Flightless and Ground Birds Found In Australia

List of Australian Flightless and Ground Birds

SEE LIST OF ALL AUSTRALIAN FLIGHTLESS BIRDS BELOW

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List of Flightless Birds of Australia

• Cassowary

• Emu [Endemic]

Penguins

• Adelie Penguin [Vagrant]

• Chinstrap Penguin [Vagrant]

• Emperor Penguin [Vagrant]

• Erect-crested Penguin [Vagrant]

• Fiordland Penguin [Vagrant]

• King Penguin [Vagrant]

• Little [Fairy] Penguin

• Macaroni Penguin [Vagrant]

• Rockhopper Penguin [Vagrant]

• Royal Penguin [Vagrant]

Ground Dwelling Birds of Australia

Ground dwellers can generally fly very short distances when necessary to escape predators so are not specifically 'flightless' birds. Most hatch their eggs in dug-outs and use built up mounds to incubate the eggs.

Wild Fowl

• Australian brush-turkey [Endemic]

• Australian Bustard

• Helmeted Guinea Fowl

• Indian Peafowl

• Malleefowl [Endemic]

• Orange-footed Scrubfowl

• Lord Howe Woodhen

Lyrebirds

• Albert's Lyrebird [Endemic]

• Superb Lyrebird [Endemic]

Bowerbirds

• Fawn-breasted Bowerbird

• Golden Bowerbird [Endemic]

• Great Bowerbird [Endemic]

• Regent Bowerbird [Endemic]

• Satin bowerbird [Endemic]

• Spotted Bowerbird [Endemic]

• Tooth-billed Bowerbird

• Western Bowerbird [Endemic]

Bristlebirds

• Eastern Bristlebird

• Rufous Bristlebird

• Western Bristlebird

Scrubbirds

• Noisy Scrubbird

• Rufous Scrubbird

• Australian logrunner

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