Australian Bird List

The bird list: Australia

1. Superb-Fairy wren
2. NH Honey-Eater
3. White-faced Heron
4. Magpie
5. Grey Currawong (black form - pretty certain of this ID)
6. Mudlark
7. Willie Wagtail
8. Tawny Frogmouth
9. Black Cockatoo (yellow tail)
10. Black Cockatoo (red tail, Alice)
11. Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
12. Little Corella
13. Rainbow Lorikeet
14. Eastern Rosella
15. Sparrow
16. Welcome Swallow
17. Common Starling
18. Rock Pigeon (normal pigeon, feral)
19. Spotted Dove
20. Crested Pigeon (with top-knot)
21. Australian Raven ("crow")
22. Little wattle bird (black, dusky, smaller)
23. Swan (black swan)
24. Silver Gull
25. Pacific Gull (the bigger one)
26. Black-shouldered kite (in the dunes)
27. Little pied cormorant
28. Little black cormorant
29. Great cormorant (definite)
30. Pied Cormorant (Mutton Cove)
31. Bin Chicken (Australian White Ibis)
32. Purple swamp Hen
33. Eurasian coot (white beak)
34. Dusky Moorhen (red beak)
35. Hoary-headed Grebe
36. Red Wattle-Bird (Robe)
37. Noisy Miner
38. White-Winged Chough (in hills)
39. Galah
40. Kookaburra (the common laughing one)
41. Pelican
42. Blackbird
43. Greater Crested Tern
44. Masked Lapwing
45. Australian Wood Duck
46. Pacific Black Duck (green or purple wing patches)
47. Grey Teal (white wing patches, no head stripes)
48. Royal Spoonbill
49. Pied Stilt
50. Yellow-Rumped Thornbill
51. Sooty Oyster Catcher (Robe)
52. Pied Oyster-Catcher (KI, early 2021 and again, Mutton Cove 2022)
53. Wedge-Tailed Eagle (no pic but seen with confidence) (Robe)
54. Spiny-Cheeked Honey-Eater (Robe)
55. Hooded Dotterel or Plover (Robe and KI)
56. Singing Honey-Eater
57. Australian Spotted Crake (Robe)
58. Nankeen Kestrel (Robe)
59. Red-Browed Finch
60. Latham's Snipe (Robe)
61. Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper (near Robe, ID according to Peter Lynch)
62. Chestnut Teal  (Mine has a black head. Can also have a green head, or, not be chestnut at all) (Robe)
63. Common Bronzewing (photo by Alex)
64. Common Sandpiper (pretty sure, and definite sighting in Onkaparinga while canooing with Smith-Golding clan)
65. Little Egret
66. Beautiful Firetail (seen in birdbath on KI)
67. Emu
68. Striated Pardalote (KI)
69. Sanderling (KI, probable)
70. Australian Reed Warbler (Laratinga)
71. Crimson Rosella (Adelaide form with mottled red front)
72. Crimson Rosella (normal form)
73. Crimson Rosella (yellow form)
74. Musk Lorikeet
75. Mulga Parrot
76. Bluebonnet (Greater)
77. Australian Grebe
78. White-plumed honey-eater
79. Blue Faced Honey Eater
80. Cape Barren Goose
81. Peacock (Alice)
82. Zebra Finch (Alice)
83. Budgerigar (Alice)
84. Grey Crowned Babbler (Alice)
85. Tawny Crowned Babbler
86. Apostlebird
87. Pied Butcherbird
88. Grey Butcher-Bird
89. Yellow-throated Miner
90. Dusky Woodswallow (no decent photos) (Alice)
91. Southern Boobook Owl (Alice)
92. Diamond Dove (Alice)
93. Western Bowerbird (Alice)
94. Spinafex Pigeon (Alice)
95. Eastern Spinebill (in our garden)
96. Australasian Pipit (Alice, and also on the airport creek)
97. Fairy Martin (blue backed swallow)
98. Nankeen Night Heron (juvenile and adult)
99. Port Lincoln Parrot (in Alice and in WA)
100. JABIRU (Mary River)
101. Comb-Crested Jakani (Mary River)
102. Black Kite (Mary River)
103. Whistling Kite (Mary River)
104. Peregrine Falcon
105. Collared Sparrowhawk
106. Intermediate Egret (Mary River)
107. Australasian Darter (Mary River)
108. Pied Heron (Mary River)
109. White-Bellied Sea Eagle (Mary River)
110. Blue-Winged Kookaburra (Mary River)
111. Plumed Whistling Ducks although I could hardly see them
112. Torresian Crow (Darwin)
113. Stone Curlew (Beach)
114. Orange-Footed Scrubfowl
115. Brahminy Kite
116. Imperial Pigeon
117. Spangled Drongo (Darwin, probable)
118. Crimson Finch (Darwin, probable)
119. Red Collared Lorikeet (Darwin)
120. Lemon-Bellied Flycatcher
121. Restless Flyctacher
122. Grey Fantail
123. Silver Eye
124. Red-Capped Robin (at airport creek, photo by Louise)
125. White-Naped Honey-Eater
126. European Goldfinch
127. Crescent Honeyeater (Wild Dog Glen, with ID help from FB site)
128. Scarlet Robin (at Cleland)
129. Western Whistler (also at Cleland)
130. Golden Whistler
131. Long-Billed Corella
132. White-Browed Scrubwren (Wilson's Prom)
133. Brown Thornbill (Wilson's Prom)
134. Red-Rumped Parrot (Heidelburg / Banyule)
135. Yellow Wattlebird (Melbourne, not certain)
136. Pied Currawong (Melbourne)
137. Indian Mynah Bird
138. Rufous Whistler (Aldinga)
139. Grey Shrike-Thrush (Aldinga)
140. Elegant Parrot (Aldinga)
141. Rainbow Bee Eater
142. Brush Bronzewing
143. white winged fairy wren
144. Australasian Shoveller
145. Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo (heard again with one note call at Monkey Mia in 2026)
