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List of birds of South Australia

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This is a list of birds of South Australia:

Contents

Family Casuariidae

  • Dromaius baudinianus (Kangaroo Island emu) — extinct
  • Dromaius novaehollandiae (emu) — Native on mainland, introduced to Kangaroo and Wedge Islands
  • Family Struthionidae

  • Struthio camelus (ostrich) — naturalised
  • Family Megapodiidae

  • Alectura lathami (Australian brush-turkey) — naturalised
  • Leipoa ocellata (malleefowl)
  • Family Phasianidae

  • Coturnix chinensis (king quail)
  • Coturnix pectoralis (stubble quail)
  • Coturnix ypsilophora (brown quail)
  • Pavo cristatus (Indian peafowl) — naturalised
  • Family Anseranatidae

  • Anseranas semipalmata (magpie goose)
  • Subfamily Dendrocygninae

  • Dendrocygna eytoni (plumed whistling duck)
  • Subfamily Oxyurinae

  • Oxyura australis (blue-billed duck)
  • Biziura lobata (musk duck)
  • Subfamily Stictonettinae

  • Stictonetta naevosa (freckled duck)
  • Subfamily Anserinae

  • Cereopsis novaehollandiae (Cape Barren goose)
  • Cygnus atratus (black swan)
  • Subfamily Tadorninae

  • Tadorna radjah (radjah shelduck) — occasional visitor
  • Tadorna tadornoides (Australian shelduck)
  • Subfamily Anatinae

  • Anas castanea (chestnut teal)
  • Anas clypeata (northern shoveler) — occasional visitor
  • Anas gracilis (grey teal)
  • Anas platyrhynchos (mallard) — naturalised
  • Anas querquedula (garganey) — occasional visitor
  • Anas rhynchotis (Australasian shoveler)
  • Anas superciliosa (Pacific black duck)
  • Aythya australis (hardhead)
  • Chenonetta jubata (Australian wood duck)
  • Malacorhynchus membranaceus (pink-eared duck)
  • Hybrids between Anas platyrhynchos and A. superciliosa also occur.

    Family Podicipedidae

  • Podiceps cristatus (great crested grebe)
  • Poliocephalus poliocephalus (hoary-headed grebe)
  • Tachybaptus novaehollandiae (Australasian grebe)
  • Family Spheniscidae

  • Aptenodytes patagonicus (king penguin) — occasional visitor
  • Eudyptes chrysocome (southern rockhopper penguin) — occasional visitor
  • Eudyptes moseleyi (northern rockhopper penguin) — rare visitor
  • Eudyptes chrysolophus (macaroni penguin) — occasional visitor
  • Eudyptes pachyrhynchus (Fiordland penguin) — occasional visitor
  • Eudyptes robustus (Snares penguin) — occasional visitor
  • Eudyptes sclateri (erect-crested penguin) — occasional visitor
  • Eudyptula minor (little penguin)
  • Family Procellariidae

  • Daption capense (Cape petrel)
  • Fulmarus glacialoides (southern fulmar)
  • Halobaena caerulea (blue petrel)
  • Lugensa brevirostris (Kerguelen petrel)
  • Macronectes giganteus (southern giant-petrel)
  • Macronectes halli (northern giant-petrel)
  • Pachyptila belcheri (slender-billed prion)
  • Pachyptila desolata (Antarctic prion)
  • Pachyptila salvini (Salvin’s prion)
  • Pachyptila turtur (fairy prion)
  • Pachyptila vittata (broad-billed prion)
  • Pagodroma nivea (snow petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Pelecanoides georgicus (South Georgian diving-petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Pelecanoides urinatrix (common diving petrel)
  • Procellaria aequinoctialis (white-chinned petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Procellaria cinerea (grey petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Pterodroma inexpectata (mottled petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Pterodroma lessonii (white-headed petrel)
  • Pterodroma leucoptera (Gould's petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Pterodroma macroptera (great-winged petrel)
  • Pterodroma mollis (soft-plumaged petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Ardenna carneipes (flesh-footed shearwater)
  • Ardenna tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater)
  • Ardenna gravis (great shearwater) — occasional visitor
  • Ardenna griseus (sooty shearwater) — occasional visitor
  • Ardenna pacificus (wedge-tailed shearwater) — occasional visitor
  • Puffinus huttoni (Hutton's shearwater)
  • Puffinus gavia (fluttering shearwater)
  • Puffinus assimilis (little shearwater) — occasional visitor)
  • Puffinus puffinus (Manx shearwater) — occasional visitor
  • Thalassoica antarctica (Antarctic petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Family Diomedeidae

