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This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory.The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie and Heard/McDonald.
Genyornis newtoni is an extinct species of large, flightless bird that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch until around 50,000 years ago. Over two metres in height, they were likely herbivorous. [2] Many other species of Australian megafauna became extinct in Australia around
This list is based on the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds list, May 2002 update, with the doubtfuls omitted. It includes the birds of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, and the surrounding ocean and subantarctic islands. Australian call-ups are based on the List of Australian birds.
Extinct birds of Lord Howe Island (9 P) N. Extinct birds of Norfolk Island (8 P) P. Prehistoric birds of Australia (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Extinct birds of ...
The New Atlas of Australian Birds, an extensive detailed survey of Australian bird distributions. The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000, Garnett, Stephen T.; & Crowley, Gabriel M., Environment Australia, Canberra, 2000 ISBN 0-642-54683-5, a comprehensive survey of the conservation status of Australian species, with costed conservation and ...
Reliable records of the bird have been few and far between, with efforts to locate the species proving fruitless after an authenticated report from 1912. [7] In 1979, ornithologist Shane Parker from the South Australian Museum spotted an apparent flock of the birds in the far north of South Australia. [15]
Scrub-birds (Atrichornithidae), two forest-dwelling species, one found in southeastern Australia, the other in southwest Australia; Australian mudnesters (Struthideidae), two species found in open forest and woodland environments in eastern Australia; Bristlebirds (Dasyornithidae), three species: eastern, western and rufous bristlebirds.
The Australian white ibis is widespread in eastern, northern and south-western Australia. It occurs in marshy wetlands, often near open grasslands and has become common in Australian east-coast city parks and rubbish dumps in the urban areas of Wollongong, Sydney, Perth, the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Townsville. Historically, it was rare in ...