Christmas Island

Christmas Island is one of the world’s truly spectacular tropical seabird rookeries.  It’s not just the number and variety of seabirds of their magnificent splendour that make the island so remarkable, but also their sheer visibility.

Around 80,000 seabirds nest here annually, with 23 breeding or resident species.  Birds can be seen and heard everywhere on the island, at just about any time of the day.

With little effort bird watchers can easily tick off a full list of residents in a busy week, or a more relaxed fortnight – although the elusive Christmas Island hawk owl keeps many coming back.