  • Thalassarche bulleri (Buller's albatross) — occasional visitor
  • Thalassarche cauta (shy albatross)
  • Thalassarche salvini (Salvin's albatross)
  • Thalassarche chlororhynchos (yellow-nosed albatross)
  • Thalassarche chrysostoma (grey-headed albatross)
  • Thalassarche melanophris (black-browed albatross)
  • Thalassarche impavida (Campbell albatross)
  • Diomedea epomophora (southern royal albatross) — occasional visitor
  • Diomedea sanfordi (northern royal albatross) — occasional visitor
  • Diomedea exulans (wandering albatross)
  • Diomedea antipodensis (Antipodean albatross)
  • Phoebetria fusca (sooty albatross) — occasional visitor
  • Phoebetria palpebrata (light-mantled sooty albatross)
  • Family Hydrobatidae

  • Fregetta tropica (black-bellied storm petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Oceanites nereis (grey-backed storm petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson's storm petrel)
  • Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Leach’s storm-petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Pelagodroma marina (white-faced storm petrel)
  • Family Phaethontidae

  • Phaethon rubricauda (red-tailed tropicbird) — occasional visitor
  • Family Sulidae

  • Morus serrator (Australasian gannet)
  • Family Anhingidae

  • Anhinga melanogaster (darter)
  • Family Phalacrocoracidae

  • Microcarbo melanoleucos (little pied cormorant)
  • Phalacrocorax carbo (great cormorant)
  • Phalacrocorax fuscescens (black-faced cormorant)
  • Phalacrocorax sulcirostris (little black cormorant)
  • Phalacrocorax varius (pied cormorant)
  • Family Pelecanidae

  • Pelecanus conspicillatus (Australian pelican)
  • Family Ardeidae

  • Ardea modesta (eastern great egret)
  • Ardea ibis (cattle egret)
  • Ardea intermedia (intermediate egret)
  • Ardea pacifica (white-necked heron)
  • Ardea picata (pied heron) — occasional visitor
  • Botaurus poiciloptilus (Australasian bittern)
  • Egretta garzetta (little egret)
  • Egretta novaehollandiae (white-faced heron)
  • Egretta sacra (eastern reef egret)
  • Ixobrychus dubius (Australian little bittern)
  • Nycticorax caledonicus (nankeen night heron)
  • Family Threskiornithidae

  • Platalea flavipes (yellow-billed spoonbill)
  • Platalea regia (royal spoonbill)
  • Plegadis falcinellus (glossy ibis)
  • Threskiornis moluccus (Australian white ibis)
  • Threskiornis spinicollis (straw-necked ibis)
  • Subfamily Pandioninae

  • Pandion haliaetus (osprey)
  • Subfamily Accipitrinae

  • Accipiter cirrhocephalus (collared sparrowhawk)
  • Accipiter fasciatus (brown goshawk)
  • Accipiter novaehollandiae (grey goshawk) — occasional visitor
  • Aquila audax (wedge-tailed eagle)
  • Circus approximans (swamp harrier)
  • Circus assimilis (spotted harrier)
  • Elanus axillaris (black-shouldered kite)
  • Elanus scriptus (letter-winged kite)
  • Haliaeetus leucogaster (white-bellied sea eagle)
  • Haliastur sphenurus (whistling kite)
  • Hamirostra melanosternon (black-breasted buzzard)
  • Hieraaetus morphnoides (little eagle)
  • Lophoictinia isura (square-tailed kite)
  • Milvus migrans (black kite)
  • Family Falconidae

  • Falco berigora (brown falcon)
  • Falco cenchroides (nankeen kestrel)
  • Falco hypoleucos (grey falcon)
  • Falco longipennis (Australian hobby)
  • Falco peregrinus (peregrine falcon)
  • Falco subniger (black falcon)
  • Family Gruidae

