# 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)
* Guineafowl (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)

## Grebes

* Australasian grebe
* Hoary-headed grebe
* Great crested grebe

## Penguins

* Little penguin
* Fiordland penguin

## 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

* 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 and allies

* 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

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

## Hawks and 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 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

* Bush stone-curlew

## Oystercatchers

* Pied oystercatcher
* Sooty oystercatcher

## Avocets and 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
* South polar skua

## Gulls

* Pacific gull
* Kelp gull
* Silver gull

## Terns

* 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

* Rock dove (introduced)
* Spotted dove (introduced)
* Common bronzewing
* Brush bronzewing
* Crested pigeon (introduced)
* Peaceful dove

## Cockatoos

* Glossy black cockatoo
* Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
* Gang-gang cockatoo(introduced)
* Galah
* Little corella
* Sulphur-crested cockatoo
* Cockatiel
* Long-billed corella

## Parrots

* 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

* Pallid cuckoo
* Fan-tailed cuckoo
* Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo
* Shining bronze-cuckoo
* Black-eared cuckoo

## Barn owls

* Barn owl

## Owls

* Australian 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

## Treecreepers

* White-throated treecreeper
* Brown treecreeper

## Flowerpeckers

* Mistletoebird

## Australo-Papuan wrens

* Variegated fairy-wren
* 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
* Yellow-rumped thornbill
* Inland thornbill
* White-throated gerygone
* Chestnut-rumped heathwren
* Southern whiteface

## 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

* Crimson chat
* White-fronted chat

## Australian robins

* Scarlet robin
* Flame robin
* Rose robin
* Jacky-winter

## Whipbirds

* Western whipbird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)

## Whistlers

* Golden whistler
* Rufous 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
* White-winged triller

## Sittellas

* Varied sittella

## Woodswallows

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

## Bellmagpies and allies

* Australian magpie
* Grey currawong (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
* Grey butcherbird

## 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
* Zebra finch

## Finches

* Goldfinch (introduced)

## Swallows and martins

* Welcome swallow
* Tree martin
* Fairy martin
* White-backed swallow

## Old World warblers

* Australian reed warbler
* Little grassbird
* Brown songlark
* Rufous 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