Birds native to, or found on, the island of Saint Helena (Listing)
Photos of Birds Found on Saint Helena
Saint Helena Map and Birding Information
Listing of Birds found on Saint Helena
Allen’s Gallinule (Porphyrio alleni)
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis)
Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittata)
Antarctic Giant Petrel or Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus)
Arctic Skua or Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Audubon’s Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri)
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma castro)
Barred Ground-dove aka Zebra Dove (Geopetia striata striata) – (Common)
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel (Fregetta tropica)
Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Black Noddy (Anous minutus)
Blacksmith Lapwings or Blacksmith Plovers (Vanellus armatus)
Broad-billed Prion (Pachyptila vittata) – Seabird
Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)
Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)
Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarctica)
Bulwer’s Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)
Cape Petrel (Daption capense)
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Chukar (Alectoris chukar)
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) – Introduced towards the end of the same century – common on the island
Common Waxbill (Estrilda astrild)
Cory’s Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)
Giant Hoopoe (Upupa antaios), also known as St. Helena Giant Hoopoe or St. Helena Hoopoe -Endemic to the island of Saint Helena – † Extinct
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor)
Grey-backed Storm-petrel (Garrodia nereis) – seabird
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Java Sparrow (Padda oryzivoraI)
Large Saint Helena Petrel (Pterodroma rupinarum) – † Extinct seabird
Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
Leach’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)
Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
Madagascar or Red Fody (Foudia madagascariensis), sometimes known as the Red Cardinal Fody or Common Fody – Introduced Species
Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)
Murphy’s Petrel (Pterodroma ultima)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
Pomarine Skua or Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)
Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)
Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula)
Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
Ring-necked or Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
Rock Pigeon / Feral Pigeon (Columba livia)
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Rufous-chested Dotterel (Charadrius modestus)- Range: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, Peru, Saint Helena, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and sandy shores.
Saint Helena Crake (Porzana astrictocarpus) – † Extinct
Saint Helena Cuckoo (Nannococcyx psix) – † Extinct
Saint Helena Shearwater (Puffinus pacificoides) – † Extinct seabird
Saint Helena Plover – known locally as the Wirebird (Charadrius sanctaehelenae)
Saint Helena Swamphen (Aphanocrex / formerly included in Atlantisia) – † Extinct
St. Helena Waxbills
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Snowy Sheathbill (Chionis alba)
Soft-plumaged Petrel (Pterodroma mollis)
Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca)
Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) – seabird
Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) – seabird
White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) – shorebird
Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides) – seabird
Swainson’s Canary (Serinus flaviventris) – Range: Western and central regions of southern Africa. Introduced to Ascension and St Helena island
Tropic Birds (Phaethon)
Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) – seabird
White-bellied Storm-Petrel (Fregetta grallaria) – seabird
White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) – seabird
White-faced Storm-Petrel (Pelagodroma marina) – seabird
White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
White or Fairy Tern (Gygis alba)
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos)
Zebra Dove (Geopelia striata, also called Barred Ground Dove) – It inhabits scrub, farmland and open country in lowland areas and is commonly seen in parks and gardens
