List of birds of Kangaroo Island, South Australia
The following is a list of the birds recorded on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Emus
[edit]- Emu (introduced)
- Kangaroo Island emu (extinct)
Megapodes
[edit]- Australian brush-turkey (introduced)
Gamebirds
[edit]- Stubble quail
- Brown quail
- Indian peafowl (introduced)
- Common pheasant (introduced)
- Wild turkey (introduced)
Wildfowl
[edit]- Blue-billed duck
- Musk duck
- Freckled duck
- Black swan
- Cape Barren goose
- Australian shelduck
- Australian wood duck
- Pacific black duck
- Australian shoveler
- Grey teal
- Chestnut teal
- Garganey (vagrant)
- Pink-eared duck
- Hardhead
- Mallard (introduced)
Grebes
[edit]Penguins
[edit]Diving-petrels
[edit]Petrels and shearwaters
[edit]- Southern giant petrel
- Northern giant petrel
- Southern fulmar
- Cape petrel
- Kerguelen petrel
- Great-winged petrel
- White-headed petrel
- Blue petrel
- Broad-billed prion
- Salvin's prion
- Antarctic prion
- Slender-billed prion
- Fairy prion
- White-chinned petrel
- Mottled petrel
- Grey petrel
- Flesh-footed shearwater
- Short-tailed shearwater (migrates here to breed)
- Fluttering shearwater
- Hutton's shearwater
- Sooty shearwater
- Little shearwater
Albatrosses
[edit]- Wandering albatross
- Royal albatross
- Black-browed albatross
- Shy albatross
- Grey-headed albatross
- Yellow-nosed albatross
- Sooty albatross
- Light-mantled sooty albatross
Storm-petrels
[edit]Tropicbirds
[edit]Gannets
[edit]Darters
[edit]Cormorants
[edit]Pelicans
[edit]Herons and allies
[edit]- White-faced heron
- Little egret
- Eastern reef egret
- White-necked heron
- Great egret
- Cattle egret
- Nankeen night heron
- Australasian bittern
- Intermediate egret
Ibises and spoonbills
[edit]Hawks and allies
[edit]- Black-shouldered kite
- Letter-winged kite
- Square-tailed kite
- Black kite
- Whistling kite
- White-bellied sea-eagle
- Spotted harrier
- Swamp harrier
- Brown goshawk
- Collared sparrowhawk
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- Little eagle
Osprey
[edit]Falcons
[edit]Cranes
[edit]Rails
[edit]- Buff-banded rail
- Lewin's rail
- Baillon's crake
- Australian spotted crake
- Spotless crake
- Purple swamp-hen
- Dusky moorhen
- Black-tailed native-hen
- Common coot
Buttonquail
[edit]Sandpipers and allies
[edit]- Latham's snipe
- Black-tailed godwit
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Eurasian whimbrel
- Eastern curlew
- Marsh sandpiper
- Common greenshank
- Wood sandpiper
- Terek sandpiper
- Common sandpiper
- Grey-tailed tattler
- Ruddy turnstone
- Red knot
- Sanderling
- Red-necked stint
- Long-toed stint
- Pectoral sandpiper
- Sharp-tailed sandpiper
- Curlew sandpiper
- Great knot
Painted-snipe
[edit]Stone-curlews
[edit]Oystercatchers
[edit]Avocets and stilts
[edit]Plovers
[edit]- Pacific golden plover
- Grey plover
- Red-capped plover
- Double-banded plover
- Lesser sand plover
- Greater sand plover
- Black-fronted dotterel
- Hooded plover
- Red-kneed dotterel
- Banded lapwing
- Masked lapwing
Skuas
[edit]Gulls
[edit]Terns
[edit]- Australian tern
- Caspian tern
- Crested tern
- White-fronted tern
- Common tern
- Antarctic tern
- Fairy tern
- Sooty tern
- Whiskered tern
- Arctic tern
- Little tern
- White-winged tern
Pigeons and doves
[edit]- Rock dove (introduced)
- Spotted dove (introduced)
- Common bronzewing
- Brush bronzewing
- Crested pigeon (introduced)
- Peaceful dove
Cockatoos
[edit]- Glossy black cockatoo
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
- Gang-gang cockatoo(introduced)
- Galah
- Little corella
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Cockatiel
- Long-billed corella
Parrots
[edit]- Rainbow lorikeet
- Purple-crowned lorikeet
- musk lorikeet
- Crimson rosella
- Eastern rosella
- Budgerigar
- Elegant parrot
- Rock parrot
- Red-rumped parrot
- Eastern bluebonnet
- Mulga parrot
- Blue-winged parrot
Cuckoos
[edit]Barn owls
[edit]Owls
[edit]Frogmouths
[edit]Nightjars
[edit]Owlet-nightjars
[edit]Swifts
[edit]Kingfishers
[edit]- Laughing kookaburra (introduced)
- Sacred kingfisher
Bee-eaters
[edit]Rollers
[edit]Treecreepers
[edit]Flowerpeckers
[edit]Australo-Papuan wrens
[edit]Pardalotes
[edit]Thornbills and allies
[edit]- White-browed scrubwren
- Shy heathwren
- Brown thornbill
- Yellow thornbill
- Striated thornbill
- Yellow-rumped thornbill
- Inland thornbill
- White-throated gerygone
- Chestnut-rumped heathwren
- Southern whiteface
Honeyeaters
[edit]- Red wattlebird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- Little wattlebird
- Regent honeyeater
- Singing honeyeater
- White-eared honeyeater
- Purple-gaped honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- White-plumed honeyeater
- Brown-headed honeyeater
- White-naped honeyeater
- Crescent honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- New Holland honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- White-fronted honeyeater
- Tawny-crowned honeyeater
- Eastern spinebill
- Pied honeyeater
- Yellow-plumed honeyeater
- Yellow-faced honeyeater
- White-fronted honeyeater
- Noisy miner
- Yellow-throated miner
- Spiny-cheeked honeyeater
- Black honeyeater
Australian chats
[edit]Australian robins
[edit]Whipbirds
[edit]- Western whipbird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
Whistlers
[edit]Monarch flycatchers
[edit]Mudnest-builders
[edit]Fantails
[edit]Drongos
[edit]- Spangled drongo (vagrant)
Cuckooshrikes
[edit]Sittellas
[edit]Woodswallows
[edit]Bellmagpies and allies
[edit]- Australian magpie
- Grey currawong (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- Grey butcherbird
Crows
[edit]Larks
[edit]Pipits and wagtails
[edit]Old World sparrows
[edit]- House sparrow (introduced)
Waxbills and allies
[edit]Finches
[edit]- Goldfinch (introduced)
Swallows and martins
[edit]Old World warblers
[edit]White-eyes
[edit]- Silvereye (a subspecies)
Thrushes
[edit]- Bassian thrush (a subspecies)
- Blackbird (introduced)
Starlings
[edit]- European starling (introduced)
Sources
[edit]- Baxter, C (1995), An annotated list of the birds of Kangaroo Island (Rev. ed.), South Australia National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, ISBN 978-0-7308-0677-6