Australia (continental including Tasmania) bird checklist - Avibase

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

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	Japan
342	Canada Goose	Branta canadensis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
377	Mute Swan	Cygnus olor	introduced	introduced
449	Cotton Pygmy-Goose	Nettapus coromandelianus	present	rare/accidental
479	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	breeder
501	Northern Shoveler	Spatula clypeata	present	breeder
512	Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	rare/accidental	non-breeder
545	Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced	breeder
594	Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	present	non-breeder
612	Green-winged Teal	Anas crecca	rare/accidental	breeder
687	Tufted Duck	Aythya fuligula	rare/accidental	non-breeder
1477	Ring-necked Pheasant	Phasianus colchicus	introduced	introduced
1573	Indian Peafowl	Pavo cristatus	introduced	introduced (not established)
1853	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	introduced
2022	Oriental Turtle-Dove	Streptopelia orientalis	rare/accidental	resident
2162	Asian Emerald Dove	Chalcophaps indica	resident	resident
3140	Lesser Coucal	Centropus bengalensis	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
3269	Asian Koel	Eudynamys scolopaceus	present	rare/accidental
3293	Long-tailed Koel	Urodynamis taitensis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
3448	Oriental Cuckoo	Cuculus optatus	present	breeder
3634	Gray Nightjar	Caprimulgus jotaka	outlying islands only	breeder
3707	Savanna Nightjar	Caprimulgus affinis	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
3918	White-throated Needletail	Hirundapus caudacutus	present	breeder
4127	Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	non-breeder	breeder
4144	House Swift	Apus nipalensis	rare/accidental	resident
5324	Corn Crake	Crex crex	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5462	Eurasian Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	rare/accidental	resident
5487	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	resident
5545	White-browed Crake	Poliolimnas cinereus	present	extirpated
5549	Watercock	Gallicrex cinerea	rare/accidental	breeder
5552	White-breasted Waterhen	Amaurornis phoenicurus	outlying islands only	resident
5589	Baillon's Crake	Zapornia pusilla	present	breeder (local)
5764	Pied Stilt	Himantopus leucocephalus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5811	Black-bellied Plover	Pluvialis squatarola	present	non-breeder
5815	American Golden-Plover	Pluvialis dominica	present	rare/accidental
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	rare/accidental
5848	Little Ringed Plover	Thinornis dubius	rare/accidental	breeder
5882	Gray-headed Lapwing	Vanellus cinereus	rare/accidental	resident
5907	Oriental Plover	Anarhynchus veredus	present	rare/accidental
5908	Siberian Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus mongolus	non-breeder	non-breeder
5911	Tibetan Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus atrifrons	rare/accidental	non-breeder
5916	Greater Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus leschenaultii	present	non-breeder
5954	Kentish Plover	Anarhynchus alexandrinus	rare/accidental	breeder
5987	Pheasant-tailed Jacana	Hydrophasianus chirurgus	present	rare/accidental
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	non-breeder
6033	Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	non-breeder	non-breeder
6042	Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa	present	non-breeder
6048	Hudsonian Godwit	Limosa haemastica	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6056	Asian Dowitcher	Limnodromus semipalmatus	present	rare/accidental
6057	Short-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus griseus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6061	Long-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus scolopaceus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6091	Swinhoe's Snipe	Gallinago megala	present	non-breeder
6092	Pin-tailed Snipe	Gallinago stenura	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6094	Latham's Snipe	Gallinago hardwickii	non-breeder	breeder
6119	Wilson's Phalarope	Phalaropus tricolor	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6120	Red Phalarope	Phalaropus fulicarius	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6121	Red-necked Phalarope	Phalaropus lobatus	present	non-breeder
6124	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	non-breeder
6125	Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	present	breeder
6128	Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6133	Gray-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes	present	non-breeder
6134	Wandering Tattler	Tringa incana	present	rare/accidental
