TABLE 
Avifauna of Baker Island 
Species 
Current 
Status 
POBSP 
Maximum 
Population 
Estimate 
i Vv. tA’Vi* 
Nea-restr- 
Eenting 
•Arear* 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
Blue-faced Booby 
Brora Booby* 
Red-footed Booby* 
Great Frigatebird* 
Lesser Frigatebird* 
Sooty Tern 
Gray-backed Tern* 
Brora Roddy* 
Black Roddy* 
Fairy Tern* 
Golden Plover 
Ruddy Turnstone 
Wandering Tattler* 
Bristle-thighed Curlew 
Sanderling* 
Pectoral Sandpiper* 
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper* 
Bar-tailed Godwit* 
Laughing Gull* 
CENTRAL PACIFIC RESIDENTS 
Rare resident 19 
Fairly common resident 400 
Fairly common visitant 21 
Fairly common visitant l6 
Common visitant 
Very common visitant 
Abundant visitant 
Rare resident 
Common resident 
Fairly common visitant 
Fairly common visitant 
ARCTIC SHOREBIRD MIGRANTS 
Common migrant 
Very common migrant 
Uncommon migrant 
Uncommon migrant 
Rare migrant 
Rare migrant 
VAGRANTS 
1 
t- 
* previously unreported from the island or no unambiguous records in the 
published literature. 
