Australia (continental including Tasmania) bird checklist - Avibase

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

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	China
342	Canada Goose	Branta canadensis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
377	Mute Swan	Cygnus olor	introduced	breeder
449	Cotton Pygmy-Goose	Nettapus coromandelianus	present	breeder
479	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	breeder
501	Northern Shoveler	Spatula clypeata	present	breeder
512	Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	rare/accidental	breeder
545	Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced	breeder
594	Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	present	breeder
612	Green-winged Teal	Anas crecca	rare/accidental	breeder
687	Tufted Duck	Aythya fuligula	rare/accidental	breeder
1477	Ring-necked Pheasant	Phasianus colchicus	introduced	breeder
1620	Red Junglefowl	Gallus gallus	introduced (not established)	breeder
1726	Blue-breasted Quail	Synoicus chinensis	present	breeder
1853	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	breeder
2022	Oriental Turtle-Dove	Streptopelia orientalis	rare/accidental	breeder
2064	Spotted Dove	Spilopelia chinensis	introduced	breeder
2071	Laughing Dove	Spilopelia senegalensis	introduced	breeder
2162	Asian Emerald Dove	Chalcophaps indica	resident	breeder
3140	Lesser Coucal	Centropus bengalensis	outlying islands only	breeder
3269	Asian Koel	Eudynamys scolopaceus	present	present
3448	Oriental Cuckoo	Cuculus optatus	present	breeder
3634	Gray Nightjar	Caprimulgus jotaka	outlying islands only	breeder
3664	Large-tailed Nightjar	Caprimulgus macrurus	present	breeder
3707	Savanna Nightjar	Caprimulgus affinis	outlying islands only	present
3918	White-throated Needletail	Hirundapus caudacutus	present	present
4059	White-nest Swiftlet	Aerodramus fuciphagus	rare/accidental	breeder
4127	Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	non-breeder	breeder
4144	House Swift	Apus nipalensis	rare/accidental	breeder
5324	Corn Crake	Crex crex	rare/accidental	breeder
5462	Eurasian Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	rare/accidental	resident
5487	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	breeder
5545	White-browed Crake	Poliolimnas cinereus	present	rare/accidental
5549	Watercock	Gallicrex cinerea	rare/accidental	breeder
5552	White-breasted Waterhen	Amaurornis phoenicurus	outlying islands only	breeder
5568	Red-legged Crake	Rallina fasciata	present	rare/accidental
5589	Baillon's Crake	Zapornia pusilla	present	breeder
5707	Sarus Crane	Antigone antigone	present	breeder
5741	Beach Thick-knee	Esacus magnirostris	present	rare/accidental
5764	Pied Stilt	Himantopus leucocephalus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5811	Black-bellied Plover	Pluvialis squatarola	present	non-breeder
5816	Pacific Golden-Plover	Pluvialis fulva	present	non-breeder
5831	Common Ringed Plover	Charadrius hiaticula	rare/accidental	non-breeder
5834	Semipalmated Plover	Charadrius semipalmatus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
5848	Little Ringed Plover	Thinornis dubius	rare/accidental	breeder
5882	Gray-headed Lapwing	Vanellus cinereus	rare/accidental	breeder
5906	Caspian Plover	Anarhynchus asiaticus	present	breeder
5907	Oriental Plover	Anarhynchus veredus	present	breeder
5908	Siberian Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus mongolus	non-breeder	breeder
5911	Tibetan Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus atrifrons	rare/accidental	breeder
5916	Greater Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus leschenaultii	present	breeder
5954	Kentish Plover	Anarhynchus alexandrinus	rare/accidental	breeder
5987	Pheasant-tailed Jacana	Hydrophasianus chirurgus	present	breeder
6011	Hudsonian Whimbrel	Numenius hudsonicus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6012	Eurasian Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6019	Little Curlew	Numenius minutus	present	non-breeder
6024	Far Eastern Curlew	Numenius madagascariensis	present	breeder
6026	Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	rare/accidental	breeder
6033	Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	non-breeder	non-breeder
