The Birds of Boigu, Saibai and Dauan Islands (the Top Western group of Torres Strait

Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea but Torres Strait Island known and Recognize as Nyumaria.The islands are mostly part of...

), are of particular interest to Australian birders because the islands are home to, and visited by, birds which are essentially New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

 species not found, or only occasionally seen as vagrants, elsewhere on Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n territory. The islands lie only a few kilometres from the mainland of New Guinea, though they are politically part of the state of Queensland, Australia.

Boigu and Saibai are low-lying alluvial

Alluvium

Alluvium is loose, unconsolidated soil or sediments, eroded, deposited, and reshaped by water in some form in a non-marine setting. Alluvium is typically made up of a variety of materials, including fine particles of silt and clay and larger particles of sand and gravel...

 islands of swampland

Swampland

In physics, the term swampland is used in contrast to the term "landscape," to indicate physical theories or aspects of such theories which could be true if gravity wasn't an issue, but which are not compatible with string theory...

 and mangroves, subject to periodic flooding, while Dauan is a smaller but higher granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 island. From an Australian birder's perspective, local bird specialities include Grey-headed Goshawk

Grey-headed Goshawk

The Grey-headed Goshawk, Accipiter poliocephalus, is a lightly built, medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.-Identification:...

, Gurney's Eagle

Gurney's Eagle

Gurney's Eagle, Aquila gurneyi, is a large eagle in the family Accipitridae. It is found on New Guinea and adjacent smaller islands.-Description:...

, Rufous-bellied Kookaburra

Rufous-bellied Kookaburra

The Rufous-bellied Kookaburra is a species of kookaburra which is widely distributed through the forests of lowland New Guinea...

, Collared Imperial-Pigeon

Collared Imperial-pigeon

The Collared Imperial Pigeon, , is a large pigeon with grey upperparts and largely grey-pink underparts, distinguished by a striking and diagnostic complete black collar against an otherwise white throat.-Distribution:Northern and southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands...

, Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove

Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove

The Orange-bellied Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus iozonus, is a small pigeon with mainly green plumage, distinguished by a large orange patch on the lower breast and belly, a small lilac shoulder patch, pale yellow undertail coverts, and a grey terminal band on the tail.-Distribution and habitat:The dove...

, Papuan Needletail

Papuan Needletail

The Papuan Spine-tailed Swift , also known as the Papuan Needletail, New Guinea Spine-tailed Swift or Papua Spinetail, is a small , stocky swift with a short, rounded tail and very fast flight. Head and upperparts glossy blue-black, white or whitish belly and undertail coverts, dark underwing with...

, Red-capped Flowerpecker

Red-capped Flowerpecker

The Red-capped Flowerpecker is a small passerine bird endemic to, and widespread within, New Guinea and adjacent islands...

, Streak-headed Mannikin

Streak-headed Mannikin

The Streak-headed Mannikin Lonchura tristissima, also known as the Streak-headed Munia, and including the White-spotted Mannikin The Streak-headed Mannikin Lonchura tristissima, also known as the Streak-headed Munia, and including the White-spotted Mannikin The Streak-headed Mannikin Lonchura...

 and Singing Starling

Singing Starling

The Singing Starling Aplonis cantoroides is a medium-sized starling.-Description:Adult Singing Starlings have glossy black plumage and bright red irises. Immature birds are paler, with streaked underparts and brown irises...

.

Access

Access to these islands is not easy. Permission to visit is required from the island councils. The few birders who visit, do so on pre-organised trips by chartered yacht or, occasionally, on day-trips by chartered light aircraft. Saibai and Boigu have airstrips.

List of birds

The following list is annotated with initials indicating which species have been recorded on the three islands. Because these islands have not been thoroughly surveyed or regularly monitored by birders, it is very likely that the list underestimates the number of species breeding on or visiting them.

• Megapodidae
  • Orange-footed Scrubfowl
    Orange-footed Scrubfowl
    The Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt, is a small megapode of the family Megapodiidae.This species comprises five subspecies found on many islands in Wallacea as well as southern New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a terrestrial bird the size of a domestic chicken and dark-coloured...
    
    , Megapodius reinwardt - B-S
• Anseranatidae
  Anseranatidae
  Anseranatidae, the magpie-geese, is a biological family of waterbirds. It is a unique member of the order Anseriformes. The only living species, the Magpie Goose, is a resident breeder in northern Australia and in southern New Guinea....
  
  
  • Magpie Goose, Anseranas semipalmata - B-S
• Anatidae
  Anatidae
  Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...
  
  
  • Pacific Black Duck
    Pacific Black Duck
    The Pacific Black Duck is a dabbling duck found in much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east. It is usually called the Grey Duck in New Zealand...
    
    , Anas superciliosa - B-S
  • Wandering Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygna arcuata - B-S
  • Spotted Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygna guttata - B
  • Radjah Shelduck
    Radjah Shelduck
    The Raja Shelduck or Radjah Shelduck , also known as the Burdekin Duck in Australia, is a species of shelduck. Placed in the genus Tadorna, it differs markedly in external morphology, and mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data suggests its status should be reinvestigated...
    
    , Tadorna radjah - B-S
• Podicipedidae
  • Australasian Grebe
    Australasian Grebe
    The Australasian Grebe is a tiny waterbird common on fresh water lakes and rivers in greater Australia, New Zealand and on nearby Pacific islands. At 25-27 cm in length, it is one of the smallest members of the grebe family...
    
    , Tachybaptus novaehollandiae - S
• Phalacrocoracidae
  • Little Pied Cormorant
    Little Pied Cormorant
    The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic...
    
    , Phalacrocorax melanoleucos - S
  • Little Black Cormorant
    Little Black Cormorant
    The Little Black Cormorant is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It is common in smaller rivers and lakes throughout most areas of Australia and northern New Zealand. It is around sixty centimetres long, and is all black with blue-green eyes.-References: Database entry includes...
    
