TASMANIA
AUSTRALIA
LOCALE
| # Species: | 322 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 280 |
| # Endemics: | 59 |
| # Near Endemics: | 12 |
BIRD CHECKLIST
The table below lists species recorded at this locale but does not indicate frequency of occurrence there. It does indicate whether each species is globally threatened or endangered according to the IUCN and also whether it is migratory, very rare, or accidental in the country. The list is based on available data and may be incomplete.*
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| 1 | Emu | Dromaius novaehollandiae |
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| 2 | Magpie Goose | Anseranas semipalmata |
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| 3 | Plumed Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna eytoni |
| 4 | &Freckled Duckl | Stictonetta naevosa |
| 5 | Black Swan | Cygnus atratus |
| 6 | Australian Shelduck | Tadorna tadornoides |
| 7 | Maned Duck | Chenonetta jubata |
| 8 | &Australasian Shovelerl | Spatula rhynchotis |
| 9 | Pacific Black Duck | Anas superciliosa |
| 10 | Gray Teal | Anas gracilis |
| 11 | Chestnut Teal | Anas castanea |
| 12 | Pink-eared Duck | Malacorhynchus membranaceus |
| 13 | Hardhead | Aythya australis |
| 14 | Blue-billed Duck | Oxyura australis |
| 15 | Musk Duck | Biziura lobata |
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| 16 | Brown Quail | Synoicus ypsilophora |
| 17 | &Stubble Quaill | Coturnix pectoralis |
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| 18 | Rock Pigeon | Columba livia |
| 19 | Spotted Dove | Spilopelia chinensis |
| 20 | Common Bronzewing | Phaps chalcoptera |
| 21 | Brush Bronzewing | Phaps elegans |
| 22 | Superb Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus superbus |
| 23 | &Rose-crowned Fruit-Dovel | Ptilinopus regina |
| 24 | Topknot Pigeon | Lopholaimus antarcticus |
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| 25 | Channel-billed Cuckoo | Scythrops novaehollandiae |
| 26 | Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo | Chalcites basalis |
| 27 | (Shining Bronze-Cuckoo) | Chalcites lucidus |
| 28 | (Pallid Cuckoo) | Heteroscenes pallidus |
| 29 | Fan-tailed Cuckoo | Cacomantis flabelliformis |
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| 30 | Tawny Frogmouth | Podargus strigoides |
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| 31 | Australian Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles cristatus |
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| 32 | /White-throated Needletail/ | Hirundapus caudacutus |
| 33 | /Pacific Swift/ | Apus pacificus |
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| 34 | &Lewin's Raill | Lewinia pectoralis |
| 35 | Buff-banded Rail | Gallirallus philippensis |
| 36 | Black-tailed Nativehen | Tribonyx ventralis |
| 37 | Tasmanian Nativehen | Tribonyx mortierii |
| 38 | &Australian Crakel | Porzana fluminea |
| 39 | Dusky Moorhen | Gallinula tenebrosa |
| 40 | &Eurasian Cootl | Fulica atra |
| 41 | Australasian Swamphen | Porphyrio melanotus |
| 42 | Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla |
| 43 | &Spotless Crakel | Zapornia tabuensis |
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| 44 | Bush Thick-knee | Burhinus grallarius |
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| 45 | Pied Stilt | Himantopus leucocephalus |
| 46 | Banded Stilt | Cladorhynchus leucocephalus |
| 47 | Red-necked Avocet | Recurvirostra novaehollandiae |
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| 48 | Pied Oystercatcher | Haematopus longirostris |
| 49 | Sooty Oystercatcher | Haematopus fuliginosus |
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| 50 | /Black-bellied Plover/ | Pluvialis squatarola |
| 51 | /Pacific Golden-Plover/ | Pluvialis fulva |
| 52 | Hooded Plover | Thinornis cucullatus |
| 53 | Black-fronted Dotterel | Thinornis melanops |
| 54 | /Little Ringed Plover/ | Thinornis dubius |
| 55 | Banded Lapwing | Vanellus tricolor |
| 56 | Masked Lapwing | Vanellus miles |
| 57 | Red-kneed Dotterel | Erythrogonys cinctus |
| 58 | /Oriental Plover/ | Anarhynchus veredus |
| 59 | /Siberian Sand-Plover/ | Anarhynchus mongolus |
| 60 | /Greater Sand-Plover/ | Anarhynchus leschenaultii |
| 61 | /Double-banded Plover/ | Anarhynchus bicinctus |
