List of birds of 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 (a subspecies)

Penguins

Little penguin

Diving-petrels

Common diving-petrel

Petrels & shearwaters

Southern giant petrel

Northern giant petrel

Southern fulmar (migrates here to breed)

Cape petrel (migrates here to breed)

Kerguelen petrel (introduced)

Great-winged petrel (introduced)

White-headed petrel (introduced)

Blue petrel

Broad-billed prion (introduced)

Salvin's prion (introduced)

Antarctic prion

Slender-billed prion

Fairy prion

White-chinned petrel

Grey petrel

Flesh-footed shearwater

Short-tailed shearwater (migrates here to breed)

Fluttering shearwater (introduced)

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 (migrates here to breed)

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 (migrates here to spend the winter)

Pacific swift (migrates here to breed)

Kingfishers

Laughing kookaburra (introduced)

Sacred kingfisher (a subspecies)

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)