Australian Bird List 2002 2004 2006 2008
Ostrich
Southern Cassowary x
Emu x x x
Australian Brush-turkey x x
Malleefowl x x
Orange‑footed Scrubfowl x x
Stubble Quail
Brown Quail x x
King Quail
Red Junglefowl
Common Pheasant
Indian Peafowl
Wild Turkey
California Quail
Helmeted Guinea Fowl x
Magpie Goose x x
Plumed Whistling-Duck x x
Wandering Whistling-Duck x x
Blue‑billed Duck x x
Musk Duck x x
Freckled Duck x x
Mute Swan x
Black Swan x x x x
Canada Goose
Cape Barren Goose x x
Australian Shelduck x x
Paradise Shelduck
Radjah Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck x x x x
Cotton Pygmy‑Goose x x
Green Pygmy‑Goose x x
Mallard x x
Pacific Black Duck x x x x
Australasian Shoveller x x x
Northern Shoveller
Grey Teal x x x x
Chestnut Teal x x x x
Northern Pintail
Garganey
Pink-eared Duck x x x x
Hardhead x x x x
Australasian Grebe x x x x
Hoary‑headed Grebe x x x
Great Crested Grebe x x x
King Penguin
Emperor Penguin
Gentoo Penguin
Adelie Penguin
Chinstrap Penguin
Rockhopper Penguin
Fiordland Penguin
Snares Penguin
Erect‑crested Penguin
Macaroni Penguin
Little Penguin x
Magellanic Penguin
Common Diving‑Petrel
South Georgian Diving‑Petrel
Southern Giant‑Petrel
Northern Giant‑Petrel
Southern Fulmar
Antarctic Petrel
Cape Petrel
Snow Petrel
Kerguelen Petrel
Tahiti Petrel
Great‑winged Petrel
White‑headed Petrel
Providence Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Herald Petrel
Soft‑plumaged Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Juan Fernandez Petrel
White‑necked Petrel
Barau’s Petrel
Black‑winged Petrel
Cook's Petrel
Gould's Petrel
Blue Petrel
Broad‑billed Prion
Salvin’s Prion
Antarctic Prion
Slender‑billed Prion
Fairy Prion
Fulmar Prion
Bulwer's Petrel
White‑chinned Petrel
Westland Petrel
Black Petrel
Grey Petrel
Streaked Shearwater
Wedge‑tailed Shearwater x
Buller's Shearwater
Flesh‑footed Shearwater
Pink‑footed Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Short‑tailed Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Fluttering Shearwater
Hutton's Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Little Shearwater
Wandering Albatross
Royal Albatross
Black‑browed Albatross
Shy Albatross
Grey‑headed Albatross
Yellow‑nosed Albatross
Buller's Albatross
Sooty Albatross
Light‑mantled Sooty Albatross
Wilson's Storm‑Petrel
Grey‑backed Storm‑Petrel
White‑faced Storm‑Petrel
Black‑bellied Storm‑Petrel
White‑bellied Storm‑Petrel
Leach's Storm‑Petrel
Matsudaira's Storm‑Petrel
Red‑tailed Tropicbird x
White‑tailed Tropicbird
Abbott’s Booby
Cape Gannet
Australasian Gannet x x
Masked Booby
Red‑footed Booby
Brown Booby
Darter x x x x
Little Pied Cormorant x x x x
Black‑faced Cormorant x x
Pied Cormorant x x x x
Little Black Cormorant x x x x
Great Cormorant x x x x
Imperial Shag
Australian Pelican x x x x
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Christmas Frigatebird
White‑faced Heron x x x x
Little Egret x x x x
Eastern Reef Egret x x
White-necked Heron x x x x
Great‑billed Heron x
Pied Heron
Great Egret x x x x
Intermediate Egret x x x x
Cattle Egret x x x x
Striated Heron x x
Black-crowned Night Heron
Nankeen Night Heron x x x
Malayan Night Heron
Javan Pond Heron ?
