Checklist for Indian Ocean

eBird Field Checklist

Indian Ocean

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624 species (+109 other taxa) - Year-round, All years

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Waterfowl

White-faced Whistling-Duck

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

whistling-duck sp.

White-backed Duck

Swan Goose

Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type)

Knob-billed Duck

Egyptian Goose

Australian Shelduck

Muscovy Duck

Cotton Pygmy-Goose

African Pygmy-Goose

Garganey

Blue-billed Teal

Northern Shoveler

Meller's Duck

Pacific Black Duck

Mallard

Red-billed Duck

Northern Pintail

Pacific Black Duck x Northern Pintail (hybrid)

Eaton's Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Gray Teal

Bernier's Teal

teal sp.

Ferruginous Duck

Madagascar Pochard

Tufted Duck

duck sp.

Grouse, Quail, and Allies

Helmeted Guineafowl

Ring-necked Pheasant

Green Junglefowl

Red Junglefowl

Gray Francolin

Chinese Francolin

Blue-breasted Quail

Madagascar Partridge

Common Quail

Harlequin Quail

old world quail sp.

Jungle Bush-Quail

Flamingos

Greater Flamingo

Lesser Flamingo

flamingo sp.

Grebes

Little Grebe

Madagascar Grebe

Eared Grebe

grebe sp.

Pigeons and Doves

Rock Pigeon

Comoro Pigeon

Malagasy Turtle-Dove

Pink Pigeon

European Turtle-Dove

Oriental Turtle-Dove

African Collared-Dove

Ring-necked Dove

Red Collared-Dove

Spotted Dove

Laughing Dove

Tambourine Dove

Namaqua Dove

Asian Emerald Dove

Zebra Dove

Comoro Green-Pigeon

Madagascar Green-Pigeon

Madagascar Blue-Pigeon

Comoro Blue-Pigeon

Seychelles Blue-Pigeon

Christmas Island Imperial-Pigeon

pigeon/dove sp.

Mesites

White-breasted Mesite

Brown Mesite

Subdesert Mesite

Sandgrouse

Madagascar Sandgrouse

Cuckoos

Crested Coua

Verreaux's Coua

Blue Coua

Red-capped Coua

Red-fronted Coua

Coquerel's Coua

Running Coua

Giant Coua

Red-breasted Coua

coua sp.

Malagasy Coucal

Chestnut-winged Cuckoo

Pied Cuckoo

Asian Koel

Black-eared Cuckoo

Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

Large Hawk-Cuckoo

Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo

Lesser Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Madagascar Cuckoo

Common Cuckoo

Oriental Cuckoo

Himalayan/Oriental Cuckoo

cuckoo sp. (Cuculidae sp.)

Nightjars

Collared Nightjar

Gray Nightjar

Eurasian Nightjar

Madagascar Nightjar

Caprimulgus sp.

nightjar sp.

Swifts

Madagascar Spinetail

Mottled Spinetail

White-throated Needletail

Christmas Island Swiftlet

Seychelles Swiftlet

Mascarene Swiftlet

Indian Swiftlet

White-nest/Germain's Swiftlet (Edible-nest Swiftlet)

dark swiftlet sp.

swiftlet sp.

Alpine Swift

Common Swift

Common/Pallid Swift

African Swift

Malagasy Swift

Pacific Swift

Blyth's Swift

Little Swift

House Swift

Apus/Tachymarptis sp.

Malagasy Palm Swift

small swift sp.

swift sp.

Hummingbirds

Shining-green/Sapphire-throated/Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird

Flufftails

Madagascar Forest Rail

Tsingy Forest Rail

Madagascar Flufftail

Slender-billed Flufftail

flufftail sp.

Rails, Gallinules, and Allies

Madagascar Rail

White-throated Rail

Corn Crake

Buff-banded Rail

Spotted Crake

Lesser Moorhen

Eurasian Moorhen

Red-knobbed Coot

Allen's Gallinule

African Swamphen

Watercock

White-breasted Waterhen

Baillon's Crake

Sakalava Rail

Shorebirds

Black-faced Sheathbill

Eurasian Thick-knee

Black-winged Stilt

Pied Stilt

Eurasian Oystercatcher

Black-bellied Plover

Pacific Golden-Plover

Common Ringed Plover

Three-banded Plover

Little Ringed Plover

Spur-winged Lapwing

Gray-headed Lapwing

Sociable Lapwing

Caspian Plover

Oriental Plover

Tibetan Sand-Plover

Siberian/Tibetan Sand-Plover

Greater Sand-Plover

sand-plover sp.

Madagascar Plover

Kittlitz's Plover

White-fronted Plover

Kentish Plover

plover sp.