    , Phalacrocorax sulcirostris - B
• Pelecanidae
  • Australian Pelican
    Australian Pelican
    The Australian Pelican is a large water bird, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand.-Taxonomy:...
    
    , Pelecanus conspicillatus - B-D-S
• Fregatidae
  • Lesser Frigatebird
    Lesser Frigatebird
    The Lesser Frigatebird, Fregata ariel, is a species of frigatebird.It nests in Australia, among other locations.There is a single record from the Western Palearctic, from Eilat in the Gulf of Aqaba....
    
    , Fregata ariel - S
• Ardeidae
  • Great Egret
    Great Egret
    The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret, White Heron, or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized...
    
    , Ardea alba - B-D-S
  • Cattle Egret
    Cattle Egret
    The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species, the Western Cattle Egret and the Eastern Cattle Egret...
    
    , Ardea ibis - S
  • Intermediate Egret
    Intermediate Egret
    The Intermediate Egret, Median Egret, or Yellow-billed Egret is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder from east Africa across tropical southern Asia to Australia. It often nests in colonies with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs...
    
    , Ardea intermedia - S
  • Pied Heron
    Pied Heron
    The Pied Heron , also known as the Pied Egret is a bird found in coastal and subcoastal areas of monsoonal northern Australia as well as some parts of Wallacea and New Guinea.-Taxonomy:...
    
    , Ardea picata - B-D-S
  • Great-billed Heron
    Great-billed Heron
    The Great-billed Heron, Ardea sumatrana is a wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia. Its habitats are largely coastal such as islands, coral reefs, mangroves, large rivers. However, occasionally, it can be found inland in shallow...
    
    , Ardea sumatrana - B-S
  • Striated Heron
    Striated Heron
    The Striated Heron, Butorides striata, also known as Mangrove Heron, Little Heron or Green-backed Heron, is a small heron. Striated Herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to...
    
    , Butorides striatus - B-S
  • Little Egret
    Little Egret
    The Little Egret is a small white heron. It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World Snowy Egret.-Subspecies:Depending on authority, two or three subspecies of Little Egret are currently accepted....
    
    , Egretta garzetta - B-S
  • White-faced Heron
    White-faced Heron
    The White-faced Heron, Egretta novaehollandiae, also known as the White-fronted Heron, and incorrectly as the Grey Heron, or Blue Crane, is a common bird throughout most of Australasia, including New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand, the islands of the Subantarctic, and...
    
    , Egretta novaehollandiae - B-D-S
  • Eastern Reef Egret
    Eastern Reef Egret
    The Eastern Reef Heron , also known as the Pacific Reef Egret or Eastern Reef Egret, is a kind of heron. They are found in many areas of Asia including the oceanic region of India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Polynesia, and in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.Pacific Reef Herons are medium-sized...
    
    , Egretta sacra - B-D-S
  • Black Bittern
    Black Bittern
    The Black Bittern, Ixobrychus flavicollis, is a bittern of Old World origin, breeding in tropical Asia from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka east to China, Indonesia and Australia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds migrate short distances....
    
    , Ixobrychus flavicollis - S
  • Nankeen Night Heron
    Nankeen Night Heron
    The Nankeen Night Heron, Nycticorax caledonicus, also commonly referred to as the Rufous Night Heron, and in Melanesia as Melabaob, is a medium-sized heron. It is found throughout much of Australia except the arid inland, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia...
    
    , Nycticorax caledonicus - B-D-S
• Threskiornithidae
  Threskiornithidae
  The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills. It was formerly known as Plataleidae. The spoonbills and ibises were once thought to be related to other groups of long-legged wading birds in the...
  
  
  • Royal Spoonbill
    Royal Spoonbill
    The Royal Spoonbill, Platalea regia, also known as the Black-billed Spoonbill, occurs in intertidal flats and shallows of fresh and saltwater wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. It has also been recorded as a vagrant in New Caledonia...
    
    , Platalea regia - B
  • Glossy Ibis
    Glossy Ibis
    The Glossy Ibis is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean region of the Americas...
    
    , Plegadis falcinellus - S
  • Australian White Ibis
    Australian White Ibis
    The Australian White Ibis , is a wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae. It is widespread across much of Australia...
    
    , Threskiornis molucca - B
  • Straw-necked Ibis
    Straw-necked Ibis
    The Straw-necked Ibis is a bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. It can be found throughout Australia, New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia. Adults have distinctive straw-like feathers on their neck....
    
    , Threskiornis spinicollis - S
• Ciconiidae
  • Black-necked Stork
    Black-necked Stork
    The Black-necked Stork is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family. It is a resident species across South and Southeast Asia with a disjunct population in Australia. It lives in wetland habitats to forage for a wide range of animal prey...
    
    , Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus - B-S
• Accipitridae
  Accipitridae
  The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...
  
  
  • Collared Sparrowhawk
    Collared Sparrowhawk
    The Collared Sparrowhawk is a small, slim bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found in Australia, and New Guinea and nearby smaller islands.- Description :...
    
    , Accipiter cirrocephalus - S
  • Brown Goshawk
    Brown Goshawk
    The Brown Goshawk is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found in Australia and surrounding islands.- Description:...
    
    , Accipiter fasciatus - S
  • Grey-headed Goshawk
    Grey-headed Goshawk
    The Grey-headed Goshawk, Accipiter poliocephalus, is a lightly built, medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.-Identification:...
    
    , Accipiter poliocephalus - S (not accepted by Birds Australia Rarities Committee)
  • Gurney's Eagle
    Gurney's Eagle
    Gurney's Eagle, Aquila gurneyi, is a large eagle in the family Accipitridae. It is found on New Guinea and adjacent smaller islands.-Description:...
    
