TABLE 4 - continued 



Spe 



No. Birds Seen 



Total Status 



Region 



IV 



VI 



FAMILY PHAETHONTIDAE 



Red-tailed tropicbird {Phaethon rubricauda) 



White-tailed tropicbird [P. lepturus) 



FAMILY SULIDAE 

 Masked boob) (Sula dactylatra) 

 Red-looted booby (S. sula) 

 Brown booby (5. leucogaster) 



FAMILY FREGATIDAE 



Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) 



Unidentified frigatebird 



24 

 4 

 2 



16 



39 



36 



2 



FAMILY ANATIDAE 



Northern shoveler (Anas rlypeata) 



1 



1 WMN 



FAMILY CHARADRIIDAE 



Lesser golden-plover (Pluvialh dominica) 



FAMILY SCOLOPACIDAE 

 Bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) 

 Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) 

 Sharp-tailed pectoral sandpiper 

 [Calidris acuminata/C. melanotos) 



5 WMN 



10 



4 WMN 



I WMN 



5 WMN 



FAMILY PHALAROPODIDAE 

 Red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) 



FAMILY STERCORARIIDAE 

 South polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) 

 Pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus ) 

 Parasitic jaeger (S. parasiticus) 

 Unidentified skua 



FAMILY LARIDAE 

 Caspian tern {.Sterna caspia) 

 Black-naped tern (S. sumatrana) 

 Gray-backed tern (5. lunata) 

 Bridled tern (5. anaethetus) 

 Sooty tern (.V. fuscata) 

 Crested tern (S. bergii) 

 Brown noddy (Anous stolidus) 

 Black noddy (A. minimis) 

 Unidentified noddy 

 White tern (Gygis allui) 

 Unidentified tern 

 Unidentified gull 

 Unidentified lurid 



44 



Totals 



457 1,796 



495 



799 



34 



2(1 



RB = resident breeder in the tropical Pacific. 



W = nonbreeding visitor 



MS = migrant: south to temperate/antarctic breeding colonies. 

 MN = migrant: north " " /arctic 



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