Checklist of Birds Recorded from Enderbury Island 
Roger B. Clapp, July 5> 1973 
Species _ Status 
Phoenix Island Petrel 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
Christmas Shearwater 
Audubon's Shearwater 
White-throated Storm Petrel 
Red-tailed Tropicbira 
Blue-faced Booby 
Red-footed Booby 
Brown Booby 
Great Frigatebird 
Lesser Frigatebird 
Pintail (Luck) 
Golden Plover 
Plover sp. 
Common or Spotted Sandpiper 
Apparently formerly bred on Enderbury Island. May 
occur as uncommon visitor to Enderbury at present. 
Presently occurs only as a visitor. I suspect it 
once bred on Enderbury. This and other species of 
petrels ana shearwaters are most likely seen at 
dusk as they wander in over the island and some 
may occasionally spend the night. 
Presently a visitor. Probably formerly bred. 
Seen just north of the guano mound in June 1973 
at dusk. The possibility exists that they might 
nest under rocks in this area. 
Presently a visitor. Formerly bred in the 
vicinity of the guano mound (and probably elsewhere) 
A visitor. 
Common breeding species, most abundant under rocks 
along the west side of the island and in the 
Cordia groves at the southeast corner of the island. 
Enderbury has the largest population in the Phoenix 
group, in total perhaps greater than all the rest 
of the other islands combined. 
Common breeding species. Enderbury has the largest 
population in the Phoenix group. 
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Less common breeder. The largest population in 
the Phoenix group is to be found on Enderbury 
Common breeder on Enderbury 
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Very rarely recorded from Enderbury. Any other 
species cf duck has not been recorded but may 
occur in winter, particularly in relatively 
more rainy years. Photographs, dates of occurrence 
and numbers, and descriptions of activities of any 
ducks seen at Enderbury would be much appreciated. 
A common migrant and winter resident, present 
in small numbers during the summer months. 
An inadequately unidentified plover which may have 
been the Mongolian Plover was once seen on 
Enderbury. Information on unusual appearing shorebirds 
is solicited since records of any species except 
those noted as common herein are decidedly worth 
recording. The Bar-tailed Godwit, for example, 
probably occurs on Enderbury but has not yet been 
recorded. The limited amount of favorable habitat 
on Enderbury (around the lagoon) for shorebirds 
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Island one of the best in the group for 
finding unusual birds, and, in fact, more species 
of shorebirds have been recorded from Enderbury 
than from any other island in the group. 
A oiru which was one of these two species was once 
recorded from Enderbury. It is the only record 