  • Grus rubicunda (brolga)
  • Family Rallidae

  • Fulica atra (Eurasian coot)
  • Tribonyx mortierii (Tasmanian nativehen) — naturalized
  • Tribonyx ventralis (black-tailed nativehen)
  • Gallinula tenebrosa (dusky moorhen)
  • Gallirallus philippensis (buff-banded rail)
  • Porphyrio melanotus (Australasian swamphen)
  • Porzana fluminea (Australian spotted crake)
  • Porzana pusilla (Baillon's crake)
  • Porzana tabuensis (spotless crake)
  • Rallus pectoralis (Lewin's rail)
  • Family Otididae

  • Ardeotis australis (Australian bustard)
  • Family Turnicidae

  • Turnix pyrrhothorax (red-chested buttonquail)
  • Turnix varius (painted buttonquail)
  • Turnix velox (little buttonquail)
  • Family Pedionomidae

  • Pedionomus torquatus (plains-wanderer)
  • Subfamily Gallinagoninae

  • Gallinago hardwickii (Latham's snipe)
  • Subfamily Tringinae

  • Actitis hypoleucos (common sandpiper)
  • Limosa haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) — occasional visitor
  • Limosa lapponica (bar-tailed godwit)
  • Limosa limosa (black-tailed godwit)
  • Numenius madagascariensis (eastern curlew)
  • Numenius minutus (little curlew)
  • Numenius phaeopus (whimbrel)
  • Tringa brevipes (grey-tailed tattler)
  • Tringa flavipes (lesser yellowlegs) — occasional visitor
  • Tringa glareola (wood sandpiper)
  • Tringa nebularia (common greenshank)
  • Tringa stagnatilis (marsh sandpiper)
  • Tringa totanus (common redshank) — occasional visitor
  • Xenus cinereus (Terek sandpiper)
  • Subfamily Arenariinae

  • Arenaria interpres (ruddy turnstone)
  • Subfamily Calidrinae

  • Calidris acuminata (sharp-tailed sandpiper)
  • Calidris alba (sanderling)
  • Calidris bairdii (Baird's sandpiper) — occasional visitor
  • Calidris canutus (red knot)
  • Calidris ferruginea (curlew sandpiper)
  • Calidris fuscicollis (white-rumped sandpiper) — occasional visitor
  • Calidris melanotos (pectoral sandpiper)
  • Calidris minuta (little stint) — occasional visitor
  • Calidris paramelanotos (Cox’s sandpiper) is now known to be a hybrid between C. ferruginea and C. melanotos.

  • Calidris ruficollis (red-necked stint)
  • Calidris subminuta (long-toed stint)
  • Calidris tenuirostris (great knot)
  • Limicola falcinellus (broad-billed sandpiper) — occasional visitor
  • Philomachus pugnax (ruff)
  • Tryngites subruficollis (buff-breasted sandpiper) — occasional visitor
  • Subfamily Phalaropodinae

  • Phalaropus fulicaria (grey phalarope) — occasional visitor
  • Phalaropus lobatus (red-necked phalarope) — occasional visitor
  • Family Rostratulidae

  • Rostratula benghalensis (greater painted-snipe)
  • Family Burhinidae

  • Burhinus grallarius (bush stone-curlew)
  • Family Haematopodidae

  • Haematopus fuliginosus (sooty oystercatcher)
  • Haematopus longirostris (pied oystercatcher)
  • Family Recurvirostridae

  • Cladorhynchus leucocephalus (banded stilt)
  • Himantopus himantopus (black-winged stilt)
  • Recurvirostra novaehollandiae (red-necked avocet)
  • Family Charadriidae

  • Charadrius australis (inland dotterel)
  • Charadrius bicinctus (double-banded plover)
  • Charadrius dubius (little ringed plover) — occasional visitor
  • Charadrius hiaticula (ringed plover) — occasional visitor
  • Charadrius leschenaultii (greater sand plover)
  • Charadrius mongolus (lesser sand plover)
  • Charadrius ruficapillus (red-capped plover)
  • Charadrius veredus (Oriental plover)
  • Elseyornis melanops (black-fronted dotterel)
  • Erythrogonys cinctus (red-kneed dotterel)
  • Pluvialis fulva (Pacific golden plover)
  • Pluvialis squatarola (grey plover)
  • Thinornis cucullatus (hooded plover)
  • Vanellus miles (masked lapwing)
  • Vanellus tricolor (banded lapwing)
  • Family Glareolidae

  • Glareola maldivarum (Oriental pratincole) — occasional visitor
  • Stiltia isabella (Australian pratincole)
  • Subfamily Stercorariinae

