Birding Guide

There are 23 breeding or resident species of birds on Christmas Island. This includes nine species of seabird (two species and two subspecies are endemic) and 14 land birds (three species and four subspecies are endemic, six are recent arrivals).

All of these are illustrated and described in this guide, with the exception of the Feral Chicken Gallus gallus. Owing to its proximity to Southeast Asia, Christmas Island attracts a lot of vagrant species never or rarely recorded in other parts of Australia and its Territories.

The birding map and bird finding notes describe some of the areas where native species can be seen most easily and where vagrants have been recorded most often. The checklist contains 133 confirmed species.