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
6145	Lesser Yellowlegs	Tringa flavipes	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6146	Nordmann's Greenshank	Tringa guttifer	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6150	Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	present	non-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
6183	Stilt Sandpiper	Calidris himantopus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
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	non-breeder
6217	Baird's Sandpiper	Calidris bairdii	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6219	Little Stint	Calidris minuta	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6221	White-rumped Sandpiper	Calidris fuscicollis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6227	Pectoral Sandpiper	Calidris melanotos	present	rare/accidental
6353	Oriental Pratincole	Glareola maldivarum	present	breeder
6358	Long-tailed Jaeger	Stercorarius longicaudus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6361	Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	present	non-breeder
6363	Pomarine Jaeger	Stercorarius pomarinus	present	non-breeder
6372	South Polar Skua	Stercorarius maccormicki	present	non-breeder
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	non-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	resident
6513	Common Gull	Larus canus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6576	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Larus fuscus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6602	Slaty-backed Gull	Larus schistisagus	rare/accidental	resident
6627	Blue-billed White-Tern	Gygis candida	breeder	rare/accidental
6634	Brown Noddy	Anous stolidus	present	breeder
6642	Black Noddy	Anous minutus	present	rare/accidental
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	rare/accidental
6718	Caspian Tern	Hydroprogne caspia	present	rare/accidental
6720	Whiskered Tern	Chlidonias hybrida	present	non-breeder
6725	Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	rare/accidental	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
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	resident
6872	Great Crested Grebe	Podiceps cristatus	present	breeder
6908	White-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon lepturus	present	rare/accidental
6919	Red-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon rubricauda	present	breeder
7013	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
7040	Black-bellied Storm-Petrel	Fregetta tropica	non-breeder	rare/accidental
7053	Leach's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates leucorhous	rare/accidental	breeder
7062	Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates monorhis	rare/accidental	breeder
7064	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates castro	rare/accidental	breeder
7078	Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates matsudairae	present	breeding endemic
7080	Tristram's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates tristrami	rare/accidental	breeder
7108	Kermadec Petrel	Pterodroma neglecta	present	rare/accidental
7116	Providence Petrel	Pterodroma solandri	present	rare/accidental
7128	Mottled Petrel	Pterodroma inexpectata	present	rare/accidental
7135	Juan Fernandez Petrel	Pterodroma externa	present	rare/accidental
7140	White-necked Petrel	Pterodroma cervicalis	present	rare/accidental
7143	Black-winged Petrel	Pterodroma nigripennis	present	rare/accidental
7153	Stejneger's Petrel	Pterodroma longirostris	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7178	Bulwer's Petrel	Bulweria bulwerii	present	breeder
7184	Tahiti Petrel	Pseudobulweria rostrata	present	rare/accidental
7199	Streaked Shearwater	Calonectris leucomelas	present	breeder
7205	Pink-footed Shearwater	Ardenna creatopus	present	rare/accidental
7206	Flesh-footed Shearwater	Ardenna carneipes	present	non-breeder
7209	Wedge-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna pacifica	present	breeder
7212	Buller's Shearwater	Ardenna bulleri	present	rare/accidental
7213	Sooty Shearwater	Ardenna grisea	present	non-breeder
7214	Short-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna tenuirostris	present	non-breeder
7220	Manx Shearwater	Puffinus puffinus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7229	Newell's Shearwater	Puffinus newelli	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7250	Tropical Shearwater	Puffinus bailloni	rare/accidental	present
7318	Lesser Frigatebird	Fregata ariel	present	rare/accidental
7323	Great Frigatebird	Fregata minor	present	rare/accidental
7338	Red-footed Booby	Sula sula	present	breeder
7342	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	present
7349	Masked Booby	Sula dactylatra	present	non-breeder
