Birds of Hawaii

348 bird species have been recorded in Hawaii on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 347 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.

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Birds to know first

• African SilverbillEuodice cantans
• AkekeeLoxops caeruleirostris
• AkiapolaauHemignathus wilsoni
• AkikikiOreomystis bairdi
• AkohekohePalmeria dolei
• American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
• American Barn OwlTyto furcata
• American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
• American CootFulica americana
• American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
• American WigeonMareca americana
• AnianiauMagumma parva
• ApapaneHimatione sanguinea
• Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
• Atlantic CanarySerinus canaria
• Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
• Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
• Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
• Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
• Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
• Black FrancolinFrancolinus francolinus
• Black NoddyAnous minutus
• Black Storm PetrelHydrobates melania
• Black SwanCygnus atratus
• Black TernChlidonias niger
• Black-bellied Whistling DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
• Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
• Black-footed AlbatrossPhoebastria nigripes
• Black-legged KittiwakeRissa tridactyla
• Black-necked GrebePodiceps nigricollis

The full checklist — 347 birds of Hawaii in our library

• African Silverbill
• Akekee
• Akiapolaau
• Akikiki
• Akohekohe
• American Avocet
• American Barn Owl
• American Bittern
• American Coot
• American Herring Gull
• American Wigeon
• Anianiau
• Apapane
• Arctic Tern
• Atlantic Canary
• Baikal Teal
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Band-rumped Storm Petrel
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Barn Swallow
• Belted Kingfisher
• Black Francolin
• Black Noddy
• Black Storm Petrel
• Black Swan
• Black Tern
• Black-bellied Whistling Duck
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-footed Albatross
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black-necked Stilt
• Black-necked Swan
• Black-rumped Waxbill
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-winged Petrel
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue Noddy
• Blue Rock Thrush
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
• Blue-billed White Tern
• Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
• Blue-crowned Parakeet
• Blue-headed Parrot
• Blue-winged Teal
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Bonin Petrel
• Brambling
• Brant Goose
• Bridled Tern
• Bristle-thighed Curlew
• Brown Booby
• Brown Noddy
• Brown Pelican
• Budgerigar
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Bufflehead
• Buller’s Shearwater
• Bulwer’s Petrel
• Burrowing Parrot
• Cackling Goose
• California Gull
• California Quail
• Canada Goose
• Canvasback
• Caspian Tern
• Chestnut Munia
• Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
• Chinese Hwamei
• Christmas Shearwater
• Chukar Partridge
• Cinnamon Teal
• Cockatiel
• Cocos Booby
• Common Gallinule
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Gull
• Common Merganser
• Common Myna
• Common Pheasant
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Snipe
• Common Starling
• Common Tern
• Common Waxbill
• Cook’s Petrel
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Demoiselle Crane
• Dunlin
• Eastern Spot-billed Duck
• Elegant Tern
• Emperor Goose
• Erckel’s Spurfowl
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Teal
• Eurasian Whimbrel
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eyebrowed Thrush
• Fischer’s Lovebird
• Flesh-footed Shearwater
• Fork-tailed Storm Petrel
• Franklin’s Gull
• Fulvous Whistling Duck
• Gadwall
• Gambel’s Quail
• Garganey
• Glaucous Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Golden Eagle
• Golden Pheasant
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Great Frigatebird
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Greater Crested Tern
• Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
• Greater Scaup
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Green Heron
• Green Pheasant
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Grey Francolin
• Grey Heron
• Grey Plover
• Grey-tailed Tattler
• Greylag Goose
• Gull-billed Tern
• Harlequin Duck
• Hawaii Akepa
• Hawaii Amakihi
• Hawaii Creeper
• Hawaii Elepaio
• Hawaiian Coot
• Hawaiian Crow
• Hawaiian Duck
