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Birds of the Broome Region Official Checklist Updated December 2020 Birds of the Broome Region Official Checklist Updated December 2020 Broome Bird Observatory Crab Creek Rd, Broome Phone: (08) 9193 5600 E-mail: [email protected] EMUS AND CASSOWARIES FROGMOUTHS NORTHERN STORM-PETRELS Ψ Emu Tawny Frogmouth Matsudaira’s Storm-Petrel QUAIL NIGHTJARS Swinhoe’s Storm-Petrel Stubble Quail Spotted Nightjar PETRELS AND SHEARWATERS Brown Quail OWLET-NIGHTJARS Ψ Northern Giant Petrel MAGPIE GOOSE Australian Owlet-nightjar Ψ Cape Petrel Magpie Goose SWIFTS Wedge-tailed Shearwater DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS Ψ White-throated Needletail Ψ Short-tailed Shearwater Plumed Whistling-Duck Ψ Glossy Swiftlet Streaked Shearwater Wandering Whistling-Duck Fork-tailed Swift Hutton’s Shearwater Pink-eared Duck Ψ House Swift STORKS Freckled Duck CUCKOOS Black-necked Stork Black Swan Pheasant Coucal IBISES AND SPOONBILLS Ψ Radjah Shelduck Eastern Koel Yellow-billed Spoonbill Ψ Australian Shelduck Channel-billed Cuckoo Royal Spoonbill Green Pygmy-goose Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Straw-necked Ibis Australian Wood Duck Black-eared Cuckoo Australian White Ibis Hardhead Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Glossy Ibis Garganey Little Bronze-Cuckoo HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Ψ Australasian Shoveler Brush Cuckoo Australian Little Bittern Pacific Black Duck Pallid Cuckoo Ψ Yellow Bittern Grey Teal Oriental Cuckoo Ψ Black Bittern Ψ Chestnut Teal CRAKES, RAILS AND SWAMPHENS Nankeen Night-Heron GREBES Ψ Red-legged Crake Striated Heron Australasian Grebe Buff-banded Rail Ψ Chinese Pond Heron Hoary-headed Grebe Australian Spotted Crake Cattle Egret Great Crested Grebe Baillon’s Crake White-necked Heron TROPICBIRDS Spotless Crake Ψ Great-billed Heron Ψ Red-tailed Tropicbird Ψ Pale-vented Bush-hen Great Egret PIGEONS AND DOVES White-browed Crake Ψ Intermediate Egret Ψ Rock Dove Purple Swamphen Plumed Egret Common Bronzewing Ψ Dusky Moorhen Pied Heron Flock Bronzewing Black-tailed Native-hen White-faced Heron Crested Pigeon Eurasian Coot Little Egret Diamond Dove CRANES Eastern Reef Egret Peaceful Dove Brolga PELICANS Bar-shouldered Dove BUSTARDS Australian Pelican Ψ Brown-capped Emerald-Dove Australian Bustard FRIGATEBIRDS Ψ Torresian Imperial Pigeon SOUTHERN STORM-PETRELS Lesser Frigatebird Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Ψ Great Frigatebird BOOBIES Curlew Sandpiper JAEGERS Ψ Abbott’s Booby Ψ Temminck’s Stint Ψ Long-tailed Jaeger Ψ Red-footed Booby Long-toed Stint Ψ Arctic Jaeger Brown Booby Red-necked Stint Ψ Pomarine Jaeger Ψ Masked Booby Sanderling MASKED OWLS CORMORANTS Little Stint Eastern Grass Owl Little Pied Cormorant Pectoral Sandpiper Barn Owl Ψ Great Cormorant Asian Dowitcher HAWK-OWLS Little Black Cormorant Pintail Snipe Barking Owl Great Pied Cormorant Swinhoe’s Snipe Southern Boobook DARTERS Ψ Red-necked Phalarope OSPREY Australasian Darter Ψ Red Phalarope Osprey STONE-CURLEWS Terek Sandpiper HAWKS Bush Stone-curlew Common Sandpiper Black-shouldered Kite Beach Stone-curlew Grey-tailed Tattler Ψ Letter-winged Kite OYSTERCATCHERS Ψ Spotted Redshank Ψ Oriental Honey-buzzard Australian Pied Oystercatcher Common Greenshank Black-breasted Buzzard Sooty Oystercatcher Common Redshank Square-tailed Kite STILTS AND AVOCETS Wood Sandpiper Ψ Pacific Baza Ψ Banded Stilt Marsh Sandpiper Wedge-tailed Eagle Red-necked Avocet Ψ Nordmann’s Greenshank Little Eagle Pied Stilt BUTTON-QUAIL Swamp Harrier PLOVERS Red-backed Button-quail Spotted Harrier Grey Plover Red-chested Button-quail Brown Goshawk Pacific Golden Plover Little Button-quail Collared Sparrowhawk Ψ Semipalmated Plover PRATINCOLES White-bellied Sea-Eagle Little Ringed Plover Australian Pratincole Whistling Kite Red-capped Plover Oriental Pratincole Brahminy Kite Lesser Sand Plover GULLS, TERNS AND NODDIES Black Kite Greater Sand