List of Western Australian birds - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a List of birds sighted in Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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Common name	Family	Scientific name	Notes
American Golden Plover American Golden Plover The American Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.Adults are spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border; they have a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black....	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Pluvialis dominica
Antarctic Prion Antarctic Prion The Antarctic Prion, Pachyptila desolata, also known as the Dove Prion, or Totorore in Maori, is the largest of the prions, a genus of small petrels of the Southern Ocean.-Taxonomy:...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pachyptila desolata
Antarctic Tern Antarctic Tern The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight...	Laridae	Sterna vittata
Arctic Jaeger	Laridae	Stercorarius parasiticus
Arctic Tern Arctic Tern The Arctic Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America...	Laridae	Sterna paradisaea
Arctic Warbler Arctic Warbler The Arctic Warbler, Phylloscopus borealis, is a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and northern Asia. It has established a foothold in North America, breeding in Alaska. This warbler is strongly migratory; the entire...	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Phylloscopus borealis
Asian Dowitcher	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Limnodromus semipalmatus
Australasian Bittern Australasian Bittern The Australasian Bittern , also known as the Brown Bittern, is found in south-western and south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Ouvea. Populations in Australia and New Zealand have declined in the 20th century.It is a large bittern, patterned and streaked brown, buff...	Ardeidae	Botaurus poiciloptilus	aka 'Brown Bittern'
Australasian Figbird Australasian Figbird The Australasian Figbird is a conspicuous medium-sized passerine bird native to a wide range of wooded habitats in northern and eastern Australia, southern Papua New Guinea, and the Kai Islands in Indonesia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of S...	Oriolidae	Sphecotheres vieilloti
Australasian Gannet	Sulidae Sulidae The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulidas, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar prey. The ten species in this family are often considered congeneric in older sources, placing all in the genus Sula...	Morus serrator or Sula bassana	aka 'Australian Gannet'
Australasian Grebe Australasian Grebe The Australasian Grebe is a tiny waterbird common on fresh water lakes and rivers in greater Australia, New Zealand and on nearby Pacific islands. At 25-27 cm in length, it is one of the smallest members of the grebe family...	Podicipedidae	Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
Australasian Shoveler Australasian Shoveler The Australasian Shoveler is a species of dabbling duck in the genus Anas. It ranges from 46–53 cm. It lives in heavily vegetated swamps. In Australia it is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas rhynchotis
Yellow Oriole Australasian Yellow Oriole The Yellow Oriole or Green Oriole, is an inconspicuous inhabitant of lush tropical vegetation throughout New Guinea and northern Australia, including Cape York Peninsula, the Top End and the Kimberley....	Oriolidae	Oriolus flavocinctus
Australian Bustard Australian Bustard The Australian Bustard, Ardeotis australis, is a large ground bird of grassland, woodland and open agricultural country across northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It is also commonly referred to in Central Australia as the Bush Turkey, particularly by Aboriginal people.The male is up to ...	Otididae	Ardeotis australis	aka 'Bush Turkey'
Australian Hobby Australian Hobby The Australian Hobby or Little Falcon is a falcon found mainly in Australia. It is also a winter migrant to Indonesia and New Guinea...	Falconidae Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...	Falco longipennis
Australian Magpie Australian Magpie The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. A member of the Artamidae, it is closely related to the butcherbirds...	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Gymnorhina tibicen
Australian Owlet-nightjar Australian Owlet-nightjar The Australian Owlet-nightjar, Aegotheles cristatus, is a nocturnal bird found in open woodland across Australia and in southern New Guinea. It is colloquially known as "Moth Owl". It is the most common of the owlet-nightjars, and the best known of this secretive family...	Aegothelidae	Aegotheles cristatus	aka 'Moth Owl'
Australian Painted Snipe Australian Painted Snipe The Australian Painted Snipe is a medium-sized, long-billed, distinctively patterned wader.-Taxonomy:The distinctiveness of the Australian Painted-snipe was recognised by John Gould in 1838 when he described and named it Rostratula australis. However, it was subsequently lumped with the Greater...	Rostratulidae	Rostratula australis
Australian Pelican Australian Pelican The Australian Pelican is a large water bird, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand.-Taxonomy:...	Pelecanidae	Pelecanus conspicillatus
Australian Pratincole Australian Pratincole The Australian Pratincole is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family, found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea....	Glareolidae Glareolidae Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The coursers include the atypical Egyptian Plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, which has sometimes been placed in its own family...	Stiltia isabella
Australian Raven Australian Raven The Australian Raven is the largest Australian member of the genus Corvus and one of three Australian species commonly known as ravens. It is a more slender bird than the Common Raven of the Northern Hemisphere but is otherwise similar...	Corvidae Corvidae Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...	Corvus coronoides	aka 'Crow'
Australian Ringneck Australian Ringneck The Australian Ringneck is a parrot native to Australia. Except for extreme tropical and highland areas, the species has adapted to all conditions...	Psittacidae	Barnardius zonarius	aka "Twenty-eight"
Australian Shelduck Australian Shelduck The Australian Shelduck, Tadorna tadornoides, is a shelduck, a group of large goose-like birds which are part of the bird family Anatidae, which also includes the swans, geese and ducks. The Anatidae article should be referred to for an overview of this group of birds.This is a bird which breeds...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Tadorna tadornoides
Australian Spotted Crake Australian Spotted Crake The Australian Spotted Crake is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is endemic to Australia, where its natural habitat is dense reedbeds, shallow open water and mudflats or floating vegetation in fresh or salt water wetlands including lakes, swamps and salt-marsh. Can also be found far...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Porzana fluminea
Australian White Ibis Australian White Ibis The Australian White Ibis , is a wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae. It is widespread across much of Australia...	Threskiornithidae Threskiornithidae The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises were once thought to be related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the...	Threskiornis molucca
Australian Wood Duck Australian Wood Duck The Australian Wood Duck, Maned Duck or Maned Goose is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Australia. It is the only living species in the genus Chenonetta...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Chenonetta jubata
Azure Kingfisher Azure Kingfisher The Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea is a small kingfisher , in the river kingfisher family, Alcedinidae. It is found in Northern and Eastern Australia and Tasmania, as well as the lowlands of New Guinea and neighbouring islands, and out to North Maluku and Romang.It is a very colourful bird, with...	Alcedinidae	Alcedo azurea
Baillon's Crake Baillon's Crake The Baillon's Crake is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae.-Distribution:Their breeding habitat is sedge beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and across Asia. They used to breed in Great Britain up to the mid-19th century, but the western European population declined through drainage....	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Porzana pusilla
Baird's Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper The Baird's Sandpiper is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids sometimes separated in Erolia.Adults have black legs and a short thin dark bill. They are dark brown on top and mainly white underneath with a black patch on the rump. The head and breast are light brown with dark streaks. In...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris or Erolia bairdii
Banded Honeyeater Banded Honeyeater The Banded Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . ...	Meliphagidae	Certhionyx pectoralis
Banded Lapwing Banded Lapwing The Banded Lapwing is a small to medium sized wader which belongs to the plover family. It is found over most of Australia and Tasmania though is absent from the northern third of the continent....	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Vanellus tricolor
Banded Stilt Banded Stilt The Banded Stilt is a nomadic stilt from Australia. It belongs to the monotypical genus Cladorhynchus. It gets its name from the red-brown breast band found on breeding adults, but this is mottled or entirely absent in non-breeding adults and juveniles. Its remaining plumage is pied and the eyes...	Recurvirostridae Recurvirostridae Recurvirostridae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets and the stilts .-Description and diet:...	Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
Banded Whiteface Banded Whiteface The Banded Whiteface is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Pardalotidae	Aphelocephala nigricincta
Barau's Petrel Barau's Petrel Barau's Petrel, Pterodroma baraui is a medium sized gadfly petrel from the family Procellariidae. Its main breeding site is the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.-Etymology:...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pterodroma baraui
Bar-breasted Honeyeater Bar-breasted Honeyeater The Bar-breasted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 27 July 2007....	Meliphagidae	Ramsayornis fasciatus
Barking Owl Barking Owl The Barking Owl , also known as the Barking Boobook or Winking Owl, is a nocturnal bird species native to mainland Australia and parts of Papua New Guinea. They are a medium-sized brown owl and have an extremely characteristic voice that can range from a barking dog noise to a shrill woman-like...	Strigidae	Pterodroma baraui
Barn Owl Barn Owl The Barn Owl is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as Common Barn Owl, to distinguish it from other species in the barn-owl family Tytonidae. These form one of two main lineages of living owls, the other being the typical...	Tytonidae Tytonidae Barn-owls are one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful talons...	Tyto alba
Barn Swallow Barn Swallow The Barn Swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas...	Hirundinidae	Hirundo rustica
Bar-shouldered Dove Bar-shouldered Dove The Bar-shouldered Dove is native to Australia.It is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. It is a medium sized pigeon varying in size from 26 to 30 centimetres...	Columbidae	Geopelia humeralis
Bar-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit The Bar-tailed Godwit is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae, which breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Limosa lapponica
Beach Stone-curlew Beach Stone-curlew The Beach Stone-curlew, Esacus giganteus also known as Beach Thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird that occurs in Australasia, the islands of South-east Asia...	Burhinidae	Esacus giganteus	aka 'Beach Thick-knee'
Black Bittern Black Bittern The Black Bittern, Ixobrychus flavicollis, is a bittern of Old World origin, breeding in tropical Asia from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka east to China, Indonesia and Australia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds migrate short distances....	Ardeidae	Ixobrychus flavicollis
Black Butcherbird Black Butcherbird The Black Butcherbird is a species of bird in the Cracticidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Cracticus quoyi
Black Falcon Black Falcon The Black Falcon is a medium-large falcon that lives only in Australia. It is mainly found in open grasslands and woodlands in the semi arid inland parts of Australia. First year falcons are a dark black in colour fading to browner black in successive years...	Falconidae Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...	Falco subniger
Black Grasswren Black Grasswren The Black Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Western Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Amytornis housei
Black Honeyeater Black Honeyeater The Black Honeyeater is a species of bird in the family of honeyeaters, Meliphagidae, and the sole species in the genus Sugomel. The Black Honeyeater exhibits sexual dimorphism with the male being black and white while the female is a speckled grey-brown; immature birds look like the female...	Meliphagidae	Certhionyx niger
Black Kite Black Kite The Black Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors. Unlike others of the group, they are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge. They spend a lot of time soaring and gliding in thermals in search of food. Their...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Milvus migrans
Black Noddy Black Noddy The Black Noddy or White-capped Noddy is a seabird from the tern family. It resembles the closely related Brown or Common Noddy , but is smaller with darker plumage, a whiter cap, a longer, straighter beak and shorter tail...	Laridae	Anous minutus
Black Swan Black Swan The Black Swan is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Cygnus atratus	The state bird of Western Australia
Black-backed Wagtail	Motacillidae Motacillidae The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...	Motacilla lugens
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Black-bellied Storm-petrel The Black-bellied Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Bouvet Island, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Saint Helena, São Tomé...	Hydrobatidae	Fregetta tropica
Black-breasted Buzzard Black-breasted Buzzard The Black-breasted Buzzard , or Black-breasted Kite, is a large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae and the monotypic genus Hamirostra...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Hamirostra melanosternon	aka 'Black-breasted Kite'
Black-browed Albatross Black-browed Albatross The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae, and it is the most widespread and common albatross.-Taxonomy:...	Diomedeidae	Thalassarche melanophrys
Black-chinned Honeyeater Black-chinned Honeyeater The Black-chinned Honeyeater is a species of passerine bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Two subspecies are recognised. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests.The Black-chinned Honeyeater was first described by John Gould in 1837...	Meliphagidae	Melithreptus gularis
Black-crowned Night Heron Black-crowned Night Heron The Black-crowned Night Heron commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia .-Description:Adults are...	Ardeidae	Nycticorax nycticorax
Black-eared Cuckoo Black-eared Cuckoo The Black-eared Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....	Cuculidae	Chrysococcyx osculans
Black-faced Cormorant Black-faced Cormorant The Black-faced Cormorant , also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. Upperparts, including facial skin and bill, are black, with white underparts. It is endemic to coastal regions of southern Australia.-Ecology:The Black-faced-Cormorant feeds largely on...	Phalacrocoracidae	Phalacrocorax fuscescens
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is a common omnivorous passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It has a protected status in Australia, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974....	Campephagidae	Coracina novaehollandiae
Black-faced Monarch Black-faced Monarch The Black-faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis is a passerine bird in the family Monarchidae.The Black-faced Monarch was most likely discovered sometime in the 1810s, although its original discovery is somewhat controversial. According to many bird books, the original discoverer of the Black-faced...	Dicruridae	Monarcha melanopsis
Black-faced Woodswallow Black-faced Woodswallow The Black-faced Woodswallow, Artamus cinereus is a woodswallow. This swallow is 19 cm long. It is the most widespread species in the family Artamidae. They live in Australia, New Guinea and the Sunda Islands, including Timor.- External links :*...	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Artamus cinereus
Black-fronted Dotterel Black-fronted Dotterel The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia, to which it is native and New Zealand, where it self introduced in the 1950s. It is common in freshwater wetlands, around the edges of lakes and billabongs, and in shallow, temporary claypan pools...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Elseyornis melanops
Black-headed Gull Black-headed Gull The Black-headed Gull is a small gull which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory, wintering further south, but some birds in the milder westernmost areas of Europe are resident...	Laridae	Larus ridibundus
Black-naped Tern Black-naped Tern The Black-naped Tern is an oceanic tern mostly found in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is rarely found inland....	Laridae	Sterna sumatrana
Black-necked Stork Black-necked Stork The Black-necked Stork is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family. It is a resident species across South and Southeast Asia with a disjunct population in Australia. It lives in wetland habitats to forage for a wide range of animal prey...	Ciconiidae	Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus
Black-shouldered Kite Black-shouldered Kite The Black-shouldered Kite or Australian Black-shouldered Kite is a small raptor found in open habitat throughout Australia and resembles similar species found in Eurasia and North America, which have in the past also been named as Black-shouldered Kites...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Elanus axillaris
Black-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Godwit The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa, is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the Limosa genus, the godwits...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Limosa limosa
Black-tailed Native-hen Black-tailed Native-hen The Black-tailed Nativehen, , is a rail native to Australia and New Zealand.-Description:The Black-tailed Nativehen is a large dark bird, reaching about 38 cm in length and weighing around 400g which is close to the weight of a soccer ball. This species possesses an erect tail and is endowed...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Gallinula ventralis
Black-tailed Treecreeper Black-tailed Treecreeper The Black-tailed Treecreeper is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.-References:...	Climacteridae	Climacteris melanurus
Black-winged Stilt Black-winged Stilt The Black-winged Stilt or Common Stilt is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family . Opinions differ as to whether the birds treated under the scientific name H. himantopus ought to be treated as a single species and if not, how many species to recognize...	Recurvirostridae Recurvirostridae Recurvirostridae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets and the stilts .-Description and diet:...	Himantopus himantopus
Bluebonnet Bluebonnet (bird) The Bluebonnet is an Australian parrot, the only member of the genus Northiella. Its habitat includes open woodland, scrub, riverine forest, spinifex, and farmlands in the eastern half of the continent, with a smaller race being found in the Western Australian Nullarbor region.This species grows...	Psittacidae	Northiella haematogaster
Blue Petrel Blue Petrel The Blue Petrel is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus Halobaena but is closely allied to the prions.-Taxonomy:...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Halobaena caerulea
Blue-and-white Flycatcher Blue-and-White Flycatcher The Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Cyanoptila cyanomelana is a migratory songbird. It breeds in Japan, Korea, and in parts of China and Russia. It winters in South East Asia, especially in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Sumatra and Borneo.-References:...	Muscicapidae	Cyanoptila cyanomelana
Blue-billed Duck Blue-billed Duck The Blue-billed Duck is a small Australian stiff-tailed duck, with both the male and female growing to a length of 40 cm . The male has a slate-blue bill which changes to bright-blue during the breeding season, hence the duck’s common name . The male has deep chestnut plumage during breeding...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Oxyura australis
Blue-breasted Fairy-wren Blue-breasted Fairy-wren The Blue-breasted Fairywren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.The range of the Blue-breasted Wren is inland south-western Western Australia and the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Malurus pulcherrimus
Blue-faced Honeyeater	Meliphagidae	Entomyzon cyanotis	aka 'Bananabird'
Blue-winged Kookaburra Blue-winged Kookaburra The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a large species of kingfisher native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea.Measuring around 40 cm , it is slightly smaller than the more familiar Laughing Kookaburra. It has cream-coloured upper- and underparts barred with brownish markings. It...	Halcyonidae	Dacelo leachii
Blue-winged Pitta Blue-winged Pitta The Blue-winged Pitta is a passerine bird in the Pittidae family native to Australia and Southeast Asia. It forms a superspecies with three other pittas and has no subspecies.-Taxonomy:...	Pittidae	Pitta moluccensis
Bourke's Parrot Bourke's Parrot The Bourke's Parrot , also known as the Bourke's Parakeet or "Bourkie", is a small parrot originating in Australia and the only species in its genus Neopsephotus...	Psittacidae	Neopsephotus bourkii
Brahminy Kite Brahminy Kite The Brahminy Kite , also known as the Red-backed Sea-eagle, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards and harriers. They are found in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Haliastur indus
Bridled Tern Bridled Tern The Bridled Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans.-Description:...	Laridae	Onychoprion anaethetus
Broad-billed Flycatcher Broad-billed Flycatcher The Broad-billed Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist...	Dicruridae	Myiagra ruficollis
Broad-billed Prion Broad-billed Prion The Broad-billed Prion, Pachyptila vittata, is a small seabird, but the largest Prion, with grey upperparts plumage, and white underparts. It has many other names that have been used such as Blue-billed Dove-petrel, Broad-billed Dove-petrel, Long-billed Prion, Common Prion, Icebird, and...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pachyptila vittata
Broad-billed Sandpiper Broad-billed Sandpiper The Broad-billed Sandpiper is a small wading bird. It is the only member of the genus Limicola; some have proposed that it should be placed in the genus Erolia with the "stint" sandpipers, but more recent research suggests that it is should rather go into the genus Philomachus with the ruff and...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Limicola falcinellus
Brolga Brolga The Brolga , formerly known as the "Native Companion", is a bird in the crane family. The bird has also been given the name "Australian Crane", a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithological artist John Gould in his Birds of Australia.The Brolga is a common gregarious wetland bird species in...	Gruidae	Grus rubicunda
Brown Booby Brown Booby The Brown Booby is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. The adult brown booby reaches about in length. Its head and upper body are covered in dark brown, with the remainder being a contrasting white. The juvenile form is gray-brown with darkening on the head, wings and tail...	Sulidae Sulidae The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulidas, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar prey. The ten species in this family are often considered congeneric in older sources, placing all in the genus Sula...	Sula leucogaster
Brown Falcon Brown Falcon The Brown Falcon , also known as the Brown Hawk, is a member of the falcon genus found in the drier regions of Australia. Its specific name berigora is derived from an aboriginal name for the bird....	Falconidae Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...	Falco berigora
Brown Goshawk Brown Goshawk The Brown Goshawk is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found in Australia and surrounding islands.- Description:...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Accipiter fasciatus
Brown Hawk-Owl	Strigidae	Ninox scutulata
Brown Honeyeater Brown Honeyeater The Brown Honeyeater is a honeyeater, a group of birds found mainly in Australia and New Guinea which have highly developed brush-tipped tongues adapted for nectar feeding...	Meliphagidae	Lichmera indistincta
Brown Quail Brown Quail The Brown Quail , also known as Swamp Quail, is an Australasian true quail of the family Phasianidae.The Brown Quail is distributed in agricultural areas, wet grasslands, shrublands and freshwater wetlands across much of New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as in northern, eastern,...	Phasianidae Phasianidae The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...	Coturnix ypsilophorus
Brown Songlark Brown Songlark The Brown Songlark , also Australian Songlark, is a small passerine bird found throughout much of Australia. A member of the Old World Warbler family, the species is notable for sexual size dimorphism, among the most pronounced in any bird...	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Cincloramphus cruralis
Brown-headed Honeyeater Brown-headed Honeyeater The Brown-headed Honeyeater is a species of passerine bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....	Meliphagidae	Melithreptus brevirostris
Brush Bronzewing Brush Bronzewing The Brush Bronzewing is a species of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.-References:...	Columbidae	Phaps elegans
Brush Cuckoo Brush Cuckoo The Brush Cuckoo, Cacomantis variolosus, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin....	Cuculidae	Cacomantis variolosus
Budgerigar Budgerigar The Budgerigar , also known as Common Pet Parakeet or Shell Parakeet informally nicknamed the budgie, is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot, and the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus...	Psittacidae	Melopsittacus undulatus
Buff-banded Rail Buff-banded Rail The Buff-banded Rail, Gallirallus philippensis is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the family Rallidae....	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Gallirallus philippensis
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper The Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis, is a small shorebird. It is a calidrid sandpipers and currently considered to be the only member of the genus Tryngites. Indeed, it probably belongs in the genus Calidris itself, or more precisely with the small species thereof which should be...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Tryngites subruficollis
Bulwer's Petrel Bulwer's Petrel The Bulwer's Petrel is a small petrel in the family Procellariidae, and is one of two species in the genus Bulweria . This bird is named after the Scottish naturalist James Bulwer.- Description :...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Bulweria bulwerii
Bush Stone-curlew Bush Stone-curlew The Bush Stone-curlew or Bush Thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia...	Burhinidae	Burhinus grallarius
Plain Bush-hen	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Amaurornis olivacea
Cape Barren Goose Cape Barren Goose The Cape Barren Goose is a large goose resident in southern Australia. The species is named for Cape Barren Island, where specimens were first sighted by European explorers.-Taxonomy:...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Cereopsis novaehollandiae
Cape Petrel Cape Petrel The Cape Petrel also called Cape Pigeon or Pintado Petrel, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. It is the only member of the genus Daption, and is allied to the fulmarine petrels, and the Giant Petrels. It is also sometimes known as the Cape Fulmar...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Daption capense
Caspian Tern Caspian Tern The Caspian Tern is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic of its genus, and has no subspecies accepted either...	Laridae	Hydroprogne caspia
Cattle Egret Cattle Egret The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species, the Western Cattle Egret and the Eastern Cattle Egret...	Ardeidae	Bubulcus ibis
Channel-billed Cuckoo Channel-billed Cuckoo The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Scythrops. The species is the largest brood parasite in the world, and the largest cuckoo....	Cuculidae	Scythrops novaehollandiae
Chestnut Quail-thrush Chestnut Quail-thrush The Chestnut-backed Quail-thrush or Chestnut Quail-thrush is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...	Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas. It has a complicated taxonomic history and different authors vary in which birds they include in the family. It includes at least the quail-thrushes , 5 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Australia and New...	Cinclosoma castanotum
Chestnut Rail Chestnut Rail The Chestnut Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. The Chestnut Rail is monotypical of its genus.It is found in Australia and Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Eulabeornis castaneoventris
Chestnut Teal Chestnut Teal The Chestnut Teal is a dabbling duck found in southern Australia. It is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.-Description:The Chestnut Teal is darker and a slightly bigger bird than the Grey Teal....	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas castanea
Chestnut-backed Button-quail Chestnut-backed Button-quail The Chestnut-backed Buttonquail is a species of bird in the Turnicidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24...	Turnicidae	Turnix castanotus
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin	Passeridae	Lonchura castaneothorax
Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush The Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas. It has a complicated taxonomic history and different authors vary in which birds they include in the family. It includes at least the quail-thrushes , 5 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Australia and New...	Cinclosoma castaneothorax
Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Chestnut-rumped Thornbill The Chestnut-rumped Thornbill is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is endemic to Australia....	Pardalotidae	Acanthiza uropygialis
Chiming Wedgebill Chiming Wedgebill The Chiming Wedgebill is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is endemic to Australia.The Chiming Wedgebill makes a cooing sound during mating.-References:...	Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas. It has a complicated taxonomic history and different authors vary in which birds they include in the family. It includes at least the quail-thrushes , 5 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Australia and New...	Psophodes occidentalis
Christmas Frigatebird	Fregatidae	Fregata andrewsi
Cicadabird Cicadabird The Common Cicadabird , also known as the Slender-billed Cicadabird, is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands...	Campephagidae	Coracina tenuirostris
Cinnamon Quail-thrush Cinnamon Quail-thrush The Cinnamon Quail-thrush is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas. It has a complicated taxonomic history and different authors vary in which birds they include in the family. It includes at least the quail-thrushes , 5 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Australia and New...	Cinclosoma cinnamomeum
Clamorous Reed Warbler	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Acrocephalus stentoreus
Cockatiel Cockatiel The Cockatiel , also known as the Quarrion and the Weiro, is the smallest cockatoo endemic to Australia. They are prized as a household pet and companion parrot throughout the world and are relatively easy to breed...	Cacatuidae	Nymphicus hollandicus
Collared Kingfisher Collared Kingfisher The Collared Kingfisher is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the family Halcyonidae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the White-collared Kingfisher or Mangrove Kingfisher. It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia and Australasia to Polynesia...	Halcyonidae	Todiramphus chloris
Collared Sparrowhawk Collared Sparrowhawk The Collared Sparrowhawk is a small, slim bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found in Australia, and New Guinea and nearby smaller islands.- Description :...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Accipiter cirrocephalus
Comb-crested Jacana Comb-crested Jacana The Comb-crested Jacana , also known as the Lotusbird or Lilytrotter, is the only species of jacana in the genus Irediparra...	Jacanidae	Irediparra gallinacea
Common Bronzewing Common Bronzewing The Common Bronzewing is a species of medium-sized, heavily built pigeon. Native to Australia and one of the country's most common pigeons, the Common Bronzewing is able to live in almost any habitat, with the possible exception of very barren areas and dense rainforests.- Description :Males of...	Columbidae	Phaps chalcoptera
Common Diving Petrel Common Diving Petrel The Common Diving Petrel , also known as the Smaller Diving-Petrel or simply the Diving-Petrel, is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pelecanoides urinatrix
Common Greenshank	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Tringa nebularia
Pacific Koel Pacific Koel The Pacific Koel , also known as the Eastern Koel, is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It has often been considered conspecific with the Asian and Black-billed Koels, but they are increasingly treated as a separate species...	Cuculidae	Eudynamys orientalis	aka 'Eastern Koel'
Common Noddy	Laridae	Anous stolidus	aka 'Brown Noddy'
Common Pheasant Common Pheasant The Common Pheasant , is a bird in the pheasant family . It is native to Georgia and has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. In parts of its range, namely in places where none of its relatives occur such as in Europe , it is simply known as the "pheasant"...	Phasianidae Phasianidae The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...	Phasianus colchicus	introduced
Common Redshank Common Redshank The Common Redshank or simply Redshank is an Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae.- Description and systematics :...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Tringa totanus
Common Sandpiper Common Sandpiper The Common Sandpiper is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the Spotted Sandpiper , make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Actitis hypoleucos
Common Starling	Sturnidae	Sturnus vulgaris	introduced
Common Tern Common Tern The Common Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, breeding in temperate and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and east and central North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. It is sometimes...	Laridae	Sterna hirundo
Crested Bellbird Crested Bellbird The Crested Bellbird is a species of bird in the Colluricinclidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Oreoica.It is endemic to Australia.-Conservation status:...	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Oreoica gutturalis
Crested Pigeon Crested Pigeon The Crested Pigeon is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for far tropical north areas. It is the only member of the genus Ocyphaps.There are only two Australian pigeon species that possess an erect crest, being the Crested Pigeon and the Spinifex Pigeon...	Columbidae	Ocyphaps lophotes