6042	Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa	present	non-breeder
6056	Asian Dowitcher	Limnodromus semipalmatus	present	breeder
6061	Long-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus scolopaceus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6091	Swinhoe's Snipe	Gallinago megala	present	breeder
6092	Pin-tailed Snipe	Gallinago stenura	rare/accidental	breeder
6094	Latham's Snipe	Gallinago hardwickii	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6120	Red Phalarope	Phalaropus fulicarius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6121	Red-necked Phalarope	Phalaropus lobatus	present	non-breeder
6124	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	breeder
6125	Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	present	breeder
6128	Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	rare/accidental	breeder
6133	Gray-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes	present	non-breeder
6136	Marsh Sandpiper	Tringa stagnatilis	present	breeder
6137	Wood Sandpiper	Tringa glareola	present	breeder
6138	Common Redshank	Tringa totanus	rare/accidental	breeder
6145	Lesser Yellowlegs	Tringa flavipes	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6146	Nordmann's Greenshank	Tringa guttifer	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6150	Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	present	breeder
6152	Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	present	non-breeder
6161	Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	present	non-breeder
6165	Great Knot	Calidris tenuirostris	present	non-breeder
6166	Red Knot	Calidris canutus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6177	Ruff	Calidris pugnax	non-breeder	non-breeder
6178	Broad-billed Sandpiper	Calidris falcinellus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6181	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Calidris acuminata	present	non-breeder
6182	Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea	present	non-breeder
6184	Temminck's Stint	Calidris temminckii	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6185	Long-toed Stint	Calidris subminuta	present	non-breeder
6186	Red-necked Stint	Calidris ruficollis	present	non-breeder
6188	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Calidris subruficollis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6189	Sanderling	Calidris alba	present	non-breeder
6192	Dunlin	Calidris alpina	rare/accidental	breeder
6217	Baird's Sandpiper	Calidris bairdii	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6219	Little Stint	Calidris minuta	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6221	White-rumped Sandpiper	Calidris fuscicollis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6227	Pectoral Sandpiper	Calidris melanotos	present	rare/accidental
6347	Collared Pratincole	Glareola pratincola	rare/accidental	present
6353	Oriental Pratincole	Glareola maldivarum	present	breeder
6358	Long-tailed Jaeger	Stercorarius longicaudus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6361	Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	present	present
6363	Pomarine Jaeger	Stercorarius pomarinus	present	rare/accidental
6372	South Polar Skua	Stercorarius maccormicki	present	rare/accidental
6455	Sabine's Gull	Xema sabini	present	rare/accidental
6463	Silver Gull	Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae	present	rare/accidental
6474	Black-headed Gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	rare/accidental	breeder
6490	Laughing Gull	Leucophaeus atricilla	present	rare/accidental
6494	Franklin's Gull	Leucophaeus pipixcan	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6510	Black-tailed Gull	Larus crassirostris	rare/accidental	breeder
6513	Common Gull	Larus canus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6576	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Larus fuscus	rare/accidental	present
6602	Slaty-backed Gull	Larus schistisagus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6627	Blue-billed White-Tern	Gygis candida	breeder	present
6634	Brown Noddy	Anous stolidus	present	breeder
6664	Aleutian Tern	Onychoprion aleuticus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6665	Sooty Tern	Onychoprion fuscatus	present	breeder
