Species Number Species Niue
97 Southern Giant Petrel VS
111 Wedge-tailed Shearwater BS
120 Red-tailed Tropicbird ?
121 White-tailed Tropicbird BS
126 Great Frigatebird VS
1 Eastern Reef Heron VL
2 White-faced Heron VL
11 Junglefowl I
18 Banded Rail BL
20 Spotless Crake BL
21 Purple Swamphen BL
148 Pacific Golden Plover MW
156 Bristle-thighed Curlew VW
158 Eurasian Curlew VW
159 Bar-tailed Godwit VW
161 Wandering Tattler MW
164 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ?
165 Pectoral Sandpiper VW
169 Ruddy Turnstone MW
170 Sanderling MW
142 Brown Noddy BS
144 White Tern BS
147 Southern Black-backed Gull VS
27 Pacific Pigeon BL
31 Crimson-crowned Fruit-dove BL
37 Blue-crowned Lory BL
42 Long-tailed Cuckoo ML
43 Barn Owl BL
46 White-rumped Swiftlet BL
53 Polynesian Starling BL
77 Polynesian Triller BL

NX Extinct/extirpated native breeding species (historic times)
IX Extirpated introduced species;
I Introduced breeding species
? Current status uncertain or questionable/unverified record
BL "Resident, native breeding land bird"
BS Resident breeding seabird
VL Vagrant Land bird (irregular visitor or arrival)
VS Vagrant Seabird (irregular visitor to country's waters)
VW Vagrant Shorebird (irregular visitor)
S Seabirds not known to breed but are regularly present throughout the year
ML Migrant Land bird (of annual occurrence)
MS Migrant Seabird (believed to be of annual occurrence)
MW Migrant Shorebird (believed to be of annual occurrence)
OW Wader known to overwinter
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