Australia (continental including Tasmania) bird checklist - Avibase

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

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	United Kingdom
342	Canada Goose	Branta canadensis	rare/accidental	introduced
377	Mute Swan	Cygnus olor	introduced	resident
479	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	breeder
501	Northern Shoveler	Spatula clypeata	present	breeder
512	Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	rare/accidental	resident
545	Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced	breeder
594	Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	present	resident
612	Green-winged Teal	Anas crecca	rare/accidental	present
687	Tufted Duck	Aythya fuligula	rare/accidental	resident
1477	Ring-necked Pheasant	Phasianus colchicus	introduced	introduced
1853	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	resident
2022	Oriental Turtle-Dove	Streptopelia orientalis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
3918	White-throated Needletail	Hirundapus caudacutus	present	rare/accidental
4127	Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
5324	Corn Crake	Crex crex	rare/accidental	breeder
5462	Eurasian Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	rare/accidental	resident
5487	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	resident
5589	Baillon's Crake	Zapornia pusilla	present	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	rare/accidental
5831	Common Ringed Plover	Charadrius hiaticula	rare/accidental	resident
5834	Semipalmated Plover	Charadrius semipalmatus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5848	Little Ringed Plover	Thinornis dubius	rare/accidental	present
5882	Gray-headed Lapwing	Vanellus cinereus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5906	Caspian Plover	Anarhynchus asiaticus	present	rare/accidental
5908	Siberian Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus mongolus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
5911	Tibetan Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus atrifrons	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5916	Greater Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus leschenaultii	present	rare/accidental
5954	Kentish Plover	Anarhynchus alexandrinus	rare/accidental	non-breeder
6009	Upland Sandpiper	Bartramia longicauda	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6011	Hudsonian Whimbrel	Numenius hudsonicus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6012	Eurasian Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus	non-breeder	breeder
6019	Little Curlew	Numenius minutus	present	rare/accidental
6026	Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	rare/accidental	resident
6033	Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	non-breeder	present
6042	Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa	present	present
6048	Hudsonian Godwit	Limosa haemastica	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6057	Short-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus griseus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6061	Long-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus scolopaceus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
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	breeder
6124	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	rare/accidental
6125	Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	present	breeder
6128	Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	rare/accidental	exceptional breeder
6133	Gray-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes	present	rare/accidental
6136	Marsh Sandpiper	Tringa stagnatilis	present	rare/accidental
6137	Wood Sandpiper	Tringa glareola	present	breeder
6138	Common Redshank	Tringa totanus	rare/accidental	resident
6145	Lesser Yellowlegs	Tringa flavipes	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6150	Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	present	non-breeder
6152	Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	present	resident
6161	Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	present	present
6165	Great Knot	Calidris tenuirostris	present	rare/accidental
6166	Red Knot	Calidris canutus	non-breeder	present
6177	Ruff	Calidris pugnax	non-breeder	exceptional breeder
6178	Broad-billed Sandpiper	Calidris falcinellus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6181	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Calidris acuminata	present	rare/accidental
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	exceptional breeder
6185	Long-toed Stint	Calidris subminuta	present	rare/accidental
6186	Red-necked Stint	Calidris ruficollis	present	rare/accidental
6188	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Calidris subruficollis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6189	Sanderling	Calidris alba	present	non-breeder
6192	Dunlin	Calidris alpina	rare/accidental	present
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	rare/accidental
6353	Oriental Pratincole	Glareola maldivarum	present	rare/accidental
6358	Long-tailed Jaeger	Stercorarius longicaudus	non-breeder	present
6361	Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	present	breeder
6363	Pomarine Jaeger	Stercorarius pomarinus	present	non-breeder
6372	South Polar Skua	Stercorarius maccormicki	present	rare/accidental
6455	Sabine's Gull	Xema sabini	present	non-breeder
6474	Black-headed Gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	rare/accidental	resident
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	rare/accidental
6513	Common Gull	Larus canus	rare/accidental	resident
6533	Kelp Gull	Larus dominicanus	present	rare/accidental
6576	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Larus fuscus	rare/accidental	present
6602	Slaty-backed Gull	Larus schistisagus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6627	Blue-billed White-Tern	Gygis candida	breeder	rare/accidental
