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PENGUINS Grey-Backed Storm Petrel Nankeen Night Heron BROLGA Erect-Crested Penguin Leach's Storm Petrel Pacific Reef Heron Brolg PENGUINS Grey-backed Storm Petrel Nankeen Night Heron BROLGA Erect-crested Penguin Leach's Storm Petrel Pacific Reef Heron Brolga Fiordland Penguin White-faced Storm Petrel King Penguin Wilson's Storm Petrel PELICAN, FRIGATEBIRD BUTTONQUAIL Little Penguin Antarctic Prion Australian Pelican Little Buttonquail Macaroni Penguin Broad-billed Prion Lesser Frigatebird Painted Buttonquail EMU, OSTRICH Royal Penguin Fairy Prion Red-chested Buttonquail Emu Northern Rockhopper Penguin Fulmar Prion GANNET Common Ostrich Snares Penguin Salvin's Prion Australasian Gannet STONE-CURLEWS Slender-billed Prion Bush Stone-curlew DUCKS, GEESE, SWAN ALBATROSSES, PETRELS Flesh-footed Shearwater CORMORANTS, DARTER Beach Stone-curlew Blue-billed Duck Amsterdam Albatross Fluttering Shearwater Little Pied Cormorant Freckled Duck Antipodean Albatross Great Shearwater Black-faced Cormorant OYSTERCATCHERS Maned Duck Antipodean Albatross Hutton's Shearwater Little Black Cormorant Pied Oystercatcher Muscovy Duck Gibson's Albatross Little Shearwater Pied Cormorant Sooty Oystercatcher Musk Duck Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Manx Shearwater Great Cormorant Pacific Black Duck Black-browed Albatross Short-tailed Shearwater Australasian Darter AVOCET, STILTS Pink-eared Duck Black-browed Albatross Sooty Shearwater Red-necked Avocet Plumed Whistling Duck Buller's Albatross Wedge-tailed Shearwater HAWKS, EAGLES Banded Stilt Wandering Whistling Duck Campbell Albatross Black-breasted Buzzard White-headed Stilt Garganey Chatham Albatross GREBES Little Eagle Cape Barren Goose Grey-headed Albatross Australasian Grebe Wedge-tailed Eagle DOTTERELS, PLOVERS Green Pygmy Goose Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Great Crested Grebe White-bellied Sea Eagle Black-fronted Dotterel Magpie Goose Light-mantled Albatross Hoary-headed Grebe Brown Goshawk Inland Dotterel Hardhead Southern Royal Albatross Grey Goshawk Red-kneed Dotterel *Mallard Northern Royal Albatross TROPICBIRD, STORK Spotted Harrier Banded Lapwing Australian Shelduck Salvin's Albatross Red-tailed Tropicbird Swamp Harrier Masked Lapwing Raja Shelduck Shy Albatross Black-necked Stork Black Kite Masked Lapwing Australasian Shoveler Sooty Albatross Black-shouldered Kite Spur-winged Plover Northern Shoveler Wandering Albatross IBIS, SPOONBILLS Letter-winged Kite American Golden Plover Black Swan Southern Fulmar Australian White Ibis Square-tailed Kite Common Ringed Plover Chestnut Teal Common Diving Petrel Glossy Ibis Whistling Kite Double-banded Plover Grey Teal South Georgia Diving Petrel Straw-necked Ibis Eastern Osprey Greater Sand Plover Pacific Black Duck x *Mallard Northern Giant Petrel Royal Spoonbill Collared Sparrowhawk Grey Plover Southern Giant Petrel Yellow-billed Spoonbill Hooded Plover MEGAPODES, QUAIL Antarctic Petrel BUSTARD Lesser Sand Plover Australian Brushturkey Blue Petrel BITTERNS, 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Tern Eastern Barn Owl Mulga Parrot Dusky Grasswren Far Eastern Curlew Arctic Tern Eastern Grass Owl Night Parrot Eyrean Grasswren Little Curlew Bridled Tern Masked Owl Orange-bellied Parrot Grey Grasswren Short-billed Dowitcher Caspian Tern Powerful Owl Princess Parrot Short-tailed Grasswren Bar-tailed Godwit Common Tern Red-rumped Parrot Striated Grasswren Black-tailed Godwit Fairy Tern NIGHTJARS Red-winged Parrot Thick-billed Grasswren Hudsonian Godwit Greater Crested Tern Spotted Nightjar Regent Parrot Western Grasswren Common Greenshank Gull-billed Tern White-throated Nightjar Scarlet-chested Parrot Great Knot Little Tern Australian Owlet-nightjar Swift Parrot THORNBILLS, WRENS Red Knot Sooty Tern Turquoise Parrot Rufous Fieldwren Red Phalarope Whiskered Tern SWIFTS Australian Ringneck Striated Fieldwren Red-necked Phalarope White-throated Needletail Mallee Ringneck Western Gerygone Wilson's Phalarope SKUAS, JAEGERS House Swift Port Lincoln Parrot White-throated Gerygone Common Redshank Long-tailed Jaeger Pacific Swift Crimson Rosella Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Ruff Parasitic Jaeger Adelaide Rosella Shy Heathwren Sanderling Brown Skua FALCONS Adelaide Rosella (FR) Redthroat Baird's Sandpiper Great Skua Black Falcon Crimson Rosella White-browed Scrubwren Broad-billed Sandpiper Pomarine Skua Brown Falcon Crimson Rosella (KI) Spotted Scrubwren Buff-breasted Sandpiper South Polar Skua Grey Falcon Yellow Rosella White-browed Scrubwren Common Sandpiper Peregrine Falcon Eastern Rosella Brown Thornbill Cox's Sandpiper PIGEONS, DOVES Australian Hobby Eastern Rosella x Adelaide Rosella Buff-rumped Thornbill Curlew Sandpiper Brush Bronzewing Nankeen Kestrel Eastern Rosella x Mallee Ringneck Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Marsh Sandpiper Common Bronzewing Rainbow Lorikeet x Musk Lorikeet Inland Thornbill Pectoral Sandpiper Flock Bronzewing COCKATOOS Slaty-backed Thornbill Sharp-tailed Sandpiper *Collared Dove Cockatiel Slender-billed Thornbill Terek Sandpiper Diamond Dove Glossy Black Cockatoo BOWERBIRDS Dark Thornbill White-rumped Sandpiper Peaceful Dove Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Satin Bowerbird Samphire Thornbill Wood Sandpiper *Spotted Dove Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Spotted Bowerbird Slender-billed Thornbill Latham's Snipe Rose-crowned Fruit Dove Gang-gang Cockatoo Western Bowerbird Striated Thornbill Little Stint Crested Pigeon Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Yellow Thornbill Long-toed Stint *Feral Pigeon Sulphur-crested Cockatoo TREECREEPERS Yellow-rumped Thornbill Red-necked Stint Spinifex Pigeon Little Corella Brown Treecreeper Weebill Grey-tailed Tattler Long-billed Corella Rufous Treecreeper Banded Whiteface Wandering Tattler CUCKOOS Galah White-browed Treecreeper Chestnut-breasted Whiteface Ruddy Turnstone Black-eared Cuckoo White-throated Treecreeper Southern Whiteface Lesser Yellowlegs Brush Cuckoo PARROTS Whimbrel Channel-billed Cuckoo Budgerigar FAIRYWRENS, GRASSWRENS PARDALOTES Fan-tailed Cuckoo Eastern Bluebonnet Mallee Emuwren Red-browed 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