Species richness and abundance of seabirds of the d’Entrecasteaux atolls in the Coral Sea are presented, based on 15 expeditions made in the warm season during the period 2002-2018. Four-teen species including 13 breeding (wedge-tailed shearwater Ardenna pacifica, red-tailed tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda, masked booby Sula dactylatra, brown booby S. leucogaster, red-footed booby S. sula, lesser frigatebird Fregata ariel, great frigatebird F. minor, black noddy Anous minutus, brown noddy A. stolidus, bridled tern Onychoprion anaethetus, sooty tern O. fuscatus, greater crested tern Thalasseus bergii, and black-naped tern Sterna sumatrana) and one with uncertain breeding status (fairy tern Sternula nereis) were censused during. Wedge-tailed s...