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Hawaii

1 - endemic forms
2 - endangered endemic forms
3 - introduced species
parentheses indicate island subspecies

GREBES                                           

___ Pied-billed Grebe
ALBATROSSES

___ Black-footed Albatross
___ Laysan Albatross                                  Moli
SHEARWATERS, PETRELS

___ Hawaiian Petrel                           2       'Ua'u 
___ Bonin Petrel
___ Bulwer's Petrel                                   'Ou
___ Wedge-tailed Shearwater
___ Sooty Shearwater
___ Christmas Shearwater
___ Newell's Shearwater                       1       'A'o
STORM-PETRELS

___ Leach's Storm-Petrel
___ Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
___ Sooty Storm-Petrel
TROPICBIRDS, BOOBIES, FRIGATEBIRDS

___ White-tailed Tropicbird                           Koa'e-kea
___ Red-tailed Tropicbird                             Koa'e-'ula
___ Masked Booby                                      'A
___ Brown Booby                                       'A
___ Red-footed Booby                                  'A
___ Great Frigatebird                                 'Iwa
EGRETS, HERONS

___ Cattle Egret                              3
___ Black-crowned Night-Heron                         'Auku'u
WATERFOWL

___ Fulvous Whistling-Duck
___ Brant
___ Canada Goose
___ Hawaiian Goose                            2       Nene
___ Green-winged Teal
___ Mallard
___ Hawaiian Duck                             2       Koloa-maoli
___ Northern Pintail
___ Blue-winged Teal
___ Northern Shoveler
___ Eurasian Wigeon
___ American Wigeon
___ Canvasback
___ Ring-necked Duck
___ Tufted Duck
___ Greater Scaup
___ Lesser Scaup
___ Bufflehead
HAWKS, FALCONS

___ Osprey
___ Hawaiian Hawk                             2       'lo 
___ Peregrine Falcon
GALLIFORMES

___ Black Francolin                           3
___ Erckel's Francolin                        3
___ Gray Francolin
___ Chukar                                    3
___ Japanese Quail                            3
___ Kalij Pheasant                            3
___ Red Junglefowl                            3       Moa 
___ Ring-necked Pheasant                      3
___ Common Peafowl                            3
___ Wild Turkey                               3
___ Gambel's Quail                            3
___ California Quail                          3
GRUIFORMES

___ Hawaiian Moorhen                          2       'Alae-'ula 
___ Hawaiian Coot                             2       'Alae-ke 'oke'o
PLOVERS, STILTS

___ Black-bellied Plover
___ Pacific Golden-Plover                             Kolea 
___ Semipalmated Plover
___ Hawaiian Stilt                            2       Ae'o 
SANDPIPERS

___ Lesser Yellowlegs
___ Wandering Tattler                                 'Ulili 
___ Bristle-thighed Curlew                            Kioea
___ Ruddy Turnstone                                   'Akekeke 
___ Sanderling                                        Huna-kai 
___ Western Sandpiper
___ Least Sandpiper
___ Pectoral Sandpiper
___ Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
___ Dunlin
___ Ruff
___ Long-billed Dowitcher
___ Common Snipe
___ Wilson's Phalarope
___ Red Phalarope
GULLS, TERNS

___ Pomarine Jaeger
___ Laughinq Gull
___ Bonaparte's Gull
___ Ring-billed Gull
___ Glaucous-winged Gull
___ Least Tern
___ Gray-backed Tern                                  Pakalakala
___ Sooty Tern                                        'Ewa'ewa 
___ Brown Noddy                                       Noio-koha 
___ Black Noddy                                       Noio 
___ White Tern                                        Manu-o-Ku 
SANDGROUSE, DOVES

___ Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse               3
___ Rock Dove                                 3
___ Spotted Dove                              3
___ Zebra Dove                                3
___ Mourning Dove                             3
___ Rose-ringed Parakeet                      3
OWLS

___ Barn Owl                                  3
___ Hawaiian Owl                              1       Pueo 
PASSERINES

___ Gray Swiftlet                             3
___ Eurasian Skylark                          3
___ Hawaiian Crow                             2       'Alala
___ Red-vented Bulbul                         3
___ Red-whiskered Bulbul                      3 
___ Japanese Bush-Warbler                     3
___ 'Elepaio (Kaua'i)                         1               
___ 'Elepaio (O'ahu)                          1
___ 'Elepaio (Hawai'i)                        1
___ White-rumped Shama                        3
___ Kama'o                                    2
___ Oloma'o                                   2
___ 'Oma'o                                    1
___ Puaiohi                                   2
___ Greater Necklaced Laughing-Thrush         3
___ Melodious Laughing-Thrush                 3
___ Red-billed Leiothrix                      3 
___ Northern Mockingbird                      3
___ Common Myna                               3
___ Kaua'i 'O'o                               2       'O'o'a'a 
___ Japanese White-eye                        3
___ Northern Cardinal                         3
___ Red-crested Cardinal                      3
___ Yellow-billed Cardinal                    3
___ Yellow-faced Grassquit                    3
___ Saffron Finch                             3
___ Western Meadowlark                        3
___ House Finch                               3
___ Yellow-fronted Canary                     3
___ 'O'u                                      2
___ Palila
___ Maui Parrotbill                           1
___ 'Amakihi (Kaua'i)                         1
___ 'Amakihi (O'ahu)                          1
___ 'Amakihi (Maui, Mo)                       1
___ 'Amakihi (Hawai'i) 
___ 'Anianiau                                 1
___ Nuku-pu'u (Kaua'i)                        2
___ Nuku-pu'u (Maui)                          2
___ 'Akiapola'au                              2
___ Creeper (Kaua'i)                          1
___ Creeper (Hawai'i)                         2
___ Creeper (O'ahu)                           2
___ Creeper (Maui)                            1
___ 'Akepa (Kaua'i)                           1
___ 'Akepa (Maui)                             2
___ 'Akepa (Hawai'i)                          2
___ 'I'iwi                                    1
___ 'Akohekohe                                2
___ 'Apapane                                  1
___ Po'ouli                                   2
___ House Sparrow                             3
___ Red-cheeked Cordonbleu                    3
___ Lavender Waxbill                          3
___ Orange-cheeked Waxbill                    3
___ Black-rumped Waxbill                      3
___ Common Waxbill                            3
___ Red Avadavat                              3
___ Warbling Silverbill                       3
___ Nutmeg Mannikin                           3
___ Chestnut Mannikin                         3
___ Java Sparrow                              3

                         Hawaii Audubon Society     
                         1088 Bishop Street, #808
                         Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

Pyle, Robert L., and Andrew Engilis, Jr.  1996.  Field Check-Card of Birds of 
     Hawaii.  Hawaii Audubon Society.  Unpaginated.

Pyle, Robert L., and Andrew Engilis, Jr.  1996.  Field Check-Card of Birds of 
     Hawaii.  Hawaii Audubon Society.  Unpaginated.
     Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.  
     http://www.npwrc.usgs.govhawaiias.htm 
     (Version 23FEB01)