BIRD LIST
List of birds around Newcastle / Hunter Valley - note that many are seasonal. We can provide a full list of species for specific trips.
Newcastle / Hunter Valley List (Christidis & Boles)
1=common, 2=uncommon, 3=rare
M=migrant, W=winter, S=summer, I=introduced
- Emu (2)
- Australian Brush-turkey (1)
- Stubble Quail (2)
- Brown Quail (1)
- King Quail (3)
- Magpie Goose (2)
- Plumed Whistling-Duck (2, M)
- Wandering Whistling-Duck (3)
- Blue billed Duck (3)
- Musk Duck (1)
- Freckled Duck (3)
- Black Swan (1)
- Australian Shelduck (3)
- Australian Wood Duck (3)
- Mallard (2,I)
- Pacific Black Duck (1)
- Australasian Shoveller (1)
- Grey Teal (1)
- Chestnut Teal (1)
- Garganey (3, S)
- Pink-eared Duck (1)
- Hardhead (1)
- Australasian Grebe (1)
- Hoary headed Grebe (2)
- Great Crested Grebe (1)
- Little Penguin (2)
- Southern Giant Petrel (3, W)
- Northern Giant Petrel (3, W)
- Cape Petrel (2, W)
- Tahiti Petrel (3, S)
- Great winged Petrel (2)
- White headed Petrel (3)
- Providence Petrel (2)
- Kermadec Petrel (3)
- White necked Petrel (3)
- Gould's Petrel (2, S)
- Antarctic Prion (3, W)
- Slender billed Prion (3, W)
- Fairy Prion (2, W)
- White chinned Petrel (3, S)
- Black Petrel (3, M)
- Streaked Shearwater (3, S)
- Wedge tailed Shearwater (1, S)
- Buller's Shearwater (3, S)
- Flesh footed Shearwater (2, S)
- Sooty Shearwater (3, W)
- Short tailed Shearwater (2, S)
- Fluttering Shearwater (2)
- Hutton's Shearwater (3)
- Wandering Albatross
- gibsoni (2, W, M)
- antipodensis (3, W, M)
- exulans (3, W, M)
- Black browed Albatross
- melanophris (2, W, M)
- impavida (2, W, M)
- Shy Albatross (2, W)
- Indian Yellow nosed Albatross (2, W)
- Wilson's Storm Petrel (2, M)
- White faced Storm Petrel (2, S, M)
- White tailed Tropicbird (3, S)
- Australasian Gannet (1, M)
- Darter (1)
- Little Pied Cormorant (1)
- Pied Cormorant (1)
- Little Black Cormorant (1)
- Great Cormorant (1)
- Australian Pelican (1)
- White faced Heron (1)
- Little Egret (1)
- Eastern Reef Egret (2)
- White-necked Heron (2)
- Great Egret (1)
- Intermediate Egret (2)
- Cattle Egret (1)
- Striated Heron (2)
- Rufous Night Heron (2)
- Little Bittern (3)
- Black Bittern (3)
- Australasian Bittern (3)
- Glossy Ibis (2, M)
- Australian White Ibis (1)
- Straw necked Ibis (1)
- Royal Spoonbill (1)
- Yellow billed Spoonbill (1)
- Black necked Stork (2)
- Osprey (2)
- Pacific Baza (2)
- Black shouldered Kite (1)
- Square tailed Kite (2-3)
- Black Kite (3)
- Whistling Kite (1)
- Brahminy Kite (2)
- White bellied Sea Eagle (1)
- Spotted Harrier (2)
- Swamp Harrier (1)
- Brown Goshawk (1)
- Grey Goshawk (2)
- Collared Sparrowhawk (2)
- Wedge tailed Eagle (1)
- Little Eagle (2)
- Brown Falcon (1)
- Australian Hobby (1)
- Black Falcon (3)
- Peregrine Falcon (2)
- Nankeen Kestrel (1)
- Buff banded Rail (2)
- Lewin's Rail (2)
- Baillon's Crake (2)