Crested Shrike-tit Crested Shrike-tit The Crested Shrike-tit is a bird endemic to Australia where it inhabits open eucalypt forest and woodland.-Taxonomy and distribution:...	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Falcunculus frontatus
Crested Tern	Laridae	Thalasseus bergii
Crimson Chat Crimson Chat The Crimson Chat is a species of small birds found in Australia. They are known by many other common names including: Tricolored Chat, Crimson tang, and Red canary in English; Scharlachtrugschmätzer by Germans; Curruca Carmesí in Spanish; and Epthianure tricolore in French...	Meliphagidae	Image:Crested Tern.jpg
Crimson Finch Crimson Finch The Crimson Finch, Neochmia phaeton, is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia, West Papua, Indonesia & Papua New Guinea. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 100,000- 1,000,000 km²....	Passeridae	Neochmia phaeton
Curlew Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper The Curlew Sandpiper is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australasia...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris ferruginea
Dark-sided (Sooty) Flycatcher Dark-sided Flycatcher The Dark-sided Flycatcher is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Muscicapa in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a wide distribution in Asia with northern birds migrating south for the winter. It is also known as the Siberian Flycatcher or Sooty Flycatcher, the latter...	Muscicapidae	Muscicapa sibirica
Darter Darter The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae. There are four living species, three of which are very common and widespread while the fourth is rarer and classified as near-threatened by the IUCN. The term "snakebird" is usually used without any additions to...	Anhingidae	Anhinga melanogaster
Diamond Dove Diamond Dove The Diamond Dove is a bird resident in Australia.The dove predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature, being Central, West and Northern Australia. They are one of Australia's smallest pigeons along with the Peaceful Dove...	Columbidae	Geopelia cuneata
Dollarbird Dollarbird The Oriental Dollarbird , also known as the Dollar Roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings....	Coraciidae	Eurystomus orientalis
Domestic Goose	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anser anser and Anser cygnoides	introduced
Double-banded Plover Double-banded Plover The Double-banded Plover , known as the Banded Dotterel in New Zealand, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. It lives in beaches, mud flats, grasslands and on bare ground...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius bicinctus	aka 'Banded Dotterel'
Double-barred Finch Double-barred Finch The Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii is an estrildid finch found in dry savanna, tropical dry grassland and shrubland habitats in northern and eastern Australia...	Passeridae	Taeniopygia bichenovii	aka 'Bicheno's Finch' and 'Owl Finch'
Dunlin Dunlin The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa, southeast Asia and the Middle East...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris or Erolia alpina
Dusky Gerygone Dusky Gerygone The Dusky Gerygone is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...	Pardalotidae	Gerygone tenebrosa
Dusky Grasswren Dusky Grasswren The Dusky Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Amytornis purnelli
Dusky Honeyeater Dusky Honeyeater The Dusky Honeyeater, Myzomela obscura is a small, brown bird that is a common resident of New Guinea, the Moluccas, the islands of Torres Strait, and northern Australia, where there are two separated populations, one in the Top End, another from Cape York Peninsula along the east coast as far...	Meliphagidae	Myzomela obscura
Dusky Moorhen Dusky Moorhen The Dusky Moorhen is a bird in the rail family. It occurs in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia.The New Guinea birds are smaller, at 25-32 cm in length, than the Australian race...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Gallinula tenebrosa
Dusky Woodswallow Dusky Woodswallow The Dusky Woodswallow , is a bird species of forests and woodlands in tropical and subtropical regions, in eastern and southern Australia....	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Artamus cyanopterus
Eastern Curlew	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Numenius madagascariensis	aka 'Far Eastern Curlew'
Eastern Reef Egret Eastern Reef Egret The Eastern Reef Heron , also known as the Pacific Reef Egret or Eastern Reef Egret, is a kind of heron. They are found in many areas of Asia including the oceanic region of India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Polynesia, and in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.Pacific Reef Herons are medium-sized...	Ardeidae	Egretta sacra	aka 'Pacific Reef Egret'
Elegant Parrot Elegant Parrot The Elegant Parrot is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-Taxonomy:The Elegant Parrot was originally named by the renowned ornithologist and artist John Gould in 1837, its specific name Latin for "elegant"...	Psittacidae	Neophema elegans
Emerald Dove Emerald Dove The Common Emerald Dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and east through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, to northern and eastern Australia. The dove is also known by the names of Green Dove and...	Columbidae	Chalcophaps indica
Emu Emu The Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. It is the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. There are three subspecies of Emus in Australia...	Casuariidae Casuariidae The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of Emu. The emus were formerly classified in their own family, Dromaiidae, but are regarded as sufficiently closely related to the cassowaries to be part of the same family.All...	Dromaius novaehollandiae
Erect-crested Penguin Erect-crested Penguin The Erect-crested Penguin is a penguin from New Zealand. It breeds on the Bounty and Antipodes Islands.This is a small-to-medium-sized, yellow-crested, black-and-white penguin, at and weighing . As in all penguin species, the male is slightly larger than the female and the birds weigh the most...	Spheniscidae	Eudyptes sclateri
Eurasian Coot Eurasian Coot The Eurasian Coot, Fulica atra, also known as Coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae. The Australian subspecies is known as the Australian Coot.-Distribution:...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Fulica atra
Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passeridae	Passer montanus	aka 'Eurasian Tree Sparrow' or 'German Sparrow'. Ship-assisted, but establishes periodically
Fairy Martin Fairy Martin The Fairy Martin is a member of the swallow family of passerine birds which breeds in Australia. It is migratory wintering through most of Australia, with some birds reaching New Guinea and Indonesia. It is increasing a wanderer to New Zealand, and may have bred. This species is frequently placed...	Hirundinidae	Petrochelidon ariel
Fairy Prion Fairy Prion The Fairy Prion is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of black upperparts and white underneath with an "M" wing marking.-Taxonomy:...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pachyptila turtur
Fairy Tern Fairy Tern The Fairy Tern is a small tern which occurs in the southwestern Pacific.There are three subspecies:* Australian Fairy Tern, Sterna nereis nereis - breeds in Australia...	Laridae	Sterna nereis
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Fan-tailed Cuckoo The Fan-tailed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.-Habitat:...	Cuculidae	Cacomantis flabelliformis
Fiordland Penguin Fiordland Penguin The Fiordland Crested Penguin , also known as Tawaki , is a species of crested penguin from New Zealand...	Spheniscidae	Eudyptes pachyrhynchus
Flesh-footed Shearwater Flesh-footed Shearwater The Flesh-footed Shearwater, Puffinus carneipes, is a small shearwater. Its plumage is black. It has pale pinkish feet, and a pale bill with a black tip. Together with the equally light-billed Pink-footed Shearwater, it forms the Hemipuffinus group, a superspecies which may or may not have an...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Puffinus carneipes
Flock Bronzewing Flock Bronzewing The Flock Bronzewing , also known as the Flock Pigeon, is a species of pigeon in the Columbidae family. It is endemic to the drier parts of Australia.-References:...	Columbidae	Phaps histrionica
Fluttering Shearwater Fluttering Shearwater The Fluttering Shearwater is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in New Zealand and Solomon Islands.Its natural habitats are open seas and rocky shores.-References:...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Puffinus gavia
Fork-tailed Swift Fork-tailed Swift Fork-tailed Swift is the historic name of a kind of bird which has since been divided taxonomically into four species. It could refer to any of four different species of swifts:Pacific Swift, Apus pacificusSalim Ali's Swift, Apus salimali...	Apodidae	Apus pacificus	aka 'Pacific Swift'
Franklin's Gull Franklin's Gull The Franklin's Gull is a small gull.-Description:It breeds in central provinces of Canada and adjacent states of the northern United States...	Laridae	Larus pipixcan
Freckled Duck Freckled Duck The Freckled Duck is a moderately large, broad-bodied duck native to southern Australia. The duck is protected by law...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Stictonetta naevosa
Galah Galah The Galah , Eolophus roseicapilla, also known as the Rose-breasted Cockatoo, Galah Cockatoo, Roseate Cockatoo or Pink and Grey, is one of the most common and widespread cockatoos, and it can be found in open country in almost all parts of mainland Australia.It is endemic on the mainland and was...	Cacatuidae	Eolophus roseicapillus	aka 'Rose-breasted Cockatoo' or 'Galah Cockatoo'
Garganey Garganey The Garganey is a small dabbling duck. It breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, but is strictly migratory, with the entire population moving to southern Africa, India Santragachi and Australasia in winter, where large flocks can occur. This species was first described by Linnaeus in 1758...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas querquedula
Gilbert's Whistler Gilbert's Whistler The Gilbert's Whistler is a species of bird in the Pachycephalidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 26 July 2007....	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Pachycephala inornata
Glossy Ibis Glossy Ibis The Glossy Ibis is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean region of the Americas...	Threskiornithidae Threskiornithidae The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises were once thought to be related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the...	Plegadis falcinellus
Golden Whistler Golden Whistler The Australian Golden Whistler is a species of bird found in forest, woodland, mallee, mangrove and scrub in Australia and in mountain forest in the Snow Mountains in the Papua Province of Indonesia. Most populations are resident, but some in south-eastern Australia migrate north during the winter...	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Pachycephala pectoralis
Golden-headed Cisticola Golden-headed Cisticola The Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis, also known as the Bright-headed Cisticola, is a species of warbler found from India to Australia....	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Cisticola exilis
Gouldian Finch Gouldian Finch The Gouldian Finch, Erythrura gouldiae , also known as the Lady Gouldian Finch, Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colorful passerine bird endemic to Australia. There is strong evidence of a continuing decline, even at the best-known site near Katherine in the Northern Territory...	Passeridae	Erythrura gouldiae	aka 'Lady Gouldian Finch' or 'Gould's Finch'
Gould's Petrel Gould's Petrel Gould's Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. It is a small petrel, 30 cm long with a wingspan of about 70 cm. It is largely grey above and white below with a blackish crown and hindneck and a black M-shaped band across the wings and rump.The subspecies P. l...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pterodroma leucoptera
Grass Owl Grass Owl Grass Owl may refer to any of the following two species:* African Grass-owl, Tyto capensis* Australasian Grass-owl, Tyto longimembris...	Tytonidae Tytonidae Barn-owls are one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful talons...	Tyto longimembris
Great Bowerbird Great Bowerbird The Great Bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia, from the area around Broome across the Top End to Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Mount Isa...	Ptilonorhynchidae	Chlamydera nuchalis
Great Cormorant Great Cormorant The Great Cormorant , known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the Black Cormorant in Australia and the Black Shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds...	Phalacrocoracidae	Phalacrocorax carbo
Great Crested Grebe Great Crested Grebe The Great Crested Grebe is a member of the grebe family of water birds.- Description :The Great Crested Grebe is long with a wingspan. It is an excellent swimmer and diver, and pursues its fish prey underwater. The adults are unmistakable in summer with head and neck decorations...	Podicipedidae	Podiceps cristatus
Great Egret Great Egret The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret, White Heron, or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized...	Ardeidae	Ardea alba
Great Frigatebird Great Frigatebird The Great Frigatebird is a large dispersive seabird in the frigatebird family. Major nesting populations are found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as a population in the South Atlantic....	Fregatidae	Fregata minor
Great Knot Great Knot The Great Knot, Calidris tenuirostris, is a small wader. It is the largest of the calidrid species.Their breeding habitat is tundra in northeast Siberia. They nest on the ground laying about four eggs in a ground scrape. They are strongly migratory wintering on coasts in southern Asia through to...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris tenuirostris
Great Skua Great Skua The Great Skua, Stercorarius skua, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. In Britain, it is sometimes known by the name Bonxie, a Shetland name of unknown origin.-Description:...	Laridae	Stercorarius skua
Great-billed Heron Great-billed Heron The Great-billed Heron, Ardea sumatrana is a wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia. Its habitats are largely coastal such as islands, coral reefs, mangroves, large rivers. However, occasionally, it can be found inland in shallow...	Ardeidae	Ardea sumatrana
Greater Sand Plover Greater Sand Plover The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as "Greater sandplover", but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater sand plover"....	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius leschenaultii
Great-winged Petrel Great-winged Petrel The Great-winged Petrel or Grey-faced Petrel, Pterodroma macroptera, is a petrel. In New Zealand it is also known by its Māori name oi and as a muttonbird.- Taxonomy :...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pterodroma macroptera
Green Pygmy-goose	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Nettapus pulchellus
Green-backed Gerygone Green-backed Gerygone The Green-backed Gerygone, Gerygone chloronotus, is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....	Pardalotidae	Gerygone chloronotus
Grey Butcherbird Grey Butcherbird The Grey Butcherbird is a widely distributed species endemic to Australia. The Grey Butcherbird occurs in a range of different habitats including arid, semi-arid and temperate zones. It has a characteristic "rollicking" birdsong...	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Cracticus torquatus
Grey Currawong	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Strepera versicolor
Grey Falcon Grey Falcon The Grey Falcon, Falco hypoleucos, is a rare medium-sized falcon, one of the enigmatic ‘mystery’ birds of Australia, neither easily nor predictably seen.-Description:...	Falconidae Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...	Falco hypoleucos
Grey Fantail Grey Fantail The Grey Fantail is a small insectivorous bird. A common fantail found in Australia , New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia...	Dicruridae	Rhipidura fuliginosa
Grey Goshawk Grey Goshawk The Grey Goshawk, Accipiter novaehollandiae, the white morph of which is known as the White Goshawk, is a strongly built, medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.-Description:...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Accipiter novaehollandiae
Grey Honeyeater Grey Honeyeater The Grey Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Meliphagidae	Conopophila whitei)
Grey Petrel Grey Petrel The Grey Petrel , also called the Brown Petrel, Pediunker or Grey Shearwater is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae, or petrel family...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Procellaria cinerea	aka 'Puffin Gris' or 'Pardela Gris'
Grey Plover Grey Plover The Grey Plover , known as the Black-bellied Plover in North America, is a medium-sized plover breeding in arctic regions. It is a long-distance migrant, with a nearly worldwide coastal distribution when not breeding....	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Pluvialis squatarola	aka 'Black-bellied Plover'
Grey Shrike-thrush Grey Shrike-thrush The Grey Shrikethrush or Grey Shrike-thrush , formerly commonly known as Grey Thrush, is one of the best-loved and most distinctive songbirds of Australasia. It is moderately common to common in most parts of Australia, but absent from the driest of the inland deserts...	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Colluricincla harmonica
Grey Teal Grey Teal The Grey Teal, Anas gracilis is a dabbling duck found in open wetlands in New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands....	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas gracilis
Grey-backed Storm-Petrel Grey-backed Storm-petrel The Grey-backed Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Garrodia which was named by William Alexander Forbes in 1881 after Alfred Henry Garrod, while the specific descriptor is an allusion to the Nereids, the sea nymphs of Greek...	Hydrobatidae	Garrodia nereis