| 62 | Red-capped Plover | Anarhynchus ruficapillus |
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| 63 | &Australian Painted-Snipel | Rostratula australis |
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| 64 | /Little Curlew/ | Numenius minutus |
| 65 | Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus |
| 66 | /Far Eastern Curlew/ | Numenius madagascariensis |
| 67 | /Bar-tailed Godwit/ | Limosa lapponica |
| 68 | Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa |
| 69 | (Latham's Snipe) | Gallinago hardwickii |
| 70 | /Red-necked Phalarope/ | Phalaropus lobatus |
| 71 | Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus |
| 72 | /Common Sandpiper/ | Actitis hypoleucos |
| 73 | /Gray-tailed Tattler/ | Tringa brevipes |
| 74 | /Marsh Sandpiper/ | Tringa stagnatilis |
| 75 | Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola |
| 76 | /Common Greenshank/ | Tringa nebularia |
| 77 | /Ruddy Turnstone/ | Arenaria interpres |
| 78 | /Great Knot/ | Calidris tenuirostris |
| 79 | /Red Knot/ | Calidris canutus |
| 80 | /Ruff/ | Calidris pugnax |
| 81 | /Sharp-tailed Sandpiper/ | Calidris acuminata |
| 82 | /Curlew Sandpiper/ | Calidris ferruginea |
| 83 | Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta |
| 84 | /Red-necked Stint/ | Calidris ruficollis |
| 85 | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis |
| 86 | /Sanderling/ | Calidris alba |
| 87 | Dunlin | Calidris alpina |
| 88 | Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii |
| 89 | /Little Stint/ | Calidris minuta |
| 90 | /Pectoral Sandpiper/ | Calidris melanotos |
| 91 | Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri |
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| 92 | Painted Buttonquail | Turnix varius |
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| 93 | /Long-tailed Jaeger/ | Stercorarius longicaudus |
| 94 | /Parasitic Jaeger/ | Stercorarius parasiticus |
| 95 | /Pomarine Jaeger/ | Stercorarius pomarinus |
| 96 | #Brown Skua# | Stercorarius antarcticus |
| 97 | #South Polar Skua# | Stercorarius maccormicki |
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| 98 | Silver Gull | Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae |
| 99 | Pacific Gull | Larus pacificus |
| 100 | Kelp Gull | Larus dominicanus |
| 101 | Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus |
| 102 | Little Tern | Sternula albifrons |
| 103 | Australian Fairy Tern | Sternula nereis |
| 104 | Australian Tern | Gelochelidon macrotarsa |
| 105 | Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia |
| 106 | Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida |
| 107 | /White-winged Tern/ | Chlidonias leucopterus |
| 108 | Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea |
| 109 | Antarctic Tern | Sterna vittata |
| 110 | /Common Tern/ | Sterna hirundo |
| 111 | /White-fronted Tern/ | Sterna striata |
| 112 | Great Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii |
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| 113 | Australasian Grebe | Tachybaptus novaehollandiae |
| 114 | &Hoary-headed Grebel | Poliocephalus poliocephalus |
| 115 | Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus |
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| 116 | #Red-tailed Tropicbird# | Phaethon rubricauda |
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| 117 | King Penguin | Aptenodytes patagonicus |
| 118 | Adelie Penguin | Pygoscelis adeliae |
| 119 | Gentoo Penguin | Pygoscelis papua |
| 120 | Chinstrap Penguin | Pygoscelis antarcticus |
| 121 | Little Penguin | Eudyptula minor |
| 122 | Fiordland Penguin | Eudyptes pachyrhynchus |
| 123 | Erect-crested Penguin | Eudyptes sclateri |
| 124 | #Macaroni Penguin# | Eudyptes chrysolophus |
| 125 | Royal Penguin | Eudyptes schlegeli |
| 126 | #Eastern Rockhopper Penguin# | Eudyptes filholi |
| 127 | Snares Penguin | Eudyptes robustus |
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| 128 | #Northern Royal Albatross# | Diomedea sanfordi |
| 129 | #Southern Royal Albatross# | Diomedea epomophora |
| 130 | #Snowy Albatross# | Diomedea exulans |
| 131 | #Antipodean Albatross# | Diomedea antipodensis |
| 132 | #Amsterdam Albatross# | Diomedea amsterdamensis |
| 133 | #Sooty Albatross# | Phoebetria fusca |
| 134 | #Light-mantled Albatross# | Phoebetria palpebrata |
