Australia (continental including Tasmania) bird checklist - Avibase

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List of bird species found in both Australia (continental including Tasmania) and Federated States of Micronesia

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	Federated States of Micronesia
342	Canada Goose	Branta canadensis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
479	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
501	Northern Shoveler	Spatula clypeata	present	non-breeder
512	Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	rare/accidental	non-breeder
534	Pacific Black Duck	Anas superciliosa	present	breeder
545	Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced	rare/accidental
594	Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	present	non-breeder
612	Green-winged Teal	Anas crecca	rare/accidental	non-breeder
687	Tufted Duck	Aythya fuligula	rare/accidental	non-breeder
1620	Red Junglefowl	Gallus gallus	introduced (not established)	introduced
1726	Blue-breasted Quail	Synoicus chinensis	present	introduced
1853	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	introduced
2423	Nicobar Pigeon	Caloenas nicobarica	rare/accidental	breeder
3293	Long-tailed Koel	Urodynamis taitensis	rare/accidental	non-breeder
3318	Shining Bronze-Cuckoo	Chalcites lucidus	present	rare/accidental
3448	Oriental Cuckoo	Cuculus optatus	present	non-breeder
4026	Uniform Swiftlet	Aerodramus vanikorensis	rare/accidental	present
4127	Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
5369	Buff-banded Rail	Gallirallus philippensis	present	breeder
5462	Eurasian Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	rare/accidental	present
5487	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	rare/accidental
5525	Australasian Swamphen	Porphyrio melanotus	present	breeder
5545	White-browed Crake	Poliolimnas cinereus	present	breeder
5552	White-breasted Waterhen	Amaurornis phoenicurus	outlying islands only	present
5559	Pale-vented Bush-hen	Amaurornis moluccana	present	rare/accidental
5568	Red-legged Crake	Rallina fasciata	present	rare/accidental
5606	Spotless Crake	Zapornia tabuensis	present	present
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	rare/accidental
5848	Little Ringed Plover	Thinornis dubius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5907	Oriental Plover	Anarhynchus veredus	present	rare/accidental
5908	Siberian Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus mongolus	non-breeder	non-breeder
5916	Greater Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus leschenaultii	present	non-breeder
5954	Kentish Plover	Anarhynchus alexandrinus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6012	Eurasian Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6019	Little Curlew	Numenius minutus	present	rare/accidental
6024	Far Eastern Curlew	Numenius madagascariensis	present	non-breeder
6026	Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6033	Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	non-breeder	non-breeder
6042	Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa	present	non-breeder
6091	Swinhoe's Snipe	Gallinago megala	present	non-breeder
6094	Latham's Snipe	Gallinago hardwickii	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6120	Red Phalarope	Phalaropus fulicarius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6124	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	non-breeder
6125	Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	present	non-breeder
6133	Gray-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes	present	non-breeder
6134	Wandering Tattler	Tringa incana	present	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
6146	Nordmann's Greenshank	Tringa guttifer	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6150	Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	present	rare/accidental
6152	Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	present	non-breeder
6161	Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	present	non-breeder
6165	Great Knot	Calidris tenuirostris	present	rare/accidental
6166	Red Knot	Calidris canutus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6177	Ruff	Calidris pugnax	non-breeder	non-breeder
6178	Broad-billed Sandpiper	Calidris falcinellus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
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	rare/accidental
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	rare/accidental
6227	Pectoral Sandpiper	Calidris melanotos	present	non-breeder
6353	Oriental Pratincole	Glareola maldivarum	present	rare/accidental
6358	Long-tailed Jaeger	Stercorarius longicaudus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6361	Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	present	rare/accidental
6363	Pomarine Jaeger	Stercorarius pomarinus	present	non-breeder
6372	South Polar Skua	Stercorarius maccormicki	present	rare/accidental
6474	Black-headed Gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6490	Laughing Gull	Leucophaeus atricilla	present	rare/accidental
6494	Franklin's Gull	Leucophaeus pipixcan	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6627	Blue-billed White-Tern	Gygis candida	breeder	breeder
6634	Brown Noddy	Anous stolidus	present	breeder
6642	Black Noddy	Anous minutus	present	breeder
6665	Sooty Tern	Onychoprion fuscatus	present	breeder
6673	Bridled Tern	Onychoprion anaethetus	present	breeder
6682	Little Tern	Sternula albifrons	present	non-breeder
6710	Gull-billed Tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	present	rare/accidental
6716	Australian Tern	Gelochelidon macrotarsa	present	rare/accidental
