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AUSTRALIAN BIRD LIST

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Red Font - not listed on the Tamworth Regional Council Species List

Normal Font - listed on the Tamworth Regional Council Species List

Bold - personally recorded within the Tamworth Regional Council

Underlined - photo link

Ostrich

Southern Cassowary

Emu

Magpie Goose

Spotted Whistling-Duck

Plumed Whistling-Duck

Wandering Whistling-Duck

Canada Goose

Cape Barren Goose

Freckled Duck

Mute Swan

Black Swan

Australian Shelduck

Paradise Shelduck

Radjah Shelduck

Green Pygmy-Goose

Cotton Pygmy-Goose

Australian Wood Duck

Eurasian Wigeon

Mallard

Pacific Black Duck

Australasian Shoveler

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Garganey

Green-winged Teal

Grey Teal

Chestnut Teal

Pink-eared Duck

Hardhead

Blue-billed Duck

Musk Duck

Australian Brush-Turkey

Malleefowl

Orange-footed Scrubfowl

Helmeted Guineafowl

California Quail

Stubble Quail

Brown Quail

King Quail

Red Junglefowl

Green Junglefowl

Ring-necked Pheasant

Indian Peafowl

Wild Turkey

Little Grebe

Hoary-headed Grebe

Australasian Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

Greater Flamingo

King Penguin

Emperor Penguin

Adelie Penguin

Gentoo Penguin

Chinstrap Penguin

Little Penguin

Magellanic Penguin

Fiordland Penguin

Erect-crested Penguin

Macaroni Penguin

Royal Penguin

Rockhopper Penguin

Tristan Penguin

Snares Penguin

 

Yellow-nosed Albatross

Grey-headed Albatross

Buller's Albatross

White-capped Albatross

Salvin's Albatross

Chatham Albatross

Black-browed Albatross

Sooty Albatross

Light-mantled Albatross

Royal Albatross

Wandering Albatross

Laysan Albatross

 

Southern Giant-Petrel

Northern Giant-Petrel

 

Southern Fulmar

Antarctic Petrel

Cape Petrel

Snow Petrel

Kerguelen Petrel

Great-winged Petrel

Kermadec Petrel

Herald Petrel

Providence Petrel

Soft-plumaged Petrel

Barau's Petrel

White-headed Petrel

Mottled Petrel

Juan Fernandez Petrel

Atlantic Petrel

White-necked Petrel

Black-winged Petrel

Cook's Petrel

Gould's Petrel

Collared Petrel

Stejneger's Petrel

Vanuatu Petrel

Blue Petrel

Fairy Prion

Broad-billed Prion

Salvin's Prion

Antarctic Prion

Slender-billed Prion

Fulmar Prion

Bulwer's Petrel

Jouanin's Petrel

Beck's Petrel

Grey Petrel

White-chinned Petrel

Westland Petrel

Streaked Shearwater

Cory's Shearwater

Pink-footed Shearwater

Flesh-footed Shearwater

Great Shearwater

Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Buller's Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Short-tailed Shearwater

Manx Shearwater

Hutton's Shearwater

Fluttering Shearwater

Little Shearwater

Tropical Shearwater

 

Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Grey-backed Storm-Petrel

White-faced Storm-Petrel

White-bellied Storm-Petrel

New Zealand Storm-Petrel

Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

Polynesian Storm-Petrel

Leach's Storm-Petrel

Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel

Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel

Tristram's Storm-Petrel

Common Diving-Petrel

South Georgia Diving-Petrel

White-tailed Tropicbird

Red-billed Tropicbird

Red-tailed Tropicbird

Black-necked Stork

Christmas Island Frigatebird

Great Frigatebird

Lesser Frigatebird

Masked Booby

Brown Booby

Red-footed Booby

Abbott's Booby

Cape Gannet

Australasian Gannet

Little Black Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Pied Cormorant

Black-faced Cormorant

Heard Island Shag

Macquarie Shag

Little Pied Cormorant

Australasian Darter

Australian Pelican

Australasian Bittern

Yellow Bittern

Australian Little Bittern

Schrenck's Bittern

Cinnamon Bittern

Black Bittern

Grey Heron

White-necked Heron

Great-billed Heron

Purple Heron

Great Egret

Intermediate Egret

White-faced Heron

Little Egret

Western Reef-Heron

Eastern Reef Egret

Pied Heron

Cattle Egret

Chinese Pond-Heron

Javan Pond-Heron

Striated Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Nankeen Night-Heron

Japanese Night-Heron

Malayan Night-Heron

 