• Hawaiian Hawk
• Hawaiian Petrel
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Herald Petrel
• Hooded Merganser
• House Finch
• House Sparrow
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Hudsonian Whimbrel
• Iiwi
• Inca Tern
• Indian Peafowl
• Japanese Bush Warbler
• Japanese Quail
• Java Sparrow
• Juan Fernandez Petrel
• Kalij Pheasant
• Kamao
• Kauai Amakihi
• Kauai Elepaio
• Kauai Nukupuu
• Kauai Oo
• Kermadec Petrel
• Killdeer
• Laughing Gull
• Lavender Waxbill
• Laysan Albatross
• Laysan Duck
• Laysan Finch
• Leach’s Storm Petrel
• Least Sandpiper
• Least Tern
• Lesser Frigatebird
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Lilac-crowned Amazon
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Stint
• Little Tern
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Long-tailed Duck
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Magnificent Frigatebird
• Mallard
• Mandarin Duck
• Marbled Godwit
• Mariana Swiftlet
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Masked Booby
• Maui Akepa
• Maui Alauahio
• Maui Parrotbill
• Merlin
• Millerbird
• Mitred Parakeet
• Mottled Petrel
• Mourning Dove
• Murphy’s Petrel
• Muscovy Duck
• Mute Swan
• Nanday Parakeet
• Nazca Booby
• Nene
• Newell’s Shearwater
• Nihoa Finch
• Northern Bobwhite
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Fulmar
• Northern Harrier
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Raven
• Northern Red Bishop
• Northern Shoveler
• Oahu Amakihi
• Oahu Elepaio
• Olomao
• Omao
• Orange-cheeked Waxbill
• Osprey
• Ou
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pacific Loon
• Pacific Swift
• Palila
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Peregrine Falcon
• Phoenix Petrel
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Pink-footed Shearwater
• Plum-headed Parakeet
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Poo-uli
• Puaiohi
• Purple Gallinule
• Radjah Shelduck
• Red Avadavat
• Red Junglefowl
• Red Knot
• Red Phalarope
• Red-and-green Macaw
• Red-billed Leiothrix
• Red-billed Tropicbird
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
• Red-crested Cardinal
• Red-crowned Amazon
• Red-footed Booby
• Red-masked Parakeet
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-necked Stint
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Red-whiskered Bulbul
• Redhead
• Reeves’s Pheasant
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Rock Dove
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Rosy-billed Pochard
• Rosy-faced Lovebird
• Rough-legged Buzzard
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Saffron Finch
• Salmon-crested Cockatoo
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Sandwich Tern
• Scaly-breasted Munia
• Semipalmated Plover
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Senegal Parrot
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Short-billed Gull
• Short-eared Owl
• Short-tailed Albatross
• Short-tailed Shearwater
• Silver Pheasant
• Slaty-backed Gull
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• Snowy Owl
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Song Sparrow
• Sooty Shearwater
• Sooty Tern
• Sora
• South Polar Skua
• Spectacled Tern
• Spotted Dove
• Spotted Redshank
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Stejneger’s Petrel
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Streaked Shearwater
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
• Surf Scoter
• Surfbird
• Swan Goose
• Tahiti Petrel
• Tanimbar Corella
• Terek Sandpiper
• Tristram’s Storm Petrel
• Tufted Duck
• Tundra Swan
• Turquoise-fronted Amazon
• Vega Gull
• Wandering Tattler
• Warbling White-eye
• Wedge-tailed Shearwater
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western Gull
• Western Meadowlark
• Western Sandpiper
• Whiskered Tern
• White Cockatoo
• White Wagtail
• White-crested Laughingthrush
• White-faced Ibis
• White-faced Whistling Duck
• White-necked Petrel
• White-rumped Munia
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-rumped Shama
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-tailed Tropicbird
• White-winged Tern
• Wild Turkey
• Willet
• Wilson’s Phalarope
• Wilson’s Snipe
• Wilson’s Storm Petrel
• Wood Duck
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellow-billed Cardinal
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-collared Lovebird
• Yellow-faced Grassquit
• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Yellow-headed Amazon
• Zebra Dove

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Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.