- Australian Spotted Crake (2)
- Spotless Crake (2)
- Purple Swamphen (1)
- Dusky Moorhen (1)
- Black tailed Native hen (3)
- Eurasian Coot (1)
- Red backed Button quail (3)
- Little Button quail (3)
- Painted Button quail (2)
- Latham's Snipe (2, S)
- Black tailed Godwit (2, S)
- Hudsonian Godwit (3, S)
- Bar tailed Godwit (1, S)
- Little Curlew (3, S)
- Whimbrel (2, S)
- Eastern Curlew (1,S)
- Marsh Sandpiper (2,S)
- Common Greenshank (1, S)
- Wood Sandpiper (3, S)
- Terek Sandpiper (2, S)
- Common Sandpiper (2, S)
- Grey tailed Tattler (2, S)
- Wandering Tattler (3, S)
- Ruddy Turnstone (2, S)
- Great Knot (2, S)
- Red Knot (1, S)
- Sanderling (3, S)
- Red necked Stint (2, S)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (3, S)
- Sharp tailed Sandpiper (2, S)
- Curlew Sandpiper (2, S)
- Broad billed Sandpiper (3, S)
- Ruff (3, S)
- Painted Snipe (3)
- Comb crested Jacana (2)
- Bush Stone-curlew (3)
- Beach Stone-curlew (3)
- Pied Oystercatcher (2)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (2)
- Black winged Stilt (2)
- Banded Stilt (3)
- Red necked Avocet (2)
- Pacific Golden Plover (2, S)
- Red capped Plover (2)
- Double banded Plover (3, W)
- Lesser Sand Plover (3, S)
- Black fronted Dotterel (2)
- Red kneed Dotterel (2, M)
- Banded Lapwing (3)
- Masked Lapwing (1)
- Great Skua (3, W)
- Pomarine Jaeger (2, S)
- Arctic Jaeger (2, S)
- Long tailed Jaeger (3, S)
- Pacific Gull (3)
- Kelp Gull (3)
- Silver Gull (1)
- Gull billed Tern (2)
- Caspian Tern (2)
- Crested Tern (1)
- White fronted Tern (2, W)
- Common Tern (2, S)
- Little Tern (2)
- Sooty Tern (3, S)
- Whiskered Tern (3)
- White winged Black Tern (2-3, S)
- Common Noddy (3, S)
- Grey Ternlet (3, S)
- Rock Dove (1, I)
- White headed Pigeon (2)
- Spotted Turtle Dove (1, I)
- Brown Cuckoo Dove (2)
- Emerald Dove (2)
- Common Bronzewing (2)
- Brush Bronzewing (2-3)
- Crested Pigeon (1)
- Diamond Dove (3)
- Peaceful Dove (2)
- Bar shouldered Dove (2)
- Wonga Pigeon (2)
- Wompoo Fruit Dove (2)
- Superb Fruit Dove (3)
- Rose crowned Fruit Dove (3)
- Topknot Pigeon (2, M)
- Glossy Black Cockatoo (2)
- Yellow tailed Black Cockatoo (2)
- Gang gang Cockatoo (2)
- Galah (1)
- Long billed Corella (2, I)
- Little Corella (2, I)
- Sulphur crested Cockatoo (1)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (1)
- Scaly breasted Lorikeet (2)
- Musk Lorikeet (2, M)
- Little Lorikeet (2)
- Australian King-Parrot (1-2)
- Red winged Parrot (3)
- Ground parrot (2-3)
- Crimson Rosella (1)
- Eastern Rosella (1)
- Swift Parrot (2-3)
- Red rumped Parrot (2)
- Turquoise Parrot (2-3)
- Oriental Cuckoo (3, S)
- Pallid Cuckoo (2, S)
- Brush Cuckoo (1, S)
- Fan tailed Cuckoo (1)
- Black eared Cuckoo (3)
- Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo (2)
- Shining Bronze Cuckoo (2)
- Little Bronze Cuckoo (3)
- Australian Koel (1, S)
- Channel billed Cuckoo (2, S)
