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Bird Species Checklist Petrels & Shearwaters Darters Hawks & Allies (cont.) Common Diving-Petrel Darter Collared Sparrowhawk Bird Species List Southern Giant Petrel Cormorants Wedge-tailed Eagle Southern Fulmar Little Pied Cormorant Little Eagle Kangaroo Island, SA Cape Petrel Black-faced Cormorant Osprey Kerguelen Petrel Pied Cormorant Brown Falcon Emus Great-winged Petrel Little Black Cormorant Australian Hobby Mainland Emu White-headed Petrel Great Cormorant Black Falcon Megapodes Blue Petrel Pelicans Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Mottled Petrel Fiordland Pelican Nankeen Kestrel Australian Brush Turkey Northern Giant Petrel Little Pelican Cranes Game Birds South Georgia Diving Petrel Northern Rockhopper Pelican Brolga Stubble Quail Broad-billed Prion Australian Pelican Rails Brown Quail Salvin's Prion Herons & Allies Buff-banded Rail Indian Peafowl Antarctic Prion White-faced Heron Lewin's Rail Wildfowl Slender-billed Prion Little Egret Baillon's Crake Blue-billed Duck Fairy Prion Eastern Reef Heron Australian Spotted Crake Musk Duck White-chinned Petrel White-necked Heron Spotless Crake Freckled Duck Grey Petrel Great Egret Purple Swamp-hen Black Swan Flesh-footed Shearwater Cattle Egret Dusky Moorhen Cape Barren Goose Short-tailed Shearwater Nankeen Night Heron Black-tailed Native-hen Australian Shelduck Fluttering Shearwater Australasian Bittern Common Coot Maned Duck Sooty Shearwater Ibises & Spoonbills Buttonquail Pacific Black Duck Hutton's Shearwater Glossy Ibis Painted Buttonquail Australasian Shoveler Albatrosses Australian White Ibis Sandpipers & Allies Northern Shoveler Wandering Albatross Straw-necked Ibis Latham's Snipe Grey Teal Black-browed Albatross Royal Spoonbill Black-tailed Godwit Chestnut Teal Shy Albatross Yellow-billed Spoonbill Bar-tailed Godwit Garganey Grey-headed Albatross Hawks & Allies Whimbrel Pink-eared Duck Yellow-nosed Albatross Black-shouldered Kite Eastern Curlew Hardhead Light-mantled Sooty Albatross Letter-winged Kite Marsh Sandpiper Grebes Storm Petrels Square-tailed Kite Common Greenshank Australasian Grebe Wilson's Storm Petrel Black Kite Wood Sandpiper Hoary-headed Grebe White-faced Storm Petrel Whistling Kite Terek Sandpiper Greated Crested Grebe Tropicbirds White-bellied Sea-Eagle Common Sandpiper Penguins Red-tailed Tropicbird Spotted Harrier Grey-tailed Tattler Little Penguin Gannets Swamg Harrier Ruddy Turnstone Information Source: BirdLife Australia; Baxter, C. (1995) An annotated list list annotated An (1995) C. Baxter, Australia; BirdLife Source: Information eBird ; Island Kangaroo of birds the of Australasian Gannet Brown Goshawk Red Knot 1 Sandpipers & Allies (cont.) Terns Cuckoos & Allies (cont.) Honeyeaters (cont.) Great Knot Gull-billed Tern Pallid Cuckoo Regent Honeyeater Sanderling Caspian Tern Fan-tailed Cuckoo Singing Honeyeater Red-necked Stint Crested Tern Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo White-eared Honeyeater Long-toed Stint White-fronted Tern Shining Bronze-cuckoo Purple-gaped Honeyeater Pectoral Sandpiper White-winged Tern White-winged Triller White-plumed Honeyeater Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Common Tern Black-faced Cuckooshrike Brown-headed Honeyeater Curlew Sandpiper Antarctic Tern Olive-backed Oriole White-naped Honeyeater Snipes & Curlews Fairy Tern Owls & Frogmouths Crescent Honeyeater Australian Painted Snipe Sooty Tern Barn Owl New Holland Honeyeater Bush Stone-curlew Whiskered Tern Southern Boobook White-fronted Honeyeater Oystercatchers Pigeons & Doves Tawny Frogmouth Tawny-crowned Honeyeater Pied Oystercatcher Rock Dove Nightjars Eastern Spinebill Sooty Oystercatcher Spotted Dove Spotted Nightjar Chats Avocets & Stilts Common Bronzewing Australian Owlet-nightjar Crimson Chat Black-winged