Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.... .
The American Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.Adults are spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border; they have a black breast and a dark rump....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight....
The Arctic Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a :wiktionary:circumpolar distribution, breeding colonially in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America ....
The Arctic Warbler, Phylloscopus borealis, is a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and northern Asia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Australasian Bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus, also known as the Brown Bittern, is found in south-western and south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Ouvea....
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and booby. Both groups are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish. The species in this family are often considered congeneric, placing all in the genus Sula....
The Australasian Grebe, Tachybaptus novaehollandiae is a tiny waterbird common on fresh water lakes and rivers in Australia , New Zealand and on nearby Pacific islands....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Yellow Oriole or Green Oriole, is an inconspicuous inhabitant of lush tropical vegetation throughout New Guinea and northern Australia, including Cape York Peninsula, the Top End and the Kimberley region of Western Australia....
The Australian Bustard, Ardeotis australis, is a large ground bird of grassland, woodland and open agricultural country across northern Australia and southern New Guinea....
The Australian Hobby or Little Falcon is a falcon found mainly in Australia. It is also a winter migrant to Indonesia and New Guinea. It is one of Australia's smallest Bird of preys and is about 30-36 cm long....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. It is closely related to the butcherbirds and currawongs of the family 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....
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....
The Australian Pratincole is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family, found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea....
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups:*The pratincoles: these have short legs, long pointed wings and long forked tails....
The Australian Raven is the largest Australian member of the genus Corvus and one of three Australian species commonly known as ravens. It is a more slender bird than the Common Raven of the Northern Hemisphere but is otherwise similar....
Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rook s, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, Pyrrhocorax and nutcracker ....
The Australian Shelduck, Tadorna tadornoides, is a shelduck, a group of large goose-like birds which are part of the bird family Anatidae, which also includes the swans, goose and ducks....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Australian Crake is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Australian White Ibis is a wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae, also known as the "Sheep bird". It is widespread across much of Australia....
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills....
The Australian Wood Duck or Maned Duck, Chenonetta jubata, is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Australia. It is the only living species in the genus Chenonetta....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Azure KingfisherAlcedo azurea is a small kingfisher , in the river kingfisher family, Alcedinidae. It is found in Northern and Eastern Australia and Tasmania, as well as the lowlands of New Guinea and neighboring islands, and out to North Maluku and Romang....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids sometimes separated in Erolia.Adults have black legs and a short thin dark bill....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Banded Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Banded Lapwing is a small to medium sized wader which belongs to the plover family.It is found over most of Australia and Tasmania though is absent from the northern third of the continent....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Banded Stilt, Cladorhynchus leucocephalus, is a stilt. This species is endemic to Australia, and gets its name from the red-brown breast band found on breeding adults....
The Barau's Petrel, Pterodroma baraui is a medium sized gadfly petrel from the family Procellariidae. It is around 40cm long, and has white undersides and forehead....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Barking Owl 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 scream of great intensity....
?:The city in Russia is spelled Barnaul.The Barn Owl is the most Cosmopolitan distribution species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds....
Barn-owls are one of the two family of owls, the other being the typical owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces....
The Barn Swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. A distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed Bird flight#The wing, it is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas....
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 ....
The Bar-tailed Godwit is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae, which breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Beach Stone-curlew, Esacus giganteus also known as Beach Thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird occurs in Australasia and the islands of South-east Asia....
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....
The Black Butcherbird is a species of bird in the Cracticidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
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....
The Black Falcon is a medium-large falcon that lives only in Australia. It is mainly found in open grasslands and woodlands in the north of Australia....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
The Black Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is Endemism to Western Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Black Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Black Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal Bird of preys such as eagles, buzzards, and harrier s....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Black Noddy or White-capped Noddy is a seabird from the tern family. It resembles the closely-related Brown or Common Noddy , but is smaller with darker plumage, a whiter cap, a longer, straighter beak and shorter tail....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genus and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits....
The Black-bellied Storm-petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Bouvet Island, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Saint Helena, Sao Tom? and Principe, Solomon Islands, South Africa,...
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae, and it is the most widespread and common albatross....
The Black-chinned Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests....
File:Phalacrocorax fuscescens Roosting.jpgThe Black-faced Cormorant , also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family....
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....
The Black-faced MonarchMonarcha 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....
The Black-faced Woodswallow, Artamus cinereus is a woodswallow. This swallow is 19 cm long. It is the most widespread species in the family 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....
The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia, to which it is native and New Zealand, where it self introduced in the 1950's....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Black-headed Gull is a small gull which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is bird migration, wintering further south, but some birds in the milder westernmost areas of Europe are resident....
The Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus is a large wading Aves in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species, which is a resident breeder in southern Asia and Australasia, from India east to New Guinea and the northern half of Australia....
The Black-shouldered Kite or Australian Black-shouldered Kite is a small Bird of prey found in open habitat throughout Australia and should not be confused with the Black-winged Kite, which is also called Black-shouldered Kite....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa, is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the Limosa genus, the godwits....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Black-tailed Treecreeper is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
The 'Black-winged Stilt', 'Himantopus himantopus', is a widely distibuted very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family . Opinions differ as to whether the birds treated under the scientific name H....
The Blue Petrel is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus Halobaena but is closely allied to the prion ....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Blue-billed Duck is a small Australian stiff-tailed duck, with both the male and female growing to a length of 40 cm . The male has a slate-blue bill which changes to bright-blue during the breeding season, hence the duck?s common name ....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Blue-breasted Fairy-wren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Blue-faced Honeyeater , also colloquially known as Bananabird, is a passerine bird of the Honeyeater family Meliphagidae commonly found around the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and New Guinea....
The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a very large species of kingfisher with a total length of around 40 cm. Compared to the related Laughing Kookaburra, it is smaller, lacks a dark mask, has more blue in the wing, and a light-coloured eye....
The Blue-winged Pitta, Pitta moluccensis, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family.It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam....
The Bourke's Parrot , also known as the Bourke's Parakeet or "Bourkie", is a small parrot originating in Australia and the only species in its genus Neopsephotus....
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 Bird of preys such as eagles, buzzards and harrier s....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Bridled Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans. The Atlantic subspecies melanopters breeds in Mexico, the Caribbean and west Africa; other races occur around the Arabian Peninsula and in Southeast Asia and Australasia, but the exact number of valid subspecies is disputed....
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 montanes....
The Broad-billed Prion, Pachyptila vittata, is a small seabird with grey upperparts plumage, a dark cap,a black "W" on the wings, a black tail tip, and white underparts....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Broad-billed Sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus, is a small wader bird. It is the only member of the genus Limicola; some have proposed that it should be placed in the genus Erolia with the "stint" sandpipers, but more recent research suggests that it is should rather go into the genus Philomachus with the Ruff and possibly...
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
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 ornithology artist John Gould in his The Birds of Australia....
The Brown Booby is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. The adult brown booby reaches about 76 cm. in length. Its head and upper body are covered in dark brown, with the remainder being a contrasting white....
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and booby. Both groups are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish. The species in this family are often considered congeneric, placing all in the genus Sula....
The Brown Falcon, Falco berigora, is a member of the falcon genus found in the drier regions of Australia. Its specific name berigora is derived from an aboriginal name for the bird....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Brown Honeyeater, Lichmera indistincta 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....
The Brown Quail , also known as Swamp Quail, is an Australasian true quail of the family Phasianidae.The Brown Quail is distributed in agricultural areas, wet grasslands, shrublands and freshwater wetlands across much of New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as in northern, eastern, south-eastern and south-western Australia...
The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl , Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl....