    , Aquila gurneyi - B-S
  • Pacific Baza
    Pacific Baza
    The Pacific Baza, Aviceda subcristata, also known as the Crested Hawk, is a slender, medium-sized hawk with a distinctive crest. Its upperside is mainly dark brown, with a grey head and yellow eyes. It is conspicuously barred white and dark brown on the breast and on the underside of the tail and...
    
    , Aviceda subcristata - B-D
  • Swamp Harrier
    Swamp Harrier
    The Swamp Harrier also known as the Marsh Harrier, Australasian Harrier, Kāhu, Swamp-hawk or New Zealand Hawk is a large, slim bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.-Description:...
    
    , Circus approximans - B-D-S
  • White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Haliaeetus leucogaster - B-S
  • Brahminy Kite
    Brahminy Kite
    The Brahminy Kite , also known as the Red-backed Sea-eagle, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards and harriers. They are found in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia...
    
    , Haliastur indus - B-D
  • Whistling Kite
    Whistling Kite
    The Whistling Kite is a medium-sized diurnal raptor found throughout Australia , New Caledonia and much of New Guinea . Also called the Whistling Eagle or Whistling Hawk, it is named for its loud whistling call, which it often gives in flight...
    
    , Haliastur sphenurus - B-S
  • Black Kite
    Black Kite
    The Black Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors. Unlike others of the group, they are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge. They spend a lot of time soaring and gliding in thermals in search of food. Their...
    
    , Milvus migrans - S
  • Osprey
    Osprey
    The Osprey , sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than in length and across the wings...
    
    , Pandion haliaetus - B-S
• Falconidae
  Falconidae
  The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...
  
  
  • Nankeen Kestrel
    Nankeen Kestrel
    The Australian Kestrel or Nankeen Kestrel is one of the smallest falcons, and unlike many, does not rely on speed to catch its prey. Instead, it simply perches in an exposed position, but it also has a distinctive technique of hovering over crop and grasslands...
    
    , Falco cenchroides - B-D-S
  • Australian Hobby
    Australian Hobby
    The Australian Hobby or Little Falcon is a falcon found mainly in Australia. It is also a winter migrant to Indonesia and New Guinea...
    
    , Falco longipennis - B-D-S
  • Peregrine Falcon
    Peregrine Falcon
    The Peregrine Falcon , also known as the Peregrine, and historically as the Duck Hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache"...
    
    , Falco peregrinus - B
• Gruidae
  • Brolga
    Brolga
    The Brolga , formerly known as the "Native Companion", is a bird in the crane family. The bird has also been given the name "Australian Crane", a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithological artist John Gould in his Birds of Australia.The Brolga is a common gregarious wetland bird species in...
    
    , Grus rubicunda - S
• Rallidae
  Rallidae
  The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...
  
  
  • Chestnut Rail
    Chestnut Rail
    The Chestnut Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. The Chestnut Rail is monotypical of its genus.It is found in Australia and Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
    
    , Eulabeornis castaneoventris - B
  • Buff-banded Rail
    Buff-banded Rail
    The Buff-banded Rail, Gallirallus philippensis is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the family Rallidae....
    
    , Gallirallus philippensis - B-D-S
  • Purple Swamphen
    Purple Swamphen
    The Purple Swamphen , also known as the African Purple Swamphen, Purple Moorhen, Purple Gallinule, Pūkeko or Purple Coot, is a large bird in the family Rallidae . From its name in French, talève sultane, it is also known as the Sultana Bird...
    
    , Porphyrio porphyrio - S
  • White-browed Crake
    White-browed Crake
    The White-browed Crake is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.Its natural...
    
    , Porzana cinerea - B-S
• Turnicidae
  • Red-backed Button-quail
    Red-backed Button-quail
    The Red-backed Buttonquail is a species of bird in the Turnicidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Solomon Islands.-References:...
    
    , Turnix maculosa - B-D-S
  • Red-chested Button-quail, Turnix pyrrhothorax - S – (old record)
• Scolopacidae
  Scolopacidae
  The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...
  
  
  • Common Sandpiper
    Common Sandpiper
    The Common Sandpiper is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the Spotted Sandpiper , make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize...
    
    , Actitis hypoleucos - B-S
  • Ruddy Turnstone
    Ruddy Turnstone
    The Ruddy Turnstone is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae...
    
    , Arenaria interpres - D
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
    Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
    The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Calidris acuminata is a small wader.- Taxonomy :More recently, a review of new data has indicated that this bird should perhaps better be placed into the genus Philomachus- as P...
    
    , Calidris acuminata - S
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
    Pectoral Sandpiper
    The Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, is a small wader. It is sometimes separated with the "stint" sandpipers in Erolia. This may or may not represent a good monophyletic group, depending on the placement of the phylogenetically enigmatic Curlew Sandpiper , the type species of Erolia...
    
    , Calidris melanotos - B
  • Red-necked Stint
    Red-necked Stint
    The Red-necked Stint is a small migratory wader.- Description :These birds are among the smallest of waders, very similar to the Little Stint, Calidris minuta, with which they were once considered conspecific...
    
    , Calidris ruficollis - S
  • Great Knot
    Great Knot
    The Great Knot, Calidris tenuirostris, is a small wader. It is the largest of the calidrid species.Their breeding habitat is tundra in northeast Siberia. They nest on the ground laying about four eggs in a ground scrape. They are strongly migratory wintering on coasts in southern Asia through to...
    
    , Calidris tenuirostris - S
  • Latham's Snipe
    Latham's Snipe
    Latham's Snipe, Gallinago hardwickii, also known as Japanese Snipe, is a medium-sized , long-billed, migratory wader.-Identification:...
    
    , Gallinago hardwickii - B
  • Swinhoe's Snipe
    Swinhoe's Snipe
    Swinhoe's Snipe, Gallinago megala, also known as Forest Snipe or Chinese Snipe, is a medium-sized , long-billed, migratory wader.-Identification:...
    
