NATIVE SPECIES LIST
What makes a species native? If an animal arrived in Hawai‘i on its own (without direct or indirect human help), it is considered native. We also accept migrants and vagrants.
Seabirds
Laysan Albatross • Black-footed Albatross • Short-tailed Albatross • Hawaiian Petrel • Bulwer’s Petrel • Bonin Petrel • Tristram’s (Sooty) Storm Petrel • Wedge-Tailed Shearwater • Christmas Shearwater • Newell’s Shearwater • Band-rumped Storm Petrel • White-tailed Tropicbird • Red-tailed Tropicbird • Masked Booby • Brown Booby • Red-footed Booby • Great Frigatebird • Gray-backed Tern • Sooty Tern • Brown Noddy • Hawaiian Noddy • Blue-gray Noddy • White Tern • Pomarine Jaeger
Shorebirds
Pacific Golden Plover • Wandering Tattler • Bristle-thighed Curlew • Ruddy Turnstone • Sandering • Long-billed Dowitcher
Waterbirds
Pied-billed Grebe • Black-crowned Night Heron • Fulvous Whistling Duck • Nene • Hawaiian Duck • Laysan Duck • Hawaiian Coot • Hawaiian Moorhen • Hawaiian Stilt • American Wigeon • Northern Shoveler • Northern Pintail • Greater Scaup • Lesser Scaup
Birds of Prey
‘Io • Pueo
Forest Birds
‘Alalā • Hawai‘i ‘Elepaio • O‘ahu ‘Elepaio • Kaua‘i ‘Elepaio • Kāma‘o • ‘Ōma‘o • Oloma‘o • Puaiohi • Palila • ‘Akakane • ‘Akeke‘e • Maui ‘Akepa • ‘Anianiau • Kaua‘i ‘Amakihi • O‘ahu ‘Amakihi • Hawai‘i ‘Amakihi • Maui ‘Amakihi (Considered Hawai‘i ‘Amakihi) • ‘Akiapōlā‘au • Kaua‘i Creeper • Hawai‘i Creeper • Maui Creeper • Oahu Creeper • Maui Parrotbill (Kiwikiu) • ‘Apapane • ‘I‘iwi • ‘Akohekohe • Nihoa Millerbird • Nihoa Finch • Laysan Finch
Hawaiian Hoary Bat
Want more information?
Check out the awesome fact sheets created by the State of Hawai‘i DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife!