6673	Bridled Tern	Onychoprion anaethetus	present	breeder
6682	Little Tern	Sternula albifrons	present	breeder
6710	Gull-billed Tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	present	breeder
6718	Caspian Tern	Hydroprogne caspia	present	breeder
6720	Whiskered Tern	Chlidonias hybrida	present	breeder
6725	Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	rare/accidental	breeder
6728	White-winged Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	present	breeder
6748	Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	present	breeder
6758	Black-naped Tern	Sterna sumatrana	present	breeder
6761	Roseate Tern	Sterna dougallii	breeder	breeder
6783	Lesser Crested Tern	Thalasseus bengalensis	present	rare/accidental
6792	Great Crested Tern	Thalasseus bergii	present	breeder
6827	Little Grebe	Tachybaptus ruficollis	rare/accidental	breeder
6872	Great Crested Grebe	Podiceps cristatus	present	breeder
6908	White-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon lepturus	present	present
6915	Red-billed Tropicbird	Phaethon aethereus	rare/accidental	breeder
6919	Red-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon rubricauda	present	present
7013	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
7053	Leach's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates leucorhous	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7062	Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates monorhis	rare/accidental	breeder
7178	Bulwer's Petrel	Bulweria bulwerii	present	breeder
7184	Tahiti Petrel	Pseudobulweria rostrata	present	non-breeder
7199	Streaked Shearwater	Calonectris leucomelas	present	breeder
7206	Flesh-footed Shearwater	Ardenna carneipes	present	rare/accidental
7209	Wedge-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna pacifica	present	non-breeder
7213	Sooty Shearwater	Ardenna grisea	present	non-breeder
7214	Short-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna tenuirostris	present	rare/accidental
7318	Lesser Frigatebird	Fregata ariel	present	rare/accidental
7323	Great Frigatebird	Fregata minor	present	breeder
7329	Christmas Island Frigatebird	Fregata andrewsi	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7338	Red-footed Booby	Sula sula	present	breeder
7342	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	breeder
7349	Masked Booby	Sula dactylatra	present	present
7397	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	breeder
7467	Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	present	breeder
7574	Black Bittern	Botaurus flavicollis	present	breeder
7578	Cinnamon Bittern	Botaurus cinnamomeus	rare/accidental	breeder
7586	Yellow Bittern	Botaurus sinensis	present	breeder
7600	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	breeder
7641	Pacific Reef-Heron	Egretta sacra	present	breeder
7650	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	breeder
7660	Pied Heron	Egretta picata	present	rare/accidental
7661	White-faced Heron	Egretta novaehollandiae	present	rare/accidental
7673	Little Heron	Butorides atricapilla	present	breeder
7717	Chinese Pond-Heron	Ardeola bacchus	rare/accidental	breeder
7719	Javan Pond-Heron	Ardeola speciosa	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7726	Eastern Cattle-Egret	Ardea coromanda	breeder	breeder
7729	Great Egret	Ardea alba	present	breeder
7737	Medium Egret	Ardea intermedia	rare/accidental	breeder
7745	Gray Heron	Ardea cinerea	rare/accidental	breeder
7766	Purple Heron	Ardea purpurea	rare/accidental	breeder
7776	Great-billed Heron	Ardea sumatrana	present	present
7832	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	breeder
7906	Oriental Honey-buzzard	Pernis ptilorhynchus	rare/accidental	breeder
8159	Japanese Sparrowhawk	Tachyspiza gularis	outlying islands only	present
8177	Chinese Sparrowhawk	Tachyspiza soloensis	outlying islands only	breeder
8345	Black Kite	Milvus migrans	present	resident
8357	Brahminy Kite	Haliastur indus	present	breeder
8376	White-bellied Sea-Eagle	Icthyophaga leucogaster	present	breeder
8603	Australasian Grass-Owl	Tyto longimembris	present	breeder
8623	Eastern Barn Owl	Tyto javanica	present	present
8773	Oriental Scops-Owl	Otus sunia	rare/accidental	breeder
9351	Brown Boobook	Ninox scutulata	rare/accidental	breeder
9362	Northern Boobook	Ninox japonica	rare/accidental	breeder