Grey-crowned Babbler Grey-crowned Babbler The Grey-crowned Babbler is a species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....	Pomatostomidae	Pomatostomus temporalis
Grey-fronted Honeyeater Grey-fronted Honeyeater The Grey-fronted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus plumulus
Grey-headed Albatross Grey-headed Albatross The Grey-headed Albatross, Thalassarche chrysostoma, also known as the Grey-headed Mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It has a circumpolar distribution, nesting on isolated islands in the Southern Ocean and feeding at high latitudes, further south than any of the other...	Diomedeidae	Thalassarche chrysostoma
Grey-headed Honeyeater Grey-headed Honeyeater The Grey-headed Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 26 July 2007....	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus keartlandi
Grey-tailed Tattler Grey-tailed Tattler The Grey-tailed Tattler, Tringa brevipes , is a small shorebird.- Description :...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Tringa brevipes
Ground Cuckoo-shrike Ground Cuckoo-shrike The Ground Cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-Conservation status:...	Campephagidae	Coracina maxima
Western Ground Parrot Western Ground Parrot The Western Ground Parrot is an endangered species of parrot endemic to Western Australia and is a close relative of the Eastern Ground Parrot and the somewhat more distantly related and mysterious Night Parrot...	Psittacidae	Pezoporus flaviventris
Gull-billed Tern Gull-billed Tern The Gull-billed Tern formerly Sterna nilotica , is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae...	Laridae	Gelochelidon nilotica
Hardhead Hardhead The Hardhead, Aythya australis, is the only true diving duck found in Australia. Hardheads are common in the south-east of Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin, but also in the wetter country near the coasts. They are moderately nomadic in normal years, but disperse widely in times...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Aytha australis
Helmeted Guineafowl Helmeted Guineafowl The Helmeted Guineafowl is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida...	Numididae	Numida meleagris	introduced, often free-ranging, but apparently never permanently established
Herald Petrel Herald Petrel The Trindade Petrel, Pterodroma arminjoniana, is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels. The bird is 35-39 cm in size, with a 88-102 cm wingspan....	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pterodroma arminjoniana
Hoary-headed Grebe Hoary-headed Grebe The Hoary-headed Grebe, Poliocephalus poliocephalus, is a member of the grebe family found in Australia and, since 1975, New Zealand, where it is scarce....	Podicipedidae	Poliocephalus poliocephalus
Hooded Plover Hooded Plover The Hooded Dotterel or Hooded Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family. It is endemic to southern Australia and Tasmania. There are two recognized subspecies, both of which are classifed as Endangered....	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Thinornis rubricollis
Hooded Robin Hooded Robin The Hooded Robin is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae it is sexually dimorphic; the male bearing distinctive black and white coloured plumage, while the female is a nondescript grey-brown.-Taxonomy:Like all Australian Robins, it is...	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Melanodryas cucullata
Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo	Cuculidae	Chrysococcyx basalis
House Crow House Crow thumb\|300px\|Bangalore, IndiaThe House Crow , also known as the Colombo Crow is a common bird of the Crow family that is of Asian origin but now found in many parts of the world, where they arrived assisted by shipping. It is between the Jackdaw and the Carrion Crow in size but is relatively... (ship assisted)	Corvidae Corvidae Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...	Corvus splendens	aka 'Colombo Crow'
House Sparrow House Sparrow The House Sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. One of about 25 species in the genus Passer, the House Sparrow occurs naturally in most of Europe, the Mediterranean region, and much of Asia...	Passeridae	Passer domesticus	introduced
House Swift House Swift The House Swift is a species of swift in the Apodidae family.It is found in Nepal, and Southeast Asia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Little Swift.-References:...	Apodidae	Apus affinis	aka 'House Swift'
Hutton's Shearwater Hutton's Shearwater The Hutton's Shearwater is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae. Its common and specific name commemorates F. W. Hutton, a former curator of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch....	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Puffinus huttoni
Indian Peafowl Indian Peafowl The Indian Peafowl or Blue Peafowl is a large and brightly coloured bird of the pheasant family native to South Asia, but introduced and semi-feral in many other parts of the world...	Phasianidae Phasianidae The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...	Pavo cristatus	Introduced. aka the 'Common Peafowl' or the 'Blue Peafowl'
Inland Dotterel Inland Dotterel The Inland Dotterel also known as the Australian Dotterel and sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Peltohyas, is a medium-sized Charadriine plover.-Description:...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius australis
Inland Thornbill Inland Thornbill The Inland Thornbill , commonly called the Broad-tailed Thornbill, is a small, insect-eating bird of Australia. The Inland Thornbill is commonly confused with the coastal Brown Thornbill due to its similar colorations. The Inland Thornbill encompasses four subspecies :* A. a. apicalis* A. a....	Pardalotidae	Acanthiza apicalis
Intermediate Egret Intermediate Egret The Intermediate Egret, Median Egret, or Yellow-billed Egret is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder from east Africa across tropical southern Asia to Australia. It often nests in colonies with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs...	Ardeidae	Ardea intermedia
Jacky Winter Jacky Winter The Jacky Winter is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family.It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is also colloquially known as Postsitter for its habit of sitting on posts in paddocks and farms...	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Microeca fascinans
Jouanin's Petrel Jouanin's Petrel Jouanin's Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in Djibouti, Indonesia, Pakistan, Kenya, Maldives, Mozambique, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, and Yemen....	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Bulweria fallax
Kelp Gull Kelp Gull The Kelp Gull , also known as the Dominican Gull, breeds on coasts and islands through much of the southern hemisphere. The race L. d. vetula occurs around southern Africa, and nominate L. d...	Laridae	Larus dominicanus
Kentish Plover Kentish Plover The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. Despite its name, this species no longer breeds in Kent, or even Great Britain...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius alexandrinus
Kerguelen Petrel Kerguelen Petrel The Kerguelen Petrel is a small slate-grey seabird in the family Procellariidae. The species has been described as a "taxonomic oddball", being placed for a long time in Pterodroma before being split out in 1942 into its own genus Lugensa...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Lugensa brevirostris
King Penguin King Penguin The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin at about , second only to the Emperor Penguin. There are two subspecies—A. p. patagonicus and A. p...	Spheniscidae	Aptenodytes patagonicus
King Quail	Phasianidae Phasianidae The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...	Coturnix chinensis	aka 'Chinese Painted Quail', 'King Quail' or 'Blue-breasted Quail'
Large-billed Gerygone Large-billed Gerygone The Large-billed Gerygone is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family. The Biak Gerygone, formerly considered a distinct species, is now placed herein as a subspecies .- References :...	Pardalotidae	Gerygone magnirostris
Latham's Snipe Latham's Snipe Latham's Snipe, Gallinago hardwickii, also known as Japanese Snipe, is a medium-sized , long-billed, migratory wader.-Identification:...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Gallinago hardwickii	aka 'Japanese Snipe'
Laughing Gull Laughing Gull The Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. It breeds on the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Northernmost populations migrate further south in winter, and this species occurs as a rare vagrant to western...	Laridae	Larus atricilla
Laughing Kookaburra Laughing Kookaburra The Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, is a carnivorous bird in the kingfisher family Halcyonidae. Native to eastern Australia, it has also been introduced to parts of New Zealand, Tasmania and Western Australia. Male and female adults are similar in plumage, which is predominantly brown and...	Halcyonidae	Dacelo novaeguineae	introduced
Laughing Turtle-Dove	Columbidae	Streptopelia senegalensis	introduced
Leach's Storm-Petrel Leach's Storm-petrel The Leach's Storm Petrel or Leach's Petrel is a small seabird of the tubenose family. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach....	Hydrobatidae	Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Leaden Flycatcher Leaden Flycatcher The Leaden Flycatcher is a species of passerine bird in the family Monarchidae. Around 15 cm in length, the male is a shiny lead-grey with white underparts, while the female has grey upperparts and a rufous throat and breast. It is found in eastern and northern Australia, Indonesia, and...	Dicruridae	Myiagra rubecula
Lemon-bellied Flycatcher	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Microeca flavigaster
Lesser Crested Tern Lesser Crested Tern The Lesser Crested Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae...	Laridae	Thalasseus bengalensis
Lesser Frigatebird Lesser Frigatebird The Lesser Frigatebird, Fregata ariel, is a species of frigatebird.It nests in Australia, among other locations.There is a single record from the Western Palearctic, from Eilat in the Gulf of Aqaba....	Fregatidae	Fregata ariel
Lesser Noddy Lesser Noddy The Lesser Noddy , also known as the Sooty Noddy, is a species of tern in the Sternidae family.It is found in Comoros, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, and United Arab Emirates.- References :...	Laridae	Anous tenuirostris
Lesser Sand Plover Lesser Sand Plover The Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as Lesser Sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is Lesser Sand Plover....	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius mongolus
Letter-winged Kite Letter-winged Kite The Letter-winged Kite is a small, rare and irruptive Australian raptor with a core range in central Australia. The adult is a small and graceful, predominantly pale grey and white, raptor with black shoulders and red eyes...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Elanus scriptus
Lewin's Rail Lewin's Rail The Lewin's Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Lewinia pectoralis
Light-mantled Sooty Albatross	Diomedeidae	Phoebetria fusca and Phoebetria palpebrata
Australian Little Bittern Australian Little Bittern The Black-backed Bittern , also known as the Black-backed Least Bittern or Australian Little Bittern, is a little-known species of heron in the Ardeidae family found in Australia and southern New Guinea...	Ardeidae	Ixobrychus dubius
Little Black Cormorant Little Black Cormorant The Little Black Cormorant is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It is common in smaller rivers and lakes throughout most areas of Australia and northern New Zealand. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.-References: Database entry includes...	Phalacrocoracidae	Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Little Bronze Cuckoo	Cuculidae	Chrysococcyx minutillus
Little Button-quail Little Button-quail The Little Buttonquail is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails...	Turnicidae	Turnix velox
Little Corella Little Corella The Little Corella, Cacatua sanguinea, also known as the Bare-eyed Cockatoo, is a white cockatoo native to Australia and southern New Guinea....	Cacatuidae	Cacatua sanguinea
Little Crow	Corvidae Corvidae Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...	Corvus bennetti
Little Curlew Little Curlew The Little Curlew, Numenius minutus, is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It is a very small curlew, which breeds in the far north of Siberia. It is closely related to the North American Eskimo Curlew....	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Numenius minutus
Little Eagle Little Eagle The Little Eagle is a very small eagle native to Australasia, measuring 45–55 cm in length and weighing 815 g – roughly the size of a Peregrine Falcon. It tends to inhabit open woodland, grassland and arid regions, shunning dense forest...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Aquila morphnoides
Little Egret Little Egret The Little Egret is a small white heron. It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World Snowy Egret.-Subspecies:Depending on authority, two or three subspecies of Little Egret are currently accepted....	Ardeidae	Egretta garzetta
Little Friarbird Little Friarbird The Little Friarbird, Philemon citreogularis, is the smallest of the group of giant Australian honeyeaters called friarbirds. It occurs in open forest and woodland across eastern Australia and southern New Guinea....	Meliphagidae	Philemon citreogularis
Little Grassbird Little Grassbird The Little Grassbird is a species of Old World warbler in the Locustellidae family. It is found in Australia and in West Papua, Indonesia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Megalurus gramineus
Little Penguin Little Penguin The Little Penguin is the smallest species of penguin. The penguin, which usually grows to an average of in height and in length , is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile.Apart from Little Penguins, they have several common names...	Spheniscidae	Eudyptula minor	aka 'Fairy Penguin'
Little Pied Cormorant Little Pied Cormorant The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic...	Phalacrocoracidae	Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Little Ringed Plover Little Ringed Plover The Little Ringed Plover is a small plover. Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes with white above and a short dark bill...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius dubius
Little Shearwater Little Shearwater The Little Shearwater is a small shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data indicates that the former North Atlantic Little Shearwater group is closer to Audubon's Shearwater , and myrtae being closer to the Newell's and possibly Townsend's Shearwater...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Puffinus assimilis
Little Shrike-thrush Little Shrike-thrush The Little Shrikethrush is a species of bird in the Colluricinclidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Colluricincla megarhyncha
Little Stint Little Stint The Little Stint, Calidris minuta , is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris or Erolia minuta
Little Tern Little Tern The Little Tern, Sternula albifrons or Sterna albifrons, is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It was formerly placed into the genus Sterna, which now is restricted to the large white terns . The former North American and Red Sea S. a...	Laridae	Sternula albifrons
Little Wattlebird Little Wattlebird The Little Wattlebird , also known as the Brush Wattlebird, is a honeyeater, a passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in coastal and sub-coastal south-eastern Australia.-Taxonomy:...	Meliphagidae	Anthochaera chrysoptera
Little Woodswallow Little Woodswallow The Little Woodswallow , is a bird patchily distributed over much of mainland Australia, avoiding only the driest deserts and the area within about 300 kilometres of the southern coastline, and showing a preference for rugged terrain around inland ranges.As its name suggests, at 12 to 14 cm in...	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Artamus minor
Long-billed Black-Cockatoo Long-billed Black-Cockatoo The Long-billed Black Cockatoo, also known as the White-tailed Black Cockatoo or Baudin's Black Cockatoo is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia, closely associated to moist, heavily forested areas dominated by Marri .The binomial commemorates the French explorer Nicolas...	Cacatuidae	Calyptorhynchus baudinii
Long-billed Corella Long-billed Corella The Long-billed Corella, Cacatua tenuirostris, is a cockatoo native to Australia, which is similar in appearance to the Little Corella and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. This species is mostly white, with a reddish-pink face and forehead, and has a long pale beak, which is used to dig for roots and seeds...	Cacatuidae	Cacatua tenuirostris	introduced
Long-tailed Finch Long-tailed Finch The Long-tailed Finch is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia; also known as the Blackheart Finch, Shaft-tail Finch, Heck's Grassfinch, Heck's Grass Finch, and Heck's Finch. It is a predominantly fawn-coloured bird with a pale grey head and prominent black bib and eyes...	Passeridae	Poephila acuticauda
Long-tailed Jaeger	Laridae	Stercorarius longicaudus	aka 'Long-tailed Skua'
Long-toed Stint Long-toed Stint The Long-toed Stint, Calidris or Erolia subminuta, is a small wader bird. It breeds across northern Asia and is strongly migratory, wintering in south and south east Asia and Australasia...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris or Erolia subminuta
Macaroni Penguin Macaroni Penguin The Macaroni Penguin is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. One of six species of crested penguin, it is very closely related to the Royal Penguin, and some authorities consider the two to be a single species...	Spheniscidae	Eudyptes chrysolophus
