Australian birds index

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Australian birds
all images © Mark Chappell

Species are listed in approximate taxonomic order -- at least as we used to understand it.   A new view is quite different.

Ratites
    Emu
    Southern cassowary
Grebes, herons, ibis, storks, spoonbill
    Australasian grebe
    Eastern reef-egret
    White-faced heron
    Pacific heron
    Mangrove heron
    Great-billed heron
    Pied heron
    Straw-necked ibis
    Royal spoonbill
Procellariformes ('tubenoses')
    Wandering albatross
Pelicaniform birds
    Australian pelican
Ducks and geese
    Cape Barren goose
    Hardhead
    Australian grey teal
    Chestnut teal
    Pacific black duck
    Musk duck
    Australian wood duck
    Radjah shelduck
    Australian shelduck
    Plumed whistling-duck
    Pink-eared duck
Rails, cranes, bustards
    Purple swamphen
    Tasmanian native-hen
    Black-tailed native hen
    Australian bustard
    Buff-banded rail
    Red-necked crake
    Sarus crane
    Brolga crane
Gulls
    Silver gull
    Kelp gull
    Pacific gull
Terns
    Crested terns
    Caspian tern
Plovers, other 'shorebirds'
    Greater sand-plover
    Lesser sand-plover
    Hooded plover
    Black-fronted dotterel
    Masked lapwing
    Banded lapwing
    Red-capped dotterel
    Sooty oystercatcher
    Pied oystercatcher
    Plains wanderer
    Bush stone-curlew
    Beach thicknee
    comb-crested jacana
Sandpipers
    Gray-tailed tattler
    Eastern curlew
    Bar-tailed godwit
    Great knot
    Black-tailed godwit
    Sharp-tailed sandpiper
    Red-necked stint
    Terek sandpiper
Hawks and falcons
    Black kite
    Black-shouldered kite
    Whistling kite
    Brahminy kite
    Pacific baza
    White-breasted sea eagle
    Wedge-tailed eagle
    Grey goshawk
    Little falcon
    Australian kestrel
Megapodes
    Australian brush-turkey
    Orange-footed scrubfowl
Nightjars
    Large-tailed nightjar
    Tawny frogmouth
    Papuan frogmouth
Owls
    Eastern barn owl
    Rufous owl
Pigeons and relatives
    Spinifex pigeon
    Crested pigeon
    Common bronzewing
    White-headed pigeon
    wompoo fruit-dove
    Emerald dove
    Squatter pigeon
    Rose-crowned fruit dove
    Superb fruit-dove
    Torresian imperial pigeon
    Peaceful dove
    Bar-shouldered dove
Cuckoos
    Fan-tailed cuckoo
    Shining bronze-cuckoo
    Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo
    Little bronze-cuckoo
    Common koel
    Oriental cuckoo
    Brush cuckoo
    Pheasant coucal
Kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers
    Forest kingfisher
    Azure kingfisher
    Collared kingfisher
    Buff-breasted paradise kingfisher
    Red-backed kingfisher
    Blue-winged kookaburra
    Laughing kookaburra
    Rainbow bee-eater
    Dollarbird
Parrots
    Rainbow lorikeet
    Scaly-breasted lorikeet
    Purple-crowned lorikeet
    Musk lorikeet
    Swift parrot
    Red-collared lorikeet
    Mulga parrot
    Elegant parrot
    Cloncurry ringneck
    Eastern (mallee) ringneck
    Western ringneck
    Red-winged parrot
    Superb parrot
    Australian king parrot
    Eastern rosella
    Western rosella
    Red-capped parrot
    Double-eyed fig parrot
    Galah; in flight
    Gang-gang cockatoo
    Sulphur-crested cockatoo
    Little corella
    Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
    Red-tailed black cockatoo
    Baudin's black cockatoo
    Carnaby's black cockatoo
Flycatchers, fantails, robins, bulbuls
    Rainbow pitta
    Noisy pitta
    Grey fantail
    Willie wagtail
    Black-faced monarch
    Spectacled monarch
    Eastern yellow-robin
    Western yellow robin
    Pale yellow-robin
    Grey-headed robin
    White-breasted robin
    Scarlet robin
    Restless flycatcher
    Shining flycatcher
    Brown flycatcher
    Red-whiskered bulbul
    Gray-crowned babbler
Whipbirds, thornbills, pardalotes, scrubwrens
    Eastern whipbird
    Western bristlebird
    Brown thornbill
    White-browed scrubwren
    Spotted pardalote
    Striated pardalote
Whiteeyes, whistlers
    Silvereye
    Golden whistler
    Rufous whistler
Woodswallows, fairy-wrens, emu-wrens
    White-breasted woodswallow
    White-browed woodswallow
    Black-faced woodswallow
    Dusky woodswallow
    Splendid fairy-wren
    Red-winged fairy-wren
    Varigated fairy-wren
    White-winged fairy-wren
    Superb fairy-wren
    Red-backed fairy-wren
    Southern emu-wren
Honeyeaters, treecreepers
    White-plumed honeyeater
    Yellow-faced honeyeater
    Eastern spinebill
    New Holland honeyeater
    White-cheeked honeyeater
    Singing honeyeater
    Spiny-cheeked honeyeater
    Noisy miner
    Yellow-throated miner
    Lewin's honeyeater
    Yellow-spotted honeyeater
    Graceful honeyeater
    Yellow-faced honeyeater
    Pied honeyeater
    Varied honeyeater
    Yellow honeyeater
    Brown-backed honeyeater
    Brown honeyeater
    Dusky honeyeater
    Bridled honeyeater
    MacLeay's honeyeater
    White-naped honeyeater
    Brown-headed honeyeater
    Rufous-banded honeyeater
    Blue-faced honeyeater
    White-gaped honeyeater
    Red-headed honeyeater
    Dusky honeyeater
    Little wattlebird
    Red wattlebird
    Rufous treecreeper
Finches, starling
    Red-browed firetail
    Red-eared firetail
    Blue-faced parrot-finch
    Chestnut-breasted manakin
    Gouldian finch
    Crimson finch
    Masked finch
    Long-tailed finch
    Double-barred finch
    metallic starling
Old-world warblers
    Clamorous reed warbler
    Brown gerygone
Bowerbirds, butcherbirds, cuckoo-shrikes, etc.
    Western bowerbird
    Great bowerbird
    Regent bowerbird
    Satin bowerbird
    Golden bowerbird
    Tooth-billed bowerbird
    Victoria's riflebird
    Green catbird
    Spotted catbird
    Figbird
    Yellow oriole
    Crested bellbird
    Australian magpie
    Black butcherbird
    Pied butcherbird
    Grey butcherbird
    White-winged triller
    Varied triller
    Barred cuckoo-shrike
    White-bellied cuckoo-shrike
    Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
    Cicadabird
    Bower's shrike-thrush
    Apostlebird
Sunbirds, drongo, boatbill
    Yellow-bellied sunbird
    Yellow-breasted boatbill
    Spangled drongo
Corvids (crows, ravens, jays, etc.)
    Australian raven