Glossy Ibis

Australian White Ibis

Straw-necked Ibis

Royal Spoonbill

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Osprey

Black-shouldered Kite

Letter-winged Kite

Oriental Honey-Buzzard

Pacific Baza

Square-tailed Kite

Black-breasted Buzzard

Little Eagle

Gurney's Eagle

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Swamp Harrier

Spotted Harrier

Chinese Sparrowhawk

Grey Goshawk

Brown Goshawk

Japanese Sparrowhawk

Collared Sparrowhawk

Red Goshawk
Black Kite

Whistling Kite

Brahminy Kite

White-bellied Sea-Eagle

Australian Bustard

Red-necked Crake

Red-legged Crake

Lord Howe Woodhen

Buff-banded Rail

Corncrake

Lewin's Rail

White-breasted Waterhen

Pale-vented Bush-hen

Baillon's Crake

Australian Spotted Crake

Ruddy-breasted Crake

Spotless Crake

White-browed Crake

Chestnut Rail

Watercock

Purple Swamphen

Eurasian Moorhen
Dusky Moorhen

Black-tailed Native-hen

Tasmanian Native-hen

Eurasian Coot

Sarus Cane

Brolga

Black-faced Sheathbill

Bush Stone-curlew

Beach Stone-curlew

Black-winged Stilt

Banded Stilt

Red-necked Avocet

Australian Pied Oystercatcher

South Island Oystercatcher

Sooty Oystercatcher

Grey Plover

American Golden Plover

Pacific Golden Plover

Grey-headed Lapwing

Banded Lapwing

Masked Lapwing

Lesser Sand Plover

Greater Sand Plover

Caspian Plover

Double-banded Plover

Red-capped Plover

Kentish Plover

Common Ringed Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Little Ringed Plover

Oriental Plover

Red-kneed Dotterel

Hooded Plover

Black-fronted Dotterel

Inland Dotterel

Plains-Wanderer

Australian Painted-Snipe

Comb-crested Jacana

Pheasant-tailed Jacana

 

Terek Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Grey-tailed Tattler

Wandering Tattler

Spotted Redshank

Common Greenshank

Nordmann's Greenshank

Lesser Yellowlegs

Marsh Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Common Redshank

Upland Sandpiper

Little Curlew

Whimbrel

Eastern Curlew

Eurasian Curlew

Black-tailed Godwit

Hudsonian Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Great Knot

Red Knot

Ruff

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Long-toed Stint

Red-necked Stint

Sanderling

Dunlin

Baird's Sandpiper

Little Stint

White-rumped Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Short-billed Dowitcher

Asian Dowitcher

Latham's Snipe

Pin-tailed Snipe

Swinhoe's Snipe

Wilson's Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Red-backed Button-quail

Black-breasted Button-quail

Chestnut-backed Button-quail

Buff-breasted Button-quail

Painted Button-quail

Red-chested Button-quail

Little Button-quail

Australian Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole

 

South Polar Skua

Brown Skua

Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

 

Sabine's Gull

Black-billed Gull

Silver Gull

Laughing Gull

Franklin's Gull

Black-tailed Gull

Pacific Gull

Mew Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Kelp Gull

Common Noddy

Black Noddy

Lesser Noddy

Grey Noddy

White Tern

Sooty Tern

Bridled Tern

Little Tern

Fairy Tern

Saunders's Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Caspian Tern

Black Tern

White-winged Black Tern

Whiskered Tern

Roseate Tern

White-fronted Tern

Black-naped Tern

Common Tern

Aleutian Tern

Arctic Tern

Antarctic Tern

Crested Tern

Lesser Crested Tern

Rock Dove (Domestic Type)