  • Catharacta skua (great skua)
  • Catharacta maccormicki (south polar skua) — occasional visitor
  • Stercorarius longicaudus (long-tailed jaeger) — occasional visitor
  • Stercorarius parasiticus (Arctic jaeger)
  • Stercorarius pomarinus (pomarine jaeger)
  • Subfamily Larinae

  • Larus dominicanus (kelp gull)
  • Larus pacificus (Pacific gull)
  • Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae (silver gull)
  • Leucophaeus pipixcan (Franklin’s gull) — occasional visitor
  • Xema sabini (Sabine’s gull) — occasional visitor
  • Subfamily Sterninae

  • Gelochelidon nilotica (gull-billed tern)
  • Chlidonias hybrida (whiskered tern)
  • Chlidonias leucopterus (white-winged black tern)
  • Sternula albifrons (little tern)
  • Sternula nereis (fairy tern)
  • Onychoprion anaethetus (bridled tern) — occasional visitor
  • Onychoprion fuscatus (sooty tern) — occasional visitor
  • Thalasseus bergii (greater crested tern)
  • Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian tern)
  • Sterna hirundo (common tern)
  • Sterna paradisaea (Arctic tern) — occasional visitor
  • Sterna striata (white-fronted tern)
  • Sterna vittata (Antarctic tern) — occasional visitor
  • Family Columbidae

  • Columba livia (rock dove — naturalised
  • Geopelia cuneata (diamond dove)
  • Geopelia placida (peaceful dove)
  • Geophaps plumifera (spinifex pigeon)
  • Ocyphaps lophotes (crested pigeon)
  • Phaps chalcoptera (common bronzewing)
  • Phaps elegans (brush bronzewing)
  • Phaps histrionica (flock bronzewing)
  • Spilopelia chinensis (spotted turtle-dove — naturalised
  • Streptopelia risoria (ringed turtle-dove) — naturalised;
  • Family Cacatuidae

  • Eolophus roseicapilla (galah)
  • Lophochroa leadbeateri (Major Mitchell's cockatoo)
  • Cacatua galerita (sulphur-crested cockatoo)
  • Cacatua sanguinea (little corella)
  • Cacatua tenuirostris (long-billed corella)
  • Callocephalon fimbriatum (gang-gang cockatoo)
  • Calyptorhynchus banksii (red-tailed black-cockatoo)
  • Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne
  • Calyptorhynchus banksii samueli
  • Calyptorhynchus funereus (yellow-tailed black-cockatoo)
  • Calyptorhynchus lathami (glossy black-cockatoo)
  • Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus
  • Nymphicus hollandicus (cockatiel)
  • Family Psittacidae

  • Aprosmictus erythropterus (red-winged parrot)
  • Barnardius zonarius (Australian ringneck)
  • Glossopsitta concinna (musk lorikeet)
  • Glossopsitta porphyrocephala (purple-crowned lorikeet)
  • Glossopsitta pusilla (little lorikeet)
  • Lathamus discolor (swift parrot)
  • Melopsittacus undulatus (budgerigar)
  • Neophema chrysogaster (orange-bellied parrot)
  • Neophema chrysostoma (blue-winged parrot)
  • Neophema elegans (elegant parrot)
  • Neophema petrophila (rock parrot)
  • Neophema pulchella (turquoise parrot) — occasional visitor
  • Neophema splendida (scarlet-chested parrot)
  • Neopsephotus bourkii (Bourke's parrot)
  • Northiella haematogaster (blue bonnet)
  • Northiella haematogaster narethae
  • Pezoporus occidentalis (night parrot)
  • Pezoporus wallicus (ground parrot)
  • Platycercus elegans (crimson rosella)
  • Platycercus eximius (eastern rosella)
  • Polytelis alexandrae (princess parrot)
  • Polytelis anthopeplus (regent parrot)
  • Psephotus haematonotus (red-rumped parrot)
  • Psephotus varius (mulga parrot)
  • Trichoglossus haematodus (rainbow lorikeet)
  • Family Cuculidae

  • Cacomantis flabelliformis (fan-tailed cuckoo)
  • Cacomantis variolosus (brush cuckoo) — occasional visitor
  • Chrysococcyx basalis (Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo)
  • Chrysococcyx lucidus (shining bronze-cuckoo)
  • Chrysococcyx osculans (black-eared cuckoo)
  • Cuculus pallidus (pallid cuckoo)
  • Cuculus optatus (Oriental cuckoo) — occasional visitor
  • Scythrops novaehollandiae (channel-billed cuckoo) — occasional visitor
  • Family Strigidae

  • Ninox connivens (barking owl)
  • Ninox novaeseelandiae (southern boobook)
  • Ninox strenua (powerful owl) — occasional visitor
  • Family Tytonidae

  • Tyto alba (barn owl)
  • Tyto capensis (grass owl)
  • Tyto novaehollandiae (masked owl)
  • Family Podargidae

  • Podargus strigoides (tawny frogmouth)
  • Family Caprimulgidae

  • Eurostopodus argus (spotted nightjar)
  • Family Aegothelidae

  • Aegotheles cristatus (Australian owlet-nightjar)
  • Family Apodidae

  • Apus affinis (house swift) — occasional visitor
  • Apus pacificus (fork-tailed swift)
  • Hirundapus caudacutus (white-throated needletail)
  • Family Alcedinidae

  • Ceyx azureus (azure kingfisher)
  • Dacelo novaeguineae (laughing kookaburra)
  • Todiramphus pyrrhopygia (red-backed kingfisher)
  • Todiramphus sanctus (sacred kingfisher)
  • Family Meropidae

  • Merops ornatus (rainbow bee-eater)
  • Family Coraciidae

  • Eurystomus orientalis (dollarbird) — occasional visitor
  • Family Climacteridae

  • Climacteris affinis (white-browed treecreeper)
  • Climacteris picumnus (brown treecreeper)
  • Climacteris rufa (rufous treecreeper)
  • Cormobates leucophaeus (white-throated treecreeper)
  • Subfamily Malurinae

  • Malurus cyaneus (superb fairy-wren)
  • Malurus lamberti (variegated fairy-wren)
  • Malurus leucopterus (white-winged fairy-wren)
  • Malurus pulcherrimus (blue-breasted fairy-wren)
  • Malurus splendens (splendid fairy-wren)
  • Stipiturus malachurus (southern emu-wren)
  • Stipiturus malachurus malachurus
  • Stipiturus malachurus halmaturinus
  • Stipiturus malachurus intermedius
  • Stipiturus malachurus parimeda
  • Stipiturus mallee (mallee emu-wren)
  • Stipiturus ruficeps (rufous-crowned emu-wren)
  • Subfamily Amytornithinae

  • Amytornis barbatus (grey grasswren)
  • Amytornis goyderi (Eyrean grasswren)
  • Amytornis merrotsyi (short-tailed grasswren)
  • Amytornis purnelli (dusky grasswren)
  • Amytornis striatus (striated grasswren)
  • Amytornis textilis (thick-billed grasswren)
  • Amytornis textilis textilis
  • Amytornis textilis modestus
  • Amytornis textilis myall
  • Family Pardalotidae

  • Pardalotus punctatus (spotted pardalote)
  • Pardalotus punctatus xanthopyge (yellow-rumped pardalote)
  • Pardalotus rubricatus (red-browed pardalote)
  • Pardalotus striatus (striated pardalote)
  • Subfamily Dasyornithinae

  • Dasyornis broadbenti (rufous bristlebird)
  • Subfamily Acanthizinae

  • Acanthiza apicalis (inland thornbill)
  • Acanthiza chrysorrhoa (yellow-rumped thornbill)
  • Acanthiza iredalei (slender-billed thornbill)
  • Acanthiza lineata (striated thornbill)
  • Acanthiza nana (yellow thornbill)
  • Acanthiza pusilla (brown thornbill)
  • Acanthiza reguloides (buff-rumped thornbill)
  • Acanthiza robustirostris (slaty-backed thornbill)
  • Acanthiza uropygialis (chestnut-rumped thornbill)
  • Aphelocephala leucopsis (southern whiteface)
  • Aphelocephala nigricincta (banded whiteface)
  • Aphelocephala pectoralis (chestnut-breasted whiteface)
  • Calamanthus campestris (rufous fieldwren)
  • Calamanthus campestris campestris
  • Calamanthus fuliginosus (striated fieldwren)
  • Gerygone fusca (western gerygone)
  • Gerygone olivacea (white-throated gerygone)
  • Hylacola cauta (shy heathwren)
  • Hylacola pyrrhopygius (chestnut-rumped heathwren)
  • Pyrrholaemus brunneus (redthroat)
  • Sericornis frontalis (white-browed scrubwren)
  • Smicrornis brevirostris (weebill)
  • Family Meliphagidae