Magpie-goose Magpie-goose The Magpie Goose is a waterbird species found in coastal northern Australia and savannah in southern New Guinea. It is a unique member of the order Anseriformes, and arranged in a family and genus distinct from all other living waterfowl...	Anseranatidae Anseranatidae Anseranatidae, the magpie-geese, is a biological family of waterbirds. It is a unique member of the order Anseriformes. The only living species, the Magpie Goose, is a resident breeder in northern Australia and in southern New Guinea....	Anseranas semipalmata
Magpie-lark Magpie-lark The Magpie-lark is a conspicuous Australian bird of small to medium size, also known as the Mudlark in Victoria and Western Australia, the Murray Magpie in South Australia, and as the Peewee in New South Wales and Queensland...	Dicruridae	Grallina cyanoleuca	Grallina cyanoleuca
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Major Mitchell's Cockatoo The Major Mitchell's Cockatoo also known as Leadbeater's Cockatoo or Pink Cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia...	Cacatuidae	Lophochroa leadbeateri
Mallard Mallard The Mallard , or Wild Duck , is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand and Australia....	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced
Malleefowl Malleefowl The Malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken...	Megapodiidae	Leipoa ocellata
Mangrove Gerygone Mangrove Gerygone The Mangrove Gerygone is a species of bird in the Australian warbler family Acanthizidae. The species is also known as the Mangrove Warbler. The species is thought to form a superspecies with the closely related Fan-tailed Gerygone of Melanesia and the Australian Western Gerygone. There are three...	Pardalotidae	Gerygone levigaster
Mangrove Golden Whistler Mangrove Golden Whistler The Mangrove Golder Whistler or Black-tailed Whistler is an endemic to Australian bird found in mangrove forests and adjacent wet forests.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 26 July 2007....	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Pachycephala melanura
Mangrove Grey Fantail Mangrove Grey Fantail The Mangrove Fantail is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...	Dicruridae	Rhipidura phasiana
Mangrove Robin Mangrove Robin The Mangrove Robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family.-Distribution and habitat:It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea...	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Eopsaltria pulverulenta
Marsh Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper The Marsh Sandpiper, Tringa stagnatilis, is a small wader. It is a rather small shank, and breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia....	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Tringa stagnatilis
Masked Booby Masked Booby The Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra, is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. This species breeds on islands in tropical oceans, except in the eastern Atlantic; in the eastern Pacific it is replaced by the Nazca Booby, Sula granti, which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Masked Booby...	Sulidae Sulidae The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulidas, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar prey. The ten species in this family are often considered congeneric in older sources, placing all in the genus Sula...	Sula dactylatra
Masked Finch Masked Finch The Masked Finch is a small passerine bird in the estrildid finch family, Estrildidae. It is a common resident of dry savanna across northern Australia, from the Kimberley, across the Top End, the Gulf country and the southern part of Cape York Peninsula, as far east as Chillagoe, but always near...	Passeridae	Poephila personata
Masked Lapwing Masked Lapwing The Masked Lapwing , previously known as the Masked Plover and often called the Spur-winged Plover or just Plover in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Vanellus miles
Masked Owl Masked Owl The Australian Masked Owl is a barn owl of Southern New Guinea and the non-desert areas of Australia.-Taxonomy:Described subspecies of Tyto novaehollandiae include:* T. n. calabyi I.J. Mason, 1983,...	Tytonidae Tytonidae Barn-owls are one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful talons...	Tyto novaehollandiae
Masked Woodswallow Masked Woodswallow The Masked Woodswallow is a species of bird in the Artamidae family.It is found in Australia and New Zealand.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.-References:...	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Artamus personatus
Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel Matsudaira's Storm-petrel Matsudaira's Storm Petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It breeds solely in the Volcano Islands in the north-west Pacific Ocean, and winters in the Indian Ocean. Its status is insufficiently known....	Hydrobatidae	Oceanodroma matsudairae
Mistletoebird Mistletoebird The Mistletoebird is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia , and also to the eastern Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Arafura Sea between Australia and New Guinea. They also must live where there are trees and shrubs, so that they can build their nests...	Dicaeidae	Dicaeum hirundinaceum
Mulga Parrot Mulga Parrot The Mulga Parrot , also known as the Many-coloured Parrot, is endemic in arid scrublands and lightly timbered grasslands in the interior of southern Australia.-Taxonomy:...	Psittacidae	Psephotus varius
Musk Duck Musk Duck The Musk Duck is a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia. It is the only living member of the genus Biziura. An extinct relative, the New Zealand Musk Duck or de Lautour's Duck , once occurred on New Zealand, but is only known from prehistoric subfossil bones...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Biziura lobata
Mute Swan Mute Swan The Mute Swan is a species of swan, and thus a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is native to much of Europe and Asia, and the far north of Africa. It is also an introduced species in North America, Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Cygnus olor	introduced
Nankeen Kestrel Nankeen Kestrel The Australian Kestrel or Nankeen Kestrel is one of the smallest falcons, and unlike many, does not rely on speed to catch its prey. Instead, it simply perches in an exposed position, but it also has a distinctive technique of hovering over crop and grasslands...	Falconidae Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...	Falco cenchroides
Nankeen Night Heron Nankeen Night Heron The Nankeen Night Heron, Nycticorax caledonicus, also commonly referred to as the Rufous Night Heron, and in Melanesia as Melabaob, is a medium-sized heron. It is found throughout much of Australia except the arid inland, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia...	Ardeidae	Nycticorax caledonicus
Narcissus Flycatcher Narcissus Flycatcher The Narcissus Flycatcher is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is native to east Asia, from Sakhalin to the north, through Japan across through Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan, wintering in southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Borneo...	Muscicapidae	Ficedula narcissina
New Holland Honeyeater New Holland Honeyeater The New Holland Honeyeater is a honeyeater species found throughout southern Australia. It was among the first birds to be scientifically described in Australia, and was initially named Certhia novaehollandiae...	Meliphagidae	Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
Night Parrot Night Parrot The Night Parrot is a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. The species was originally placed within its own genus , but most authors now prefer to place it within the genus Pezoporus together with the two ground parrots.No known sightings of the bird were made between...	Psittacidae	Pezoporus occidentalis
Noisy Scrub-bird Noisy Scrub-bird The Noisy Scrub-bird is a species of bird in the Atrichornithidae family. It is endemic to Australia.-Distribution and habitat:...	Atrichornithidae	Atrichornis clamosus
Northern Fantail Northern Fantail The Northern Fantail is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....	Dicruridae	Rhipidura rufiventris
Northern Giant Petrel Northern Giant Petrel The Northern Giant Petrel , also known as the Hall's Giant Petrel, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar Southern Giant Petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further north.-Taxonomy:The Northern Giant Petrel along with its...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Macronectes giganteus
Northern Pintail Northern Pintail The Pintail or Northern Pintail is a widely occurring duck which breeds in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migratory and winters south of its breeding range to the equator...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas acuta
Northern Rosella Northern Rosella The Northern Rosella , also known as Brown's Parakeet or Smutty Rosella, is found in Australia's Top End. It is unusually coloured for a rosella, with a dark crown and white cheeks similar to its relatives the Pale-headed Rosella and the Eastern Rosella.At 28 cm long it is smaller than all bar...	Psittacidae	Platycercus venustus	aka 'Brown's Parakeet' or 'Smutty Rosella'
Northern Shoveler Northern Shoveler The Northern Shoveler , Northern Shoveller in British English, sometimes known simply as the Shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, and is a rare vagrant to Australia...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas clypeata
Olive-backed Oriole Olive-backed Oriole The Olive-backed Oriole is a very common medium-sized passerine bird native to northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. The most wide-ranging of the Australasian orioles, it is noisy and conspicuous. Not bright in colour, it is olive-backed with small dark streaks, with a light chest having...	Oriolidae	Oriolus sagittatus
Orange Chat Orange Chat The Orange Chat is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Meliphagidae	Epthianura aurifrons
Orange-footed Scrubfowl Orange-footed Scrubfowl The Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt, is a small megapode of the family Megapodiidae.This species comprises five subspecies found on many islands in Wallacea as well as southern New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a terrestrial bird the size of a domestic chicken and dark-coloured...	Megapodiidae	Megapodius reinwardt
Oriental Cuckoo Oriental Cuckoo The Himalayan Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the genus Cuculus. It breeds from the Himalayas eastward to southern China and Taiwan. It migrates to southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter....	Cuculidae	Cuculus saturatus	aka 'Himalayan Cuckoo'
Oriental Plover Oriental Plover The Oriental Plover, Charadrius veredus, also known as the Oriental Dotterel, is a medium-sized Charadriine plover closely related to the Caspian Plover.- Description :...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius veredus
Oriental Pratincole Oriental Pratincole The Oriental Pratincole , also known as the Grasshopper-Bird or Swallow-Plover is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae....	Glareolidae Glareolidae Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The coursers include the atypical Egyptian Plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, which has sometimes been placed in its own family...	Glareola maldivarum
Oriental Reed Warbler	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Acrocephalus orientalis
Osprey Osprey The Osprey , sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than in length and across the wings...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Pandion haliaetus
Pacific Baza Pacific Baza The Pacific Baza, Aviceda subcristata, also known as the Crested Hawk, is a slender, medium-sized hawk with a distinctive crest. Its upperside is mainly dark brown, with a grey head and yellow eyes. It is conspicuously barred white and dark brown on the breast and on the underside of the tail and...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Aviceda subcristata	aka 'Crested Hawk'
Pacific Black Duck Pacific Black Duck The Pacific Black Duck is a dabbling duck found in much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east. It is usually called the Grey Duck in New Zealand...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Anas superciliosa
Pacific Golden Plover Pacific Golden Plover The Pacific Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.The 23–26 cm long breeding adult is spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Its face and neck are black with a white border and it has a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Pluvialis fulva
Pacific Gull Pacific Gull The Pacific Gull is a very large gull, native to the coasts of Australia. It is moderately common between Carnarvon in the west, and Sydney in the east, although it has become scarce in some parts of the south-east, as a result of competition from the Kelp Gull, which has "self-introduced" since...	Laridae	Larus pacificus
Pacific Swallow Pacific Swallow The Pacific Swallow or Hill Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in tropical southern Asia from southern India and Sri Lanka across to south east Asia and the islands of the south Pacific. It is resident apart from some local seasonal movements...	Hirundinidae	Hirundo tahitica
Painted Button-quail	Turnicidae	Turnix varius
Painted Finch	Passeridae	Emblema pictum	aka 'Painted Firetail' and 'Painted Firetail Finch'
Pale-headed Munia Pale-headed Munia The Pale-headed Munia, Lonchura pallida is a species of estrildid finch found in Indonesia. It is found in artificial landscapes, subtropical and tropical lowlands, dry shrubland and grassland habitat. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.-Origin:Origin and phylogeny has been...	Passeridae	Lonchura pallida	Ashmore Reef
Pallid Cuckoo Pallid Cuckoo The Pallid Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea....	Cuculidae	Cuculus pallidus
Partridge Pigeon Partridge Pigeon The Partridge Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....	Columbidae	Geophaps smithii
Peaceful Dove Peaceful Dove The Peaceful Dove is a pigeon native to Australia and New Guinea. It is closely related to the Zebra Dove of south-east Asia and the Barred Dove of eastern Indonesia...	Columbidae	Geopelia placida
Pectoral Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper The Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, is a small wader. It is sometimes separated with the "stint" sandpipers in Erolia. This may or may not represent a good monophyletic group, depending on the placement of the phylogenetically enigmatic Curlew Sandpiper , the type species of Erolia...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris melanotos
Peregrine Falcon Peregrine Falcon The Peregrine Falcon , also known as the Peregrine, and historically as the Duck Hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache"...	Falconidae Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...	Falco peregrinus
Pheasant Coucal Pheasant Coucal The Pheasant Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....	Centropodidae	Centropus phasianinus
Pheasant-tailed Jacana Pheasant-tailed Jacana The Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae that are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat...	Jacanidae	Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Pictorella Mannikin	Passeridae	Heteromunia pectoralis
Pied Butcherbird Pied Butcherbird The Pied Butcherbird is a medium-sized songbird native to Australia. It grows about 35 centimetres long and the colour of juvenile birds, which are accompanied by their parents, is brown and white as seen in the picture. As they mature their brown feathers are replaced by black feathers...	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Cracticus nigrogularis
Pied Cormorant Pied Cormorant The Australia Pied Cormorant , Phalacrocorax varius, also known as the Pied Cormorant or Pied Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. It is found around the coasts of Australasia. In New Zealand it is usually known either as the Pied Shag or by its Māori name of Karuhiruhi...	Phalacrocoracidae	Phalacrocorax varius
Pied Heron Pied Heron The Pied Heron , also known as the Pied Egret is a bird found in coastal and subcoastal areas of monsoonal northern Australia as well as some parts of Wallacea and New Guinea.-Taxonomy:...	Ardeidae	Ardea picata
Pied Honeyeater Pied Honeyeater The Pied Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Meliphagidae	Certhionyx variegatus
Pied Oystercatcher Pied Oystercatcher The Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus longirostris, is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird native to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. The similar South Island Pied Oystercatcher The Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus longirostris, is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading...	Haematopodidae	Haematopus longirostris
Pink-eared Duck Pink-eared Duck The Pink-eared Duck is a species of duck found in Australia.It has a large spatulate bill like the Australasian Shoveler, but is smaller at 38–40 cm length. Its brown back and crown, black and white barred sides and black eye patches on its otherwise white face make this bird unmistakable...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Malacorhynchus membranaceus
Pin-tailed Snipe	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Gallinago stenura	aka 'Pin-tailed Snipe'
Plumed Whistling Duck Plumed Whistling Duck The Plumed Whistling Duck , also called the Grass Whistle Duck , is a whistling duck which breeds in New Guinea and Australia. It is a predominantly brown-coloured duck with a long neck and characteristic plumes arising from its flanks...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Dendrocygna eytoni
Pomarine Jaeger	Laridae	Stercorarius pomarinus	aka 'Pomarine Jaeger'
Princess Parrot Princess Parrot The colourful Princess Parrot, Polytelis alexandrae, is an Australian bird of the parrot family. Its name was given in honour of Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who later married the Prince of Wales Edward VII and eventually became the Queen of England...	Psittacidae	Polytelis alexandrae	aka 'Alexandra's Parrott'
Purple Swamphen Purple Swamphen The Purple Swamphen , also known as the African Purple Swamphen, Purple Moorhen, Purple Gallinule, Pūkeko or Purple Coot, is a large bird in the family Rallidae . From its name in French, talève sultane, it is also known as the Sultana Bird...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Porphyrio porphyrio	aka 'African Purple Swamphen' or 'Purple Moorhen' or 'Purple Gallinule'
