Birds of Kiribati

List of Common Birds Found in Kiribati

Native Birds

• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Black-bellied Plover
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-faced Cuckooshrike
• Black-footed Albatross
• Black-naped Tern
• Black Noddy
• Black-winged Petrel
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-faced Parrotfinch
• Bridled Tern
• Bristle-thighed Curlew
• Brown Booby
• Brown Goshawk
• Brown-headed Gull
• Brown Noddy
• Brown Skua
• Buff-banded Rail
• Chestnut-bellied Monarch
• Chinese Pond Heron
• Christmas Island Frigatebird 
• Collared Kingfisher
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Tern
• Common White Tern
• Eastern Reef Egret
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Fawn-breasted Whistler
• Golden Whistler
• Gray-headed Albatross
• Gray Plover
• Gray Ternlet
• Great Crested Tern
• Great Frigatebird
• Green-winged Teal
• Island Thrush
• Kermadac Petrel
• Kiribati Reed Warbler 
• Laughing Gull
• Lesser Frigatebird
• Lesser Golden Plover
• Lesser Noddy
• Little Tern
• Little Whimbrel
• Long-tailed Cuckoo
• Masked Booby
• Melanesian Flycatcher
• Micronesian Myzomela
• Micronesian Starling
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler
• Oceanic Flycatcher
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pacific Imperial Pigeon
• Pacific Reef Heron
• Pacific Robin
• Pacific Swallow
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Phoenix Petrel
• Polynesian Storm Petrel
• Polynesian Triller
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Providence Petrel
• Red-footed Booby
• Red-necked Stint
• Red Phalarope
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
• Rock Pigeon
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Sacred Kingfisher
• Samoan Whistler
• Shy Ground Dove
• Singing Starling
• Slender-billed White-eye
• Sooty Shearwater
• Sooty Tern
• South Polar Skua
• Spotless Crake
• Streaked Fantail
• Tabiteuea White-eye 
• Terek Sandpiper
• Wandering Tattler
• Whimbrel
• White-capped Noddy
• White-rumped Swiftlet
• White-tailed Tropicbird
• White Tern
• White-throated Pigeon
• White-winged Tern

Non-native Birds

• American Wigeon
• Black-winged Petrel
• Canada Goose
• Collared Petrel
• Franklin’s Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Kelp Gull
• Kuhl’s Lorikeet
• Mallard
• Mottled Petrel
• Nazca Booby
• Pycroft’s Petrel
• Red Junglefowl
• Streaked Shearwater
• Tahiti Petrel
• White-necked Petrel

Kiribati offers fantastic birding opportunities, especially for bird enthusiasts interested in seabirds and unique island species. While there are limited birding sites in Kiribati due to its remote and scattered atolls, some of the best places for birdwatching include Christmas Island, Fanning Island, and Teraina Island. The best time to go birding in the country is between October and April, when the seabirds breed and migratory birds visit.