| 135 | #Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross# | Thalassarche carteri |
| 136 | #Gray-headed Albatross# | Thalassarche chrysostoma |
| 137 | #Buller's Albatross# | Thalassarche bulleri |
| 138 | White-capped Albatross | Thalassarche cauta |
| 139 | #Salvin's Albatross# | Thalassarche salvini |
| 140 | Chatham Albatross | Thalassarche eremita |
| 141 | #Black-browed Albatross# | Thalassarche melanophris |
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| 142 | #Wilson's Storm-Petrel# | Oceanites oceanicus |
| 143 | (Gray-backed Storm-Petrel) | Garrodia nereis |
| 144 | (White-faced Storm-Petrel) | Pelagodroma marina |
| 145 | White-bellied Storm-Petrel | Fregetta grallaria |
| 146 | New Zealand Storm-Petrel | Fregetta maoriana |
| 147 | #Black-bellied Storm-Petrel# | Fregetta tropica |
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| 148 | #Southern Giant-Petrel# | Macronectes giganteus |
| 149 | #Northern Giant-Petrel# | Macronectes halli |
| 150 | #Southern Fulmar# | Fulmarus glacialoides |
| 151 | Antarctic Petrel | Thalassoica antarctica |
| 152 | #Pintado Petrel# | Daption capense |
| 153 | #Kerguelen Petrel# | Aphrodroma brevirostris |
| 154 | #Great-winged Petrel# | Pterodroma macroptera |
| 155 | Gray-faced Petrel | Pterodroma gouldi |
| 156 | #Kermadec Petrel# | Pterodroma neglecta |
| 157 | (Providence Petrel) | Pterodroma solandri |
| 158 | #Soft-plumaged Petrel# | Pterodroma mollis |
| 159 | #White-headed Petrel# | Pterodroma lessonii |
| 160 | #Mottled Petrel# | Pterodroma inexpectata |
| 161 | Juan Fernandez Petrel | Pterodroma externa |
| 162 | #White-necked Petrel# | Pterodroma cervicalis |
| 163 | Black-winged Petrel | Pterodroma nigripennis |
| 164 | #Cook's Petrel# | Pterodroma cookii |
| 165 | #Gould's Petrel# | Pterodroma leucoptera |
| 166 | Stejneger's Petrel | Pterodroma longirostris |
| 167 | Pycroft's Petrel | Pterodroma pycrofti |
| 168 | #Blue Petrel# | Halobaena caerulea |
| 169 | Fairy Prion | Pachyptila turtur |
| 170 | #Broad-billed Prion# | Pachyptila vittata |
| 171 | #Salvin's Prion# | Pachyptila salvini |
| 172 | #Antarctic Prion# | Pachyptila desolata |
| 173 | #Slender-billed Prion# | Pachyptila belcheri |
| 174 | Fulmar Prion | Pachyptila crassirostris |
| 175 | #Gray Petrel# | Procellaria cinerea |
| 176 | #White-chinned Petrel# | Procellaria aequinoctialis |
| 177 | #Westland Petrel# | Procellaria westlandica |
| 178 | (Flesh-footed Shearwater) | Ardenna carneipes |
| 179 | Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis |
| 180 | Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacificus |
| 181 | #Buller's Shearwater# | Ardenna bulleri |
| 182 | #Sooty Shearwater# | Ardenna griseus |
| 183 | (Short-tailed Shearwater) | Ardenna tenuirostris |
| 184 | Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus |
| 185 | #Hutton's Shearwater# | Puffinus huttoni |
| 186 | #Fluttering Shearwater# | Puffinus gavia |
| 187 | Little Shearwater | Puffinus assimilis |
| 188 | Subantarctic Shearwater | Puffinus elegans |
| 189 | Common Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix |
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| 190 | Australasian Gannet | Morus serrator |
| 191 | #Brown Booby# | Sula leucogaster |
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| 192 | Australasian Darter | Anhinga novaehollandiae |
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| 193 | Little Pied Cormorant | Microcarbo melanoleucos |
| 194 | Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo |
| 195 | Little Black Cormorant | Phalacrocorax sulcirostris |
| 196 | Pied Cormorant | Phalacrocorax varius |
| 197 | Black-faced Cormorant | Phalacrocorax fuscescens |
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| 198 | Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus |
| 199 | Australian Ibis | Threskiornis molucca |
| 200 | /Straw-necked Ibis/ | Threskiornis spinicollis |
| 201 | &Royal Spoonbilll | Platalea regia |
| 202 | Yellow-billed Spoonbill | Platalea flavipes |
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| 203 | Australasian Bittern | Botaurus poiciloptilus |
| 204 | Nankeen Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus |
| 205 | Pacific Reef-Heron | Egretta sacra |
| 206 | /Little Egret/ | Egretta garzetta |