White-headed Pigeon

African Collared-Dove

Red Collared-Dove

Spotted Dove

Laughing Dove

Brown Cuckoo-Dove

Emerald Dove
Common Bronzewing

Brush Bronzewing

Flock Bronzewing

Crested Pigeon

Spinifex Pigeon

Squatter Pigeon

Partridge Pigeon

Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon

White-quilled Rock-Pigeon

Wonga Pigeon

Diamond Dove

Peaceful Dove

Bar-shouldered Dove

Black-banded Fruit-Dove

Wompoo Fruit-Dove

Superb Fruit-Dove

Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove

Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove

Elegant Imperial-Pigeon

Christmas Island Imperial-Pigeon

Torresian Imperial-Pigeon

Topknot Pigeon

Large Hawk-Cuckoo

Oriental Cuckoo

Pallid Cuckoo

Brush Cuckoo

Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Black-eared Cuckoo

Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo

Shining Bronze-Cuckoo

Little Bronze-Cuckoo

Asian Koel

Australian Koel

Long-tailed Koel

Channel-billed Cuckoo

Pheasant Coucal

Lesser Coucal


Sooty Owl

Masked Owl

Australian Grass-Owl

Barn Owl

Rufous Owl

Powerful Owl

Barking Owl

Southern Boobook

Northern Boobook

Christmas Island Boobook

Australian Owlet-nightjar

Tawny Frogmouth

Marbled Frogmouth

Papuan Frogmouth
 

Spotted Nightjar

White-throated Nightjar

Grey Nightjar

Large-tailed Nightjar

Savanna Nightjar

Papuan Needletail

White-throated Needletail

Glossy Swiftlet

Australian Swiftlet

Uniform Swiftlet

Pacific Swift

House Swift

Common Kingfisher

Azure Kingfisher

Little Kingfisher

Laughing Kookaburra

Blue-winged Kookaburra

Black-capped Kingfisher

Forest Kingfisher

Red-backed Kingfisher

Collared Kingfisher

Sacred Kingfisher

Yellow-billed Kingfisher

Little Paradise-Kingfisher

Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher

Rainbow Bee-eater

European Roller

Dollarbird

Eurasian Hoopee

 

Nankeen Kestrel

Eurasian Hobby

Australian Hobby

Brown Falcon
Grey Falcon
Black Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