  • Acanthagenys rufogularis (spiny-cheeked honeyeater)
  • Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris (eastern spinebill)
  • Anthochaera carunculata (red wattlebird)
  • Anthochaera chrysoptera (little wattlebird)
  • Anthochaera phrygia (regent honeyeater)
  • Sugomel niger (black honeyeater)
  • Certhionyx variegatus (pied honeyeater)
  • Conopophila whitei (grey honeyeater)
  • Entomyzon cyanotis (blue-faced honeyeater)
  • Gliciphila melanops (tawny-crowned honeyeater)
  • Grantiella picta (painted honeyeater)
  • Caligavis chrysops (yellow-faced honeyeater)
  • Lichenostomus cratitius (purple-gaped honeyeater)
  • Nesoptilotis leucotis (white-eared honeyeater)
  • Lichenostomus melanops (yellow-tufted honeyeater)
  • Ptilotula fusca (fuscous honeyeater)
  • Ptilotula keartlandi (grey-headed honeyeater)
  • Ptilotula ornata (yellow-plumed honeyeater)
  • Ptilotula penicillata (white-plumed honeyeater)
  • Ptilotula plumula (grey-fronted honeyeater)
  • Lichenostomus virescens (singing honeyeater)
  • Lichmera indistincta (brown honeyeater)
  • Manorina flavigula (yellow-throated miner)
  • Manorina flavigula melanotis (black-eared miner)
  • Manorina melanocephala (noisy miner)
  • Melithreptus brevirostris (brown-headed honeyeater)
  • Melithreptus gularis (black-chinned honeyeater)
  • Melithreptus gularis laetior (golden-backed honeyeater)
  • Melithreptus lunatus (white-naped honeyeater
  • Philemon citreogularis (little friarbird)
  • Philemon corniculatus (noisy friarbird) — occasional visitor
  • Purnella albifrons (white-fronted honeyeater)
  • Phylidonyris novaehollandiae (New Holland honeyeater)
  • Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera (crescent honeyeater)
  • Plectorhyncha lanceolata (striped honeyeater)
  • Subfamily Epthianurinae

  • Ashbyia lovensis (gibberbird)
  • Epthianura albifrons (white-fronted chat)
  • Epthianura aurifrons (orange chat)
  • Epthianura crocea (yellow chat)
  • Epthianura tricolor (crimson chat)
  • Family Petroicidae

  • Drymodes brunneopygia (southern scrub-robin)
  • Eopsaltria australis (eastern yellow robin)
  • Eopsaltria griseogularis (western yellow robin)
  • Melanodryas cucullata (hooded robin)
  • Microeca fascinans (jacky winter)
  • Petroica goodenovii (red-capped robin)
  • Petroica multicolor (scarlet robin)
  • Petroica phoenicea (flame robin)
  • Petroica rodinogaster (pink robin)
  • Petroica rosea (rose robin)
  • Family Pomatostomidae

  • Pomatostomus ruficeps (chestnut-crowned babbler)
  • Pomatostomus superciliosus (white-browed babbler)
  • Pomatostomus temporalis (grey-crowned babbler)
  • Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis
  • Family Psophodidae

  • Cinclosoma castanotus (chestnut quail-thrush)
  • Cinclosoma cinnamomeum (cinnamon quail-thrush)
  • Cinclosoma clarum (copperback quail-thrush)
  • Cinclosoma alisteri (Nullarbor quail-thrush)
  • Cinclosoma punctatum (spotted quail-thrush)
  • Psophodes cristatus (chirruping wedgebill)
  • Psophodes nigrogularis (western whipbird)
  • Psophodes occidentalis (chiming wedgebill)
  • Family Neosittidae

  • Daphoenositta chrysoptera (varied sittella)
  • Family Pachycephalidae

  • Colluricincla harmonica (grey shrike-thrush)
  • Falcunculus frontatus (crested shrike-tit)
  • Pachycephala inornata (Gilbert's whistler)
  • Pachycephala olivacea (olive whistler)
  • Pachycephala pectoralis (golden whistler)
  • Pachycephala rufiventris (rufous whistler)
  • Pachycephala rufogularis (red-lored whistler)
  • Family Oreoicidae