    , Gallinago megala - B-S
  • Grey-tailed Tattler
    Grey-tailed Tattler
    The Grey-tailed Tattler, Tringa brevipes , is a small shorebird.- Description :...
    
    , Heteroscelus brevipes - B-D-S
  • Wandering Tattler
    Wandering Tattler
    The Wandering Tattler, Tringa incana , is a medium-sized wading bird. It is similar in appearance to the closely related Gray-tailed Tattler, T. brevipes...
    
    , Heteroscelus incanus - D
  • Eastern Curlew, Numenius madagascariensis - B-S
  • Whimbrel
    Whimbrel
    The Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the mostwidespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America, Europe and Asia as far south as Scotland....
    
    , Numenius phaeopus - B-D-S
  • Little Curlew
    Little Curlew
    The Little Curlew, Numenius minutus, is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It is a very small curlew, which breeds in the far north of Siberia. It is closely related to the North American Eskimo Curlew....
    
    , Numenius minutus - B-S
  • Wood Sandpiper
    Wood Sandpiper
    The Wood Sandpiper, Tringa glareola, is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae.- Description and systematics :...
    
    , Tringa glareola - B
  • Common Greenshank, Tringa nebularia - B-S
  • Marsh Sandpiper
    Marsh Sandpiper
    The Marsh Sandpiper, Tringa stagnatilis, is a small wader. It is a rather small shank, and breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia....
    
    , Tringa stagnatilis - B-S
• Burhinidae
  • Beach Stone-Curlew
    Beach Stone-curlew
    The Beach Stone-curlew, Esacus giganteus also known as Beach Thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird that occurs in Australasia, the islands of South-east Asia...
    
    , Esacus neglectus - D
• Recurvirostridae
  Recurvirostridae
  Recurvirostridae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets and the stilts .-Description and diet:...
  
  
  • Black-winged Stilt
    Black-winged Stilt
    The Black-winged Stilt or Common Stilt is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family . Opinions differ as to whether the birds treated under the scientific name H. himantopus ought to be treated as a single species and if not, how many species to recognize...
    
    , Himantopus himantopus - S
• Charadriidae
  Charadriidae
  The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.- Morphology :They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings, but most species of lapwing may have more rounded wings...
  
  
  • Grey Plover
    Grey Plover
    The Grey Plover , known as the Black-bellied Plover in North America, is a medium-sized plover breeding in arctic regions. It is a long-distance migrant, with a nearly worldwide coastal distribution when not breeding....
    
    , Pluvialis squatarola - D
  • Greater Sand Plover
    Greater Sand Plover
    The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as "Greater sandplover", but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater sand plover"....
    
    , Charadrius leschenaultii - D-S
  • Lesser Sand Plover
    Lesser Sand Plover
    The Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as Lesser Sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is Lesser Sand Plover....
    
    , Charadrius mongolus - B-D-S
  • Oriental Plover
    Oriental Plover
    The Oriental Plover, Charadrius veredus, also known as the Oriental Dotterel, is a medium-sized Charadriine plover closely related to the Caspian Plover.- Description :...
    
    , Charadrius veredus - S
  • Masked Lapwing
    Masked Lapwing
    The Masked Lapwing , previously known as the Masked Plover and often called the Spur-winged Plover or just Plover in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent...
    
    , Vanellus miles - B-S
• Glareolidae
  Glareolidae
  Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The coursers include the atypical Egyptian Plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, which has sometimes been placed in its own family...
  
  
  • Australian Pratincole
    Australian Pratincole
    The Australian Pratincole is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family, found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea....
    
    , Stiltia isabella - B-S
• Laridae
  • Whiskered Tern
    Whiskered Tern
    The Whiskered Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and minor plumage details....
    
    , Chlidonias hybridus - S
  • White-winged Black Tern, Chlidonias leucopterus - B
  • Silver Gull
    Silver Gull
    The Silver Gull also known simply as "seagull" in Australia, is the most common gull seen in Australia. It has been found throughout the continent, but particularly coastal areas. The South African Hartlaub's Gull and the New Zealand Red-billed Gull The Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus...
    
    , Larus novaehollandiae - S
  • Little Tern
    Little Tern
    The Little Tern, Sternula albifrons or Sterna albifrons, is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It was formerly placed into the genus Sterna, which now is restricted to the large white terns . The former North American and Red Sea S. a...
    
    , Sterna albifrons - B-D-S
  • Bridled Tern
    Bridled Tern
    The Bridled Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans.-Description:...
    
    , Sterna anaethetus
  • Lesser Crested Tern
    Lesser Crested Tern
    The Lesser Crested Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae...
    
    , Sterna bengalensis - B
  • Crested Tern, Sterna bergii - B
  • Caspian Tern
    Caspian Tern
    The Caspian Tern is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic of its genus, and has no subspecies accepted either...
    
    , Sterna caspia - B-S
  • Roseate Tern
    Roseate Tern
    The Roseate Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in bill colour and minor plumage details....
    
    , Sterna dougallii - S
  • Sooty Tern
    Sooty Tern
    The Sooty Tern, Onychoprion fuscatus , is a seabird of the tern family . It is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands throughout the equatorial zone. Colloquially, it is known as the Wideawake Tern or just wideawake...
    
    , Sterna fuscata - D
  • Gull-billed Tern
    Gull-billed Tern
    The Gull-billed Tern formerly Sterna nilotica , is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae...
    
    , Sterna nilotica - B-S
  • Black-naped Tern
    Black-naped Tern
    The Black-naped Tern is an oceanic tern mostly found in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is rarely found inland....
    
    , Sterna sumatrana
• Columbidae
  • Emerald Dove
    Emerald Dove
    The Common Emerald Dove is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and east through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, to northern and eastern Australia. The dove is also known by the names of Green Dove and...
    
