List of birds of Kangaroo Island, South Australia

The following is a list of the birds recorded on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Emus

• Emu (introduced)
• Kangaroo Island emu (extinct)

Megapodes

• Australian brush-turkey (introduced)

Gamebirds

• Stubble quail
• Brown quail
• Indian peafowl (introduced)

Wildfowl

• Blue-billed duck
• Musk duck
• Freckled duck
• Black swan
• Cape Barren goose
• Australian shelduck
• Australian wood duck
• Pacific black duck
• Australian shoveler
• Grey teal
• Chestnut teal
• Garganey (vagrant)
• Pink-eared duck
• Hardhead

Grebes

• Australasian grebe
• Hoary-headed grebe
• Great crested grebe

Penguins

• Little penguin

Diving-petrels

• Common diving-petrel

Petrels & shearwaters

• Southern giant petrel
• Northern giant petrel
• Southern fulmar
• Cape petrel
• Kerguelen petrel
• Great-winged petrel
• White-headed petrel
• Blue petrel
• Broad-billed prion
• Salvin's prion
• Antarctic prion
• Slender-billed prion
• Fairy prion
• White-chinned petrel
• Grey petrel
• Flesh-footed shearwater
• Short-tailed shearwater (migrates here to breed)
• Fluttering shearwater
• Hutton's shearwater

Albatrosses

• Wandering albatross
• Royal albatross
• Black-browed albatross
• Shy albatross
• Grey-headed albatross
• Yellow-nosed albatross
• Sooty albatross
• Light-mantled sooty albatross

Storm-petrels

• Wilson's storm-petrel
• White-faced storm-petrel

Tropicbirds

• Red-tailed tropicbird

Gannets

• Australasian gannet

Darters

• Darter

Cormorants

• Little pied cormorant
• Black-faced cormorant
• Pied cormorant
• Little black cormorant
• Great cormorant

Pelicans

• Australasian pelican

Herons & allies

• White-faced heron
• Little egret
• Eastern reef egret
• White-necked heron
• Great egret
• Cattle egret
• Nankeen night heron
• Australasian bittern

Ibises & spoonbills

• Glossy ibis
• Australian white ibis
• Straw-necked ibis
• Royal spoonbill
• Yellow-billed spoonbill

Hawks & allies

• Black-shouldered kite
• Letter-winged kite
• Square-tailed kite
• Black kite
• Whistling kite
• White-bellied sea-eagle
• Spotted harrier
• Swamp harrier
• Brown goshawk
• Collared sparrowhawk
• Wedge-tailed eagle
• Little eagle

Osprey

• Osprey

Falcons

• Brown falcon
• Australian hobby
• Black falcon
• Peregrine falcon
• Nankeen kestrel

Cranes

• Brolga

Rails

• Buff-banded rail
• Lewin's rail
• Baillon's crake
• Australian spotted crake
• Spotless crake
• Purple swamp-hen
• Dusky moorhen
• Black-tailed native-hen
• Common coot

Buttonquail

• Painted buttonquail

Sandpipers & allies

• Latham's snipe
• Black-tailed godwit
• Bar-tailed godwit
• Whimbrel
• Eastern curlew
• Marsh sandpiper
• Common greenshank
• Wood sandpiper
• Terek sandpiper
• Common sandpiper
• Grey-tailed tattler
• Ruddy turnstone
• Red knot
• Sanderling
• Red-necked stint
• Long-toed stint
• Pectoral sandpiper
• Sharp-tailed sandpiper
• Curlew sandpiper

Painted-snipe

• Australian painted snipe

Stone-curlews

• Bush stone-curlew

Oystercatchers

• Pied oystercatcher
• Sooty oystercatcher

Avocets & stilts

• Black-winged stilt
• Banded stilt
• Red-necked avocet

Plovers

• Pacific golden plover
• Grey plover
• Red-capped plover
• Double-banded plover
• Lesser sand plover
• Greater sand plover
• Black-fronted dotterel
• Hooded plover
• Red-kneed dotterel
• Banded lapwing
• Masked lapwing

Skuas

• Antarctic skua
• Arctic skua
• Pomarine skua

Gulls

• Pacific gull
• Kelp gull
• Silver gull

Terns

• Gull-billed tern
• Caspian tern
• Crested tern
• White-fronted tern
• Common tern
• Antarctic tern
• Fairy tern
• Sooty tern
• Whiskered tern

Pigeons and doves

• Rock dove (introduced)
• Spotted dove (introduced)
• Common bronzewing
• Brush bronzewing
• Crested pigeon (introduced)

Cockatoos

• Glossy black cockatoo
• Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
• Gang-gang cockatoo(introduced)
• Galah
• Little corella
• Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Parrots

• Rainbow lorikeet
• Purple-crowned lorikeet
• Crimson rosella
• Budgerigar
• Elegant parrot
• Rock parrot

Cuckoos

• Pallid cuckoo
• Fan-tailed cuckoo
• Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo
• Shining bronze-cuckoo

Barn owls

• Barn owl

Owls

• Southern boobook

Frogmouths

• Tawny frogmouth

Nightjars

• Spotted nightjar

Owlet-nightjars

• Australian owlet-nightjar

Swifts

• White-throated needletail
• Pacific swift

Kingfishers

• Laughing kookaburra (introduced)
• Sacred kingfisher

Bee-eaters

• Rainbow bee-eater

Rollers

• Dollarbird

Australo-papuan wrens

• Superb fairy-wren
• Southern emu-wren

Pardalotes

• Spotted pardalote
• Striated pardalote

Thornbills and allies

• White-browed scrubwren
• Shy heathwren
• Brown thornbill
• Yellow thornbill
• Striated thornbill

Honeyeaters

• Red wattlebird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
• Little wattlebird
• Spiny-cheeked honeyeater
• Regent honeyeater
• Singing honeyeater
• White-eared honeyeater
• Purple-gaped honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
• White-plumed honeyeater
• Brown-headed honeyeater
• White-naped honeyeater
• Crescent honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
• New Holland honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
• White-fronted honeyeater
• Tawny-crowned honeyeater
• Eastern spinebill

Australian chats

• Crimson chat
• White-fronted chat

Australian robins

• Scarlet robin
• Flame robin

Whipbirds

• Western whipbird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)

Whistlers

• Golden whistler
• Grey shrike-thrush

Monarch flycatchers

• Satin flycatcher
• Restless flycatcher

Mudnest-builders

• Magpie-lark

Fantails

• Grey fantail
• Willie wagtail

Drongos

• Spangled drongo (vagrant)

Cuckooshrikes

• Black-faced cuckooshrike

Woodswallows

• Masked woodswallow
• White-browed woodswallow
• Black-faced woodswallow
• Dusky woodswallow

Bellmagpies and allies

• Australian magpie
• Grey currawong (Kangaroo Island sub-species)

Crows

• Australian raven
• Little raven

Larks

• Singing bushlark
• Skylark

Pipits and wagtails

• Australian pipit

Old World sparrows

• House sparrow (introduced)

Waxbills and allies

• Red-browed finch
• Beautiful firetail

Finches

• Goldfinch (introduced)

Swallows and martins

• Welcome swallow
• Tree martin
• Fairy martin

Old World warblers

• Australian reed warbler
• Little grassbird
• Brown songlark

White-eyes

• Silvereye (a subspecies)

Thrushes

• Bassian thrush (a subspecies)
• Blackbird (introduced)

Starlings

• European starling (introduced)

Sources

• Baxter, C (1995), An annotated list of the birds of Kangaroo Island (Rev. ed.), South Australia National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, ISBN 978-0-7308-0677-6