  • Oreoica gutturalis (crested bellbird)
  • Family Dicruridae

  • Dicrurus bracteatus (spangled drongo) — occasional visitor
  • Grallina cyanoleuca (magpie-lark)
  • Monarcha melanopsis (black-faced monarch) — occasional visitor
  • Myiagra cyanoleuca (satin flycatcher)
  • Myiagra inquieta (restless flycatcher)
  • Myiagra rubecula (leaden flycatcher) — occasional visitor
  • Rhipidura albiscapa (grey fantail)
  • Rhipidura leucophrys (willie wagtail)
  • Rhipidura rufifrons (rufous fantail)
  • Family Artamidae

  • Artamus cinereus (black-faced woodswallow)
  • Artamus cyanopterus (dusky woodswallow)
  • Artamus leucorynchus (white-breasted woodswallow)
  • Artamus minor (little woodswallow)
  • Artamus personatus (masked woodswallow)
  • Artamus superciliosus (white-browed woodswallow)
  • Cracticus nigrogularis (pied butcherbird)
  • Cracticus torquatus (grey butcherbird)
  • Gymnorhina tibicen (Australian magpie)
  • Strepera versicolor (grey currawong)
  • Family Campephagidae

  • Coracina novaehollandiae (black-faced cuckooshrike)
  • Coracina maxima (ground cuckooshrike)
  • Coracina papuensis (white-bellied cuckooshrike)
  • Coracina tenuirostris (cicadabird) — occasional visitor
  • Lalage tricolor (white-winged triller)
  • Family Oriolidae

  • Oriolus sagittatus (olive-backed oriole)
  • Family Corvidae

  • Corvus bennetti (little crow)
  • Corvus coronoides (Australian raven)
  • Corvus mellori (little raven)
  • Corvus orru (Torresian crow)
  • Corvus tasmanicus (forest raven)
  • Family Corcoracidae

  • Corcorax melanorhamphos (white-winged chough)
  • Struthidea cinerea (apostlebird)
  • Family Ptilonorhynchidae

  • Chlamydera guttata (western bowerbird)
  • Chlamydera maculata (spotted bowerbird) – extinct in South Australia
  • Family Turdidae

  • Turdus merula (Eurasian blackbird) — naturalised
  • Zoothera lunulata (bassian thrush)
  • Family Sturnidae

  • Sturnus vulgaris (common starling) — naturalised
  • Family Hirundinidae

  • Cheramoeca leucosternus (white-backed swallow)
  • Hirundo neoxena (welcome swallow)
  • Hirundo rustica (barn swallow) — occasional visitor
  • Petrochelidon ariel (fairy martin)
  • Petrochelidon nigricans (tree martin)
  • Family Zosteropidae

  • Zosterops lateralis (silvereye)
  • Family Acrocephalidae

  • Acrocephalus australis (Australian reed warbler)
  • Family Locustellidae

  • Megalurus cruralis (brown songlark)
  • Megalurus mathewsi (rufous songlark)
  • Megalurus carteri (spinifexbird)
  • Megalurus gramineus (little grassbird)
  • Family Cisticolidae

  • Cisticola exilis (golden-headed cisticola)
  • Family Alaudidae

  • Alauda arvensis (Eurasian skylark) — naturalised
  • Mirafra javanica (Horsfield’s bushlark)
  • Family Dicaeidae

  • Dicaeum hirundinaceum (mistletoebird)
  • Family Passeridae

  • Passer domesticus (house sparrow — naturalised
  • Family Motacillidae

  • Anthus novaeseelandiae (Richard's pipit)
  • Motacilla cinerea (grey wagtail) — occasional visitor
  • Motacilla citreola (citrine wagtail) — occasional visitor
  • Motacilla flava (yellow wagtail) — occasional visitor
  • Family Estrildidae

  • Emblema pictum (painted finch)
  • Neochmia temporalis (red-browed finch)
  • Stagonopleura bella (beautiful firetail)
  • Stagonopleura guttata (diamond firetail)
  • Taeniopygia guttata (zebra finch)
  • Family Fringillidae

  • Carduelis carduelis (European goldfinch) — naturalised
  • Chloris chloris (European greenfinch) — naturalised
  • References

    List of birds of South Australia Wikipedia


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