Breeding or potential breeding species only, except for 5 commonest shorebirds & 1 hypothet. 
Birds of Howland, Baker and Jarvis - Maximum estimates through Oct. 1968 
[Figures in brackets are approximate maximum breeding populations, subject to further 
analysis' 
Species 
Howland 
Baker 
Jarvis 
Total 
Phoenix Petrel 
5 
(visitor- 
breeds? ) 
1? 
visitor 
- 
6 
Great-winged Petrel 
po 
hypothetical 
— 
- 
1 
Wedge-Bailed Shearwater 
10 
hypothetical 
formerly bred? 
1 
visitor, form¬ 
erly bred. 
11 
Christmas Shearwater 
1 
visitor 
- 
1 
visitor 
2 
Audubon 1 s Shearwater 
- 
- 
- 
White-throated Storm Petrel 
1 
visitor 
- 
*? 
• 
visitor 
1+? 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
130 
breeds 
20 
breeds 
2,000 
breeds 
2,150 
White-tailed Tropicbird 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Blue-faced Booby 
3,000 
breeds 
^00 
breeds 
9,000 
12,400 
Bed-footed Booby 
*85 
breeds 
8 2,500 
visitor, formerly breeds 
bred 
2,943 
Brown Booby 
130 
breeds 
21 
visitor, formerly 
bred 
Great Frigatebird 
500 
175 1,100 
visit or, formerly breeds 
bred 
1,775 
Lesser Frigatebird 
35 ,000 
breeds 
175 7 ,000 
visitor, formerly breeds 
bred? 
42 ,175 
Sooty Tern 
375, 000 
breeds 
1, 000 
visitor 
1 
1 , 900,000 
breeds 
2, 275, 000 
Gray-backed Tern 
300 
breeds 
25 
breeds 
75 
breeds? 
400 
Crested Tern 
1 
visitor 
- 
- 
1 
Brown Noddy 
25 
breeds 
ca 1,000 
breeds 
1 
visitor 
1, 026 
Black Noddy 
visitor, 
formerly bred 
20 
visitor 
1 
visitor 
22 
White Tern 
1 
visitor, 
formerly bred 
10 
breeds? 
6 
visitor 
17 
Blue-gray Noddy 
1 
visitor 
- 
6 
visitor 
7 
* but maximum breeding population ca. 25 birds 
