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How
to use this site. The initial page is a current list
of scientific names of species occurring within the park -- each name
linked to a species by family. (Additional lists are included by common
names or a list by Samoan names.)
If illustrations are available, thumbnail pictures link to enlarged photos. Or,
you can browse pages of illustrations arranged by family. Holding your curser
on the image will pop up the plant name. (There, clicking on any image jumps to
the enlarged photo).  Plate
1. Boobies to Frigatebirds
Plate
2. Herons to Shorebirds
Plate
3. Terns to Parrots
Plate
4. Kingfishers to Honeyeaters
This
page was developed from the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring website--an
intranet site as yet not generally available to the public. The data are from
a report on birds of the National Park of American Samoa dated 25 November 2008. Other
sources augmenting that list of species listed here are: Amerson
et al. 1982. Wildlife and wildlife habitat of American Samoa, USFWS. View
pdf file of Volume
1; view pdf file of Volume
2. Craig, P. (ed). 2005. Natural history guide to AS. 2nd
Edition. NPSA, DMWR, and ASCC. 96 pp. View
contents. Download
entire file. Engbring et al. 1989. A 1986 survey of forest birds of American
Samoa, USFWS. View
report in pdf. Grant, G., P. Trail and R. Clapp. 1994. First specimens
of sooty shearwater, Newell's shearwaters, and white-faced storm-petrel from American
Samoa. Notornis. 41:215-217. View
report in pdf. Pratt, D., P. Bruner and D. Berrett. 1987. The
Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press. Steadman,
D. 1993. Bird bones from the To'aga Site: prehistoric loss of seabirds and megapodes.
In Kirch (ed.) The To'aga Site. Univ. of CA, Berkeley. View
report in pdf. Steadman, D. and G. Pregill. 2004. A prehistoric,
non cultural vertebrate assembledge from Tutuila, American Samoa. Pacific Science.
58:615-624. View
report in pdf. Seamon, J., pers. comm. Photographs and notes
from the staff at the National Park of American Samoa
The
NPS Inventorying and Monitoring site is a work in progress at this time. It is
expected to be on line to the public in a few more years.
 Learn
more about the NPSpecies Inventorying and Monitoring Program.
National Park Service contacts: <harryb001@hawaii.rr.com>
or <tavita_togia@nps.gov>
Page last updated 1 May 2013.
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