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Bird list

Below is an alphabetical list of the birds found in the Sydney Region, by common name.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Y

 

 


A

Arctic Skua
Australasian Gannet
Australasian Grebe
Australian King-Parrot
Australian Owlet-nightjar
Australian Pelican
Australian Raven
Australian Spotted Crake
Australian White Ibis
Australian Wood Duck
Azure Kingfisher

B

Baillon's Crake
Barn Owl
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bell Miner
Black Swan
Black-backed Magpie
Black-browed Albatross
Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
Black-faced Flycatcher
Black-fronted Dotterel
Black-winged Stilt
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Brown Goshawk
Brown Honeyeater
Brown Thornbill
Brown Warbler
Brush Cuckoo
Buff-banded Rail

C

Cape Petrel
Caspian Tern
Cattle Egret
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Chestnut Teal
Chestnut-tailed Heathwren
Cicadabird
Clamorous Reed-Warbler
Collared Sparrowhawk
Common Coot
Common Greenshank
Common Koel
Common Sandpiper
Common Tern
Crested Pigeon
Crested Tern
Crimson Rosella
Curlew Sandpiper

D

Darter
Dollarbird
Dominican Gull
Double-banded Dotterel
Dusky Moorhen
Dusky Woodswallow

E

Eastern Curlew
Eastern Reef Heron
Eastern Rosella
Eastern Spinebill
Eastern Whipbird
Eastern Yellow Robin
Eurasian Skylark

F

Fairy Martin
Fairy Prion
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Figbird
Fluttering Shearwater
Fork-tailed Swift
Fuscous Honeyeater

G

Galah
Gang Gang Cockatoo
Golden Whistler
Golden-headed Cisticola
Goldfinch
Great Cormorant
Great Egret
Greater Knot
Greenfinch
Grey Butcherbird
Grey Fantail
Grey Shrike-Thrush
Grey Teal
Grey-tailed Tattler

H

Hoary-headed Grebe
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
House Sparrow

J

Japanese Snipe

L

Large Sand Dotterel
Large-billed Scrubwren
Laughing Kookaburra
Leaden Flycatcher
Lesser Knot
Lewin's Honeyeater
Little Black Cormorant
Little Corella
Little Cuckoo-Shrike
Little Falcon
Little Grassbird
Little Lorikeet
Little Penguin
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Tern
Little Thornbill
Little Wattlebird
Long-billed Corella

M

Magpie-lark
Mallard
Marsh Sandpiper
Masked Plover
Mistletoebird
Mongolian Dotterel
Musk Duck
Musk Lorikeet

N

Nankeen Kestrel
Nankeen Night Heron
New Holland Honeyeater
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner

O

Olive-backed Oriole

P

Pacific Black Duck
Pacific Golden Plover
Pallid Cuckoo
Peaceful Dove
Pectoral Sandpiper
Peregrine Falcon
Pied Cormorant
Pied Currawong
Pink-eared Duck
Pomarine Skua
Powerful Owl

R

Rainbow Bee-eater
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Wattlebird
Red-browed Finch
Red-browed Treecreeper
Red-capped Dotterel
Red-kneed Dotterel
Red-necked Stint
Red-rumped Parrot
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Restless Flycatcher
Richard's Pipit
Rock Dove
Rockwarbler
Rose Robin
Ruddy Turnstone
Rufous Fantail
Rufous Whistler

S

Sacred Kingfisher
Satin Bowerbird
Scarlet Honeyeater
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Short-tailed Shearwater
Shy Albatross
Silver Gull
Silvereye
Sittella
Sooty Oystercatcher
Southern Boobook
Southern Giant Petrel
Southern Skua
Spice Finch
Spine-tailed Swift
Spotless Crake
Spotted Pardalote
Spotted Turtle-Dove
Striated Heron
Striated Pardalote
Striated Thornbill
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Superb Fairy-wren
Superb Lyrebird
Swamphen

T

Tawny Frogmouth
Terek Sandpiper
Tree Martin

V

Variegated Fairy-wren

W

Wandering Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Welcome Swallow
Whimbrel
Whiskered Tern
White-breasted Sea-Eagle
White-browed Scrubwren
White-cheeked Honeyeater
White-eared Honeyeater
White-eyed Duck
White-faced Heron
White-fronted Chat
White-fronted Tern
White-headed Pigeon
White-naped Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
White-throated Nightjar
White-throated Treecreeper
White-throated Warbler
White-winged Black Tern
White-winged Triller
Willie Wagtail
Wonga Pigeon
Wood Sandpiper

Y

Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Yellow-tailed Thornbill
Yellow-throated Scrubwren
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater