Millions of seabirds and thousands of endemic land birds make the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands their homes.

SEABIRDS:

  • Laysan albatross   moli   Diomedea immutabilis
  • Black-footed albatross  Diomedea nigripes
  • Dark-rumped petrel   `ua`u  Pterdroma phaeopygia sandwichensis
  • Bonin Petrel  Pterdroma hypoleuca
  • Band-rumped storm-petrel  `ake`ake  Oceanodroma castro
  • Wedge-tailed shearwater  `ua`u kani  Puffinus pacificus
  • Christmas shearwater  Puffinus nativitatis
  • Bulwer's petrel   `ou  Bulweria berwerii
  • Red-tailed tropicbird   koa`e `ula  Phaethon rubricausa rothschildi
  • White-tailed tropicbird   koa`e kea  Pheaton lepturus dorotheae
  • Masked booby     `a  Sula dactylatra personata
  • Red-footed booby    `a  Sula sula rubripes
  • Brown booby     `a  Sula leucongaster plotus
  • Great frigate bird     'iwa  Fregata minor palmerstoni
  • Sooty tern     `ewa`ewa  Sterna fuscata oahuensis
  • Gray-backed tern     pakalakala  Sterna lunata
  • Brown noddy    noio koha  Anous stolidus pileatus
  • Black noddy   noio  Anous minutus melanogenys
  • Blue-gray noddy  Procelsterna cerula saxatilis
  • White tern     manu-o-Ku  Gygis alba rothschildi

LAND BIRDS:

 

Photos by Robert Shallenberger