The Brown Songlark , also Australian Songlark, is a small passerine bird found throughout much of Australia. A member of the Old World Warbler family, the species is notable for sexual dimorphism, among the most pronounced in any bird....
The Brown-headed Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Brush Bronzewing is a species of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
The Brush Cuckoo, Cacomantis variolosus, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the Geococcyxs, the ani , and the Hoatzin....
The 'budgerigar' , is a small parrot belonging to the tribe of the broad-tailed parrots ; sometimes considered a subfamily . It is the only species in the Australian genus 'Melopsittacus' and sometimes isolated in a tribe of its own, the 'Melopsittacini', although it is probably quite closely related to Pezoporus and Neophe...
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis, is a small wader. It is a calidrid sandpipers and presently considered to be the only member of the genus Tryngites....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Bulwer's Petrel is a small petrel in the family Procellariidae, and is one of two species in the genus Bulweria . This bird is named after the Scottish naturalist James Bulwer....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Bush Stone-curlew is a large, ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia. Although it looks rather like a wader and is related to the oystercatchers, avocets and plovers, it is a terrestrial predator filling a similar ecological niche to the roadrunners of North America....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Cape Barren Goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiaeis a large goose resident in southern Australia.These are bulky geese and their almost uniformly grey plumage, bearing rounded black spots, is unique....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Cape Petrel , or cape pigeon is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. It is the only member of the genus Daption, and is allied to the fulmarine petrels....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Caspian Tern is a species of tern, with a cosmopolitan distribution but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic, with no subspecies accepted....
The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan distribution species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotype genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species....
The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuckoo family. It is monotypic within the genus Scythrops. The species is the largest brood parasite in the world, and the largest cuckoo....
The Chestnut Quail-thrush is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
The Chestnut Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Australia and Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Chestnut Teal is a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.The male has a distinctive green coloured head and mottled brown body. The female has a brown head and mottled brown body....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Chestnut-backed Buttonquail is a species of bird in the Turnicidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
The Chiming Wedgebill is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.The Chiming Wedgebill makes a cooing sound during mating....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
The Cicadabird or Slender-billed Cicadabird, Coracina tenuirostris, is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
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....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Comb-crested Jacana , also known as the Lotusbird or Lilytrotter, is the only species of jacana in the genus Irediparra. Like other jacana species, it is adapted to the floating vegetation of tropical freshwater wetlands....
The Common Bronzewing is a species of medium-sized, heavily built pigeon. Native to Australia and one of the country's most common pigeons, the Common Bronzewing is able to live in almost any habitat, with the possible exception of very barren areas and dense rainforests....
The Common Diving-Petrel ,also known as the Smaller Diving-Petrel or simply the Divng-Petrel is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Common Pheasant , is a bird in the pheasant family . It is native to Asia and has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. In parts of its range, namely in places where none of its relatives occur such as in Europe , it is simply known as the "pheasant"....
The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl , Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl....
The Common Redshank or Redshank is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It is closest to the small Wood Sandpiper, and also closely related to the Marsh Sandpiper ....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, is a small wader, 18 - 20 cm long with a 32-35 cm wingspan. Together with its sister species, the Spotted Sandpiper they make up the genus Actitis....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Common Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution breeding in temperate and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and east and central North America....
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....
The Crested Pigeon is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for far tropical north areas. There are only two Australian pigeon species that possess an erect crest, being the Crested Pigeon and the Spinifex Pigeon....
The Crested Shrike-tit, Falcunculus frontatus, is a bird Endemism in birds to Australia. Three subspecies inhabit open eucalypt forest and woodland in the southwest , north and east ....
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....
The 'Crimson Chat' is a species of small birds found in Australia. They are known by many other common names including: Tricolored Chat, Crimson tang, and Red canary in English; Scharlachtrugschm?tzer by Germans; Curruca Carmes? in Spanish; and Epthianure tricolore in French....
The Crimson FinchNeochmia phaeton is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia, Indonesia & Papua New Guinea. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 100,000- 1,000,000 km?....
The Curlew Sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, is a small wader which breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly bird migration, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australasia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Dark-sided Flycatcher is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Muscicapa in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a wide distribution in Asia with northern birds migrating south for the winter....
The darters or snake-birds are birds in the family Anhingidae. There are four living species, one of which is near-threatened. The darters are frequently referred to as snake-birds because of their long thin neck, which gives a snake-like appearance when they swim with their bodies submerged....
The Diamond Dove is a bird resident in Australia.The dove predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature, being Central, West and Northern Australia....
The Dollarbird, Eurystomus orientalis also known as the Dollar Roller is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue dollar shaped spots on its wings....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Double-barred FinchTaeniopygia bichenovii is an estrildid finch found in dry savanna, tropical dry grassland and shrubland habitats in northern and eastern Australia....
The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Dusky Gerygone is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
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 south as the New South Wales border, though t...
The Dusky Moorhen is a bird in the rallidae family . It occurs in Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.The New Guinea birds are smaller, at 25-32 Metre#SI multiples in length, than the Australian race ....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Dusky Woodswallow , is a bird species of forests and woodlands in tropics and subtropical regions, in eastern and southern Australia.The global population of the species has as yet not been formally confirmed, but it has been officially rated in the range of 'Least Concern', according to the BirdLife International in 2004....
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....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Eastern Reef Egret, Egretta sacra also known as Pacific Reef Egret is a type of egret . 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....
The Emerald Dove is a Dove which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from Pakistan to Sri Lanka and east to Indonesia and northern and eastern Australia....
The Emu , Dromaius novaehollandiae, is the largest bird native to Australia and the only Extant taxon member of the genus Dromaius. It is also the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich....
The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of Emu. The emus were formerly classified in their own family, Dromaiidae, but are regarded as sufficiently closely related to the cassowaries to be part of the same family....
The Erect-crested Penguin is a penguin from New Zealand. It breeds on the Bounty Islands and Antipodes Islands.This is a medium-small, yellow-crested, black-and-white penguin, at 50-70 cm and weighing 2.7-5.2 kg ....
The Eurasian Coot, Fulica atra, also known as Coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae. The Australian subspecies is known as the Australian Coot....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
Fulica atra
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Passeridae
Passer montanus
aka 'Eurasian Tree Sparrow' or 'German Sparrow'.
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Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.... .
The American Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.Adults are spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border; they have a black breast and a dark rump....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight....
The Arctic Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a :wiktionary:circumpolar distribution, breeding colonially in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America ....
The Arctic Warbler, Phylloscopus borealis, is a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and northern Asia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Australasian Bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus, also known as the Brown Bittern, is found in south-western and south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Ouvea....
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and booby. Both groups are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish. The species in this family are often considered congeneric, placing all in the genus Sula....
The Australasian Grebe, Tachybaptus novaehollandiae is a tiny waterbird common on fresh water lakes and rivers in Australia , New Zealand and on nearby Pacific islands....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Yellow Oriole or Green Oriole, is an inconspicuous inhabitant of lush tropical vegetation throughout New Guinea and northern Australia, including Cape York Peninsula, the Top End and the Kimberley region of Western Australia....
The Australian Bustard, Ardeotis australis, is a large ground bird of grassland, woodland and open agricultural country across northern Australia and southern New Guinea....
The Australian Hobby or Little Falcon is a falcon found mainly in Australia. It is also a winter migrant to Indonesia and New Guinea. It is one of Australia's smallest Bird of preys and is about 30-36 cm long....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. It is closely related to the butcherbirds and currawongs of the family 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....
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....
The Australian Pratincole is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family, found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea....
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups:*The pratincoles: these have short legs, long pointed wings and long forked tails....