Purple-crowned Fairy-wren Purple-crowned Fairy-wren The Purple-crowned Fairywren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to northern Australia; two subspecies are recognized....	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Malurus coronatus
Purple-crowned Lorikeet Purple-crowned Lorikeet The Purple-crowned Lorikeet, Glossopsitta porphyrocephala, is a lorikeet found in scrub and mallee of southern Australia...	Psittacidae	Glossopsitta porphyrocephala
Purple-gaped Honeyeater Purple-gaped Honeyeater The Purple-gaped Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus cratitius
Radjah Shelduck Radjah Shelduck The Raja Shelduck or Radjah Shelduck , also known as the Burdekin Duck in Australia, is a species of shelduck. Placed in the genus Tadorna, it differs markedly in external morphology, and mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data suggests its status should be reinvestigated...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Tadorna radjah
Rainbow Bee-eater Rainbow Bee-eater The Rainbow Bee-eater, Merops ornatus, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is the only species of Meropidae found in Australia.-Description:...	Meropidae	Merops ornatus
Rainbow Lorikeet Rainbow Lorikeet The Rainbow Lorikeet, is a species of Australasian parrot found in Australia, eastern Indonesia , Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In Australia, it is common along the eastern seaboard, from Queensland to South Australia and northwest Tasmania...	Psittacidae	Trichoglossus haematodus	introduced, declared pest
Rainbow Pitta Rainbow Pitta The Rainbow Pitta, Pitta iris, is a bird with a velvet black head and underparts, green upperparts, pale blue shoulder and olive green tail. It has a black bill, pink legs, brown eye and reddish brown streak along each side of its crown...	Pittidae	Pitta iris
Red Goshawk Red Goshawk The Red Goshawk is probably the rarest Australian bird of prey. It is found mainly in the savanna woodlands of northern Australia, particularly near watercourses...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Erythrotriorchis radiatus
Red Knot Red Knot The Red Knot, Calidris canutus , is a medium sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the Great Knot...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris canutus
Red Wattlebird Red Wattlebird The Red Wattlebird , also known as Barkingbird or Gillbird, is a honeyeater; a group of birds found mainly in Australia and New Guinea which have highly developed brush-tipped tongues adapted for nectar feeding...	Meliphagidae	Anthochaera carunculata
Red-backed Button-quail Red-backed Button-quail The Red-backed Buttonquail is a species of bird in the Turnicidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Solomon Islands.-References:...	Turnicidae	Turnix maculosus
Red-backed Fairy-wren Red-backed Fairy-wren The Red-backed Fairywren is a species of passerine bird in the Maluridae family. It is endemic to Australia and can be found near rivers and coastal areas along the northern and eastern coastlines from the Kimberley in the northwest to the Hunter Region in New South Wales. Like other fairywrens,...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Malurus melanocephalus
Red-backed Kingfisher Red-backed Kingfisher The Red-backed Kingfisher is a species of kingfisher in the Halcyonidae family, also known as tree kingfishers. It is a predominantly blue-green and white bird with a chestnut rump...	Halcyonidae	Todiramphus pyrrhopygia
Red-browed Finch Red-browed Finch The Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis is an estrildid finch that inhabits the east coast of Australia. This species is also been introduced to French Polynesia for breeding. It is commonly found in temperate forest and dry savanna habitats...	Passeridae	Neochmia temporalis
Red-browed Pardalote Red-browed Pardalote The Red-browed Pardalote occupies the northern two-thirds of Australia. It is a fraction larger than the Forty-spotted Pardalote, at 10 to 12 cm, and is the least conspicuously coloured, being paler and combining the spotted skull-cap of the Spotted Pardalote with the striped wings of the Striated...	Pardalotidae	Pardalotus rubricatus
Red-capped Parrot Red-capped Parrot The Red-capped Parrot , also called the Pileated Parakeet , and King Parrot locally in Western Australia, is an Australian species of broad-tailed parrot related to the Rosellas.First described by German naturalist Heinrich Kuhl in 1820, from a collection in Albany,...	Psittacidae	Purpureicephalus spurius	aka 'King Parrott'
Red-capped Plover Red-capped Plover The Red-capped Plover , also known as the Red-capped Dotterel, is a small plover. It breeds in Australia. The species is closely related to the Kentish Plover, Javan Plover and White-fronted Plover.-Description:Red-capped Plovers have white underparts and forehead...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Charadrius ruficapillus
Red-capped Robin Red-capped Robin The Red-capped Robin is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Found in dryer regions across much of the continent, it inhabits scrub and open woodland. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae family, it is sexually dimorphic...	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Petroica goodenovii
Red-chested Button-quail	Turnicidae	Turnix pyrrhothorax
Red-eared Firetail Red-eared Firetail The Red-eared Firetail is a species of estrildid finch found in the forests and coastal thickets of south-western Australia. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 20,000 - 50,000 km². The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.-References:...	Passeridae	Stagonopleura oculata
Red-footed Booby Red-footed Booby The Red-footed Booby, Sula sula, is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. As suggested by the name, adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings...	Sulidae Sulidae The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulidas, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar prey. The ten species in this family are often considered congeneric in older sources, placing all in the genus Sula...	Sula sula
Red-headed Honeyeater Red-headed Honeyeater The Red-headed Honeyeater is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Three subspecies are recognised, with the nominate race M...	Meliphagidae	Myzomela erythrocephala
Red-kneed Dotterel Red-kneed Dotterel The Red-kneed Dotterel is a long-legged, medium-sized plover in a monotypic genus in the subfamily Vanellinae. It is often gregarious and will associate with other waders of its own and different species, even when nesting...	Charadriidae Charadriidae The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...	Erythrogonys cinctus
Red-legged Crake Red-legged Crake The Red-legged Crake is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae.-Description:Medium-large crake . Head, neck and breast red-brown, paler on throat. Upperparts grey-brown. Underparts and underwing barred black and white...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Rallina fasciata
Red-necked Avocet Red-necked Avocet The Red-necked Avocet is a water bird found throughout Australia, except for the northern parts of the Northern Territory....	Recurvirostridae Recurvirostridae Recurvirostridae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets and the stilts .-Description and diet:...	Recurvirostra novaehollandiae
Red-necked Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope The Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans....	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Phalaropus lobatus
Red-necked Stint Red-necked Stint The Red-necked Stint is a small migratory wader.- Description :These birds are among the smallest of waders, very similar to the Little Stint, Calidris minuta, with which they were once considered conspecific...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris or Erolia ruficollis
Red-rumped Swallow Red-rumped Swallow The Red-rumped Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India and tropical Africa. The Indian and African birds are resident, but European and other Asian birds are migratory...	Hirundinidae	Cecropis daurica
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo	Cacatuidae	Calyptorhynchus banksii
Red-tailed Tropicbird Red-tailed Tropicbird The Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda, is a seabird that nests across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the rarest of the tropicbirds, yet is still a widespread bird that is not considered threatened. It nests in colonies on oceanic islands....	Phaethontidae	Phaethon rubricauda
Redthroat Redthroat The Redthroat is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family . It is monotypic within the genus Pyrrholaemus...	Pardalotidae	Pyrrholaemus brunneus
Red-throated Pipit Red-throated Pipit The Red-throated Pipit is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and Asia, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to Africa, south and east Asia and west coast USA...	Motacillidae Motacillidae The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...	Anthus cervinus
Red-winged Fairy-wren Red-winged Fairy-wren The Red-winged Fairywren is a species of passerine bird in the Maluridae family. It is sedentary and endemic to the southwestern corner of Western Australia...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Malurus elegans
Red-winged Parrot Red-winged Parrot The Red-winged Parrot , is a parrot native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.-Description:The Red-winged parrot is typically about 30 to 33 cm in length. Both sexes have bright red wings and a bright green body. The male birds have a black nape, lower blue back and rump with a yellow tip on their...	Psittacidae	Aprosmictus erythropterus
Regent Parrot Regent Parrot The Regent Parrot is a bird of the parrot family . It has predominantly yellow plumage with a green tail. The bird is found primarily in eucalyptus groves and other wooded areas of subtropical southwestern Australia, as well as to a smaller area of subtropical and temperate southeastern Australia...	Psittacidae	Polytelis anthopeplus
Restless Flycatcher Restless Flycatcher The Restless Flycatcher, Myiagra inquieta, is a passerine bird in the family Monarchidae.Also known colloquially as Scissors Grinder or Dishwasher on account of its unusual call, the Restless Flycatcher was first described by ornithologist John Latham in 1802. Its specific epithet is derived from...	Dicruridae	Myiagra inquieta
Richard's Pipit Richard's Pipit The Richard's Pipit is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in northern Asia. It is a long-distance migrant moving to open lowlands in southern Asia. It is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe...	Motacillidae Motacillidae The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...	Anthus richardi
Rock Dove	Columbidae	Columba livia	aka 'Rock Pigeon'. introduced.
Rock Parrot Rock Parrot The Rock Parrot , also known as the Rock Elegant, is a parrot which is endemic to coastal South Australia, southern Western Australia, and that continent's offshore islands, including Rottnest Island. It is a small, predominantly olive-green parrot...	Psittacidae	Neophema petrophila
Rockhopper Penguin Rockhopper penguin The rockhopper penguins are three closely related taxa of crested penguins that have been traditionally treated as a single species and are sometimes split into two or three species. Not all experts agree on the classification of these penguins...	Spheniscidae	Eudyptes chrysocome
Roseate Tern Roseate Tern The Roseate Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in bill colour and minor plumage details....	Laridae	Sterna dougallii
Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Rose-crowned Fruit-dove The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus regina, also known as Pink-capped Fruit Dove or Swainson's Fruit Dove, is a medium-sized, up to 22 cm long, green fruit dove with a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange iris, and greyish green bill and feet. It has a...	Columbidae	Ptilinopus regina
Royal Albatross Royal Albatross Royal Albatross may refer to:* Northern Royal Albatross* Southern Royal AlbatrossNote: Some authorities have yet to split this species such as the SACC or James Clements, in that case, Royal Albatross refers to both Species....	Diomedeidae	Diomedea epomophora	aka 'Southern Royal Albatross'
Royal Spoonbill Royal Spoonbill The Royal Spoonbill, Platalea regia, also known as the Black-billed Spoonbill, occurs in intertidal flats and shallows of fresh and saltwater wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. It has also been recorded as a vagrant in New Caledonia...	Threskiornithidae Threskiornithidae The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises were once thought to be related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the...	Platalea regia
Ruddy Turnstone Ruddy Turnstone The Ruddy Turnstone is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Arenaria interpres
Ruff	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Philomachus pugnax
Rufous Bristlebird Rufous Bristlebird The Rufous Bristlebird is a species of bird in the Dasyornithidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is temperate forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Australia:...	Pardalotidae	Dasyornis broadbenti
Rufous Fantail Rufous Fantail The Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons inhabits the east coast of Australia. The base of its tail is bright orange-red in colour and their wings are greyish brown. They have a black and white breast that grades into a white colour on the chin and throat....	Dicruridae	Rhipidura rufifrons
Rufous Fieldwren Rufous Fieldwren The Rufous Fieldwren or Calamanthus is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family, endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Pardalotidae	Calamanthus campestris
Rufous Owl Rufous Owl The Rufous Owl , also known as Rufous Boobok, is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It was first classified in 1846 by John Gould, an English ornithologist. Ninox rufa’s common name reflects the rufous colored feathers that these owls are covered with in adulthood...	Strigidae	Ninox rufa
Rufous Songlark Rufous Songlark The Rufous Songlark is a species of Old World warbler endemic to Australia.-Taxonomy:It is a species of Megaluridae, the Old World Warblers, a successful passerine family. It shares the genus Cincloramphus with the Brown Songlark, another species endemic to Australia.The Rufous Songlark was...	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Cincloramphus mathewsi
Rufous Treecreeper Rufous Treecreeper The Rufous Treecreeper is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.-References:...	Climacteridae	Climacteris rufus
Rufous Whistler Rufous Whistler The Rufous Whistler is a species of whistler found in New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, and throughout Australia . Predominantly a reddish-brown and grey bird, it makes up for its subdued plumage with its song-making ability...	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Pachycephala rufiventris
Rufous-crowned Emu-wren Rufous-crowned Emu-wren The Rufous-crowned Emu-wren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.-Taxonomy:...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Stipiturus ruficeps
Rufous-throated Honeyeater Rufous-throated Honeyeater The Rufous-throated Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...	Meliphagidae	Conopophila rufogularis
Sabine's Gull Sabine's Gull The Sabine's Gull is a small gull. Its generic placement is disputed; some authors treat it as the sole species in the genus Xema as Xema sabini, while others retain it in the genus Larus as Larus sabini. It breeds in the arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through northernmost North America...	Laridae	Xema sabini
Sacred Kingfisher Sacred Kingfisher The Sacred Kingfisher is primarily a woodland kingfisher that occurs in mangroves, woodlands, forests, and river valleys of Australia, Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., New Guinea, N...	Halcyonidae	Todiramphus sanctus
Salvin's Prion	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pachyptila salvini	aka 'Medium-billed Prion'
Sanderling Sanderling The Sanderling is a small wader. It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to South America, South Europe, Africa, and Australia...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris alba
Sandstone Shrike-thrush Sandstone Shrike-thrush The Sandstone Shrikethrush is a species of bird in the Colluricinclidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Colluricincla woodwardi
Sarus Crane Sarus Crane The Sarus Crane is a large non-migratory crane found in parts of the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia. The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m , they are conspicuous and iconic species of open wetlands...	Gruidae	Grus antigone
Satin Flycatcher Satin Flycatcher The Satin Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.-Distribution:The Satin Flycatcher It is found in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea....	Dicruridae	Myiagra cyanoleuca
Scarlet Robin Scarlet Robin The Scarlet Robin is a common red-breasted Australasian robin in the passerine bird genus Petroica. The species is found on continental Australia and its offshore islands, including Tasmania...	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Petroica multicolor
Scarlet-chested Parrot Scarlet-chested Parrot The Scarlet-chested Parrot , known alternately as Scarlet-breasted parrot, Orange-throated parrot or Splendid parrot, is a parrot endemic to central South Australia and inland southern Western Australia...	Psittacidae	Neophema splendida	aka 'Scarlet-breasted parrot', 'Orange-throated parrot' or 'Splendid parrot'
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Calidris acuminata is a small wader.- Taxonomy :More recently, a review of new data has indicated that this bird should perhaps better be placed into the genus Philomachus- as P...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris acuminata
Shining Bronze Cuckoo	Cuculidae	Chrysococcyx lucidus
Shining Flycatcher Shining Flycatcher The Shining Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....	Dicruridae	Myiagra alecto
