Australian Birdlist

This is the FINAL list of all the birds I saw in Australia, from 29 Jan - 13 May 2007.

All common names and taxonomic order taken from: Gill, F. and M.Wright. 2006. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. In some instances where the Gill and Wright recommendation differed significantly from the names commonly found in Australian field guides, I have indicated the Australian name in parentheses.

1. Southern Cassowary
2. Emu
3. Australian Brushturkey
4. Scrubfowl (Orange-footed Scrubfowl)
   
5. Brown Quail
6. Plumed Whistling Duck
   
7. Wandering Whistling Duck
8. Black Swan
   
9. Maned Duck (Australian Wood Duck)
   
10. Mallard
    
11. Pacific Black Duck
12. Chestnut Teal
    
13. Hardhead
14. Wedge-tailed Shearwater
    
15. Australasian Grebe
    
16. Great Crested Grebe
17. Black-necked Stork
18. Australian White Ibis
19. Royal Spoonbill
20. Striated Heron
21. Cattle Egret
22. Great Egret
23. White-faced Heron
24. Little Egret
25. Pacific Reef Heron (Eastern Reef Egret)
26. Great Frigatebird
27. Australian Pelican
28. Australasian Gannet
    
29. Little Pied Cormorant
    
30. Little Black Cormorant
31. Great Cormorant
32. Darter
33. Nankeen Kestrel
34. Brown Falcon
35. Peregrine Falcon
    
36. Osprey
37. Black-breasted Buzzard
    
38. Black-shouldered Kite
39. Black Kite
40. Whistling Kite
41. White-bellied Sea-Eagle
42. Collared Sparrowhawk
    
43. Wedge-tailed Eagle
44. Australian Bustard
45. Buff-banded Rail
46. Purple Swamphen
47. Dusky Moorhen
48. Eurasian Coot
49. Bush Stone-curlew
50. Beach Stone-curlew
51. Pied Oystercatcher
52. Black-winged Stilt
53. Masked Lapwing
54. Pacific Golden Plover
55. Red-capped Plover
56. Lesser Sand Plover
57. Greater Sand Plover
58. Black-fronted Dotterel
59. Latham's Snipe
    
60. Black-tailed Godwit
61. Bar-tailed Godwit
62. Whimbrel
    
63. Eastern Curlew
64. Common Greenshank
65. Grey-tailed Tattler
66. Great Knot
67. Red-necked Stint
68. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
69. Silver Gull
70. Caspian Tern
71. Swift Tern (Crested Tern)
    
72. Roseate Tern
73. Common Tern
74. Little Tern
75. Common Pigeon (Rock Pigeon)
76. White-headed Pigeon
77. Spotted Dove
78. Brown Cuckoo-Dove
79. Emerald Dove
80. Crested Pigeon
81. Diamond Dove
    
82. Peaceful Dove
83. Bar-shouldered Dove
84. Wompoo Fruit Dove
85. Superb Fruit Dove
86. Rose-crowned Fruit Dove (heard only)
    
87. Pied Imperial Pigeon
88. Topknot Pigeon
89. Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
90. Galah
91. Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
92. Cockatiel
    
93. Rainbow Lorikeet
94. Australian Ringneck (Western Ringneck, lumped)
    
95. Crimson Rosella
96. White-cheeked Rosella (Pale-headed Rosella)
97. Australian King Parrot
98. Red-winged Parrot
99. Double-eyed Fig Parrot
100. Pheasant Coucal
     
101. Common Koel
102. Channel-billed Cuckoo
103. Fan-tailed Cuckoo
104. Oriental Cuckoo
105. Lesser Sooty Owl (heard only)
106. Morepork (Southern Boobook) (heard only)
107. White-rumped Swiftlet
108. Oriental Dollarbird
109. Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher
110. Laughing Kookaburra
111. Blue-winged Kookaburra
112. Forest Kingfisher
113. Sacred Kingfisher
114. Azure Kingfisher
115. Little Kingfisher
116. Rainbow Bee-Eater
117. Green Catbird (Spotted Catbird, lumped)
     
118. Tooth-billed Bowerbird
119. Western Bowerbird
120. White-throated Treecreeper
121. Lovely Fairywren
122. Variegated Fairywren
123. Superb Fairywren
124. Splendid Fairywren
125. Red-backed Fairywren
126. Southern Emu-wren
127. Macleay's Honeyeater
128. Bridled Honeyeater
129. Varied Honeyeater
130. Yellow Honeyeater
131. White-plumed Honeyeater
132. Graceful Honeyeater
133. Yellow-spotted Honeyeater
134. Lewin's Honeyeater
135. Noisy Miner
136. Yellow-throated Miner
137. Blue-faced Honeyeater
138. Little Friarbird
139. Helmeted Friarbird
140. Silver-crowned Friarbird
141. Noisy Friarbird
142. Little Wattlebird
143. Red Wattlebird
144. Brown Honeyeater
145. New Holland Honeyeater
146. White-cheeked Honeyeater
147. Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
148. Brown-backed Honeyeater
149. Eastern Spinebill
150. Dusky Myzomela (Honeyeater)
     
151. Scarlet Myzomela (Honeyeater) (heard only)
     
152. Red-browed Pardalote
     
153. Striated Pardalote
154. White-browed Scrubwren
155. Yellow-throated Scrubwren
156. Large-billed Scrubwren
157. Weebill
     
158. Brown Gerygone
159. Large-billed Gerygone
160. Fairy Gerygone
161. Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
     
162. Buff-rumped Thornbill
163. Yellow-rumped Thornbill
164. Yellow Thornbill
165. Grey-crowned Babbler
166. Chowchilla
167. Eastern Whipbird
168. Yellow-breasted Boatbill
169. Black Butcherbird
170. Grey Butcherbird
     
171. Pied Butcherbird
172. Australian Magpie
173. Pied Currawong
174. White-breasted Woodswallow
175. Black-faced Cuckooshrike
176. Barred Cuckooshrike
177. White-bellied Cuckooshrike
178. Varied Triller
179. Australian Golden Whistler
180. Rufous Whistler
181. Australasian Figbird
     
182. Olive-backed Oriole
183. Green Oriole (Yellow Oriole)
184. Bower's Shrikethrush
185. Little Shrikethrush
186. Grey Shrikethrush
187. Spangled Drongo
188. Willie Wagtail
189. Grey Fantail
     
190. Rufous Fantail
191. Black-faced Monarch
192. Spectacled Monarch
193. Pied Monarch
194. Magpielark
195. Shining Flycatcher
196. Torresian Crow
197. Australian Raven
198. Apostlebird
199. Victoria's Riflebird
200. Grey-headed Robin
201. Pale-yellow Robin
202. Red-capped Robin
203. White-backed Swallow
204. Welcome Swallow
205. Tree Martin
     
206. Tawny Grassbird
207. Silvereye
208. Metallic Starling
209. Common Myna
210. Mistletoebird
211. Olive-backed Sunbird (Yellow-bellied Sunbird)
212. House Sparrow
213. Red-browed Finch
214. Crimson Finch
215. Zebra Finch
216. Blue-faced Parrot-Finch
217. Scaly-breasted Munia (Nutmeg Mannikin)
218. Chestnut-breasted Munia (Mannikin)
219. Australian Pipit

Possible, but ID not confident

1. Straw-necked Ibis
2. Grey Teal
   
3. Grey Goshawk
4. Grey Falcon
   
5. Western Gerygone
6. Banded Honeyeater

(What's with all the grey mystery birds? haha)