Birds of Chagos

Common Myna
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Common Sandpiper
Linnaeus, 1758

White-breasted Waterhen
(Pennant, 1769)

Garganey
Linnaeus, 1758

Brown Noddy
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Lesser Noddy
(Temminck, 1823)

Indian Pond-heron
(Sykes, 1832)

Ruddy Turnstone
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Cattle Egret
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Striated Heron
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Sanderling
(Pallas, 1764)

Curlew Sandpiper
(Pontoppidan, 1763)
__thumb.jpg)
Little Stint
(Leisler, 1812)

Kentish Plover
Linnaeus, 1758

Greater Sand Plover
Lesson, 1826

White-winged Tern
(Temminck, 1815)

House Crow
Vieillot, 1817

Madagascar Red Fody
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Lesser Frigatebird
(Gray, 1845)

Greater Frigatebird
(Gmelin, 1789)

Common Moorhen
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Red Junglefowl
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Zebra Dove
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Oriental Pratincole
Forster, 1795

Common White Tern
(Sparrman, 1786)
lr__thumb.jpg)
Yellow Bittern
(Gmelin, 1789)

Bar-tailed Godwit
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Madagascar Turtle-dove
Temminck, 1813

Whimbrel
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Wilson’s Storm-petrel
(Kuhl, 1820)

White-tailed Tropicbird
Daudin, 1802

Red-tailed Tropicbird
Boddaert, 1783

Pacific Golden Plover
(Gmelin, 1789)

Grey Plover
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Tropical Shearwater
(Bonaparte, 1857)

Flesh-footed Shearwater
Gould, 1844

Wedge-tailed Shearwater
(Gmelin, 1789)

Little Tern
Pallas, 1764

Bridled Tern
Scopoli, 1786

Great Crested Tern
Lichtenstein, 1823

Roseate Tern
Montagu, 1813

Sooty Tern
Linnaeus, 1766

Common Tern
Linnaeus, 1758

Black-naped Tern
Raffles, 1822

Masked Booby
Lesson, 1831

Brown Booby
(Boddaert, 1783)

Red-footed Booby
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Wood Sandpiper
Linnaeus, 1758

Common Greenshank
(Gunnerus, 1767)

Terek Sandpiper
(Güldenstädt, 1775)