Short-billed Black-Cockatoo Short-billed Black-Cockatoo The Short-billed Black Cockatoo or Carnaby's Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia. Also known as the Large Black Cockatoo, or simply Carnaby's Cockatoo, it is black with white tail feathers and white cheek patches...	Cacatuidae	Calyptorhynchus latirostris
Short-tailed Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater The Short-tailed Shearwater or Slender-billed Shearwater , also called Yolla or Moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Puffinus tenuirostris	aka 'Yolla'
Shy Albatross Shy Albatross The Shy Albatross or Shy Mollymawk, Thalassarche cauta, is a medium sized albatross that breeds off Australia and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands and ranges extensively across the Southern Ocean...	Diomedeidae	Thalassarche cauta
Shy Heathwren Shy Heathwren The Shy Heathwren is a species of small bird in the Acanthizidae family, endemic to Australia. They inhabit mostly mallee woodland that has relatively dense shrub and heath understorey. Shy Heathwrens feed mostly on ground dwelling insects; rarely on seeds. Their ground level nests are dome-shaped...	Pardalotidae	Hylacola cauta
Silver Gull Silver Gull The Silver Gull also known simply as "seagull" in Australia, is the most common gull seen in Australia. It has been found throughout the continent, but particularly coastal areas. The South African Hartlaub's Gull and the New Zealand Red-billed Gull The Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus...	Laridae	Larus novaehollandiae
Silver-crowned Friarbird Silver-crowned Friarbird The Silver-crowned Friarbird is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...	Meliphagidae	Philemon argenticeps
Silvereye Silvereye The Silvereye or Wax-eye is a very small passerine bird native to Australia, New Zealand and the south-west Pacific islands of Lord Howe, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji...	Zosteropidae	Zosterops lateralis	aka 'White-eye' or 'Wax-eye'
Singing Bushlark Singing Bushlark The Singing Bush Lark is a species of lark found in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.- Range and population :The range of M. cantillans is quite extensive, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km2; and its global population is thought to be large, though it has...	Alaudidae	Mirafra cantillans
Singing Honeyeater Singing Honeyeater The Singing Honeyeater, Lichenostomus virescens is a small bird found in Australia, and is part of the honeyeater family. Although it is common there, it is not very well known in other places....	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus virescens
Slaty-backed Thornbill Slaty-backed Thornbill The Slaty-backed Thornbill is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is endemic to Australia....	Pardalotidae	Acanthiza robustirostris
Slender-billed Prion Slender-billed Prion The Slender-billed Prion or Thin-billed Prion, Pachyptila belcheri, is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in the southern oceans.-Taxonomy:...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pachyptila belcheri
Slender-billed Thornbill Slender-billed Thornbill The Slender-billed Thornbill is a small bird native to Australia. It includes three separate sub-species:* A. i. hedleyi* A. i. iredalei* A. i. rosinae...	Pardalotidae	Acanthiza iredalei
Soft-plumaged Petrel Soft-plumaged Petrel The Soft-plumaged Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.-Distribution:It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere, nesting on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Macquarie Island, and on the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand. Small...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pterodroma mollis
Sooty Albatross Sooty Albatross The Sooty Albatross, Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross or Dark-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is a species of bird in the albatross family...	Diomedeidae	Phoebetria palpebrata and Phoebetria fusca
Sooty Oystercatcher Sooty Oystercatcher The Sooty Oystercatcher, Haematopus fuliginosus, is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird native to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. It prefers rocky coastlines, but will occasionally live in estuaries....	Haematopodidae	Haematopus fuliginosus
Sooty Shearwater Sooty Shearwater The Sooty Shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand it is also known by its Māori name tītī and as "muttonbird", like its relatives the Wedge-tailed Shearwater and the Australian Short-tailed Shearwater The Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) is...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Puffinus griseus
Sooty Tern Sooty Tern The Sooty Tern, Onychoprion fuscatus , is a seabird of the tern family . It is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands throughout the equatorial zone. Colloquially, it is known as the Wideawake Tern or just wideawake...	Laridae	Onychoprion fuscata
South Polar Skua South Polar Skua The South Polar Skua, Stercorarius maccormicki, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick’s Skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type specimen...	Laridae	Stercorarius maccormicki	older name: 'MacCormick’s Skua'
Southern Boobook Southern Boobook The Southern Boobook , also called the Mopoke, Morepork, Ruru or Tasmanian Spotted Owl, is a small brown owl found throughout New Zealand, Tasmania, across most of mainland Australia and in Timor, southern New Guinea and nearby islands.The bird has almost 20 alternative common names, most of which...	Strigidae	Ninox novaeseelandiae	aka 'mopoke' or 'morepork'
Southern Emu-wren Southern Emu-wren The Southern Emu-wren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-Taxonomy:...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Stipiturus malachurus
Southern Fulmar Southern Fulmar The Southern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialoides, is a seabird of the Southern Hemisphere. Along with the Northern Fulmar, F. glacialis, it belongs to the fulmar genus Fulmarus in the family Procellariidae, the true petrels...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Fulmarus glacialoides
Southern Giant Petrel Southern Giant Petrel The Southern Giant Petrel , also known as the Antarctic Giant Petrel, Giant Fulmar, Stinker, and Stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar Northern Giant Petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further south...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Macronectus giganteus
Southern Scrub-robin Southern Scrub-robin The Southern Scrub-robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Drymodes brunneopygia
Southern Whiteface Southern Whiteface The Southern Whiteface is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007.-External links:*...	Pardalotidae	Aphelocephala leucopsis
Spangled Drongo Spangled Drongo The Spangled Drongo is a bird of the family Dicruridae.The Spangled Drongo is the only Drongo to be found in Australia...	Dicruridae	Dicrurus bracteatus
Spinifex Pigeon Spinifex Pigeon The Spinifex Pigeon, Geophaps plumifera, is a bird found in Australia.There are only two Australian pigeon species that possess an erect crest: the Spinifex Pigeon and the Crested Pigeon. The Spinifex Pigeon is the smaller of the two, measuring from 20 to 24 centimetres...	Columbidae	Geophaps plumifera
Spinifexbird	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Eremiornis carter
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is the only species in the genus Acanthegenys. It is large, for a honeyeater, ranging from 22 to 27 centimeters and weighing around 52 grams...	Meliphagidae	Acanthagenys rufogalaris
Splendid Fairy-wren Splendid Fairy-wren The Splendid Fairywren , also known simply as the Splendid Wren or more colloquially in Western Australia as the Blue Wren, is a passerine bird of the Maluridae family. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Malurus splendens
Spotless Crake Spotless Crake The Spotless Crake is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae.It is found in American Samoa, Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Tonga.-References:* BirdLife...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Porzana tabuensis
Spotted Harrier Spotted Harrier The Spotted Harrier, Circus assimilis, also known as the Smoke Hawk, is a large Australasian bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.-Description:It is similar to the Swamp Harrier, distinguished by grey upperparts, chestnut facial disc and dark rump...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Circus assimilis
Spotted Nightjar Spotted Nightjar The Spotted Nightjar is a species of Nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Australia and Indonesia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....	Caprimulgidae	Eurostopodus argus
Spotted Pardalote Spotted Pardalote The Spotted Pardalote is one of the smallest of all Australian birds at 8 to 10 cm in length, and one of the most colourful; it is sometimes known as the Diamondbird...	Pardalotidae	Pardalotus punctatus
Spotted Redshank Spotted Redshank The Spotted Redshank, Tringa erythropus, is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It breeds across northern Scandinavia and northern Asia and migrates south to the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa, and tropical Asia for the winter...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Tringa erythropus
Spotted Turtle-Dove	Columbidae	Streptopelia chinensis	introduced
Square-tailed Kite Square-tailed Kite The Square-tailed Kite is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, eagles and harriers.-Conservation status:...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Lophoictinia isura
Star Finch Star Finch The Star Finch is a species of estrildid finch found in Australia. It inhabits dry grassland and dry savanna habitats.-Subspecies:It has three subspecies:...	Passeridae	Neochmia ruficauda
Straw-necked Ibis Straw-necked Ibis The Straw-necked Ibis is a bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. It can be found throughout Australia, New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia. Adults have distinctive straw-like feathers on their neck....	Threskiornithidae Threskiornithidae The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises were once thought to be related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the...	Threskiornis spinicollis
Streaked Shearwater Streaked Shearwater The Streaked Shearwater, Calonectris leucomelas is a species of seabird. The bird is 48 cm in size, with a 122 cm wingspan. This species is pelagic, but also occurs in inshore waters. It occurs in the Pacific Ocean, nesting in Japan and many of its offshore islands. After breeding, the Streaked...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Calonectris leucomelas
Striated Grasswren Striated Grasswren The Striated Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2006. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Amytornis striatus
Striated Heron Striated Heron The Striated Heron, Butorides striata, also known as Mangrove Heron, Little Heron or Green-backed Heron, is a small heron. Striated Herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to...	Ardeidae	Butorides striatus
Striated Pardalote Striated Pardalote The Striated Pardalote is the least colourful and most common of the four pardalote species. Other common names include Pickwick, Wittachew and Chip-Chip...	Pardalotidae	Pardalotus striatus
Stubble Quail Stubble Quail The Stubble Quail, Coturnix pectoralis is an Australian quail of the family Phasianidae. It has sometimes been considered conspecific with the extinct New Zealand Quail. In this case, the latter species' name would have priority and the Stubble Quail would become Coturnix novaezelandiae pectoralis...	Phasianidae Phasianidae The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...	Coturnix pectoralis
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Sulphur-crested Cockatoo The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia and New Guinea. They can be locally very numerous, leading to them sometimes being considered pests...	Cacatuidae	Cacatua galerita
Swamp Harrier Swamp Harrier The Swamp Harrier also known as the Marsh Harrier, Australasian Harrier, Kāhu, Swamp-hawk or New Zealand Hawk is a large, slim bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.-Description:...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Circus approximans
Swinhoe's Snipe Swinhoe's Snipe Swinhoe's Snipe, Gallinago megala, also known as Forest Snipe or Chinese Snipe, is a medium-sized , long-billed, migratory wader.-Identification:...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Gallinago megala	aka 'Forest Snipe' or 'Chines Snipe'
Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel Swinhoe's Storm-petrel Swinhoe's Storm Petrel, Oceanodroma monorhis also known as Swinhoe's Petrel is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae....	Hydrobatidae	Oceanodroma monorhis
Tahiti Petrel Tahiti Petrel The Tahiti Petrel, Pétrel De Tahiti, or Petrel De Tahití is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family....	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pseudobulweria rostrata
Tawny Frogmouth Tawny Frogmouth The Tawny Frogmouth is an Australian species of frogmouth, a type of bird found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea. The Tawny Frogmouth is often mistaken to be an owl...	Podargidae	Podargus strigoides
Tawny Grassbird Tawny Grassbird The Tawny Grassbird is a songbird species of the grass- and bush-warbler family . It was formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage....	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Megalurus timoriensis
Tawny-crowned Honeyeater Tawny-crowned Honeyeater The Tawny-crowned Honeyeater is a passerine bird native to eastern Australia.The Tawny-crowned Honeyeater was originally described by ornithologist John Latham in 1802 as Certhia melanops...	Meliphagidae	Phylidonyris melanops
Terek Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper The Terek Sandpiper is a small migratory Palearctic wader species, the only member of the genus Xenus.- Description and systematics :...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Xenus cinereus
Thick-billed Grasswren Thick-billed Grasswren The Thick-billed Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Amytornis textilis
Tiger Shrike Tiger Shrike The Tiger Shrike or Thick-billed Shrike is a small passerine bird which belongs to the genus Lanius in the shrike family, Laniidae. It is found in wooded habitats across eastern Asia. It is a shy, often solitary bird which is less conspicuous than most other shrikes. Like other shrikes it is...	Laniidae	Lanius tigrinus	sighted once, possibly ship assisted
Torresian Crow Torresian Crow The Torresian Crow , also occasionally called the Australian Crow or Papuan Crow in those respective countries, is an Australasian member of the crow genus...	Corvidae Corvidae Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...	Corvus orru	aka 'Australian Crow' or 'Papuan Crow'
Torresian Imperial Pigeon	Columbidae	Ducula spilorrhoa
Tree Martin Tree Martin The Tree Martin is a member of the swallow family of passerine birds. It breeds in Australia, mostly south of latitude 20°S, and in Timor. It is migratory wintering through most of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia east of the Wallace Line and the Solomon Islands. It is a vagrant to New Zealand,...	Hirundinidae	Petrochelidon nigricans
Varied Lorikeet Varied Lorikeet The Varied Lorikeet is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.It is endemic to northern Australia.-Description:...	Psittacidae	Psitteuteles versicolor
Varied Sittella Varied Sittella The Varied Sittella, Daphoenositta chrysoptera is a small, around 10–11 cm long, songbird native to Australia and New Guinea. It is also known as the Australian Nuthatch, Orange-winged Sittella and the Barkpecker. Its crown and head can be white, grey or black, and its body is either whitish...	Neosittidae	Daphoenositta chrysoptera
Varied Triller Varied Triller The Varied Triller, Lalage leucomela like its better-known relative the White-winged Triller, is a smaller member of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae...	Campephagidae	Lalage leucomela
Variegated Fairy-wren Variegated Fairy-wren The Variegated Fairywren is a fairywren that lives in diverse habitats spread across most of Australia. Four subspecies are recognised. Exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism, the brightly coloured breeding male has chestnut shoulders and blue crown and ear coverts, while non-breeding...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Malurus lamberti)	aka 'Lambert Wren'
Wandering Albatross Wandering Albatross The Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross or White-winged Albatross, Diomedea exulans, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan...	Diomedeidae	Diomedea exulans
Wandering Whistling Duck Wandering Whistling Duck The Wandering Whistling Duck is a species of whistling duck. They inhabit tropical and subtropical Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands . There are three subspecies associated with this bird. D. arcuata arcuata , D. arcuata australis , and D...	Anatidae Anatidae Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...	Dendrocygna arcuata
Wedge-tailed Eagle Wedge-tailed Eagle The Wedge-tailed Eagle , sometimes known as the Eaglehawk in its native range, is the largest bird of prey in Australia, but it is also found in southern New Guinea. It has long, fairly broad wings, fully feathered legs, and an unmistakable wedge-shaped tail...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Aquila audax
Wedge-tailed Shearwater Wedge-tailed Shearwater The Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a Muttonbird, like the Sooty Shearwater of New Zealand and the Short-tailed Shearwater of Australia...	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Puffinus pacificus
Weebill Weebill The Weebill is Australia's smallest bird at approximately 9 cm long. It is an olive-yellow songbird with a grey bill, brown wings, pale yellow eyes and grey feet. Its tail feathers are brown with a black bar and white spot on the tip of all inner webs but the central pairs. The sexes are...	Pardalotidae	Smicrornis brevirostris