Little Bittern
Yellow Bittern
Black Bittern
Australasian Bittern
Glossy Ibis x x x
Australian White Ibis x x x x
Straw‑necked Ibis x x x x
Royal Spoonbill x x x x
Yellow‑billed Spoonbill x x x x
Black‑necked Stork x
Greater Flamingo
Osprey x x
Pacific Baza x
Black‑shouldered Kite x x x x
Letter‑winged Kite
Square‑tailed Kite x x
Black‑breasted Buzzard x
Black Kite x x x x
Whistling Kite x x x x
Brahminy Kite x x
White‑bellied Sea‑Eagle x x x x
Spotted Harrier x
Marsh Harrier x x x x
Brown Goshawk x
Grey Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk x
Red Goshawk
Gurney’s Eagle
Wedge‑tailed Eagle x x x x
Little Eagle x x
Brown Falcon x x x x
Australian Hobby x
Grey Falcon
Black Falcon
Peregrine Falcon x
Nankeen Kestrel x x x x
Sarus Crane x x
Brolga x x x
Red‑necked Crake
Red‑legged Crake
Buff‑banded Rail x x x
Lord Howe Woodhen
Lewin's Rail
Bush‑hen
White-breasted Waterhen
Baillon's Crake x
Australian Spotted Crake x x x
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Spotless Crake
White‑browed Crake x x
Chestnut Rail (heard)
Watercock
Purple Swamphen x x x x
Dusky Moorhen x x x x
Black‑tailed Native‑hen x x x
Tasmanian Native‑hen x
Eurasian Coot x x x x
Australian Bustard x
Red‑backed Button‑quail
Little Button‑quail
Red‑chested Button‑quail
Chestnut‑backed Button‑quail
Buff‑breasted Button‑quail
Painted Button‑quail x
Black‑breasted Button‑quail x
Plains‑wanderer
Latham's Snipe x x x
Pin‑tailed Snipe
Swinhoe's Snipe
Black‑tailed Godwit x x x x
Hudsonian Godwit
Bar‑tailed Godwit x x x x
Little Curlew x
Whimbrel x x x x
Eastern Curlew x x x x
Upland Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Common Redshank
Marsh Sandpiper x x x
Common Greenshank x x x x
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wood Sandpiper
Terek Sandpiper x x
Common Sandpiper x x
Grey‑tailed Tattler x x
Wandering Tattler
Ruddy Turnstone x x
Asian Dowitcher
Great Knot x x x
Red Knot x x
Sanderling x
Little Stint
Red‑necked Stint x x x x
Long‑toed Stint
White‑rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Sharp‑tailed Sandpiper x x x x
Dunlin
Curlew Sandpiper x x x
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff‑breasted Sandpiper
Broad‑billed Sandpiper
Ruff
Wilson's Phalarope
Red‑necked Phalarope x
Grey Phalarope
Painted Snipe
Comb‑crested Jacana x x
Pheasant‑tailed Jacana
Black-faced Sheathbill
Bush Stone-curlew x x
Beach Stone-curlew x x
Pied Oystercatcher x x x
Sooty Oystercatcher x x x
Black‑winged Stilt x x x x
Banded Stilt
Red‑necked Avocet x x x
Pacific Golden Plover x x x
Grey Plover x x
Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Red‑capped Plover x x x
Double‑banded Plover
Lesser Sand Plover x
Greater Sand Plover x
Caspian Plover
Oriental Plover
Inland Dotterel
Black‑fronted Dotterel x x x x
Hooded Plover x x
Red‑kneed Dotterel x x x x
Banded Lapwing x
Masked Lapwing x x x x
Oriental Pratincole
Australian Pratincole x
Great Skua
South Polar Skua
Pomarine Jaeger
Arctic Jaeger
Long‑tailed Jaeger
Pacific Gull x x
Black‑tailed Gull
Kelp Gull x x x
Silver Gull x x x x
Black‑headed Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Sabine's Gull
Gull‑billed Tern x x x
Caspian Tern x x x x
Lesser Crested Tern
Crested Tern x x x x
Roseate Tern
White‑fronted Tern
Black‑naped Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Antarctic Tern
Little Tern x x
Fairy Tern
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
Whiskered Tern x x x
White‑winged Black Tern