The Australian Raven is the largest Australian member of the genus Corvus and one of three Australian species commonly known as ravens. It is a more slender bird than the Common Raven of the Northern Hemisphere but is otherwise similar....
Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rook s, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, Pyrrhocorax and nutcracker ....
The Australian Shelduck, Tadorna tadornoides, is a shelduck, a group of large goose-like birds which are part of the bird family Anatidae, which also includes the swans, goose and ducks....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Australian Crake is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Australian White Ibis is a wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae, also known as the "Sheep bird". It is widespread across much of Australia....
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills....
The Australian Wood Duck or Maned Duck, Chenonetta jubata, is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Australia. It is the only living species in the genus Chenonetta....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Azure KingfisherAlcedo azurea is a small kingfisher , in the river kingfisher family, Alcedinidae. It is found in Northern and Eastern Australia and Tasmania, as well as the lowlands of New Guinea and neighboring islands, and out to North Maluku and Romang....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids sometimes separated in Erolia.Adults have black legs and a short thin dark bill....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Banded Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Banded Lapwing is a small to medium sized wader which belongs to the plover family.It is found over most of Australia and Tasmania though is absent from the northern third of the continent....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Banded Stilt, Cladorhynchus leucocephalus, is a stilt. This species is endemic to Australia, and gets its name from the red-brown breast band found on breeding adults....
The Barau's Petrel, Pterodroma baraui is a medium sized gadfly petrel from the family Procellariidae. It is around 40cm long, and has white undersides and forehead....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Barking Owl 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 scream of great intensity....
?:The city in Russia is spelled Barnaul.The Barn Owl is the most Cosmopolitan distribution species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds....
Barn-owls are one of the two family of owls, the other being the typical owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces....
The Barn Swallow is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. A distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed Bird flight#The wing, it is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas....
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 ....
The Bar-tailed Godwit is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae, which breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Beach Stone-curlew, Esacus giganteus also known as Beach Thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird occurs in Australasia and the islands of South-east Asia....
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....
The Black Butcherbird is a species of bird in the Cracticidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
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....
The Black Falcon is a medium-large falcon that lives only in Australia. It is mainly found in open grasslands and woodlands in the north of Australia....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
The Black Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is Endemism to Western Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Black Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Black Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal Bird of preys such as eagles, buzzards, and harrier s....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Black Noddy or White-capped Noddy is a seabird from the tern family. It resembles the closely-related Brown or Common Noddy , but is smaller with darker plumage, a whiter cap, a longer, straighter beak and shorter tail....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genus and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits....
The Black-bellied Storm-petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Bouvet Island, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Saint Helena, Sao Tom? and Principe, Solomon Islands, South Africa,...
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae, and it is the most widespread and common albatross....
The Black-chinned Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests....
File:Phalacrocorax fuscescens Roosting.jpgThe Black-faced Cormorant , also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family....
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....
The Black-faced MonarchMonarcha 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....
The Black-faced Woodswallow, Artamus cinereus is a woodswallow. This swallow is 19 cm long. It is the most widespread species in the family 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....
The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia, to which it is native and New Zealand, where it self introduced in the 1950's....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Black-headed Gull is a small gull which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is bird migration, wintering further south, but some birds in the milder westernmost areas of Europe are resident....
The Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus is a large wading Aves in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species, which is a resident breeder in southern Asia and Australasia, from India east to New Guinea and the northern half of Australia....
The Black-shouldered Kite or Australian Black-shouldered Kite is a small Bird of prey found in open habitat throughout Australia and should not be confused with the Black-winged Kite, which is also called Black-shouldered Kite....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa, is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the Limosa genus, the godwits....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Black-tailed Treecreeper is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
The 'Black-winged Stilt', 'Himantopus himantopus', is a widely distibuted very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family . Opinions differ as to whether the birds treated under the scientific name H....
The Blue Petrel is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. This small petrel is the only member of the genus Halobaena but is closely allied to the prion ....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Blue-billed Duck is a small Australian stiff-tailed duck, with both the male and female growing to a length of 40 cm . The male has a slate-blue bill which changes to bright-blue during the breeding season, hence the duck?s common name ....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Blue-breasted Fairy-wren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Blue-faced Honeyeater , also colloquially known as Bananabird, is a passerine bird of the Honeyeater family Meliphagidae commonly found around the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and New Guinea....
The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a very large species of kingfisher with a total length of around 40 cm. Compared to the related Laughing Kookaburra, it is smaller, lacks a dark mask, has more blue in the wing, and a light-coloured eye....
The Blue-winged Pitta, Pitta moluccensis, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family.It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam....
The Bourke's Parrot , also known as the Bourke's Parakeet or "Bourkie", is a small parrot originating in Australia and the only species in its genus Neopsephotus....
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 Bird of preys such as eagles, buzzards and harrier s....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Bridled Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans. The Atlantic subspecies melanopters breeds in Mexico, the Caribbean and west Africa; other races occur around the Arabian Peninsula and in Southeast Asia and Australasia, but the exact number of valid subspecies is disputed....
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 montanes....
The Broad-billed Prion, Pachyptila vittata, is a small seabird with grey upperparts plumage, a dark cap,a black "W" on the wings, a black tail tip, and white underparts....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Broad-billed Sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus, is a small wader bird. It is the only member of the genus Limicola; some have proposed that it should be placed in the genus Erolia with the "stint" sandpipers, but more recent research suggests that it is should rather go into the genus Philomachus with the Ruff and possibly...
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
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 ornithology artist John Gould in his The Birds of Australia....
The Brown Booby is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. The adult brown booby reaches about 76 cm. in length. Its head and upper body are covered in dark brown, with the remainder being a contrasting white....
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and booby. Both groups are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish. The species in this family are often considered congeneric, placing all in the genus Sula....
The Brown Falcon, Falco berigora, is a member of the falcon genus found in the drier regions of Australia. Its specific name berigora is derived from an aboriginal name for the bird....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Brown Honeyeater, Lichmera indistincta 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....
The Brown Quail , also known as Swamp Quail, is an Australasian true quail of the family Phasianidae.The Brown Quail is distributed in agricultural areas, wet grasslands, shrublands and freshwater wetlands across much of New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as in northern, eastern, south-eastern and south-western Australia...
The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl , Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl....
The Brown Songlark , also Australian Songlark, is a small passerine bird found throughout much of Australia. A member of the Old World Warbler family, the species is notable for sexual dimorphism, among the most pronounced in any bird....
The Brown-headed Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Brush Bronzewing is a species of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
The Brush Cuckoo, Cacomantis variolosus, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the Geococcyxs, the ani , and the Hoatzin....
The 'budgerigar' , is a small parrot belonging to the tribe of the broad-tailed parrots ; sometimes considered a subfamily . It is the only species in the Australian genus 'Melopsittacus' and sometimes isolated in a tribe of its own, the 'Melopsittacini', although it is probably quite closely related to Pezoporus and Neophe...
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis, is a small wader. It is a calidrid sandpipers and presently considered to be the only member of the genus Tryngites....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Bulwer's Petrel is a small petrel in the family Procellariidae, and is one of two species in the genus Bulweria . This bird is named after the Scottish naturalist James Bulwer....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Bush Stone-curlew is a large, ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia. Although it looks rather like a wader and is related to the oystercatchers, avocets and plovers, it is a terrestrial predator filling a similar ecological niche to the roadrunners of North America....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Cape Barren Goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiaeis a large goose resident in southern Australia.These are bulky geese and their almost uniformly grey plumage, bearing rounded black spots, is unique....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Cape Petrel , or cape pigeon is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. It is the only member of the genus Daption, and is allied to the fulmarine petrels....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Caspian Tern is a species of tern, with a cosmopolitan distribution but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic, with no subspecies accepted....