| 207 | White-faced Heron | Egretta novaehollandiae |
| 208 | Eastern Cattle-Egret | Bubulcus coromandus |
| 209 | Pacific Heron | Ardea pacifica |
| 210 | /Great Egret/ | Ardea alba |
| 211 | Plumed Egret | Ardea plumifera |
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| 212 | Australian Pelican | Pelecanus conspicillatus |
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| 213 | Osprey | Pandion haliaetus |
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| 214 | &Black-shouldered Kitel | Elanus axillaris |
| 215 | Black-breasted Kite | Hamirostra melanosternon |
| 216 | Little Eagle | Hieraaetus morphnoides |
| 217 | Wedge-tailed Eagle | Aquila audax |
| 218 | Collared Sparrowhawk | Tachyspiza cirrocephalus |
| 219 | Gray Goshawk | Tachyspiza novaehollandiae |
| 220 | Brown Goshawk | Tachyspiza fasciatus |
| 221 | Swamp Harrier | Circus approximans |
| 222 | Black Kite | Milvus migrans |
| 223 | Whistling Kite | Haliastur sphenurus |
| 224 | White-bellied Sea-Eagle | Icthyophaga leucogaster |
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| 225 | Australian Masked-Owl | Tyto novaehollandiae |
| 226 | American Barn Owl | Tyto furcata |
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| 227 | Australian Boobook | Ninox boobook |
| 228 | Tasmanian Boobook | Ninox leucopsis |
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| 229 | Azure Kingfisher | Ceyx azureus |
| 230 | Laughing Kookaburra | Dacelo novaeguineae |
| 231 | Red-backed Kingfisher | Todiramphus pyrrhopygius |
| 232 | Sacred Kingfisher | Todiramphus sanctus |
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| 233 | /Nankeen Kestrel/ | Falco cenchroides |
| 234 | Australian Hobby | Falco longipennis |
| 235 | Brown Falcon | Falco berigora |
| 236 | &Black Falconl | Falco subniger |
| 237 | (Peregrine Falcon) | Falco peregrinus |
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| 238 | Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo | Zanda funereus |
| 239 | &Cockatiell | Nymphicus hollandicus |
| 240 | Gang-gang Cockatoo | Callocephalon fimbriatum |
| 241 | Galah | Eolophus roseicapilla |
| 242 | Little Corella | Cacatua sanguinea |
| 243 | Long-billed Corella | Cacatua tenuirostris |
| 244 | Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Cacatua galerita |
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| 245 | Ground Parrot | Pezoporus wallicus |
| 246 | (Blue-winged Parrot) | Neophema chrysostoma |
| 247 | Orange-bellied Parrot | Neophema chrysogaster |
| 248 | (Swift Parrot) | Lathamus discolor |
| 249 | Green Rosella | Platycercus caledonicus |
| 250 | Eastern Rosella | Platycercus eximius |
| 251 | &Budgerigarl | Melopsittacus undulatus |
| 252 | &Little Lorikeetl | Psitteuteles pusilla |
| 253 | &Musk Lorikeetl | Trichoglossus concinna |
| 254 | Rainbow Lorikeet | Trichoglossus moluccanus |
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| 255 | Superb Lyrebird | Menura novaehollandiae |
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| 256 | Southern Emuwren | Stipiturus malachurus |
| 257 | Superb Fairywren | Malurus cyaneus |
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| 258 | Eastern Spinebill | Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris |
| 259 | Noisy Miner | Manorina melanocephala |
| 260 | Little Wattlebird | Anthochaera chrysoptera |
| 261 | Yellow Wattlebird | Anthochaera paradoxa |
| 262 | White-fronted Chat | Epthianura albifrons |
| 263 | Tawny-crowned Honeyeater | Gliciphila melanops |
| 264 | Crescent Honeyeater | Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus |
| 265 | New Holland Honeyeater | Phylidonyris novaehollandiae |
| 266 | Yellow-throated Honeyeater | Nesoptilotis flavicollis |
| 267 | Black-headed Honeyeater | Melithreptus affinis |
| 268 | Strong-billed Honeyeater | Melithreptus validirostris |
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| 269 | Spotted Pardalote | Pardalotus punctatus |
| 270 | Forty-spotted Pardalote | Pardalotus quadragintus |
| 271 | Striated Pardalote | Pardalotus striatus |
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| 272 | Striated Fieldwren | Calamanthus fuliginosus |
| 273 | Tasmanian Scrubwren | Sericornis humilis |
| 274 | Scrubtit | Acanthornis magna |
| 275 | Yellow-rumped Thornbill | Acanthiza chrysorrhoa |
| 276 | Tasmanian Thornbill | Acanthiza ewingii |