    , Chalcophaps indica - D
  • Peaceful Dove
    Peaceful Dove
    The Peaceful Dove is a pigeon native to Australia and New Guinea. It is closely related to the Zebra Dove of south-east Asia and the Barred Dove of eastern Indonesia...
    
    , Geopelia striata - S
  • Bar-shouldered Dove
    Bar-shouldered Dove
    The Bar-shouldered Dove is native to Australia.It is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. It is a medium sized pigeon varying in size from 26 to 30 centimetres...
    
    , Geopelia humeralis - B-S
  • Superb Fruit-Dove
    Superb Fruit-Dove
    The Superb Fruit Dove , also known as the Purple-crowned Fruit Dove , is a medium-sized , colourful fruit-dove in the family Columbidae....
    
    , Ptilinopus superbus - S
  • Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
    Rose-crowned Fruit-dove
    The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus regina, also known as Pink-capped Fruit Dove or Swainson's Fruit Dove, is a medium-sized, up to 22 cm long, green fruit dove with a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange iris, and greyish green bill and feet. It has a...
    
    , Ptilinopus regina - B-D-S
  • Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove
    Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove
    The Orange-bellied Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus iozonus, is a small pigeon with mainly green plumage, distinguished by a large orange patch on the lower breast and belly, a small lilac shoulder patch, pale yellow undertail coverts, and a grey terminal band on the tail.-Distribution and habitat:The dove...
    
    , Ptilinopus iozonus - B
  • Collared Imperial-Pigeon
    Collared Imperial-pigeon
    The Collared Imperial Pigeon, , is a large pigeon with grey upperparts and largely grey-pink underparts, distinguished by a striking and diagnostic complete black collar against an otherwise white throat.-Distribution:Northern and southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands...
    
    , Ducula mullerii - B-S
  • Torresian Imperial-pigeon
    Torresian Imperial-pigeon
    The Torresian Imperial Pigeon , also known as the Nutmeg Pigeon or Torres Strait Pigeon, is a relatively large, pied species of pigeon...
    
    , Ducula spilorrhoa - B-D-S
  • Topknot Pigeon
    Topknot Pigeon
    The Topknot Pigeon is a pigeon native to Australia. It is also known by the name of "Flock Pigeon".-Description:...
    
    , Lopholaimus antarcticus - S
• Psittacidae
  • Eclectus Parrot
    Eclectus Parrot
    The Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus, is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, Sumba, New Guinea and nearby islands, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands...
    
    , Eclectus roratus - B-D-S
  • Red-cheeked Parrot
    Red-cheeked Parrot
    The Red-cheeked Parrot is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the tip of northern Australia. There are 16 subspecies currently recognized. It is a stocky short-tailed parrot with predominantly green plumage...
    
    , Geoffroyus geoffroyi - B
  • Rainbow Lorikeet
    Rainbow Lorikeet
    The Rainbow Lorikeet, is a species of Australasian parrot found in Australia, eastern Indonesia , Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In Australia, it is common along the eastern seaboard, from Queensland to South Australia and northwest Tasmania...
    
    , Trichoglossus haematodus - B-S
• Cuculidae
  • Fan-tailed Cuckoo
    Fan-tailed Cuckoo
    The Fan-tailed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.-Habitat:...
    
    , Cacomantis flabelliformis
  • Brush Cuckoo
    Brush Cuckoo
    The Brush Cuckoo, Cacomantis variolosus, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin....
    
    , Cacomantis variolosus - B-S
  • Shining Bronze Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx lucidus - S
  • Little Bronze Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx minutillus - B-D-S
  • Oriental Cuckoo
    Oriental Cuckoo
    The Himalayan Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the genus Cuculus. It breeds from the Himalayas eastward to southern China and Taiwan. It migrates to southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter....
    
    , Cuculus saturatus - B-D-S
  • Pacific Koel
    Pacific Koel
    The Pacific Koel , also known as the Eastern Koel, is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It has often been considered conspecific with the Asian and Black-billed Koels, but they are increasingly treated as a separate species...
    
    , Eudynamys orientalis - B-D
  • Channel-billed Cuckoo
    Channel-billed Cuckoo
    The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Scythrops. The species is the largest brood parasite in the world, and the largest cuckoo....
    
    , Scythrops novaehollandiae - D-S
• Centropodidae
  • Pheasant Coucal
    Pheasant Coucal
    The Pheasant Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....
    
    , Centropus phasianinus - B-D-S
• Strigidae
  • Barking Owl
    Barking Owl
    The Barking Owl , also known as the Barking Boobook or Winking Owl, is a nocturnal bird species native to mainland Australia and parts of Papua New Guinea. They are a medium-sized brown owl and have an extremely characteristic voice that can range from a barking dog noise to a shrill woman-like...
    
    , Ninox connivens - S
• Caprimulgidae
  • White-throated Nightjar
    White-throated Nightjar
    The White-throated Nightjar is a species of Nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
    
    , Eurostopodus mystacalis - D
  • Large-tailed Nightjar
    Large-tailed Nightjar
    The Large-tailed Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.Its natural habitats...
    
    , Caprimulgus macrurus - B-S
• Apodidae
  • Fork-tailed Swift
    Fork-tailed Swift
    Fork-tailed Swift is the historic name of a kind of bird which has since been divided taxonomically into four species. It could refer to any of four different species of swifts:*Pacific Swift, Apus pacificus*Salim Ali's Swift, Apus salimali...
    
    , Apus pacificus - B
  • Glossy Swiftlet
    Glossy Swiftlet
    The Glossy Swiftlet is a species of swift in the Apodidae family.It is found in Australia, Brunei, Christmas Island, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.It is shiny black-blue above, including its...
    
