Hawaiʻi Bird Species
Hawai‘i’s birds represent one of the greatest examples of variety and adaptation anywhere in the world. In addition to the unique native species, many introduced birds also call Hawai‘i home. In only a few hours, an intrepid birder could spot endangered native species, African game birds, European song birds, and North American waterbirds.
| American Birding Association Common Name | Hawaiian Name | Scientific Name |
|---|---|---|
| snow goose | Anser caerulescens | |
| cackling goose | Branta hutchinsii | |
| Canada goose | Branta canadensis | |
| Hawaiian goose | nēnē | Branta sandvicensis |
| muscovy duck | Cairina moschata | |
| American wigeon | Mareca americana | |
| mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Hawaiian duck | koloa | Anas wyvilliana |
| blue-winged teal | Spatula discors | |
| northern shoveler | koloa moha | Spatula clypeata |
| northern pintail | koloa mapu | Anas acuta |
| green-winged teal | Anas crecca | |
| ring-necked duck | Aythya collaris | |
| greater scaup | Aythya marila | |
| lesser scaup | Aythya affinis | |
| bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | |
| helmeted guineafowl (domestic type) | Numida meleagris | |
| California quail | Callipepla californica | |
| chukar | Alectoris chukar | |
| gray francolin | Francolinus pondicerianus | |
| black francolin | Francolinus francolinus | |
| Erckel’s francolin | Pternistis erckelii | |
| red junglefowl (domestic) | moa | Gallus gallus |
| kalij pheasant | Lophura leucomelanos | |
| ring-necked pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | |
| Indian peafowl | Pavo cristatus | |
| wild turkey | Meleagris gallopavo | |
| pied-billed grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
| Hawaiian petrel | ʻuaʻu | Pterodroma sandwichensis |
| Bulwer’s petrel | ʻou | Bulweria bulwerii |
| wedge-tailed shearwater | ʻuaʻu kani | Ardenna pacifica |
| sooty shearwater | Ardenna grisea | |
| Newell’s shearwater | ʻaʻo | Puffinus newelli |
| Leach’s storm-petrel | Oceanodroma leucorhoa | |
| band-rumped storm-petrel | ʻakeʻake | Oceanodroma castro |
| white-tailed tropicbird | koaʻe kea | Phaethon lepturus |
| red-tailed tropicbird | koaʻe ʻula | Phaethon rubricauda |
| great frigatebird | ʻiwa | Fregata minor |
| masked booby | ʻā | Sula dactylatra |
| brown booby | ʻā | Sula leucogaster |
| red-footed booby | ʻā | Sula sula |
| cattle egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| black-crowned night-heron | ʻaukuʻu | Nycticorax nycticorax |
| white-faced ibis | Plegadis chihi | |
| Hawaiian hawk | ʻio | Buteo solitarius |
| Hawaiian coot | ʻalae keʻokeʻo | Fulica alai |
| Hawaiian black-necked stilt | aeʻo | Himantopus mexicanus knudseni |
| Pacific golden-plover | kolea | Pluvialis fulva |
| semipalmated plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| wandering tattler | ʻūlili | Tringa incana |
| bristle-thighed curlew | kioea | Numenius tahitiensis |
| ruddy turnstone | ʻakekeke | Arenaria interpres |
| sharp-tailed sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | |
| sanderling | hunakai | Calidris alba |
| least sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | |
| pectoral sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| long-billed dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | |
| laughing gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
| brown noddy | noio koha | Anous stolidus |
| black noddy | noio | Anous minutus |
| sooty tern | ʻewaʻewa | Onychoprion fuscatus |
| least tern | Sternula antillarum | |
| chestnut-bellied sandgrouse | Pterocles exustus | |
| rock pigeon | Columba livia | |
| spotted dove | Spilopelia chinensis | |
| zebra dove | Geopelia striata | |
| mourning dove | Zenaida macroura | |
| barn owl | Tyto alba | |
| Hawaiian short-eared owl | pueo | Asio flammeus sandwichensis |
| mitred parakeet | Psittacara mitratus | |
| red-masked parakeet | Psittacara erythrogenys | |
| rosy-faced lovebird | Agapornis roseicollis | |
| Hawaii elepaio | ʻelepaio | Chasiempis sandwichensis |
| Eurasian skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Japanese bush-warbler | Horornis diphone | |
| warbling white-eye | Zosterops japonicus | |
| Chinese hwamei | Garrulax canorus | |
| red-billed leiothrix | Leiothrix lutea | |
| omao | ʻōmaʻo | Myadestes obscurus |
| northern mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | |
| common myna | Acridotheres tristis | |
| red-crested cardinal | Paroaria coronata | |
| yellow-billed cardinal | Paroaria capitata | |
| saffron finch | Sicalis flaveola | |
| northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
| Maui alauahio | ʻAlauahio | Paroreomyza montana |
| palila | palila | Loxioides bailleui |
| akohekohe | ʻākohekohe | Palmeria dolei |
| apapane | ʻapapane | Himatione sanguinea |
| iiwi | ʻiʻiwi | Drepanis coccinea |
| Maui parrotbill | kiwikiu | Pseudonestor xanthophrys |
| akiapolaau | ʻakiapōlāʻau | Hemignathus wilsoni |
| Hawaii amakihi | ʻamakihi | Chlorodrepanis virens |
| Hawaii creeper | ʻalawī | Loxops mana |
| Hawaii akepa | ʻākepa | Loxops coccineus |
| house finch | Haemorhous mexicanus | |
| yellow-fronted canary | Serinus mozambicus | |
| house sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| lavender waxbill | Estrilda caerulescens | |
| orange-cheeked waxbill | Estrilda melpoda | |
| common waxbill | Estrilda astrild | |
| red avadavat | Amandava amandava | |
| African silverbill | Euodice cantans | |
| Java sparrow | Lonchura oryzivora | |
| scaly-breasted munia | Lonchura punctulata | |
| chestnut munia | Lonchura atricapilla |