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Sorong
This checklist includes all bird species found in Sorong , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Sorong [map]
Number of introduced species: 2
Date last reviewed: 2007-08-21
Last modified: 2022-10-22
See also: http://www.birdsofmelanesia.net/indonesia/sorong.pdf
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| Northern Cassowary | Casuarius unappendiculatus | |
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| Wandering Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna arcuata | |
| Radjah Shelduck | Radjah radjah | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-billed Brush-turkey | Talegalla cuvieri | Endemic (country/region) |
| Dusky Megapode | Megapodius freycinet | Endemic (country/region) |
| Orange-footed Megapode | Megapodius reinwardt | |
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| Blue-breasted Quail | Synoicus chinensis | |
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| Brown Cuckoo Dove | Macropygia amboinensis | |
| Great Cuckoo Dove | Reinwardtoena reinwardti | |
| New Guinea Bronzewing | Henicophaps albifrons | |
| Thick-billed Ground Pigeon | Trugon terrestris | |
| Pheasant Pigeon | Otidiphaps nobilis | |
| Cinnamon Ground Dove | Gallicolumba rufigula | |
| Western Crowned Pigeon | Goura cristata | |
| Nicobar Pigeon | Caloenas nicobarica | |
| Stephan's Dove | Chalcophaps stephani | |
| White-eyed Imperial Pigeon | Ducula perspicillata | Rare/Accidental |
| Spice Imperial Pigeon | Ducula myristicivora | Endemic (country/region) |
| Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon | Ducula rufigaster | |
| Shining Imperial Pigeon | Ducula chalconota | |
| Pinon's Imperial Pigeon | Ducula pinon | |
| Banded Imperial Pigeon | Ducula zoeae | |
| Pied Imperial Pigeon | Ducula bicolor | |
| Wompoo Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus magnificus | |
| Pink-spotted Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus perlatus | |
| Ornate Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus ornatus | |
| Orange-fronted Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus aurantiifrons | |
| Superb Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus superbus | |
| Coroneted Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus coronulatus | |
| Beautiful Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus pulchellus | |
| Claret-breasted Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus viridis | |
| Orange-bellied Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus iozonus | |
| Dwarf Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus nainus | |
| Papuan Mountain Pigeon | Gymnophaps albertisii | |
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| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
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| Marbled Frogmouth | Podargus ocellatus | |
| Papuan Frogmouth | Podargus papuensis | |
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| Papuan Nightjar | Eurostopodus papuensis | |
| Large-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus macrurus | |
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| Allied Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles affinis | |
| Wallace's Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles wallacii | |
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| Moustached Treeswift | Hemiprocne mystacea | |
| Papuan Spinetailed Swift | Mearnsia novaeguineae | |
| White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | |
| Glossy Swiftlet | Collocalia esculenta | |
| Mountain Swiftlet | Aerodramus hirundinaceus | |
| Uniform Swiftlet | Aerodramus vanikorensis | |
| Fork-tailed Swift | Apus pacificus | |
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| Greater Black Coucal | Centropus menbeki | |
| Lesser Black Coucal | Centropus bernsteini | |
| Dwarf Koel | Microdynamis parva | |
| Pacific Koel | Eudynamys orientalis | |
| Channel-billed Cuckoo | Scythrops novaehollandiae | |
| Long-billed Cuckoo | Chalcites megarhynchus | |
| Shining Bronze Cuckoo | Chalcites lucidus | |
| White-eared Bronze Cuckoo | Chalcites meyerii | |
| Little Bronze Cuckoo | Chalcites minutillus | |
| Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo | Cacomantis castaneiventris | |
| Brush Cuckoo | Cacomantis variolosus | |
| White-crowned Cuckoo | Caliechthrus leucolophus | |
| Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | |
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| Red-necked Crake | Rallina tricolor | |
| Barred Rail | Hypotaenidia torquata | |
| Rufous-tailed Bush-hen | Amaurornis moluccana | |
| Purple Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | |
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| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | |
| Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni | |
| Tahiti Petrel | Pseudobulweria rostrata | |
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| Forest Bittern | Zonerodius heliosylus | |
| Rufous Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
| Pacific Reef Egret | Egretta sacra | |
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| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