Welcome Swallow Welcome Swallow The Welcome Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.It is a species native to Australia and nearby islands, but not until recently to New Zealand, which has been colonised in the last half century...	Hirundinidae	Hirundo neoxena
Western Bowerbird Western Bowerbird The Western Bowerbird is a species of bird in the Bowerbird family. The species is a common endemic of Australia. It has a disjunct distribution, occurring in Central Australia and the Pilbara region of Western Australia. There are two subspecies, the nominate, which occupies most of its range,...	Ptilonorhynchidae	Chlamydera guttata
Western Bristlebird Western Bristlebird The Western Bristlebird is a species of bird in the Dasyornithidae family.It is endemic to Australia.- Description :...	Pardalotidae	Dasyornis longirostris
Western Corella Western Corella The Western Corella formerly known as the Western Long-billed Corella, is a species of white cockatoo endemic to south-western Western Australia.-Taxonomy:...	Cacatuidae	Cacatua pastinator
Western Gerygone Western Gerygone The Western Gerygone is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.-References:...	Pardalotidae	Gerygone fusca
Western Rosella Western Rosella The Western Rosella Platycercus icterotis, less commonly known as the Stanley Rosella, Earl of Derby's parakeet or Yellow-cheeked parakeet, is the smallest species of rosella and is found in the South West of Australia. in Eucalypt forests and timbered areas. These are smallish parrots measuring ...	Psittacidae	Platycercus icterotis
Western Spinebill Western Spinebill The Western Spinebill, Acanthorhynchus superciliosus, is a honeyeater found in the heath and woodland of south-western Western Australia. It ranges between long, and weighs around . It has a black head, gray back and wings, with a red band behind its neck and from its throat to its breast. There...	Meliphagidae	Acanthorhynchus superciliosus
Western Thornbill Western Thornbill The Western Thornbill is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....	Pardalotidae	Acanthiza inornata
Western Whipbird Western Whipbird The Western Whipbird is a passerine bird found in several scattered populations across southern Australia. It is predominantly olive green in colour....	Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae Cinclosomatidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas. It has a complicated taxonomic history and different authors vary in which birds they include in the family. It includes at least the quail-thrushes , 5 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Australia and New...	Psophodes nigrogularis
Western Yellow Robin Western Yellow Robin The Western Yellow Robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family. It is endemic to Australia, and sometimes known overseas as the Grey-breasted Robin....	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Eopsaltria griseogularis
Whimbrel Whimbrel The Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the mostwidespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America, Europe and Asia as far south as Scotland....	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Numenius phaeopus
Whiskered Tern Whiskered Tern The Whiskered Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and minor plumage details....	Laridae	Chlidonias hybridus
Whistling Kite Whistling Kite The Whistling Kite is a medium-sized diurnal raptor found throughout Australia , New Caledonia and much of New Guinea . Also called the Whistling Eagle or Whistling Hawk, it is named for its loud whistling call, which it often gives in flight...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Haliastur sphenurus	aka 'Whistling Eagle' or 'Whistling Hawk'
White Wagtail White Wagtail "Pied Wagtail" redirects here. For the related African bird, see African Pied Wagtail.The White Wagtail is a small passerine bird in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws. This species breeds in much of Europe and Asia and parts of north Africa...	Motacillidae Motacillidae The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...	Motacilla alba
White-backed Swallow White-backed Swallow The White-backed Swallow is a bird in the Hirundinidae family endemic to Australia. It is monotypic within the genus Cheramoeca.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Hirundinidae	Cheramoeca leucosternus
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike The White-bellied Cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or...	Campephagidae	Coracina papuensis
White-bellied Sea Eagle White-bellied Sea Eagle The White-bellied Sea Eagle , also known as the White-breasted Sea Eagle, is a large diurnal bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Originally described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, it is closely related to Sanford's Sea Eagle of the Solomon Islands, and the two are considered a superspecies...	Accipitridae Accipitridae The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...	Haliaeetus leucogaster
White-breasted Robin White-breasted Robin The White-breasted Robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family. It is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Unlike many other Australian robins, it lacks bright colours in its plumage, being a predominantly greyish bird with white underparts. Like many other Australian passerines...	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Eopsaltria georgiana
White-breasted Whistler White-breasted Whistler The White-breasted Whistler is a species of bird in the Pachycephalidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...	Pachycephalidae Pachycephalidae The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...	Pachycephala lanioides
White-breasted Woodswallow White-breasted Woodswallow The White-breasted Woodswallow, Artamus leucorynchus, is a small passerine bird which breeds from the Andaman Islands east through Indonesia and northern Australia. The name "woodswallow" is a misnomer as they are not closely related to true swallows...	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Artamus leucorynchus
White-browed Babbler White-browed Babbler The White-browed Babbler is a species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...	Pomatostomidae	Pomatostomus superciliosus
White-browed Crake White-browed Crake The White-browed Crake is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.Its natural...	Rallidae Rallidae The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...	Porzana cinerea
White-browed Robin White-browed Robin The White-browed Robin is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is endemic to north-eastern Australia. Its natural habitats are forest, woodland and scrub, often near water...	Petroicidae Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...	Poecilodryas superciliosa
White-browed Scrubwren White-browed Scrubwren The White-browed Scrubwren is a passerine bird found in coastal areas of Australia. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acanthizidae.It is insectivorous and...	Pardalotidae	Sericornis frontalis
White-browed Treecreeper White-browed Treecreeper The White-browed Treecreeper is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is endemic to Australia.-Conservation Status:...	Climacteridae	Climacteris affinis
White-browed Woodswallow White-browed Woodswallow The White-browed Woodswallow is a moderately-sized passerine bird native to inland Australia. Like all woodswallows, it has a brush-tipped tongue but feeds almost exclusively on flying insects....	Artamidae Artamidae The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...	Artamus superciliosus
White-cheeked Honeyeater White-cheeked Honeyeater The White-cheeked Honeyeater inhabits the east coast and the south-west corner of Australia. It has a large white patch on its cheek, a brown eye, and a yellow panel on its wing.- Description :...	Meliphagidae	Phylidonyris nigra
White-chinned Petrel White-chinned Petrel The White-chinned Petrel or Cape Hen, Procellaria aequinoctialis, is a large shearwater in the family Procellariidae. It ranges around the Southern Oceans as far north as South Australia, Peru and Namibia, and breeds colonially on scattered islands....	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Procellaria aequinoctialis
White-eared Honeyeater White-eared Honeyeater The White-eared Honeyeater is an Australian bird found in south east Australia, south west Australia an into south west of Queensland....	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus leucotis
White-faced Heron White-faced Heron The White-faced Heron, Egretta novaehollandiae, also known as the White-fronted Heron, and incorrectly as the Grey Heron, or Blue Crane, is a common bird throughout most of Australasia, including New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand, the islands of the Subantarctic, and...	Ardeidae	Egretta novaehollandiae
White-faced Storm-Petrel White-faced Storm-petrel The White-faced Storm Petrel , also known as White-faced Petrel is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Pelagodroma....	Hydrobatidae	Pelagodroma marina	aka 'White-faced Petrel'
White-fronted Chat White-fronted Chat The White-fronted Chat is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia, being found across southern Australia from Shark Bay in Western Australia around to the Queensland/New South Wales border.- References :* at NSW Govt Office of Environment and Heritage...	Meliphagidae	Epthianura albifrons
White-fronted Honeyeater White-fronted Honeyeater The White-fronted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...	Meliphagidae	Phylidonyris albifrons
White-fronted Tern White-fronted Tern The White-fronted Tern is the most common tern of New Zealand. It rarely swims, apart from bathing, despite having webbed feet. The species is protected....	Laridae	Sterna striata
White-gaped Honeyeater White-gaped Honeyeater The White-gaped Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus unicolor
White-headed Petrel White-headed Petrel The White-headed Petrel , also known as the White-headed Fulmar is a species of seabird in the petrel family, or Procellariidae. Its length is about 400 mm....	Procellariidae Procellariidae The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...	Pterodroma lessonii
White-lined Honeyeater White-lined Honeyeater The White-lined Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to northern Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It formerly included the Kimberley Honeyeater as a subspecies.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . ...	Meliphagidae	Meliphaga albilineata
White-naped Honeyeater White-naped Honeyeater The White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus is a passerine bird of the Honeyeater family Meliphagidae native to eastern Australia. Birds from southwestern Australia have been shown to be a distinct species, the Western White-naped Honeyeater, and the eastern birds more closely related to the...	Meliphagidae	Melithreptus lunatus
White-necked Heron White-necked Heron The White-necked Heron, Ardea pacifica also known as the Pacific Heron is found throughout New Guinea and Australia, except for the most arid regions, and is a vagrant to New Zealand....	Ardeidae	Ardea pacifica	aka 'Pacific Heron'
White-plumed Honeyeater White-plumed Honeyeater The White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus is a bird native to Australia. It is yellow above and paler beneath, with a black and white line on the sides of its neck. The white neck band of a White-plumed Honeyeater is its most prominent feature, the rest of the feathers being shades of...	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus penicillatus
White-quilled Rock Pigeon	Columbidae	Petrophassa albipennis
White-rumped Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper The White-rumped Sandpiper is a small shorebird.Adults have black legs and a small thin dark bill. The body is dark brown on top and mainly white underneath, with brown streaks on the breast and a white rump. They have a white stripe over their eyes. This bird shows long wings in flight. In winter...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Calidris or Erolia fuscicollis
White-tailed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird The White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, is a tropicbird, smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans...	Phaethontidae	Phaethon lepturus
White-throated Gerygone White-throated Gerygone The White-throated Gerygone is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family.It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....	Pardalotidae	Gerygone olivacea
White-throated Honeyeater White-throated Honeyeater The White-throated Honeyeater, Melithreptus albogularis is native to New Guinea, and eastern and northern Australia. It is 11.5 - 14.5cm long, olive green above and white below, with a black head, a white patch over the eye and a white stripe at the back of the neck.- Similar species :Western...	Meliphagidae	Melithreptus albogularis
White-throated Needletail White-throated Needletail The White-throated Needletail , also known as Needle-tailed Swift or Spine-tailed Swift, is a large swift. It is the fastest-flying bird in flapping flight, being capable of speeds up to 170 km/h ....	Apodidae	Hirundapus caudacutus
White-winged Black Tern	Laridae	Chlidonias leucopterus	aka 'White-winged Black Tern'
White-winged Fairy-wren White-winged Fairy-wren The White-winged Fairywren is a species of passerine bird in the fairywren family Maluridae. It lives in the drier parts of central Australia; from central Queensland and South Australia across to Western Australia...	Maluridae Maluridae The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere...	Malurus leucopterus
White-winged Triller White-winged Triller The White-winged Triller is one of the smaller members of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae. It is found throughout mainland Australia and possibly on the islands to the north, including New Guinea and eastern Indonesia...	Campephagidae	Lalage tricolor
Willie Wagtail Willie Wagtail The Willie Wagtail is a passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and eastern Indonesia. It is a common and familiar bird throughout much of its range, living in most habitats apart from thick forest...	Dicruridae	Rhipidura leucophrys
Wilson's Storm-Petrel Wilson's Storm-petrel Wilson's Storm Petrel , also known as Wilson's Petrel, is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family. It is one of the most abundant bird species in the world and has a circumpolar distribution mainly in the seas of the southern hemisphere but extending northwards during the summer of the northern...	Hydrobatidae	Oceanites oceanicus	aka 'Wilson's Petrel'
Wood Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper The Wood Sandpiper, Tringa glareola, is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae.- Description and systematics :...	Scolopacidae Scolopacidae The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...	Tringa glareola
Yellow Bittern Yellow Bittern The Yellow Bittern is a small bittern. It is of Old World origins, breeding in much of the Indian Subcontinent, east to Japan and Indonesia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds migrate short distances...	Ardeidae	Ixobrychus sinensis
Yellow Chat Yellow Chat The Yellow Chat is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 25 July 2007....	Meliphagidae	Epthianura crocea
Yellow Wagtail	Motacillidae Motacillidae The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...	Motacilla flava	aka 'Yellow Wagtail'
Yellow White-eye Yellow White-eye The Canary White-eye or Yellow White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...	Zosteropidae	Zosterops luteus
Yellow-billed Spoonbill Yellow-billed Spoonbill The Yellow-billed Spoonbill is common in southeast Australia; it is not unusual on the remainder of the continent, and is a vagrant to New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. It is around 90 cm long, and has white plumage with a yellow bill, legs and feet. It nests in trees, marshes or...	Threskiornithidae Threskiornithidae The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises were once thought to be related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the...	Platalea flavipes
Yellow-nosed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross Yellow-nosed Albatross may refer to:Birds of genus Thalassarche:* Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, T. chlororhynchos* Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross, T. carteri...	Diomedeidae	Thalassarche chlororhynchos	aka 'Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross'
Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Yellow-plumed Honeyeater The Yellow-plumed Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.-References:...	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus ornatus
Yellow-rumped Mannikin	Passeridae	Lonchura flaviprymna	aka 'Yellow-rumped Munia'
Yellow-rumped Thornbill Yellow-rumped Thornbill The Yellow-rumped Thornbill is a species of passerine bird from the genus Acanthiza. The genus was once placed in the family Pardalotidae but that family was split and it is now in the family Acanthizidae. There are four subspecies of Yellow-rumped Thornbill. It is a small, brownish bird with a...	Pardalotidae	Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Yellow-throated Miner Yellow-throated Miner The Yellow-throated Miner is a species of honeyeater, native to Australia. It is also commonly known as the 'White-rumped Miner'.-Description:...	Meliphagidae	Manorina flavigula
Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Yellow-tinted Honeyeater The Yellow-tinted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea....	Meliphagidae	Lichenostomus flavescens
Zebra Finch Zebra Finch The Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia guttata, is the most common and familiar estrildid finch of Central Australia and ranges over most of the continent, avoiding only the cool moist south and the tropical far north. It also can be found natively in Indonesia and East Timor...	Passeridae	Taeniopygia guttata
Zitting Cisticola Zitting Cisticola The Zitting Cisticola or Streaked Fantail Warbler , is widely distributed Old World warbler whose breeding range includes southern Europe, Africa outside the deserts and rainforest, and southern Asia down to northern Australia...	Sylviidae Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...	Cisticola juncidis

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