Birds of the Broome Region Official Checklist Version 1.1 (updated June 2016) Broome Bird Observatory Crab Creek Rd, Broome Phone: (08) 9193 5600 E-mail: [email protected] Ratites Royal Spoonbill Wedge-tailed Eagle Ψ Emu Yellow-billed Spoonbill Brown Goshawk Ducks, Geese and Swans Herons and Bitterns Collared Sparrowhawk Magpie Goose Black-backed [Little] Bittern Swamp Harrier Plumed Whistling Duck Ψ Yellow Bittern Spotted Harrier Wandering Whistling Duck Ψ Black Bittern Black Kite Black Swan Nankeen Night Heron Whistling Kite Ψ Freckled Duck Striated Heron Brahminy Kite Raja [Radjah] Shelduck Ψ Chinese Pond Heron White-bellied Sea Eagle Australian Shelduck Eastern Cattle Egret Bustards Pink-eared Duck White-necked Heron Australian Bustard Maned [Australian Wood] Duck Ψ Great-billed Heron Crakes and Rails Green Pygmy Goose Great Egret Ψ Red-legged Crake Pacific Black Duck Intermediate Egret Buff-banded Rail Ψ Australasian Shoveler Pied Heron Baillon's Crake Grey Teal White-faced Heron Australian (Spotted) Crake Ψ Chestnut Teal Little Egret Spotless Crake Ψ Garganey Pacific Reef Heron Ψ White-browed Crake Hardhead Pelicans Australasian [Purple] Swamphen True Quail Australian Pelican Black-tailed Nativehen Stubble Quail Frigatebirds Eurasian Coot Brown Quail Ψ Great Frigatebird Cranes Tubenoses Lesser Frigatebird Brolga Wilson's Storm Petrel Boobies Buttonquail Ψ Northern Giant Petrel Ψ Abbott's Booby Red-backed Buttonquail Ψ Cape Petrel Ψ Masked Booby Red-chested Buttonquail Streaked Shearwater Ψ Red-footed Booby Little Buttonquail Wedge-tailed Shearwater Brown Booby Stone-curlews Ψ Short-tailed Shearwater Cormorants Bush Stone-curlew Hutton's Shearwater Little Pied Cormorant Beach Stone-curlew Ψ Bulwer's Petrel Little Black Cormorant Oystercatchers Ψ Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Australian Pied Cormorant Pied Oystercatcher Ψ Matsudaira's Storm Petrel Ψ Great Cormorant Sooty Oystercatcher Grebes Darters Stilts and Avocets Australasian Grebe Australasian Darter White-headed [Black-winged] Stilt Hoary-headed Grebe Kites, Hawks & Eagles Ψ Banded Stilt Great Crested Grebe Eastern Osprey Red-necked Avocet Storks Black-shouldered Kite Plovers Black-necked Stork Ψ Letter-winged Kite Ψ Banded Lapwing Ibises and Spoonbills Ψ Crested Honey Buzzard Masked Lapwing Australian White Ibis Square-tailed Kite Red-kneed Dotterel Straw-necked Ibis Black-breasted Buzzard Pacific Golden Plover Glossy Ibis Little Eagle Grey Plover Ψ Semipalmated Plover Ψ Kelp Gull Pacific [Fork-tailed] Swift Little Ringed Plover Ψ Lesser Black-backed Gull Ψ House Swift Red-capped Plover Gull-billed Tern Rollers Lesser Sand Plover Caspian Tern Oriental Dollarbird Greater Sand Plover Greater Crested Tern Kingfishers Oriental Plover Lesser Crested Tern Blue-winged Kookaburra Black-fronted Dotterel Little Tern Ψ Torresian [Collared] Kingfisher Painted Snipes Ψ Fairy Tern Sacred Kingfisher Australian Painted-snipe Bridled Tern Red-backed Kingfisher Jacanas Sooty Tern Bee-eaters Comb-crested Jacana Roseate Tern Rainbow Bee-eater Sandpipers Common Tern Hoopoes Pin-tailed Snipe Ψ Arctic Tern Ψ Eurasian Hoopoe Swinhoe's Snipe Whiskered Tern Falcons Asian Dowitcher White-winged Tern Nankeen Kestrel Black-tailed Godwit Skuas Australian Hobby Bar-tailed Godwit Pomarine Skua Brown Falcon Little Curlew Parasitic Jaeger Grey Falcon Whimbrel Long-tailed Jaeger Black Falcon Ψ Eurasian Curlew Pigeons and Doves Peregrine Falcon (Far) Eastern Curlew Rock Dove Cockatoos Ψ Spotted Redshank Common Bronzewing Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Common Redshank Flock Bronzewing Galah Marsh Sandpiper Crested Pigeon Little Corella Common Greenshank Diamond Dove Cockatiel Wood Sandpiper Peaceful Dove Parrots Grey-tailed Tattler Bar-shouldered Dove Red-collared Lorikeet Terek Sandpiper Ψ Rose-crowned Fruit Dove Varied Lorikeet Common Sandpiper Ψ Torresian Imperial Pigeon Budgerigar Ruddy Turnstone Cuckoos Red-winged Parrot Great Knot Pheasant Coucal Pittas Red Knot Ψ Pacific [Eastern/Common] Koel Ψ Blue-winged