6720	Whiskered Tern	Chlidonias hybrida	present	rare/accidental
6728	White-winged Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	present	non-breeder
6733	Arctic Tern	Sterna paradisaea	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6748	Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	present	non-breeder
6758	Black-naped Tern	Sterna sumatrana	present	breeder
6792	Great Crested Tern	Thalasseus bergii	present	breeder
6908	White-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon lepturus	present	breeder
6919	Red-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon rubricauda	present	non-breeder
7013	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
7044	Polynesian Storm-Petrel	Nesofregetta fuliginosa	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7053	Leach's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates leucorhous	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7064	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates castro	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7078	Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates matsudairae	present	non-breeder
7108	Kermadec Petrel	Pterodroma neglecta	present	rare/accidental
7135	Juan Fernandez Petrel	Pterodroma externa	present	non-breeder
7140	White-necked Petrel	Pterodroma cervicalis	present	rare/accidental
7143	Black-winged Petrel	Pterodroma nigripennis	present	non-breeder
7153	Stejneger's Petrel	Pterodroma longirostris	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7178	Bulwer's Petrel	Bulweria bulwerii	present	rare/accidental
7184	Tahiti Petrel	Pseudobulweria rostrata	present	rare/accidental
7199	Streaked Shearwater	Calonectris leucomelas	present	rare/accidental
7206	Flesh-footed Shearwater	Ardenna carneipes	present	rare/accidental
7209	Wedge-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna pacifica	present	breeder
7212	Buller's Shearwater	Ardenna bulleri	present	rare/accidental
7213	Sooty Shearwater	Ardenna grisea	present	rare/accidental
7214	Short-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna tenuirostris	present	non-breeder
7229	Newell's Shearwater	Puffinus newelli	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7250	Tropical Shearwater	Puffinus bailloni	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7318	Lesser Frigatebird	Fregata ariel	present	rare/accidental
7323	Great Frigatebird	Fregata minor	present	breeder
7338	Red-footed Booby	Sula sula	present	breeder
7342	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	present
7349	Masked Booby	Sula dactylatra	present	breeder
7377	Little Pied Cormorant	Microcarbo melanoleucos	present	breeder
7397	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	rare/accidental
7574	Black Bittern	Botaurus flavicollis	present	rare/accidental
7578	Cinnamon Bittern	Botaurus cinnamomeus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7586	Yellow Bittern	Botaurus sinensis	present	breeder
7600	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7610	Nankeen Night Heron	Nycticorax caledonicus	present	breeder
7641	Pacific Reef-Heron	Egretta sacra	present	breeder
7650	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	non-breeder
7673	Little Heron	Butorides atricapilla	present	rare/accidental
7726	Eastern Cattle-Egret	Ardea coromanda	breeder	non-breeder
7729	Great Egret	Ardea alba	present	present
7737	Medium Egret	Ardea intermedia	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7745	Gray Heron	Ardea cinerea	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7801	Australian Pelican	Pelecanus conspicillatus	present	rare/accidental
7832	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	rare/accidental
8159	Japanese Sparrowhawk	Tachyspiza gularis	outlying islands only	non-breeder
8177	Chinese Sparrowhawk	Tachyspiza soloensis	outlying islands only	non-breeder
8357	Brahminy Kite	Haliastur indus	present	rare/accidental
9828	Rainbow Bee-eater	Merops ornatus	present	non-breeder
10179	Sacred Kingfisher	Todiramphus sanctus	present	non-breeder
10184	Collared Kingfisher	Todiramphus chloris	rare/accidental	breeder
10358	Dollarbird	Eurystomus orientalis	present	rare/accidental
12114	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	present
12212	Sulphur-crested Cockatoo	Cacatua galerita	present	introduced
12307	Papuan Eclectus	Eclectus polychloros	present	introduced
19738	White-breasted Woodswallow	Artamus leucorynchus	present	rare/accidental
21054	Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
24187	Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	present	non-breeder
24276	Tree Martin	Petrochelidon nigricans	present	rare/accidental
27831	Chestnut-cheeked Starling	Agropsar philippensis	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
28586	Eyebrowed Thrush	Turdus obscurus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
28781	Gray-streaked Flycatcher	Muscicapa griseisticta	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
29500	Narcissus Flycatcher	Ficedula narcissina	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
29652	Blue Rock-Thrush	Monticola solitarius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31076	Scaly-breasted Munia	Lonchura punctulata	introduced	introduced
31201	Blue-faced Parrotfinch	Erythrura trichroa	present	breeder
31603	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	introduced	introduced
31678	Gray Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	rare/accidental	non-breeder
31700	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Motacilla tschutschensis	non-breeder	rare/accidental
31870	Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental

Number of species: 159