Australia (continental including Tasmania) bird checklist - Avibase

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

Sort	Common Name	Scientific Name	Australia (continental including Tasmania)	United States
342	Canada Goose	Branta canadensis	rare/accidental	present
377	Mute Swan	Cygnus olor	introduced	introduced
479	Garganey	Spatula querquedula	rare/accidental	present
501	Northern Shoveler	Spatula clypeata	present	present
512	Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	rare/accidental	present
545	Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	introduced	present
594	Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	present	present
612	Green-winged Teal	Anas crecca	rare/accidental	present
687	Tufted Duck	Aythya fuligula	rare/accidental	present
1094	California Quail	Callipepla californica	introduced	present
1477	Ring-necked Pheasant	Phasianus colchicus	introduced	introduced
1573	Indian Peafowl	Pavo cristatus	introduced	introduced
1620	Red Junglefowl	Gallus gallus	introduced (not established)	introduced
1853	Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	introduced	introduced
2022	Oriental Turtle-Dove	Streptopelia orientalis	rare/accidental	present
2064	Spotted Dove	Spilopelia chinensis	introduced	introduced
3448	Oriental Cuckoo	Cuculus optatus	present	rare/accidental
3634	Gray Nightjar	Caprimulgus jotaka	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
3918	White-throated Needletail	Hirundapus caudacutus	present	rare/accidental
4059	White-nest Swiftlet	Aerodramus fuciphagus	rare/accidental	present
4127	Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
5324	Corn Crake	Crex crex	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5462	Eurasian Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5487	Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	present	rare/accidental
5811	Black-bellied Plover	Pluvialis squatarola	present	present
5815	American Golden-Plover	Pluvialis dominica	present	present
5816	Pacific Golden-Plover	Pluvialis fulva	present	present
5831	Common Ringed Plover	Charadrius hiaticula	rare/accidental	present
5834	Semipalmated Plover	Charadrius semipalmatus	rare/accidental	present
5848	Little Ringed Plover	Thinornis dubius	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
5908	Siberian Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus mongolus	non-breeder	present
5916	Greater Sand-Plover	Anarhynchus leschenaultii	present	rare/accidental
5954	Kentish Plover	Anarhynchus alexandrinus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6009	Upland Sandpiper	Bartramia longicauda	rare/accidental	present
6011	Hudsonian Whimbrel	Numenius hudsonicus	rare/accidental	breeder
6012	Eurasian Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6019	Little Curlew	Numenius minutus	present	rare/accidental
6024	Far Eastern Curlew	Numenius madagascariensis	present	present
6026	Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	rare/accidental	present
6033	Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	non-breeder	present
6042	Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa	present	present
6048	Hudsonian Godwit	Limosa haemastica	rare/accidental	present
6057	Short-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus griseus	rare/accidental	present
6061	Long-billed Dowitcher	Limnodromus scolopaceus	rare/accidental	present
6092	Pin-tailed Snipe	Gallinago stenura	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6119	Wilson's Phalarope	Phalaropus tricolor	rare/accidental	present
6120	Red Phalarope	Phalaropus fulicarius	rare/accidental	present
6121	Red-necked Phalarope	Phalaropus lobatus	present	present
6124	Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus	present	rare/accidental
6125	Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	present	present
6128	Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	rare/accidental	present
6133	Gray-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes	present	rare/accidental
6134	Wandering Tattler	Tringa incana	present	present
6136	Marsh Sandpiper	Tringa stagnatilis	present	present
6137	Wood Sandpiper	Tringa glareola	present	present
6138	Common Redshank	Tringa totanus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6145	Lesser Yellowlegs	Tringa flavipes	rare/accidental	present
6150	Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	present	rare/accidental
6152	Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	present	present
6161	Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	present	present
6165	Great Knot	Calidris tenuirostris	present	present
6166	Red Knot	Calidris canutus	non-breeder	present
6177	Ruff	Calidris pugnax	non-breeder	present
6178	Broad-billed Sandpiper	Calidris falcinellus	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6181	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Calidris acuminata	present	present