Palm Cockatoo

Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Glossy Black-Cockatoo

Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo

Baudin's Black-Cockatoo

Gang-gang Cockatoo

Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Galah

Long-billed Corella

Western Corella

Little Corella

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Cockatiel

Rainbow Lorikeet

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

Varied Lorikeet

Musk Lorikeet

Little Lorikeet

Purple-crowned Lorikeet

Double-eyed Fig-Parrot

Red-fronted Parakeet

Norfolk Island Parakeet

Red-capped Parrot

Australian Ringneck

Green Rosella

Crimson Rosella

Northern Rosella

Eastern Rosella

Pale-headed Rosella

Western Rosella

Red-rumped Parrot
Mulga Parrot

Hooded Parrot

Golden-shouldered Parrot

Blue Bonnet

Bourke's Parrot

Blue-winged Parrot

Elegant Parrot

Rock Parrot

Orange-bellied Parrot

Turquoise Parrot

Scarlet-chested Parrot

Swift Parrot

Budgerigar

Ground Parrot

Night Parrot

Red-cheeked Parrot

Eclectus Parrot

Australian King-Parrot

Red-winged Parrot

Superb Parrot

Regent Parrot

Princess Parrot

Red-bellied Pitta

Fairy Pitta

Blue-winged Pitta

Noisy Pitta

Rainbow Pitta

Albert's Lyrebird

Superb Lyrebird

Rufous Scrub-bird

Noisy Scrub-bird

Spotted Catbird

Green Catbird

Tooth-billed Bowerbird

Golden Bowerbird

Regent Bowerbird

Satin Bowerbird

Western Bowerbird

Spotted Bowerbird

Great Bowerbird

Fawn-breasted Bowerbird

White-throated Treecreeper

White-browed Treecreeper

Red-browed Treecreeper

Brown Treecreeper

Black-tailed Treecreeper

Rufous Treecreeper

Grey Grasswren

Striated Grasswren

White-throated Grasswren

Carpentarian Grasswren

Short-tailed Grasswren

Thick-billed Grasswren

Black Grasswren

Eyrean Grasswren

Dusky Grasswren

Kalkadoon Grasswren

Southern Emu-wren

Rufous-crowned Emu-wren

Mallee Emu-wren

Purple-crowned Fairy-wren

Red-winged Fairy-wren

Blue-breasted Fairy-wren

Variegated Fairy-wren

Lovely Fairy-wren

Splendid Fairy-wren
Superb Fairy-wren

White-winged Fairy-wren

Red-backed Fairy-wren

Eastern Spinebill

Western Spinebill

Pied Honeyeater

Graceful Honeyeater

Yellow-spotted Honeyeater

Lewin's Honeyeater

White-lined Honeyeater

Kimberley Honeyeater

Black-throated Honeyeater

Bridled Honeyeater

Eungella Honeyeater

Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Varied Honeyeater

Mangrove Honeyeater

Singing Honeyeater

Yellow Honeyeater

White-gaped Honeyeater

White-eared Honeyeater

Yellow-throated Honeyeater

Yellow-tufted Honeyeater

Purple-gaped Honeyeater

Grey-headed Honeyeater

Yellow-tinted Honeyeater

Fuscous Honeyeater

Grey-fronted Honeyeater

Yellow-plumed Honeyeater

White-plumed Honeyeater

White-fronted Honeyeater

Bell Miner

Noisy Miner

Yellow-throated Miner

Black-eared Miner

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

Red Wattlebird

Little Wattlebird

Western Wattlebird

Yellow Wattlebird

Regent Honeyeater

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Bar-breasted Honeyeater

Rufous-banded Honeyeater

Rufous-throated Honeyeater

Grey Honeyeater

Crimson Chat

Orange Chat

Yellow Chat

White-fronted Chat

Gibber Chat

Black Honeyeater

Dusky Honeyeater

Red-headed Honeyeater

Scarlet Honeyeater

Green-backed Honeyeater

Tawny-crowned Honeyeater

Banded Honeyeater

Brown Honeyeater

Crescent Honeyeater

New Holland Honeyeater

White-cheeked Honeyeater

White-streaked Honeyeater

White-naped Honeyeater

Black-headed Honeyeater

White-throated Honeyeater

Black-chinned Honeyeater

Strong-billed Honeyeater

Brown-headed Honeyeater

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Little Friarbird

Helmeted Friarbird

Silver-crowned Friarbird

Noisy Friarbird

Tawny-breasted Honeyeater
Macleay's Honeyeater
Striped Honeyeater

Painted Honeyeater

Western Bristlebird

Eastern Bristlebird

Rufous Bristlebird

Spotted Pardalote

Forty-spotted Pardalote

Red-browed Pardalote

Striated Pardalote

Pilotbird

Rockwarbler

Fernwren

Yellow-throated Scrubwren

White-browed Scrubwren

Tasmanian Scrubwren

Atherton Scrubwren

Tropical Scrubwren

Large-billed Scrubwren

Scrubtit

Redthroat

Speckled Warbler

Rufous Fieldwren

Striated Fieldwren

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

Shy Heathwren

Buff-rumped Thornbill

Western Thornbill

Slender-billed Thornbill

Mountain Thornbill

Brown Thornbill

Tasmanian Thornbill

Inland Thornbill

Yellow-rumped Thornbill

Chestnut-rumped Thornbill

Slaty-backed Thornbill

Yellow Thornbill

Striated Thornbill
Weebill

 

Green-backed Gerygone

Fairy Gerygone

White-throated Gerygone

Large-billed Gerygone

Dusky Gerygone

Brown Gerygone

Western Gerygone

Mangrove Gerygone

Norfolk Island Gerygone

Southern Whiteface

Chestnut-breasted Whiteface

Banded Whiteface

Grey-crowned Babbler

White-browed Babbler

Hall's Babbler

Chestnut-crowned Babbler

 

Australian Logrunner

Chowchilla

 

Eastern Whipbird

Western Whipbird

Chiming Wedgebill

Chirruping Wedgebill

 

Spotted Quail-thrush

Chestnut Quail-thrush

Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush

Western Quail-thrush

Cinnamon Quail-thrush

Nullarbor Quail-thrush
 

Yellow-breasted Boatbill

White-breasted Woodswallow

Masked Woodswallow

White-browed Woodswallow

Black-faced Woodswallow

Dusky Woodswallow

Little Woodswallow

Black-backed Butcherbird

Grey Butcherbird

Pied Butcherbird

Black Butcherbird

Australian Magpie

Pied Currawong

Black Currawong

Grey Currawong

Ground Cuckooshrike

Barred Cuckooshrike

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike

White-winged Triller

Varied Triller

Cicadabird

 

