Birds Endemic to Solomon Islands
Solomon Island Maps
Bird Families found on Solomon Islands
- Parrots / Lories / Eclectuses, Cockatoos, etc. (hookbills)
- Pigeons and Doves
- Birds of Prey
- Crows and Starlings
- Kingfishers
- Sea / Water / Wading Birds
- White-eyes
Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen)
Barred Cuckooshrike / Yellow-eyed Cuckooshrike (Coracina lineata)
Black-bellied Cicadabirds (Coracina holopolia)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes (Coracina novaehollandiae)
Buff-headed Coucal (Centropus milo) – A common endemic of the central islands of the Solomon Islands
Cardinal Myzomela (Myzomela cardinalis)
Common Cicadabirds (Coracina tenuirostris) – also known as Slender-billed Cicadabirds
Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)
Fan-tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis)
Glossy Swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta)
Grey Fantails (Rhipidura fuliginosa)
Guadalcanal Thicketbirds (Old World Warbler / Megalurulus whitneyi) – No Photo
Hooded Whistler (Pachycephala implicata) – Range: Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Hornbills (Bucerotidae)
Horsfield’s Cuckoo or Oriental Cuckoos (Cuculus optatus)
Island Leaf-warblers (Phylloscopus poliocephalus)
Island Thrushes (Turdus poliocephalus)
Long-tailed Trillers (Lalage leucopyga)
Makira Leaf-warblers or San Cristobal Leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus makirensis)
Malaita Fantails (Rhipidura malaitae)
Marbled Frogmouth (Podargus ocellatus).
Mayr’s Swiftlet (Collocalia orientalis)
Melanesian Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina caledonica)
Melanesian Megapode or Melanesian Scrubfowl (Megapodius eremita)
New Caledonian Flycatcher or Melanesian Flycatcher (Myiagra caledonica)
Oriole Whistler (Pachycephala orioloides) (no photo)
Pacific or Eastern Koels (Eudynamys orientalis)
Pacific Robin (Petroica multicolor)
Papuan Hornbill (R. p. mendanae) – Range: From Choiseul to Guadalcanal and Malaita
Moustached Treeswift (Hemiprocne mystacea)
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus / Chalcites lucidus)
Solomon Islands Cuckoo-shrikes (Oracina holopolia)
Sombre Leaf-warblers or Kulambangra Leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus amoenus)
Spotless Crake (Porzana tabuensis)
White-bellied Cuckooshrike (Coracina papuensis)
White-browed Crakes (Porzana cinerea)
White-rumped Swiftlet (Aerodramus spodiopygia)
White-throated Whistler (Pachycephala vitiensis) – Range: Santa Cruz Islands in the Solomons (no photo)
Willie Wagtails (Rhipidura leucophrys)
