Vanuatu is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean
Photos Seabirds (mostly remain on the open sea, nest on islands and on the coast): Photos
Index / Photos: Wetland Birds … Ducks and Grebes … Birds of Inland and Coastal Waters / Shore and Wading Birds
Photos of Land / Forest Birds found on Vanuatu with links to species pages
Seabirds (mostly remain on the open sea, nest on islands and on the coast) … Photos
Boobies
- Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)
- Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) – Rare/Accidental
- Red-footed Booby (Sula sula)
Cormorants
- Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)
Frigatebirds
- Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) – Rare/Accidental
- Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
Jaegers
- Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus) – Rare/Accidental
Petrels
- Black-winged Petrel (Pterodroma nigripennis) – Rare/Accidental
- Bulwer’s Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) – Rare/Accidental
- Cape Petrel (Daption capense)
- Collared Petrel (Pterodroma brevipes) – Near threatened
- Falla’s Petrel or Vanuatu Petrel (Pterodroma occulta)
- Gould’s Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera) – Vulnerable (No Photo)
- Grey Petrel (Procellaria cinerea) – Near-threatened
- Herald Petrel (Pterodroma heraldica) – Rare/Accidental
- Kermadec Petrel (Pterodroma neglecta) – Rare / Accidental
- Mottled Petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) – Near-threatened
- Providence Petrel (Pterodroma solandri) – Rare/Accidental Vulnerable
- Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) – Rare / Accidental / Near-threatened
- Tahiti Petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata) – Rare/Accidental – Near-threatened
- Trindade Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) – Rare/Accidental (No Photo)
- White-necked Petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis) (No Photo)
Shearwaters (Genus: Puffinus)
- Audubon’s Shearwaters (Puffinus lherminieri gunax or Puffinus lherminieri)
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes)
- Fluttering Shearwater (Puffinus gavia)
- Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris)
- Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) – Near-threatened
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)
Skuas
- Pomarine Skua (Stercorarius pomarinus) – Rare/Accidental
Storm Petrels
- Black-bellied Storm Petrel (Fregetta tropica) – Rare/Accidental (No Photo)
- White-bellied Storm Petrel (Fregetta grallaria) – Rare/Accidental (No Photo)
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) – Rare/Accidental
- Polynesian Storm Petrel (Nesofregetta fuliginosa)
Prions
- Antarctic Prion (Pachyptila desolata) – Rare / Accidental
Tropicbirds
- Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)
- White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)
