Australia (continental including Tasmania) bird checklist - Avibase

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

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	Canada
330	Canada Goose	Branta canadensis	rare/accidental	breeder
365	Mute Swan	Cygnus olor	introduced	introduced
462	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
483	Northern Shoveler	Spatula clypeata	present	breeder
494	Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	rare/accidental	non-breeder
525	Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced	breeder
571	Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	present	breeder
588	Green-winged Teal	Anas crecca	rare/accidental	breeder
662	Tufted Duck	Aythya fuligula	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
1064	California Quail	Callipepla californica	introduced	introduced
1444	Ring-necked Pheasant	Phasianus colchicus	introduced	introduced
1817	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	introduced
1985	Oriental Turtle-Dove	Streptopelia orientalis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
4072	Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
4089	House Swift	Apus nipalensis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5267	Corn Crake	Crex crex	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5430	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	rare/accidental
5754	Black-bellied Plover	Pluvialis squatarola	present	breeder
5758	American Golden-Plover	Pluvialis dominica	present	breeder
5759	Pacific Golden-Plover	Pluvialis fulva	present	non-breeder
5774	Common Ringed Plover	Charadrius hiaticula	rare/accidental	breeder
5777	Semipalmated Plover	Charadrius semipalmatus	rare/accidental	breeder
5847	Siberian Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus mongolus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
5855	Greater Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus leschenaultii	present	rare/accidental
5949	Upland Sandpiper	Bartramia longicauda	rare/accidental	breeder
5951	Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus	present	breeder
5964	Far Eastern Curlew	Numenius madagascariensis	present	rare/accidental
5966	Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5973	Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	non-breeder	rare/accidental
5982	Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa	present	rare/accidental
5988	Hudsonian Godwit	Limosa haemastica	rare/accidental	breeder
5997	Short-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus griseus	rare/accidental	breeder
6001	Long-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus scolopaceus	rare/accidental	breeder
6057	Wilson's Phalarope	Phalaropus tricolor	rare/accidental	breeder
6058	Red Phalarope	Phalaropus fulicarius	rare/accidental	breeder
6059	Red-necked Phalarope	Phalaropus lobatus	present	breeder
6062	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	rare/accidental
6071	Gray-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes	present	rare/accidental
6072	Wandering Tattler	Tringa incana	present	breeder
6074	Marsh Sandpiper	Tringa stagnatilis	present	rare/accidental
6075	Wood Sandpiper	Tringa glareola	present	rare/accidental
6076	Common Redshank	Tringa totanus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6083	Lesser Yellowlegs	Tringa flavipes	rare/accidental	breeder
6088	Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	present	rare/accidental
6090	Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	present	rare/accidental
6099	Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	present	breeder
6103	Great Knot	Calidris tenuirostris	present	rare/accidental
6104	Red Knot	Calidris canutus	non-breeder	breeder
6115	Ruff	Calidris pugnax	non-breeder	non-breeder
6119	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Calidris acuminata	present	rare/accidental
6120	Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea	present	rare/accidental
6121	Stilt Sandpiper	Calidris himantopus	rare/accidental	breeder
6122	Temminck's Stint	Calidris temminckii	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6124	Red-necked Stint	Calidris ruficollis	present	rare/accidental
6126	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Calidris subruficollis	rare/accidental	breeder
6127	Sanderling	Calidris alba	present	breeder
6130	Dunlin	Calidris alpina	rare/accidental	breeder
6154	Baird's Sandpiper	Calidris bairdii	rare/accidental	breeder
6156	Little Stint	Calidris minuta	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6158	White-rumped Sandpiper	Calidris fuscicollis	rare/accidental	breeder
6163	Pectoral Sandpiper	Calidris melanotos	present	breeder
6293	Long-tailed Jaeger	Stercorarius longicaudus	non-breeder	breeder
6296	Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	present	breeder
6298	Pomarine Jaeger	Stercorarius pomarinus	present	breeder
6307	South Polar Skua	Stercorarius maccormicki	present	non-breeder
6390	Sabine's Gull	Xema sabini	present	breeder
6409	Black-headed Gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	rare/accidental	breeder
6424	Laughing Gull	Leucophaeus atricilla	present	breeder
6428	Franklin's Gull	Leucophaeus pipixcan	rare/accidental	breeder
