5.5 Important resources
5.5.1 Field guides
Harrison, P., Perrow, M.R., Larsson, H. (2021) Seabirds: The New Identification Guide. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain
Howell, S.N.G & K. Zufelt. (2019) Oceanic Birds of the World: A Photo Guide. Princeton University Press, Princeton, United States of America
Howell, S.N.G. (2012) Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, United States of America
Onley, D. & P. Scofield. (2007) Albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters. Princeton University Press, Princeton, United States of America
Pratt, H.D., Bruner, P.L., Berret, D.G. (1987) A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press, Princeton, United States of America
Raine, A.F. & H.J. Raine (2020) American Birding Association - A Field Guide to Birds of Hawaii. Scott & Nix Inc, New York, United States of America
Van Perlo, B. (2011) Birds of Hawaii, New Zealand and the Central and West Pacific. Princeton University Press, Princeton, United States of America
Watling, D. (2001) A Guide to the Birds of Fiji & Western Polynesia; including American Samoa, Samoa, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Wallis & Fatuna. Environmental Consultants (Fiji) Limited, Suva, Fiji
5.5.2 Online field guides and resources
Birds of the World – Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Birds of the World is a powerful ornithological research platform that brings together deep, scholarly content from several celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. By subscribing to Birds of the World, you gain access to detailed species accounts, maps, and multimedia; a lot more than is available through free view.
eBird
eBird began with a simple idea—that every birdwatcher has unique knowledge and experience. Its goal is to gather this information in the form of checklists of birds, archive it, and freely share it to power new data-driven approaches to science, conservation and education.
eBird data document bird distribution, abundance, habitat use, and trends through checklist data collected within a simple, scientific framework. Birders enter when, where, and how they went birding, and then fill out a checklist of all the birds seen and heard during the outing. eBird’s free mobile app allows offline data collection anywhere in the world, and the website provides many ways to explore and summarize your data and other observations from the global eBird community
New Zealand Birds Online
New Zealand Birds Online (NZBO) is a searchable encyclopaedia of New Zealand birds. Although, focussing on birds either breeding, visitors or vagrants to New Zealand, NZBO includes many species from the Pacific. You can find detailed information about all 482 species, including all living, extinct, fossil, vagrant and introduced bird species. The database is searchable by name, conservation status, and geographical distribution. Explore the site to read expert-written texts, listen to sound files of bird calls, and browse more than 13,000 photographs.
xeno-canto
xeno-canto is a website dedicated to sharing wildlife sounds from all over the world. Whether you are a research scientist, a birder, or simply curious about a sound that you have heard, you are invited to listen, download, and explore the wildlife sound recordings in the collection. But xeno-canto is more than just a collection of recordings. It is also a collaborative project. You are also invited to share your own recordings; help identify mystery recordings or share your expertise in the forums. There are many recordings of seabirds from the Pacific in the collection.
5.5.3 Reports
SPREP (2022) Seabird Action Plan in Pacific Islands Regional Marine Species Programme 2022-2026. The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Apia, Samoa
Becker, P. et al. (2022) White paper - Island ocean connections: exploring land-sea linkages in the context of invasive mammal management. Island Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Nature Conservancy