Pitta Sanderling Channel-billed Cuckoo Bowerbirds Red-necked Stint Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo Great Bowerbird Ψ Little Stint Black-eared Cuckoo Treecreepers Long-toed Stint Ψ Shining Bronze Cuckoo Black-tailed Treecreeper Ψ Temminck's Stint Little Bronze Cuckoo Fairywren Pectoral Sandpiper Pallid Cuckoo Variegated Fairywren Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Brush Cuckoo Red-backed Fairywren Curlew Sandpiper Oriental Cuckoo Honeyeaters Broad-billed Sandpiper Owls Black Honeyeater Ruff Eastern Barn Owl Red-headed Myzomela Ψ Red-necked Phalarope Eastern Grass Owl Pied Honeyeater Pratincoles Barking Owl Banded Honeyeater Australian Pratincole Southern Boobook Brown Honeyeater Oriental Pratincole Frogmouths Little Friarbird Gulls and Terns Tawny Frogmouth Silver-crowned Friarbird Ψ Brown [Common] Noddy Nightjars Black-chinned Honeyeater Ψ Lesser Noddy Spotted Nightjar White-throated Honeyeater Ψ Black Noddy Owlet-nightjars Ψ Crimson Chat Ψ Sabine's Gull Australian Owlet-nightjar Ψ Orange Chat Silver Gull Swifts Yellow Chat Ψ Black-headed Gull Ψ Glossy Swiftlet Rufous-throated Honeyeater Ψ Franklin's Gull Ψ White-throated Needletail Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Yellow-throated Miner Magpie-lark Long-tailed Finch Ψ White-fronted Honeyeater Leaden Flycatcher Zebra Finch White-gaped Honeyeater Broad-billed Flycatcher Double-barred Finch Singing Honeyeater Paperbark Flycatcher Ψ Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Corvids Pictorella Mannikin Grey-headed Honeyeater Torresian Crow Wagtails and Pipits Ψ Grey-fronted Honeyeater Ψ Little Crow Eastern Yellow Wagtail White-plumed Honeyeater Australasian Robins Grey Wagtail Pardalotes Hooded Robin Ψ White Wagtail Red-browed Pardalote Lemon-bellied [Kimberley] Flyrobin Australian Pipit Striated Pardalote Jacky Winter Ψ Red-throated Pipit Australasian Warblers Red-capped Robin Weebill Larks Unconfirmed Mangrove Gerygone Horsfield's Bush Lark Tricolored Grebe Dusky Gerygone Swallows and Martins Grey Heron White-throated Gerygone Ψ White-backed Swallow Dusky Moorhen Australasian Babblers Barn Swallow Pacific Baza Grey-crowned Babbler Welcome Swallow Grey Goshawk Woodswallows and Butcherbirds Red-rumped Swallow Red Goshawk White-breasted Woodswallow Fairy Martin Black-naped Tern Masked Woodswallow Tree Martin Wompoo Fruit Dove Ψ White-browed Woodswallow Leaf Warblers Spinifex Pigeon Black-faced Woodswallow Ψ Kamchatka Leaf Warbler Australian Masked Owl Little Woodswallow Reed Warblers Edible-nest/Black-nest Swiftlet Pied Butcherbird Ψ Oriental Reed Warbler Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Australian Magpie Australian Reed Warbler Blue-faced Honeyeater Cuckooshrikes Grassbirds and Songlarks Bar-breasted Honeyeater Ψ Ground Cuckooshrike Rufous Songlark Western Gerygone Black-faced Cuckooshrike Ψ Tawny Grassbird Little Shrikethrush Ψ White-bellied Cuckooshrike Brown Songlark Spangled Drongo White-winged Triller Ψ Little Grassbird Shining Flycatcher Sittellas Cisticolas Arctic Warbler Varied Sittella Golden-headed Cisticola Masked Finch Australo-Papuan Bellbirds White-eyes Gouldian Finch Ψ Crested Bellbird Yellow (Canary) White-eye Western Yellow Wagtail Whistlers and Allies Starlings Escapees Mangrove Golden Whistler Ψ Rosy Starling Mallard Rufous Whistler Ψ Common Starling Muscovy Duck White-breasted Whistler Old World Flycatchers King Quail Grey Shrikethrush Ψ Blue-and-white Flycatcher Helmeted Guineafowl Orioles Flowerpeckers Indian Peafowl Olive-backed Oriole Mistletoebird Long-billed Corella Fantails Old World Sparrows Red-capped Parrot Willie Wagtail Ψ Eurasian Tree Sparrow Australian Ringneck Northern Fantail Finches Western Rosella Grey Fantail Painted Finch Princess Parrot Mangrove (Grey) Fantail Ψ Crimson Finch Red Siskin Monarch Flycatchers Ψ Star Finch Red-throated Parrotfinch Key Italics – Uncommon Ψ – Vagrant For the purposes of this list, the Broome region encompasses all areas within a 70 km radius of the Broome Bird Observatory .