List of endemic birds of Australia
This article is one of a series providing information about endemism among birds in the world's various zoogeographic zones. For an overview of this subject see Endemism in birds. Patterns of endemism. Family-level endemism is prominent in Australia. The Australasian biogeographic region has the highest number of endemic families of any zoogeographic region except the Neotropics, and many of these families are endemic to Australia itself — the country therefore stakes a strong claim to be the world's greatest hotspot of bird endemism. Australian endemic and near-endemic families. The Australian endemic  families are: In addition to the families listed above, the following families are endemic to the Australasian region, with some of their species also found in New Guinea: A further group of families endemic to the Australasian region, but where the species are predominantly New Guinea endemics are listed in the article on endemic birds of New Guinea. Endemic Bird Areas. BirdLife International has defined the following Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs) in Australia: Christmas Island, an Australian territory, is also an EBA. In addition the following are classified as secondary areas (areas with at least one restricted-range bird species , but not meeting the criteria to qualify as EBAs): "To be completed later." List of species. The following is a list of bird species endemic to Australia: Species endemic to south-eastern Australia. Many, but some include; Species endemic to north-west Australia. The chestnut rail is near-endemic to this region of Australia, elsewhere only being found on the Aru Islands.