6664	Aleutian Tern	Onychoprion aleuticus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6665	Sooty Tern	Onychoprion fuscatus	present	rare/accidental
6673	Bridled Tern	Onychoprion anaethetus	present	rare/accidental
6682	Little Tern	Sternula albifrons	present	present
6710	Gull-billed Tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	present	rare/accidental
6718	Caspian Tern	Hydroprogne caspia	present	rare/accidental
6720	Whiskered Tern	Chlidonias hybrida	present	rare/accidental
6725	Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	rare/accidental	present
6728	White-winged Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	present	rare/accidental
6733	Arctic Tern	Sterna paradisaea	rare/accidental	breeder
6748	Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	present	present
6761	Roseate Tern	Sterna dougallii	breeder	present
6783	Lesser Crested Tern	Thalasseus bengalensis	present	rare/accidental
6827	Little Grebe	Tachybaptus ruficollis	rare/accidental	resident
6872	Great Crested Grebe	Podiceps cristatus	present	resident
6908	White-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon lepturus	present	rare/accidental
6915	Red-billed Tropicbird	Phaethon aethereus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6993	Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross	Thalassarche chlororhynchos	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7006	Black-browed Albatross	Thalassarche melanophris	present	rare/accidental
7013	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
7025	White-faced Storm-Petrel	Pelagodroma marina	present	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	rare/accidental
7064	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates castro	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7123	Soft-plumaged Petrel	Pterodroma mollis	present	rare/accidental
7178	Bulwer's Petrel	Bulweria bulwerii	present	rare/accidental
7192	White-chinned Petrel	Procellaria aequinoctialis	present	rare/accidental
7200	Cory's Shearwater	Calonectris borealis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7207	Great Shearwater	Ardenna gravis	present	non-breeder
7213	Sooty Shearwater	Ardenna grisea	present	non-breeder
7220	Manx Shearwater	Puffinus puffinus	rare/accidental	breeder
7338	Red-footed Booby	Sula sula	present	rare/accidental
7342	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	rare/accidental
7349	Masked Booby	Sula dactylatra	present	rare/accidental
7397	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	resident
7467	Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	present	rare/accidental
7600	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7650	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	present
7673	Little Heron	Butorides atricapilla	present	rare/accidental
7717	Chinese Pond-Heron	Ardeola bacchus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7729	Great Egret	Ardea alba	present	rare/accidental
7745	Gray Heron	Ardea cinerea	rare/accidental	resident
7766	Purple Heron	Ardea purpurea	rare/accidental	present
7832	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	present
8345	Black Kite	Milvus migrans	present	rare/accidental
9604	Common Hoopoe	Upupa epops	rare/accidental	present
12073	Eurasian Hobby	Falco subbuteo	rare/accidental	present
12114	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	resident
21054	Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
21521	House Crow	Corvus splendens	introduced	introduced (not established)
22615	Eurasian Skylark	Alauda arvensis	introduced	resident
23528	Zitting Cisticola	Cisticola juncidis	present	rare/accidental
23783	Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes certhiola	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
24187	Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	present	present
24239	Eastern Red-rumped Swallow	Cecropis daurica	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
24804	Yellow-browed Warbler	Phylloscopus inornatus	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
24843	Willow Warbler	Phylloscopus trochilus	rare/accidental	present
24874	Eastern Crowned Warbler	Phylloscopus coronatus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
24941	Arctic Warbler	Phylloscopus borealis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
27813	European Starling	Sturnus vulgaris	introduced	resident
27829	Rosy Starling	Pastor roseus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
28356	Siberian Thrush	Geokichla sibirica	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
28433	Song Thrush	Turdus philomelos	introduced	resident
28500	Eurasian Blackbird	Turdus merula	introduced	resident
28586	Eyebrowed Thrush	Turdus obscurus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
28790	Asian Brown Flycatcher	Muscicapa dauurica	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
29388	Siberian Blue Robin	Larvivora cyane	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
29652	Blue Rock-Thrush	Monticola solitarius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
29796	Isabelline Wheatear	Oenanthe isabellina	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31534	House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	introduced	resident
31603	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	introduced	resident
31678	Gray Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	rare/accidental	resident
31700	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Motacilla tschutschensis	non-breeder	rare/accidental
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	rare/accidental
31948	Common Chaffinch	Fringilla coelebs	rare/accidental	resident
32336	European Greenfinch	Chloris chloris	introduced	resident
32483	Redpoll	Acanthis flammea	non-breeder	resident
32552	European Goldfinch	Carduelis carduelis	introduced	resident
32733	Yellowhammer	Emberiza citrinella	rare/accidental	resident

Number of species: 170