page_title: Funafuti Conservation Area
section_title: Bird life of Tuvalu
hierarchical_section_title: Funafuti Conservation Area / Bird life of Tuvalu
caption_attribution_description: Black Noddy Anous minutus
context_page_description: The Funafuti Conservation Area is a marine conservation area covering 33 square kilometers of reef, lagoon and motu on the western side of Funafuti atoll in Tuvalu. The marine environment of the conservation area includes reef, lagoon, channel and ocean; and are home to many species of fish, corals, algae and invertebrates. The islets are nesting sites for the green sea turtle and Fualopa hosts a breeding colony of black noddy.
  The decision to create a protected area was made in 1999; the purpose of the Funafuti Conservation Area is the conservation of the marine and land based biodiversity within the protected area. The boundaries of the Funafuti Conservation Area encompass about 20 percent of the total coral reef area of Funafuti lagoon.
context_section_description: Surveys have established a total of 35 bird species as confirmed in Tuvalu, including:
  9 species of terns (Sternidae)
  7 species of sandpipers (Scolopacidae)
  4 species of shearwaters and petrels (Procellariidae)
  3 species of boobies (Sulidae)
  2 species of tropicbirds (Phaethontidae)
  Great frigatebird (Fregata minor)
  Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
  Pacific imperial pigeon (Ducula pacifica) live in the broadleaf forest. Migratory birds are found in Tuvalu, such as long-tailed cuckoo (Eudynamys taitensis) or areva (Tuvaluan). The birds found in Tuvalu include 17 breeding species, such as:
  eight species of migratory shorebirds, including the globally threatened species, bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis); and
  nine species of  seabirds, including black noddy (Anous minutes) or taketake (Tuvaluan).
  Fualopa hosts a breeding colony of black noddy.
caption: Black noddy
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