Australia (continental including Tasmania) bird checklist - Avibase

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

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	Philippines
238	Spotted Whistling-Duck	Dendrocygna guttata	present	resident
252	Wandering Whistling-Duck	Dendrocygna arcuata	present	resident
449	Cotton Pygmy-Goose	Nettapus coromandelianus	present	non-breeder
479	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	non-breeder
501	Northern Shoveler	Spatula clypeata	present	non-breeder
512	Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	rare/accidental	non-breeder
545	Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced	non-breeder
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)	resident
1726	Blue-breasted Quail	Synoicus chinensis	present	resident
1853	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	introduced
2022	Oriental Turtle-Dove	Streptopelia orientalis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
2064	Spotted Dove	Spilopelia chinensis	introduced	resident
2162	Asian Emerald Dove	Chalcophaps indica	resident	resident
2423	Nicobar Pigeon	Caloenas nicobarica	rare/accidental	resident
2646	Superb Fruit-Dove	Ptilinopus superbus	present	rare/accidental
3140	Lesser Coucal	Centropus bengalensis	outlying islands only	resident
3269	Asian Koel	Eudynamys scolopaceus	present	resident
3294	Channel-billed Cuckoo	Scythrops novaehollandiae	present	rare/accidental
3324	Little Bronze-Cuckoo	Chalcites minutillus	present	resident
3448	Oriental Cuckoo	Cuculus optatus	present	non-breeder
3634	Gray Nightjar	Caprimulgus jotaka	outlying islands only	non-breeder
3664	Large-tailed Nightjar	Caprimulgus macrurus	present	resident
3918	White-throated Needletail	Hirundapus caudacutus	present	rare/accidental
4059	White-nest Swiftlet	Aerodramus fuciphagus	rare/accidental	breeder
4127	Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	non-breeder	resident
4144	House Swift	Apus nipalensis	rare/accidental	resident
5369	Buff-banded Rail	Gallirallus philippensis	present	resident
5462	Eurasian Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	rare/accidental	resident
5487	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	non-breeder
5545	White-browed Crake	Poliolimnas cinereus	present	resident
5549	Watercock	Gallicrex cinerea	rare/accidental	resident
5552	White-breasted Waterhen	Amaurornis phoenicurus	outlying islands only	resident
5568	Red-legged Crake	Rallina fasciata	present	resident
5589	Baillon's Crake	Zapornia pusilla	present	non-breeder
5606	Spotless Crake	Zapornia tabuensis	present	resident
5707	Sarus Crane	Antigone antigone	present	extirpated
5741	Beach Thick-knee	Esacus magnirostris	present	resident
5764	Pied Stilt	Himantopus leucocephalus	rare/accidental	resident
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	resident
5882	Gray-headed Lapwing	Vanellus cinereus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
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	non-breeder
5987	Pheasant-tailed Jacana	Hydrophasianus chirurgus	present	resident
6000	Comb-crested Jacana	Irediparra gallinacea	present	resident
6012	Eurasian Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus	non-breeder	non-breeder
6019	Little Curlew	Numenius minutus	present	non-breeder
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
6056	Asian Dowitcher	Limnodromus semipalmatus	present	non-breeder
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	non-breeder
6120	Red Phalarope	Phalaropus fulicarius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6121	Red-necked Phalarope	Phalaropus lobatus	present	non-breeder
6124	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	non-breeder
6125	Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	present	non-breeder
6128	Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6133	Gray-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes	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	non-breeder
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	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
6189	Sanderling	Calidris alba	present	non-breeder
6192	Dunlin	Calidris alpina	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6219	Little Stint	Calidris minuta	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6227	Pectoral Sandpiper	Calidris melanotos	present	rare/accidental
6353	Oriental Pratincole	Glareola maldivarum	present	resident
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
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	non-breeder
6513	Common Gull	Larus canus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6576	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Larus fuscus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6602	Slaty-backed Gull	Larus schistisagus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6627	Blue-billed White-Tern	Gygis candida	breeder	rare/accidental
6634	Brown Noddy	Anous stolidus	present	resident
6642	Black Noddy	Anous minutus	present	resident
6664	Aleutian Tern	Onychoprion aleuticus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6665	Sooty Tern	Onychoprion fuscatus	present	resident
6673	Bridled Tern	Onychoprion anaethetus	present	resident
6682	Little Tern	Sternula albifrons	present	resident
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
6728	White-winged Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	present	non-breeder
6748	Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	present	resident
6758	Black-naped Tern	Sterna sumatrana	present	resident
6761	Roseate Tern	Sterna dougallii	breeder	resident
6783	Lesser Crested Tern	Thalasseus bengalensis	present	rare/accidental
6792	Great Crested Tern	Thalasseus bergii	present	resident
6827	Little Grebe	Tachybaptus ruficollis	rare/accidental	resident
6872	Great Crested Grebe	Podiceps cristatus	present	rare/accidental
6908	White-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon lepturus	present	rare/accidental
6919	Red-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon rubricauda	present	rare/accidental
7053	Leach's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates leucorhous	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7062	Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates monorhis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7108	Kermadec Petrel	Pterodroma neglecta	present	rare/accidental
7143	Black-winged Petrel	Pterodroma nigripennis	present	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	non-breeder