- Pheasant Coucal (2)
- Powerful Owl (2)
- Barking Owl (3)
- Southern Boobook (1-2)
- Sooty Owl (2)
- Masked Owl (3)
- Barn Owl (2)
- Grass Owl (3)
- Tawny Frogmouth (1-2)
- White throated Nightjar (2)
- Spotted Nightjar (3)
- Australian Owlet Nightjar (1-2)
- White throated Needletail (2, S)
- Fork tailed Swift (2-3, S)
- Azure Kingfisher (2)
- Laughing Kookaburra (1)
- Forest Kingfisher (3)
- Sacred Kingfisher (1-2, S)
- Rainbow Bee eater (2, S)
- Dollarbird (1, S)
- Noisy Pitta (2)
- Superb Lyrebird (2)
- Rufous Scrub-bird (2)
- White throated Treecreeper (1)
- Red browed Treecreeper (2)
- Superb Fairy wren (1)
- Variegated Fairy wren (2)
- Red backed Fairy wren (3)
- Southern Emu wren (2)
- Spotted Pardalote (1)
- Striated Pardalote (2)
- Eastern Bristlebird (3)
- Pilotbird (3)
- Rockwarbler (2-3)
- Yellow throated Scrubwren (1-2)
- White browed Scrubwren (1)
- Large billed Scrubwren (2)
- Chestnut rumped Heathwren (2)
- Speckled Warbler (2)
- Weebill (2)
- Brown Gerygone (1)
- Mangrove Gerygone (1)
- Western Gerygone (2)
- White throated Gerygone (1-2, S)
- Brown Thornbill (1)
- Buff rumped Thornbill (1-2)
- Yellow rumped Thornbill (1)
- Yellow Thornbill (1)
- Striated Thornbill (1)
- Southern Whiteface (2)
- Red Wattlebird (1)
- Little Wattlebird (1)
- Striped Honeyeater (2)
- Noisy Friarbird (1)
- Little Friarbird (3, M)
- Regent Honeyeater (2, M)
- Blue faced Honeyeater (2)
- Bell Miner (1)
- Noisy Miner (1)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (1)
- Yellow faced Honeyeater (1)
- Singing Honeyeater (3)
- Mangrove Honeyeater (3)
- White eared Honeyeater (2)
- Yellow tufted Honeyeater (2)
- Fuscous Honeyeater (2)
- White plumed Honeyeater (1)
- Black chinned Honeyeater (3)
- Brown headed Honeyeater (2-3)
- White naped Honeyeater (1-2)
- Brown Honeyeater (2)
- Painted Honeyeater (3)
- Crescent Honeyeater (2)
- New Holland Honeyeater (1-2)
- White cheeked Honeyeater (1-2)
- Tawny crowned Honeyeater (2)
- Eastern Spinebill (1-2)
- Scarlet Honeyeater (2)
- White fronted Chat (1-2)
- Jacky Winter (1-2)
- Scarlet Robin (1-2)
- Red capped Robin (2)
- Flame Robin (2)
- Rose Robin (2)
- Hooded Robin (2)
- Pale yellow Robin (2)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (1)
- Logrunner (2)
- Grey crowned Babbler (2)
- White browed Babbler (2)
- Eastern Whipbird (1)
- Spotted Quail thrush (2)
- Varied Sittella (1-2)
- Crested Shrike tit (2)
- Crested Bellbird (3)
- Olive Whistler (2-3)
- Golden Whistler (1)
- Rufous Whistler (1, S)
- Little Shrike thrush (3)
- Grey Shrike thrush (1)
- Black faced Monarch (2, S)
- Spectacled Monarch (2, S)
- Leaden Flycatcher (2, S)
- Satin Flycatcher (2-3)
- Restless Flycatcher (2)
- Magpie-lark (1)
- Rufous Fantail (1-2)
- Grey Fantail (1)
- Willie Wagtail (1)
- Spangled Drongo (2, W)
- Black faced Cuckoo shrike (1)
- Barred Cuckoo shrike (3)
- White bellied Cuckoo shrike (2)
- Cicadabird (2, S)
- Ground Cuckoo shrike (3)
- White winged Triller (2)
- Varied Triller (2-3)
- Olive backed Oriole (1)
- Figbird (1)
- White breasted Woodswallow (2)
- Masked Woodswallow (3, S)
- White browed Woodswallow (3, S)
- Dusky Woodswallow (2)
- Little Woodswallow (3)
- Grey Butcherbird (1)
- Pied Butcherbird (1)
- Australian Magpie (1)
- Pied Currawong (1)
- Grey Currawong (3)
- Paradise Riflebird (2-3)
- Australian Raven (1)
- Forest Raven (3)
- Little Raven (2)
- Torresian Crow (2)
- White winged Chough (1-2)
- Green Catbird (2)
- Regent Bowerbird (2)
- Satin Bowerbird (1-2)
- Singing Bushlark (3)
- Skylark (3, I)
- Australian Pipit (1)
- Yellow Wagtail (3)
- Black backed Wagtail (3)
- House Sparrow (1, I)
- Zebra Finch (2)
- Double-barred Finch (2)
- Plum headed Finch (3)
- Red browed Finch (1)
- Diamond Firetail (2)
- Nutmeg Mannikin (3, I)
- Chestnut-breasted Mannikin (2)
- European Goldfinch (1-2)
- Mistletoebird (1-2)
- White backed Swallow (3, M)
- Welcome Swallow (1)
- Tree Martin (1-2)
- Fairy Martin (1-2)
- Red whiskered Bulbul (2, I)
- Australian Reed warbler (1, S)
- Tawny Grassbird (2)
- Little Grassbird (2)
- Rufous Songlark (2, S)
- Brown Songlark (2)
- Golden headed Cisticola (1-2)
- Silvereye (1)
- Bassian Thrush (2)
- Russet-tailed Thrush (2-3)
- Common Blackbird (2-3, I)
- Common Starling (1, I)
- Common Myna (1, I)
List of Common Birds
Common Birds around Newcastle/Hunter Valley/Sydney
(Christidis & Boles)
- Black Swan
- Pacific Black Duck
- Grey Teal
- Darter
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Little Black Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Australian Pelican
- White faced Heron
- Little Egret
- Great Egret
- Cattle Egret
- Australian White Ibis
- Straw necked Ibis
- Black shouldered Kite
- Whistling Kite
- White bellied Sea Eagle
- Swamp Harrier
- Wedge tailed Eagle
- Brown Falcon
- Australian Hobby
- Australian Kestrel
- Purple Swamphen
- Dusky Moorhen
- Eurasian Coot
- Masked Lapwing
- Silver Gull
- Crested Tern
- Rock Dove
- Spotted Turtle Dove
- Crested Pigeon
- Galah
- Sulphur crested Cockatoo
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Crimson Rosella
- Eastern Rosella
- Australian Koel
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Dollarbird
- Superb Fairy wren
- Spotted Pardalote
- White browed Scrubwren
- Yellow rumped Thornbill
- Red Wattlebird
- Little Wattlebird
- Noisy Friarbird
- Noisy Miner
- Yellow faced Honeyeater
- White plumed Honeyeater
- Golden Whistler
- Grey Shrike thrush
- Magpie-lark
- Grey Fantail
- Willie Wagtail
- Black faced Cuckoo shrike
- Figbird
- Grey Butcherbird
- Pied Butcherbird
- Australian Magpie
- Pied Currawong
- Australian Raven
- Australian Pipit
- House Sparrow
- Red browed Finch
- Welcome Swallow
- Silvereye
- Common Starling
- Common Myna