Checklist and names: Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, by Simpson & Day,
5th edition
* = introduced
Note: not all birds are present throughout the year
Southern Cassowary
Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Australian Brush-turkey
Brown Quail
Australian Pelican
Darter
Pied Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Great (Black) Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Australasian Grebe
Magpie Goose
Wandering Whistling-Duck
Plumed Whistling-Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Grey Teal
Hardhead (White-eyed Duck)
Australian Wood Duck
Cotton Pygmy-Goose
Green Pygmy-Goose
Buff-banded Rail
Red-necked Crake
White-browed Crake
Dusky Moorhen
Purple Swamphen
Eurasian Coot
Great-billed Heron
White-necked (Pacific) Heron
White-faced Heron
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Little Egret
Intermediate Egret
Eastern Reef Egret
Striated Heron
Nankeen (Rufous) Night Heron
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Black-necked Stork
Brolga
Sarus Crane
Australian Bustard
Ruddy Turnstone
Eastern Curlew
Whimbrel
Grey-tailed Tattler
Common Sandpiper
Greenshank
Terek Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Great Knot
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Curlew Sandpiper
Australian Pratincole
Comb-crested Jacana
Bush Stone-curlew
Beach Stone-curlew
Pied Oystercatcher
Masked Lapwing (Plover)
Lesser Golden Plover
Lesser Sand (Mongolian) Plover
Greater (Large) Sand Plover
Red-capped Plover
Black-fronted Plover
Black-winged Stilt
Silver Gull
Whiskered (Marsh) Tern
Caspian Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Little Tern
Crested Tern
Pacific Baza
Black-shouldered Kite
Osprey
Black Kite
Whistling Kite
Brahminy Kite
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Grey (White) Goshawk
Spotted Harrier
Swamp Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
Australian Hobby
Brown Falcon
Nankeen (Australian)Kestrel
Superb Fruit-Dove
Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
Wompoo Fruit-Dove
Pied Imperial-Pigeon
Topknot Pigeon
White-headed Pigeon
Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon*)
Spotted Turtle-Dove*
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Peaceful Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
Emerald Ground-Dove
Crested Pigeon
Squatter Pigeon
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Galah
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Little Lorikeet
Double-eyed Fig-Parrot
Australian King Parrot
Red-winged Parrot
Crimson Rosella
Pale-headed Rosella
Brush Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Little Bronze-Cuckoo
Gould's Bronze-Cuckoo
Common Koel
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Pheasant Coucal
Rufous Owl
Southern Boobook
Barking Owl
Lesser Sooty Owl
Barn Owl
Tawny Frogmouth
Papuan Frogmouth
Australian Owlet-nightjar
Large-tailed Nightjar
White-rumped Swiftlet
White-throated Needletail
Fork-tailed Swift
House Swift
Azure Kingfisher
Little Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Forest Kingfisher
Sacred Kingfisher
Collared Kingfisher
Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher
Rainbow Bee-eater
Dollarbird
Noisy Pitta
Varied Sitella
White-throated Treecreeper
Lovely Fairy-wren
Red-backed Fairy-wren
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Fernwren
Atherton Scrubwren
Large-billed Scrubwren
White-browed Scrubwren
Yellow-throated Scrubwren
Weebill
White-throated Gerygone
Fairy Gerygone
Brown Gerygone
Large-billed Gerygone
Mountain Thornbill
Yellow (Little) Thornbill
Helmeted Friarbird
Silver-crowned Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird
Little Friarbird
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Macleay's Honeyeater
Lewin's Honeyeater
Yellow-spotted Honeyeater
Graceful Honeyeater
Bridled Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Varied Honeyeater
Yellow Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
White-throated Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
White-cheeked Honeyeater
Brown Honeyeater
Brown-backed Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Dusky Honeyeater
Scarlet Honeyeater
Chowchilla
Eastern Whipbird
Grey-crowned Babbler
Eastern Yellow Robin
Mangrove Robin
Lemon-bellied Flycatcher
Grey-headed Robin
Pale-yellow Robin
White-browed Robin
Crested Shrike-tit
Little Shrike-thrush
Bower's Shrike-thrush
Grey Shrike-thrush
Golden Whistler
Grey Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Northern Fantail
Grey Fantail
Rufous Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Leaden Flycatcher
Satin Flycatcher
Shining Flycatcher
Yellow-breasted Boatbill
Black-faced Monarch
Spectacled Monarch
Pied Monarch
White-eared Monarch
Magpie-lark
Spangled Drongo
Yellow Oriole
Olive-backed Oriole
Figbird
Victoria's Riflebird
Tooth-billed Bowerbird
Spotted Catbird
Golden Bowerbird
Satin Bowerbird
Great Bowerbird
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Barred Cuckoo-shrike
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
Cicadabird
Varied Triller
White-breasted Woodswallow
Black Butcherbird
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Torresian Crow
Apostlebird
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
Fairy Martin
Richard's Pipit
Clamorous Reed-warbler
Golden-headed Cisticola
Tawny Grassbird
House Sparrow*
Double-barred Finch
Black-throated Finch
Crimson Finch
Red-browed Finch(Firetail)
Nutmeg Mannikin*
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
Blue-faced Parrot-Finch
Yellow-bellied Sunbird
Mistletoebird
Silvereye
Bassian (White's/Ground) Thrush
Metallic Starling
Common Mynah*
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