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| Little Pied Cormorant | Microcarbo melanoleucos | |
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| Beach Thick-knee | Esacus magnirostris | |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | |
| Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | |
| Wandering Tattler | Tringa incana | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
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| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Greater Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Long-tailed Honey Buzzard | Henicopernis longicauda | |
| Pacific Baza | Aviceda subcristata | |
| Papuan Eagle | Harpyopsis novaeguineae | |
| Gurney's Eagle | Aquila gurneyi | |
| Pygmy Eagle | Hieraaetus weiskei | |
| Variable Goshawk | Accipiter hiogaster | |
| Grey-headed Goshawk | Accipiter poliocephalus | |
| Collared Sparrowhawk | Accipiter cirrocephalus | |
| Doria's Goshawk | Megatriorchis doriae | |
| White-bellied Sea Eagle | Haliaeetus leucogaster | |
| Brahminy Kite | Haliastur indus | |
| Grey-faced Buzzard | Butastur indicus | |
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| Lesser Sooty Owl | Tyto multipunctata | |
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| Rufous Owl | Ninox rufa | |
| Jungle Boobook | Ninox theomacha | |
| Papuan Boobook | Uroglaux dimorpha | |
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| Papuan Hornbill | Rhyticeros plicatus | |
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| Rainbow Bee-eater | Merops ornatus | |
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| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | |
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| Variable Dwarf Kingfisher | Ceyx lepidus | |
| Little Kingfisher | Ceyx pusillus | |
| Azure Kingfisher | Ceyx azureus | |
| Yellow-billed Kingfisher | Syma torotoro | |
| Blue-black Kingfisher | Todiramphus nigrocyaneus | |
| Collared Kingfisher | Todiramphus chloris | |
| Beach Kingfisher | Todiramphus saurophagus | |
| Sacred Kingfisher | Todiramphus sanctus | |
| Common Paradise Kingfisher | Tanysiptera galatea | |
| Red-breasted Paradise Kingfisher | Tanysiptera nympha | |
| Hook-billed Kingfisher | Melidora macrorrhina | |
| Rufous-bellied Kookaburra | Dacelo gaudichaud | |
| Shovel-billed Kookaburra | Dacelo rex | |
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| Oriental Hobby | Falco severus | |
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| Palm Cockatoo | Probosciger aterrimus | |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Cacatua galerita | |
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| Pesquet's Parrot | Psittrichas fulgidus | Introduced species |
| Yellow-capped Pygmy Parrot | Micropsitta keiensis | |
| Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot | Micropsitta pusio | |
| Moluccan King Parrot | Alisterus amboinensis | |
| Eclectus Parrot | Eclectus roratus | |
| Red-cheeked Parrot | Geoffroyus geoffroyi | |
| Great-billed Parrot | Tanygnathus megalorynchos | |
| Pygmy Lorikeet | Charmosyna wilhelminae | |
| Red-fronted Lorikeet | Charmosyna rubronotata | |
| Red-flanked Lorikeet | Charmosyna placentis | |
| Black-capped Lory | Lorius lory | |
| Black Lory | Chalcopsitta atra | |
| Dusky Lory | Pseudeos fuscata | |
| Violet-necked Lory | Eos squamata | |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Trichoglossus haematodus | |
| Large Fig Parrot | Psittaculirostris desmarestii | |
| Orange-breasted Fig Parrot | Cyclopsitta gulielmitertii | |
| Double-eyed Fig Parrot | Cyclopsitta diophthalma | |
| Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot | Loriculus aurantiifrons | |
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| Red-bellied Pitta | Pitta erythrogaster | |
| Hooded Pitta | Pitta sordida | |
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| White-eared Catbird | Ailuroedus buccoides | |
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| Wallace's Fairywren | Sipodotus wallacii | |
| Emperor Fairywren | Malurus cyanocephalus | |
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| Plain Honeyeater | Pycnopygius ixoides | |
| Marbled Honeyeater | Pycnopygius cinereus | |
| Streak-headed Honeyeater | Pycnopygius stictocephalus | |
| Puff-backed Honeyeater | Meliphaga aruensis | |
| Mimic Honeyeater | Meliphaga analoga | |
| Scrub Honeyeater | Meliphaga albonotata | |
| Yellow-gaped Honeyeater | Meliphaga flavirictus | |
| Varied Honeyeater | Gavicalis versicolor | |
| Vogelkop Honeyeater | Melidectes leucostephes | Endemic (country/region) |
| Brown-backed Honeyeater | Ramsayornis modestus | |
| Tawny Straightbill | Timeliopsis griseigula | |
| Long-billed Honeyeater | Melilestes megarhynchus | |
| Ruby-throated Myzomela | Myzomela eques | |
| Dusky Myzomela | Myzomela obscura | |
| Black Myzomela | Myzomela nigrita | |
| Green-backed Honeyeater | Glycichaera fallax | |
| Meyer's Friarbird | Philemon meyeri | |
| Helmeted Friarbird | Philemon buceroides | |
| Spotted Honeyeater | Xanthotis polygrammus | |
| Tawny-breasted Honeyeater | Xanthotis flaviventer | |
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| Yellow-bellied Gerygone | Gerygone chrysogaster | |