6182	Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea	present	present
6183	Stilt Sandpiper	Calidris himantopus	rare/accidental	present
6184	Temminck's Stint	Calidris temminckii	rare/accidental	present
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	present
6189	Sanderling	Calidris alba	present	present
6192	Dunlin	Calidris alpina	rare/accidental	present
6217	Baird's Sandpiper	Calidris bairdii	rare/accidental	present
6219	Little Stint	Calidris minuta	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
6221	White-rumped Sandpiper	Calidris fuscicollis	rare/accidental	present
6227	Pectoral Sandpiper	Calidris melanotos	present	present
6353	Oriental Pratincole	Glareola maldivarum	present	present
6358	Long-tailed Jaeger	Stercorarius longicaudus	non-breeder	present
6361	Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	present	present
6363	Pomarine Jaeger	Stercorarius pomarinus	present	present
6372	South Polar Skua	Stercorarius maccormicki	present	present
6455	Sabine's Gull	Xema sabini	present	present
6474	Black-headed Gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	rare/accidental	present
6490	Laughing Gull	Leucophaeus atricilla	present	present
6494	Franklin's Gull	Leucophaeus pipixcan	rare/accidental	present
6510	Black-tailed Gull	Larus crassirostris	rare/accidental	present
6513	Common Gull	Larus canus	rare/accidental	present
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	present
6627	Blue-billed White-Tern	Gygis candida	breeder	present
6634	Brown Noddy	Anous stolidus	present	present
6642	Black Noddy	Anous minutus	present	present
6664	Aleutian Tern	Onychoprion aleuticus	rare/accidental	present
6665	Sooty Tern	Onychoprion fuscatus	present	present
6673	Bridled Tern	Onychoprion anaethetus	present	present
6682	Little Tern	Sternula albifrons	present	rare/accidental
6710	Gull-billed Tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	present	breeder
6718	Caspian Tern	Hydroprogne caspia	present	present
6720	Whiskered Tern	Chlidonias hybrida	present	present
6725	Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	rare/accidental	present
6728	White-winged Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	present	present
6733	Arctic Tern	Sterna paradisaea	rare/accidental	present
6748	Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	present	present
6761	Roseate Tern	Sterna dougallii	breeder	present
6792	Great Crested Tern	Thalasseus bergii	present	rare/accidental
6908	White-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon lepturus	present	present
6915	Red-billed Tropicbird	Phaethon aethereus	rare/accidental	present
6919	Red-tailed Tropicbird	Phaethon rubricauda	present	present
6976	Snowy Albatross	Diomedea exulans	present	rare/accidental
6979	Antipodean Albatross	Diomedea antipodensis	non-breeder	rare/accidental
6992	Light-mantled Albatross	Phoebetria palpebrata	present	rare/accidental
6993	Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross	Thalassarche chlororhynchos	rare/accidental	present
7000	White-capped Albatross	Thalassarche cauta	present	rare/accidental
7003	Salvin's Albatross	Thalassarche salvini	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7004	Chatham Albatross	Thalassarche eremita	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7006	Black-browed Albatross	Thalassarche melanophris	present	present
7013	Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus	non-breeder	present
7025	White-faced Storm-Petrel	Pelagodroma marina	present	present
7040	Black-bellied Storm-Petrel	Fregetta tropica	non-breeder	rare/accidental
7053	Leach's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates leucorhous	rare/accidental	present
7062	Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates monorhis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7064	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates castro	rare/accidental	present
7080	Tristram's Storm-Petrel	Hydrobates tristrami	rare/accidental	present
7088	Northern Giant-Petrel	Macronectes halli	present	rare/accidental
7106	Gray-faced Petrel	Pterodroma gouldi	present	rare/accidental
7108	Kermadec Petrel	Pterodroma neglecta	present	rare/accidental
7113	Herald Petrel	Pterodroma heraldica	present	rare/accidental
7116	Providence Petrel	Pterodroma solandri	present	rare/accidental
7128	Mottled Petrel	Pterodroma inexpectata	present	present
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
7145	Cook's Petrel	Pterodroma cookii	present	present
7153	Stejneger's Petrel	Pterodroma longirostris	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7178	Bulwer's Petrel	Bulweria bulwerii	present	present
7179	Jouanin's Petrel	Bulweria fallax	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7184	Tahiti Petrel	Pseudobulweria rostrata	present	rare/accidental
7192	White-chinned Petrel	Procellaria aequinoctialis	present	rare/accidental
7196	Parkinson's Petrel	Procellaria parkinsoni	present	rare/accidental
