Big Year Bird Checklist for Hawaii
A free printable Hawaii bird checklist. Pick your goal, get the PDF.
Hawaii's checklist is a conservation story. The native honeycreepers are among the most endangered birds on earth, mostly confined to high-elevation forest. (Heads up: the planner's data is built for the continental US — Hawaii results are limited; this list reflects genuine native targets.)
The tool builds you a printable checklist of every bird realistically possible in Hawaii, grouped by family, with seasonal markers and a space to log the date you spot each one. It's drawn from public, license-clean records — not a generic national list, but the species that actually occur where you're birding.
Pick Hawaii (or any area inside it), choose your goal — Big Day, Big Month, Big Year, or a life list — and download the PDF. Free, no account, no email. Print it, fold it in a field guide, and start checking birds off.
What you'll find on a Hawaii checklist
A Hawaii checklist mixes widespread residents with the specialties that make the state worth a big year. A few you'll want to target:
- 'I'iwi — Scarlet honeycreeper with a sickle bill.
- 'Apapane — The most common native honeycreeper.
- Hawaii 'Amakihi — A small green honeycreeper.
- 'Akiapola'au — A rare Big Island specialist.
- Palila — Critically endangered mamane specialist.
- Nene — The native goose; the state bird.
- 'Elepaio — An endemic monarch flycatcher.
- 'Oma'o — A native Big Island thrush.
- Hawaiian Petrel — An endangered seabird.
- Hawaiian Stilt — An endemic wetland subspecies.
- Hawaiian Coot — Endemic freshwater bird.
- 'Io — The endemic Hawaiian Hawk.
Your generated PDF includes every realistic species for the exact area you pick, with seasonal markers and a space to log each sighting.
What kind of list do you need?
Birders use “Big” challenges to make birding count. Pick the timeframe you're working with, and I'll tune the list for it.
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Chasing a Hawaii big year? You're going to like the apparel, prints, and stickers we've designed around these birds.
'I'iwi, 'Apapane, Hawaii 'Amakihi, 'Akiapola'au — all illustrated and designed by Jaymi at Better With Birds. Made-to-order, never mass-printed.
