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Australian bird list 2018

Total: 345

Birds marked with * were recorded in my garden

Struthionidae

Ostrich

Casuariidae

Emu

Anseranatidae
Magpie Goose

Anatidae

Plumed Whistling-duck

Wandering Whistling-duck

Blue-billed Duck

Pink-eared Duck

Black Swan

Australian Shelduck

Hardhead

Pacific Black Duck

Grey Teal

Chestnut Teal

Freckled Duck

Musk Duck

Australian Wood Duck

Green Pygmy-goose

Podicepidae

Australasian Grebe

Hoary-headed Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

Megapodiidae
*Australian Brush-turkey
*Orange-footed Scrubfowl

Numididiidae

Helmeted Guineafowl

Phasianidae

Brown Quail

Columbidae

Rock Dove

*White-headed Pigeon

Spotted Dove

Laughing Dove

*Brown Cuckoo-dove

Squatter Pigeon

Common Bronzewing

Brush Bronzewing

Flock Bronzewing

Crested Pigeon

Diamond Dove

*Peaceful Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
*Brown-capped Emerald Dove
Torresian Imperial-pigeon
*Wompoo Fruit-dove

*Superb Fruit-dove

*Topknot Pigeon

Cuculidae
Pheasant Coucal
Eastern Koel (heard)

*Channel-billed Cuckoo (heard)

Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo

Shining Bronze-cuckoo

Little (Gould's) Bronze-cuckoo (heard)

Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Pallid Cuckoo

Otididae

Australian Bustard

Podargidae

*Papuan Frogmouth

Eurostopodidae

Spotted Nightjar

Aegothelidae

Australian Owlet-nightjar

Apodidae

*White-rumped Swiftlet

Rallidae

Buff-banded Rail

White-browed Crake

Pale-vented Bush-hen

Purple Swamphen

Black-tailed Native-hen

Eurasian Coot

Gruidae

Sarus Crane

Brolga

Burhinidae

Bush Stone-curlew

Haematopodidae

Australian Pied Oystercatcher

Sooty Oystercatcher

Recurvirostridae

Banded Stilt

Red-necked Avocet

White-headed Stilt

Charadriidae

Grey Plover

Red-capped Plover

Black-fronted Dotterel

Red-kneed Dotterel

Banded Lapwing

Masked Lapwing

Jacanidae

Comb-crested Jacana

Scolopacidae

Whimbrel

Eastern Curlew

Bar-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Great Knot

Red Knot

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Red-necked Stint

Asian Dowitcher

Latham's Snipe

Terek Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Grey-tailed Tattler

Common Greenshank

Wood Sandpiper

Marsh Sandpiper

Glareolidae

Australian Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole

Laridae

Silver Gull

Pacific Gull

Fairy Tern

Common Gull-billed Tern

Caspian Tern

Whiskered Tern

White-winged Tern

Crested Tern

Ciconiidae

Black-necked Stork

Pelicanidae
Australian Pelican

Ardeidae

Nankeen Night-heron

Striated Heron

White-necked Heron

Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
White-faced Heron

Threskiornithidae
Australian White Ibis

Straw-necked Ibis

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Royal Spoonbill

Glossy Ibis

Phalacrocoracidae

Little Pied Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Little Black Cormorant

Pied Cormorant

Anhingidae

Australasian Darter

Pandionidae

Osprey

Accipitridae

Black-shouldered Kite

Square-tailed Kite

Pacific Baza

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Little Eagle

Swamp Harrier

Spotted Harrier

Grey Goshawk

Brown Goshawk

Collared Sparrowhawk

White-bellied Sea-eagle

Whistling Kite

Brahminy Kite

Black Kite

Tytonidae

*Lesser Sooty Owl (heard)

Barn Owl

Strigidae
*Rufous Owl (heard)
*Barking Owl
*(Red) Boobook (heard)