146. Sacred Kingfisher
147. Dusky Woodswallow
148. Yellow-Billed Spoonbill (Milang)
149. Striated Thornbill (Milang)
150. Painted Buttonquail
151. Little Friarbird (Wentworth NSW)
152. Yellow-Faced Honey Eater (Scott Creek)
153. Musk Duck (the reservoir)
154. White-Throated Treecreeper (Bridgewater)
155. Black-Faced Cuckooshrike (Parrawirra)
156. Bar-Tailed Godwit
157. Red-Necked Stint
158. Ruddy Turnstone
159. Whiskered Tern
160. Fairy Tern (actually seen in Quobba WA 2026, not in SA, I got that wrong)
161. Caspian Tern
162. Red Knot (can't ID this on my own yet)
163. Great Knot (also can't ID)
164. Fantailed Cuckoo (Mt Bold)
165. Jacky Winter (Ettrick)
166. Hooded Robin (Ettrick)
167. Varied Sitella (Ettrick)
168. White-Winged Triller (Ettrick)
169. Brown or Black Falcon (Ettrick, can't formally ID yet).
170. Brown Treecreeper
171. White-Browed Woodswallow
172. Rufous Songlark
173. White-Breasted Woodswallow
174. Brush Cuckoo
175. Satin Bowerbird
176. Brown Falcon
177. Pied Currawong
178. Noisy Friarbird
179. Great Crested Grebe
180. Yellow Thornbill
181. Lyrebird
182. Rock Warbler
183. White-Eared Honeyeater
184. White-Necked Heron
185. King Parrot
186. Gang Gang Cockatoo
187. Olive-Backed Oriole
188. Baillon's Crake
189. Freckled Duck
190. Spotted Pardalote
191. Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
192. Eastern Yellow Robin
193. Eastern Whipbird
194. Double-Barred Finch
195. Golden-Headed Cisticola
196. Black-Tailed Nativehen
197. Brown Songlark
198. White Fronted Chat (Tolderol)
199. Australian Hobby! end 2023, Murray Mouth
200. Black Kite (Id's for me by Zeb)
201. Barbary Dove
202. Gannet
203. Bell Miner
204. Stubble Quail
205. Red-Kneed Dotterel
206. Swamp Harrier - also seen at Tolderol with Houyi and Daniel
207. Bassian Thrush
208. Hardhead
209. Tree Martins, Leigh Street, early April.
210. Black-Faced Cormorant, turns out I saw one at 12 Apostles in March, ID'd on ABID in April
211. Purple-Gaped Honey Eater
212. Scarlet Robin
213. Double-Barred Plover
214. Pacific Reef Heron
215. Brown-Headed Honey Eater at the reservoir (Happy Valley)
216. Red-Capped Plover at Aldinga
217. Redthroat (near Burra SA)
218. Little Crow (near Burra SA)
219. Purple-Crowned Lorikeet (Clare, probably)
220. Southern Whiteface (Monarto)
221. Purple-Backed Fairy-Wren (Monarto)
222. Hooded Robin (Monarto)
223. Mistletobird at Aldinga with Louise
224. Grey Plover, Bald Hill, HouYi
225. OSPREY, Declan's trip
226. Tawny-Crowned Honey-Eater
227. Splendid Fairywren (Brookfield)
228. Masked Woodswallow
229. Mallee Fowl (no pic)
230. Chestnut-Rumped Thornbill
231. Brown-Headed Honeyeater
232. White-Fronted Honeyeater
233. Spotted Scrubwren (Port Lincoln)
234. Owlet Nightjar ( Port Lincoln, no photo)
235. Brolga (WTP)
236. Marsh Sandpiper (WTP)
237. Fairy Martin (WTP)
238. Red-Necked Avocet (WTP)
239. Striped Honey-Eater (Lyrup)
240. Western Wattlebird (Perth Yanchep)
241. Western Corella (Perth 2026)
242. Carnaby's Black Cockatoo (2026 WA)
243. Lesser Crested Tern (Quobba WA)
244. Little Tern (Quobba WA)
245. Little Grassbird (running over the road in Quobba WA, no pictures as proof, also probable at Monkey Mia)
246. Laughing Dove (Perth, invasive)
247. Dusky Gerygone (most probable guess, Louise, Geraldton or Carnarvon)
248. Wilson's Storm Petrel (on whale tour June 21 2026, tiny, very close to water)
249. Common Tern (almost certain spot in WA)
250. MAYBE a flesh-footed shearwater according to lady on whale shark tour
251. Torresian Crow (WA)
252. Brown Songlark (ID made by call only, Exmouth region)
253. WHITE-BELLIED SEA EAGLE (Cape Range WA)
254. Mangrove Fantail (Cape Ranged WA)
255. White-Bellied Cuckooshrike (Coral Bay)
256. Western (Thick-Billed) Grasswren - definite spot in Monkey Mia, WA
257. Chiming Wedgebill - definite ID, Monkey Mia, ID through call, seen singing in distance.
258. Probable Blue-Breasted Fairy Wren although could have been Purple Backed 
259. Black-Faced Woodswallow at Badgingarra! Yay! 
260. BUFF BANDED RAIL! Finally got one at Herdsman's Lake Perth.