| 277 | Brown Thornbill | Acanthiza pusilla |
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| 278 | Spotted Quail-thrush | Cinclosoma punctatum |
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| 279 | Black-faced Cuckooshrike | Coracina novaehollandiae |
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| 280 | Gray Shrikethrush | Colluricincla harmonica |
| 281 | Olive Whistler | Pachycephala olivacea |
| 282 | Golden Whistler | Pachycephala pectoralis |
| 283 | Rufous Whistler | Pachycephala rufiventris |
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| 284 | Olive-backed Oriole | Oriolus sagittatus |
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| 285 | White-browed Woodswallow | Artamus superciliosus |
| 286 | (Dusky Woodswallow) | Artamus cyanopterus |
| 287 | Gray Butcherbird | Cracticus torquatus |
| 288 | Australian Magpie | Gymnorhina tibicen |
| 289 | Black Currawong | Strepera fuliginosa |
| 290 | Gray Currawong | Strepera versicolor |
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| 291 | Willie-wagtail | Rhipidura leucophrys |
| 292 | Australian Rufous Fantail | Rhipidura rufifrons |
| 293 | Gray Fantail | Rhipidura albiscapa |
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| 294 | Spangled Drongo | Dicrurus bracteatus |
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| 295 | Magpie-lark | Grallina cyanoleuca |
| 296 | (Leaden Flycatcher) | Myiagra rubecula |
| 297 | (Satin Flycatcher) | Myiagra cyanoleuca |
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| 298 | &Little Ravenl | Corvus mellori |
| 299 | Forest Raven | Corvus tasmanicus |
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| 300 | Scarlet Robin | Petroica boodang |
| 301 | Flame Robin | Petroica phoenicea |
| 302 | Pink Robin | Petroica rodinogaster |
| 303 | Dusky Robin | Melanodryas vittata |
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| 304 | Singing Bushlark | Mirafra javanica |
| 305 | &Eurasian Skylarkl | Alauda arvensis |
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| 306 | Golden-headed Cisticola | Cisticola exilis |
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| 307 | (Australian Reed Warbler) | Acrocephalus australis |
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| 308 | Little Grassbird | Poodytes gramineus |
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| 309 | Welcome Swallow | Hirundo neoxena |
| 310 | Fairy Martin | Petrochelidon ariel |
| 311 | Tree Martin | Petrochelidon nigricans |
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| 312 | (Silvereye) | Zosterops lateralis |
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| 313 | European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris |
| 314 | Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis |
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| 315 | Bassian Thrush | Zoothera lunulata |
| 316 | Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula |
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| 317 | Beautiful Firetail | Stagonopleura bella |
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| 318 | House Sparrow | Passer domesticus |
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| 319 | Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea |
| 320 | Australian Pipit | Anthus australis |
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| 321 | European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris |
| 322 | European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis |
*Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
**Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.
OTHER LOCALES
PRESENCE CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| // | Boreal Visitor | 40 |
| \\ | Austral Visitor | 0 |
| || | Transient | 0 |
| ## | Non-breeding Dispersal | 49 |
| <> | Erratic/Irregular | 25 |
| () | Breeding Season Only | 8 |
| {} | Casual/Vagrant | 10 |
| [] | Accidental | 8 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 18 |
| V | Vulnerable | 22 |
| EN | Endangered | 14 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 3 |
Species counts in code tables depend on completeness of the data. For some countries or locales, data may not include all species or information on species presence may be incomplete.