TABLE 
Avifauna of Howland Island 
Species 
\Wo kk ^ v \ 
POBSP uoai 
Maximum Ne-a-re-s-t 
Current Population Nesting 
Status Estimate Area 
CENTRAL PACIFIC RESIDENTS 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
Phoenix Island Petrel 
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Uncommon visitant 5 
Rare visitant 2 
White-throated Storm Petrel Ho POBSP records 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
Blue-faced Booby 
Brown Booby 
Red-footed Booby 
Great Frigatebird 
Lesser Frigatebird* 
Crested Tern* 
Sooty Tern 
Gray-backed Tern 
Brown Noddy 
Black Noddy 
Blue-gray Noddy 
Fairy Tern 
Uncommon resident 100 
Abundant resident 3?000 
Uncommon resident 100 
Fairly common resident 250 
Fairly common resident 500 
Abundant resident 18*000 
Rare visitant 1 
Abundant resident 100*000 
Fairly common resident 300 
Rare resident' 12 
Rare visitant 1 
No POBSP records 
Rare visitant 1 
Golden Plover 
Ruddy Turnstone 
Wandering Tattler 
Bristle-thighed Curlew 
Pectoral Sandpiper* 
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper* 
ARCTIC SH0REBIRD MIGRANTS 
Common migrant 108 
Common migrant 120 
Uncommon migrant 17 
Uncommon migrant 13 
Very rare migrant 1 
Rare migrant 1 
Duck sp. 
VAGRANTS 
No POBSP records 
HYPOTHETICAL ' f 
Great-winged Petrel 
* previously unreported 
published literature. 
from the island or no unambiguous records in the 
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