    , Collocalia esculenta
  • Uniform Swiftlet
    Uniform Swiftlet
    The Uniform Swiftlet, , also known as the Vanikoro or Lowland Swiftlet, is a gregarious, medium-sized swiftlet with a shallowly forked tail. The colouring is dark grey-brown, darker on the upperparts with somewhat paler underparts, especially on chin and throat...
    
    , Collocalia vanikorensis - S
  • White-throated Needletail
    White-throated Needletail
    The White-throated Needletail , also known as Needle-tailed Swift or Spine-tailed Swift, is a large swift. It is the fastest-flying bird in flapping flight, being capable of speeds up to 170 km/h ....
    
    , Hirundapus caudacutus - S
  • Papuan Needletail
    Papuan Needletail
    The Papuan Spine-tailed Swift , also known as the Papuan Needletail, New Guinea Spine-tailed Swift or Papua Spinetail, is a small , stocky swift with a short, rounded tail and very fast flight. Head and upperparts glossy blue-black, white or whitish belly and undertail coverts, dark underwing with...
    
    , Mearnsia novaeguineae - B
• Alcedinidae
  • Little Kingfisher
    Little Kingfisher
    The Little Kingfisher is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is found in open forest, woodland, swamps and mangroves in Australia , Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.-Description:The Little Kingfisher is 11–13 cm long with a blue back and head and a white...
    
    , Alcedo pusilla - B-S
• Halcyonidae
  • Rufous-bellied Kookaburra
    Rufous-bellied Kookaburra
    The Rufous-bellied Kookaburra is a species of kookaburra which is widely distributed through the forests of lowland New Guinea...
    
    , Dacelo gaudichaud - S (no confirmed records as yet, but sight records)
  • Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher
    Buff-breasted Paradise-kingfisher
    The Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher is a tree kingfisher. This type of kingfisher has a white tail and nests only in termite mounds.- References :...
    
    , Tanysiptera sylvia - B
  • Little Paradise-kingfisher
    Little Paradise-kingfisher
    The Little Paradise Kingfisher is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.-Source:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 24 July 2007....
    
    , Tanysiptera hydrocharis - S
  • Collared Kingfisher
    Collared Kingfisher
    The Collared Kingfisher is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the family Halcyonidae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the White-collared Kingfisher or Mangrove Kingfisher. It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia and Australasia to Polynesia...
    
    , Todiramphus chloris - B-S
  • Forest Kingfisher
    Forest Kingfisher
    The Forest Kingfisher , also known as the Macleay's or Blue Kingfisher, is a species of kingfisher in the Halcyonidae family, also known as tree kingfishers. It is a predominantly blue and white bird. It is found in Indonesia, New Guinea and coastal eastern and northern Australia...
    
    , Todiramphus macleayii - B-D
  • Sacred Kingfisher
    Sacred Kingfisher
    The Sacred Kingfisher is primarily a woodland kingfisher that occurs in mangroves, woodlands, forests, and river valleys of Australia, Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., New Guinea, N...
    
    , Todiramphus sanctus - B-D-S
• Meropidae
  • Rainbow Bee-eater
    Rainbow Bee-eater
    The Rainbow Bee-eater, Merops ornatus, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is the only species of Meropidae found in Australia.-Description:...
    
    , Merops ornatus - B-D-S
• Coraciidae
  • Dollarbird
    Dollarbird
    The Oriental Dollarbird , also known as the Dollar Roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings....
    
    , Eurystomus orientalis - B-S
• Pittidae
  • Noisy Pitta
    Noisy Pitta
    The Noisy Pitta, Pitta versicolor, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.It eats earthworms, insects and snails....
    
    , Pitta versicolor - D
• Pardalotidae
  • Mangrove Gerygone
    Mangrove Gerygone
    The Mangrove Gerygone is a species of bird in the Australian warbler family Acanthizidae. The species is also known as the Mangrove Warbler. The species is thought to form a superspecies with the closely related Fan-tailed Gerygone of Melanesia and the Australian Western Gerygone. There are three...
    
    , Gerygone levigaster - S
  • Large-billed Gerygone
    Large-billed Gerygone
    The Large-billed Gerygone is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family. The Biak Gerygone, formerly considered a distinct species, is now placed herein as a subspecies .- References :...
    
    , Gerygone magnirostris - B-D-S
• Meliphagidae
  • Rufous-banded Honeyeater
    Rufous-banded Honeyeater
    The Rufous-banded Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...
    
    , Conopophila albogularis - B-D-S
  • Varied Honeyeater
    Varied Honeyeater
    The Varied Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.- References :...
    
    , Lichenostomus versicolor - B-S
  • Brown Honeyeater
    Brown Honeyeater
    The Brown Honeyeater is a honeyeater, a group of birds found mainly in Australia and New Guinea which have highly developed brush-tipped tongues adapted for nectar feeding...
    
    , Lichmera indistincta - S
  • Yellow-spotted Honeyeater
    Yellow-spotted Honeyeater
    The Yellow-spotted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
    
    , Meliphaga notata - S
  • Red-headed Honeyeater
    Red-headed Honeyeater
    The Red-headed Honeyeater is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Three subspecies are recognised, with the nominate race M...
    
    , Myzomela erythrocephala - B-S
  • Dusky Honeyeater
    Dusky Honeyeater
    The Dusky Honeyeater, Myzomela obscura is a small, brown bird that is a common resident of New Guinea, the Moluccas, the islands of Torres Strait, and northern Australia, where there are two separated populations, one in the Top End, another from Cape York Peninsula along the east coast as far...
    
    , Myzomela obscura - B-S
  • Brown-backed Honeyeater
    Brown-backed Honeyeater
    The Brown-backed Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...
    
    , Ramsayornis modestus - B-S
  • Tawny-breasted Honeyeater
    Tawny-breasted Honeyeater
    The Tawny-breasted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....
    
    , Xanthotis flaviventer - B-S
• Petroicidae
  Petroicidae
  The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the...
  