Black Tern
Common Noddy
Black Noddy
Lesser Noddy
Grey Ternlet
White Tern
Rock Dove x x x x
White‑headed Pigeon x
Laughing Turtle‑Dove x
Spotted Turtle‑Dove x x x x
Brown Cuckoo‑Dove x x x x
Emerald Dove x
Common Bronzewing x x x x
Brush Bronzewing x
Flock Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon x x x x
Spinifex Pigeon
Partridge Pigeon
Squatter Pigeon x
White‑quilled Rock‑Pigeon
Chestnut‑quilled Rock‑Pigeon
Diamond Dove x x
Peaceful Dove x x x x
Bar‑shouldered Dove x x x
Wonga Pigeon x x x x
Banded Fruit‑Dove
Wompoo Fruit‑Dove x
Superb Fruit‑Dove x
Rose‑crowned Fruit‑Dove
Elegant Imperial-Pigeon
Christmas Is Imperial-Pigeon
Collared Imperial-Pigeon
Pied Imperial‑Pigeon x
Topknot Pigeon x
New Zealand Pigeon
Palm Cockatoo
Red‑tailed Black‑Cockatoo x x
Glossy Black‑Cockatoo x
Yellow‑tailed Black‑Cockatoo x x
Short-billed Black‑Cockatoo x
Long-billed Black Cockatoo x
Gang‑gang Cockatoo x
Galah x x x x
Long‑billed Corella x x
Western Corella
Little Corella x x x x
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo x x
Sulphur‑crested Cockatoo x x x x
Cockatiel x x
Rainbow Lorikeet x x x x
Scaly‑breasted Lorikeet x x
Varied Lorikeet
Musk Lorikeet x
Little Lorikeet x x
Purple‑crowned Lorikeet x x
Eclectus Parrot
Red‑cheeked Parrot
Double‑eyed Fig‑Parrot x
Australian King-Parrot x x x x
Red‑winged Parrot x
Superb Parrot
Regent Parrot x x
Princess Parrot
Green Rosella x
Crimson Rosella x x x x
Eastern Rosella x x x x
Pale‑headed Rosella x x
Northern Rosella
Western Rosella x
Australian Ringneck x x
Red‑capped Parrot x
Blue Bonnet x
Swift Parrot
Red‑rumped Parrot x x x
Mulga Parrot
Golden‑shouldered Parrot
Hooded Parrot
Paradise Parrot
Red-crowned Parakeet
Budgerigar x x
Bourke's Parrot
Blue‑winged Parrot x
Elegant Parrot x
Rock Parrot x
Orange‑bellied Parrot
Turquoise Parrot x x
Scarlet‑chested Parrot
Ground Parrot x
Night Parrot
Oriental Cuckoo
Pallid Cuckoo x x x
Brush Cuckoo x
Chestnut‑breasted Cuckoo
Fan‑tailed Cuckoo x x x x
Black‑eared Cuckoo
Horsfield's Bronze‑Cuckoo x x x
Shining Bronze‑Cuckoo x x
Little Bronze‑Cuckoo
Gould's Bronze‑Cuckoo
Common Koel x
Long-tailed Cuckoo
Channel‑billed Cuckoo x
Pheasant Coucal x
Powerful Owl
Rufous Owl
Barking Owl
Southern Boobook
Brown Hawk‑Owl
Moluccan Hawk‑Owl
Sooty Owl
Lesser Sooty Owl
Masked Owl
Barn Owl
Grass Owl
Tawny Frogmouth x x
Papuan Frogmouth x
Marbled Frogmouth
White‑throated Nightjar
Spotted Nightjar
Large‑tailed Nightjar
Savanna Nightjar
Australian Owlet‑nightjar
Glossy Swiftlet
White‑rumped Swiftlet x
Uniform Swiftlet
White‑throated Needletail
Fork‑tailed Swift
House Swift
Azure Kingfisher x x x
Little Kingfisher
Buff‑breasted Par‑Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra x x x x
Blue‑winged Kookaburra x
Yellow‑billed Kingfisher
Forest Kingfisher x
Red‑backed Kingfisher
Sacred Kingfisher x x x
Collared Kingfisher x
Rainbow Bee‑eater x x x x
Dollarbird x x
Red‑bellied Pitta
Blue‑winged Pitta
Noisy Pitta x
Rainbow Pitta
Albert's Lyrebird x
Superb Lyrebird x x x
Rufous Scrub‑bird
Noisy Scrub‑bird
White‑throated Treecreeper x x x x
White‑browed Treecreeper
Red‑browed Treecreeper
Brown Treecreeper x x x
Black‑tailed Treecreeper
Rufous Treecreeper x
Purple‑crowned Fairy‑wren
Superb Fairy‑wren x x x x
Splendid Fairy‑wren x x
Variegated Fairy‑wren x x
Lovely Fairy-wren
Blue‑breasted Fairy‑wren x
Red‑winged Fairy‑wren x
White‑winged Fairy‑wren x
Red‑backed Fairy‑wren x x
Southern Emu‑wren
Mallee Emu‑wren
Rufous‑crowned Emu‑wren
Grey Grasswren
Black Grasswren
White‑throated Grasswren
Carpentarian Grasswren
Striated Grasswren
Eyrean Grasswren
Thick‑billed Grasswren
Dusky Grasswren
Spotted Pardalote x x x x
Forty‑spotted Pardalote x
Red‑browed Pardalote
Striated Pardalote x x x x
Eastern Bristlebird
Western Bristlebird
Rufous Bristlebird x
Pilotbird
Rockwarbler x
Fernwren x
Yellow‑throated Scrubwren x x
White‑browed Scrubwren x x x x
Tasmanian Scrubwren x
Atherton Scrubwren x
Large‑billed Scrubwren x x
Tropical Scrubwren
Scrubtit
Chestnut‑rumped Heathwren
Shy Heathwren
Striated Fieldwren x x
Rufous Fieldwren
Redthroat x
Speckled Warbler x x
Weebill x x
Brown Gerygone x x x
Norfolk Island Gerygone
Dusky Gerygone
Mangrove Gerygone x
Western Gerygone x
Large‑billed Gerygone x
Green‑backed Gerygone
Fairy Gerygone
White‑throated Gerygone x x
Mountain Thornbill x
Brown Thornbill x x x x
Inland Thornbill x
Tasmanian Thornbill x
Chestnut‑rumped Thornbill x
Slaty‑backed Thornbill
Western Thornbill x
Buff‑rumped Thornbill x
Slender‑billed Thornbill
Yellow‑rumped Thornbill x x
Yellow Thornbill x x
Striated Thornbill x x x
Southern Whiteface x
Chestnut‑breasted Whiteface
Banded Whiteface
Red Wattlebird x x x
Yellow Wattlebird x
Little (Western) Wattlebird x
Little (Brush) Wattlebird x x x x
Spiny‑cheeked Honeyeater x x x
Striped Honeyeater x x
Helmeted Friarbird x x
Silver‑crowned Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird x x x x
Little Friarbird x x x
Regent Honeyeater x
Blue‑faced Honeyeater x x
Bell Miner x x x
Noisy Miner x x x x
Yellow‑throated Miner x x x x
Black‑eared Miner
Macleay's Honeyeater x x
Tawny‑breasted Honeyeater
Lewin's Honeyeater x x x x
Yellow‑spotted Honeyeater x
Graceful Honeyeater x
White‑lined Honeyeater
Bridled Honeyeater x
Eungella Honeyeater
Yellow‑faced Honeyeater x x x x
Singing Honeyeater x x x
Varied Honeyeater x
Mangrove Honeyeater x
White‑gaped Honeyeater x
Yellow Honeyeater x x
White‑eared Honeyeater x x x
Yellow‑throated Honeyeater x
Yellow‑tufted Honeyeater x x
Purple‑gaped Honeyeater x x
Grey‑headed Honeyeater
Yellow‑plumed Honeyeater x
Grey‑fronted Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater x x x
Yellow‑tinted Honeyeater
White‑plumed Honeyeater x x x x
Black‑chinned Honeyeater x
Strong‑billed Honeyeater x
Brown‑headed Honeyeater x x
White‑throated Honeyeater x x
White‑naped Honeyeater x x x
Black‑headed Honeyeater x
Green‑backed Honeyeater
Brown Honeyeater x x x
White‑streaked Honeyeater
Painted Honeyeater
Crescent Honeyeater x
New Holland Honeyeater x x x x
White‑cheeked Honeyeater x x x
White‑fronted Honeyeater
Tawny‑crowned Honeyeater x
Brown‑backed Honeyeater x x
Bar‑breasted Honeyeater
Rufous‑banded Honeyeater
Rufous‑throated Honeyeater x
Grey Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill x x x x
Western Spinebill x
Banded Honeyeater
Black Honeyeater x
Pied Honeyeater x
Dusky Honeyeater x
Red-headed Honeyeater
Scarlet Honeyeater x x x
Crimson Chat x
Orange Chat
Yellow Chat
White‑fronted Chat x x x
Gibberbird
Jacky Winter x x x
Lemon‑bellied Flycatcher x
Yellow‑legged Flycatcher
Scarlet Robin x
Red‑capped Robin x x
Flame Robin x x
Rose Robin x
Pink Robin
Hooded Robin x x x
Dusky Robin x
Pale‑yellow Robin x x
White‑faced Robin
Eastern Yellow Robin x x x x
Western Yellow Robin x
White‑breasted Robin x
Mangrove Robin x
White‑browed Robin x
Grey‑headed Robin x x
Northern Scrub‑robin
Southern Scrub‑robin
Logrunner x
Chowchilla x
Grey‑crowned Babbler x x