6444	Black-tailed Gull	Larus crassirostris	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6447	Common Gull	Larus canus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6466	Kelp Gull	Larus dominicanus	present	rare/accidental
6508	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Larus fuscus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6532	Slaty-backed Gull	Larus schistisagus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6591	Aleutian Tern	Onychoprion aleuticus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6592	Sooty Tern	Onychoprion fuscatus	present	rare/accidental
6600	Bridled Tern	Onychoprion anaethetus	present	rare/accidental
6636	Gull-billed Tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	present	rare/accidental
6644	Caspian Tern	Hydroprogne caspia	present	breeder
6651	Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	rare/accidental	breeder
6654	White-winged Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	present	rare/accidental
6659	Arctic Tern	Sterna paradisaea	rare/accidental	breeder
6674	Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	present	breeder
6687	Roseate Tern	Sterna dougallii	breeder	breeder
6829	White-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon lepturus	present	rare/accidental
6836	Red-billed Tropicbird	Phaethon aethereus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6840	Red-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon rubricauda	present	rare/accidental
6914	Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross	Thalassarche chlororhynchos	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6927	Black-browed Albatross	Thalassarche melanophris	present	rare/accidental
6934	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6946	White-faced Storm-Petrel	Pelagodroma marina	present	rare/accidental
6974	Leach's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates leucorhous	rare/accidental	breeder
6985	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates castro	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7049	Mottled Petrel	Pterodroma inexpectata	present	rare/accidental
7066	Cook's Petrel	Pterodroma cookii	present	rare/accidental
7119	Cory's Shearwater	Calonectris borealis	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7124	Pink-footed Shearwater	Ardenna creatopus	present	non-breeder
7125	Flesh-footed Shearwater	Ardenna carneipes	present	non-breeder
7126	Great Shearwater	Ardenna gravis	present	non-breeder
7131	Buller's Shearwater	Ardenna bulleri	present	non-breeder
7132	Sooty Shearwater	Ardenna grisea	present	non-breeder
7133	Short-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna tenuirostris	present	non-breeder
7139	Manx Shearwater	Puffinus puffinus	rare/accidental	breeder
7254	Red-footed Booby	Sula sula	present	rare/accidental
7258	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	rare/accidental
7265	Masked Booby	Sula dactylatra	present	rare/accidental
7271	Nazca Booby	Sula granti	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7313	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	breeder
7382	Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	present	exceptional breeder
7536	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	breeder
7585	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	rare/accidental
7658	Great Egret	Ardea alba	present	breeder
7674	Gray Heron	Ardea cinerea	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7737	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	breeder
11997	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	breeder
20823	Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
22389	Eurasian Skylark	Alauda arvensis	introduced	breeder
23957	Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	present	breeder
24571	Yellow-browed Warbler	Phylloscopus inornatus	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
24707	Arctic Warbler	Phylloscopus borealis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
24709	Kamchatka Leaf Warbler	Phylloscopus examinandus	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
27571	European Starling	Sturnus vulgaris	introduced	introduced
28181	Song Thrush	Turdus philomelos	introduced	rare/accidental
28232	Eurasian Blackbird	Turdus merula	introduced	rare/accidental
29122	Siberian Blue Robin	Larvivora cyane	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
29382	Blue Rock-Thrush	Monticola solitarius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31261	House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	introduced	introduced
31329	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	introduced	rare/accidental
31403	Gray Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31425	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Motacilla tschutschensis	non-breeder	breeder
31432	Citrine Wagtail	Motacilla citreola	present	rare/accidental
31445	White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	present	rare/accidental
31592	Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31670	Common Chaffinch	Fringilla coelebs	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
32205	Redpoll	Acanthis flammea	non-breeder	breeder

Number of species: 135