  
  • Mangrove Robin
    Mangrove Robin
    The Mangrove Robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family.-Distribution and habitat:It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea...
    
    , Eopsaltria pulverulenta - B
• Pachycephalidae
  Pachycephalidae
  The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia...
  
  
  • White-breasted Whistler
    White-breasted Whistler
    The White-breasted Whistler is a species of bird in the Pachycephalidae family.It is endemic to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...
    
    , Pachycephala lanioides - S
  • Mangrove Golden Whistler
    Mangrove Golden Whistler
    The Mangrove Golder Whistler or Black-tailed Whistler is an endemic to Australian bird found in mangrove forests and adjacent wet forests.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 26 July 2007....
    
    , Pachycephala melanura - B-D-S
• Dicruridae
  • Frilled Monarch
    Frilled Monarch
    The Frilled Monarch is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. As here defined, it is restricted to forest on the New Guinea and nearby smaller islands, but historically it has include some or all of the remaining members of the genus Arses as subspecies.-References:* BirdLife International...
    
    , Arses telescophthalmus - B
  • Spangled Drongo
    Spangled Drongo
    The Spangled Drongo is a bird of the family Dicruridae.The Spangled Drongo is the only Drongo to be found in Australia...
    
    , Dicrurus bracteatus - B-D-S
  • Magpie-lark
    Magpie-lark
    The Magpie-lark is a conspicuous Australian bird of small to medium size, also known as the Mudlark in Victoria and Western Australia, the Murray Magpie in South Australia, and as the Peewee in New South Wales and Queensland...
    
    , Grallina cyanoleuca - B-S
  • Black-faced Monarch
    Black-faced Monarch
    The Black-faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis is a passerine bird in the family Monarchidae.The Black-faced Monarch was most likely discovered sometime in the 1810s, although its original discovery is somewhat controversial. According to many bird books, the original discoverer of the Black-faced...
    
    , Monarcha melanopsis - B
  • Spectacled Monarch
    Spectacled Monarch
    The Spectacled Monarch is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea...
    
    , Monarcha trivirgatus
  • Shining Flycatcher
    Shining Flycatcher
    The Shining Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....
    
    , Myiagra alecto - B-D-S
  • Satin Flycatcher
    Satin Flycatcher
    The Satin Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.-Distribution:The Satin Flycatcher It is found in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea....
    
    , Myiagra cyanoleuca - B
  • Paperbark Flycatcher
    Paperbark Flycatcher
    The Paperbark Flycatcher , also known as the Little Restless Flycatcher, is a passerine bird in the family Monarchidae. It occurs in tropical woodland and riverine habitats of northern Australia and southern New Guinea...
    
    , Myiagra nana - S
  • Leaden Flycatcher
    Leaden Flycatcher
    The Leaden Flycatcher is a species of passerine bird in the family Monarchidae. Around 15 cm in length, the male is a shiny lead-grey with white underparts, while the female has grey upperparts and a rufous throat and breast. It is found in eastern and northern Australia, Indonesia, and...
    
    , Myiagra rubecula - S
  • Broad-billed Flycatcher
    Broad-billed Flycatcher
    The Broad-billed Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist...
    
    , Myiagra ruficollis - B-D-S
  • Willie Wagtail
    Willie Wagtail
    The Willie Wagtail is a passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and eastern Indonesia. It is a common and familiar bird throughout much of its range, living in most habitats apart from thick forest...
    
    , Rhipidura leucophrys - B-D-S
  • Mangrove Grey Fantail
    Mangrove Grey Fantail
    The Mangrove Fantail is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.-References:...
    
    , Rhipidura phasiana - S
  • Rufous Fantail
    Rufous Fantail
    The Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons inhabits the east coast of Australia. The base of its tail is bright orange-red in colour and their wings are greyish brown. They have a black and white breast that grades into a white colour on the chin and throat....
    
    , Rhipidura rufifrons - B-D
  • Northern Fantail
    Northern Fantail
    The Northern Fantail is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....
    
    , Rhipidura rufiventris - B-S
• Campephagidae
  • Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
    Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
    The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is a common omnivorous passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It has a protected status in Australia, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974....
    
    , Coracina novaehollandiae - B-D-S
  • White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
    White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
    The White-bellied Cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or...
    
    , Coracina papuensis - B-S
  • Cicadabird
    Cicadabird
    The Common Cicadabird , also known as the Slender-billed Cicadabird, is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands...
    
    , Coracina tenuirostris - B-D-S
  • Varied Triller
    Varied Triller
    The Varied Triller, Lalage leucomela like its better-known relative the White-winged Triller, is a smaller member of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae...
    
    , Lalage leucomela - B-S
  • White-winged Triller
    White-winged Triller
    The White-winged Triller is one of the smaller members of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae. It is found throughout mainland Australia and possibly on the islands to the north, including New Guinea and eastern Indonesia...
    
    , Lalage sueurii - S
• Oriolidae
  • Yellow Oriole
    Yellow Oriole
    There are two birds called Yellow Oriole.*The Australasian Yellow Oriole, Oriolus flavocinctus, which is an oriole*The South American Yellow Oriole, Icterus nigrogularis, which is an icterid...
    
    , Oriolus flavocinctus - B
  • Olive-backed Oriole
    Olive-backed Oriole
    The Olive-backed Oriole is a very common medium-sized passerine bird native to northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. The most wide-ranging of the Australasian orioles, it is noisy and conspicuous. Not bright in colour, it is olive-backed with small dark streaks, with a light chest having...
    
    , Oriolus sagittatus - D-S
• Artamidae
  Artamidae
  The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar. Instead, they...
  
  
  • White-breasted Woodswallow
    White-breasted Woodswallow
    The White-breasted Woodswallow, Artamus leucorynchus, is a small passerine bird which breeds from the Andaman Islands east through Indonesia and northern Australia. The name "woodswallow" is a misnomer as they are not closely related to true swallows...
    
