This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory. The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie, and Heard/McDonald. The list includes introduced species, common vagrants and recently extinct species. It excludes extirpated introductions (e.g. Ostrich), some very rare vagrants (seen once) and species only present in captivity. Eight hundred and forty-two extant species are listed.
The taxonomy followed is from Christidis and Boles, 2008. Their system has been developed over nearly two decades and has strong local support, but deviates in important ways from more generally accepted schemes.
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Non-passerines: Emu and cassowaries . Mound-builders . Guineafowl . Partridges, pheasants, quail . Magpie Goose . Ducks, geese and swans . Tropicbirds . Grebes . Pigeons and doves . Frogmouths . Nightjars . Owlet-nightjar . Swifts . Storm-petrels . Albatross . Shearwaters and petrels . Penguins . Frigatebirds . Boobies and gannets . Darters . Cormorants . Pelicans . Storks . Bitterns, herons and egrets . Ibis and spoonbills . Hawks, kites and eagles . Osprey . Falcons . Cranes . Rails, crakes, and coots . Bustards . Sheathbills . Stone-curlews (thick-knees) . Oystercatchers . Avocets and stilts . Plovers and lapwings . Plains Wanderer . Jacanas . Painted Snipe . Waders . Buttonquails . Pratincoles . Skuas . Gulls and terns . Parrots and allies . Cuckoos . True owls . Barn owls . River kingfishers . Tree kingfishers . Bee-eaters . Rollers . |
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Passerines: Pittas . Lyrebirds . Scrub-birds . Treecreepers . Bowerbirds and catbirds . Fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens . Bristlebirds . Scrubwrens, thornbills and allies . Pardalotes . Honeyeaters . Babblers . Logrunner and chowchilla . Quail-thrush, whipbirds and wedgebills . Sittella . Cuckoo-shrikes and trillers . Whistlers and allies . Figbird and orioles . Currawongs, woodswallows, butcherbirds & allies . Drongo . Fantails . Shrikes . Magpie, crows and ravens . Monarch Flycatchers . Chough and apostlebird . Birds of Paradise, riflebirds . Australasian robins . Larks . Cisticolas and allies . Reed-Warblers . Grassbirds, songlarks and allies . White-eyes . Old World warblers . Leaf-warblers . Swallows . Bulbuls . Old World flycatchers . Thrushes and allies . Starlings . Sunbirds and spiderhunters . Australasian finches, firetails and waxbills . Old World sparrows . Wagtails and pipits . Finches, crossbills and allies . Buntings, seedeaters and allies . |
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