Plover Ψ Brown Noddy HOOPOES Oriental Plover Ψ Lesser Noddy Ψ Eurasian Hoopoe Black-fronted Dotterel Ψ Black Noddy BEE-EATERS Ψ Banded Lapwing Ψ Sabine’s Gull Rainbow Bee-eater Masked Lapwing Ψ Black-headed Gull ROLLERS Red-kneed Dotterel Silver Gull Oriental Dollarbird PAINTED-SNIPE Ψ Franklin’s Gull KINGFISHERS Australian Painted-snipe Ψ Kelp Gull Ψ Collared Kingfisher JACANAS Ψ Lesser Black-backed Gull Sacred Kingfisher Comb-crested Jacana Sooty Tern Red-backed Kingfisher SANDPIPERS Bridled Tern Blue-winged Kookaburra Whimbrel Little Tern FALCONS Little Curlew Common Gull-billed Tern Nankeen Kestrel Ψ Eurasian Curlew Australian Gull-billed Tern Australian Hobby Far Eastern Curlew Caspian Tern Brown Falcon Bar-tailed Godwit Whiskered Tern Ψ Grey Falcon Black-tailed Godwit White-winged Black Tern Black Falcon Ruddy Turnstone Roseate Tern Peregrine Falcon Great Knot Common Tern COCKATOOS Red Knot Ψ Arctic Tern Cockatiel Ruff Lesser Crested Tern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Broad-billed Sandpiper Greater Crested Tern Galah Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo Little Corella BELLBIRDS Fairy Martin PARROTS Crested Bellbird Tree Martin Varied Lorikeet WHISTLERS AND ALLIES Red-rumped Swallow Red-collared Lorikeet Rufous Whistler Welcome Swallow Budgerigar White-breasted Whistler Barn Swallow Red-winged Parrot Mangrove Golden Whistler LEAF WARBLERS PITTAS Grey Shrike-thrush Ψ Kamchatka Leaf-warbler Ψ Blue-winged Pitta CUCKOO-SHRIKES AND TRILLERS WHITE-EYES Ψ Fairy Pitta Ψ Ground Cuckoo-shrike Australian Yellow White-eye BOWERBIRDS Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike STARLINGS Great Bowebird Ψ White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike Ψ Common Starling TREECREEPERS White-winged Triller Ψ Rosy Starling Black-tailed Treecreeper WOODSWALLOWS AND ALLIES OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS FAIRY-WRENS Australian Magpie Ψ Blue-and-White Flycatcher Variegated Fairy-wren Pied Butcherbird FLOWERPECKERS Red-backed Fairy-wren Masked Woodswallow Mistletoebird HONEYEATERS Ψ White-browed Woodswallow FINCHES Banded Honeyeater Black-faced Woodswallow Ψ Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Brown Honeyeater Little Woodswallow Pictorella Mannikin White-throated Honeyeater White-breasted Woodswallow Painted Finch Golden-backed Honeyeater FANTAILS Ψ Black-bellied Crimson Finch Little Friarbird Northern Fantail Ψ Star Finch Ψ Silver-crowned Friarbird Willie Wagtail Long-tailed Finch Black Honeyeater Mangrove Fantail Zebra Finch Red-headed Honeyeater Grey Fantail Double-barred Finch Pied Honeyeater MONARCH FLYCATCHERS Ψ Gouldian Finch Rufous-throated Honeyeater Leaden Flycatcher SPARROWS Yellow Chat Broad-billed Flycatcher Ψ Eurasian Tree Sparrow Crimson Chat Paperbark Flycatcher PIPITS AND WAGTAILS Ψ Orange Chat Magpie-lark Ψ Red-throated Pipit White-gaped Honeyeater CROWS Australasian Pipit Ψ Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Torresian Crow Grey Wagtail Singing Honeyeater Ψ Little Crow Eastern Yellow Wagtail Yellow-tinted Honeyeater ROBINS Ψ White Wagtail Grey-headed Honeyeater Red-capped Robin Ψ Grey-fronted Honeyeater Kimberley Flycatcher Total 334 species. Ψ White-fronted Honeyeater Jacky Winter Yellow-throated Miner Hooded Robin Italics = Uncommon, Ψ = Vagrant PARDALOTES LARKS Red-browed Pardalote Horsfield’s Bushlark For the purposes of this list, the Striated Pardalote CISTICOLAS Broome region encompasses all AUSTRALASIAN WARBLERS Golden-headed Cisticola areas within a 70 km radius of the Broome Bird Observatory. White-throated Gerygone REED-WARBLERS Dusky Gerygone Ψ Oriental Reed-Warbler Mangrove Gerygone Australian Reed-Warbler Weebill GRASSBIRDS AND SONGLARKS BABBLERS Brown Songlark Grey-crowed Babbler Rufous Songlark SITTELLAS Tawny Grassbird Varied Sittella Little Grassbird ORIOLES SWALLOWS AND MARTINS Olive-backed Oriole Ψ White-backed Swallow .
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