    , Artamus leucorynchus - B-S
  • Black Butcherbird
    Black Butcherbird
    The Black Butcherbird is a species of bird in the Cracticidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....
    
    , Cracticus quoyi - B-D-S
• Paradisaeidae
  • Trumpet Manucode
    Trumpet Manucode
    The Trumpet Manucode is species of medium-sized, approximately 31 cm long, bird in the family Paradisaeidae. It has elongated horn-like head tufts and loose neck feathers. The plumage is of blackish glossed blue, green and purple. It has a red iris, long coiled trachea, and blackish bill,...
    
    , Manucodia keraudrenii - B-S
• Corvidae
  Corvidae
  Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...
  
  
  • Torresian Crow
    Torresian Crow
    The Torresian Crow , also occasionally called the Australian Crow or Papuan Crow in those respective countries, is an Australasian member of the crow genus...
    
    , Corvus orru - B-D-S
• Motacillidae
  Motacillidae
  The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...
  
  
  • Yellow Wagtail, Motacilla flava - B
• Passeridae
  • Chestnut-brested Mannikin, Lonchura castaneothorax - B-D
  • Streak-headed Mannikin
    Streak-headed Mannikin
    The Streak-headed Mannikin Lonchura tristissima, also known as the Streak-headed Munia, and including the White-spotted Mannikin The Streak-headed Mannikin Lonchura tristissima, also known as the Streak-headed Munia, and including the White-spotted Mannikin The Streak-headed Mannikin Lonchura...
    
    , Lonchura tristissima - S (no confirmed records but 1 sight record)
  • Red-browed Finch
    Red-browed Finch
    The Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis is an estrildid finch that inhabits the east coast of Australia. This species is also been introduced to French Polynesia for breeding. It is commonly found in temperate forest and dry savanna habitats...
    
    , Neochmia temporalis - S
  • House Sparrow
    House Sparrow
    The House Sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. One of about 25 species in the genus Passer, the House Sparrow occurs naturally in most of Europe, the Mediterranean region, and much of Asia...
    
    , Passer domesticus - B-S
• Nectariniidae
  • Yellow-bellied Sunbird, Nectarinia jugularis - B-D-S
• Dicaeidae
  • Red-capped Flowerpecker
    Red-capped Flowerpecker
    The Red-capped Flowerpecker is a small passerine bird endemic to, and widespread within, New Guinea and adjacent islands...
    
    , Dicaeum geelvinkianum - B-S
• Hirundinidae
  Swallow
  The swallows and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding...
  
  
  • Fairy Martin
    Fairy Martin
    The Fairy Martin is a member of the swallow family of passerine birds which breeds in Australia. It is migratory wintering through most of Australia, with some birds reaching New Guinea and Indonesia. It is increasing a wanderer to New Zealand, and may have bred. This species is frequently placed...
    
    , Hirundo ariel - S
  • Red-rumped Swallow
    Red-rumped Swallow
    The Red-rumped Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India and tropical Africa. The Indian and African birds are resident, but European and other Asian birds are migratory...
    
    , Hirundo daurica - B
  • Welcome Swallow
    Welcome Swallow
    The Welcome Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.It is a species native to Australia and nearby islands, but not until recently to New Zealand, which has been colonised in the last half century...
    
    , Hirundo neoxena - B-S
  • Tree Martin
    Tree Martin
    The Tree Martin is a member of the swallow family of passerine birds. It breeds in Australia, mostly south of latitude 20°S, and in Timor. It is migratory wintering through most of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia east of the Wallace Line and the Solomon Islands. It is a vagrant to New Zealand,...
    
    , Hirundo nigricans - D-S
  • Barn Swallow
    Barn Swallow
    The Barn Swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas...
    
    , Hirundo rustica - B-D
• Sylviidae
  Sylviidae
  Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...
  
  
  • Golden-headed Cisticola
    Golden-headed Cisticola
    The Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis, also known as the Bright-headed Cisticola, is a species of warbler found from India to Australia....
    
    , Cisticola exilis - B-D-S
  • Zitting Cisticola
    Zitting Cisticola
    The Zitting Cisticola or Streaked Fantail Warbler , is widely distributed Old World warbler whose breeding range includes southern Europe, Africa outside the deserts and rainforest, and southern Asia down to northern Australia...
    
    , Cisticola juncidis - S
  • Tawny Grassbird
    Tawny Grassbird
    The Tawny Grassbird is a songbird species of the grass- and bush-warbler family . It was formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage....
    
    , Megalurus timoriensis - S
• Zosteropidae
  White-eye
  White-eye can refer to:*White-eye , a large family of birds.*White-eye , a species of fish.*White-eye mutation, a mutation in Drosophila melanogaster linked to the X chromosome, found by reciprocal cross breeding experiments in 1906.*A lioness member of the Marsh Pride of lions that have featured...
  
  
  • Pale White-eye
    Pale White-eye
    The Ashy-bellied White-eye, Zosterops citrinellus, is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family found in Australia and Indonesia. It is sometimes called the Pale White-eye or Pale-bellied White-eye, but should not be confused with the Pale-bellied White-eye .Its natural habitats are subtropical...
    
    , Zosterops citrinellus - B-D
• Sturnidae
  • Singing Starling
    Singing Starling
    The Singing Starling Aplonis cantoroides is a medium-sized starling.-Description:Adult Singing Starlings have glossy black plumage and bright red irises. Immature birds are paler, with streaked underparts and brown irises...
    
    , Aplonis cantoroides - B-D-S
  • Metallic Starling
    Metallic Starling
    The Metallic Starling also known as Shining Starling, is a bird in the starling family. It is native of New Guinea and nearby Australasian islands, and a limited area of northeastern Australia.-Description:...
    
    , Aplonis metallica - B-S