Meropidae
Rainbow Bee-eater

Coraciidae
Dollarbird

Alcedinidae
Forest Kingfisher

Sacred Kingfisher

Azure Kingfisher

Red-backed Kingfisher

*Laughing Kookaburra
Blue-winged Kookaburra

Falconidae

Nankeen Kestrel

Brown Falcon

Black Falcon

Cacatuidae

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo

Baudin's Black Cockatoo

Carnaby's Black Cockatoo

Galah

Long-billed Corella

Western Corella

Little Corella

*Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Psittacidae

Regent Parrot

*Australian King-parrot

Red-winged Parrot

Bluebonnet

Mulga Parrot

Red-capped Parrot

Crimson Rosella

Crimson (Adelaide) Rosella

*Pale-headed Rosella

Western Rosella

Australian Ringneck

Elegant Parrot

Purple-crowned Lorikeet

*Rainbow Lorikeet

Red-collared Lorikeet

*Scaly-breasted lorikeet

Double-eyed (Macleay's) Fig-parrot

Atrichornithidae

Noisy Scrub-bird

Ptilonorhynchidae
*Spotted Catbird
*Tooth-billed Bowerbird

*Satin Bowerbird

Great Bowerbird

Climacteridae

*White-throated Treecreeper

Rufous Treecreeper

Maluridae

Red-winged Fairy-wren

Blue-breasted Fairy-wren

Superb Fairy-wren

Splendid Fairy-wren

Purple-backed Fairy-wren

Red-backed Fairy-wren

Southern Emu-wren

Dasyornithidae

Western Bristlebird

Meliphagidae

Black Honeyeater

*Dusky Honeyeater

Red-headed Honeyeater

Scarlet Honeyeater
*Macleay's Honeyeater

Helmeted Friarbird

Noisy Friarbird

Little Friarbird

Brown Honeyeater

New Holland Honeyeater

White-cheeked Honeyeater

White-eared Honeyeater

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Brown-headed Honeyeater

White-throated Honeyeater

White-naped Honeyeater

Tawny-crowned Honeyeater

*Eastern Spinebill

Western Spinebill

Rufous-throated Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Gibberbird

Orange Chat

Yellow Chat

White-fronted Chat

Yellow Honeyeater

*Lewin's Honeyeater

Yellow-spotted Honeyeater

Graceful Honeyeater

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

Western Wattlebird

Red Wattlebird

*Bridled Honeyeater

Singing Honeyeater

Yellow-plumed Honeyeater

Yellow-tinted Honeyeater

White-plumed Honeyeater

Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Purple-gaped Honeyeater

Noisy Miner

Yellow-throated Miner

Pardalotidae

Spotted Pardalote

Striated Pardalote

Acanthizidae
*Brown Gerygone

Fairy Gerygone

Dusky Gerygone

Western Gerygone

Weebill

Redthroat

Shy Heathwren

Western (Rufous) Fieldwren

Atherton Scrubwren

White-browed Scrubwren

*Large-billed Scrubwren

Southern Whiteface

Chestnut-breasted Whiteface

Yellow-rumped Thornbill

Yellow Thornbill

Inland Thornbill

Slender-billed Thornbill

Chestnut-rumped Thornbill

Pomatostomidae

Grey-crowned Babbler

White-browed Babbler

Neosittidae

Varied Sittella

Campephagidae
*Barred Cuckoo-shrike
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

*White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike

White-winged Triller

*Varied Triller

Cinclosomatidae

Cinnamon Quail-thrush

Pachycephalidae

Gilbert's Whistler

Grey Whistler

Rufous Whistler

White-breasted Whistler

*Golden Whistler

Western Whistler

Mangrove Golden Whistler

*Little Shrike-thrush

*Bower's Shrike-thrush

Grey Shrike-thrush

Falcunculidae

Crested Shrike-tit

Oreoicidae

Crested Bellbird

Psophodidae

*Eastern Whipbird

Western Whipbird

Oriolidae

Australian Figbird

Olive-backed Oriole

Machaerirhynchidae

*Yellow-breasted Boatbill

Artamidae

Pied Currawong

Grey Currawong

Australian Magpie

Grey Butcherbird

Pied Butcherbird

Dusky Woodswallow

Black-faced Woodswallow

White-breasted Woodswallow

Dicruridae
*Spangled Drongo

Rhipiduridae

Northern Fantail

*Willie Wagtail

*Rufous Fantail

Mangrove Grey Fantail

*Grey Fantail

Corvidae

Torresian Crow

Little Crow

Little Raven
Australian Raven

Monarchidae

Leaden Flycatcher

Broad-billed Flycatcher

Satin Flycatcher

Restless Flycatcher

Paperbark Flycatcher

*Pied Monarch
Magpie-lark
*Spectacled Monarch
*White-eared Monarch
*Black-faced Monarch

Corcoracidae
White-winged Chough

Paradisaeidae
*Victoria's Riflebird

Petroicidae

Scarlet Robin

Red-capped Robin

Lemon-bellied Flycatcher

Jacky Winter

Southern Scrub-robin

*Grey-headed Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Western Yellow Robin

White-breasted Robin

*Pale-yellow Robin

Hooded Robin

Dicaeidae
Mistletoebird

Nectariniidae
Olive-backed Sunbird

Estrildidae

Chestnut-breasted Mannikin

Pictorella Mannikin

Red-eared Firetail

Red-browed Finch

Long-tailed Finch

Passeridae

Zebra Finch

Double-barred Finch

House Sparrow

Motacillidae

Australasian Pipit

Cisticolidae
Golden-headed Cisticola

Locustellidae

Rufous Songlark

Tawny Grassbird

Acrocephalidae

Australian Reed-warbler

Hirudinidae

White-backed Swallow

Fairy Martin

Tree Martin
Welcome Swallow

Timaliidae

Yellow White-eye

*Silvereye

Sturnidae
Common Myna
Common Starling
Metallic Starling

Reference
BirdLife Australia (2016) Working List of Australian Birds, Version 2.

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Friday, 25 August 2006

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