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British Indian Ocean Territory

native

trivial namelatin name
Common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Lesser Crested-Tern Thalasseus bengalensis
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
White-breasted waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
Sanderling Calidris alba
Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
Whimbrel or Hudsonian Curlew Numenius phaeopus
Little Tern Sternula albifrons
Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
Great Crested-Tern Thalasseus bergii
Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii
Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola

present - origin uncertain

trivial namelatin name
Jouanin Petrel Bulweria fallax
Wilson's Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus

introduced

trivial namelatin name
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
Madagascar Red Fody Foudia madagascariensis
Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Zebra Dove Geopelia striata
Grey Francolin Ortygornis pondicerianus

vagrant

trivial namelatin name
Western Great Egret Ardea alba
Little Stint Calidris minuta
Green Heron Butorides striata
Great Snipe Gallinago media
Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
Glossy ibis Plegadis falcinellus
Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii