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)
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
Diving-petrels
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
Gannets
Darters
Cormorants
Pelicans
Herons & allies
- White-faced heron
- Little egret
- Eastern reef egret
- White-necked heron
- Great egret
- Cattle egret
- Nankeen night heron
- Australasian bittern
Ibises & spoonbills
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
Falcons
Cranes
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
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
Stone-curlews
Oystercatchers
Avocets & stilts
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
Gulls
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
Cuckoos
Barn owls
Owls
Frogmouths
Nightjars
Owlet-nightjars
Swifts
- White-throated needletail (migrates here to spend the winter)
- Fork-tailed swift (migrates here to breed)
Kingfishers
- Laughing kookaburra (introduced)
- Sacred kingfisher (a subspecies)
Bee-eaters
Rollers
Australo-papuan wrens
Pardalotes
Thornbills and allies
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
Australian robins
Whipbirds
- Western whipbird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
Whistlers
Monarch flycatchers
Mudnest-builders
Fantails
Drongos
- Spangled drongo (vagrant)
Cuckooshrikes
Woodswallows
Bellmagpies and allies
- Australian magpie
- Grey currawong (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
Crows
Larks
Pipits and wagtails
Old World sparrows
- House sparrow (introduced)
Waxbills and allies
Finches
- Goldfinch (introduced)
Swallows and martins
Old World warblers
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
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