List of birds of King Island (Tasmania)
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This is a complete[citation needed] list of bird species and subspecies that have been recorded on King Island, Tasmania, Australia.
List of birds
[edit]Order | Genus | Species | Introduced | Extinct | Ref. | |
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Common name | Binomial | |||||
Struthioniformes | Casuariidae | Emu | Dromaius novaehollandiae | Yes | No | |
King Island emu | Dromaius novaehollandiae ater | No | Yes | |||
Galliformes | Phasianidae | Wild turkey | Meleagris gallopavo | Yes | No | |
Common pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Yes | No | |||
Indian peafowl | Pavo cristatus | Yes | No | |||
Odontophoridae | California quail | Callipepla californica | Yes | No | ||
Anseriformes | Anatidae | Blue-billed duck | Oxyura australis | |||
Cape Barren goose | Cereopsis novaehollandiae | |||||
Feral goose | Anser anser domesticus | Yes | No | |||
Musk duck | Biziura lobata | |||||
Black swan | Cygnus atratus | |||||
Australian wood duck | Chenonetta jubata | |||||
Australian shelduck | Tadorna tadornoides | |||||
Pacific black duck | Anas superciliosa | |||||
Australian shoveler | Anas rhynchotis | |||||
Gray teal | Anas gracilis | |||||
Chestnut teal | Anas castanea | |||||
Podicipediformes | Podicipedidae | Hoary-headed grebe | Poliocephalus poliocephalus | |||
Sphenisciformes | Spheniscidae | Little penguin | Eudyptula minor | |||
Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Short-tailed shearwater | Puffinus tenuirostris | |||
Diomedeidae | Black-browed albatross | Thalassarche melanophrys | ||||
Shy albatross | Thalassarche cauta | |||||
Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | |||||
Pelecaniformes | Sulidae | Australasian gannet | Morus serrator | |||
Phalacrocoracidae | Little pied cormorant | Microcarbo melanoleucos | ||||
Black-faced cormorant | Phalacrocorax fuscescens | |||||
Ardeidae | White-faced heron | Egretta novaehollandiae | ||||
Cattle egret | Bubulcus ibis | |||||
Great egret | Ardea alba | |||||
Australasian bittern | Botaurus poiciloptilus | |||||
Nankeen night heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | |||||
Falconiformes | Accipitridae | White-bellied sea eagle | Haliaeetus leucogaster | |||
Brown goshawk | Accipiter fasciatus | |||||
Swamp harrier | Circus approximans | |||||
Falconidae | Brown falcon | Falco berigora | ||||
Australian hobby | Falco longipennis | |||||
Nankeen kestrel | Falco chenchroides | |||||
Gruiformes | Rallidae | Lewin's rail | Lewinia pectoralis | |||
Buff-banded rail | Gallirallus philippensis | |||||
Spotless crake | Porzana tabuensis | |||||
Purple swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | |||||
Dusky moorhen | Gallinula tenebrosa | |||||
Eurasian coot | Fulica atra | |||||
Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Latham's snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | |||
Bar-tailed godwit | Limosa lapponica | |||||
Far Eastern curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | |||||
Common greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |||||
Grey-tailed tattler | Tringa brevipes | |||||
Common sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |||||
Ruddy turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |||||
Red-necked stint | Calidris ruficollis | |||||
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |||||
Haematopodidae | Pied oystercatcher | Haematopus longirostris | ||||
Sooty oystercatcher | Haematopus fuliginosus | |||||
Charadriidae | Red-capped plover | Charadrius ruficapillus | ||||
Double-banded plover | Charadrius bicinctus | |||||
Hooded dotterel | Thinornis rubricollis | |||||
Pacific golden plover | Pluvialis fulva | |||||
Banded lapwing | Vanellus tricolor | |||||
Masked lapwing | Vanellus miles | |||||
Laridae | Pacific gull | Larus pacificus | ||||
Silver gull | Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae | |||||
Sternidae | Caspian tern | Hydroprogne caspia | ||||
Greater crested tern | Thalasseus bergii | |||||
Fairy tern | Sterna nereis | |||||
Columbiformes | Columbidae | Spotted dove | Spilopelia chinensis | Yes | ||
Brush bronzewing | Phaps elegans | |||||
Psittaciformes | Cacatuidae | Yellow-tailed black cockatoo | Calpytorhynchus funereus | |||
Sulphur-crested cockatoo | Cacatua galerita | |||||
Psittacidae | Rainbow lorikeet | Trichoglossus haematodus | ||||
Orange-bellied parrot | Neophema chrysogaster | |||||
Blue-winged parrot | Neophema chrysostoma | |||||
Green rosella | Platycercus caledonicus | Endemic (to Tas.) | ||||
King Island green rosella | Platycercus caledonicus brownii | Endemic (to King Is.) | ||||
Cuculiformes | Cuculidae | Pallid cuckoo | Cacomantis pallidus | |||
Fan-tailed cuckoo | Cacomantis flabelliformis | |||||
Horsfield's bronze cuckoo | Chrysococcyx basalis | |||||
Shining bronze cuckoo | Chrysococcyx lucidus | |||||
Strigiformes | Strigidae | Australian boobook | Ninox boobook | |||
Apodiformes | Apodidae | White-throated needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | |||
Passeriformes | Maluridae | Superb fairywren | Malurus cyaneus | |||
Pardalotidae | Spotted pardalote | Pardalotus punctatus | ||||
Striated pardalote | Pardalotus striatus | |||||
Acanthizidae | Tasmanian scrubwren | Sericornis humilis | Endemic (Tas.) | |||
Scrubtit | Acanthornis magna | Endemic (Tas.) | ||||
King Island scrubtit (Greene's scrubtit) | Acanthornis magnus greeniana | Endemic (King Is.) | ||||
Brown thornbill | Acanthiza pusilla | |||||
King Island brown thornbill (Archibald's thornbill) | Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi | Endemic (King Is.) | ||||
Tasmanian thornbill | Acanthiza ewingii | Endemic (Tas.) |