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)
- Common pheasant (introduced)
- Wild turkey (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
- Mallard (introduced)
Penguins
Diving-petrels
- Common diving-petrel
Petrels and 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
- Mottled petrel
- Grey petrel
- Flesh-footed shearwater
- Short-tailed shearwater (migrates here to breed)
- Fluttering shearwater
- Hutton's shearwater
- Sooty shearwater
- Little 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
- Grey-backed storm-petrel
- Black-bellied storm-petrel
Tropicbirds
Gannets
Darters
Cormorants
Pelicans
- Australasian pelican
Herons and allies
Ibises and spoonbills
Hawks and allies
Osprey
Cranes
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
Sandpipers and allies
- Latham's snipe
- Black-tailed godwit
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Eurasian 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
- Great knot
Painted-snipe
- Australian painted snipe
Stone-curlews
Oystercatchers
Avocets and stilts
Plovers
Skuas
- Antarctic skua
- Arctic skua
- Pomarine skua
- South polar skua
Gulls
Terns
Pigeons and doves
- Rock dove (introduced)
- Spotted dove (introduced)
- Common bronzewing
- Brush bronzewing
- Crested pigeon (introduced)
- Peaceful dove
Cockatoos
Parrots
Cuckoos
- Pallid cuckoo
- Fan-tailed cuckoo
- Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo
- Shining bronze-cuckoo
- Black-eared cuckoo
Barn owls
Owls
Frogmouths
Nightjars
Owlet-nightjars
Kingfishers
- Laughing kookaburra (introduced)
- Sacred kingfisher
Bee-eaters
Rollers
Treecreepers
Flowerpeckers
Australo-Papuan wrens
- Variegated fairy-wren
- Superb fairy-wren
- Southern emu-wren
Pardalotes
Thornbills and allies
Honeyeaters
- Red wattlebird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- Little wattlebird
- 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
- Pied honeyeater
- Yellow-plumed honeyeater
- Yellow-faced honeyeater
- White-fronted honeyeater
- Noisy miner
- Yellow-throated miner
- Spiny-cheeked honeyeater
- Black honeyeater
Australian chats
Australian robins
Whipbirds
- Western whipbird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
Whistlers
- Golden whistler
- Rufous whistler
- Grey shrike-thrush
Monarch flycatchers
Mudnest-builders
Fantails
Drongos
- Spangled drongo (vagrant)
Cuckooshrikes
Sittellas
Bellmagpies and allies
- Australian magpie
- Grey currawong (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- Grey butcherbird
Crows
Larks
- Singing bushlark
- Skylark
Pipits and wagtails
- Australian pipit
Old World sparrows
- House sparrow (introduced)
Waxbills and allies
Finches
- Goldfinch (introduced)
Swallows and martins
Old World warblers
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
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