White‑browed Babbler x x
Hall's Babbler
Chestnut‑crowned Babbler x
Eastern Whipbird x x x x
Western Whipbird
Chirruping Wedgebill
Chiming Wedgebill
Spotted Quail‑thrush
Chestnut Quail‑thrush
Cinnamon Quail‑thrush
Chestnut‑breast Quail‑thrush
Varied Sittella x x
Crested Shrike‑tit x
Crested Bellbird x x
Olive Whistler
Red‑lored Whistler
Gilbert's Whistler
Golden Whistler x x x x
Mangrove Golden Whistler
Grey Whistler x
Rufous Whistler x x x x
White‑breasted Whistler
Little Shrike‑thrush x
Bower's Shrike‑thrush x
Sandstone Shrike‑thrush
Grey Shrike‑thrush x x x x
Yellow‑breasted Boatbill x
Black‑faced Monarch x x x
Black‑winged Monarch
Spectacled Monarch x
White‑eared Monarch
Frilled Monarch
Pied Monarch x
Broad‑billed Flycatcher
Leaden Flycatcher x x x
Satin Flycatcher x
Shining Flycatcher x x
Restless Flycatcher x x x x
Magpie-lark x x x x
Rufous Fantail x x
Grey Fantail x x x x
Mangrove Grey Fantail
Northern Fantail x
Willie Wagtail x x x x
Spangled Drongo x x
Black‑faced Cuckoo‑shrike x x x x
Barred Cuckoo‑shrike x
White‑bellied Cuckoo‑shrike x
Cicadabird
Ground Cuckoo‑shrike x
White‑winged Triller x x
Varied Triller x
Yellow Oriole x x
Olive‑backed Oriole x x x x
Figbird x x
White‑breasted Woodswallow x x x
Masked Woodswallow x x x x
White‑browed Woodswallow x x x x
Black‑faced Woodswallow x x x
Dusky Woodswallow x x x x
Little Woodswallow x
Black Butcherbird x x
Grey Butcherbird x x x x
Black‑backed Butcherbird
Pied Butcherbird x x x x
Australian Magpie x x x x
Pied Currawong x x x x
Black Currawong x
Grey Currawong x x
Paradise Riflebird
Victoria's Riflebird x x
Magnificent Riflebird
Trumpet Manucode
Australian Raven x x x x
Forest Raven x
Little Raven x x
Little Crow x
Torresian Crow x x
White‑winged Chough x x x
Apostlebird x x
Spotted Catbird x x
Green Catbird x x
Tooth‑billed Bowerbird x
Golden Bowerbird
Regent Bowerbird x x
Satin Bowerbird x x x x
Spotted Bowerbird x
Western Bowerbird x
Great Bowerbird x
Fawn‑breasted Bowerbird
Singing Bushlark x x
Skylark x x
Richard's Pipit x x x
Red‑throated Pipit
Yellow Wagtail
Citrine Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
White Wagtail
Black‑backed Wagtail
House Sparrow x x x x
Eurasian Tree Sparrow x
Zebra Finch x x x
Double-barred Finch x x x
Long‑tailed Finch
Black‑throated Finch x
Masked Finch
Crimson Finch x x
Star Finch
Plum‑headed Finch
Red‑browed Finch x x x x
Diamond Firetail x x
Beautiful Firetail
Red‑eared Firetail x
Painted Finch
Nutmeg Mannikin x
Yellow‑rumped Mannikin
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin x
Java Sparrow
Pictorella Mannikin
Blue‑faced Parrot-Finch
Gouldian Finch
Common Chaffinch
European Greenfinch x x
European Goldfinch x x
Common Redpoll
Yellowhammer
Yellow‑bellied Sunbird x x
Mistletoebird x x x x
White‑backed Swallow x
Barn Swallow
Pacific Swallow
Welcome Swallow x x x x
Red‑rumped Swallow
Tree Martin x x x x
Fairy Martin x x x x
Red‑whiskered Bulbul x x
Clamorous Reed‑warbler x x x x
Oriental Reed‑warbler
Arctic Warbler
Tawny Grassbird x
Little Grassbird x x x
Spinifexbird
Rufous Songlark x x x
Brown Songlark x
Zitting Cisticola
Golden‑headed Cisticola x x x
Christmas Island White-eye
Pale White‑eye
Yellow White‑eye x
Silvereye x x x x
Slender-billed White‑eye
White-chested White‑eye
Bassian Thrush x
Russet-tailed Thrush x
Common Blackbird x x
Island Thrush
Song Thrush
Metallic Starling x
Common Starling x x x x
Common Myna x x x x
trip totals 218 206 266 288
Total Aussie list now 425 species