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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.
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The largest (both heaviest and tallest) flightless bird, which is also the largest living bird in general, is the common ostrich (2.7 m, 156 kg). Many domesticated birds, such as the domestic chicken and domestic duck , have lost the ability to fly for extended periods, although their ancestral species, the red junglefowl and mallard ...
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
This bird was previously known only from a drawing from the 1793 Malaspina expedition, apparently depicting a species of Gallirallus. Subfossil remains belonging to this species were found in 2020. [7] ʻEua rail, Gallirallus vekamatolu Known from prehistoric bones found on ʻEua. It was probably a close relative of the Vava'u rail.
List of extinct bird species since 1500; List of data deficient birds; References This page was last edited on 10 January 2025, at 17:45 (UTC). Text is ...
Bird extinction is the complete elimination of all species members under the taxonomic class, Aves. Out of all known bird species, (approximately 11,154), 159 (1.4%) have become extinct , with 226 (2%) being critically endangered . [ 1 ]