List of birds of Kangaroo Island, South Australia
The following is a list of the birds recorded on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Emus[edit]
- Emu (introduced)
- Kangaroo Island emu (extinct)
Megapodes[edit]
- Australian brush-turkey (introduced)
Gamebirds[edit]
- Stubble quail
- Brown quail
- Indian peafowl (introduced)
- Common pheasant (introduced)
- Wild turkey (introduced)
Wildfowl[edit]
- 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)
Grebes[edit]
Penguins[edit]
Diving-petrels[edit]
Petrels and shearwaters[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Wandering albatross
- Royal albatross
- Black-browed albatross
- Shy albatross
- Grey-headed albatross
- Yellow-nosed albatross
- Sooty albatross
- Light-mantled sooty albatross
Storm-petrels[edit]
Tropicbirds[edit]
Gannets[edit]
Darters[edit]
Cormorants[edit]
Pelicans[edit]
Herons and allies[edit]
- White-faced heron
- Little egret
- Eastern reef egret
- White-necked heron
- Great egret
- Cattle egret
- Nankeen night heron
- Australasian bittern
- Intermediate egret
Ibises and spoonbills[edit]
Hawks and allies[edit]
- 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[edit]
Falcons[edit]
Cranes[edit]
Rails[edit]
- 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[edit]
Sandpipers and allies[edit]
- 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[edit]
Stone-curlews[edit]
Oystercatchers[edit]
Avocets and stilts[edit]
Plovers[edit]
- 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[edit]
Gulls[edit]
Terns[edit]
- Australian tern
- Caspian tern
- Crested tern
- White-fronted tern
- Common tern
- Antarctic tern
- Fairy tern
- Sooty tern
- Whiskered tern
- Arctic tern
- Little tern
- White-winged tern
Pigeons and doves[edit]
- Rock dove (introduced)
- Spotted dove (introduced)
- Common bronzewing
- Brush bronzewing
- Crested pigeon (introduced)
- Peaceful dove
Cockatoos[edit]
- Glossy black cockatoo
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
- Gang-gang cockatoo(introduced)
- Galah
- Little corella
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Cockatiel
- Long-billed corella
Parrots[edit]
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Purple-crowned lorikeet
- musk lorikeet
- Crimson rosella
- Eastern rosella
- Budgerigar
- Elegant parrot
- Rock parrot
- Red-rumped parrot
- Eastern bluebonnet
- Mulga parrot
- Blue-winged parrot
Cuckoos[edit]
Barn owls[edit]
Owls[edit]
Frogmouths[edit]
Nightjars[edit]
Owlet-nightjars[edit]
Swifts[edit]
Kingfishers[edit]
- Laughing kookaburra (introduced)
- Sacred kingfisher
Bee-eaters[edit]
Rollers[edit]
Treecreepers[edit]
Flowerpeckers[edit]
Australo-Papuan wrens[edit]
Pardalotes[edit]
Thornbills and allies[edit]
- White-browed scrubwren
- Shy heathwren
- Brown thornbill
- Yellow thornbill
- Striated thornbill
- Yellow-rumped thornbill
- Inland thornbill
- White-throated gerygone
- Chestnut-rumped heathwren
- Southern whiteface
Honeyeaters[edit]
- 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[edit]
Australian robins[edit]
Whipbirds[edit]
- Western whipbird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
Whistlers[edit]
Monarch flycatchers[edit]
Mudnest-builders[edit]
Fantails[edit]
Drongos[edit]
- Spangled drongo (vagrant)
Cuckooshrikes[edit]
Sittellas[edit]
Woodswallows[edit]
Bellmagpies and allies[edit]
- Australian magpie
- Grey currawong (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
- Grey butcherbird
Crows[edit]
Larks[edit]
Pipits and wagtails[edit]
Old World sparrows[edit]
- House sparrow (introduced)
Waxbills and allies[edit]
Finches[edit]
- Goldfinch (introduced)
Swallows and martins[edit]
Old World warblers[edit]
White-eyes[edit]
- Silvereye (a subspecies)
Thrushes[edit]
- Bassian thrush (a subspecies)
- Blackbird (introduced)
Starlings[edit]
- European starling (introduced)
Sources[edit]
- 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