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This tool allows to compare the numbers and view the list of birds shared between a region and every other country and territories in the world. You can select a taxonomy and any region available in Avibase. You can click on any of the numbers to list of species involved between 2 regions. You can also click on the table header row to sort the table according to values in a specific column.

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List of bird species found in both Australia (continental including Tasmania) and Benin

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	Benin
479	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	non-breeder
594	Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	present	non-breeder
612	Green-winged Teal	Anas crecca	rare/accidental	present
977	Helmeted Guineafowl	Numida meleagris	introduced	resident
1853	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	introduced
2071	Laughing Dove	Spilopelia senegalensis	introduced	resident
5462	Eurasian Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	rare/accidental	resident
5487	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	rare/accidental
5811	Black-bellied Plover	Pluvialis squatarola	present	non-breeder
5815	American Golden-Plover	Pluvialis dominica	present	rare/accidental
5831	Common Ringed Plover	Charadrius hiaticula	rare/accidental	non-breeder
5848	Little Ringed Plover	Thinornis dubius	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6012	Eurasian Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6026	Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6033	Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	non-breeder	non-breeder
6042	Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa	present	non-breeder
6124	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	rare/accidental
6125	Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	present	non-breeder
6128	Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6136	Marsh Sandpiper	Tringa stagnatilis	present	non-breeder
6137	Wood Sandpiper	Tringa glareola	present	non-breeder
6138	Common Redshank	Tringa totanus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6150	Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	present	non-breeder
6152	Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	present	non-breeder
6161	Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	present	rare/accidental
6166	Red Knot	Calidris canutus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6177	Ruff	Calidris pugnax	non-breeder	non-breeder
6182	Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea	present	non-breeder
6184	Temminck's Stint	Calidris temminckii	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6188	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Calidris subruficollis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6189	Sanderling	Calidris alba	present	non-breeder
6192	Dunlin	Calidris alpina	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6219	Little Stint	Calidris minuta	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6347	Collared Pratincole	Glareola pratincola	rare/accidental	resident
6361	Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	present	non-breeder
6455	Sabine's Gull	Xema sabini	present	non-breeder
6474	Black-headed Gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6576	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Larus fuscus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6682	Little Tern	Sternula albifrons	present	non-breeder
6710	Gull-billed Tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	present	non-breeder
6718	Caspian Tern	Hydroprogne caspia	present	non-breeder
6720	Whiskered Tern	Chlidonias hybrida	present	non-breeder
6725	Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6728	White-winged Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	present	non-breeder
6733	Arctic Tern	Sterna paradisaea	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6748	Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	present	non-breeder
6761	Roseate Tern	Sterna dougallii	breeder	rare/accidental
6783	Lesser Crested Tern	Thalasseus bengalensis	present	non-breeder
6827	Little Grebe	Tachybaptus ruficollis	rare/accidental	present
7013	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
7342	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	present
7397	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	rare/accidental
7467	Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	present	non-breeder
7600	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	resident
7650	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	non-breeder
7673	Little Heron	Butorides atricapilla	present	present
7729	Great Egret	Ardea alba	present	non-breeder
7745	Gray Heron	Ardea cinerea	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7766	Purple Heron	Ardea purpurea	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7832	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	non-breeder
8345	Black Kite	Milvus migrans	present	non-breeder
9604	Common Hoopoe	Upupa epops	rare/accidental	non-breeder
12073	Eurasian Hobby	Falco subbuteo	rare/accidental	non-breeder
12114	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	present
21521	House Crow	Corvus splendens	introduced	introduced
22487	Singing Bushlark	Mirafra javanica	present	resident
23528	Zitting Cisticola	Cisticola juncidis	present	resident
24187	Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	present	non-breeder
24843	Willow Warbler	Phylloscopus trochilus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
31720	White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	present	rare/accidental
31870	Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	rare/accidental	non-breeder

Number of species: 71