The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan distribution species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotype genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species....
The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuckoo family. It is monotypic within the genus Scythrops. The species is the largest brood parasite in the world, and the largest cuckoo....
The Chestnut Quail-thrush is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
The Chestnut Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Australia and Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Chestnut Teal is a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.The male has a distinctive green coloured head and mottled brown body. The female has a brown head and mottled brown body....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Chestnut-backed Buttonquail is a species of bird in the Turnicidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
The Chiming Wedgebill is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.The Chiming Wedgebill makes a cooing sound during mating....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
The Cicadabird or Slender-billed Cicadabird, Coracina tenuirostris, is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
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....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Comb-crested Jacana , also known as the Lotusbird or Lilytrotter, is the only species of jacana in the genus Irediparra. Like other jacana species, it is adapted to the floating vegetation of tropical freshwater wetlands....
The Common Bronzewing is a species of medium-sized, heavily built pigeon. Native to Australia and one of the country's most common pigeons, the Common Bronzewing is able to live in almost any habitat, with the possible exception of very barren areas and dense rainforests....
The Common Diving-Petrel ,also known as the Smaller Diving-Petrel or simply the Divng-Petrel is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Common Pheasant , is a bird in the pheasant family . It is native to Asia and has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. In parts of its range, namely in places where none of its relatives occur such as in Europe , it is simply known as the "pheasant"....
The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl , Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl....
The Common Redshank or Redshank is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It is closest to the small Wood Sandpiper, and also closely related to the Marsh Sandpiper ....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, is a small wader, 18 - 20 cm long with a 32-35 cm wingspan. Together with its sister species, the Spotted Sandpiper they make up the genus Actitis....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Common Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution breeding in temperate and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and east and central North America....
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....
The Crested Pigeon is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for far tropical north areas. There are only two Australian pigeon species that possess an erect crest, being the Crested Pigeon and the Spinifex Pigeon....
The Crested Shrike-tit, Falcunculus frontatus, is a bird Endemism in birds to Australia. Three subspecies inhabit open eucalypt forest and woodland in the southwest , north and east ....
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....
The 'Crimson Chat' is a species of small birds found in Australia. They are known by many other common names including: Tricolored Chat, Crimson tang, and Red canary in English; Scharlachtrugschm?tzer by Germans; Curruca Carmes? in Spanish; and Epthianure tricolore in French....
The Crimson FinchNeochmia phaeton is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia, Indonesia & Papua New Guinea. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 100,000- 1,000,000 km?....
The Curlew Sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, is a small wader which breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly bird migration, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australasia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Dark-sided Flycatcher is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Muscicapa in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It has a wide distribution in Asia with northern birds migrating south for the winter....
The darters or snake-birds are birds in the family Anhingidae. There are four living species, one of which is near-threatened. The darters are frequently referred to as snake-birds because of their long thin neck, which gives a snake-like appearance when they swim with their bodies submerged....
The Diamond Dove is a bird resident in Australia.The dove predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature, being Central, West and Northern Australia....
The Dollarbird, Eurystomus orientalis also known as the Dollar Roller is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue dollar shaped spots on its wings....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Double-barred FinchTaeniopygia bichenovii is an estrildid finch found in dry savanna, tropical dry grassland and shrubland habitats in northern and eastern Australia....
The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Dusky Gerygone is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
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 south as the New South Wales border, though t...
The Dusky Moorhen is a bird in the rallidae family . It occurs in Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.The New Guinea birds are smaller, at 25-32 Metre#SI multiples in length, than the Australian race ....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Dusky Woodswallow , is a bird species of forests and woodlands in tropics and subtropical regions, in eastern and southern Australia.The global population of the species has as yet not been formally confirmed, but it has been officially rated in the range of 'Least Concern', according to the BirdLife International in 2004....
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....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Eastern Reef Egret, Egretta sacra also known as Pacific Reef Egret is a type of egret . 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....
The Emerald Dove is a Dove which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from Pakistan to Sri Lanka and east to Indonesia and northern and eastern Australia....
The Emu , Dromaius novaehollandiae, is the largest bird native to Australia and the only Extant taxon member of the genus Dromaius. It is also the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich....
The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of Emu. The emus were formerly classified in their own family, Dromaiidae, but are regarded as sufficiently closely related to the cassowaries to be part of the same family....
The Erect-crested Penguin is a penguin from New Zealand. It breeds on the Bounty Islands and Antipodes Islands.This is a medium-small, yellow-crested, black-and-white penguin, at 50-70 cm and weighing 2.7-5.2 kg ....
The Eurasian Coot, Fulica atra, also known as Coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae. The Australian subspecies is known as the Australian Coot....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
Fulica atra
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Passeridae
Passer montanus
aka 'Eurasian Tree Sparrow' or 'German Sparrow'. Ship-assisted, but establishes periodically
The Fairy Martin is a member of the swallow family of passerine birds which breeds in Australia. It is bird migration wintering through most of Australia, with some birds reaching New Guinea and Indonesia....
The Fairy Prion, Pachyptila turtur is a small, up to 28cm long, seabird with grey upperparts plumage, black-tipped tail, black "M" wing markings and white below....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Fairy Tern is a small tern which occurs in the southwestern Pacific.There are three subspecies:* Australian Fairy Tern, Sterna nereis nereis - breeds in Australia...
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....
The Figbird is a conspicuous and very common medium-sized passerine bird native to Indonesia, New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia, and the islands nearby....
The Fiordland Crested Penguin , also known as Tawaki , is a species of crested penguin from New Zealand. It breeds along the Fiordland coast and its outlying islands as well as on Stewart Island/Rakiura....
The Flesh-footed Shearwater, Puffinus carneipes, is a small shearwater. Its plumage is black. It has pale pinkish feet, and a pale bill with a black tip....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Flock Bronzewing , also known as the Flock Pigeon, is a species of pigeon in the Columbidae family. It is Endemism to the drier parts of Australia....
The Fluttering Shearwater is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in New Zealand and Solomon Islands.Its natural habitats are open seas and rocky shores....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Franklin's Gull is a small gull. It breeds in central provinces of Canada and adjacent states of the northern USA. It is bird migration, wintering in the Caribbean, Peru, Chile, and Argentina....
The Freckled Duck is a moderately large, broad-bodied duck native to southern Australia. The duck is protected by law. Dark in colour with fine off-white speckles all over, it is most easily identified by its large head with a peaked crown....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Garganey, Anas querquedula is a small dabbling duck. It breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, but is strictly bird migration, with the entire population moving to southern Africa and Australasia in winter, where large flocks can occur....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
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....
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 Ocean and Caribbean region of the Americas....
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills....
The Golden Whistler is a species of bird native to the Australia-New Guinea region and extending somewhat into the Pacific. It is among the birds with the highest number of geographic subspecies, with 59 recognised subspecies and a number of closely related species which may be subspecies ....
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....
The Gouldian Finch, Erythrura gouldiae , also known as the Lady Gouldian Finch, Gould's Finch or Rainbow Finch , is a colourful passerine bird Endemism to Australia....
Gould's Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. It is a small petrel, 30 cm long with a wingspan of about 70 cm. It is largely grey above and white below with a blackish crown and hindneck and a black M-shaped band across the wings and rump....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
Barn-owls are one of the two family of owls, the other being the typical owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces....
The Great Bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia, from the area around Broome, Western Australia across the Top End to Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Mount Isa, Queensland....
The Great Cormorant , known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the Black Cormorant in Australia and the Black Shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds....
The Great Frigatebird is a large bird migration#Irruptions and dispersal seabird in the frigatebird family . Major nesting populations are found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as a population in the South Atlantic....
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....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Great Skua, Stercorarius skua, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. In Britain, it is sometimes known by the name Bonxie, a Shetland name of unknown origin....
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....
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....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Great-winged Petrel or Grey-faced Petrel, Pterodroma macroptera, is a petrel. In New Zealand it is also known by its Maori language name oi and as a muttonbird....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Green-backed Gerygone, Gerygone chloronotus, is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....
The Grey Butcherbird is a widely distributed species endemic to Australia. The Grey Butcherbird occurs in a range of different habitats including arid, semi-arid and temperate zones....
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....
The Grey Currawong is a large omnivorous bird found in southern Australia. Though Corvus -like in appearance and habits, it is a member of the 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....
The Grey Falcon, Falco hypoleucos, is a rare medium-sized falcon, one of the enigmatic ?mystery? birds of Australia, neither easily nor predictably seen....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
File:Rhipidura fuliginosa Tasmania.jpgThe Grey Fantail is a small insectivorous bird. It is a very common fantail in all parts of Australia except western desert areas, and is also found in New Zealand , New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia....
The Grey Goshawk, Accipiter novaehollandiae, the white polymorphism of which is known as the White Goshawk, is a strongly built, medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Grey Petrel or Pediunker is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. It occurs in the open seas of the Southern Hemisphere, mainly between 60?S and 25?S....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
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 bird migration, with a nearly world-wide coastal distribution when not breeding....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Grey Shrike-thrush , formerly commonly known as Grey Thrush, is one of the best-loved and most distinctive songbirds of Australasia. It is moderately common to common in most parts of Australia, but absent from the driest of the inland deserts....
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....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Grey-backed Storm-petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Garrodia which was named by William Alexander Forbes in 1881 after Alfred Henry Garrod, while the specific descriptor is an allusion to the Nereids, the sea nymphs of Greek mythology....
The Grey-crowned Babbler is a species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
The Grey-fronted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Ground Parrot is one of only four ground-dwelling parrots in the world, the others being its closest relative, the extremely rare Night Parrot , the somewhat closely related Antipodes Island Parakeet , and the unrelated highly endangered Kakapo from New Zealand....
The Gull-billed Tern, Gelochelidon nilotica, formerly Sterna nilotica , is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae.It breeds in warmer parts of the world in southern Europe , temperate and eastern Asia, both coasts of North America, eastern South America and Australia....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Helmeted Guineafowl is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It breeds in Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced into the West Indies and southern France....
Numididae
Numida meleagris
introduced, often free-ranging, but apparently never permanently established
The Trinidade Petrel, Pterodroma arminjoniana, is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels. The bird is 35-39 cm in size, with a 88-102 cm wingspan....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Hoary-headed Grebe, Poliocephalus poliocephalus, is a member of the grebe family found in Australia and, since 1975, New Zealand, where it is scarce....
The Hooded Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and coastal saline lagoons....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Hooded Robin is a is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae it is Sexual dimorphism; the male bearing distinctive black and white coloured plumage, while the female is a nondescript grey-brown....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family, found from Australia to South-east Asia. The species was previously known by the scientific name of Chalcites basalis....
The House Crow , also known as the Colombo Crow is a common Asian bird of the Corvidae. It is between the Jackdaw and the Carrion Crow in size but is relatively slimmer than either.... (ship assisted)
Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rook s, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, Pyrrhocorax and nutcracker ....
The House Sparrow is a member of the Old World sparrow family sparrow, considered by some to be a relative of the Weaver Finch Family. It occurs naturally in most of Europe and much of Asia....
The Hutton's Shearwater is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae. Its common and specific name commemorates F. W. Hutton, a former curator of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, also known as the Common Peafowl or the Blue Peafowl, is one of the species of bird in the genus Pavo of the Phasianidae family known as peafowl....
The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl , Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl....
Pavo cristatus
Introduced. aka the 'Common Peafowl' or the 'Blue Peafowl'
The Inland Dotterel , Charadrius australis , also known as the Australian Dotterel and sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Peltohyas, is a medium-sized Charadriine plover....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Inland Thornbill , commonly called the Broad-tailed Thornbill, is a small, insect-eating bird of Australia. The Inland Thornbill is commonly confused with the coastal Brown Thornbill due to its similar colorations ....
The Intermediate Egret or Median, or Yellow-billed, Egret, is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder from east Africa across tropical southern Asia to Australia....
The Jacky Winter is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family.It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is also colloquially known as Postsitter for its habit of sitting on posts in paddocks and farms....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The Jouanin's Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in Djibouti, Indonesia, Pakistan, Kenya, Maldives, Mozambique, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, the United States, and Yemen....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The ' Kelp Gull' breeds on coasts and islands through much of the southern hemisphere. The race L. d. vetula occurs around southern Africa, and nominate L....
The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. Despite its name, this species no longer breeds in Kent, or even Great Britain....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Kerguelen Petrel, Lugensa brevirostris, is a small slate-grey seabird in the family Procellariidae. The species has been described as a "taxonomy oddball", being placed for a long time in Pterodroma before being split out in 1942 into its own genus Lugensa ....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl , Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl....
Coturnix chinensis
aka 'Chinese Painted Quail', 'King Quail' or 'Blue-breasted Quail'
The Large-billed Gerygone is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family. The Biak Gerygone, formerly considered a distinct species, is now placed herein as a subspecies ....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, is a medium-sized gull of North America and South America. It breeds on the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America....
The Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, is an Australian carnivore bird in the Kingfisher family. This species of kookaburra is well known for its laughing call....
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....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The Lesser Crested Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds in subtropical coastal parts of the world mainly from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific, and Australia, with a significant population on the southern coast of the Mediterranean on two islands off the Libyan coast....
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....
The Lesser Noddy is a species of tern in the Sternidae family.It is found in Comoros, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, and United Arab Emirates....
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....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Letter-winged Kite is a small, rare and Irruptive growth Australian Bird of prey with a core range in central Australia. It is similar in appearance to the Black-shouldered Kite except for a very distinctive black underwing pattern of a shallow ?M? shape, seen when in flight....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Lewin's Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Little Bittern is a wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, native to the Old World, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, western and southern Asia, and Australasia....
The Little Black Cormorant, Phalacrocorax sulcirostris, 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....
The Little Bronze-Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam....
The Little Buttonquail is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species is resident in Australia, where it is one of the more common button-quails....
The Little Licmetis, Cacatua sanguinea, also known as the Bare-eyed Cockatoo, is a white cockatoo native to Australia.The Little Corella grows to 36 to 39 Metre#SI multiples in length and congregates in flocks of up to several thousand birds, which often include many Galahs....
Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rook s, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, Pyrrhocorax and nutcracker ....
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....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Little Eagle is a very small eagle native to Australasia ecozone, measuring 45?55 Centimetre in length and weighing 815 Gram ? roughly the size of a Peregrine Falcon....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Little Friarbird, Philemon citreogularis, is the smallest of the group of giant Australian honeyeaters called friarbirds. It occurs in open forest and woodland across eastern Australia and southern New Guinea....
Korora redirects here. For the Kororaa Linux operating system, see Kororaa.The Little Penguin is the smallest species of penguin. The penguin, which is about 43 cm tall, is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile....
The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, Estuary, 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....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Little Shearwater , sometimes called Southern Little Shearwater to distinguish it from the North Atlantic Little Shearwater which was formerly included in this species, is a small shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Little Shrike-thrush is a species of bird in the Colluricinclidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
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....
The Little Stint, Calidris or Erolia minuta, is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance bird migration, wintering south to Africa and south Asia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Little Tern 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 Little Wattlebird , also known as the Brush Wattlebird, is a honeyeater, a passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in coastal and sub-coastal south-eastern Australia....
The Little Woodswallow , is a bird patchily distributed over much of mainland Australia, avoiding only the driest deserts and the area within about 300 kilometres of the southern coastline, and showing a preference for rugged terrain around inland ranges....
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....
The Long-billed, White-tailed or Baudin's Black Cockatoo is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia, closely associated to moist, heavily forested areas dominated by Corymbia calophylla....
The Long-billed Corella, Cacatua tenuirostris, is a cockatoo native to Australia, which is similar in appearance to the Little Corella and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo....
The Long-tailed FinchPoephila acuticauda is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000 - 10,000,000 km?....
The Long-toed Stint, Calidris or Erolia subminuta, is a small wader bird. It breeds across northern Asia and is strongly bird migration, wintering in south and south east Asia and Australasia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Macaroni Penguin is a species of penguin that is closely related to the Royal Penguin. There are about 18 million Macaroni Penguins in existence, and the number is decreasing, due to unideal environmental conditions and their many predators....
The Magpie-goose, Anseranas semipalmata, is a waterbird species found in coastal northern Australia and savannah in southern New Guinea. It is a unique member of the order Anseriformes, and arranged in a Family and genus distinct from all other living waterfowl....
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....
The Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Lophochroa leadbeateri, also known as Leadbeater's Cockatoo or Pink Cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia....
The Mallard , probably the best-known and most recognizable of all ducks, is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and sub-tropical areas of North America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand , and Australia....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Malleefowl is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian Aves about the size of a domestic chicken . It occupies semi-arid mallee scrub on the fringes of the relatively fertile areas of southern Australia, where it is now reduced to three separate populations: the Murray River-Murrumbidgee River basin, west of Spencer Gulf along the fringes of...
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....
The Mangrove Grey 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....
The Mangrove Robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The Marsh Sandpiper, Tringa stagnatilis, is a small wader. It is a rather small shanks, and breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra, is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. This species breeds on islands in tropical oceans, especially on the Galapagos islands, except in the eastern Atlantic; in the eastern Pacific it is replaced by the Nazca Booby, Sula granti, which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Masked Booby...
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and booby. Both groups are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish. The species in this family are often considered congeneric, placing all in the genus Sula....
The Masked Finch is a small passerine bird in the estrildid finch family, Estrildidae. It is a common resident of dry savanna across northern Australia, from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, across the Top End, the Gulf country and the southern part of Cape York Peninsula, as far east as Chillagoe, but always near water....
The Masked Lapwing , previously known as the Masked Plover and often called simply "the Plover" in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
Barn-owls are one of the two family of owls, the other being the typical owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces....
The Masked Woodswallow is a species of bird in the Artamidae family.It is found in Australia and New Zealand.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
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....
Matsudaira's Storm-petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family.It breeds solely in the Volcano Islands in the north-west Pacific Ocean, and winters in the Indian Ocean....
The MistletoebirdDicaeum hirundinaceum is a flowerpecker type bird that mainly lives in Australia, but it can't live in some parts of this country due to arid climates....
The Mulga Parrot , also known as the Many-coloured Parrot, is endemic in arid scrublands and lightly timbered grasslands in the interior of southern Australia....
The Musk Duck is a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia. They are moderately common through the Murray-Darling and Cooper's Creek basins, and in the wetter, fertile areas in the south of the continent: the south-west corner of Western Australia, Victoria , and Tasmania....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Mute Swan is a Eurasian member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. Although they tend to be quieter than other kinds of swans, they are not mute, and do vocalize....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
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....
The Narcissus Flycatcher is a passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It is native to east Asia, from Sakhalin to the north, through Japan across through Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan, wintering in southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Borneo....
The new holland honeyeater was the first bird to be scientifically described in Australia, and was initially named Certhia novaehollandiae . The New Holland Honeyeater is found throughout southern Australia....
The Night Parrot is a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. The species was originally placed within its own genus , but most authors now prefer to place it within the genus Pezoporus together with the Ground Parrot....
The Noisy Scrub-bird is a species of bird in the Atrichornithidae family.It is Endemism to Australia. It was presumed extinct until a population was discovered at Two People's Bay in the Southeast of Western Australia in the 60s....
The Northern Fantail is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Pintail or Northern Pintail is a widely-occurring duck which breeds in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly bird migration and winters south of its breeding range to the equator....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Northern Rosella , also known as Brown's Parakeet or Smutty Rosella, is found in Australia's Top End. It is unusually coloured for a rosella, with a dark crown and white cheeks similar to its relatives the Pale-headed Rosella and the Eastern Rosella....
The Northern Shoveler , sometimes known simply as the Shoveler , is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, and is a rare vagrant to Australia....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
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....
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....
Cuculus saturatus was for long a species of cuckoo found all over Asia. These birds breed in northern Eurasia and the Himalayas, migrating to southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter, where an all-year resident population also exists....
The Oriental Plover , Charadrius veredus , also known as the Oriental Dotterel , is a medium-sized Charadriine plover closely related to the Caspian Plover....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Oriental Pratincole,also known as the Grasshopper-Bird or Swallow-Plover is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.Their most unusual feature of the pratincoles is that although classed as waders they typically hunt their insect prey on the wing like hirundinidae, although they can also feed on the ground....
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups:*The pratincoles: these have short legs, long pointed wings and long forked tails....
The Osprey , sometimes known as the sea hawk, is a Diurnality, fish bird of prey. It is a large Bird of prey, reaching 60 centimeters in length with a 1.8 metre wingspan....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
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....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Pacific Black Duck, Anas superciliosa 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....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Pacific Gull is a very large gull, native to the coasts of Australia. It is moderately common between Carnarvon, Western Australia in the west, and Sydney in the east, although it has become scarce in some parts of the south-east, as a result of competition from the Kelp Gull, which has "self-introduced" since the 1940s....
The Pacific Swallow or Hill Swallow is a small perching bird bird in the Hirundinidae. It breeds in tropical southern Asia from southern India and Sri Lanka across to south east Asia and the islands of the south Pacific....
Hirundinidae
Hirundo tahitica
Painted Button-quail
Turnicidae
Turnix varia
Painted Finch
Passeridae
Emblema pictum
aka 'Painted Firetail' and 'Painted Firetail Finch'
The Pale-headed Munia, Lonchura pallida is a species of estrildid finch found in Indonesia. It is found in artificial landscapes, subtropical and tropical lowlands, dry shrubland and grassland habitat....
The Pallid Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea....
The Partridge Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
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....
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....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Peregrine Falcon , also known simply as the Peregrine, and historically as the "Duck Hawk" in North America, is a Cosmopolitan distribution bird of prey in the family Falconidae....
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that comprise 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....
The Pheasant Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae that are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat....
The Pied Butcherbird is a medium-sized songbird native to Australia. It grows about 35 centimetres long and the colour of juvenile birds, which are accompanied by their parents, is brown and white as seen in the picture....
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....
The Pied Heron, Ardea picata, is found in coastal and subcoastal areas of monsoonal northern Australia as well as some parts of Wallacea and New Guinea....
The Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus longirostris, is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird native to Australia and commonly found on its coastline....
