Our custom birding tours have been discontinued but our birdwatcher guests can still see several bird species on our full-day, 10-hour long Ultimate Circle Island Eco-tour that takes our visitors around the island of O'ahu.
Likely bird species on this tour would include the ones marked in green color on our full O'ahu checklist:
For more information and reservations please visit our main website at www.oahunaturetours.com
Checklist for Oahu's Bird Species
KEY....
Blue - Hawaiian names
Red - Endangered Species
Purple - Endangered Species
- Click the camera icons for photos of each species.
Common name
Scientific name &
Hawaiian name
Status
‘Apapane
Himatione sanguinea
Resident
Barn Owl
Tyto alba
Alien
Black - Crowned Night Heron
Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli - ’Auku’u
Resident
Black - necked Stilt
Himantopus mexicanus knudseni - Ae’o
Resident
Black Noddy
Anous minutus melanogenys ‘Eki’eki
Resident
Blue-winged Teal
Anas discors
Visitor
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Numenius tahitiensis -
Resident
Brown Booby
Sula leucogaster plotus ‘A
Resident
Brown Noddy
Anous stolidus pileatus Noio koha
Resident
Bulwer Petrel
Bulweria bulwerii ‘Ou
Breeder
Cattle Egret
Bubulcus ibis - Cosmopolitan/Florida 1959
Alien
Chestnut Mannikin
Lonchura malacca - S.E. Asia 1941
Alien
Christmas Shearwater
Puffinus nativitatis
Breeder
Common Myna
Acridotheres tristis - India 1865 Insect control
Alien
Common Waxbill
Estrilda astrild - Africa 1970’s
Alien
Dunlin
Calidris alpina
Visitor
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Dendrocygna bicolor
Resident
Gray - backed Tern
Sterna lunata - Pakalakala
Breeder
Gray Francolin
Francolinus pondicerianus - India 1958
Alien
Great Frigatebird
Fregata minor palmerstoni - ’Iwa
Resident
Green - winged Teal
Anas crecca
Visitor
Guam Swiftlet
Aerodramus vanikorensis - Guam 1962
Alien
Hawaiian Coot
Fulica alai - Alae ke’oke’o
Resident
Hawaiian Duck
Anas wyvillianaKoloamaoli
Resident
Hawaiian Gallinule
Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis - Alae’ula
Resident
House Finch
Carpodacus mexicanus - North America "prior to 1870"
Alien
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus - Eurasia, Africa, India 1871 From New Zealand