9604	Common Hoopoe	Upupa epops	rare/accidental	breeder
10089	Black-capped Kingfisher	Halcyon pileata	rare/accidental	breeder
10184	Collared Kingfisher	Todiramphus chloris	rare/accidental	breeder
10358	Dollarbird	Eurystomus orientalis	present	present
12073	Eurasian Hobby	Falco subbuteo	rare/accidental	breeder
12114	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	breeder
13383	Blue-winged Pitta	Pitta moluccensis	present	breeder
13384	Fairy Pitta	Pitta nympha	rare/accidental	breeder
13386	Western Hooded Pitta	Pitta sordida	rare/accidental	breeder
21041	Tiger Shrike	Lanius tigrinus	rare/accidental	breeder
21054	Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	rare/accidental	breeder
21521	House Crow	Corvus splendens	introduced	breeder
22487	Singing Bushlark	Mirafra javanica	present	breeder
22615	Eurasian Skylark	Alauda arvensis	introduced	breeder
23528	Zitting Cisticola	Cisticola juncidis	present	breeder
23598	Golden-headed Cisticola	Cisticola exilis	present	breeder
23712	Oriental Reed Warbler	Acrocephalus orientalis	rare/accidental	breeder
23783	Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes certhiola	outlying islands only	present
23788	Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes ochotensis	rare/accidental	non-breeder
24187	Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	present	breeder
24239	Eastern Red-rumped Swallow	Cecropis daurica	rare/accidental	present
24733	Red-whiskered Bulbul	Pycnonotus jocosus	introduced	breeder
24754	Red-vented Bulbul	Pycnonotus cafer	extirpated	breeder
24804	Yellow-browed Warbler	Phylloscopus inornatus	outlying islands only	breeder
24843	Willow Warbler	Phylloscopus trochilus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
24874	Eastern Crowned Warbler	Phylloscopus coronatus	rare/accidental	breeder
24941	Arctic Warbler	Phylloscopus borealis	rare/accidental	breeder
24943	Kamchatka Leaf Warbler	Phylloscopus examinandus	outlying islands only	non-breeder
27813	European Starling	Sturnus vulgaris	introduced	breeder
27829	Rosy Starling	Pastor roseus	rare/accidental	breeder
27831	Chestnut-cheeked Starling	Agropsar philippensis	outlying islands only	non-breeder
27859	Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis	introduced	breeder
28356	Siberian Thrush	Geokichla sibirica	rare/accidental	breeder
28433	Song Thrush	Turdus philomelos	introduced	breeder
28500	Eurasian Blackbird	Turdus merula	introduced	breeder
28586	Eyebrowed Thrush	Turdus obscurus	rare/accidental	breeder
28781	Gray-streaked Flycatcher	Muscicapa griseisticta	outlying islands only	breeder
28782	Dark-sided Flycatcher	Muscicapa sibirica	rare/accidental	breeder
28790	Asian Brown Flycatcher	Muscicapa dauurica	rare/accidental	breeder
29069	Blue-and-white Flycatcher	Cyanoptila cyanomelana	rare/accidental	present
29388	Siberian Blue Robin	Larvivora cyane	outlying islands only	breeder
29500	Narcissus Flycatcher	Ficedula narcissina	rare/accidental	non-breeder
29652	Blue Rock-Thrush	Monticola solitarius	rare/accidental	breeder
29796	Isabelline Wheatear	Oenanthe isabellina	rare/accidental	breeder
30454	Ornate Sunbird	Cinnyris ornatus	present	breeder
31076	Scaly-breasted Munia	Lonchura punctulata	introduced	breeder
31534	House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	introduced	breeder
31603	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	introduced	breeder
31667	Forest Wagtail	Dendronanthus indicus	rare/accidental	breeder
31678	Gray Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	rare/accidental	breeder
31700	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Motacilla tschutschensis	non-breeder	breeder
31707	Citrine Wagtail	Motacilla citreola	present	breeder
31720	White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	present	breeder
31865	Pechora Pipit	Anthus gustavi	rare/accidental	breeder
31870	Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
31948	Common Chaffinch	Fringilla coelebs	rare/accidental	non-breeder
32336	European Greenfinch	Chloris chloris	introduced	present
32483	Redpoll	Acanthis flammea	non-breeder	non-breeder
32552	European Goldfinch	Carduelis carduelis	introduced	breeder
32733	Yellowhammer	Emberiza citrinella	rare/accidental	non-breeder

Number of species: 237