The Pink-eared Duck is a species of duck found in Australia.It has a large spatulate bill like the Australasian Shoveler, but is smaller at 38-40 cm length....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Plumed Whistling Duck , also called the Grass Whistle Duck , is a whistling duck which breeds in New Guinea and Australia. It is a predominantly brown-coloured duck with a long neck and characteristic plumage arising from its flanks....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The colourful Princess Parrot, Polytelis alexandrae, is an Australian bird of the parrot family. Its name was given in honour of Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who later married the Prince of Wales Edward VII of the United Kingdom and eventually became the Queen of England....
The Purple Swamphen , also known as the African Purple Swamphen or Purple Moorhen or Purple Gallinule or Purple Coot , is a large bird in the family Rallidae....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
Porphyrio porphyrio
aka 'African Purple Swamphen' or 'Purple Moorhen' or 'Purple Gallinule'
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Purple-crowned Lorikeet , also known as the Zit Parrot, is a Lories and lorikeets found in scrub and Mallee of southern Australia. It is a small lorikeet distinguished by a purple crown, an orange forehead and ear-coverts, and a light blue chin and chest....
The Purple-gaped Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Radjah Shelduck, Tadorna radjah, is a species of shelduck. Placed in the genus Tadorna, it differs markedly in external morphology , and mtDNA cytochrome b DNA sequence data suggests its status should be reinvestigated....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
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....
The Rainbow Lorikeet, Trichoglossus haematodus is a species of Australasian parrot found in Australia, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu....
The Red Goshawk is probably the rarest Australian bird of prey. It is found mainly in the savanna woodlands of northern Australia, particularly near watercourses....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Red Knot, Calidris canutus , is a medium sized wader which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Red Wattlebird, Anthochaera carunculata, also known as Barkingbird or Gillbird, 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....
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....
The Red-backed Fairy-wren is a species of passerine bird in the Maluridae family. It is Endemism to Australia and can be found near rivers and coastal areas along the northern and eastern coastlines from the Kimberley in the northwest to the Hunter Region in New South Wales....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Red-backed Kingfisher is a species of kingfisher in the tree kingfisher family, also known as tree kingfishers. It is a predominantly blue-green and white bird with a chestnut rump....
The Red-browed FinchNeochmia temporalis is an estrildid finch that inhabits the east coast of Australia. This species is also been introduced to French Polynesia for breeding....
The Red-browed Pardalote occupies the northern two-thirds of Australia, is a fraction larger than the Forty-spotted Pardalote at 10 to 12 cm, and the least conspicuously coloured, being paler and combining the spotted skull-cap of the Spotted Pardalote with the striped wings of the Striated Pardalote....
The Red-capped Parrot , also called the Pileated Parakeet , and King Parrot locally in Western Australia, is an Australian species of broad-tailed parrot related to the Rosellas....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The Red-capped Robin is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Found in dryer regions across much of the continent, it inhabits scrub and open woodland....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The Red-footed Booby, Sula sula, is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings....
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and booby. Both groups are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish. The species in this family are often considered congeneric, placing all in the genus Sula....
The Red-headed Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family, found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Red-kneed Dotterel, Erythrogonys cinctus, is a long-legged, medium-sized plover in a monotypic genus in the subfamily Vanellinae. It is often gregarious and will associate with other waders of its own and different species, even when nesting....
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Red-necked Avocet is a water bird found throughout Australia, except for the northern parts of the Northern Territory.With long wading legs, this bird is found swimming and wading on or around lakes and shallow areas such as mud flats....
The Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is bird migration, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Red-rumped Swallow is a small passerine bird in the Hirundinidae family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India and tropical Africa....
The Red-tailed Tropicbird,Phaethon rubricauda, is a seabird that nests across the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans. It is the rarest of the tropicbirds, yet is still a widespread bird that is not considered threatened....
The Red-throated Pipit is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and Asia, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance bird migration moving in winter to Africa, south and east Asia and west coast USA....
The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genus and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits....
The Red-winged Fairy-wren is a species of passerine bird in the Maluridae family. It is sedentary and Endemism to the southwestern corner of Western Australia....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Regent Parrot is a bird of the parrot family . The bird is found primarily in eucalyptus groves and other wooded areas of subtropical southwestern Australia, as well as to a smaller area of subtropical and temperate southeastern Australia....
The Restless Flycatcher, Myiagra inquieta, is a passerine bird in the family Monarch flycatcher.Also known colloquially as Scissors Grinder, Girl Grinder, or Dishwasher on account of its unusual bird vocalization, the Restless Flycatcher was first described by ornithologist John Latham in 1802....
The Richard's Pipit is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in northern Asia. It is a long-distance bird migration moving to open lowlands in southern Asia....
The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genus and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits....
The Rock Parrot , known alternately as Rock Elegant, is a parrot endemic to coastal South Australia and southern Western Australia, as well as offshore islands....
The rockhopper penguins are two species of penguins that until recently were considered conspecific under the name Rockhopper Penguin :* Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome....
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....
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 22cm long, green fruit dove with a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange Iris , and greyish green Beak and feet....
Royal Albatross may refer to:* Northern Royal Albatross* Southern Royal AlbatrossNote: Some authorites have yet to split this species such as the American Ornithologists' Union or James Clements, in that case, Royal Albatross refers to both Species....
The Royal Spoonbill , also known as the Black-billed Spoonbill, occurs in mudflat and shallows of fresh and saltwater wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands....
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills....
The Ruddy Turnstone is a small wader 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....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Rufous FantailRhipidura rufifrons inhabits the east coast of Australia. The base of its tail is bright orange-red in colour and their wings are greyish brown....
The Rufous Owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
The Rufous Treecreeper is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
The Rufous Whistler is a species of Pachycephalidae found in New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, and throughout Australia . Predominantly a reddish-brown and grey bird, it makes up for its subdued plumage with its song-making ability....
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....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Rufous-throated Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Sabine's Gull is a small gull. Its generic placement is disputed; some authors treat it as the sole species in the genus Xema as Xema sabini, while others retain it in the genus Larus as Larus sabini....
The Sacred Kingfisher is a tree kingfisher found in the mangroves, forests, and river valleys of Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand , Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Sanderling is a small wader. It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, and is a long-distance bird migration, wintering south to South America, South Europe, Africa, and Australia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
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....
The Sarus Crane, Grus antigone is an all-year resident breeding bird in northern Pakistan and India , Nepal, Southeast Asia and Queensland, Australia....
The Satin Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
The Scarlet Robin , is a common red-breasted Petroicidae in the passerine bird genus Petroica. The species is found on continental Australia and its offshore islands ....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The Scarlet-chested Parrot , known alternately as Scarlet-breasted parrot, Orange-throated parrot or Splendid parrot, is a parrot endemic to central South Australia and inland southern Western Australia....
Psittacidae
Neophema splendida
aka 'Scarlet-breasted parrot', 'Orange-throated parrot' or 'Splendid parrot'
The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Calidris acuminata is a small wader. It breeds in the boggy tundra of northeast Asia and is strongly bird migration, wintering in south east Asia and Australasia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Shining Bronze-Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family, found in Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu....
The Shining 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 and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Short-billed or Carnaby's Black CockatooCalyptorhynchus latirostris is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia. It is also known as the Large Black Cockatoo, and Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo....
The Short-tailed ShearwaterPuffinus tenuirostris, or Yolla, more commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds that is muttonbirding....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Shy Albatross or Shy Mollymawk, Thalassarche cauta, is a medium sized albatross that breeds off Australia and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands and ranges extensively across the Southern Ocean....
The Shy Heathwren is a species of small bird in the Acanthizidae family, Endemism to Australia. They inhabit mostly Mallee woodland that has relatively dense shrub and Heath understorey....