Greater Painted-Snipe

Madagascar Jacana

Whimbrel

Little Curlew

Far Eastern Curlew

Eurasian Curlew

Whimbrel/Eurasian Curlew

Bar-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit

Jack Snipe

Great Snipe

Pin-tailed Snipe

Swinhoe's/Pin-tailed Snipe

Common Snipe

Madagascar Snipe

snipe sp.

Red-necked Phalarope

Red/Red-necked Phalarope

Terek Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Gray-tailed Tattler

Marsh Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Common Redshank

Spotted Redshank

Common Greenshank

Tringa sp.

Ruddy Turnstone

Great Knot

Red Knot

Ruff

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Temminck's Stint

Long-toed Stint

Red-necked Stint

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Sanderling

Dunlin

Little Stint

Red-necked/Little Stint

Pectoral Sandpiper

peep sp.

Calidris sp.

Madagascar Buttonquail

Crab-Plover

Australian Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole

Black-winged Pratincole

Collared Pratincole

Madagascar Pratincole

pratincole sp.

shorebird sp.

Skuas and Jaegers

Long-tailed Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Pomarine Jaeger

Chilean Skua

Brown Skua

South Polar Skua

jaeger sp.

skua sp.

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

Silver Gull

Black-headed Gull

Gray-hooded Gull

Franklin's Gull

Sooty Gull

Kelp Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Larus sp.

gull sp.

White Tern

Brown Noddy

Lesser Noddy

Brown/Black Noddy

Sooty Tern

Bridled Tern

Sooty/Bridled Tern

Little Tern

Saunders's Tern

Little/Saunders's Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Gull-billed/Australian Tern

Caspian Tern

Whiskered Tern

Black Tern

White-winged Tern

Arctic Tern

Antarctic Tern

Arctic/Antarctic Tern

Kerguelen Tern

Common Tern

White-cheeked Tern

Black-naped Tern

Roseate Tern

Sterna sp.

Sandwich Tern

Lesser Crested Tern

Great Crested Tern

large tern sp.

tern sp.

gull/tern sp.

Tropicbirds

White-tailed Tropicbird

Red-billed Tropicbird

Red-tailed Tropicbird

tropicbird sp.

Penguins

King Penguin

Gentoo Penguin

Chinstrap Penguin

Macaroni Penguin

Royal Penguin

Southern Rockhopper Penguin

Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin

Albatrosses

Northern Royal Albatross

Southern Royal Albatross

Northern/Southern Royal Albatross

Snowy Albatross

Snowy/Tristan/Antipodean Albatross

Amsterdam Albatross

large albatross sp.

Sooty Albatross

Light-mantled Albatross

Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross

Gray-headed Albatross

White-capped Albatross

Salvin's Albatross

White-capped/Salvin's/Chatham Albatross

Black-browed Albatross

Storm-Petrels

Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Gray-backed Storm-Petrel

White-faced Storm-Petrel

White-bellied Storm-Petrel

Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel

Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel

storm-petrel sp. (white-rumped)

storm-petrel sp.

Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving-Petrels

Southern Giant-Petrel

Northern Giant-Petrel

Southern/Northern Giant-Petrel

Southern Fulmar

Antarctic Petrel

Cape Petrel

Kerguelen Petrel

Great-winged Petrel

Trindade Petrel

Herald Petrel

Soft-plumaged Petrel

Barau's Petrel

White-headed Petrel

Pterodroma sp.

Blue Petrel

Fairy Prion

Salvin's Prion

MacGillivray's Prion

Salvin's/MacGillivray's Prion

Antarctic Prion

Slender-billed Prion

Fulmar Prion

prion sp.

Bulwer's Petrel

Jouanin's Petrel

Mascarene Petrel

Tahiti Petrel

Gray Petrel

White-chinned Petrel

Procellaria sp.

Streaked Shearwater

Cory's Shearwater

Flesh-footed Shearwater

Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Subantarctic Shearwater

Little/Subantarctic Shearwater

Tropical Shearwater

Persian Shearwater

shearwater sp.

Common Diving-Petrel

South Georgia Diving-Petrel

diving-petrel sp.

procellariid sp.

Storks

African Openbill

White Stork

Yellow-billed Stork

Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets

Lesser Frigatebird

Great Frigatebird

Christmas Island Frigatebird

frigatebird sp.

Abbott's Booby

Cape Gannet

Australasian Gannet

Red-footed Booby

Brown Booby

Masked Booby

booby sp.

Cormorants and Anhingas

African Darter

Long-tailed Cormorant

Little Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Crozet Shag

Kerguelen Shag

Shoebill and Hammerkop

Hamerkop

Herons, Ibis, and Allies

Great Bittern

Black Bittern

Cinnamon Bittern

Schrenck's Bittern

Little Bittern

Yellow Bittern

small bittern sp.

