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This is a list of endemic birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is one of a series providing information about
endemism Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
among birds in the world's various zoogeographic zones.


Endemic Bird Areas

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Endemic Bird Areas An Endemic Bird Area (EBA) is an area of land identified by BirdLife International as being important for habitat-based bird conservation because it contains the habitats of restricted-range bird species (''see below for definition''), which are the ...
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Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between t ...
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Nicobar Islands The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. They are located in Southeast Asia, northwest of Aceh on Sumatra, and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea. Located southeast of the Indian ...


List of species

The following is a list of species endemic to the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 37 are inhabited, at the junction of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated f ...
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Species endemic to the Andaman islands

* Andaman serpent-eagle, ''Spilornis elgini'' *
Andaman crake The Andaman crake (''Rallina canningi'') is a bird species in the family Rallidae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands of the eastern Indian Ocean. Taxonomy and systematics It was first described as the Andaman banded crake ''Euryzona canningi ...
, ''Rallina canningi'' * Brown coucal, ''Centropus andamanensis'' *
Andaman scops owl The Andaman scops owl (''Otus balli'') is an owl endemic to the Andaman Islands. The species is named after Valentine Ball Valentine Ball (14 July 1843 – 15 June 1895) was an Irish geologist, son of Robert Ball (1802–1857) and a brot ...
, ''Otus balli'' * Hume's boobook, ''Ninox obscura'' * Andaman barn-owl, ''Tyto deroepstorffi'' * Andaman nightjar, ''Caprimulgus andamanicus'' *
Narcondam hornbill The Narcondam hornbill (''Rhyticeros narcondami'') is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is endemic to the Indian island of Narcondam in the Andamans. Males and females have a distinct plumage. The Narcondam hornbill has the sm ...
, ''Rhyticeros narcondami'' * Andaman woodpecker, ''Dryocopus hodgei'' * Andaman drongo, ''Dicrurus andamanensis'' * Andaman treepie, ''Dendrocitta bayleyii'' *
Andaman shama The Andaman shama (''Copsychus albiventris'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. t is endemic to the Andaman Islands. It was previously considered a subspecies of the white-rumped shama The white-rumped shama (''Copsychus mala ...
, ''Copsychus albiventris'' *
Andaman bulbul The Andaman bulbul (''Brachypodius fuscoflavescens'') is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands. It has a mainly olive-yellow plumage and has most of the head olive. It feeds on small fruit and be ...
, ''Pycnonotus fuscoflavescens'' * Andaman cuckooshrike, ''Coracina dobsoni'' * Andaman flowerpecker, ''Dicaeum virescens''


Species endemic to the Nicobar islands

* Nicobar imperial-pigeon, ''Ducula nicobarica'' *
South Nicobar serpent eagle The Great Nicobar serpent eagle (''Spilornis klossi''), also known as the South Nicobar serpent eagle, is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is probably the smallest known eagle, with a weight of about , a wingspan of and a ...
, ''Spilornis klossi'' *
Nicobar sparrowhawk The Nicobar sparrowhawk (''Accipiter butleri'') is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is endemic to the Nicobar Islands of India. There are two subspecies, the nominate race which is found on Car Nicobar in the north of the ...
, ''Accipiter butleri'' * Nicobar parakeet, ''Psittacula caniceps'' * Nicobar bulbul, ''Ixos nicobariensis'' * Nicobar jungle flycatcher, ''Cyornis nicobaricus'' * Nicobar scops-owl, ''Otus alius'' *
Nicobar megapode The Nicobar megapode or Nicobar scrubfowl (''Megapodius nicobariensis'') is a megapode found in some of the Nicobar Islands (India). Like other megapode relatives, it builds a large mound nest with soil and vegetation, with the eggs hatched by th ...
, ''Megapodius nicobariensis'' (possibly extirpated over Andaman range)


Species endemic to the two island groups

* Andaman woodpigeon, ''Columba palumboides'' *
Andaman green pigeon The Andaman green pigeon (''Treron chloropterus'') is a pigeon in the genus '' Treron''. It is found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Many authorities split the species from the pompadour green pigeon complex. It has been added in the 2014 Re ...
, ''Treron chloropterus'' * Andaman cuckoo-dove, ''Macropygia rufipennis'' * Andaman boobook, ''Ninox affinis'' *
White-headed starling The white-headed starling (''Sturnia erythropygia''), also known as the Andaman white-headed starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in wooded habitats of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Andaman and Nic ...
, ''Sturnia erythropygia''


See also

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Wildlife of India India is home to a large variety of wildlife. It is a biodiversity hotspot with its various ecosystems ranging from the Himalayas in the north to the evergreen rain forests in the south, the sands of the west to the marshy mangroves of the ea ...
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Flora of India The flora of India is one of the richest in the world due to the wide range of climate, topology and habitat in the country. There are estimated to be over 18,000 species of flowering plants in India, which constitute some 6-7 percent of the to ...
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Fauna of India India is the world's 8th most biodiverse region with a 0.46 BioD score on diversity index, 102,718 species of fauna and 23.39% of the nation's geographical area under forest and tree cover in 2020. India encompasses a wide range ...
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List of trees of the Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands fall within the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. While endemism estimated to be a modest 17%, the islands share about 65% of its tree species with south-west Myanmar. Early explorers like Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz documented the flor ...
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