Nauru

Nauru has a small avifauna, but one species makes it particularly distinctive: the Nauru Reed Warbler, found nowhere else in the world. It occurs in remaining scrub, woodland and regenerating vegetation across the island, including areas affected by former phosphate mining. Otherwise, birding focuses largely on seabirds and migratory shorebirds, with White Tern, Brown Noddy, frigatebirds and boobies occurring around the coast and Pacific Golden Plover, Wandering Tattler and Ruddy Turnstone among regular migrants. Nauru has virtually no dedicated birding-tourism infrastructure, but its extremely small size means most accessible habitats can be explored without long journeys. For specialist birders, the main reason to visit is clearly the endemic reed warbler, making Nauru a short but potentially important stop on a wider Micronesian or central Pacific trip.