Varied Sittella

 

Crested Shrike-tit

 

Rufous Shrike-Thrush

Sandstone Shrike-Thrush

Grey Shrike-thrush

Bower's Shrike-Thrush

Olive Whistler

Red-lored Whistler

Gilbert's Whistler

Golden Whistler

Black-tailed Whistler

Grey/Grey-headed Whistler

Rufous Whistler
White-breasted Whistler

Crested Bellbird

Tiger Shrike

 

Olive-backed Oriole

Yellow Oriole

Australasian Figbird

 

Spangled Drongo

Northern Fantail

Willie Wagtail

Rufous Fantail

Arafura Fantail

Grey Fantail

Mangrove Grey Fantail
 

White-eared Monarch

Island Monarch

Black-faced Monarch

Black-winged Monarch

Spectacled Monarch

Frill-necked Monarch

Pied Monarch

Magpie-lark

Leaden Flycatcher

Broad-billed Flycatcher

Satin Flycatcher

Restless Flycatcher
Paperbark Flycatcher

Shining Flycatcher

 

Eurasian Magpie

House Crow

Torresian Crow

Bismarck Crow

Little Crow

Australian Raven

Little Raven

Forest Raven

Collared Crow

White-winged Chough

Apostlebird

Trumpet Manucode

Paradise Riflebird

Victoria's Riflebird

Magnificent Riflebird

Jacky Winter

Lemon-bellied Flycatcher

Yellow-legged Flycatcher

Pacific Robin

Scarlet Robin

Red-capped Robin

Flame Robin

Rose Robin

Pink Robin

Hooded Robin

Dusky Robin

White-faced Robin

Pale-yellow Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Western Yellow Robin

Yellow-bellied Robin

White-breasted Robin

Mangrove Robin

White-browed Robin

Buff-sided Robin

Grey-headed Robin

Northern Scrub-Robin

Southern Scrub-Robin

Horsfield's Bushlark

Eurasian Skylark

Barn Swallow

Welcome Swallow

Red-rumped Swallow

Fairy Martin

Tree Martin

Asian House-Martin

White-backed Swallow

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Dusky Warbler

Arctic Warbler

Oriental Reed-Warbler

Australian Reed-Warbler

Spinifexbird

Little Grassbird

Brown Songlark

Tawny Grassbird

Rufous Songlark

Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler

Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler

Zitting Cisticola

Golden-headed Cisticola

 

Christmas Island White-eye

Ashy-bellied White-eye

Yellow White-eye

Lord Howe White-eye

Slender-billed White-eye

Silvereye

 

Dark-sided Flycatcher

Asian Brown Flycatcher

Grey-streaked Flycatcher

Blue-and-white Flycatcher

Narcissus Flycatcher

Mugimaki Flycatcher

Blue Rock-Thrush

Isabelline Wheatear

Bassian Thrush

Russet-tailed Thrush

Common Blackbird

Island Thrush

Eyebrowed Thrush

Song Thrush

Metallic Starling

Singing Starling

Common Myna

Daurian Starling

Chestnut-cheeked Starling

Rosy Starling

Common Starling

Red-capped Flowerpecker

Mistletoebird

Olive-backed Sunbird

Eastern Yellow Wagtail

Citrine Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

White Wagtail

Australian Pipit

Pechora Pipit

Red-throated Pipit

Forest Wagtail

Yellowhammer

Common Chaffinch

European Greenfinch

Common Redpoll

European Goldfinch

House Sparrow

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Painted Finch

Beautiful Firetail

Red-eared Firetail

Diamond Firetail

Red-browed Finch

Crimson Finch

Star Finch

Plum-headed Finch

Zebra Finch

Double-barred Finch

Masked Finch

Long-tailed Finch

Black-throated Finch

Blue-faced Parrotfinch

Gouldian Finch

Scaly-breasted Munia

Pale-headed Munia

Yellow-rumped Munia

Chestnut-breasted Mannikin

Java Sparrow
Pictorella Munia

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