Stilt Brush Bronzewing Swifts Orange Chat Banded Stilt Crested Pigeon White-throated Needletail White-fronted Chat Red-necked Avocet Cockatoos Pacific Swift Robins Plovers Glossy Black Cockatoo Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, & Rollers Scarlet Robin Pacific Golden Plover Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Laughing Kookaburra Red-capped Robin Grey Plover Gang-gang Cockatoo Sacred Kingfisher Flame Robin Red-capped Plover Galah Rainbow Bee-eater Whipbirds Double-banded Plover Cockateil Dollarbird Western Whipbird Lesser Sand Plover Little Corella Wrens Whistlers Greater Sand Plover Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Superb Fairy-wren Golden Whistler Black-fronted Dotterel Parrots Southern Emu-wren Rufous Whistler Hooded Dotterel Rainbow Lorikeet Pardalotes Grey Shrike-thrush Red-kneed Dotterel Purple-crowned lorikeet Spotted Pardalote Flycatchers Banded Lapwing Little Lorikeet Striated Pardalote Satin Flycatcher Masked Lapwing Musk Lorikeet Thornbills & Allies Restless Flycatcher Skuas Crimson Rosella White-browed Scrubwren Mudnest-Builders Antarctic Skua Budgerigar Shy Heathwren Magpie-lark Arctic Skua Elegant Parrot Brown Thornbill Fantails Parasitic Jaeger Blue-winged Parrot Yellow Thornbill Grey Fantail Pomarine Skua Rock Parrot Striated Thornbill Little Wagtail Gulls Cuckoos & Allies Honeyeaters Willie Wagtail Pacific Gull Pallid Cuckoo Red Wattlebird Drongos Kelp Gull Fan-tailed Cuckoo Little Wattlebird Spangled Drongo Silver Gull Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater 2 Woodswallows Notes Kangaroo Island Gateway Visitor Finding Injured Wildlife Masked Woodswallow Information Centre PLEASE remember to drive carefully on White-browed Woodswallow Address: Howard Drive Kangaroo Island. The Island is home to Black-faced Woodswallow Penneshaw, South Australia 5222 many animals, including those readily Dusky Woodswallow seen at dawn, dusk, and nighttime. Bellmagpies & Allies Phone Number: +61 (0) 8 8553 1185 If you find an injured native animal, do Australian Magpie Website: tourkangarooisland.com.au NOT attempt to handle it yourself. Grey Currawong Crows Follow the Visitor Information Centre You may contact the Kangaroo Island on Facebook at: @KangarooIslandVIC Natural Resources Centre IF the animal Australian Raven Little Raven meets the following criteria: Larks Follow the Kangaroo Island Tourism, Animal is on public land reserve Food, Wine, & Beverage Association on Singing Bushlark Animal is a species of conservation Facebook at: @authentickangarooisland. Skylark significance Pipits & Wagtails Animal poses a risk to public safety Sealink Ferry Information Australian Pipit Sparrows Cape Jervis Departure Point Phone (office hours): (08) 8553 4444 House Sparrow Address: Flinders Drive, Cape Jervis Phone (off-duty hours): 0477 334898 Waxbills & Allies South Australia 5204 Red-browed Finch For more information, visit the Kanga- Beautiful Firetail Penneshaw Arrival Point roo Island Nature Resources website at: naturalresources.sa.gov. Finches Address: Lot 89 North Terrace, Goldfinch Penneshaw South Australia 5222 Swallows & Martins Don't forget your: Phone Number: +61 (0) 13 13 01 Welcome Swallow Binoculars Tree Martin Website: sealink.com.au Camera Fairy Martin Hours: 7 days, 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM Bird ID Book Warblers Sun protection Australian Reed Warbler Emergencies Little Grassbird For non-life-threatening emergencies, Brown Songlark Enjoy your visit to Kangaroo contact the Kangaroo Island Council at White-eyes Island! +61 (0) 88553 4500. Silvereye Thrushes For life-threatening and urgent situations, Bassian Thrush dial 000 for ambulance, file, or police. Blackbird Starlings European Starling expeditionwildlife.com 3 .
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