Fiji to Tahiti Bird List -- September 15 - October 1, 2014 Produced by Peter Harrison BIRDS Date of sighting in September 2014 - Key for Locations on Page 7 Common Name 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Ducks Pacific Black Duck X Pheasants and allies Red Junglefowl X Petrels, Shearwaters Tahiti Petrel X X Black-winged Petrel White-necked Petrel Gould's Petrel Murphy's Petrel Pintado Petrel Juan Fernandez Petrel 4 Kermadec Petrel 1 Herald Petrel Henderson Petrel Phoenix Petrel 2 1 Bulwer's Petrel Wedge-tailed Shearwater 2 3 1 Sooty Shearwater X X X X Short-tailed Shearwater X X X X Audubon's Shearwater Christmas Shearwater Tropical Shearwater X Cook's Petrel X 1 Collared Petrel 3 1 Storm-petrels White-throated Storm-petrel Common Name 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Tropicbirds Red-tailed Tropicbird X X X X X White-tailed Tropicbird X X X X X X X Herons, Bitterns Pacific Reef Egret X X X X X X X X X X X Black Bittern White faced Heron X Frigatebirds Great Frigatebird X X X X X X X X X X Lesser Frigatebird X X X X X Gannets, Boobies Masked Booby Red-footed Booby X X X X X X X X X X X X X Brown Booby X X X X X X X X X Kites, Hawks, and Eagles Fiji Goshawk X Black Kite Swamp Harrier X Rails, Crakes, and Coots Buff-banded Rail X X X Spotless Crake Purple Swamphen X X Plovers Pacific Golden Plover X X X X X X X X X X X Sandpipers and Snipes Bristle-thighed Curlew X X Gray-tailed Tattler Common Name 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Wandering Tattler X X X X X X Ruddy Turnstone X Sanderling Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers Blue-grey Noddy Brown Noddy X X X X X X X X X X Black Noddy X X X X X X X X X Great Crested Tern X X X X Black-naped Tern X X Sooty Tern X X X Bridled Tern X X X X Common White-Tern Fairy (White) Tern X X X X X X X X X X X Grey-backed Tern Little Fairy Tern Jaegers Long-tailed Jaeger X Pomarine Jaeger X Parasitic Jaeger X Pigeons and Doves Spotted Dove X X Rock Dove X X X X Zebra Dove X X Purple-capped Fruit Dove X X X X X Cook Island Fruit Dove X Many-colored Fruit Dove X X X Henderson Island Fruit Dove White-capped Fruit Dove Grey-green Fruit Dove X Orange Dove X Pacific Imperial Pigeon X X X X X Common Name 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Peale's Imperial Pigeon X X White-Throated Pigeon (a.k.a. Metallic Pigeon) X Swifts White-rumped Swiftlet X X X X X X X Atiu Swiftlet X Kingfishers Collared Kingfisher X Sacred Kingfisher X Flat-billed Kingfisher X X Chattering Kingfisher X X Parrots Red Shining Parrot X Collared Lory X Blue-crowned Lorikeet X X Blue Lorikeet X Red-throated Lorikeet Stephen's Lorikeet Kuhl's Lorikeet (Rimatara Lorikeet) X Cuckoos Long-tailed Cuckoo X X X Honeyeaters Wattled Honeyeater X X X X X X Orange-breasted Honeyeater X X X Giant Honeyeater X Cardinal Honeyeater X X Cuckooshrikes Polynesian Triller X X X Samoan Triller Common Name 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Bulbuls Red-vented Bulbul X X X X X Whistlers and Allies Golden Whistler X Tongan Whistler Samoan Whistler X X Fantails Streaked Fantail X Samoan Fantail X Silktail Monarchs Azure-crested Flycatcher X Black-throated Shrikebill X Slaty Flycatcher X Samoan Flycatcher X Rarotonga Monarch X Australian Robins Scarlet Robin X Swallows and Martins Pacific Swallow X X X Cettia Bush Warblers and Allies Fiji Bush Warbler X White-eyes Fiji White-eye X X Silvereye X X Common Name 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Chats, Old World Flycatchers White-rumped Shama Thrushes Island Thrush X Starlings Polynesian Starling X X X X Jungle Myna X X Common Myna X X X Samoan Starling X X Waxbills, Munias, and Allies Red-browed Finch Red-faced Parrotfinch X X Samoan Parrotfinch X Pink-billed Parrotfinch Chestnut-breasted Munia X Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches House Sparrow Finches Common Duica-finch KEY 16 - September 16 ~ Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji 17 - September 17 ~ Nadi / Lautoka 18 - September 18 ~ Taveuni Island 19 - September 19 ~ Futuna Island, Territory of Wallis & Futuna 20 - September 20 ~ Wallis Island 21 - September 21 ~ Upolu Island, Samoa 22 - September 22 ~ Savai’i Island / At Sea 23 - September 23 ~ Suwarrow Atoll, Cook Islands 24 - September 24 ~ Suwarrow Atoll 25 - September 25 ~ Palmerston Atoll 26 - September 26 ~ Aitutaki Island 27 - September 27 ~ Atiu Island 28 - September 28 ~ At Sea 29 - September 29 ~ Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia.