 non-breeding migratory birds. Interesting Facts: 1. Twenty-four species recorded in Seychelles have first been seen on Bird Island 2. Seven species recorded on Bird have still been recorded nowhere else in Seychelles: Stone Curlew, Jack Snipe, Eurasian Nightjar, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Whinchat, Pied Wheatear and Bimaculated Lark. 3. Three of the species new to Seychelles first recorded on Bird Island were also new for the entire African/Western Indian Ocean region: Indian Pond Heron, Little Curlew and Pacific Swift. 4. Two of the species new to Seychelles first recorded on Bird Island were also new for the entire Southern Hemisphere: Indian Pond Heron and Bimaculated Lark. 5. The Little Curlew record is also the most south-westerly record for this northeast Asian species. 6. The Wattled Starling record from Bird is also the most easterly record for this continental African species. 7. The Broad-billed Roller record from Bird is the most northerly record for the Madagascar race of this species. Can anywhere else on earth claim the most easterly, westerly, northern and southern records for different species? Birds which can be seen throughout the year or breed on Bird island
	Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus Brown Noddy Anous stolidus* Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris* Fairy Tern Gygis alba* Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata* Madagascar Turtle Dove Streptopelia picturata* Barred Ground Dove Geopelia striata* Common Mynah Acridotheres tristis Madagascar Fody Foudia madagascariensis * breeds on the island Fairy Tern with newly hatched chick	Great Frigatebird Fregata minor Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola Lesser Sandplover Charadrius mongolus Greater Sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii Crab Plover Dromas ardeola Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres Sanderling Calidris alba Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea Greater Crested Tern Sterna bergii Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus has bred Saunders' Tern Sterna saundersi* Crab Plover with crab
	Migrants/Vagrants
	Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aetherus Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda Masked Booby Sula dactylatra Red-footed Booby Sula sula Brown Booby Sula leucogaster Grey Heron (Ardea cinera) Purple Heron Ardea purpurea Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis seychellarum has bred Green-backed Heron Butorides striatus* Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris Garganey Anas querquedula Indian Pond-heron Ardeola grayii White Stork Ciconia ciconia Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni Western Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus Amur Falcon Falco amurensis Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo Common Quail Coturnix coturnix Corncrake Crex crex Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius Caspian Plover Charadrius asiaticus Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica Little Curlew Numenius minutus Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos Grey-tailed Tattler Heteroscelus brevipes Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus Little Stint Calidris minuta Temminck's Stint Calidris temmincki Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotus Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis Ruff Philomachus pugnax Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus Heuglin's Gull Larus heuglini White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis Common Tern Sterna Hirundo Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii Black-naped Tern Sterna sumatrana	European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur Seychelles Blue Pigeon Alectroenas pulcherima Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius Jacobin Cuckoo Oxylophus jacobinus Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus Barn Owl Tyto alba Eurasian Scops-owl Otus scops Eurasian Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus Common Swift Apus apus Pacific Swift Apus pacificus Little Swift Apus affinus Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus European Roller Coracias garrulus Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus Sand Martin Riparia riparia Mascarene Martin Phedina borbonica Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Common House Martin Delichon urbica Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea White Wagtail Motacilla alba Rufous Tailed Rock Thrush Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (Monticola saxatalis) Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus Whinchat Saxicola rubetra Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata House Crow Corvus splendens European Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea Rose-coloured Starling Sturnus roseus Seychelles Fody Foudia sechellarum
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