7199	Streaked Shearwater	Calonectris leucomelas	present	rare/accidental
7200	Cory's Shearwater	Calonectris borealis	rare/accidental	present
7205	Pink-footed Shearwater	Ardenna creatopus	present	present
7206	Flesh-footed Shearwater	Ardenna carneipes	present	present
7207	Great Shearwater	Ardenna gravis	present	present
7209	Wedge-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna pacifica	present	breeder
7212	Buller's Shearwater	Ardenna bulleri	present	present
7213	Sooty Shearwater	Ardenna grisea	present	present
7214	Short-tailed Shearwater	Ardenna tenuirostris	present	present
7220	Manx Shearwater	Puffinus puffinus	rare/accidental	present
7229	Newell's Shearwater	Puffinus newelli	rare/accidental	breeding endemic
7318	Lesser Frigatebird	Fregata ariel	present	rare/accidental
7323	Great Frigatebird	Fregata minor	present	present
7338	Red-footed Booby	Sula sula	present	present
7342	Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	present	breeder
7349	Masked Booby	Sula dactylatra	present	present
7355	Nazca Booby	Sula granti	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
7397	Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	present	present
7467	Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	present	present
7586	Yellow Bittern	Botaurus sinensis	present	rare/accidental
7600	Black-crowned Night Heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	rare/accidental	present
7650	Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	present	present
7717	Chinese Pond-Heron	Ardeola bacchus	rare/accidental	present
7726	Eastern Cattle-Egret	Ardea coromanda	breeder	rare/accidental
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
7832	Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	present	present
7906	Oriental Honey-buzzard	Pernis ptilorhynchus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
8177	Chinese Sparrowhawk	Tachyspiza soloensis	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
8345	Black Kite	Milvus migrans	present	rare/accidental
8773	Oriental Scops-Owl	Otus sunia	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
9362	Northern Boobook	Ninox japonica	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
9604	Common Hoopoe	Upupa epops	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
12073	Eurasian Hobby	Falco subbuteo	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
12114	Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus	present	present
12499	Pale-headed Rosella	Platycercus adscitus	endemic	introduced (not established)
12558	Budgerigar	Melopsittacus undulatus	endemic	extirpated
21054	Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
22615	Eurasian Skylark	Alauda arvensis	introduced	present
23783	Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes certhiola	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
23788	Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler	Helopsaltes ochotensis	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
24187	Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	present	present
24733	Red-whiskered Bulbul	Pycnonotus jocosus	introduced	introduced
24754	Red-vented Bulbul	Pycnonotus cafer	extirpated	introduced
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	breeder
24943	Kamchatka Leaf Warbler	Phylloscopus examinandus	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
27813	European Starling	Sturnus vulgaris	introduced	introduced
27859	Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis	introduced	introduced
28433	Song Thrush	Turdus philomelos	introduced	rare/accidental
28586	Eyebrowed Thrush	Turdus obscurus	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
28781	Gray-streaked Flycatcher	Muscicapa griseisticta	outlying islands only	rare/accidental
28782	Dark-sided Flycatcher	Muscicapa sibirica	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
28790	Asian Brown Flycatcher	Muscicapa dauurica	rare/accidental	present
29388	Siberian Blue Robin	Larvivora cyane	outlying islands only	present
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 (not established)
31534	House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	introduced	introduced
31603	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	introduced	introduced
31678	Gray Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31700	Eastern Yellow Wagtail	Motacilla tschutschensis	non-breeder	present
31707	Citrine Wagtail	Motacilla citreola	present	rare/accidental
31720	White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	present	breeder
31865	Pechora Pipit	Anthus gustavi	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
31870	Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	rare/accidental	present
31948	Common Chaffinch	Fringilla coelebs	rare/accidental	rare/accidental
32483	Redpoll	Acanthis flammea	non-breeder	present
32552	European Goldfinch	Carduelis carduelis	introduced	introduced

Number of species: 212