Listing of Sea Birds found in Vanuatu
Vanuatu is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean
Photos Seabirds (mostly remain on the open sea, nest on islands and on the coast): Photos
Index / Photos: Wetland Birds … Ducks and Grebes … Birds of Inland and Coastal Waters / Shore and Wading Birds
Photos of Land / Forest Birds found on Vanuatu with links to species pages
Seabirds (mostly remain on the open sea, nest on islands and on the coast) … Photos
Boobies
- Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)
- Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) – Rare/Accidental
- Red-footed Booby (Sula sula)
Cormorants
- Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)
Frigatebirds
- Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) – Rare/Accidental
- Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
Jaegers
- Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus) – Rare/Accidental
Petrels
- Black-winged Petrel (Pterodroma nigripennis) – Rare/Accidental
- Bulwer’s Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) – Rare/Accidental
- Cape Petrel (Daption capense)
- Collared Petrel (Pterodroma brevipes) – Near threatened
- Falla’s Petrel or Vanuatu Petrel (Pterodroma occulta)
- Gould’s Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera) – Vulnerable (No Photo)
- Grey Petrel (Procellaria cinerea) – Near-threatened
- Herald Petrel (Pterodroma heraldica) – Rare/Accidental
- Kermadec Petrel (Pterodroma neglecta) – Rare / Accidental
- Mottled Petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) – Near-threatened
- Providence Petrel (Pterodroma solandri) – Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
- Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) – Rare / Accidental / Near-threatened
- Tahiti Petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata) – Rare/Accidental – Near-threatened
- Trindade Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) – Rare/Accidental (No Photo)
- White-necked Petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis) (No Photo)
Shearwaters (Genus: Puffinus)
- Audubon’s Shearwaters (Puffinus lherminieri gunax or Puffinus lherminieri)
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes)
- Fluttering Shearwater (Puffinus gavia)
- Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris)
- Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) – Near-threatened
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)
Skuas
- Pomarine Skua (Stercorarius pomarinus) – Rare/Accidental
Storm Petrels
- Black-bellied Storm Petrel (Fregetta tropica) – Rare/Accidental (No Photo)
- White-bellied Storm Petrel (Fregetta grallaria) – Rare/Accidental (No Photo)
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) – Rare/Accidental
- Polynesian Storm Petrel (Nesofregetta fuliginosa)
Prions
- Antarctic Prion (Pachyptila desolata) – Rare / Accidental
Tropicbirds
- Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)
- White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)