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 Silver-crowned Friarbird is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Silvereye or Wax-eye is a very small passerine bird native to Australia, New Zealand and the south-west Pacific islands of Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji....
The Singing Bushlark is a species of bushlark found in South Asia and Australia. Other names it is referred to by are the Horsfield's Bushlark, the Australasian Bushlark, and Brown Bushlark....
The Singing Honeyeater, Lichenostomus virescens is a small bird found in Australia, and is part of the honeyeater family. Although it is common there, it is not very well known in other places....
The Slender-billed Prion is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Southern Territories, Kenya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Peru, Saint Helena, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Uruguay....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Soft-plumaged Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere, nesting on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands and on the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Sooty Oystercatcher, Haematopus fuliginosus, is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird native to Australia and commonly found on its coastline....
The Sooty Shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand it is also known by its Maori language name titi and as "muttonbird", like its relatives the Wedge-tailed Shearwater and the Australian Short-tailed Shearwater ....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
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....
The South Polar Skua, Stercorarius maccormicki, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. An older name for this bird is MacCormick?s Skua....
The southern boobook , also called the mopoke or morepork, is a small brown owl found mainly in New Zealand and the more fertile and temperate parts of Australia....
The Southern Emu-wren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Southern Fulmar is a seabird of the Southern Hemisphere. Along with the Northern Fulmar , it belongs to the fulmar genus Fulmarus in the family Procellariidae, the true petrels....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The Spangled Drongo is a bird of the family Dicruridae.The Spangled Drongo is the only Drongo to be found in Australia. "Drongo" is Australian slang for "idiot", possibly referring to the bird's uninhibited and sometimes comical behaviour as it swoops and perches in search of insects....
The Spinifex Pigeon, Geophaps plumifera, is a bird found in Australia.There two only Australian dove species that possess an erect crest are the Spinifex Pigeon and the Crested Pigeon....
The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is the only species in the genus Acanthegenys. It is large, for a honeyeater, ranging from 22 to 27 centimeters and weighing around 52 grams ....
The Splendid Fairy-wren , also known simply as the Splendid Wren or more colloquially in Western Australia as the Blue Wren, is a passerine bird of the Maluridae family....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Spotless Crake is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae.It is found in American Samoa, Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Tonga....
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large Cosmopolitan distribution family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable Biodiversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Spotted Nightjar is a species of Nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is found in Australia and Indonesia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
The Spotted Pardalote is one of the smallest of all Australian birds at 8 to 10cm in length, and one of the most colourful; it is sometimes known as the Diamondbird....
The Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It is an Arctic bird, breeding across northern Scandinavia and northern Asia....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Square-tailed Kite, Lophoictinia isura, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal Bird of preys such as kite s, eagles and harrier s....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Straw-necked Ibis, Threskiornis spinicollis, can be found throughout Australia, New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia. Adults have distinctive straw-like feathers on their neck....
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large terrestrial and wading birds, falling into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills....
The Streaked Shearwater, Calonectris leucomelas is a species of seabird. The bird is 48 cm in size, with a 122 cm wingspan. This species is pelagic, but also occurs in inshore waters....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Striated Heron, Butorides striata, also known as Mangrove Heron or Little Heron, is a small heron. Striated Herons are mostly bird migration and noted for some interesting behavioral traits....
The Striated Pardalote is the least colourful and most common of the four pardalote species. It is a very small, short-tailed bird that is more often heard than seen, foraging noisily for lerp s and other small creatures in the treetops....
The Stubble Quail, Coturnix pectoralis is an Australian quail of the family Phasianidae. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the extinct New Zealand Quail....
The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl , Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl....
The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, is one of the larger and more widespread of Australia's cockatoos. Frequently sought as a cage bird in and out of Australia, they can be so numerous that in crop-growing areas of Australia they are shot or poisoned as pests....
The Swamp Harrier, Circus approximans, also known as the Marsh Harrier, Australasian Harrier, Kahu, Swamp-hawk or New Zealand Hawk is a large, slim bird of prey in the family Accipitridae....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Tahiti Petrel, P?trel De Tahiti, or Petrel De Tahit? is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.It is found in American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Mexico, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and possibly the Cook Islands....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides, is an Australian variety of frogmouth, a type of bird found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea....
The Tawny Grassbird is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines....
The Tawny-crowned Honeyeater is a passerine bird native to eastern Australia.The Tawny-crowned Honeyeater was originally described by ornithologist John Latham in 1802 as Certhia melanops....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
The Thick-billed Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Tiger Shrike or Thick-billed Shrike is a small passerine bird which belongs to the genus Lanius in the shrike family, Laniidae. It is found in wooded habitats across eastern Asia....
The Torresian Crow , also occasionally called the Australian Crow or Papuan Crow in those respective countries, is an Australasian member of the crow genus....
Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rook s, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, Pyrrhocorax and nutcracker ....
The Varied Sittella, Daphoenositta chrysoptera is a small, around 10-11 cm long, songbird native to Australia and New Guinea. Its Crown is white, grey, black or a mixture of the three, and its body is whitish, grey or brown, sometimes streaked with black....
The Varied Triller, Lalage leucomela like its better-known relative the White-winged Triller, is a smaller member of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae....
The Variegated Fairy-wren is a fairy-wren that lives in diverse habitats spread across most of Australia. Four subspecies are recognised. Exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism, the brightly coloured breeding male has chestnut shoulders and blue crown and ear coverts, while non-breeding males, females and juveniles have predominantly...
The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
The Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross, or White-winged Albatross, Diomedea exulans, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean....
The Wandering Whistling Duck is a species of whistling duck. They inhabit tropical and subtropical Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands ....
Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks, goose 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....
The Wedge-tailed Eagle or Eaglehawk is the largest Bird of prey in Australia and is the most common of all the world's large eagles. It has long, fairly broad wings, fully feathered legs, and an unmistakable wedge-shaped tail....
The Accipitridae is one of the two major family within the order Accipitriformes . Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kite , harrier and Old World vultures are included in this group....
The Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a Muttonbird, like the Sooty Shearwater of New Zealand and the Short-tailed Shearwater of Australia....
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prion , and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels....
The Weebill is a small, approximately 9cm long, olive-yellow songbird with a grey Beak, brown wings, pale yellow eye and grey feet. Its tail feathers are brown with black bar and white spot on tip of all inner webs but the central pairs....
The Welcome Swallow is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.It is a species native to Australia and Melanesia, but not until recently to New Zealand, which has been colonised in the last half century....
The Western Bowerbird is a species of bird in the Bowerbird family . The species is a common endemism of Australia. It has a disjunct range , occurring in Central Australia and the Pilbara region of Western Australia....
The Western Corella, Cacatua pastinator, formerly known as the Western Long-billed Corella, is a species of white cockatoo endemism to south-western Western Australia....
The Western Gerygone is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
The Western RosellaPlatycercus icterotis, less commonly known as the Stanley Rosella, Earl of Derby's parakeet or Yellow-cheeked parakeet, is the smallest species of rosella and is found in the Southwest Australia of Australia....
The Western Thornbill is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation....
The Western Whipbird is a passerine bird found in several scattered populations across southern Australia. It is predominantly olive green in colour....
The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
The Western Yellow Robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family. It is Endemism to Australia, and sometimes known overseas as the Grey-breasted Robin....
The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
The WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is the one of the mostwidespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America, Europe and Asia as far south as Scotland....
The Scolopacidae are a large family of waders, . Many of the smaller species are often called "sandpipers", especially members of genera Calidris, Tringa and Actitis....
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