7209	Wedge-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna pacifica	present	non-breeder
7214	Short-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna tenuirostris	present	rare/accidental
7318	Lesser Frigatebird	Fregata ariel	present	non-breeder
7323	Great Frigatebird	Fregata minor	present	breeder
7329	Christmas Island Frigatebird	Fregata andrewsi	rare/accidental	present
7338	Red-footed Booby	Sula sula	present	resident
7342	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	breeder
7349	Masked Booby	Sula dactylatra	present	breeder
7355	Nazca Booby	Sula granti	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7397	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	breeder
7413	Little Black Cormorant	Phalacrocorax sulcirostris	present	rare/accidental
7467	Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	present	resident
7574	Black Bittern	Botaurus flavicollis	present	resident
7578	Cinnamon Bittern	Botaurus cinnamomeus	rare/accidental	resident
7586	Yellow Bittern	Botaurus sinensis	present	resident
7600	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	resident
7610	Nankeen Night Heron	Nycticorax caledonicus	present	resident
7641	Pacific Reef-Heron	Egretta sacra	present	resident
7650	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	non-breeder
7673	Little Heron	Butorides atricapilla	present	breeder
7717	Chinese Pond-Heron	Ardeola bacchus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7719	Javan Pond-Heron	Ardeola speciosa	rare/accidental	resident
7726	Eastern Cattle-Egret	Ardea coromanda	breeder	resident
7729	Great Egret	Ardea alba	present	exceptional breeder
7737	Medium Egret	Ardea intermedia	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7745	Gray Heron	Ardea cinerea	rare/accidental	non-breeder
7766	Purple Heron	Ardea purpurea	rare/accidental	resident
7776	Great-billed Heron	Ardea sumatrana	present	resident
7801	Australian Pelican	Pelecanus conspicillatus	present	rare/accidental
7832	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	non-breeder
7906	Oriental Honey-buzzard	Pernis ptilorhynchus	rare/accidental	resident
8159	Japanese Sparrowhawk	Tachyspiza gularis	outlying islands only	non-breeder
8177	Chinese Sparrowhawk	Tachyspiza soloensis	outlying islands only	non-breeder
8345	Black Kite	Milvus migrans	present	rare/accidental
8357	Brahminy Kite	Haliastur indus	present	resident
8376	White-bellied Sea-Eagle	Icthyophaga leucogaster	present	resident
8603	Australasian Grass-Owl	Tyto longimembris	present	resident
8773	Oriental Scops-Owl	Otus sunia	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
9351	Brown Boobook	Ninox scutulata	rare/accidental	present
9362	Northern Boobook	Ninox japonica	rare/accidental	non-breeder
9604	Common Hoopoe	Upupa epops	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
9828	Rainbow Bee-eater	Merops ornatus	present	rare/accidental
10089	Black-capped Kingfisher	Halcyon pileata	rare/accidental	resident
10179	Sacred Kingfisher	Todiramphus sanctus	present	rare/accidental
10184	Collared Kingfisher	Todiramphus chloris	rare/accidental	breeder
10358	Dollarbird	Eurystomus orientalis	present	resident
12073	Eurasian Hobby	Falco subbuteo	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
12114	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	breeder
13383	Blue-winged Pitta	Pitta moluccensis	present	rare/accidental
13384	Fairy Pitta	Pitta nympha	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
13386	Western Hooded Pitta	Pitta sordida	rare/accidental	breeder
19738	White-breasted Woodswallow	Artamus leucorynchus	present	resident
21041	Tiger Shrike	Lanius tigrinus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
21054	Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
22487	Singing Bushlark	Mirafra javanica	present	resident
22615	Eurasian Skylark	Alauda arvensis	introduced	rare/accidental
23528	Zitting Cisticola	Cisticola juncidis	present	resident
23598	Golden-headed Cisticola	Cisticola exilis	present	resident
23712	Oriental Reed Warbler	Acrocephalus orientalis	rare/accidental	non-breeder
23783	Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes certhiola	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
23788	Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes ochotensis	rare/accidental	non-breeder
23872	Tawny Grassbird	Cincloramphus timoriensis	present	resident
24187	Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	present	non-breeder
24239	Eastern Red-rumped Swallow	Cecropis daurica	rare/accidental	resident
24804	Yellow-browed Warbler	Phylloscopus inornatus	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
24843	Willow Warbler	Phylloscopus trochilus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
24941	Arctic Warbler	Phylloscopus borealis	rare/accidental	present
24943	Kamchatka Leaf Warbler	Phylloscopus examinandus	outlying islands only	non-breeder
27813	European Starling	Sturnus vulgaris	introduced	rare/accidental
27829	Rosy Starling	Pastor roseus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
27831	Chestnut-cheeked Starling	Agropsar philippensis	outlying islands only	non-breeder
27859	Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis	introduced	rare/accidental
28356	Siberian Thrush	Geokichla sibirica	rare/accidental	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	non-breeder
28790	Asian Brown Flycatcher	Muscicapa dauurica	rare/accidental	non-breeder
29069	Blue-and-white Flycatcher	Cyanoptila cyanomelana	rare/accidental	non-breeder
29388	Siberian Blue Robin	Larvivora cyane	outlying islands only	non-breeder
29500	Narcissus Flycatcher	Ficedula narcissina	rare/accidental	non-breeder
29652	Blue Rock-Thrush	Monticola solitarius	rare/accidental	resident
31076	Scaly-breasted Munia	Lonchura punctulata	introduced	resident
31534	House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	introduced	rare/accidental
31603	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	introduced	introduced
31667	Forest Wagtail	Dendronanthus indicus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
31678	Gray Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	rare/accidental	non-breeder
31700	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Motacilla tschutschensis	non-breeder	non-breeder
31707	Citrine Wagtail	Motacilla citreola	present	rare/accidental
31720	White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	present	non-breeder
31865	Pechora Pipit	Anthus gustavi	rare/accidental	non-breeder
31870	Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	rare/accidental	non-breeder

Number of species: 219