| Fairy Gerygone | Gerygone palpebrosa | |
| Green-backed Gerygone | Gerygone chloronota | |
| Large-billed Gerygone | Gerygone magnirostris | |
| Lowland Mouse-warbler | Crateroscelis murina | |
| Pale-billed Sericornis | Sericornis spilodera | |
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| Papuan Babbler | Garritornis isidorei | |
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| Black Berrypecker | Melanocharis nigra | |
| Plumed Longbill | Oedistoma iliolophus | |
| Pygmy Longbill | Oedistoma pygmaeum | |
| Yellow-bellied Longbill | Toxorhamphus novaeguineae | |
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| Stout-billed Cuckooshrike | Coracina caeruleogrisea | |
| Barred Cuckooshrike | Coracina lineata | |
| Boyer's Cuckooshrike | Coracina boyeri | |
| Black-faced Cuckooshrike | Coracina novaehollandiae | |
| White-bellied Cuckooshrike | Coracina papuensis | |
| Golden Cuckooshrike | Campochaera sloetii | |
| Black-bellied Cicadabird | Edolisoma montanum | |
| Grey-headed Cicadabird | Edolisoma schisticeps | |
| Black-shouldered Cicadabird | Edolisoma incertum | |
| New Guinea Cicadabird | Edolisoma melas | |
| Black-browed Triller | Lalage atrovirens | |
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| Blue Jewel-babbler | Ptilorrhoa caerulescens | |
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| Island Whistler | Pachycephala phaionota | Endemic (country/region) |
| Rusty Whistler | Pachycephala hyperythra | |
| Grey Whistler | Pachycephala simplex | |
| Rusty Shrike-thrush | Pseudorectes ferrugineus | |
| Little Shrike-thrush | Colluricincla megarhyncha | |
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| Variable Pitohui | Pitohui kirhocephalus | |
| Brown Oriole | Oriolus szalayi | |
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| Yellow-breasted Boatbill | Machaerirhynchus flaviventer | |
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| Clicking Shieldbill | Peltops blainvillii | |
| Black Butcherbird | Melloria quoyi | |
| Hooded Butcherbird | Cracticus cassicus | |
| White-breasted Woodswallow | Artamus leucoryn | |
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| Hair-crested Drongo | Dicrurus hottentottus | |
| Spangled Drongo | Dicrurus bracteatus | |
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| Pygmy Drongo | Chaetorhynchus papuensis | |
| Black Fantail | Rhipidura atra | |
| Northern Fantail | Rhipidura rufiventris | |
| Sooty Thicket Fantail | Rhipidura threnothorax | |
| Black Thicket Fantail | Rhipidura maculipectus | |
| White-bellied Thicket Fantail | Rhipidura leucothorax | |
| Willie-wagtail | Rhipidura leucophrys | |
| Rufous-backed Fantail | Rhipidura rufidorsa | |
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| Grey Crow | Corvus tristis | |
| Australian Crow | Corvus orru | |
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| Shining Myiagra | Myiagra alecto | |
| Frilled Monarch | Arses telescopthalmus | |
| Spot-winged Monarch | Symposiachrus guttula | |
| Hooded Monarch | Symposiachrus manadensis | |
| Golden Monarch | Carterornis chrysomela | |
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| Trumpet Manucode | Phonygammus keraudrenii | |
| Glossy-mantled Manucode | Manucodia ater | |
| Crinkle-collared Manucode | Manucodia chalybatus | |
| Twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise | Seleucidis melanoleucus | |
| Magnificent Riflebird | Lophorina magnifica | |
| King Bird-of-paradise | Cicinnurus regius | |
| Magnificent Bird-of-paradise | Cicinnurus magnificus | |
| Lesser Bird-of-paradise | Paradisaea minor | |
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| Olive-yellow Robin | Kempiella flavovirescens | |
| Black-sided Robin | Poecilodryas hypoleuca | |
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| Olive-crowned Flowerpecker | Dicaeum pectorale | |
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| Black Sunbird | Leptocoma aspasia | |
| Olive-backed Sunbird | Cinnyris jugularis | |
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| Streak-headed Mannikin | Lonchura tristissima | |
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| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | Introduced species |
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| Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Green-headed Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | |
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| Gray's Warbler | Locustella fasciolata | |
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| Pacific Swallow | Hirundo tahitica | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
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| Island Leaf Warbler | Seicercus maforensis | |
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| Yellow-faced Myna | Mino dumontii | |
| Golden Myna | Mino anais | |
| Metallic Starling | Aplonis metallica | |
| Singing Starling | Aplonis cantoroides | |
| Moluccan Starling | Aplonis mysolensis | Endemic (country/region) |
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| Grey-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | |
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