Black-crowned Night Heron

Nankeen Night Heron

Malayan Night Heron

Japanese Night Heron

Black Heron

Pacific Reef-Heron

Little Egret

Western Reef-Heron

Little Egret/Western Reef-Heron

Pied Heron

White-faced Heron

Striated Heron

Squacco Heron

Malagasy Pond-Heron

Indian Pond-Heron

Chinese Pond-Heron

Javan Pond-Heron

pond-heron sp.

Western Cattle Egret

Eastern Cattle Egret

Western/Eastern Cattle Egret

Great Egret

Medium Egret

Eastern Cattle/Medium Egret

Great/Medium Egret

Yellow-billed/Medium Egret

Plumed Egret

Gray Heron

Purple Heron

Humblot's Heron

Goliath Heron

Ardea sp.

heron sp.

white egret sp.

Glossy Ibis

Madagascar Ibis

Malagasy Sacred Ibis

Australian Ibis

African Spoonbill

Vultures, Hawks, and Allies

Osprey

Black-winged Kite

Madagascar Harrier-Hawk

Madagascar Serpent-Eagle

European Honey-buzzard

Oriental Honey-buzzard

Madagascar Cuckoo-Hawk

Bat Hawk

Western Marsh Harrier

Reunion Harrier

Malagasy Harrier

Pallid Harrier

Pied Harrier

Pallid/Montagu's Harrier

Shikra

Chinese Sparrowhawk

Frances's Sparrowhawk

Brown Goshawk

Japanese Sparrowhawk

Madagascar Sparrowhawk

Henst's Goshawk

Accipiter sp.

Black Kite

Brahminy Kite

White-bellied Sea-Eagle

Madagascar Fish-Eagle

Madagascar Buzzard

hawk sp.

Owls

Barn Owl

Red Owl

Eurasian Scops-Owl

Moheli Scops-Owl

Comoro Scops-Owl

Seychelles Scops-Owl

Anjouan Scops-Owl

Mayotte Scops-Owl

Madagascar Scops-Owl

scops-owl sp.

White-browed Owl

Madagascar Owl

Marsh Owl

Northern Boobook

Christmas Island Boobook

owl sp.

Cuckoo-roller

Hoopoes

Eurasian Hoopoe

Madagascar Hoopoe

Kingfishers

Common Kingfisher

Malagasy Kingfisher

Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher

Sacred Kingfisher

kingfisher sp.

Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Madagascar Bee-eater

Blue-tailed Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

bee-eater sp.

European Roller

Broad-billed Roller

Dollarbird

Scaly Ground-Roller

Short-legged Ground-Roller

Long-tailed Ground-Roller

Pitta-like Ground-Roller

Rufous-headed Ground-Roller

Barbets and Toucans

Coppersmith Barbet

Falcons and Caracaras

Lesser Kestrel

Eurasian Kestrel

Malagasy Kestrel

Mauritius Kestrel

Seychelles Kestrel

Nankeen Kestrel

Banded Kestrel

Red-necked Falcon

Amur Falcon

Eleonora's Falcon

Sooty Falcon

Eurasian Hobby

Amur Falcon/Eurasian Hobby

Brown Falcon

Lanner Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

large falcon sp.

falcon sp.

diurnal raptor sp.

Cockatoos

Cockatiel

Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies

Greater Vasa Parrot

Lesser Vasa Parrot

Greater/Lesser Vasa Parrot

Comoro Black Parrot

Greater Vasa/Comoro Black Parrot

Seychelles Parrot

Papuan Eclectus

Alexandrine Parakeet

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Echo Parakeet

Crimson Rosella

Budgerigar

Red Lory

Rainbow Lorikeet

Gray-headed Lovebird

Rosy-faced Lovebird

Fischer's Lovebird

Monk Parakeet

Turquoise-fronted Parrot

Sun Parakeet

Blue-and-yellow Macaw

Scarlet Macaw

parakeet sp.

parrot sp.

Asities

Velvet Asity

Schlegel's Asity

Common Sunbird-Asity

Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity

Old World Pittas

Fairy Pitta

Cuckooshrikes

Comoro Cuckooshrike

Madagascar Cuckooshrike

Black-faced Cuckooshrike

Reunion Cuckooshrike

Mauritius Cuckooshrike

Old World Orioles

Eurasian Golden Oriole

Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies

Archbold's Newtonia

Common Newtonia

Dark Newtonia

Red-tailed Newtonia

Tylas Vanga

Red-tailed Vanga

Red-shouldered Vanga

Nuthatch-Vanga

Chabert Vanga

Crossley's Vanga

Comoro Blue Vanga

Madagascar Blue Vanga

Hook-billed Vanga

Ward's Flycatcher

Rufous Vanga

Helmet Vanga

Bernier's Vanga

Sickle-billed Vanga

White-headed Vanga

Pollen's Vanga

Lafresnaye's Vanga

Van Dam's Vanga

Drongos

Aldabra Drongo

Comoro Drongo

Crested Drongo

Mayotte Drongo

Crow-billed Drongo

Monarch Flycatchers

Mascarene Paradise-Flycatcher

Seychelles Paradise-Flycatcher

Malagasy Paradise-Flycatcher

Shrikes

Tiger Shrike

Red-backed Shrike

Brown Shrike

shrike sp.

Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens

House Crow

Pied Crow

Larks

Madagascar Lark

Greater Short-toed Lark

Bimaculated Lark

Cisticolas and Allies

Common Jery

Green Jery

Stripe-throated Jery

jery sp.

Madagascar Cisticola

Reed Warblers and Allies

Malagasy Brush-Warbler

Subdesert Brush-Warbler

Grande Comore Brush-Warbler

Moheli Brush-Warbler

Madagascar Swamp Warbler

Rodrigues Warbler

Seychelles Warbler

Oriental Reed Warbler

Acrocephalus sp.

Grassbirds and Allies

Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler

Gray Emutail

Brown Emutail

Malagasy Warblers

White-throated Oxylabes

Long-billed Bernieria

Cryptic Warbler

Wedge-tailed Jery

Thamnornis

Yellow-browed Oxylabes

Spectacled Tetraka

Appert's Tetraka

Dusky Tetraka

Gray-crowned Tetraka

Rand's Warbler

Martins and Swallows

Mascarene Martin

Madagascar Martin

Gray-throated Martin

Bank Swallow

Barn Swallow

Western House-Martin

Asian House-Martin

house-martin sp.

Red-rumped Swallow

Tree Martin

swallow sp.

Bulbuls

Reunion Bulbul

Malagasy Bulbul

Mauritius Bulbul

Grande Comore Bulbul

Moheli Bulbul

Seychelles Bulbul

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

Dusky Warbler

Common Chiffchaff

Arctic Warbler

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

Comoro White-eye

Reunion White-eye

Mauritius White-eye

Reunion Gray White-eye

Mauritius Gray White-eye

Seychelles White-eye

Anjouan White-eye

Moheli White-eye

Malagasy White-eye

Kirk's White-eye

Mayotte White-eye

Aldabra White-eye

Christmas Island White-eye

Zosterops sp.

Laughingthrushes and Allies

Red-billed Leiothrix

Starlings and Mynas

Common Hill Myna

Wattled Starling

Rosy Starling

Daurian Starling

Common Myna

Javan Myna

Madagascar Starling

Thrushes

Siberian Thrush

Comoro Thrush

Eyebrowed Thrush

Island Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

Gray-streaked Flycatcher

Dark-sided Flycatcher

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

Grande Comore Flycatcher

Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin

Madagascar Magpie-Robin

Seychelles Magpie-Robin

Blue-and-white Flycatcher

Blue-and-white/Zappey's Flycatcher

Siberian Rubythroat

Narcissus Flycatcher

Mugimaki Flycatcher

Common Redstart

Littoral Rock-Thrush

Amber Mountain Rock-Thrush

Forest Rock-Thrush

Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush

Blue Rock-Thrush

rock-thrush sp.

Whinchat

Siberian/Amur Stonechat

African Stonechat

Reunion Stonechat

Northern Wheatear

Isabelline Wheatear

Pied Wheatear

Sunbirds and Spiderhunters

Souimanga Sunbird

Malagasy Sunbird

Seychelles Sunbird

Humblot's Sunbird

Anjouan Sunbird

Mayotte Sunbird

Cinnyris sp.

sunbird sp.

Weavers and Allies

Village Weaver

Black-headed Weaver

Nelicourvi Weaver

Sakalava Weaver

Ploceus sp.

Red-billed Quelea

Red Fody

Aldabra Fody

Red-headed Fody

Forest Fody

Red/Forest Fody

Mauritius Fody

Seychelles Fody

Rodrigues Fody

Euplectes sp.

Estrildids

Zebra Finch

Bronze Mannikin

Madagascar Munia

Java Sparrow

Scaly-breasted Munia

Common Waxbill

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

Indigobirds and Whydahs

Pin-tailed Whydah

Old World Sparrows

House Sparrow

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

Forest Wagtail

Madagascar Wagtail

Gray Wagtail

Western Yellow Wagtail

Eastern Yellow Wagtail

Citrine Wagtail

White Wagtail

wagtail sp.

Tree Pipit

Red-throated Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

Common Rosefinch

Yellow-fronted Canary

Cape Canary

Old World Buntings

Ortolan Bunting

Others

passerine sp.

bird sp.