7355	Nazca Booby	Sula granti	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7397	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	breeder
7467	Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	present	rare/accidental
7574	Black Bittern	Botaurus flavicollis	present	rare/accidental
7578	Cinnamon Bittern	Botaurus cinnamomeus	rare/accidental	breeder
7586	Yellow Bittern	Botaurus sinensis	present	breeder
7600	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	resident
7610	Nankeen Night Heron	Nycticorax caledonicus	present	extirpated
7641	Pacific Reef-Heron	Egretta sacra	present	breeder
7650	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	breeder
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	resident
7832	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	resident
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	non-breeder
8345	Black Kite	Milvus migrans	present	resident
8357	Brahminy Kite	Haliastur indus	present	rare/accidental
8603	Australasian Grass-Owl	Tyto longimembris	present	rare/accidental
8773	Oriental Scops-Owl	Otus sunia	rare/accidental	resident
9362	Northern Boobook	Ninox japonica	rare/accidental	resident
9604	Common Hoopoe	Upupa epops	rare/accidental	breeder
9828	Rainbow Bee-eater	Merops ornatus	present	rare/accidental
10089	Black-capped Kingfisher	Halcyon pileata	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
10184	Collared Kingfisher	Todiramphus chloris	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
10358	Dollarbird	Eurystomus orientalis	present	breeder
12073	Eurasian Hobby	Falco subbuteo	rare/accidental	breeder
12114	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	resident
12558	Budgerigar	Melopsittacus undulatus	endemic	introduced
13384	Fairy Pitta	Pitta nympha	rare/accidental	breeder
13386	Western Hooded Pitta	Pitta sordida	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
19738	White-breasted Woodswallow	Artamus leucorynchus	present	rare/accidental
21041	Tiger Shrike	Lanius tigrinus	rare/accidental	breeder
21054	Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	rare/accidental	breeder
22615	Eurasian Skylark	Alauda arvensis	introduced	resident
23528	Zitting Cisticola	Cisticola juncidis	present	resident
23712	Oriental Reed Warbler	Acrocephalus orientalis	rare/accidental	breeder
23783	Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes certhiola	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
23788	Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes ochotensis	rare/accidental	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	introduced (not established)
24804	Yellow-browed Warbler	Phylloscopus inornatus	outlying islands only	non-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	non-breeder
24943	Kamchatka Leaf Warbler	Phylloscopus examinandus	outlying islands only	breeder
27813	European Starling	Sturnus vulgaris	introduced	non-breeder
27829	Rosy Starling	Pastor roseus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
27831	Chestnut-cheeked Starling	Agropsar philippensis	outlying islands only	breeder
27859	Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis	introduced	introduced (not established)
28356	Siberian Thrush	Geokichla sibirica	rare/accidental	breeder
28433	Song Thrush	Turdus philomelos	introduced	rare/accidental
28586	Eyebrowed Thrush	Turdus obscurus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
28781	Gray-streaked Flycatcher	Muscicapa griseisticta	outlying islands only	non-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	breeder
29388	Siberian Blue Robin	Larvivora cyane	outlying islands only	breeder
29500	Narcissus Flycatcher	Ficedula narcissina	rare/accidental	present
29652	Blue Rock-Thrush	Monticola solitarius	rare/accidental	resident
29796	Isabelline Wheatear	Oenanthe isabellina	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31076	Scaly-breasted Munia	Lonchura punctulata	introduced	introduced
31534	House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	introduced	rare/accidental
31603	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	introduced	resident
31667	Forest Wagtail	Dendronanthus indicus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31678	Gray Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	rare/accidental	resident
31700	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Motacilla tschutschensis	non-breeder	non-breeder
31707	Citrine Wagtail	Motacilla citreola	present	rare/accidental
31720	White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	present	resident
31865	Pechora Pipit	Anthus gustavi	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31870	Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
31948	Common Chaffinch	Fringilla coelebs	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
32483	Redpoll	Acanthis flammea	non-breeder	non-breeder
32733	Yellowhammer	Emberiza citrinella	rare/accidental	rare/accidental

Number of species: 239